UNDERGROUND

White Rock enters the Gap Zone

INITIAL results from a first pass diamond drilling program at the Morning Star gold mine’s Gap Zone point to a potential gold bonanza for White Rock Minerals in northeast Victoria, with drilling of some underexplored prospective areas close to existing mining infrastructure returning extremely high gold grades.

Visible gold within an interval that assayed 0.25m at 972gpt gold in diamond drill hole testing at the Gap Zone at Morning Star.

Visible gold within an interval that assayed 0.25m at 972gpt gold in diamond drill hole testing at the Gap Zone at Morning Star.

The Gap Zone includes 200m of vertical extent between areas mined historically above 10 Level and below 14 Level that produced 883,000 ounces grading 26.5 grams per tonne gold. The drilling campaign...

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