The approved plan is the result of a 10-year consultation that was completed in September last year, White Cliff said.
The company will take up where state, public and private-sponsored historical exploration previously identified dozens of outcropping occurrences of copper and silver mineralization, as well as non-Joint Ore Reserve Committee-compliant mineral estimates along more than a 100-km-long structural trend.
Once White Cliff finalizes its exploration campaigns for Coppermine, the programs are expected to run in close collaboration with planned work at its recently-acquired Radium Point uranium project in Canada’s Northwest Territories. The project adds a massive 3300sq km to its Canadian holdings in an area that takes in several historical mining operations.
The Australian company will initially base its logistical hub in Kugluktuk, a town of about 1500 people located to the north-east of the Coppermine project…
