Orogen Gold has announced the mobilization of a drill rig to commence its 2014 diamond drilling program at its Mutsk gold project in Armenia.

The UK public company is targeting extensions of previous gold intercepts and several large newly discovered geophysical anomalies in a plan involving a minimum of 3,000 meters of drilling, Mining Global reported.

Ed Slowey, Chief Executive of Orogen, commented: “Following on from our encouraging diamond drilling campaign in 2013 and recent geophysics program which has generated several strong new targets within the permit area, we are pleased to announce the mobilization of a rig to commence the 2014 follow-on drilling program at Mutsk.”

The Mutsk Project is located in southern Armenia at about 2,000m elevation and is three hours’ drive from the capital city Yerevan.

The project was optioned by the exploration experts early in 2013 to follow-up reports of a new epithermal discovery within an established gold district.