Atlanta Gold Inc. announced that it has completed successful bench scale testing of gold mineralization from its Atlanta project in Elmore County, Idaho. Gold at Atlanta occurs both as free gold and gold in association with arsenic sulphides. The goal of the testing was to develop a process flow that would separate gold mineralization from the rock and concentrate it for shipment off site for further processing.

A process using only water and gravity produced a concentrate that, based on a production rate of 800 tons per day and a feed grade of 0.075 ounces of gold per ton, would result in a concentration rate of 50:1 and producing a concentrate of 15.7 tons at a grade of 3.178 opt gold. The concentrate would contain 49.9 ounces of gold which would be a recovery of 82.8% of total gold. Samples are selected and handled in accordance with NI 43-101 standards.

Processing and assaying was completed by Inspectorate Exploration and Mining Services Ltd. of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Met-Solve Laboratories, Inc, Langley, British Columbia, Inspectorate America Corporation, Sparks, Nevada and Action Mining Services Inc., Sandy, Oregon. Quality control and assurance of the analytical results is maintained at the laboratory by inserting standards and blanks into the sample run.