Great Pacific Gold Wild Dog Drilling Returns 6M At 8.6 G/T Aueq In WDG-04

2025-06-18 08:08:23

(MENAFN- Newsfile Corp) Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - June 18, 2025) - Great Pacific Gold Corp. (TSXV: GPAC) (OTCQX: FSXLF) (FSE: V3H) ("Great Pacific Gold," "GPAC," or the "Company") is providing an update on its exploration activities at the Wild Dog Project ("Wild Dog" or the "Project"), located on the island of New Britain, in the province of East New Britain, Papua New Guinea ("PNG").

The recently commenced drill program is designed to test high-priority targets over a 3km strike length within the mineralized corridor with a planned 2,500 metres of diamond drilling across 16 holes. Prior to the start of drilling, the Wild Dog corridor was flown with MobileMT geophysics, which identified a strong conductivity trend extending over 15km in strike and to depths exceeding 1,000 metres (see news release dated May 7, 2025).

Key Highlights From Current Drilling:

WDG-02 intercepted (previously released on June 5, 2025):

7.0 meters @ 10.3 g/t AuEq (5.5 g/t Au and 3.1% Cu) from 65.0m;
including 2.0 meters @ 14.3 g/t AuEq (10.7 g/t Au and 2.3% Cu) from 65.0m.

WDG-03 and WDG-04 were drilled as step out holes, south of WDG-02, testing over 200 meters of strike length targeting sulphide mineralization beneath the historic Central and Southern Oxide Pits.
WDG-04 intercepted:

6 meters @ 8.6 g/t AuEq (8.3 g/t Au and 0.21% Cu) from 62m;
Including 2.4 meters @ 20.2 g/t AuEq (19.8 g/t Au and 0.27% Cu) from 64m; and
Including 4.0 meters @ 12.6 g/t AuEq (12.3 g/t Au and 0.23% Cu) from 64m.

WDG-05 is nearing completion and was drilled from the same pad as WDG-03 and WDG-04, targeting a follow up intercept with the main Wild Dog vein structure . Visually, WDG-05's intercept is similar to main vein intercepts in WDG-02 and WDG-04 with coliform banding, several stages of brecciation, visible/coarse chalcopyrite and bornite.

"The first results from our Phase 1 drill program at Wild Dog, hole WDG-02, were reported last week and highlighted the high-grade gold-copper potential of the Project with 7.0 meters at 10.3 g/t AuEq," stated Greg McCunn, CEO. "With holes 03 and 04, we've now tested over 200 meters of strike length. Intercepting 6.0 meters at 8.6 g/t AuEq in WDG-04 is highly encouraging as we start to demonstrate the lateral extent of the system. Hole WDG-06, expected to begin shortly, will be further testing the main Wild Dog vein structure intercepted in WDG-04 and WGD-05 from the opposite side of the historic pit. Following the completion of WDG-06, we expect to further step out to the north and at depth. The Mobile MT geophysical survey highlighted 15km of potential mineralization over the Wild Dog corridor with potential depth of at least 1,000 meters."

A map of the Phase 1 drill program is shown in Figure 1 and a cross section of the geology and the key assay results from WDG-04 are shown in Figure 2.

Results

To-date, the Company has completed four drill holes at Wild Dog, with the fifth nearing completion and a pad prepared for the sixth. Details of the drilling are shown in Table 1.

Table 1. Wild Dog Drill Hole Details (PNG94 UTM coordinates)

Hole ID	Easting	Northing	RL	Dip	Azi	Max Depth (m)	Status
WDG-01	394358.3	9488853.5	945	-50	115	40.1	Abandoned
WDG-02	394426.0	9489024.2	900	-53	050	124.6	Completed
WDG-03	394384.9	9488926.5	924	-50	053	127.6	Completed
WDG-04	394384.8	9488926.5	924	-50	75	120.6	Completed
WDG-05	394384.8	9488926.5	924	-50	116	--	In Progress
WDG-06	394428.6	9488923.1	911	-50	352	--	Proposed

WDG-01 is expected to be redrilled later in the program to capture the intended target.

