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The Atlanta district is centered on a historic gold district in northern Lincoln County, Nevada. Small lode production occurred sporadically from the early 1900s through 1950s when Bob Cat Mining and Standard Slag Corporation place the a new open pit mine into production. The mine produced 121,000 ounces of gold and 830,000 ounce of silver from ores grading 0.094 oz/ton gold and 1.48 oz/ton silver from 1976 through 1985.
Atna controls a large land unpatented lode claim position surrounding the old portion of the district with promising grass-roots exploration potential for new deposits and extensions of the historically mined mineral system. Mineralization in the district is associated with the margins of the Indian Peak and Wilson Mountain calderas and is hosted both in Tertiary volcanic rocks and underlying Paleozoic platform carbonate sedimentary units. The know gold system at Atlanta is characterized as a high-level, volcanic-hosted, epithermal gold-silver system similar to other prospects and deposits in western and southwestern Nevada including the Round Mountain Mine, Borealis, and Paradise Peak deposits.
Atna intends to conduct surface exploration in 2009 leading to development of target areas for drill testing in late 2010.
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