White Cliff Minerals (ASX:WCN) has been granted a class a land use permit for the Rae Copper Project in Nunavut, Canada.
The land use permit, issued by the Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, follows a screening decision by the Nunavut Impact Review Board for the project. The issuance ensures the project meets all regulatory and environmental requirements.
This now positions the company to begin maiden drilling activities at Rae, as well as build on the results of its 2024 maiden campaign where copper rock chips assays returned assays exceeding 60%.
Aurora Geosciences have been contracted to support the 2025 maiden drilling campaign after their engagement during 2024.
White Cliff, which has a market capitalisation of $34 million, is currently planning for the 2025 drilling campaign and updates are in due course.
“Over the coming weeks, I’m looking forward to providing updates on our drill targeting and award of contracts associated with drilling at the Rae Project,” Managing Director Troy Whittaker says.
“We are now focused on the safe and efficient mobilisation to Rae, for what will be the first drilling campaign in the greater region in a decade.”
The Rae Copper Project contains copper mineralisation occurrences and hosts all first-order controls for sediment-hosted copper deposits and includes a historical resource estimate of 4.16 million tonnes at 2.96% copper.
White Cliff Minerals is a diversified mineral explorer focused on its Western Australian and Canadian projects considered prospective for uranium, copper, gold, and silver.
Write to Aaliyah Rogan at Mining.com.au
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