OceanaGold Corporation will shortly begin site construction at its Didipio gold and copper project in northern Luzon, Philippines.

A 21km road upgrade into the Didipio project is almost complete with light cars and trucks utilizing the road to access local communities.

The site construction will be carried out by Ausenco with final phase engineering now well underway. Site earthworks will begin soon at Tubo with particular focus on the access road and construction of an accommodation camp where the box cut for the drainage tunnel will be located.

Manufacturing of the main Didipio accommodation camp will also start in Manila soon for construction at the site in about March 2008.

The mills, which were ordered in late 2006, are still on schedule to arrive in September 2008. These are the long lead-time items and the shells are being built in South Africa by Outokumpu.

The company is on schedule to commission and start production at Didipio during the first half of 2009.