Atna Resources Ltd. of Vancouver, Canada reports that the company has commenced a 2,000 meter drill program on the San Antonio I Concession, Dominican Republic. The 7-10 hole program will follow-up recent favorable geological, geophysical and geochemical surveys and be centered over a 600 by 6,000 meter gold, copper, lead, silver and barium soil anomaly. Surface sampling of float boulders has returned gold values in the 1-5 grams per ton range with highly anomalous base metal values. Previous shallow drilling within the anomalous area by Battle Mountain/Canyon Resources in 1990, intersected massive sulfide mineralization. Drill hole SJ-2 returned 15.6 meters of 1.2% copper, 0.5% zinc, 9.0 g/t silver and 0.7 g/t gold (in addition a 0.3 meter 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 meters to the southeast, intersected 1.4 meters of 0.84% copper, 4.8% zinc, 13.0 g/t silver and 0.4 g/t gold (including 0.3 meters 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.
