News Articles for White Cliff Minerals

Ahead of a follow up drilling campaign at its Rae copper project in Canada, Perth-based junior White Cliff Minerals has taken further steps to strengthen the company.

Bulls N' Bears Big Hits examines some notable drill intercepts recently revealed on the ASX, including White Cliff Minerals' 58m hit of 3.08% copper and 13.3g/t silver at its Canadian Rae project. Other interesting drill hits were reported from Benz Mining Corporation's Glenburgh project in Western Australia's northwest and from Koonenberry Gold's Enmore gold project in New South Wales.

White Cliff Minerals has announced plans to raise $14.4 million in a bid to fast-track drilling activities at its Rae copper project in Canada.

A project-scale geophysical survey at White Cliff Minerals' Rae project in Nunavut, northern Canada, has lit up a massive vein hosted conductive anomaly stretching 14km long by 2.2km wide. A second conductor was also picked up next to an existing prospect, pushing the total extent of that target to 10.5km by 23km.

An airborne survey flown by White Cliff Minerals has uncovered multiple big copper targets at its Hulk prospect, part of the company's Rae copper project in Canada's Nunavut Territory. The three conductors align with a recent rock chip assay picked up as part of a maiden survey, which came in at 1.65 per cent copper.

White Cliff Minerals has extended its land grab in Canada by securing ground adjacent to its Rae copper-silver project that sits in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. The project now boasts a prospective strike length of 72km for copper-hosted sedimentary structures. The company jumped on the additional 243 square kilometres of tenure identified from geophysical data that it says may have district-scale potential for mineralisation.

On a massive turnover of more than 105 million shares, White Cliff Minerals' stock surged more than eight per cent today after the company revealed multiple copper rock-chip samples grading more than 50 per cent from its Rae project in Canada's Nunavut territory. The maiden field program confirmed large-scale, high-grade copper occurrences at both the company's Rocket and Thor prospects.

White Cliff Minerals has bolstered its funding for an upcoming drill program at its Rae copper-silver project in Canada, with a $5 million capital raise at a premium to the market price – cornerstoned by its strategic advisor, John Hancock. Management says the raising attracted widespread support from new and existing shareholders and institutional funds based locally and in the United Kingdom, United States and Europe.

White Cliff Minerals has kicked up a swag of uber high-grade copper sniffs, tipping the scales at a record-breaking 64 per cent, giving hints of a large-scale copper discovery at its Rae project in northern Canada. The latest haul follows a suite of extraordinary silver grades the junior explorer recently racked up, reaching as high as an eye-boggling 75,439 grams per tonne, from its nearby Great Bear Lake project.

White Cliff Minerals has unveiled extraordinary silver grades in rock-chip samples from its Great Bear Lake project in northern Canada, with assays reaching as high as a lab-shaking 75,439 grams per tonne – or 7.54 per cent. The company's managing director Troy Whittaker probably put it best when he said, “Well, this is not something you see every day”.

White Cliff Minerals has dished up more promising rock-chip samples from a maiden program at its Great Bear Lake project in Canada, including hits of up to 42 per cent copper, 17.4g/t gold and 716g/t silver. Management believes the discovery of consistent high-grade copper, gold and silver occurrences across a relatively small portion of the project underscores the district's significance.

A first batch of rock chip samples revealing an eye-watering 42.6 per cent copper and an impressive 38.2 grams per tonne gold at White Cliff Minerals' newly-named Phoenix district, within its Great Bear Lake project in northern Canada, has management convinced it could be on the precipice of not one, but two major, high-grade copper discoveries in the near-term.

White Cliff Minerals has confirmed the locations of historical high-grade results for a suite of valuable minerals at its two key Canadian projects, defining multiple priority targets for early drilling after completing a maiden field work campaign. Field reconnaissance, mapping and sampling has identified four iron oxide-copper-gold targets at its Great Bear project and multiple styles of copper mineralisation at its Rae play.

Our weekly appointments wrap includes Chris How, Michael Corboy, Melissa McEwen, Luke Cox, Ian Armstrong and John Hancock.

