Frontier Resources (ASX: FNT) will shortly commence a 10,000 metre diamond core drilling program at the Andewa gold copper Project in Papua New Guinea, following the mobilisation of heavy drill equipment to site by barge and helicopter.
The company said the initial hole will be to 400 metres into a strong, coincident gold and copper, conductivity and chargeability anomaly, and across a major northerly trending structure.
The hole is near the eastern end of the Komsen structure where previous Frontier drilling returned mineralisation to 7.9 metres of 10.01 grams per tonne gold up to 320 metres below surface.
A three dimensional induced polarisation (3D-IP) geophysical program over a 21 square kilometre grid at the project on the island of New Britain in 2010 collected about 5,000 soil and rock samples.
The 3D-IP survey showed three exceptionally voluminous and intense, chargeability anomalies indicating the presence of very large sulphide systems from on-surface to more than 800 metres deep.
Frontier believe the Andewa Gold Project has excellent potential to yield significant gold mineralisation.