White Cliff Minerals Strikes High-Grade Copper at Danvers, Extends Strike

White Cliff Minerals (ASX:WCN) has confirmed a new high-grade copper discovery at the Rae project in Canada, adjacent to the main Teshierpi Fault Zone.

Assays from expansion drilling at the Danvers 1 deposit returned 79.24 metres at 1.59% copper from 67.06 metres, including 24.38 metres at 3.05% copper from 120.4 metres. One hole cut more than 67 metres of combined copper sulphides 686 metres north-east of an earlier hole that returned 64 metres at 0.89% copper, including 9.14 metres at 2.65%.

Holes collared 460 metres to the south-west returned 30 metres of combined copper sulphides in a zone that could provide a material expansion to known drilling at Danvers. The results extend the copper mineralised footprint beyond 3.1 kilometres in strike length. Visual observations suggest more than 6 kilometres of strike across copper sulphides, representing over half of the geophysical anomaly.

Managing director Troy Whittaker said drilling to date 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 462 metres to the southwest, 686 metres to the northeast, and identifying a parallel mineralised zone 606 metres to the north."

Whittaker said the results are coming from wide-spaced drilling into largely untested ground, which speaks to the strength of the Teshierpi copper system and the effectiveness of the company's targeting.

"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."

White Cliff has a second diamond rig on site to target step-out of ultra-high-grade mineralisation at one of the Danvers holes that returned a best assay of 19.81 metres at 6.64% copper. Drilling there aims to provide structural information and guide future step-out drilling across the expanding Danvers copper system.

The discovery reduces the geological risk that the project is limited to the known deposit, though economic viability will depend on further drilling and metallurgical work. The company expects to report additional results as drilling progresses.