Aton Resources restarts drilling at Egypt project
TSX-V-listed Aton Resources has restarted its surface channel sampling programme of potential mineralisation exposed along drill road cuttings at its Rodruin advanced exploration project at its wholly owned Abu Marawat Concession, in Egypt.
Sampling of channel sample profile ROC-031 returned a mineralised interval of 127 m at a grade of 1.33 g/t gold and 7.3 g/t silver, which interim CEO Tonna Vahk says lives up to the company’s expectations and vindicates its commitment to the second phase drilling programme that will start in the coming weeks.
“These new results again demonstrate the potential and the continuity of the mineralisation outcropping at surface at Rodruin and further reinforce our interpretation of broad zones of gold mineralisation on the South Ridge, which will be amenable to openpit mining,” Vahk says.
The miner is also able to drill, for the first time, the very high-grade veins which were sampled in 2017 and 2018, as it continues to push new roads up on to the North Ridge.
Drill road and pad preparation is ongoing at Rodruin ahead of the upcoming diamond drilling programme, and good progress is being made with new roads onto the North Ridge, which will allow the first drill testing of veins mined in ancient workings, which returned grades of up to 321 g/t gold at surface.
“These new results again demonstrate the potential and the continuity of the mineralisation outcropping at surface at Rodruin, and further reinforce our interpretation of broad zones of gold mineralisation on the South Ridge which will be amenable to openpit mining,” says Vahk.
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