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Aton Resources Intersects 1.00 g/t gold over 129.5m at Rodruin, further confirming wide zones of surface mineralisation
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aton Resources Inc. (AAN: TSX-V) (“Aton” or the “Company") is very pleased to update investors o
About this update from Aton Resources Inc.
[{"type":"text","content":" VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aton Resources Inc. (AAN: TSX-V) (“Aton” or the “Company\") is very pleased to update investors on the latest tranche of results from the Phase 2 diamond drilling programme at its advanced Rodruin gold exploration project. Rodruin is located in the Company’s 100% owned Abu Marawat Concession (“Abu Marawat” or the “Concession”), in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. Highlights: Diamond drilling is ongoing at Rodruin, with 21 drill holes having been completed to date, ROD-048 and ROD-051 to ROD-070, for a total of 1,992 metres; Drill holes ROD-056 to ROD-061 were drilled to test the Central Buttress Zone, an outcropping body of gossanous and mineralised carbonate rock; Drill hole ROD-056 was mineralised over its entire length from collar to end of hole and returned a mineralised intersection of 129.50m grading 1.00 g/t Au and 8.8 g/t Ag; Other drill holes also returned wide mineralised intersections including 86.60m grading 0.76 g/t Au and 6.3 g/t Ag (hole ROD-057), 45.93m grading 0.93 g/t Au and 3.8 g/t Ag (hole ROD-059), and 85.40m grading 0.66 g/t Au and 10.2 g/t Ag (hole ROD-061); These results continue to confirm that a substantial block of predominantly gossanous carbonate hosted oxide gold mineralisation outcrops at surface at the Central Buttress Zone at Rodruin. “We continue to be very pleased with the assay results from the Rodruin diamond drilling programme as they come in,” said Tonno Vahk, Interim CEO. “These latest results again back up our long held interpretation of there being zones of bulk open pittable oxide mineralisation at Rodruin, starting from surface, and we are working hard to quantify these in a maiden MRE as soon as practically possible. We are also very excited by some of the strong copper-zinc sulphide mineralisation which we are currently drilling at depth, and this gives us the belief that there is also going to be a really quite substantial primary sulphide resource at Rodruin, which we are now starting to unlock.” Rodruin diamond drilling programme The Rodruin prospect was discovered in December 2017 by Aton geologists (see news release dated December 14, 2017), and is located approximately 18km east of the Company’s Hamama West mineral deposit (Figure 1). During 2018, Aton constructed a c. 4.5km access road to the prospect, and undertook ...