White Cliff Minerals (ASX:WCN) lights up the copper map with a breakthrough at Rae

In the chill of Canada’s Nunavut, White Cliff Minerals has delivered what could be one of the most attention grabbing copper hits of the 2025 field season.

The final hole from the company’s maiden drill program at the Rae Copper Project’s Danvers Prospect has hit an eye watering 105 metres at 2.25% copper and 6.97g/t silver from just 27.43 metres depth, including standout intercepts of 18 metres at 3.17% and a further 35 metres at 3.93% copper.

In an age where copper is king and drill headlines are increasingly crowded, it takes something genuinely material to cut through.

White Cliff Minerals has done just that with a shallow, thick copper silver envelope in an area historically overlooked and underdrilled.

Managing Director Troy Whittaker was unequivocal:

“The final assay from drill hole 7 marks the completion of a safe and hugely successful maiden drilling campaign at the Rae Project. Every hole returned exceptional results confirming that the Rae Project represents one of the most prospective copper projects globally.”

Highlights

• 105m at 2.25% Cu & 6.97g/t Ag from 27.43m (DAN25007)
• Including 35m at 3.93% Cu & 13.35g/t Ag
• Copper mineralisation confirmed over 150m strike and to 175m vertical depth
• Hole 008 finished in mineralisation, assaying 4.46% Cu in the last metre
• Mobilisation approved for expanded multi rig program

The intercepts are compelling not just for their grade and width, but for their shallow nature, which bodes well for future development scenarios.

The Danvers mineralisation remains open in all directions, including at depth, and appears to trace along a 150 metre northeast trending structure that is now earmarked for a full 10 kilometre step out campaign.

The company has also begun initial work to convert a historic, non JORC resource into a compliant estimate and is preparing to commence diamond drilling at the Hulk prospect, another large scale target within the Rae project.

Notably, drone based MobileMT surveys are being deployed to provide a geophysical fingerprint to search for lookalike targets across the broader tenure.

But it is not just the geology catching the eye.

White Cliff’s latest capital raise was completed at a significant premium, drawing new sophisticated investors onto the register, a vote of confidence that adds financial tailwind to the company’s aggressive plans.

Whittaker’s parting shot hints at the scale of ambition:

“We look forward to results from one of the biggest drilling programs this part of Canada has seen in many decades and updating you accordingly.”

What’s next?

White Cliff is preparing to remobilise to site in the coming weeks, with drilling at Danvers set to resume.

The upcoming program will focus on step out holes designed to test the full 10 kilometre strike potential of the mineralised structure, which remains open in all directions.

At the same time, the company will commence the first ever diamond drilling at the Hulk prospect, a large scale geophysical anomaly that extends deep into the sedimentary basin.

This marks the beginning of broader regional testing across the Rae Project area.

Parallel to field activities, White Cliff will undertake detailed geophysical targeting using drone based MobileMT surveys.

These surveys will focus on building a geophysical fingerprint from the known Danvers mineralisation and using that signature to identify similar targets across the district.

Work will also begin on converting the historic, non JORC resource at Danvers into a compliant 2012 JORC format.

This process will draw on the recent results from Phase 1 drilling and help underpin the company’s resource definition efforts through 2025.

In a copper market crying out for scale and clean jurisdictional exposure, White Cliff’s Rae Project may just have tapped into both.

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