11:22 AM EDT, 10/28/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Great Pacific Gold ( FSXLF ) up 6% in late morning trade after the company on Monday provided an update on its Wild Dog Project in Papua New Guinea.

Preparations have begun for a 2025 field program at the project. Wild Dog is a district scale land package with significant potential to host multiple high-grade epithermal gold-copper deposits as well as promising copper-gold porphyry targets, the company said.

The company kicked off its drill campaign at the Kesar project, in the Eastern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea last week.

Great Pacific was last seen up $0.04 to $0.70 on the TSX Venture Exchange.

Price: 0.70, Change: +0.04, Percent Change: +6.06