Atna Cuts 120 Feet Grading 0.057 oz/ton Gold At Reward Gold Project

GOLDEN, CO - Atna Resources Ltd. reported results from the remaining drill holes in the recently completed Reward gold project drilling program near Beatty, NV. The drilling program is designed to expand the existing resource and reserves at Reward. Fourteen holes were completed in the program for a total footage of 9,013 feet. Assays have been received on all holes with continued promising results in the new zone.

"The second round of results along the eastern and southeastern flank of the main Reward gold deposit has confirmed the presence of a new gold zone at Reward. The zone has now been traced for over 800 feet along strike and remains open to the north, south and down dip to the east. An additional drilling program is being designed to follow-up on these promising results," said President & CEO, James Hesketh.

Gold mineralization at Reward is controlled principally by the Good Hope fault zone; a sheeted, steeply dipping, north-south-trending quartz-vein zone. Adjacent to the Good Hope fault, the phyllitic quartzite, siltstone, and shales dip moderately to the east (45 degrees) and are host to more disseminated gold mineralization associated with narrow iron oxide veinlets (after pyrite) and minor quartz veining. The Reward gold deposit has been sampled by more than 350 holes totaling more than 130,000 feet drilled by a number of mining entities over the past 15 years including the Company. Gold mineralization has been encountered over a strike length of more than 2,400 feet and to a depth of 750 feet along the Good Hope structure. The width of mineralization within the structural zone ranges from a few feet to up to 200 feet and the bedded zones along the southeastern flank of the main Reward deposit attains thicknesses in excess of 300 feet. The Reward gold project has received both US and State permits that will allow construction of the mine.