White Cliff Minerals picks up half-copper samples at Canadian project. That’s right, half copper

White Cliff Minerals reports up to 54.12% copper at Rae project in Canada
Assays at Rocket include numerous +50% copper results
The results will help define drill targets for 2025 maiden program

Special Report: White Cliff Minerals has flagged up to 54.12% copper from rock chip assays at its Rae copper project in Canada, indicating widespread, outcropping, high-grade copper throughout the licence areas.

In fact, the mineralised footprint has been expanded with high-grade copper discoveries confirmed at two new districts – Rocket and Thor.

Rock chip assay results include:

54.12% copper and 14g/t silver (Rocket)
53.82% copper and 27g/t silver (Rocket)
53.47% copper and 26g/t silver (Rocket)
54.02% copper and 34g/t silver (Thor)
25.7% copper and 22g/t silver (Thor); and
24.4% copper and 12g/t silver (Thor).

Within the broader Rocket project area, the PC140 vein system along a major structural trend returned copper grades of 13.45%, 12.85% and 7.15% copper from a limited sampling campaign over >200m.

And at the Thor system, host to the historic HALO occurrence, a total strike length of over >800m of copper mineralisation was identified and sampled, with high-grade results from 16 rock chip samples over >400m demonstrating continuity in the mineralised structural trend.

More than half returned >20% copper

“The Rae Project continues to reinforce its potential with another set of very encouraging results,” White Cliff Minerals (ASX:WCN) managing director Troy Whittaker said.

“Similar to Vision, to the north-west, these two newly confirmed areas at Rocket and Thor have delivered extraordinary and extensive copper grades across what is now a very large overall area.

“More than half of the samples taken from these projects returned results of more than 20% copper.

“As this represents the final round of assays, I would like to congratulate the geological team who have safely, on budget and to schedule, executed this maiden campaign in the Canadian North which has delivered exceptional results – including assays that may in fact represent the highest-grade copper and silver rock chip results in recent history.”

Rock chips do not a deposit make. But they can be used to point to where deeper lying mineralisation bearing a larger accumulation of a metal like copper could sit.

First modern geophysics at scale

Work is ongoing to integrate the surface findings with regional geophysical datasets, whilst the company is awaiting final interpretation of the results from the MobileMT survey conducted across the property.

Integration of all 2024 data will culminate in the definition of drill targets for a 2025 maiden drilling campaign at the project.

“I’m pleased to report that the Aerial Geophysics data from the next generation MobileMT survey continues to progress through the process stage gates – analysis, interpretation, audit and validation, and remains on target to be released in the upcoming weeks,” Whittaker said.

“Marking the first application of modern, project scale geophysics at Rae, the survey will provide a detailed look into the subsurface.

“Utilising the magnetic data will allow for definition of prospective structures and sub basins, with the conductivity response isolating hot-spots within targets such as Hulk, less than 2km west of the Kaizen copper discovery.”

This article was developed in collaboration with White Cliff Minerals, a Stockhead advertiser at the time of publishing.

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