Nova Scotia Regional Exploration
In addition to developing the Touquoy Gold Project in Nova Scotia Atlantic Gold is progressively exploring regional
and near-mine land positions to build its resource base. Beyond the Touquoy property itself ATV believes the
surrounding region within the so-called Meguma Terrane is highly prospective for additional Touquoy style deposits.
Considerable potential is evident along adjacent parallel gold-mineralised belts defined by the regionally
extensive east-west anticlines mapped over a century ago by pioneer government geologist ER Faribault.
Typically the region is 90% covered by a masking blanket of glacial till – extensively transported sand,
gravel and boulders deposited beneath the continental ice sheet during the last Ice Age. A strong land position
comprising pegged claims and farmed-in properties continues to be secured and explored, initially by
reconnaissance drilling. A customised reconnaissance drilling technique has been employed by ATV to effectively
penetrate the cover and explore this terrain and to date over 10,000m have been drilled to test regional targets.
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