Phase Two Drilling Program At Semna Gold Mine

VANCOUVER - Aton Resources Inc. CEO Tonno Vahk, said, "I am happy to now announce the final results from the recently completed phase 2 diamond drilling programme at Semna, which has continued to show excellent promise with more very significant drill intersections from the eastern extension of the previously mined Main Vein. The drilling has shown that the high grade mineralisation continues over a strike length of at least 500m, with good mineralisation drilled in the easternmost hole. As always a drill programme raises new questions, including an issue with one of the RC holes, and now is a suitable moment to review the data from the first two drill programmes. The presence of abundant coarse gold at Semna suggests that it is important to use as large diameter drill holes as possible, and we plan to return to Semna in the coming months, to continue with a combination of RC percussion and PQ size diamond drilling. However the most important thing is that the persistence of the high grade and coarse gold bearing mineralisation to the east of the old underground workings is quite clear. We are now well into the new diamond drilling programme at Abu Marawat and we are liking what we are seeing so far. We are also making progress at Hamama, with the establishment of Abu Marawat Gold Mines. The programme for the next year has been agreed by the board of the JV operating company, and once we have crossed the T's and dotted the final I's we expect to start making rapid progress towards the development of the next gold mine in Egypt at Hamama West."

28 diamond drill holes were drilled at Semna, for a total of 4,701m, and were designed to test the Main Vein zone, and its eastern extension, with 2 short holes testing the Eastern Adit Vein. Significant high grade mineralised intersections from the Semna Main Vein eastern extension zone ("MVZ-EX") include: 1) 11.69 g/t Au, 19.1 g/t Ag and 1.38% Cu over a 5.19m interval , from 126.35m downhole depth and 21.53 g/t Au over a 1.50m interval , from 147.20m downhole depth (both from hole SMD-048. 2) 15.05 g/t Au, 8.7 g/t Ag and 0.47% Cu over a 2.55m interval , from 100.45m downhole depth (hole SMD-025). 3) 3.16 g/t Au over a 13.96m interval , from 57.42m downhole depth (hole SMD-043), including 27.90 g/t Au over 1.37m , from 68.94m. 4) 3.49 g/t Au over a 7.97m interval , from 135.83m downhole depth (hole SMD-027), including 8.10 over 3.13m , from 135.83m. 5) 16.77 g/t Au over a 1.55m interval , from 64.3m downhole depth (hole SMD-044). 6) The programme confirmed the continuation of blind, high grade gold mineralisation in the MVZ-EX zone, which remains open at depth and along strike.

The Semna prospect is located approximately 27km east-northeast of the Hamama West deposit and 13km north-northeast of the Rodruin deposit, and is accessed via desert tracks from either Hamama, Rodruin or the Abu Marawat deposit to the north.