TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Feb. 21, 2012) -Ateba Resources Inc. ("Ateba" or the "Company") (CNSX:ATR) is pleased to announce that it has retained the services of Orbit Garant Drilling Inc. to conduct up to 2,000 m of diamond drilling on Ateba's Larder Group Property near Kirkland Lake, Ontario. Drilling has commenced on the FP Zone where approximately 1,000 meters of the planned drilling will be completed. The remainder of the drilling will be conducted in the Walsh Mine area.

The goal of this drilling programme is to test the extents and continuity of previously identified mineralization between the Walsh Mine and the adjacent FP Zone to the southeast. Historic drilling at the Walsh Mine (1923, 1986) and prior drilling by Ateba at the Walsh Mine and FP Zone (2010-2011) has revealed mineralized intersections of auriferous quartz veins and alteration zones in both areas.

The veins and associated alteration zones have been mapped and trenched along much of the trend between the two areas by Ateba. These exploration activities have uncovered areas of favorable host rock including zones of silicification, epidote alteration and sulfide mineralization. Samples collected from these zones are elevated in gold content and the associated rocks are considered favorable to host potentially significant gold bearing structures. In addition to expanding the known extents of gold mineralization along the Walsh Mine - FP trend, drilling will be targeted to intersect gold bearing structures within these zones of favorable host rock.

About Ateba Resources

Ateba Resources is a mineral exploration company that is focused on exploring for gold along the Larder - Cadillac Break. The Company's flagship project encompasses the highly prospective Walsh Katrine, Copper King, Kinabik and Kerr North gold properties that are contiguous to Queenston's Upper Beaver Property. The project extends 15 km toward the Quebec border and is accessible year round by road. In addition, the Company also has a uranium property in Elliot Lake on which there is a historic uranium resource of 12 million pounds of U₃O₈. The property is contiguous to the Pele Mountain Eco Ridge property where significant assays for total rare earth oxides (TREO's) have been reported.

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