White Cliff Minerals has unveiled extensive evidence of chalcocite-dominant, copper-rich vein systems along big strike distances after maiden field work at its Rae project in the Canadian province of Nunavut. The company has reported significant – sometimes spectacular – hard surface evidence of the red metal at its PAT, HALO, Cu-TAR, DON CALMAL and Kilauea targets, with abundant native copper observed at surface in the latter.

Canadian focused explorer White Cliff Minerals has tapped John Hancock's decades of mining experience, adding the billionaire's son to its board as a strategic advisor.

In a significant move poised to bolster the immediate direction of its multi-mineral pursuits, White Cliff Minerals has secured well-known mining mogul John Hancock as a strategic advisor to its board. The company has engaged the son of Australia's richest woman Gina Rinehart as it gears up for a substantial expansion of its project portfolio during the next year.

White Cliff Minerals says it has now uncovered four visible iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) systems during the company's initial field program at its promising Great Bear Lake project in northern Canada. One of the four hydrothermal system discoveries has been dubbed the “Cleaver” target and, according to management, it has a gossanous zone so extensive that it is identifiable via satellite.

White Cliff Minerals has unearthed widespread visible iron oxide-copper-gold and uranium-silver mineralisation during the company's initial field program at its promising Great Bear Lake project in northern Canada. The swag of targets discovered include outcropping copper-uranium-cobalt-silver mineralisation and several off-the-charts uranium readings from a handheld scintillometer. Management also revealed that a CAD$168,000 (AU$183,000) Canadian Government grant has been received to further exploration activities.

White Cliff Minerals has beefed up its landholding at its Nunavut copper-gold-silver project in the northern Canadian province of the same name after putting its foot on two adjoining and “highly-prospective” exploration licences covering up to an additional 63 square kilometres. The new tenure includes the Halo prospect where historical drilling returned a 4.7m intercept at an eye-catching 10.47 per cent copper.

A successful drilling campaign at White Cliff Minerals' Reedy South gold project in Western Australia's proven Cue goldfields has produced extensions along strike and at depth to the already-defined 42,400-ounce mineral resource at the site. The company says it recorded positive results from the 2000m reverse-circulation program, including a consistent 79m intercept grading 1 gram per tonne gold from just 10m.

White Cliff Minerals is poised for an exploration blitz when it kicks off a maiden fieldwork campaign at its Nunavut copper-gold-silver project in the northern Canadian province of the same name. The company has already identified a slew of high-priority targets at the operation and its imminent field campaign has been designed to include detailed geological mapping and sampling ahead of a maiden drill program.

White Cliff Minerals is primed to get boots on the ground at its Great Bear Lake project in Canada's Northwest Territories, with a comprehensive data review identifying a slew of priority multi-mineral targets. Management has highlighted its Thompson, Hunter Bay, Sparkplug Lake and Spud Bay prospects as high priorities and found evidence of potential IOCG mineralisation at its southern Luv Lake, OMNI and HD44 areas.

White Cliff Minerals is ready to scratch into the surface at Canada's Great Bear Lake after securing Federal Government approval for all of the licences at its Radium Point uranium-copper-gold-silver project. The company's total project tenure at the Northwest Territories site encloses 2900 square kilometres of the Great Bear magmatic zone that is known for its iron oxide-copper-gold and uranium potential.

White Cliff Minerals is gearing up for a bumper 2024 as its hunt for a smorgasbord of metals builds up steam. Planned works include diamond drilling at its recently acquired Radium Point uranium, gold and copper project in Canada where rock chip results from historical works include an eye-catching 14.15 per cent uranium, 22.72 per cent copper and 8.28 grams per tonne gold.

Bulls N' Bears takes a look at the listed companies that have enjoyed share price explosions on the back of 16-year high uranium prices. With lithium taking a breather, the uranium renaissance has filled a gap as demand for uranium to power a clean-energy future pushed the commodity's fortunes and propelled it to US$106 per pound earlier this year.

