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Great Atlantic 2021 Exploration Program High Grade Silver, Gold, Copper and Zinc at Its 100% Owned Keymet Precious Metal - Base Metal Property, New Brunswick
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / April 8, 2021 / Great Atlantic Resources Corp. (TSXV:GR)(FRA:PH0...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Great Atlantic 2021 Exploration Program High Grade Silver, Gold, Copper and Zinc at Its 100% Owned Keymet Precious Metal - Base Metal Property, New BrunswickVANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / April 8, 2021 / Great Atlantic Resources Corp. (TSXV:GR)(FRA:PH01) (the \"Company\" or \"Great Atlantic\") is pleased to announce 2021 exploration plans for its Keymet Precious Metal - Base Metal Property, located in northeast New Brunswick. One priority area of focus for 2021 work is the northwest region where the Company has reported high grade gold, silver, copper and zinc, including a drill intercept of 9.04 zinc, 9.19% copper and 1,158 gams per tonne (g/t) silver over 3.00 meters core length.Great Atlantic's focus since acquiring the property in 2011 has been the northwest region of the property (see news releases on the Company's website). Six polymetallic vein type occurrences with silver, zinc, lead and plus / minus copper and plus / minus gold are reported in the northwest region of the Keymet Property (source: New Brunswick Dept. of Natural Resources and Energy Development Mineral Occurrence Database). Prominent of these are the Keymet deposit and Elmtree 12 occurrence. By the early 1950s the Number 1 Zone at the Keymet deposit was reported to be traced for 91 meters along strike, to a depth of 137 meters and averaging 3.4 meters in width. The Keymet Mine operated during the mid-1950s, producing lead, zinc, copper and silver. Production at this mine was terminated in 1956 due to a fire at the site. Reported production at the Keymet Mine during 1954-1956 is 59,000 tonnes averaging 2.59% zinc, 2.44% lead, 0.25% copper and 33.94 g/t silver. Two rock dump samples collected by Great Atlantic during 2011 at the historic Keymet Mine site returned:33.9% lead, 22.9% zinc, 2.55% copper and 549 ppm silver.1.23% lead, 1.48% zinc, 4.22% copper and 415 ppm silver.Historic Keymet Mine (1950s)Great Atlantic discovered gold in float and bedrock in the northwest region of the Keymet Property, highlights including:A float sample assaying 51 g/t gold (2011 sample).A gold-bearing zone exposed in a 2012 trench (channel samples averaging 1.09 g/t gold over 11.78 meters).A gold-bearing zone discovered during 2017 diamond drilling near the Elmtree 12 vein system (0.64 g/t gold over 19.96 meters core length).Great Atlantic conducted diamond drilling during 2015,...