Baru Gold Corp. announced that the structural study commissioned back in October 2021 has been completed and received with 23 new exploration targets identified. The Company appointed Murphy Geological Services (MGS) to conduct a structural study for the entire Sangihe Island Contract of Work (CoW) area which involved the acquisition, processing, and interpretation of Sentinel-2 and Hi-Res (WorldView, GeoEye and Pleiades) satellite imagery to develop a structural synthesis for the geological occurrence of known gold occurrences, and to establish a benchmark for future exploration.

The study was undertaken at 1:10,000-1:15,000 scale to establish the structural framework and generate targets for gold exploration. A high resolution (Hi-Res) mosaic for the Sangihe CoW was interpreted at up to 1:2,000 scale. The Sentinel-2 images were draped onto an ASTER based Global Digital Elevation Model (GDEM) to help accentuate topographically controlled structure and domal features.

This has resulted in MGS identifying twenty-three new exploration targets in the Sangihe CoW. The identification of the targets is based on criteria that includes the presence of major, faults, inflections along major faults, major fault intersections, radial major/second order faults related to the Kakiraeng stratovolcano, location within the newly identified Kakiraeng-Taware Fault Zone (KTFZ) or along its bounding structures, domal/circular features, linear resistant features, eroded volcanic center/caldera rim, artisanal workings, prominent aeromagnetic lineaments, and proximity to known gold mineralization. Twelve of the target areas are classified as Priority 1, eight have a Priority 2 ranking, and the remaining three target areas are classed as Priority 3. The next step will involve field analysis to verify the geometry and kinematics of the major structures identified from the satellite image interpretation.

This will lead to "ground truthing" of the various targets, followed by benchmarking and comparison using standard exploration techniques to determine their individual prospectivity.