Great Pacific Gold has had immediate success with its expanded drilling program at the Wild Dog gold project in East New Britain.
Fresh from sharing plans to double the program’s reach to 5000m, early drilling has generated plenty of excitement across the project.
Hole WDG-08 intersected 8.4m at 46.5 grams per tonne (g/t) gold from 154m. This included a 3.8m section at 93.3g/t gold, and a 0.8m section containing 322g/t gold. The intercept also featured 1.7 per cent copper and 66.3g/t silver, supporting a gold equivalent grading of 49.9g/t.
Meanwhile, the Sinivit target is also yielding high-grade, near-surface results. Nine of 28 holes have been completed for 1214 of the 5000 metres planned. Hole WDG-09 has already been completed, with assay results pending, while WDG-10 is now underway, stepping out 100m to the north of WDG-09.
Great Pacific Gold vice president of exploration Callum Spink said hole WDG-08 had delivered one of the best exploration hits in PNG in recent years.
“These results highlight the exceptional tenor of this epithermal system,” he said.
“The combination of multi-ounce gold with significant copper and silver credits confirms the presence of a robust polymetallic vein structure. With mineralisation open along strike and at depth, we see clear potential for continuity of these high-grade zones and for scale across the broader 15km structural corridor.”
Great Pacific chief executive officer Greg McCunn said the Wild Dog target had the potential to host a major gold-copper deposit, which has the company now looking even further afield.
“In parallel to our continued drilling, we are starting to increase our field activity on the adjacent Magiabe porphyry in preparation for a potential maiden drilling program in 2026,” he said.
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