The Gameta Gold Deposit is located on the north-eastern corner
of Fergusson Island in the D'Entrecasteaux Islands of Milne Bay
Province, PNG, at lat. 9 25' 5, long. 150 47' E or AMG co- ordinate 256740 E/8959000 N (Figure 1). The area is covered by
the Fergusson (SC56-05) 1:250,000 scale Topographic Map Sheet
and the Koitabu (9079)1:100,000 scale Topographic Map Sheet.
The property is held 100% by Union Mining NL (UMG) and lies
105 km NNE of Alotau and 33 km to the ESE of UMGs recently
developed Wapolu Gold Mine, a Joint Venture between UMO
(51%) and Macmin NL (49%). The inferred resource estimated
from surface results and 105 RC drill holes, currently stands at
1.89 million tonnes at 2.6 git gold (1.0 g/t Au cut-off) or 155,000
oz. Evaluation of the property is currently proceeding. To date
111 RC holes have been drilled for a total of 4611 m.