Table 2. Wild Dog Drill Hole Key Assay Results

Hole ID	From (m)	To (m)	Interval ¹ (m)	Gold (g/t)	Copper (%)	Gold Eq. ² (g/t)
WDG-02 (previously announced)	65.0	72.0	7.0	5.5	3.1	10.3
including	65.0	67.0	2.0	10.7	2.3	14.25
WDG-03	102.0	104.3	2.3	1.68	0.07	1.79
including	103.55	104.3	0.75	4.05	0.10	4.2
WDG-04	62.0	68.0	6.0	8.31	0.21	8.64
including	64.0	68.0	4.0	12.25	0.23	12.6
including	64.0	66.4	2.4	19.76	0.27	20.2

Notes:

Drill highlights presented above are core lengths (true widths are not known at this time).

Gold equivalent (AuEq) exploration results are calculated using longer-term commodity prices with a copper price of US$4.50/lb, a silver price of US$27.50/oz and a gold price of US$2,000/oz. No metallurgical testing has been carried out on Wild Dog mineralized samples. For AuEq calculations, recovery assumptions of Au 92.6%, Ag 78.0%, and Cu 94.0% were used based on K92 Mining's stated recovery results in an Updated Definitive Feasibility Study for the Kainantu mine.

WDG-02, 04 and 05 have all intercepted what is considered to be the main Wild Dog vein structure, while WDG-03 did not intercept the main vein which appears to have been cut off by a late-stage fault, likely displacing the main mineralized vein structure. The current model of the vein is being update continuously as geology, grade, alteration, etc are determined in the Phase 1 drill program.

WDG-04 Geology

Diamond drill hole WDG-04 was collared in weathered and oxidized material which persisted to 8.8m in depth. From 8.8m to 30m depth, the fresh rock consisted predominantly of greenish grey, weak smectite with weakly porphyritic crystal tuff. The section of rock was massive and less fractured and produced competent sections of drill core.

From 30m to 61.3m, the crystal tuff became strongly shattered and brecciated with zones of clay alteration cut by occasionally rebroken milky white quartz veins with trace black sulphides. Some portions of the core show moderate pervasive smectite alteration superimposed by strong argillic alteration.

From 61.3m to 64m the drill core became strongly silicified and pinkish grey cut by ~10cm wide banded milky white quartz veins with grey sulphides, visible chalcopyrite and some bornite mineralization. Grades in this section were relatively modest, with ~1.0 g/t Au and ~0.1% copper.

WDG-04 The photo shows a piece of PQ drill core from 62.5m in hole WDG-005 featuring a strongly silicified breccia with visible textural overprinting. The core fragment exhibits pervasive silica flooding with angular clasts of siliceous wall rock, crosscut by fine black sulphidic silica veinlets. The upper portion of the sample shows colliform grey-white chalcedonic silica.

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From 64m to 68m the main Wild Dog Vein structure was encountered. This zone shows very strong, pervasively silicified rock with massive zones of milky white quartz veining, grey sulphides with bornite and coarse chaclopyrite. Grades in the main vein from 64m to 68m averaged 12.2 g/t Au and 0.23% Cu. Although bornite appeared abundant in the core, the copper grades sampled were more modest than the main vein in hole WDG-02.

WDG-04 64.6m broken up core with strongly mineralized black sulphidic silica, chalcopyrite and bornite.

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WDG-04 64.0m Fine-grained epithermal quartz vein hosted within brecciated and silicified wall rock. The vein is distinctly selvaged by grey to black sulphidic silica, interpreted to be chalcedonic in part, with coarse-grained chalcopyrite (cpy) infill visible along fractures and vein margins. This texture is consistent with multiphase epithermal fluid pulses and is representative of the mineralised structures intersected in WDG-004 within the Wild Dog vein system.

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WDG-04 65.2m Well-banded epithermal vein, characterised by alternating zones of black sulphidic material and translucent grey-white chalcedonic silica. The banding suggests multiple phases of fluid influx and silica precipitation under low-sulphidation epithermal conditions. Fine black sulphidic bands host disseminated sulphides. A sample from 65.0m to 65.3m assayed 103 g/t Au .

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From 68m to 81.6m the rock transitioned through massive and competent volcanic conglomerate before entering a secondary zone of hydrothermal breccia from 81.6m to 97m. The zone is characterized by massive brecciated milky white and greyish quartz veining with lesser pyrite mineralization and traces of chalcopyrite. This zone is interpreted to be a subsidiary vein structure.

From 97m through to the end-of-hole at 120.6m, the drill core consisted mainly of strongly propylitized massive footwall volcanics with moderate to weak clay alteration.

On behalf of Great Pacific Gold,
Greg McCunn, Chief Executive Officer and Director

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