9 October 2025
Cloudbreak Discovery Plc
('Cloudbreak', or 'the Company')
Acquisition of Crofton Gold Project
Western Australia
Gold grades up to 253 g/t + Silver grades up to 215 g/t
Cloudbreak Discovery Plc (LSE: CDL), a London Stock Exchange Main Market listed company, is pleased to announce that it has secured the exclusive option to acquire the Crofton Gold Project (" Crofton "), located 120 kilometres east-southeast of famous Australian gold mining centre of Marble Bar and 75km northeast of the mining centre town of Nullagine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia ( Figure 2) . The consideration is GBP10,000 for a two (2) month option period with 56,000,000 new ordinary shares to be issued no later than 31 January 2026 in the event that the option is exercised.
Previous soil and rock chip sampling campaigns in 2021 ( Figure 1 ) at Crofton have defined new prospects and returned bonanza-grade gold results, up to 253g/t gold and 215g/t silver (Table 1), with visible gold being common in dumps adjacent to historic test pits.
Historic gold production from the area from 1901-1910 averaged 150 g/t gold.
Soil sampling results range up to 3g/t gold ( Figure 1 ) with multiple trends identified over strike lengths exceeding one kilometre.
Rock chip sampling:
· Observed visible gold in historic test pits
· Waste dump and rock samples returned results including:
o 253g/t, 195g/t, 62g/t and 48g/t gold.
o 215g/t, 150g/t, 48g/t and 17g/t silver.
Soil sampling:
· Anomalies delineated over multiple gold trends over substantial strike lengths exceeding one kilometre.
· Peak gold result of 3g/t (3,000ppb) gold with numerous samples returning values in excess of 10ppb gold
Tom Evans, Cloudbreak's MD, commented: "This is an incredibly exciting gold project in Western Australia and it adds significantly to our growing portfolio of gold assets in a period of record gold prices and resurgent silver prices. The Crofton project has recorded some extraordinary gold grades from recent sampling undertaken in 2021 and historic mining. The delineation of multiple trends with strike lengths of over a kilometre on the tenement give the Company a vast number of high priority exploration targets. We are making plans to have geologists on-site as soon as practicable and I look forward to updating shareholders in short order.
Further, I am also looking forward to reporting on the assay results from our Darlot West project in the coming weeks.
Lastly, I am delighted to report that with this latest transaction and those previously announced since June of this year, we are going to have an extremely busy end to 2025. The refined strategy announced by our Chairman in May of this year, has allowed us to scale appropriately, on material value add to the company's assets, and move swiftly for astute commercial opportunities in a risk abated manner. Importantly the Company remains fully funded for planned works across all portfolio assets. "
About the Crofton Gold Project
Crofton hosts a large area of hydrothermal alteration within the Yilgalong Granitoid, associated with a suite of prominent quartz veins. Historical exploration has been limited to surface sampling programs of stream sediment, soil and rock chip sampling.
Figure 1: Crofton geology, sample locations and results
The Company will hold a 100% interest in the Crofton property, which consists of one exploration licence application E45/6690 covering 57km² (Figure 2). The Crofton licence covers much of the Boodalyerrie Mining Centre, which has recorded production from 1901 to 1910 of 588.4 ounces gold from 122 tonnes of ore at a reconciled average grade of 150g/t gold.
Future Plans and Assay results update:
The Company plans to undertake a site visit, conduct detailed geological mapping over the geochemical anomalies identified from previous work, and move towards defining drill targets.
Figure 2: Location of the Crofton Gold project to towns in the district, gold processing plants and gold mines.
Table 1: Rock Chip sample results by Raiden Resources Limited RDN:ASX, 2 August 2021, reported in g/t (ppm).
