3.5M At 13.1 G/T Aueq Drilled At Great Pacific Gold's Wild Dog Project

2025-08-05 08:11:44

(MENAFN- Newsfile Corp) Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - August 5, 2025) - Great Pacific Gold Corp. (TSXV: GPAC) (OTCQX: FSXLF) (FSE: V3H) ("Great Pacific Gold," "GPAC," or the "Company") is providing results from the latest three exploration holes (WDG-05, 06 and 07) 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 current Phase 1 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-05 and WDG-06 were drilled in the same area as WDG-03 and WDG-04, targeting a follow up intercept with the main Wild Dog vein structure.
WDG-05 intercepted a broad zone of silicification and argillic alteration and the main structure, and:
- 3.0 meters @ 2.4 g/t AuEq (2.0 g/t Au and 0.30% Cu) from 72.0 meters.
WDG-06 intercepted the main Wild Dog structure near surface with dark sulphidic quartz with bornite and chalcopyrite yielding:
- 3.5 meters @ 13.1 g/t AuEq (4.9 g/t Au, 49.1 g/t Ag and 4.87% Cu) from 12.0m ;
- Including 0.6 meters @ 25.3 g/t AuEq (7.2 g/t Au, 89 g/t Ag and 10.8% Cu ) from 13.7m.
WDG-07 was drilled as a step out hole, 250m north of WDG-02 (7.0m @ 11.2 g/t AuEq from 65.0m), in the Northern Sulphide target area, intercepting:
- 10.0 meters @ 4.0 g/t AuEq (3.38 g/t Au, 12.1 g/t Ag and 0.31% Cu) from 153.0m;
- Including 5.1 meters @ 6.5 g/t AuEq (5.53 g/t Au, 14.8 g/t Ag and 0.53% Cu) from 153.0m;
- And 1.2 meters @ 10.5 g/t AuEq (7.3 g/t Au, 105 g/t Ag and 1.28% Cu) from 172.0m;
- Including 0.7 meters @ 17.5 g/t AuEq (12.0 g/t Au, 178 g/t Ag and 2.18% Cu) from 172.5m.
WDG-08 is underway from the same pad as WDG-07 and has i ntersected the main Wild Dog structure approximately 30m south of the WDG-07 intercept . The mineralized zone intercepted from 150m to 160m contains dark sulphidic quartz bands with massive sulphides of chalcopyrite and bornite (assays pending, see photo below).

"The first results from our Phase 1 drill program at Wild Dog, hole WDG-02, highlighted the high-grade gold-copper potential of the Project with WDG-04 extending the mineralization 200m south. Now, WDG-07 has extended the mineralized system 250m to the north, and the continuity of the system in the Northern Sulphide area is being demonstrated with WDG-08 intersecting the targeted structure ~30 meters south," stated Greg McCunn, CEO. "The executive team has just returned from a site visit to Wild Dog and based on the success to-date, we expect to announce an expansion to the Phase 1 program soon."

A map of the Phase 1 drill program is shown in Figure 1.

Results

To-date, the Company has completed seven drill holes at Wild Dog, with the eighth underway. Details of the drilling are shown in Table 1 with key assay results shown in Table 2.

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	075	120.6	Completed
WDG-05	394384.8	9488926.5	924	-50	116	105.9	Completed
WDG-06	394428.6	9488923.1	911	-50	352	69.0	Completed
WDG-07	394445.5	9489377.0	993	-61	114	201.3	Completed
WDG-08	394445.5	9489377.0	993	-57	127	tbd	In Progress

Table 2: Wild Dog Drill Hole Key Assay Results

Hole ID	From (m)	To (m)	Interval ¹ (m)	Gold (g/t)	Silver (g/t)	Copper (%)	Gold Eq. ² (g/t)
WDG-02 (previously announced)	65.0	72.0	7.0	5.5	68.8	3.1	11.2
including	65.0	67.0	2.0	10.7	114.6	2.3	15.6
WDG-03 (previously announced)	102.0	104.3	2.3	1.68	pending	0.07	1.79
including	103.55	104.3	0.75	4.05	pending	0.10	4.2
WDG-04 (previously announced)	62.0	68.0	6.0	8.31	pending	0.21	8.64
including	64.0	68.0	4.0	12.25	pending	0.23	12.6
including	64.0	66.4	2.4	19.76	pending	0.27	20.2
WDG-05	72.0	77.0	5.0	1.32	pending	0.25	1.71
including	72.0	75.0	3.0	1.97	pending	0.31	2.44
WDG-06	12.0	15.5	3.5	4.89	49.1	4.87	13.1
including	13.7	14.3	0.6	7.24	89.0	10.84	25.25
WDG-07	153.0	163.0	10.0	3.38	12.1	0.31	4.0
including	153	158.1	5.1	5.53	14.8	0.53	6.5
WDG-07	172.0	173.2	1.2	7.3	105.1	1.28	10.5
including	172.5	173.2	0.7	12.0	178.0	2.18	17.5

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, WDG-04, WDG-05 and WDG-06 were all drilled in the South-Central Oxide Zone and all intercepted what is considered to be the main Wild Dog vein structure, while WDG-03 drilled in the same area 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.

WDG-07 was a significant step out, approximately 250m north in the Northern Sulphide Zone. The main Wild Dog vein structure was intercepted here as well, and WDG-08 was drilled from the same pad with the drill rotated to target the mineralized zone approximately 30m south of the WDG-07 intercept. WDG-08 also intercepted the main structure, showing continuity of the mineralization in this area. WDG-09 is planned to be drilled from the same pad, with a drill rotation to target the mineralized zone approximately 30m north of the WDG-07 intercept.

These holes were planned as part of the Phase 1 drill program. Following the success of the first seven holes, the Company is reevaluating the plan and now anticipates expanding the Phase 1 program.

Figure 1: Proposed Phase I drill program at Sinivit, Wild Dog structural corridor.

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WDG-07 Geology

Diamond drill hole WDG-07 was collared in weathered and oxidized material which persisted to 19 meters - where there is a sharp contact with strong illite alteration of the volcanic conglomerate. The pervasive illite alteration persisted to 60 meters downhole where it transitioned into propylitic altered conglomerate. The illite cap zone has several structures with fragments of colloform quartz and possible dark sulphidic quartz. The propylitic altered volcanics has occasional quartz and hematite veins.

The main Wild Dog structure was intersected from 152.9m depth and continues to 187.4m. This is a 34.5m zone of intense quartz-sulphide veining and brecciation. While there are higher grade bands within this interval, the entire structure is mineralized with the 34.5m grading 1.77g/t AuEq (1.42 g/t Au, 7.9 g/t Ag and 0.16% Cu).

After the structure, the hole transitioned in propylitic altered volcanic conglomerate and was terminated at 201.3m

WDG-07

Photo of WDG-07 drill core from 159.4 m, showing strongly banded colloform and crustiform quartz with dark sulphides, including visible chalcopyrite and bornite. The outer margins of the vein exhibit grey-white chalcedonic silica with multiple generations of mineralisation overprinting inward from the vein margins.

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WDG-08

Photo of WDG-08 drill core at 156 meters showing semi-massive sulphides with visible chalcopyrite and bornite. Assays are pending for this interval, and visual observations should not be considered a proxy for grade.

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

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