White Cliff Minerals (ASX:WCN) discovers 780ppm TREO at Yinnetharra, WA

• White Cliff Minerals (WCN) discovers up to 780 parts per million (ppm) total rare earth oxides (TREO) at its Yinnetharra project in Western Australia
• The company has received results from its first batch of expedited samples, with the initial 13 confirming rare earth elements and generating a new suite of targets
• Further, White Cliff identified multiple new thorium targets associated with magnetic anomalies and says it plans to field-validate and sample these targets
• Work is continuing at the Diemals project, with White Cliff obtaining detailed geophysical data to target nickel, copper and gold mineralisation
• Shares in White Cliff are up 28 per cent and trading at 1.4 cents at 11:42 am AEST

White Cliff Minerals (WCN) has discovered up to 780 parts per million (ppm) total rare earth oxide (TREO) at its Yinnetharra project in Western Australia.

The results come from the company’s first batch of expedited samples, with the initial 13 confirming rare earth elements (REE). The remaining 115 samples are expected to be received shortly.

These 13 samples contained strong epidote alteration with anomalous REEs and generated a new suite of targets to be checked in the upcoming weeks.

Grades ranged from 16.96 ppm TREO to 780.78 ppm TREO.

Further, White Cliff identified multiple new thorium targets associated with magnetic anomalies, which it said it now planned to field-validate and sample.

“Our knowledge of Yinnetharra is growing at an exponential rate: with a small batch of positive rock chip results returned for REEs, and with regional success from pairs for Thorium anomalies adding to our exploration model, we are starting to grasp the exploration potential from a project area that has had. in essence, no exploration,” Technical Director Ed Mead said.

“With positive REE responses in assays from strongly altered rocks, on the periphery of thorium responses from recently reprocessed coarse data, our understanding and targeting are improving.”

Work is continuing at the Diemals project, with White Cliff obtaining detailed geophysical data to target nickel, copper and gold mineralisation.

Shares in White Cliff were up 28 per cent and trading at 1.4 cents at 11:42 am AEST.