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| The junior mining market is famously inefficient.
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| And thank goodness.
Because every now and then, an exploration company turns up with a project boasting reality and potential that seem so obviously valuable to anyone who takes a hard look...and yet the market somehow has yet to recognize it.
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| These sorts of opportunities crop up now and then, but they don’t last long. Which is why smart investors will pay close attention to Great Pacific Gold (GPAC.V; GPGCF.OTC) at this crucial moment in time.
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| You see, while plenty of juniors spent 2025 chasing headlines, Great Pacific spent last year doing the groundwork that makes the headlines possible — and it did it on a project that sits in one of the most proven, most prolific gold regions on Earth: Papua New Guinea.
And now, with money in the bank and more drilling capacity arriving, the company is set up to charge like a racehorse out of the gate in 2026...even though the share price is sitting at roughly the same level as it was a year ago.
So hang on, because this promises to be a wild ride.
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| On The Same Kind Of Ground That Built K92
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Great Pacific Gold’s Wild Dog project is on the Pacific-Australian tectonic plate boundary — the same geologic neighborhood that hosts many of the world’s largest gold mines.
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| Papua New Guinea is not theoretical geology.
This is the neighborhood that has produced some of the world’s great deposits, and it’s a jurisdiction where serious mines have been built and operated for decades. It’s also where one of the most profitable modern junior-to-producer success stories played out: K92 Gold.
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| K92 didn’t become K92 overnight. It started with the right ground, the right geological model and the discipline to drill a gold-rich system until the market couldn’t ignore it anymore.
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| Great Pacific Gold knows that story from the inside. And today it is focused on its own district-scale shot in PNG: the Wild Dog Project nearby on the island of New Britain.
Wild Dog isn’t a single “prospect.” It’s a 15-kilometer epithermal structural corridor — an honest-to-goodness geological highway that could host multiple mineralized centers along trend.
In 2025, Great Pacific chose a deliberate strategy: start by validating the system at its Sinivit discovery, then build the infrastructure and technical pipeline to scale up exploration in a way most juniors simply can’t.
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| Building The Runway In 2025
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| You can tell when a team is serious by what they do when nobody’s watching.
In 2025, Great Pacific didn’t just show up and poke a few holes in the ground. They built the practical foundation for a real campaign: roads and access, water systems, drill pads, camp expansion and the supporting site infrastructure needed to run multiple rigs.
At the same time, they upgraded their technical picture with modern tools like MobileMT geophysics and high-resolution LiDAR, then used that data to rank and prioritize targets along the corridor.
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| That’s the kind of work that rarely produces daily “news flashes,” but it’s also the work that separates a one-season explorer from a company preparing for a district-scale discovery effort.
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| It takes a lot of confidence in your geological targets to undertake that kind of expense and effort to set up for a major drilling campaign. But the Great Pacific Gold team’s confidence wasn’t gained in a vacuum.
Because, while all that groundwork was being built, the company still did enough drilling to confirm something extremely important: the grade, the continuity and the mineralogy are real — and they run for kilometers.
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The Wild Dog structural corridor has been proven for 10 kilometers by historical drilling, but trenching and mapping indicates it extends for at least 15 kilometers and perhaps much more.
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| Drilling Confirms The Reality
— And The Amazing Potential
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| Diamond drilling began in May 2025 with a single rig focused on the Sinivit target, which represents about 1.5 kilometers of strike within the broader 15-kilometer corridor.
Sixteen holes were completed over roughly 3,000 meters, and the work defined two high-grade shoots: a Southern Oxide Shoot and a Northern Sulphide Shoot.
What matters is not just that the grades were strong — but also that the system behaves like a system. It repeats. It holds together. It expands with step-outs. And it’s remarkably similar to the kinds of multi-million-ounce epithermal gold systems in the region.
Consider just a few of the intercepts reported from Sinivit:
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- WDG-08 delivered 8.4 meters at 50.1 g/t gold-equivalent, including 3.8 meters at 101.2 g/t gold-equivalent, and a spectacular 0.8 meters at 343.2 g/t gold-equivalent.
- WDG-14 delivered 9.5 meters at 13.8 g/t gold-equivalent, including 3.9 meters at 32.2 g/t gold-equivalent.
- WDG-15, drilled as the program pushed deeper, returned 13.48 meters at 8.08 g/t gold-equivalent, including 4.5 meters at 14.62 g/t gold-equivalent.
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| And here’s the detail that should not be overlooked: WDG-15 intersected the structure about 50 meters below the deepest previously drilled intercept and returned higher grades than the hole above it, indicating not only continuity but also higher grades at depth.
