Transatlantic Mining Corp. announced the mobilization of a diamond drill rig to its Monitor Copper Gold Project. The inaugral plan is to drill up to 1,000 metres of diamond core to test the copper anomalism found on earlier surface geological reconnaissance.

Grades of up to 30% copper at the nearby Big Elk Prospect have previously been reported near surface. The Monitor Copper Gold Project straddles the Montana and Idaho border, approximately 5 miles south of Taft Idaho USA.