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White Cliff maps new copper veins at Canada's Rae project
White Cliff Minerals is exploring for copper at its Rae project in northern Canada.
The company completed 4,213 line-kilometres of airborne surveys and collected 848 glacial till samples to help identify and rank targets.
New copper-bearing veins were mapped at Thor East across an area measuring 610 metres by 240 metres.
The Thor and Rocket prospects have not been drilled, and laboratory results from 20 new rock samples are pending.
Earlier drilling at Danvers is guiding the search by helping the company identify geological features linked to copper mineralisation.
The company has also reported copper in drilling at Bornite Hills, another Rae prospect.
The new data will help prioritise possible 2027 drilling, but the company has not confirmed a drilling plan or schedule.
White Cliff Minerals has mapped new copper-bearing veins at Thor East, within its Rae copper project in northern Canada.
The mapped veins span an area of 610 metres by 240 metres.
The company completed 4,213 line-kilometres of airborne geophysical surveys and collected 848 glacial till samples across the project.
Laboratory results from 20 new rock-chip samples are pending.
White Cliff says the exploration work will help prioritise potential drilling in 2027.
- Who
- White Cliff Minerals, an Australian-listed exploration company.
- What
- It mapped copper-bearing veins at Thor East and completed regional geophysical surveys and sample collection at Rae.
- When
- The article was published on November 4, 2026; the exploration work is described as recently completed.
- Where
- The Rae copper project in northern Canada, including the Thor East prospect.
- Why
- To identify and rank copper targets and help prioritise potential drilling in 2027.
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White Cliff collected selective surface samples at Thor, and earlier exploration identified a chalcocite-dominant vein and breccia system there.
White Cliff mapped new copper-bearing veins at Thor East and completed regional geophysical surveys and glacial till sampling at Rae.
Stockhead reported that assay results from 20 new rock-chip samples were pending.
White Cliff may drill priority targets after assessing the exploration data and pending results.
- Thor East vein area
- 610 metres by 240 metres
- Regional geophysical surveys
- 4,213 line-kilometres
- Glacial till samples
- 848
- New rock-chip samples
- 20, from outcrops at Thor and Rocket
- Thor East location
- More than 1.3 kilometres northeast of the original Thor showing
- Potential drilling
- 2027
What people are saying
Drilling at Danvers has sharpened our understanding of the structures, breccias and basalt flow contacts associated with copper mineralisation,
We are applying that knowledge to prioritise targets at Bornite Hills, Thor and Rocket, while the regional survey also supports assessment of the separate sediment-hosted copper opportunity.