Canada-listed Great Pacific Gold Corp. has provided an exploration update on drilling and fieldwork at its flagship Wild Dog Project in Papua New Guinea, outlining plans for expanded drilling across multiple epithermal gold-copper target areas in 2026.
The Wild Dog Project, located in East New Britain Province, hosts a series of interpreted epithermal vein structures extending across the broader Wild Dog structural corridor.
The company said six main target areas distributed across approximately 4.5 kilometres of interpreted epithermal vein structures were planned for drill testing this year.
At the Sinivit target, Great Pacific Gold completed approximately 3,000 metres of drilling across 18 diamond drill holes in 2025 and identified two high-grade ore shoots.
Results included hole WDG-08 from the Northern Sulphide zone, which intersected 8.4 metres grading 50.1 grams per tonne gold equivalent, including 59.6 g/t gold, 1.9 percent copper and 59.6 g/t silver.
At the Southern Oxide zone, hole WDG-02 returned 7 metres grading 10.9 g/t gold equivalent, including 5.5 g/t gold, 3 percent copper and 68.8 g/t silver.
The company also reported drilling results from the Kavasuki target, where approximately 1,000 metres of drilling across seven diamond drill holes identified a broad mineralised zone from surface. Hole KVH-03 returned 38.4 metres grading 2.23 g/t gold equivalent, including 2.4 g/t gold.
Great Pacific Gold said six additional drill holes totalling approximately 900 metres were planned at Kavasuki to test strike continuity to the north and south.
Elsewhere at the project, the company outlined ongoing exploration work at Magiabe, Mengmut, Morgan and the EK target area, which includes Elamaraka and Kargalio.
At Magiabe Main, historical drilling returned 4.4 metres grading 9.2 g/t gold and 37.9 g/t silver, while a 2026 channel sample at the newly identified Magiabe West vein returned 8 metres grading 18.1 g/t gold equivalent.
At the Morgan target, 2026 mapping expanded the interpreted strike length to 850 metres, while a recent channel sample returned 19.3 metres grading 4.13 g/t gold equivalent.
The company said trench sampling completed in 2026 at the Mengmut target returned 4 metres grading 2.5 g/t gold, with further exploration focused on refining drill targets along the broader trend.
Chief executive Greg McCunn said the project continued to demonstrate district-scale exploration potential.
“The main epithermal target zone at Wild Dog continues to show district-scale potential with six main target areas distributed across approximately 4.5 km of interpreted epithermal vein structure planned for drill testing in 2026,” McCunn said.
The company said it planned to undertake a further 10,000 metres of diamond drilling between May and December this year to test priority targets across the main epithermal target area.
Vice-president for exploration Callum Spink said recent work at Elamaraka and Kargalio supported the company’s interpretation that Wild Dog represented an underexplored district-scale epithermal mineralised system.
Great Pacific Gold said it remained well financed through 2026 and beyond, with a cash position of approximately C$26.3 million at the end of the first quarter.
The company noted that reported drill intercepts represent core lengths and that true widths are not yet known.
