Let R be a local Gorenstein ring with infinite residue field of arbitrary characteristic. Let I be an R-ideal with g = ht I > 0, analytic spread , and let J be a minimal reduction of I . We further assume that I satisfies G and depth R/I j dim R/I − j + 1 for 1 j − g. The question we are interested in is whether core(I ) = J n+1 : b∈I (J, b) n for n 0. In the case of analytic spread Polini and Ulrich show that this is true with even weaker assumptions [C. Polini, B. Ulrich, A formula for the core of an ideal, Math. Ann. 331 (2005) 487-503, Theorem 3.4]. We give a negative answer to this question for higher analytic spreads and suggest a formula for the core of such ideals.