ATAC Resources Ltd. announced the 2017 exploration program for its 100% owned Rackla Gold Project in east-central Yukon. The fully-funded 2017 exploration budget is $10 million and will include approximately 15,000 m of diamond and rotary air blast ("RAB") drilling. The multiphase exploration program will focus on expanding high-grade gold mineralization at existing zones within the Nadaleen and Rau Trends. 2017 Objectives: Targeted diamond drilling to expand high-grade gold structures at the Conrad and Osiris zones; Diamond and RAB drilling to advance over 10 Osiris and Anubis Custer gold zones and Tier 1 geochemical targets; Diamond drill evaluation of the newly discovered Tiger East anomaly and other untested upper oxide and sulphide mineralization to increase the gold resources within the Tiger Gold Deposit; and, Sampling, prospecting and mapping of regional exploration targets at both the Nadaleen and Rau trends. Nadaleen Trend: ATAC made Canada's only Carlin-type gold discoveries at the eastern end of its Rackla Gold Project in 2010 by targeting a 30 km trend that is highly anomalous for the Carlin pathfinder elements arsenic, antimony, mercury and thallium. The Nadaleen Trend is comparable in size to the entire Northern Carlin Trend of Nevada and exhibits many of the same characteristics key to the Northern Carlin Trend's exceptional gold endowment. To date, ATAC has defined two clusters of Carlin-type gold discoveries within the Nadaleen Trend - the 12 km2 Osiris and 18 km2 Anubis Clusters. Between 2011 and 2014, ATAC funded large exploration programs focused on defining broad zones of shallow mineralization within the Osiris Cluster while concurrently conducting regional reconnaissance exploration in search of additional Carlin-type gold targets along the Nadaleen Trend. In response to weaker capital markets during the past few years, ATAC focused its efforts on regional grassroots targets in the Anubis Cluster and utilized more cost effective RAB drilling to evaluate mineralization and potential. The larger program in 2017 will enable ATAC to resume testing zones within the Osiris Cluster (Conrad, Osiris, Sunrise and Ibis) that all remain open for expansion. A combination of diamond and RAB drilling will be used to define these known zones and to assess other areas where limited exploration or drilling has been carried out to date. Nadaleen Trend Objectives: Conrad Zone: Diamond drilling of crosscutting faults thought to be associated with high-grade gold mineralization in holes OS-10-008 and OS-12-184. Only limited drilling has tested these faults due to their near parallel orientation to previous drilling; and, Diamond drilling of the Conrad Lower Zone along strike of OS-14-229. Osiris Zone: Diamond drilling the northern extension of the Osiris Zone along strike of OS-11-080 and OS-11-082; RAB drilling to test for additional high-grade mineralized structures similar to the North Osiris Trench discovery which returned values up to 80.40 g/t gold over 1.8 m. Sunrise Zone: Shallow diamond and RAB drilling of the Sunrise mineralized corridor along strike to the west where OS-12-150 intersected 15.24 m of 2.64 g/t gold and 7.55 m of 2.81 g/t gold. Ibis Zone: RAB drilling of a gold-in-soil anomaly where a cluster of soil samples returned up to 1.52 g/t gold; and, RAB drilling east of the Ibis Zone where a rock grab sample returned 1.81 g/t gold. Anubis Cluster: Diamond drilling at the Orion Zone will follow-up mineralization intersected in AN-16-010 which returned 61.29 m of 2.75 g/t gold. Additional drilling will test for mineralization at depth where an area of favorable stratigraphy is interpreted to be; and, RAB drilling of untested targets along the 6 km long Anubis Fault Corridor.