White Cliff locates further Merolia anomaly
THE DRILL SERGEANT: White Cliff Minerals (ASX: WCN) has identified a new high-tenor nickel in soil anomaly at the company’s Merolia nickel and copper project in the Laverton region of Western Australia.
The latest find follows the company’s identification of, what it described as, ‘a major nickel anomaly’ at the McKenna prospect in April from analysis of the first 323 soil samples from a the sampling program utilising a PXRF (portable X-ray florescence spectroscopy).
White Cliff said analysis of the remaining 1022 samples has revealed several additional areas with anomalous nickel in soil anomalies.
“The identification of additional nickel anomalies continues to improve the prospectivity of the Merolia project,” White Cliff Minerals managing director Todd Hibberd said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.
“The size and strength of the nickel anomaly is highly encouraging and warrants further follow up work to the north to define the extent of the anomalism.”
White Cliff explained it has commenced an additional geochemical soil sampling program over this area while further infill geochemical sampling will also be carried out around other defined anomalies with results expected to be available in the coming weeks.
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Geological map showing locations of anomalous EM responses and area
covered by geochemical soil sampling survey. Source: Company
announcement
“It is astounding to realise that a major 10 kilometre by two kilometre ultramafic sequence in a region that hosts several major nickel mines has never been tested by drilling or geophysics,” Hibberd said.
“The Rotorua ultramafic is highly prospective for nickel sulphide deposition and represents an excellent exploration target.”
White Cliff intends to follow up the geochemical surveys with low cost RAB drilling and geophysical surveys, which it anticipates will generate more defined EM conductors for drilling in the latter part of 2014.
“We are highly encouraged by the initial results generated from the geochemical program at the Merolia project,” Hibberd said.
“The prospective parts of the Merolia project extend over 80 kilometres and are along strike from the Rosie and Camelwood nickel sulphide discoveries to the north and the Mulga Tank nickel discovery to the south providing confidence that further strong results will be delivered as exploration progresses,”
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