White Cliff Minerals has confirmed the discovery of a new high-grade copper zone at the Rae project in Canada, adjacent to the main Teshierpi Fault Zone.

Assays from regional expansion drilling at the Danvers 1 deposit returned strong thicknesses and grades, with highlights of 79.24 metres at 1.59% copper from 67.06m including 24.38m at 3.05% copper from 120.4m.

One of the holes demonstrated more than 67m of combined copper sulphides located 686m north-east of a previous hole that returned 64m at 0.89% copper including 9.14m at 2.65%.

Holes collared 460m to the south-west returned 30m of combined copper sulphides in a zone that is believed to have potential to provide a material expansion to known drilling at Danvers.

Expanded Copper Footprint

The results have confirmed a copper mineralised footprint of more than 3.1 kilometres in strike length.

Visual observations have presented more than 6km strike of copper sulphides, representing more than half of the geophysical anomaly.

White Cliff has a second diamond rig onsite to target a step-out of ultra-high-grade mineralisation at one of the Danvers holes that returned a best assay of 19.81m at 6.64% copper.

Drilling there will aim to provide critical structural information, support targeting of high-grade zones, assist in determining true widths, and guide future step-out drilling across the expanding Danvers copper system.

Widespread Mineralisation

Managing director Troy Whittaker said drilling to date had demonstrated that mineralisation at Danvers is not confined to a single structure.

“[This] is an important result for White Cliff, confirming another high-grade copper discovery outside the main Teshierpi Fault Zone,” he said.

“We are now seeing copper zones expanding materially around Danvers 1, with new drilling extending the system 462m to the southwest, 686m to the northeast, and identifying a parallel mineralised zone 606m to the north.”

“These results are being delivered from wide-spaced drilling into largely untested ground, which speaks directly to the strength of the Teshierpi copper system and the effectiveness of our targeting,” he said.

“With high-grade copper now being discovered around an existing high-grade deposit and with a second diamond drill rig on site to follow-up an ultra-high-grade discovery, we believe Danvers is rapidly emerging as a much larger and more significant copper system than previously understood.”