Pacgold (ASX:PGO) has restarted drilling at the White Dam Gold Project in the Olary Province of Western Australia as part of the company’s ‘low-risk’ three-phase growth strategy to restart full scale production.
The company will conduct an additional 3,000m of reverse circulation drilling at the Vertigo prospect to target potential resource expansion and accelerate the restart of mining operations.
The program is expected to build on previous drilling campaigns that identified ‘shallow, high-grade’ gold outside the existing Vertigo mineral resource estimate (MRE).
As a part of Pacgold’s growth strategy, the company will irrigate 100,000 tonnes of new re-crushed material from the existing White Dam heap leach pad, targeting early cashflow to fund ongoing growth.
Pacgold has now received drilling permits for White Dam North and Rolling, with drilling to follow the completion of the Vertigo campaign.
Entech has been awarded the contract to complete an updated MRE with the inclusion of recent drilling results, while also running new optimisations and mine designs.
The heap leach pad expansion design is around halfway completed, with final designs expected to be submitted for approval in Q3 2026.
Managing Director Matthew Boyes says Pacgold is focused on “unlocking the full potential of White Dam”.
“Pouring Pacgold’s first gold bar from our initial irrigation of the existing heap leach pad was a significant milestone, and we’ve immediately scaled up with another 100,000 tonnes of new re-crushed material now under leach,” Boyes says.
“Alongside this operational success, the key to building this business is drilling and expanding the known resources we have at White Dam and on our exploration assets nearby.
“I am very happy to see drilling now recommenced at our shallow high priority targets as diesel prices have stabilised and we can get on with our growth strategy for the company.”
Pacgold is a mineral exploration company focused on projects in North Queensland and South Australia.
Write to Maddison Elliott at Mining.com.au
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