White Cliff Minerals (ASX:WCN) doubles strike at Danvers as copper scale emerges in Canada’s North

White Cliff Minerals (ASX:WCN) has extended copper sulphide mineralisation to more than 400 metres at its Danvers Project in Nunavut, Canada, as part of a focused summer drilling campaign targeting a potentially world-class copper trend.

Step-out reverse circulation (RC) holes have confirmed broad zones of visible sulphides, including high-bornite and chalcocite content, suggesting the Danvers system may extend over 10 kilometres.

Highlights

• Step-out RC drilling confirms visible sulphides in all holes to date
• Strike length extended to over 400m, with a campaign target of 800m
• Hole DAN25012 intersected 59m of sulphides from 56m depth, including >10m with 5% bornite and 3% chalcocite
• Area remains open in all directions, with newly identified targets 4.5km southwest yet to be tested
• Diamond drilling underway at the nearby Hulk prospect; assays for both rigs expected in September
• Magnetotellurics (Drone MT) survey results due this month

The drilling campaign builds on standout results from May’s maiden program, which returned intercepts including 175m at 2.5% copper, 90m at 4%, and 105m at 2.25%.

Notably, DAN25010 and DAN25011, positioned 75m northeast of earlier holes returned 80m and 113m zones of sulphide mineralisation respectively, from near surface.

White Cliff Minerals Managing Director Troy Whittaker said the rapid expansion of the mineralised footprint was a key milestone in unlocking the scale of the Danvers system:

“An excellent start to the step out RC drilling at Danvers where sulphide mineralisation has been observed in all holes, rapidly extending the drill tested mineralisation footprint to over 400m. This is a strike increase of more than 250%, with a target to double this again to more than 800m during this campaign.”

“Testing of these strike extensions alongside the newly identified surface mineralisation and regional targets within the Danvers Lease area is a key focus of the Company with the aim of demonstrating significant scale to the Danvers Project to build on the world class copper intercepts from the previous drill program.”

Looking ahead, the company is expecting assay results from both the RC drilling at Danvers and diamond drilling at the Hulk target, with results anticipated in September. Interpretation of the recently completed drone magnetotellurics survey is also expected later this month.

Meanwhile, step-out drilling continues to the southwest, where White Cliff plans to test a newly discovered high-grade chalcocite and bornite zone located approximately 4.5 kilometres from the current drill area, a target that remains entirely untested and could point to broader continuity along a mineralised trend exceeding 10 kilometres.

With visible sulphides confirmed in every hole drilled to date and a geological setting comparable to globally significant copper belts, White Cliff’s exploration strategy is positioning Danvers as a standout copper growth story in North America

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