White Rock Minerals well advanced with plans for multi-rig program to test Alaskan silver-zinc and gold targets

White Rock Minerals Ltd (ASX:WRM) (OTCMKTS:WRMCF) is well advanced with plans for an aggressive field season and exploration drill campaign over its 798 square kilometres of mining claims comprising silver-zinc and gold prospects in Alaska. The 2021 program will focus on two distinct mineralisation styles - silver-zinc rich polymetallic volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) mineralisation and intrusion-related gold system (IRGS) mineralisation. Three drill rigs have been secured along with supporting helicopter services, two remote accommodation camps and geophysical contractors. Each rig will have a key target area in its own right with one looking to expand the current silver-rich zinc VMS resource at Dry Creek, one focusing on follow-up drilling at the large gold anomaly at Last Chance and the third will work variously on some of the yet-to-be-drilled eastern and western VMS prospects. VMS silver-zinc exploration  The VMS silver-zinc mineralisation is associated with the Yukon-Tenana Terrane. The company already has two high-grade deposits with an inferred mineral resource of 9.1 million tonnes at 157 g/t silver, 5.8% zinc, 2.6% lead and 0.9 g/t gold for a grade of 13.2% zinc equivalent or alternatively for a grade of 609 g/t silver equivalent. Exploration over this mineralisation will focus on three opportunities: The potential of the Dry Creek deposit to grow to a size that supports a standalone development opportunity;  Conductivity targets proximal to the Dry Creek and WTF deposits within the Red Mountain VMS ‘camp’; and  New VMS prospects with outcropping mineralisation not yet drill tested in the emerging Last Chance VMS ‘camp’.  IRGS gold exploration The IRGS gold mineralisation is within the Tintina Gold Province that hosts giant gold deposits including Donlin Creek (45 million ounces gold), Fort Knox (13.5 million ounces gold) and Pogo (10 million ounces gold), all associated with Cretaceous granites. Exploration will include continued drill testing of the large Last Chance Gold Target through a combination of shallow drilling of surface geochemical anomalies and multi-disciplinary targeting of deeper structural positions likely to offer the most favourable environment for high-grade gold mineralisation. White Rock’s Red Mountain – Last Chance project showing the four areas of focus for drilling: Dry Creek deposit, the Red Mountain VMS 'camp', the Last Chance 'VMS “camp' and the Last Chance IRGS gold targets.  10,000 metres of drilling planned The three rigs contracted will complete more than 10,000 metres of drilling from May to September: One drill rig will test the down dip extension to the Dry Creek zinc-silver rich deposit in the Red Mountain VMS ‘camp’ where there is potential for multiple high-grade drill intercepts - given that this deposit is open at depth along the deposit strike length of 1,200 metres; One drill rig will be dedicated to testing new VMS targets including lookalike conductivity targets in the Red Mountain VMS camp as well as testing the newly defined VMS trend north of Last Chance where there are multiple prospects with outcropping VMS mineralisation including Horseshoe, Bib, Bib West, Ringer, Peaches and Grapple; and One drill rig will be dedicated to testing IRGS/orogenic gold targets at Last Chance including several shallow targets such as the 418 trend and Breccia Blowout, where several deeper drill holes have been designed to test favourable structural positions within the core zone of geochemical anomalism that extends over 6 kilometres of strike, and would also test several new gold targets proximal to Last Chance.