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White Rock hits 312g/t gold

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White Rock continues to discover significant grades at its Morning Star gold mine in Victoria en route to planned first gold production in the third quarter of 2022.

The explorer intersected 0.2m at 312 grams per tonne (g/t) and 0.3m at 222g/t, respectively, at drill holes 22MNL9018 and 22MNL9016 as part of a recent extensional diamond drilling program at Morning Star’s McNally Reef zone.

The McNally Reef was the focus of Morning Star’s underground mining activity between January and September 2020, which saw approximately 7600 tonnes gold processed through the mill at a grade of 12.3g/t, with an estimated 3000 ounces recovered.

White Rock said these credentials put Morning Star in the top five gold mines in Australia in terms of gold grade.

Before recommencing gold production this quarter, White Rock is completing pre-production activities at Morning Star, including drilling to the north and south of McNally Reef along strike of the 2020 mining activity.

The recent extensional program resulted in 18 drill holes for 1392m of diamond drilling.

White Rock is also establishing access to the lower, eastern levels of the McNally Reef, and access to the Dickenson Reef zone, which has also been producing high-grade gold hits for the junior.

The ultimate goal is to deliver high-grade tonnes to Morning Star’s gold plant for processing, sourced from multiple working faces underground across multiple mining areas. White Rock has identified up to five such mining areas to date.

“Narrow vein mining techniques are being employed to reduce the amount of waste rock mined and processed,” the company said in a recent report. “This ensures that the gold feed grade is as high as possible for the processing plant.”

White Rock also has measures in place to ensure the narrow vein mining techniques don’t dilute gold grades.

That’s not all the company is working on.

“Material movement and haulage routes are being optimised, with the purchase of additional mining equipment allowing greater flexibility and productivity in materials handling and movement,” the junior said.

“Multiple mining fronts within multiple mining areas also add flexibility to the mining schedule allowing resources to be deployed and optimised appropriately.”

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