Aton Resources (Aton) has recently conducted additional sampling and mapping across several regional targets within the Abu Marawat Concession’s retained exploration areas in Egypt’s Eastern Desert.

This included collecting 258 samples, combining selective grab samples and non-selective surface channel samples, from the Black Gaharish, Bohlog, Kab Amira, Semna, and Zeno prospect areas. To ensure data quality, an additional seven blank and duplicate QA/QC samples were also submitted for analysis.

The company successfully finished the phase 2 diamond drilling program at the Semna prospect, drilling 28 holes for a total of 4,701 meters. Additionally, the company completed a surface sampling program at the Abu Marawat deposit and initiated a new drilling campaign targeting a promising, unexplored area.

This new program utilizes both shallow and horizontal diamond drilling techniques and aims to collect approximately 3,000 meters of core samples.

“This is another set of excellent surface sampling results, which yet again demonstrate the potential of the Abu Marawat Concession, including the newly identified Kab Amira area, and the very widespread development of gold mineralization at surface across the areas that have been retained for further exploration,” Tonno Vahk, Aton CEO commented.

“We are proceeding with our exploration programs on the retained exploration areas, with the clearly defined objective of bringing them into the exploitation lease within the next four years. The follow-up phase 2 diamond drilling program has been completed at Semna, and we look forward to releasing the results of this program very shortly. We have now returned to the Abu Marawat deposit for the first time since 2012, and where we will be drilling potentially high-grade areas outside the existing NI 43-101 resource which were not drilled previously due to the difficulty of access in steep terrain,” Vahk noted.