Vancouver, British Columbia — February 19, 2026 — Leads & Copy — Great Pacific Gold Corp. has announced the discovery of a new high-grade epithermal gold-copper vein at its Wild Dog Project in Papua New Guinea.
The discovery supports the company’s interpretation of repeated high-grade polymetallic mineralization along the 15-kilometer Wild Dog Structural Corridor.
The newly identified Magiabe West Vein, located 100 meters west of the advanced Magiabe Vein target and approximately 700 meters southwest of the Sinivit deposit, has returned high grades from rock-chip samples. Sample WDG250197 showed 123 g/t Au, 4.01% Cu, 66 g/t Ag; sample WDG250202 showed 137 g/t Au, 3.97% Cu, 76 g/t Ag; and sample WDG250239 showed 113 g/t Au, 2.47% Cu, 71 g/t Ag.
According to the company, these results represent some of the highest surface grades returned to date from the southern sector of the Wild Dog corridor. The Magiabe West discovery lies within the same northeast-trending structural framework that hosts the high-grade Northern Sulphide Shoot at Sinivit. Surface mapping, structural analysis, and geophysical interpretation indicate that multiple parallel vein structures are developing within a 100-200-meter-wide structural corridor.
The recognition of repeated high-grade polymetallic veins over kilometer-scale strike reinforces the interpretation that Wild Dog represents a district-scale, structurally controlled epithermal gold-copper system rather than an isolated vein occurrence.
The company has completed 18 diamond drill holes at Sinivit, delineating two high-grade shoots. Drilling has shifted 1 km north to test the Kavasuki target, where the first hole (KVH-01) intersected strong silica flooding, multi-phase quartz veining, and sulphide mineralization consistent with a robust hydrothermal system.
A second drill rig has arrived on site and will shortly commence drilling at Kasie Ridge, a 1.5-2.0 km long advanced argillic lithocap target interpreted as a potential high-sulphidation epithermal system at the northern end of the corridor. With two rigs active and drilling distributed along the corridor, the company is systematically testing the full strike extent of the Wild Dog Structural Corridor.
Callum Spink, VP Exploration, stated that the results validate the strength and continuity of the Wild Dog Structural Corridor and highlight the potential of its underexplored southern sector. He added that the identification of high-grade epithermal gold-copper mineralization supports the company’s interpretation of repeated mineralizing events along the 15-kilometer corridor. Spink also noted that systematic mapping and sampling continue to expand the company’s pipeline of high-priority targets and advance them toward drill readiness.
The Magiabe Vein is a high-priority exploration target located approximately 700 meters southwest of the Wild Dog Deposit within the Wild Dog Structural Corridor. Previous exploration, including systematic geochemical sampling and first-pass drilling, has confirmed high-grade gold, silver, and copper mineralization hosted within northeast-striking, steeply east-dipping quartz-sulphide polymetallic veins typical of an epithermal Au-Ag-Cu system.
Integrated geological mapping, geochemistry, drilling, and structural interpretation indicate that the Magiabe Vein and similarly oriented mineralized structures south of Wild Dog occur within the same structural framework and are interpreted to represent the southern continuation of the Wild Dog vein system.
Recent rock-chip sampling within the Magiabe prospect area has led to the identification of the Magiabe West Vein, located approximately 100 meters west of the main Magiabe Vein. Sampling was conducted along a tributary of Kamorok Creek, where brecciated quartz-sulphide mineralization is exposed. Observed sulphides include chalcopyrite, bornite, pyrite, and minor dark sulphides interpreted as possible tellurides.
Mineralization occurs within steeply dipping quartz-sulphide veins approximately 1 meter thick, hosted within broader silicified and mineralized envelopes up to approximately 10 meters wide. The sulphide assemblage and metal tenor closely resemble polymetallic mineralization from the Northern Sulphide Zone at Sinivit. Additional systematic trenching, channel sampling, and structural mapping are underway to define strike extent and true width of the vein set.
The Magiabe West Vein represents high-grade epithermal Au-Ag-Cu mineralization characterized by quartz-sulphide veins containing abundant copper sulphides. Sulphide assemblages and grades closely match those observed in high-grade veins from the Northern Sulphide Zone at Wild Dog, where gold is associated with chalcopyrite- and bornite-rich polymetallic veins.
Ore petrology studies indicate that the mineralogy of the Magiabe veins closely matches that of the Wild Dog vein system. Earlier geological mapping interpreted the Magiabe Vein as the southern continuation of the western Wild Dog vein structure. Fluid inclusion studies demonstrate highly saline fluids with elevated homogenization temperatures consistent with hydrothermal conditions recognized throughout the corridor.
At both Magiabe and Wild Dog, mineralization occurs within structurally controlled quartz veins and brecciated vein zones, consistent with development of an epithermal Au-Ag-Cu sulphide vein system within the same regional structural framework.
Greg McCunn is the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Great Pacific Gold.
The technical content of the release has been reviewed and approved by Callum Spink, the Company’s Vice President, Exploration.
Great Pacific Gold’s vision is to become the leading gold-copper development company in Papua New Guinea. The Company has a portfolio of exploration-stage projects in PNG, including the Wild Dog Project, the Kesar Project and the Arau Project.
Forward-Looking Statements were also included in the release.
Source: Great Pacific Gold
