Drilling has commenced at Great Pacific Gold’s (GPAC) Arau project, marking the first drilling by the company on one of its PNG projects.
The drilling follows the rehabilitation of the road access to the project and the completion of nine drill pads. With exploration access now complete, GPAC has been able to mobile a reverse circulation drill rig at the site.
The Arau project consists of two exploration licenses and is located in the Kainantu region in the Eastern Highlands. Drilling will target copper-gold porphyry mineralisation.
While drilling is underway at Arau, GPAC will be readying its Kesar Creek project in the New Guinea Mobile Belt.
The phase two soil program at Kesar Creek is expected to be completed before the end of the month, further defining drilling targets at the site.
GPAC is also working on road rehabilitation at its Wild Dog project in East New Britain Province as it prepares to commence exploration there.
“As part of the Arau project, in the southern exploration licence, EL2715, an initial extensive soil sampling program of 377 samples has recently been completed,” GPAC said.
“The area is underlain by the highly prospective Elandora porphyry unit, which is known to host copper porphyry and epithermal gold mineralization. Assays for this program will be received in the coming weeks.”
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