Channel sampling at the Chupukama Ridge prospect on the Solomon Islands near Papua New Guinea has returned promising results for Western Pacific Gold (WPI-A).
Samples taken up a landslip face, on which horizontal channel sampling had already been conducted, returned 2.39 grams gold per tonne over 55 metres, including 11.05 grams over 5 metres.
Another line of similar sampling returned 1.46 grams over 35 metres, including 8.7 grams over 5 metres.
Both zones remain open vertically.
Previous, horizontal channel sampling returned 1.63 grams over 55 metres.
The samples from both programs were recovered from clay-altered diorite with quartz stockwork and up to 10% pyrite.
Encouraging results were received from two additional horizontal sample lines. Situated 200 and 350 metres south along strike at the landslip, they returned 0.61 gram over 30 metres and 0.18 gram over 25 metres, respectively.
The company is targeting a zone there which measures 700 metres long and up to 150 metres wide. The zone remains open to the north, its widest point grading 1.3 grams gold.
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