White Cliff Minerals (ASX:WCN | OTCAB:WCMLF) has announced further assay results from the reverse circulation drilling campaign at the 100%-owned Rae Copper project in Nunavut, Canada. These results both confirm and validate White Cliff’s strategy to explore previously untested high-grade zones and vertical depth extension of mineralization at Danvers.
Key highlights from this round of assay results include the following:
- DAN25008: 175m @ 2.5% Cu & 8.66g/t silver (Ag) from 7.6m, including 14m @ 7.55% Cu & 25.8g/t Ag from 138m
- The last 60m of the hole averaged 3.9% Cu & 14.96g/t Ag to a final depth of 182.88m
- Hole ended in mineralization with the last 1.5m sample recording 4.46% Cu & 11.58g/t Ag, open at depth
- DAN25001: Returned 52m @1.16% Cu @ 3.43g/t Ag from surface, including 7.6m at 3% Cu & 9.5g/t Ag from 18.28m
These drilling results demonstrate the potential for significant expansion to historic non-compliant resource. Now that the initial objectives of the Danvers drilling programme have been achieved, new drilling data will feed into a maiden JORC compliant mineral resource to help understand the significance of this discovery. Mineralization remains open in all directions and the company has follow up diamond drilling planned to drill out the mineralization boundaries at Danvers and to being testing the massive sedimentary structure at Hulk.
Troy Whittaker, Managing Director of White Cliff Minerals has stated, “DAN25008 was prioritized for assay due to the abundance of visual sulphides observed during drilling, and these results have underpinned our confidence in those visuals prevalent in the Company’s prior work. We believe this drill hole ranks among the most significant copper intersections globally within the last 50 years and comfortably sits within the top 10 globally reported “grade-metre” copper results.”
He also noted, “Our improved geological understanding of the Danvers area indicates a mineralized system that extends from surface over more than 175m vertically and potentially 7km in strike length – both to the northeast and southwest, providing scope for further high-impact intercepts from upcoming drilling. With our work updating the geological understanding at Danvers, we adapted our drill targets and DAN25008 resulted in mineralization at least 30 metres below historical limits, with the hole terminating in high-grade copper mineralization – suggesting considerable additional potential at depth. The increase in grade toward the bottom of the hole is encouraging and is validation of our methodology.”
The next five assays along strike from DAN25008 are also due in the coming weeks.
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