Great Pacific Gold has placed an order for a second drill rig to further exploration at its flagship Wild Dog project in East New Britain.
The rig and crew will be provided by Zenex Drilling, and will work to accelerate completion of the planned 28 holes at the Sinivit prospect.
The second drilling rig will also extend drilling at Sinivit to depth, accelerate the stepping out to the north of the Kavasuki target, and get started on initial drilling at the Magiabe porphyry.
Great Pacific chief executive officer Greg McCunn said the company expected to have the second drill rig up and running by November this year.
“The current drill program success, along with the interpretation and analysis of the MobileMT geophysics data has given us confidence in accelerating our drilling program on both the epithermal and porphyry targets at Wild Dog,” he said.
“The potential for significant mineralisation at depth below the current drilling at Sinivit is highly evident and continuing to step out north from Sinivit to the Kavasuki target is high priority on the epithermal system.”
Great Pacific has previously revealed plans to double the reach of its Wild Dog drilling campaign, noting the “exceptional scale” of the mineralisation already discovered.
The company is also using airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology to create a large-format imagery survey across the entire Wild Dog district. The 200-square-kilometre survey is utilising a Teledyne Galaxy LiDAR sensor in combination with a Vexcel imaging system, both mounted on a dedicated fixed-wing platform.
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