03:20 PM EST - Great Atlantic Resources Corp. : Has begun a diamond drilling program at its Keymet Precious – Base Metal Property, located in northeast New Brunswick. The Keymet property, located approximately 20 kilometres northwest of Bathurst, hosts multiple gold, silver, zinc, lead and copper occurrences. Drilling is being conducted in the northwest region of the property, northwest of the historic Keymet Mine which is situated on the property. Drill holes will test continuation of zinc, copper and silver bearing veins intersected by Great Atlantic during 2015 diamond drilling (16.7% zinc, 1.1% copper and 152 grams per tonne silver over 1.8-meter core length and 8.7% zinc over 4.28-meter core length) and the continuation of a gold bearing zone discovered by Great Atlantic during 2015 trenching (1.1 g/t gold over 4.9 meters in channel samples). Great Atlantic Resources Corp.
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