Atlas Step-Out Drill Hole Reaches Top of Salt at Great Atlantic
Atlas Step-Out Drill Hole Reaches Top of Salt at Great Atlantic St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, February 15, 2022 – Drilling by Atlas Salt (the “Company” or “Atlas” – TSXV: SALT) at its 100%-owned Great Atlantic Project in western Newfoundland has reached the interpreted top of the salt bed in a 500-metre step-out hole toward the deep water port at Turf Point. Detailed downhole logging of the overlying sediments in this first drill hole has been completed after drilling reached the top of the interpreted salt interval. This intermediate part of the hole will be cased and cemented, following which the hole will be drilled to total depth. The previous northernmost drill hole, collared 500 metres to the south, cut a gross thickness of 335.3 metres grading 96.8% salt starting just 190 metres downhole. Mr. Rowland Howe, Atlas President, commented: “Drilling of this first hole is progressing well, reaching the top of […]