Frontier Resources (ASX: FNT) has encountered visible gold in a trench outcrop at its Sudest exploration project in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.
The company is carrying out trenching and 2 soil grids covering 6 square kilometres to help define further trenching and drilling targets at the project.
Frontier has so far demonstrated rock assays of up to 256 grams per tonne (g/t) gold with 19g/t silver.
No drilling has ever been undertaken on Sudest and less than 5% of the strike of the 45 km anomalous zone has been evaluated lightly by soil geochemistry or trenching.
However, results outlined to date have included up to 2 metres of 104.5 g/t fold along with 2 metres of 15.35 g/t gold, 6 metres of 10.96 g/t gold, 2 metres of 16.0 g/t fold and 2m of 11.6 g/t gold.
The company had previously said it planned to aggressively pursue the attractive exploration targets demonstrated by the high grade gold in trenches/float rocks, abundant alluvial gold in drainages plus variably altered intrusives with compositions commonly associated with mineralised porphyry systems.
Frontier was awarded Sudest, which was where alluvial gold was first discovered in Papua New Guinea, in April.
Sudest Island is lightly settled with 12 different clans living in widely settled villages along the coast with the company saying the coast was easily accessible by boat while the Tagula airstrip at the western end of the island is capable of handling light aircraft.
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