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Aston Bay Completes Initial Drill Program at its Buckingham Gold Property in Virginia, USA
TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / April 30, 2019 / Aston Bay Holdings Ltd. (TSX-V: BAY; OTCQB: ATBH...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Aston Bay Completes Initial Drill Program at its Buckingham Gold Property in Virginia, USATORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / April 30, 2019 / Aston Bay Holdings Ltd. (TSX-V: BAY; OTCQB: ATBHF) (\"Aston Bay\" or the \"Company\"), through its wholly owned subsidiary Blue Ridge Mining Inc. (\"Blue Ridge\" or \"BRM\"), is pleased to announce that it has completed its initial drill program on its recently acquired Buckingham Gold Property located in Central Virginia, USA. A total of 878 meters were drilled in six drill holes targeting gold-bearing quartz veining and disseminated mineralization. Sampling of the core is ongoing, with results anticipated in the coming weeks.\"The program was initiated quickly and executed smoothly,\" stated Thomas Ullrich, CEO of Aston Bay. \"The drilling tested a small area of a larger gold anomaly. We look forward to the results setting a solid foundation for further exploration and drilling in this area.\"QUALIFIED PERSON As per National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects, Michael Dufresne, M.Sc., P.Geol., P.Geo., a Director of and a consultant to Aston Bay, is the Qualified Person for the Company and has prepared, validated and approved the technical and scientific content of this news release. The Company strictly adheres to CIM Best Practices Guidelines in conducting, documenting, and reporting its exploration activities on the Company's Aston Bay and Blue Ridge Mining Projects. ABOUT ASTON BAY HOLDINGS LTD. Aston Bay is a publicly traded mineral exploration company exploring for large, high-grade, copper, zinc and precious metal deposits in Nunavut, Canada and Virginia, USA. The Company is led by CEO Thomas Ullrich with exploration directed by Chief Geologist Dr. David Broughton, the award-winning co-discoverer of Kamoa-Kakula and Flatreef, in conjunction with the Company's advisor, Don Taylor, the 2018 Thayer Lindsley Award winner for his discovery of the Taylor Pb-Zn-Ag Deposit in Arizona. The Company is 100% owner of the 1,024,345-acres (414,537-hectares) Aston Bay Property located on western Somerset Island, Nunavut, which neighbours Teck's profitable, past-producing Polaris (Pb-Zn) Mine just 200km to the north. The Aston Bay Property hosts the Storm Copper Project and the Seal Zinc Deposit with drill-confirmed presence of sediment-hosted copper and zinc mineralization. Th...