Rockridge Capital Corp. announced that it has commenced a 20,000-metre H1 2012 reverse circulation (RC) and diamond drilling program focused on 12 separate target areas on the Fatou Gold Project, located in southern Mali, West Africa. The Fatou permit covers 250 square kilometres of highly prospective Birimian terrane, 90 kilometres south of the Morila Gold Mine and 50 kilometres west of the Syama Gold Mine. Overview of the H1 2012 Program: - 12 target areas identified through interpretation of detailed heli-borne VTEM, magnetics, and radiometrics survey completed in late 2011. - 20,000 metres of combined RC and diamond drilling currently planned. - Targeting assisted by results from a 9,000-metre auger drill program completed in December 2011. - Fatou Main Gold Zone identified as a top priority target with possible strike extensions identified. - Fininko Gold Zone confirmed as a priority target, and is associated with a large fold-fault structure, known as the "Buckle". - Buckle was identified from the VTEM survey as a fold structure in carbonaceous sedimentary rocks along a northwest-directed shear zone adjacent to granitoids. The fold structure is 1-2 kilometres in size. - Four targets located along the Buckle fold-fault structure. - Three bulk-tonnage targets identified in potassically-altered granitoids in the northeast of the permit.