White Cliff Minerals' review of historic datasets for its Radium Point project in Canada has highlighted multiple high-grade uranium-copper-gold-silver targets including 14.15 per cent uranium oxide. The project forms the northern half of the approximately 2,900 sq km licence area held by the company which says results exceed its expectations and that the targets will be assessed in the upcoming 2024 field program.

A recent share price hike for White Cliff Minerals has triggered a cash bonanza for the company after it today confirmed $4.33 million worth of options had been exercised on the back of its rally from recent lows. Touching as low as 0.9c to start the new year of trading, the share price rose to as high as 1.9c after it grabbed new Canadian ground.

White Cliff Minerals has contracted Expert Geophysics to complete an airborne geophysical survey over its entire Coppermine project in the Canadian province of Nunavut as soon as next quarter. The company says the campaign will use mobile magnetotellurics to image subsurface resistivity and it is expected to highlight and define structural trends to optimise future drill targets.

White Cliff Minerals says it is now the single-biggest holder of mineral exploration claims in Canada's Northwest Territories after it was granted new licence approvals for the province's Radium Point project. The company is focussed on iron oxide-copper-gold-uranium deposits and silver mineralisation in the area that hosts the historical Eldorado, Echo Bay and Contact Lake mines.

Our board moves wrap includes Elizabeth Lee, Aditya Asthana, Craig Duncan, Jose Carlos Guedes Rosado, Troy Whittaker, and Ross Cotton.

The Nunuvut Planning Commission has given White Cliff Minerals the go-ahead to kick off exploration at its Coppermine project in Canada, where it will follow up on high-grade historical copper results. The company says it marks a major step in the permitting process and allows it to appoint contractors for this year's exploration initiatives in the Canadian province of Nunavut.

White Cliff Minerals has added 3300sq-km to its Canadian portfolio after securing the Radium Point multi-element project in the Northwest Territories province that takes in several historical mining operations. The company is focussed on iron-oxide-copper-gold-uranium deposits and silver mineralisation in the area that hosts the historical Eldorado, Echo Bay and Contact Lake mines.

While 2023 saw explorers flock to the James Bay region of Quebec in Canada, a host of ASX-listed companies set their sights further north to the province of Nunavut to hunt for gold, copper and critical minerals. With Quebec becoming a little too popular, several hopefuls decided to roll the dice in the cold, but far less crowded province of Nunavut.

White Cliff Minerals believes its Lake Johnston South project is highly-prospective for spodumene-bearing pegmatites following a review into the operation west of Norseman in Western Australia's Goldfields region. Lake Johnston South consists of 13 exploration licenses totalling 1874 square kilometres adjacent to and along strike from recent large-scale discoveries of spodumene-bearing pegmatites by Charger Metals and TG Metals.

White Cliff Minerals has orchestrated a stunning pivot away from its WA lithium and rare earths focus by steering into a high-grade copper hunt at one of the world's fastest-growing mineral hotspots, Canada. The company has secured a swathe of ground in the Canadian province of Nunavut after an agreement with a private party for 61 mineral claims covering 80,500 hectares at Coppermine River.

White Cliff Minerals will intensify its focus on its rare earths and lithium portfolio after selling Abraxis Mining ¬– including three Pilbara lithium tenements – to Gold Geological Consulting for $200,000. The company says the transaction is part of an ongoing portfolio review that is expected to lead to further divestments of non-core projects as it builds on its significant Western Australian rare earths and lithium holdings.

Our board moves wrap includes Simon Lee, Jay Hughes, Roderick McIllree, and Ed Mead.

White Cliff Minerals' incoming executive chairman and mining veteran Roderick McIllree has vowed to mark his new role by immediately focusing on the company's exploration and business development programs. Technical director Ed Mead will transition to the role of executive director of exploration and business development and the pair will work together to build a global development business of critical metals in low-risk jurisdictions.

Our board moves wrap includes Jocelyn Bennett, John Seton, Steven Kovac, Sam Rodda, Rodney Baxter, Rob Sinclair, and Saskia Groen-Int-Woud.