Sample |
East |
North |
Au |
Au Rp1 |
Ag |
As |
Cu |
Pb |
Zn |
RBR001 |
272804 |
7612956 |
|
|
|
|
152 |
1 |
74 |
RBR002 |
272631 |
7613964 |
0.01 |
|
2.4 |
12 |
11 |
63 |
36 |
RBR003 |
273096 |
7614200 |
0.02 |
|
|
|
|
26 |
59 |
RBR004 |
273077 |
7614201 |
0.09 |
|
|
|
|
23 |
36 |
RBR005 |
272647 |
7614202 |
|
|
|
|
|
28 |
30 |
RBR006 |
272598 |
7614156 |
0.01 |
|
0.7 |
|
|
2 |
|
RBR007 |
272946 |
7614406 |
0.01 |
|
|
46 |
141 |
29 |
88 |
RBR008 |
272945 |
7614308 |
0.23 |
|
21.5 |
11 |
119 |
256 |
64 |
RBR009 |
272995 |
7614605 |
0.01 |
|
|
|
14 |
12 |
10 |
RBR010 |
272600 |
7614603 |
|
|
|
|
|
17 |
27 |
RBR011 |
272446 |
7614599 |
0.06 |
|
24 |
|
|
18 |
|
RBR012 |
272733 |
7614807 |
0.04 |
|
3.6 |
364 |
47 |
537 |
208 |
RBR013 |
272900 |
7614805 |
0.01 |
|
1.1 |
20 |
|
23 |
25 |
RBR014 |
273007 |
7615201 |
0.01 |
|
1.5 |
|
103 |
16 |
13 |
RBR015 |
272606 |
7616488 |
48.63 |
|
17.3 |
18 |
12 |
62 |
|
RBR016 |
272606 |
7616488 |
0.37 |
|
|
14 |
|
10 |
27 |
RBR017 |
272507 |
7616717 |
62.48 |
|
48.1 |
62 |
15 |
128 |
|
RBR018 |
272547 |
7616993 |
0.24 |
|
|
53 |
19 |
38 |
1 |
RBR019 |
272058 |
7616158 |
0.15 |
|
0.9 |
13 |
2 |
84 |
24 |
RBR020 |
271979 |
7616182 |
20.61 |
|
10.4 |
53 |
123 |
155 |
37 |
RBR021 |
271983 |
7616197 |
12.24 |
|
6.1 |
138 |
17 |
2 |
29 |
RBR022 |
272345 |
7616301 |
253.59 |
263.67 |
215.3 |
121 |
52 |
540 |
42 |
RBR023 |
272583 |
7616305 |
4.81 |
|
4.8 |
44 |
50 |
2 |
12 |
RBR024 |
273516 |
7617341 |
0.43 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
RBR025 |
273563 |
7617299 |
0.29 |
|
|
19 |
|
72 |
83 |
RBR026 |
273553 |
7617290 |
0.03 |
|
22 |
|
|
84 |
55 |
RBR027 |
274581 |
7617600 |
0.02 |
|
0.6 |
138 |
17 |
44 |
|
RBR028 |
271005 |
7616589 |
195.53 |
|
150.5 |
641 |
226 |
906 |
70 |
RBR029 |
271001 |
7616591 |
0.98 |
|
0.9 |
|
|
13 |
18 |
RBR030 |
270943 |
7616646 |
10.22 |
|
15.3 |
77 |
68 |
64 |
15 |
RBR031 |
270811 |
7613379 |
0.19 |
|
1.1 |
|
|
|
|
RBR032 |
271147 |
7613327 |
2.78 |
|
5.6 |
70 |
1 |
33 |
131 |
RBR033 |
271755 |
7613184 |
0.68 |
|
12.9 |
23 |
14 |
31 |
10 |
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For additional information please contact:
Cloudbreak Discovery PLC |
Peter Huljich, Chairman Tom Evans, Managing Director |
Tel: +44 207 887 6139 Tel: +44 7851 703440 |
AlbR Capital Limited (Financial Adviser) |
David Coffman / Anastassiya Eley |
Tel: +44 7399 9400 |
About Cloudbreak Discovery PLC
Cloudbreak Discovery PLC is a leading gold, precious and base metals resource explorer. Cloudbreak is focused on mineral exploration in Western Australia with the aim of bringing near-term cashflow and driving shareholder value.
Through its wholly owned subsidiaries, the Company will develop its array of mineral assets, whilst continuing to generate new projects with a particular focus on commodities with high intrinsic value.
Cloudbreak's generative model across the mineral sector enables a multi-asset approach to investing in the commodity cycle.
Competent Persons Statement
The Information in this report that relates to exploration results, mineral resources or ore reserves is based on information compiled by Mr Edward Mead, who is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Mr Mead is a consultant to Cloudbreak Discovery Plc and employed by Doraleda Pty Ltd. Mr Mead has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposits under consideration and to the activity that he is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2012 edition of the `Australian Code for Reporting Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves' (the JORC Code). Mr Mead consents to the inclusion of this information in the form and context in which it appears in this report.