White Cliff Expands High Grade Copper Discovery at Danvers Prospect

White Cliff Minerals (ASX: WCN) continues to grow its copper footprint at the Danvers Prospect in Western Australia, reporting further high grade results from ongoing drilling that extend the mineralised strike and confirm strong continuity both near surface and at depth.

Recent assays from holes DARC006 to DARC009 delivered intercepts of:

• 38 metres at 1.4 percent copper from 24 metres in DARC007, including 5 metres at 3.1 percent copper

• 21 metres at 1.1 percent copper from 16 metres in DARC009, including 3 metres at 2.5 percent copper

  

These results follow previously announced standout hits such as 49 metres at 1.1 percent copper in DARC004 and 13 metres at 3.0 percent copper in DARC005, confirming that mineralisation extends for over 800 metres of strike and remains open in all directions.

Danvers is part of the wider Diemals Project located in the Youanmi Terrane of the Yilgarn Craton, a region historically overlooked for base metals despite hosting favourable volcanic and sedimentary sequences. White Cliff is targeting volcanogenic massive sulphide style copper systems, supported by geophysical anomalies and extensive shallow historical workings.

Executive Chairman Roderick McIllree said the latest results reinforce the company’s belief that Danvers is an emerging discovery with district scale potential.

“We are building a strong case for a significant copper system at Danvers,” McIllree said. “Each round of drilling continues to extend the known mineralisation, and with more holes planned we are far from defining the limits of this system.”

In addition to strong copper grades, the mineralisation is shallow and hosted in brecciated and chlorite altered volcanic rocks, making it potentially amenable to low cost open pit mining.

White Cliff has also identified multiple additional targets along strike and within the broader Diemals Project area. Follow up drilling is planned to test deeper zones and step out along newly defined geophysical conductors.

With copper prices supported by the global shift toward electrification, the continued success at Danvers places White Cliff in a favourable position among junior copper explorers in Australia.

As drilling advances, the company will look to integrate geochemical, geophysical and structural data into a comprehensive model that may underpin a maiden resource estimate in the future.