Rockcliff gears up to drill in Snow Lake

At the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention in Toronto in March 2018, Rockcliff Metals (CSE: RCLF) was a struggling junior with a large land package in the lesser known but geologically rich Flin Flon-Snow Lake (FF-SL) greenstone belt, with eight high grade, base metal volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposits and five gold properties. It began as a tough year for Rockcliff, and it turned even rougher the week before the PDAC convention, when Kenneth Lapierre, Rockcliff’s president and CEO at the time, slipped on freshly fallen snow when taking out the garbage at home. Not thinking much about his sore ankle, the six-foot-three-inch, former hockey-playing, karate-practising jock then started shovelling the driveway. Twelve hours later, the swelling and pain in his ankle demanded a trip to the doctor, where he learned that it was broken, and that he had torn all the soft tissue. … One of the few bright spots was that Rockcliff’s former Tower high grade copper-zinc deposit – which had been sold to merchant bank Norvista Capital for a 1.5% net smelter return royalty – was being investigated for production by the bank’s Akuna subsidiary. Continue reading at The Northern Miner.