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Highlands hopeful on Frieda River results

LATEST drilling results from Highlands Pacific and Xstrata’s Frieda River project in Papua New Guinea suggest just why the Swiss major is spending $US36 million ($A44.4 million) on exploration at the project this year.

Kate Haycock
Highlands hopeful on Frieda River results

The deepest drillhole to date – 654m – ended still in mineralisation and included an intercept of 448m at 0.78% copper and 0.38 grams per tonne gold from 4m downhole. Other intercepts from the hole...

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