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Great Atlantic Conducts 2019 Summer Exploration Program on Its Pilley's Island (Zn, Cu, Pb, Ag, Au) Property North-Central Newfoundland
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA / ACCESSWIRE / September 9, 2019 / GREAT ATLANTIC RESOURCES COR...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Great Atlantic Conducts 2019 Summer Exploration Program on Its Pilley’s Island (Zn, Cu, Pb, Ag, Au) Property North-Central NewfoundlandVANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA / ACCESSWIRE / September 9, 2019 / GREAT ATLANTIC RESOURCES CORP. (TSXV.GR) (the “Company” or “Great Atlantic”) is pleased to announce it recently conducted an exploration program consisting of focussed prospecting and geochemical sampling at its Pilley’s Island Property, located in north-central Newfoundland. The program, exploring for base metal and precious metal-bearing volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits, was completed in the southwest region of the property in areas of reported copper and zinc mineralization. Reported historic highlights from this region of the property include:Drill intersections (1994): 9.1% Zn / 0.42 meters & 0.41% Cu / 14.14 meters.Altered felsic volcanic rocks.Massive pyrite intersected in some drill holes. The 2019 summer program was conducted in the southwest region of the Pilley’s Island Property in areas of reported copper and zinc mineralization, reported altered volcanic rocks and reported massive pyrite intervals in some historic drill holes. The summer program consisted of focussed prospecting and rock / soil geochemical sampling, exploring for base metal and precious metal-bearing volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits. Samples collected during the 2019 summer program will be analyzed by a certified laboratory for base metal and precious metal content. Historic 1994 diamond drill holes in the southwest region of the property reportedly intersected significant levels of copper and / or zinc, including reported intersections of:9.10% zinc and 0.69% copper over 0.42 meters1.94% zinc over 0.40 meters0.41 % copper over 14.14 meters (reported altered felsic volcanic rocks). New rusty outcrop exposure in southwest region of Pilley’s Island PropertyThe Company reported significant base metal and precious metal results during 2017 for work in the south-central region of the property at the Bull Road showing. A trench was excavated in 2017 at this showing exposing sulfide mineralization over a northwest-southeast length of approximately 130 meters with a width varying between 1-7 meters. The Bull Road Showing is a polylithic slump breccia of volcanogenic massive sulphide mineralizat...