Niuminco Group Limited announced that its exploration program at May River will now focus on EL 2527 with geological fieldwork and sampling to proceed at the exciting Iku Hill prospect. Niuminco has previously announced the grant of EL 2527 in a highly prospective area of Papua New Guinea surrounding and including the known Iku, May River target, defined during a previous program. It is located 800 kilometres north-west of Port Moresby, in West Sepik Province (Fig. 1) and is centred on -4º 37'S, 141º 38'E. The nearest major coastal town is Wewak, 250km to the east-north-east. Geological mapping by Geological Survey of PNG in the early 1970s delineated bodies of diorite composition intrusive into Miocene Wogamush Formation, consisting of sandstones, calcareous shales and limestones, over an area of some 100 square kilometres, including at Horse-Ivaal and Iku. Copper minerals were discovered at Horse-Ivaal during this program. Commercial exploration commenced soon after and continues to the present on this giant disseminated copper - gold porphyry deposit. In 1991-92, Highlands Gold Development Ltd. carried out a regional airborne magnetic survey and reconnaissance geochemical stream sediment survey throughout the area surrounding Frieda. Pan concentrate sampling reported visible gold in some 80% of the broad spread of samples including from streams draining from Iku, but it seems that there was no follow-up field traversing over the formidable topography at that location. Follow-up was restricted to other areas in the district. A joint venture between Niuminco and Mincor acquired and reprocessed the Highlands airborne magnetics survey data in 2012, defined several highly prospective targets and then flew another survey over those target areas using VTEM and ZTEM methods. Magnetics are very useful in defining the shapes of the diorite intrusive bodies as they tend to contain magnetite. VTEM (Versatile Time Domain Electromagnetic) surveys are useful in determining zones of high electrical conductivity such as sulphides, while ZTEM (Z-Axis Tipper Electromagnetic) is a technique that measures low resistivity and is therefore pertinent to conductive sulphide bearing areas, similar to Nena. Subsequent joint venture activity in the area was limited and mainly restricted to other projects elsewhere within PNG. Field traversing and rock chip sampling of the VTEM and ZTEM anomalous areas are proposed as initial follow-up around Iku, to confirm the presence of sulphides and determine if gold and copper are present.