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Aton Announces the Start of a 10,000m RC Exploration Drilling Programme at Abu Marawat
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / May 19, 2023 / Aton Resources Inc. (TSXV:AAN) ("Aton" or the "Compa...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Aton Announces the Start of a 10,000m RC Exploration Drilling Programme at Abu MarawatVANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / May 19, 2023 / Aton Resources Inc. (TSXV:AAN) (\"Aton\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce that it has now commenced a 10,000m programme of reverse circulation percussion (\"RC\") exploration drilling at its 100% owned Abu Marawat Concession (\"Abu Marawat\" or the \"Concession\"), in the Eastern Desert of Egypt (Figure 1).Figure 1: Geology and prospect plan of the Abu Marawat Concession \"I am very pleased to be able to announce that Geodrill have now started on our highly anticipated regional RC exploration drilling programme\" said Tonno Vahk, Interim CEO. \"We are delighted to finally be in a position to get out and drill some of our regional targets for the first time at Abu Marawat. We have no doubt that we have one of, if not the most prospective package of gold exploration projects in Egypt. The team on the ground has worked hard to get this programme together, and are very excited to be finally starting drilling at some of these great targets. We are absolutely confident that the results of the drilling will speak for themselves in the coming months.\"2023 Abu Marawat RC drilling programmeAton signed a contract with Geodrill's Egyptian branch, Geodrill for Leasing and Specialized Services Freezone LLC, for 10,000m of RC drilling at the Abu Marawat Concession in April 2023 (see news release dated April 20, 2023). Geodrill's X900 multi-purpose drill rig arrived at the West Garida prospect on May 18, 2023, and commenced drilling on the first hole of the programme, WGP-006 (Figure 2). The powerful X900 multi-purpose rig carries a 1200cfm/430psi onboard compressor, and an additional service unit equipped with a 1200cfm/430psi auxiliary compressor and 1800cfm/900psi booster pack. The X900 rig has a rated RC depth capacity of 400m.Drilling has commenced at the West Garida prospect (Figure 1), which is only 3 km away from the Company's Hamama West deposit. A short programme of 19 holes has been planned at West Garida, for a total of 1,370 metres to follow up on a previous drill intersection of 41.7 g/t Au, 263 g/t Ag and 2.08% Pb over a 1m interval (see news release dated September 1, 2022). Mineralisation at West Garida is associated with narrow high grade quartz veins.Figure 2: Collaring off the first hol...