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Aton Announces the Completion of Diamond Drilling at Rodruin, and Further Drill Results
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / December 13, 2022 / Aton Resources Inc. (TSXV:AAN) ("Aton" or the "...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Aton Announces the Completion of Diamond Drilling at Rodruin, and Further Drill ResultsVANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / December 13, 2022 / Aton Resources Inc. (TSXV:AAN) (\"Aton\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to update investors on the completion of the Phase 2 diamond drilling programme at its advanced Rodruin gold exploration project, located in the Company's 100% owned Abu Marawat Concession (\"Abu Marawat\" or the \"Concession\"), in the Eastern Desert of Egypt.Highlights:Diamond drilling was completed at Rodruin on December 10, 2022, with a total of 9,073 metres drilled from 85 holes. Final assay results are now expected by February 2023;Results are now available for a further 20 holes, ROD-091 to ROD-110, drilled at the Aladdin's Hill NE, Central Buttress and GF Zones;4 holes were drilled in the Aladdin's Hill NE area, and results include 1.18 g/t Au and 11.6 g/t Ag over an interval of 20.49m in pyritic carbonate rocks from 115.11m depth (ROD-095), and 2.48 g/t Au and 13.7 g/t Ag over 7.1m from 69.0m depth, on the Saddle Fault structure (ROD-096);3 holes were drilled at the CBZ, and returned intersections including 0.54 g/t Au and 6.9 g/t Ag over 47.8m, from 17.0m depth (ROD-093);The remaining holes were drilled at the GF Zone and from the Central Valley, and returned mineralised intersections including 16.25 g/t Au and 8.5 g/t Ag over 1.7m from 33.6m depth (ROD-099), 0.54 g/t Au and 3.9 g/t Ag over 48.2m from 5.1m depth (ROD-102) and 0.51 g/t Au and 2.0 g/t Ag over 43.5m from surface (ROD-110).\"We are pleased to announce that the diamond drilling programme has now been successfully completed at Rodruin, with more than two and half times the number of originally planned metres having been drilled. Combined with the extra time on the exploration licence that we have been awarded by our partners at the Egyptian Mineral Resource Authority this keeps Aton well on our planned track of completing new and revised mineral resource estimates and delineating \"commercial discoveries\" at Rodruin and Hamama in mid-2023\" said Tonno Vahk, Interim CEO. \"Our MRE consultants, Cube Consulting, are making good progress with the Hamama West MRE following the completion of the RC programme there in August, and once we receive the final assays from the Rodruin drilling programme in early 2023 we expect to move rapidly ahead with the maiden R...