# Smooth Rock Announces Start of Diamond Drill Program at the Palmetto Gold Project

Canonical Atlas analysis: https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/smooth-rock-announces-start-of-diamond-drill-program-at-the-palmetto-gold-projec--b47aadb9-e4e2-4bb0-a791-53f5ab549a6d

Original source: https://money.tmx.com/en/quote/SMRV/news/7372379928944738/smooth-rock-announces-start-of-diamond-drill-program-at-the-palmetto-gold-projec

Publisher: tmx

Original announcement: 2021-02-22T08:02:00.000Z

Analysis by Minestarters Atlas

Atlas analysis published: Unknown date

Atlas analysis updated: Unknown date

- Company: Smooth Rock Ventures Corp.

- Ticker: SOCK

- Exchange: TSX

- Region: Nevada

- Primary commodity: Gold

- Secondary commodities: Silver

- Document categories: Drill results, Other

- Extracted: 2026-08-24 11:14:36 UTC

Narrative sentiment: 0.30 · Bullish

## Minestarters Atlas summary

Smooth Rock Ventures Corp. has announced the commencement of its 2021 diamond drill program at the Palmetto Gold Project in Nevada. The program aims to expand the current resource by drilling mineralized zones laterally and at depth, targeting high-grade feeder chutes.

Reasoning: The announcement marks the start of a new drilling campaign aimed at resource expansion, which is a positive development for an explorer, though no new assay results are provided in this specific release.

- Positive factor: commencement of drill program

- Positive factor: expansion potential for existing resource

- Positive factor: targetting high-grade feeder chutes

- Negative factor: program delay due to COVID-19

Facts used in scoring: 0

## Classification and evidence

**QA/QC Disclosed**

Polarity: positive

Definition: Release includes QA/QC disclosure — certified lab, QP sign-off, or stated methods \(blanks, standards, duplicates\).

Why it applies: The release states that technical content has been reviewed and approved by an independent Qualified Person \(E. Gauthier\) as defined by NI 43-101.

Evidence · text

> reviewed, verified, and approved by E. Gauthier, geol., Eng \(OIQ\), a consultant of the Company, and an independent Qualified Person as defined by NI 43-101

## Extracted facts

Stored fact records: 0. Some facts used in scoring do not have a stored record.

No stored fact records are available for this extraction.

## How Atlas produces this analysis

Minestarters Atlas uses automated extraction to summarize mining announcements, identify reported measurements, and classify supporting evidence. Sentiment reflects the extracted narrative and classification rules; it is an interpretation, not a reported measurement. Evidence quotes and context are provided where available. Missing data, low-confidence results, and review flags indicate limitations. Check the original publisher announcement before relying on an interpretation.