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Iron Road Limited (ASX:IRD) Drilling Programme Update On Central Eyre Iron Project, Warramboo 2010
Iron Road Limited (ASX:IRD) Drilling Programme Update On Central Eyre Iron Project, Warramboo 2010

Perth, Feb 22, 2010 AEST (ABN Newswire) - Iron Road Limited (googlechartASX:IRD) is pleased to advise that drilling at the Company's wholly owned Central Eyre Iron Project continues to proceed to plan. The Central Eyre Iron Project is a collection of three iron occurrences (Warramboo, Kopi & Hambidge) with an exploration potential of 2.8-5.7 billion tonnes magnetite gneiss*. The current programme encompasses resource expansion drilling to increase an existing JORC compliant inferred resource estimate of 110Mt at the Boo-Loo prospect located within the Warramboo Project area.

* Coffey Mining
(Iron Road Limited ASX announcement 01 September 2009).

Summary

- Assays and DTR test work received for first batch of 840 samples.

- Results are consistent with those previously obtained for Boo-Loo prospect.

- RC rig completing final pre-collars. Diamond drilling making good progress.

- 769 samples at analytical laboratory for XRF analysis and DTR test work.

Progress for PeriodHole Type      Metres Completed (m)    Holes Completed (No.)------------------------------------------------------------                 PERIOD   TO DATE        PERIOD    TO DATE------------------------------------------------------------RC (pre-collar)    582      2748           11         37Diamond           1880      4847            7         20------------------------------------------------------------

Contact

Andrew Stocks
Managing Director
Iron Road Limited
Tel: +61-8-9200-6020
Mob: +61-403-226-748
Email: astocks@ironroadlimited.com.au



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