FINANCE VIDEO: White Cliff Minerals Ltd - Interview with Managing Director on the Upgraded Resource Estimate at Aucu
Sydney - White Cliff Minerals Ltd. (ASX:WCN) are pleased to provide an interview with Managing Director, Todd Hibberd, on the upgraded resource estimate at the Aucu gold project in Central Asia.To view the video interview, please visit:
http://www.abnnewswire.net/press/en/88278/WCN
Todd Hibberd (Managing Director)
Mr Hibberd, is a geologist with an extensive background in exploration and mining including 20 years in exploration, resource estimation, mine development and production management. Recent experience includes two years as Managing Director of ASX listed Stonehenge Metals Limited and ten years working for Newmont Mining Corp. in various senior exploration and production roles.
Summary on Aucu Gold - Central Asia
In a recent announcement (ASX announcement April 21, 2017) White Cliff Minerals reported a new JORC compliant inferred resource for the Aucu gold deposit, using a lower cut-off grade of 1 g/t gold, of 1.8 million tonnes grading 5.2 g/t gold, for 302,000 ounces of contained gold. The new resource represents a 93% increase in contained gold ounces and a 23% increase in average grade over the previous gold resource reported in April 2015.
Importantly the new resource contains a very high grade zone (Quartz Zone) of 244,000 tonnes at 9.5 g/t gold containing 75,000 ounces of gold, which starts at surface. Surface extensions of the high grade Quartz Zone have been identified and will be drilled in the coming field season.
This latest resource estimate also identified a new inferred copper resource, using a lower cut of grade of 0.25% copper, of 608,000 tonnes at 0.64% copper, containing 3,870 tonnes of copper.
To view the video interview, please visit:
http://www.abnnewswire.net/press/en/88278/WCN
About White Cliff Minerals Ltd:
White Cliff Minerals Ltd. (ASX:WCN) is a Western Australian based exploration company with the following main projects:
Kyrgyz Aucu Gold Project (90%): The Project contains extensive porphyry related gold and copper mineralisation starting at the surface and extending over several kilometres. Drilling during 2014 has defined a major gold discovery with an initial inferred resource of 1.15Mt at 4.2 g/t containing 156,000 ounces of gold. Additional drilling in 2015 identified extensions of known high grade gold mineralisation with intersections as high as 8 metres at 55 g/t gold. In addition drilling has also defined a significant copper deposit at surface consisting of 10Mt at 0.41% copper containing 40,000 tonnes of copper. Extensive mineralisation occurs around both deposits demonstrating significant potential to increase the existing resources.
The project is located in the Kyrgyz Republic, 350km west-southwest of the capital city of Bishkek and covers 83 square kilometres. The Chanach project is located in the western part of the Tien Shan Belt, a highly mineralised zone that extends for over 2,500 km, from western Uzbekistan, through Tajikistan, Kyrgyz Republic and southern Kazakhstan into western China.
Merolia Gold and Nickel Project (100%): The project consists of 771 square kilometres of the Merolia Greenstone belt and contains extensive ultramafic sequences including the Diorite Hill layered ultramafic complex, the Rotorua ultramafic complex, the Coglia ultramafic complex and a 51 kilometre long zone of extrusive ultramafic lava’s. The intrusive complexes are prospective for nickel-copper sulphide accumulations possibly with platinum group elements, and the extrusive ultramafic rocks are prospective for nickel sulphide and nickel-cobalt accumulations.
The project also contains extensive basalt sequences that are prospective for gold mineralisation including the Ironstone prospect where historical drilling has
Contact:
White Cliff Minerals Ltd.
Todd Hibberd Managing Director
T: +61-8-9321-2233
www.wcminerals.com.au
