For personal use only

ASX ANNOUNCEMENT

21 December 2021

Heritage Survey For Drilling At Reedy South Project Area

Successfully Completed

HIGHLIGHTS

A heritage survey at Cracker Jack and at McCaskill Hill was successfully completed on 16 December 2021. The survey allows drilling at these prospects, subject to final report, to follow up on highly encouraging rock chip and geochemistry sampling results from previously untested areas

Multiple areas have been defined for drill testing PoW's for drilling have been approved at:

  1. McCaskill Hill to follow-up encouraging soil sample results o First-pass drilling at Cracker Jack
    o Extension drilling at Pegasus

White Cliff has planned a 4,500m, shallow RC drilling program across these prospects A drill rig start date for drilling is anticipated in late January

White Cliff Minerals Limited (White Cliff or the Company) is pleased to advise of the successful completion of a heritage survey over the Company's 100%-owned McCaskill Hill and Cracker Jack prospects, which forms part of the Reedy South Gold Project. The Company is finalising a start date for drilling anticipated to be in late January, once we receive the final heritage survey report.

White Cliff Technical Director Ed Mead said:

"I am pleased we have been able to complete the heritage survey this late in the year, which now sets us up for drilling in January 2022. I look forward to the maiden shallow-RC drill program to test the anomalies identified to date at McCaskill Hill, Cracker Jack and Pegasus."

As released to the ASX on 29 July 2021 (Multiple Drill Targets Identified Within Reedy South Project), the McCaskill Hill, Cracker Jack and Pegasus form part of the of the highly prospective Meekatharra-Cue goldfields, including 5.5km of strike potential of the prospective Meekatharra-Wydgee greenstone belt (Figure 1).

ASX:WCN

wcminerals.com.au

White Cliff Minerals Limited

Level 8, 99 St Georges Tce, Perth WA 6000

T + 61 8 9486 4036

ABN 22 126 299 125

PO Box 5638 St Georges Tce, Perth WA 6831

F + 61 8 9486 4799

For personal use only

Photograph 1: Local elder Billy Shay questioning White Cliff Exploration Manager Allan Younger about the location and scale of the planned drilling program at the Reedy South Gold Project during the heritage survey.

Figure 1: The Reedy South Gold Project over simplified geology.

ASX:WCN

wcminerals.com.au

White Cliff Minerals Limited

Level 8, 99 St Georges Tce, Perth WA 6000

T + 61 8 9486 4036

ABN 22 126 299 125

PO Box 5638 St Georges Tce, Perth WA 6831

F + 61 8 9486 4799

For personal use only

Reedy South (Pegasus) Gold Project

Closed spaced soil sampling (Figure 2) was completed on lines 100m apart with sample spacing of 20m south of the defined mineral resource. This program was planned to indicate where further exploration should focus with a view to increase the size of the resource. Generally, this sampling was ineffectual in its planned purpose due mainly to the disturbance along the Reedy Road, even though 1 sample returned a value of 9.95ppm Au; this is thought to be contamination from historical mining/prospecting and is on the boundary of the tenement.

Figure 2: Reedy South gold project showing Target Zone south of Pegasus MRE (ASX Release 29 October 2020) Ore Zone, with Au geochemistry on RTP1VD magnetic data.

ASX:WCN

wcminerals.com.au

White Cliff Minerals Limited

Level 8, 99 St Georges Tce, Perth WA 6000

T + 61 8 9486 4036

ABN 22 126 299 125

PO Box 5638 St Georges Tce, Perth WA 6831

F + 61 8 9486 4799

For personal use only

The drilling program planned for late January will focus along the western margin of the magnetic response; whist the ore zone is not magnetic, there is clear correlation between gold mineralisation/anomalism and this zone. Previously all bar two drillholes have been located north of the Cullculli road, with the two holes to the south being unsuccessful in intercepting the Reedy Shear Zone (RSZ). The presence of the road may create some access difficulties, but continuity of drilling is warranted. The northern zone tested has strike of approximately 700m, with the zone south of the road having a strike length of approximately 450m remaining to be tested.

Figure 3 Cracker Jack prospect showing Initial Target Zone with Au geochemistry on

RTP1VD magnetic data.

ASX:WCN

wcminerals.com.au

White Cliff Minerals Limited

Level 8, 99 St Georges Tce, Perth WA 6000

T + 61 8 9486 4036

ABN 22 126 299 125

PO Box 5638 St Georges Tce, Perth WA 6831

F + 61 8 9486 4799

For personal use only

Cracker Jack Gold Project

The close spaced soil geochemical sampling (lines 50m apart, samples 40m apart) within the Cracker Jack PL20/2289 (Figure 3) tends to support the historical drilling which focused on the northern portion of the tenement. The gold responses both within Cracker Jack and McCaskill's tend to be on the margins of the stronger magnetic responses caused by the banded Iron Formations (BIF) consistent with the concept that mineralisation is along the rheology contrast of the BIF and surrounding mafics. This drilling target is highlighted in Figure 3.

The Cracker Jack rock chip samples with values >1g/t Au show strongly elevated responses for the pathfinder elements bismuth, molybdenum and tungsten: within the Cracker Jack tenement soil samples shows a strongly elevated response for these elements in correlation with the gold responses. The pathfinder response tends draw the area of interest slightly further into the mafic sequence rather than specifically along the BIF.

A strike length of approximately 650m requires testing as weak gold anomalism occurs along the eastern margin of the BIF and the western margin of the eastern BIF is entirely untested.

McCaskill Hill Gold Project

During March 2021, 229 -2mm soil samples (Figure 4) were collected from the central McCaskill's project, with samples taken along east-west lines 200m apart and spaced at 100m intervals along the lines.

Mineralisation at McCaskill Hill is expected to be similar to Cracker Jack, which is thought to be controlled by quartz veining within the contact between BIF, mafics and ultramafics. Both areas are on the southern extension of the Burnakurra Shear Zone (BSZ), and shares geological similarities to the RSZ.

The soil sampling within McCaskill's did not materially change the areas of interest known; however, if the pathfinder element character from Cracker Jack rock chip samples of elevated bismuth, molybdenum and tungsten: a zone within the McCaskill Hill tenement soil samples shows a strongly elevated response for these elements but with negligible gold responses. This forms an entirely new northern target zone which covers elevated gold responses and the area of strongly elevated pathfinder elements in a zone where the BIF units show considerable disruption.

The planned drilling will target the area of strong gold responses along margins of the BIF units in the central area of McCaskill's and follow-up on the results from the RAB completed in by Gold Mines of Australia (WA) NL (GMA) where lesser response is shown by the gold geochemistry near the southern limits of the BIF units.

GMA data was partially tested by a RAB drilling program of 41 holes for 777m, being maximum depth of 20m or blade refusal. The best result from GMA drilling was 9m at 1.54g/t from 8m to EOH in 94TTPH439 on the contact of the BIF (WAMEX A42903).

ASX:WCN

wcminerals.com.au

White Cliff Minerals Limited

Level 8, 99 St Georges Tce, Perth WA 6000

T + 61 8 9486 4036

ABN 22 126 299 125

PO Box 5638 St Georges Tce, Perth WA 6831

F + 61 8 9486 4799

This is an excerpt of the original content. To continue reading it, access the original document here.

Attachments

  • Original Link
  • Original Document
  • Permalink

Disclaimer

White Cliff Minerals Limited published this content on 20 December 2021 and is solely responsible for the information contained therein. Distributed by Public, unedited and unaltered, on 20 December 2021 22:39:06 UTC.