White Cliff Minerals (ASX:WCN) uncovers treasure trove of IOCG targets at Great Bear

Armed with fresh geophysical data and a growing body of high-grade surface results, White Cliff Minerals (ASX:WCN) is stepping up its ambitions at the Great Bear Project in Canada’s Northwest Territories, where a suite of large-scale anomalies points to the potential for significant gold, copper, silver, and uranium discoveries.

Highlights

• Multiple high-tenor geophysical anomalies coincident with high-grade gold, copper, silver and uranium surface samples.

• Pipeline of IOCG and epithermal drill targets defined by Southern Geoscience Consulting.

• Maiden drilling at Great Bear scheduled for 2025, backed by newly confirmed large conductive and resistive zones.

“Pleasingly, and subsequent to our successful maiden field campaign last year where we saw substantial and high-grade mineralisation at surface, and now having an independent global expert in Southern Geosciences validate sub-surface geophysics really highlights the potential at Great Bear,” says White Cliff Managing Director Troy Whittaker.

At the Phoenix target, a coherent geophysical anomaly directly overlays rock chip samples grading up to 42.6% copper, 38.2g/t gold and 159g/t silver.

Meanwhile, the Coyote prospect, situated within a collapse caldera once flagged by the Canadian government as prime IOCG territory, boasts discrete anomalies atop surface hits of 17.4g/t gold and 10.55% copper.

The company’s survey data, interpreted by Southern Geoscience Consulting, suggests the potential prize may not just be isolated high-grade zones, but an extensive system aligned with the Great Bear Magmatic Zone — a region known historically for uranium and silver riches.

Notably, a massive conductive anomaly at the Viper prospect extends more than 1,400 metres below surface, hinting at the scale White Cliff might be tapping into.

Further south-east along the Contact Lake fault, a newly identified anomaly mirrors the geological setting of the historic Eldorado and Echo Bay mines.

The broader picture is just as intriguing. Multiple other targets — Slider, Cleaver, GB-04 and GB-09 among them — show signatures indicative of both IOCG and epithermal-style mineralisation, yet many remain untouched by the drill bit.

White Cliff is already using these findings to design its 2025 drilling campaign.

“This Project is starting to develop into a greater regional play, where we have a substantial tenure holding. It is important to bear in mind that we have only scratched the surface,” Whittaker adds.

In a climate where resource juniors must fight for attention, White Cliff appears to have positioned itself smartly: not just another hopeful with a map, but a company stacking strong scientific evidence behind a potentially transformative exploration story.

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