White Rock woos Lady Hampden

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: White Rock Minerals has received assays from recent drilling at the Lady Hampden silver prospect on the company’s 100%‐owned Mt Carrington project in northern New South Wales.

Mt Carrington contains an overall shallow Inferred Resource of 190,000 ounces of gold and ten million ounces of silver.

Lady Hampden is located on the Cheviot Hills fault zone near the eastern margin of the central mining Leases at Mt Carrington.

An Inferred Mineral Resource of 1.07 million tonnes at 59 grams per tonne silver for 2.03 million ounces and 0.8 grams per tonne gold for 28,000 ounces is located immediately beneath and adjacent to the Lady Hampden open pit, which was mined in the late 1980’s.

In an announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange White Rock said the current drilling results provide strong support for potential growth of the Resource.

The company carried out an eight‐hole drilling program to test interpreted extensions to the Lady Hampden Inferred Resource in July.

Four of the drillholes completed in that program intersected shallow silver and gold mineralisation, which the company is confident has confirmed significant extensions to the known mineralised zones.

“The silver assay results in this program are among the highest and most consistent we have seen from Lady Hampden,” White Rock Minerals managing director Geoffrey Lowe said in the announcement.

“We now have a number of confirmed mineralised extensions down dip and adjacent to the current Inferred Resource, which underpin our confidence and our capacity to expand this Resource.”

The company is expecting to receive results for the final two holes of the July drilling program at Lady Hampden by the end of August.

While it has scheduled further drilling to commence in at this time, other drilling is currently underway to test for new mineralised zones additional to the eight million ounce silver Inferred Resource at the White Rock prospect.

Drilling of potential extensions to the Strauss and Kylo gold Resources are expected to be completed in September and October.