Great Pacific Gold Corp. (GPAC) has announced the discovery of a new high-grade epithermal gold-copper vein at its flagship Wild Dog Project in Papua New Guinea. This exciting find bolsters the Company's ongoing interpretation of repeated high-grade polymetallic mineralization along the 15-kilometre-long Wild Dog Structural Corridor.
The newly identified Magiabe West Vein, located 100 metres west of the advanced Magiabe Vein target and approximately 700 metres southwest of the Sinivit deposit, has returned impressive rock-chip grades. These results signify some of the highest surface grades documented to date in the southern sector of the Wild Dog corridor.
Situated within the same northeast-trending structural framework as the high-grade Northern Sulphide Shoot at Sinivit, the Magiabe West discovery highlights the potential for multiple parallel vein structures developing within a 100-200-metre-wide structural corridor. The consistent identification of high-grade polymetallic veins over a kilometre-scale strike reinforces the notion that Wild Dog is not merely an isolated vein occurrence but a district-scale, structurally controlled epithermal gold-copper system.
The Company has successfully completed 18 diamond drill holes at Sinivit, delineating two high-grade shoots. Drilling operations have now moved 1 km north to the Kavasuki target, where the first hole (KVH-01) has intersected significant silica flooding, multi-phase quartz veining, and sulphide mineralization that is indicative of a robust hydrothermal system.
A second drill rig has arrived on site and will soon commence drilling at Kasie Ridge, an advanced argillic lithocap target interpreted as a potential high-sulphidation epithermal system at the northern end of the corridor. With two rigs actively drilling throughout the corridor, the Company is systematically probing the entire strike extent of the Wild Dog Structural Corridor.
Callum Spink, VP Exploration, remarked, "These results further validate the strength and continuity of the Wild Dog Structural Corridor and emphasize the potential of its underexplored southern sector. The identification of high-grade epithermal gold-copper mineralization supports our interpretation of repeated mineralizing events along this 15-kilometre corridor. Our field team is diligently engaged in systematic mapping and sampling to expand our pipeline of high-priority targets and advance them toward drill readiness."
The Magiabe Vein is recognized as a high-priority exploration target located approximately 700 metres southwest of the Wild Dog Deposit within the Wild Dog Structural Corridor.
Recent exploration efforts, including systematic geochemical sampling and initial drilling, have confirmed the presence of high-grade gold, silver, and copper mineralization contained within northeast-striking, steeply east-dipping quartz-sulphide polymetallic veins that are characteristic of an epithermal Au-Ag-Cu system.
Integrated geological mapping, geochemistry, drilling, and structural interpretation suggest that the Magiabe Vein and similarly oriented mineralized structures south of Wild Dog occur within the same structural framework, representing the southern continuation of the Wild Dog vein system.
Systematic trenching, channel sampling, and structural mapping are ongoing to define the strike extent and true width of the vein set. The Magiabe West Vein exemplifies high-grade epithermal Au-Ag-Cu mineralization, characterized by quartz-sulphide veins rich in copper sulphides.
The sulphide assemblage and metal tenor closely resemble polymetallic mineralization from the Northern Sulphide Zone at Sinivit. Mineralization occurs within steeply dipping quartz-sulphide veins approximately 1 metre thick, hosted within broader silicified and mineralized envelopes up to approximately 10 metres wide.
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