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- White Cliff Minerals (WCN) has completed a maiden drilling program at the Cracker Jack and McCaskill prospects within the Reedy South gold project in WA
- The 74-hole program aimed to follow up on geochemical sampling which highlighted an area that may be associated with a highly prospective shear zone
- Drill samples are in transit for assaying and results are expected in March
- Company shares closed 8.33 per cent in the green at 2.6 cents
White Cliff Minerals (WCN) has completed a drilling program within the Reedy South project in Western Australia.
The Reedy South Gold Project covers 272 square kilometres of the highly prospective Cue goldfields. It’s centred on the southern portion of the prolific Reedy Shear Zone, within the Meekatharra-Wydgee greenstone belt.
The project has a maiden mineral resource estimate of 779,000 tonnes at 1.7 grams of gold per tonne (g/t) for 42,400 ounces of gold.
The maiden reverse circulation (RC) drilling program comprised 74 shallow holes, totalling roughly 4440 metres, and targeted the Cracker Jack and McCaskill prospects.
Technical Director Ed Mead said the maiden drilling program was completed successfully and on time.
“The shallow RC program was aimed at testing a large area that was defined through geochemical sampling, which appears to be associated with the highly prospective Burnakura Shear Zone,” he said.
White Cliff Minerals collected three-metre composite samples which are now in transit to be analysed and assayed at a Perth-based lab. Assay results are expected in mid-to-late March.
Overall, the company aims to generate several mineable deposits within the Reedy South
gold project, which together can support a mining operation.
Company shares closed 8.33 per cent in the green at 2.6 cents.
