Tinka Resources Drills 77.1 Meters of 4% Zinc at Ayawilca

Tinka Resources (TSXV:TK) reported results from 12 drill holes from its 16 hole program at its Ayawilca project in Peru. Drilling has expanded zinc, copper and tin mineralization at the project.

As quoted in the press release:

Significant mineralization was intersected in all holes. These results continue to confirm Ayawilca is a district-scale, zinc, copper and tin discovery. To date, diamond drilling has identified mineralization within a footprint of 1.5 kilometres by 0.75 kilometres, and all areas remain open along strike.

Tinka president and CEO, Dr. Graham Carman, said:

These new results continue to show the out-standing zinc, tin, and copper potential, and the large scale of the Ayawilca discovery (Figure 1). Important recent zinc intersections include A14-33 (77.1 metres at 4.0 % zinc) and A14-26 (43.8 metres at 5.4 % zinc & 76 g/t indium) at West Ayawilca. Importantly, this program was also successful in finding new mineralized zinc structures, trending north to northwest. At East Ayawilca, strong zinc mineralization was intersected in three holes including A14-24 (46.5 metres at 4.0 % zinc & 88 g/t indium), and A14-29 (42.0 metres at 3.3 % zinc).

Significant tin-copper mineralization lying beneath the zinc mineralization, previously identified in November 25, 2014, was intersected in three holes including A14-28 (62.7 metres at 0.26 % tin and 0.17 % copper). Two previous holes, A13-11 and A13-12A, were stopped in high-grade tin mineralization (Table 1). The tin – copper footprint at Ayawilca, defined by drilling, now covers 1 kilometre by 0.5 kilometres, trending northeast, and open along trend (Figures 2 & 3). Currently, tin – copper mineralization occurs within massive sulphide lenses and in quartz veinlet ‘stockworks’ in metamorphic rocks, highlighting the potential for a large tin – copper porphyry system underneath Ayawilca.

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