K92 Mining has revealed the latest drilling results from its Arakompa deposit, with significant porphyry-style mineralisation apparent.
The fifth set of results from the company’s maiden diamond drilling program on the site consisted of 24 holes. One hole, stepping out approximately 250m to the south from earlier results, has discovered 0.3 per cent copper equivalent at 690.4m.
The results also show a significant extension of the Arakompa bulk tonnage zone strike extent to both the north and south. The bulk zone is now defined over approximately 1100m and to vertical depths of 800m.
This increases the strike and depth by 200m and 150m respectively, over the measurements reported in February.
The interpreted bulk zone consists of a thick, intensely altered mineralised halo surrounding the high-grade vein lode, and it remains open in multiple directions.
Arakompa is a close neighbour to K92 Mining’s existing Kainantu gold project, located just 4.5km from its boundary.
Along with Arakompa’s expansion, a greenfields exploration program focused on rock chips and trenching at the Wera deposit has also revealed a low-sulphidation epithermal gold system. This area, approximately 10km southwest of K92’s Kora and Judd deposits, was not accessed or tested by previous owners.
K92 Mining chief executive officer and director John Lewins said the new regional exploration results had delivered multiple high-grade intersections, which will be further explored with the arrival of two new diamond drill rigs by early 2026.
“The additional drilling capacity will support our strategy to significantly ramp up exploration over the next two years and potentially beyond,” he said.
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