White Cliff’s Rae copper project continues to grow

• White Cliff Minerals has spotted sulphide mineralisation from step out drilling at its Rae copper project
• Company is confident lab results due in four to six weeks will highlight copper potential
• WCN believes the project’s widespread copper represents a district-scale opportunity

Special Report: White Cliff Minerals has spotted visual sulphide mineralisation around 175m long in step out RC drilling at its Rae project in Canada, which it believes points to copper mineralisation.

The Rae project, acquired in 2023, is home to a number of historical non-JORC and ‘blue sky’ mineral estimates as well as up to 54.12% copper from rock chip assays, indicating widespread outcropping copper throughout the 805km2 licensed area.

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It represents a district-scale opportunity, underpinned by the presence of high-grade volcanic-hosted copper-silver lodes and the prospect of a large tonnage sedimentary hosted copper deposit.

Highlights from the Danvers prospect include 175m of visually identified sulphides from 7m downhole and 91m of visually identified sulphides from surface.

While assays are expected in 4-6 weeks, the company is confident the results will show the project’s copper potential.

“As we continue to undertake exploration activities in the greater Rae project area, the true extent of the region’s copper potential is now becoming increasingly clear and importantly, the structural plumbing that provided the fluid pathways up to Hulk are now proven fertile with significant depth extent containing what we believe to be copper,” WCN managing director Troy Whittaker said.

“We eagerly await the results back from the lab which will show definitively the copper potential this drilling has encountered.”

Now that first-pass drilling at Danvers is complete, the rig has been repositioned to the Hulk prospect.

Diamond drilling the next steps

Beyond Danvers, fieldwork has been ongoing, exploring along the host structure to the southwest where outcropping chalcocite-malachite mineralised basalts have been identified and sampled over 4.7km along strike.

Whittaker said this attested to the fertility of the NE/SW structure that could be traced for more than 10km through the licence area.

In addition, several historical mineral occurrences exist along the strike length of the structure which are yet to be ground truthed and represent future drilling targets.

“Pleasingly, our early foray into the north Canada drilling season is now paying dividends,” Whittaker said.

“Whilst we are yet to receive assays, visually, drilling to date indicates strike and dip continuity of historical shallow drill results.

“Whilst we would like to continue to drill at Danvers based on these last few holes, we remain committed to our stated strategy of drilling Hulk as part of this maiden campaign.

“The rig has therefore been repositioned, and drilling is underway targeting large-scale sediment-hosted copper.

“The Hulk basin is home to a strong geophysical conductor spanning three sub-basins for a total area of ±150km2.

“Assay results will set the direction of future diamond drilling at site.”

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

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