Looks like you are right about the drills turning, George
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Drilling Underway in the Dominican Republic
Vancouver, B.C. (February 22, 1999) - A 2,000
metre drill program on the San Antonio I Concession,
Dominican Republic, has commenced. The 7-10 hole
program will follow-up recent favourable geological,
geophysical and geochemical surveys and be centred
over a 600 by 6,000 metre gold, copper, lead, silver
and barium soil anomaly. Surface sampling of float
boulders has returned gold values in the 1-5 grams per
tonne range with highly anomalous base metal values.
Previous shallow drilling within the anomalous area
by Battle Mountain/Canyon Resources in 1990, intersected
massive sulphide mineralization. Drill hole SJ-2 returned
15.6 metres of 1.2% copper, 0.5% zinc, 9.0 g/t silver and
0.7 g/t gold (in addition a 0.3 metre hanging wall interval
graded 0.9% copper, 15.2% zinc, 29.1 g/t silver and 5.8 g/t
gold). Hole SJ-4, located 200 metres to the southeast,
intersected 1.4 metres of 0.84% copper, 4.8% zinc,
13.0 g/t silver and 0.4 g/t gold (including 0.3 metres of
2.6% copper, 16.9% zinc, 25.7 g/t silver and 1.1 g/t gold)
along the same mineralized contact as intersected by SJ-2.
Atna can earn a 60% interest in the San Antonio I Concession
from Energold Mining Ltd. by spending US$3,000,000 over
four years and issuing US$300,000 in Atna shares.
Atna Resources Ltd. is a Canadian mineral exploration
company with a track record for discovering significant
massive sulphide deposits. Atna trades on the Toronto Stock
Exchange under the symbol ATN and has a treasury of
approximately C$15 million.
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For further information contact:
ATNA RESOURCES LTD.
Atna Resources Ltd.
Peter DeLancey, President or
Michael Williams, Investor Relations
Tel: (604) 684-2285; Fax (604) 684-8887
E-mail: atna@atna.com
<http://www.atna.com>
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