Gold Accumulated From Sampling At Five Key Prospects
White Cliff Minerals Limited (ASX:WCN) has received high-grade assay results from 16 rock chip samples taken across the company’s 100%-owned Cracker Jack project, which forms part of the Reedy South Gold Project in Western Australia.
During March, the company carried out first-pass rock chip and soil sampling across five key prospects identified from geophysical surveys and geological mapping.
Technical Director, Ed Mead, said gold assay results received for Cracker Jack have confirmed the presence of a narrow but high-grade system, with results up to 37.3 g/t gold. Multi-element assay results from sampling programs across Nallan, McCaskill Hill and Robin Well prospects are expected in coming weeks.
“The high-grade rock chip results with multiple assays over an ounce a ton of gold, over 350m gives a compelling basis for a maiden shallow-RC drill programme at Cracker Jack, to test the mineralised quartz veins and stockwork at depth,” Mr Mead said.
Planning for a maiden RC drill programme at Cracker Jack is underway and may increase with further positive sampling results over the southern portion.”
The Cracker Jack project covers 16 sq. km of the highly prospective Meekatharra-Cue goldfields, including strike potential of the prospective Meekatharra-Wydgee greenstone belt. Cracker Jack comprises one granted exploration license (E20/938) and one granted prospecting license (P20/2289). The project is approximately 10km away from the Reedy’s gold mine and adjoins the Company’s existing tenements within the Reedy area
During March 2021, 16 rock chip samples were collected from the northern end of the Cracker Jack project, with samples taken from historic workings (trenches and mullock) along a strike-length of ~350m. Mineralisation at Cracker Jack is thought to be controlled by quartz veining within the contact between Banded Iron Formation (BIF), mafics and Ultramafics. Cracker Jack is the southern extension of the Burnakurra Shear Zone (BSZ), and shares geological similarities to the Reedy Shear Zone (RSZ). Further sampling on the southern portion of P 20/2289 will be carried out, with the aim of delineating a larger maiden drill program.
Results from the first round of sampling are highly encouraging, and warrant further sampling on the southern portion of P 20/2289 and follow-up with a maiden drill program
The Project covers 272km2 of the highly prospective Cue goldfields, centred on the southern portion of the prolific Reedy Shear Zone, within the Meekatharra- Wydgee greenstone belt.
The Reedy South Project comprises one granted mining lease (M20/446) covering the historic underground workings of Pegasus and King Cole, a granted exploration and prospecting license (E20/938 & P20/2289) and four exploration license applications (E20/969, E20/971, E20/972 & E20/974). The Project is situated 40km north of Cue, via the Great Northern Highway and is 80km south of Meekatharra.
White Cliff has declared a maiden MRE of 779,000 tonnes at 1.7 g/t Au for 42,400 ounces of gold. With the style and controls of mineralisation similar to the Triton-South Emu goldmine immediately north of the Project, White Cliff believe there is scope to substantially grow the resource at Reedy South through drilling at depth and along strike.
