White Rock Minerals Limited (ASX: WRM; OTCQX:WRMCF), (‘White Rock’ or ‘the Company’) is pleased to provide an update on its in-mine exploration drilling activities at the Morning Star Underground Gold Mine at Woods Point in northeast Victoria.

Highlights

• White Rock reports ongoing high-grade gold results from recent along strike exploration drilling from the McNally Reef at the Morning Star Underground Gold Mine.
• Drillholes 22MNL9016 and 22MNL9018 returned 0.3 metres @ 222g/t gold and 0.2 metres @ 312g/t gold respectively from recent extensional diamond drilling targeting the McNally Reef.
• Underground pre-production activities continue, with access development occurring on 4 Level to the Dickenson Reef and on-reef mining on 7 and 8 Level in the McNally Reef (Figure 1).
• White Rock has commenced gold processing plant pre-production commissioning works, with initial gold production remaining on track for Q3 2022.
• Drill results are consistently uncovering high-grade material in previously mined sections of the Morning Star Mine. This is in addition to the initial high-grade intersections identified in the Gap Zone, which has had minimal drilling and not been previously mined.

Figure 1: Face photo of the 8 Level McNally Reef from recent underground development

White Rock has completed an extensional diamond drilling program along strike from historic McNally Reef mining. The McNally Reef was the focus of the most recent underground mining activity at Morning Star, in production between January and September 2020, which saw approximately 7,600t at a grade of 12.3g/t gold processed through the mill, with an estimated 3,000 ounces recovered.

This gold grade puts the Morning Star Gold Mine in the Top Five high-grade gold mines in Australia1 .

White Rock is completing pre-production activities which have included an extensional drilling program targeting the McNally Reef to the north and south along strike of the 2020 mining activity. It completed 18 drillholes for 1,392m of diamond drilling (Figure 2).

Drilling highlights include:-

• 0.3m @ 222g/t Au from 77.1m (22MNL9016) (true width 0.3m).
• 0.4m @ 35.9g/t Au from 78.2m (22MNL9017) (true width 0.3m).
• 0.2m @ 312g/t Au from 88.7m (22MNL0918) (true width 0.1m).

Figure 2: McNally Reef plan section showing recent and historic drill intercepts and planned and existing Mine development

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