Aton Resources Inc. (TSXV:AAN) has obtained excellent drilling results from the West Garida prospect, located in the company’s 100% owned Abu Marawat Concession in the Eastern Desert of Egypt.
Highlights:
- Five percussion RC holes were drilled at the West Garida prospect, testing the down dip extensions of mineralised quartz veins mapped at surface;
- All five holes intersected mineralisation associated with the targeted narrow quartz veins;
- Hole WGP-003 intersected 41.7 g/t Au, 263 g/t Ag and 2.08% Pb over a 1.0m interval from 17m depth;
- Hole WGP-005 intersected 1.54 g/t Au over a 5.0m interval from 65m depth.
“We are very excited to be able to announce the discovery of high grade quartz vein associated mineralisation from this new drilling at West Garida,” said Tonno Vahk, Interim CEO.
“West Garida is an area that has interested us since we first mapped it in 2017, has been on our radar since then, and we are delighted with the results from this initial short RC programme.
“Its proximity to the Hamama West deposit makes it particularly interesting, in terms of its potential ease of development, and West Garida again confirms the outstanding exploration potential of the entire Abu Marawat Concession.
“We continue to push strongly ahead at both Rodruin and Hamama West, but these new results show the bigger potential of the Concession, which we fully intend to develop over time.
“We anticipate further follow-up drilling to come at West Garida, as we look to shift our drilling focus to the numerous other high priority exploration targets at Abu Marawat, including Abu Gaharish, which appears to be a Sukari analogue, following the completion of the current diamond drilling programme at Rodruin. We continue to fully believe that very exciting times lie ahead for Aton.”
West Garida Prospect
The West Garida prospect is located approximately three km east-northeast of the Hamama West deposit and is accessed by a road constructed in 2017. A short programme consisting of five vertical reverse circulation percussion (RC) drill holes was completed at West Garida during a break in the Hamama West drilling programme (see news release dated August 26, 2022).
The West Garida prospect was discovered, mapped and sampled by Aton geologists in 2017, with individual surface channel samples returning grades including 99.6 g/t and 45.6 g/t Au.
Visible gold was identified in several samples associated with the quartz vein hosted mineralisation. West Garida is located approximately 500m from the western margin of a “Younger Granite” intrusive and is more or less along the strike of the Hamama West deposit. The general geology of the West Garida area is similar to that at Hamama West and is characterised by a sequence of intermediate to felsic volcanic and pyroclastic rocks that are cut by a number of sub-volcanic felsic intrusive bodies.
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