White Cliff Minerals (ASX:WCN) reports copper mineralisation across more than 11.5km at Danvers
White Cliff Minerals has reported assay confirmed copper mineralisation across more than 11.5km of combined strike at Danvers, within its Rae Copper Project.
The 24 September announcement brings together final Phase 1 assays and observations from recent diamond drilling, with work continuing along the Danvers 1 trend and the Teshierpi Fault Zone.
Highlights
DAN26041 returned 16.10m at 1.20% copper from 193m at Danvers 1, within 35.50m at 0.65% copper from the same depth.
DAN26052 intersected visible chalcocite and chalcopyrite mineralisation at Danvers 3. Its copper grade has not yet been established by assay.
2 diamond rigs are advancing drilling at Danvers, while an airborne survey has been commissioned over approximately 70km of the Rae Group and Husky Creek Formation contact.
The Danvers 1 result comes from expansion drilling along a trend where White Cliff says its 2026 program has increased the mineralised strike from 821m to more than 4.76km.
Copper has also been intersected in widely spaced drilling to the northeast, and the company is continuing to test that area along a magnetic low.
Its current infill drilling is designed to close gaps in the geological model and refine the distribution of mineralisation.
White Cliff Managing Director Troy Whittaker said:
“Infill drilling at Danvers 1 is building the geological confidence required for an Exploration Target and maiden Mineral Resource Estimate.”
At Danvers 3, the latest observations come from DAN26052, which was collared 60m from DAN26008.
The earlier hole returned an assayed interval of 33.53m at 1% copper from 103m, while the new hole intersected visible copper sulphides above it, which White Cliff says demonstrates the continuation of chalcocite rich mineralisation towards surface.
Laboratory assays for the new intersection have yet to be reported, so the visual observations do not establish its copper grade.
The wider Teshierpi Fault Zone has returned assays confirming copper mineralisation over more than 6.5km of strike.
At Danvers 4, White Cliff reports that drilling has covered an extensive length of the fault zone but has not yet sufficiently tested the central fault zone or northwestern fault contact.
A diamond rig is now targeting the magnetic contact at Danvers 2 and 3, which the company identifies as a control on higher grade mineralisation.
Beyond the current drilling areas, the commissioned airborne magnetic, gravity and radiometric survey includes Thor and Rocket.
White Cliff intends to use the data to improve geological interpretation and refine targets for future drilling at those locations, where surface rock sampling in 2024 identified vein and breccia mineralisation.
Further Danvers 3 assays are expected within 4 to 6 weeks, while drilling continues across the Danvers 1 northeastern trend and the Danvers 2 and 3 discovery areas, with the results intended to inform the company’s geological model and stated resource definition work.