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| Just The Beginning...
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| Sinivit is only the opening chapter.
Great Pacific has mapped and modeled a pipeline of priority targets along the Wild Dog Structural Corridor, and the company has been explicit about how it plans to attack them.
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| One rig continues to expand Sinivit and test near-term step-outs. The second rig is deployed to systematically drill new targets — targets that can create entirely new discovery fronts.
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| The first three on deck are Kasie Ridge, Kavasuki and Mengmut.
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Great Pacific Gold has a full pipeline of targets at Wild Dog, and the top three — along with the proven Sinivit discovery — are about to be drilled.
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| Kasie Ridge sits at the northern end of the corridor and has been elevated to the highest-priority target based on the integration of MobileMT and LiDAR. It is a large high-sulphidation epithermal target that appears to extend roughly 1.5 to 2.0 kilometers in strike and several hundred meters in width — yet it has seen no previous drilling.
Kavasuki is a known epithermal vein system about a kilometer north of Sinivit. Historic drilling defined high-grade mineralization across roughly 900 meters of strike, with intercepts such as 17.2 meters at 5.8 g/t gold, plus extensive trenching results including a remarkable 28 meters at 4.5 g/t gold. The company believes structural reinterpretation may explain why previous drilling missed the system’s true geometry, leaving obvious room for confirmation and expansion.
Mengmut lies 1.5 to 2.0 kilometers south of Sinivit and is defined by high-grade surface geochemistry, including sampling up to 19.1 g/t gold and 1.25% copper. In other words, it has the kind of “it’s right there” signature you want when you’re looking for another Sinivit-style shoot.
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| Now connect the dots: multiple targets, along the same structural corridor, with grades already proven at one end and compelling indicators elsewhere.
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| That is what “district-scale” actually means.
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| Now the Money Is In Place To Drill Hard
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| The opportunity doesn’t exist if the company can’t fund the next step.
Great Pacific can.
The company boasts a strong treasury of about C$10.5 million after a recent financing completed at C$0.45 per share, with strategic institutional investors participating. That capital, combined with the expanded camp and site infrastructure, has set the stage for a year of aggressive drilling and potentially explosive growth.
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| Rig 1 continues at Sinivit, expanding the Northern Sulphide and Southern Oxide shoots while also testing additional targets along strike.
Rig 2 is scheduled to arrive and mobilize to site, with drilling expected to soon begin at Kasie Ridge, then move on to Kavasuki and Mengmut.
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| This is not “one hole here, one hole there.” This is a program designed to create momentum and deliver answers — quickly.
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| And Yet The Share Price Has Barely Moved
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| This is where the “second bite at the apple” comes in.
Despite the infrastructure buildout...despite the confirmation drilling...despite the target pipeline...and despite the strengthened treasury and the move to two rigs...the market is pricing Great Pacific Gold at roughly the same level it was a year ago.
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| Again, thank goodness for the occasional inefficiency of the junior mining market.
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| As we see every now and again, the market often lags the work. It often underweights the unglamorous progress — until the drill bit forces everyone to update their assumptions.
If you’ve lived through a story like K92 from the early days, you already know how that movie tends to go. The early rerating doesn’t come because the story sounds good. It comes because the drill results start to stack up, the system starts to look repeatable...and suddenly the “what if” becomes “how big.”
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| Why This Moment Matters
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| If Great Pacific is right about the scale of Wild Dog — if this corridor truly hosts a multi-million-ounce epithermal system with the potential for multiple high-grade shoots along trend — then the next phase of drilling is exactly when the valuation gap will close.
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| That’s because the company is moving from validation into expansion and discovery mode.
It is no longer asking investors to believe in a concept. It is preparing to test a pipeline of ranked targets, in order, with two rigs, across a corridor that is measured in kilometers.
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| When that happens, news flow changes. Market attention changes. And valuations often change faster than most people expect.
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| The Bottom Line
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| Great Pacific Gold spent 2025 building the runway: infrastructure, community support, technical targeting, delineation of a multi-kilometer-long structural trend and the first drill confirmation of remarkable gold and copper grades at Sinivit.
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| Now it has the capital and the drill capacity to pursue the real prize in 2026: a potentially 10-kilometer-plus epithermal gold trend in one of the world’s great gold regions.
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| And the market is still offering shares at about the same level it did a year ago.
In this kind of market, with this kind of setup, that can be the window you wait years to see. Which is why smart investors will begin their due diligence on Great Pacific Gold now.
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