Mubasher: Aton Resources, a Canada-based company, announced that it has collected 36 samples from Safaga South’s second phase of reconnaissance field inspection and selective grab sampling.
This was issued as a follow-up fieldwork regarding Aton’s newest gold discovery at Safaga South which is located within the company’s fully-owned Abu Marawat Concession in the Eastern Desert of Egypt.
Aton said that the results showed up to 102.5 g/t Au (gold), associated with coarse visible gold; 26 out of the total 36 samples returned assays greater than 1 g/t Au, and 10 returned grades above 10 g/t Au.
This confirms “the widespread development of quartz vein hosted gold mineralisation at Safaga South, at significant grades,” Aton said in a press release.
On this discovery, President and CEO of Aton Mark Campbell commented, “Following up on our recent new gold discovery at Safaga South, we have now significantly expanded the footprint of the outcropping mineralisation, and this second sampling programme has returned some very solid results.”
He further added, “Over the past months we have been primarily focused on securing our mining licence at Hamama and working with the Government and Wood Mackenzie on mining reform in Egypt, but importantly we continue to develop the overall exploration potential of the Abu Marawat Concession.”
Abu Marawat Concession is located approximately 200km north of Centamin’s Sukari gold mine.
