White Cliff Minerals has expanded the Danvers 3 prospect at its Rae Copper Project, with diamond drill hole DAN26025 returning 42m at 1.43% copper from 200m. The hole, collared 250m northwest of previous drilling, intercepted high-grade internal intervals including 5.25m at 2.72% copper and 4.73m at 2.23% copper.

Further evidence of expansion comes from hole DAN26036, which intersected a combined 83.1m of visually logged copper sulphides, including chalcocite-dominant breccias. Located more than 105m west of the original discovery hole, DAN26036 indicates the high-grade system extends by more than 280m.

Beyond the Danvers 3 area, regional drilling has identified copper sulphides across 9.8km of strike along the Teshierpi Fault Zone, with assays confirming mineralisation across 6.6km of that distance. Oriented diamond core data from the current program is being used to refine the structural model of the breccia systems.

“These observations, together with the 42m @ 1.43% Cu result in DAN26025, demonstrate that the breccia system extends well beyond DAN26012 and provide clear structural vectors towards the thicker and higher-grade parts of the system. The next phase of drilling will directly test these extensions along strike and at depth.”

— Eric Sondergaard, Executive Technical Director

The company has two diamond rigs operating at the Rae Project. Upcoming activity includes the receipt of assays for more than 20 pending drill holes and the commencement of Phase 2 drilling to test strike and depth extensions at the Danvers 1, 2, and 4 targets.

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