Tinka Resources Limited announced the analytical results for holes A13-14 to A13-17 at the company's 100% owned Ayawilca project, located in west-central Peru. Hole A13-15 is located on section 333300E, about 100 m west of the highly significant intercept found in hole A12-08. Massive and semi-massive sulphides were intersected between 321.1 m and 344.4 m depth with locally moderate concentrations of sphalerite in a matrix dominated by pyrite and pyrrhotite.

Drill holes A13-16 and A13-17 were collared along section 333900E about 570 m northeast of A12-08. Both of these holes targeted an area where old workings are located along mineralized fault structures that cut the overlying sandstone formation. This site is also along the western margin of large, coincidental magnetic and chargeability (IP) anomalies measuring about 700 m east-west and 700 m north-south, respectively.

In hole A13-16 (-60 degrees north), semi-massive sulphides were intersected between 354.9 m and 359.1 m and consisted of sphalerite and pyrite associated with strong chlorite and moderate magnetite alteration. Semi-massive sulphides, consisting of weak to moderate sphalerite, accompanied by strong chlorite and moderate magnetite alteration, occurs between 376.3 m and 394.1 m, from 436.0 m to 436.4 m and from 440.6 m to 443.5 m. Semi-massive sulphides (pyrite and sphalerite), along with moderate chlorite and magnetite alteration, occur between 329.6 m and 352.6 m depth in hole A13-17 (-75 degrees north). Sphalerite, plus some galena, were found between 373.1 m and 378.9 m with the same style of alteration.

Massive pyrrhotite, containing pyrite, sphalerite and lesser chalcopyrite, occurs from 380.1 m and 405.6 m depth. All diamond drilling has been performed using HQ diameter drill rods, reducing to NQ diameter if required. Analytical standards and blanks were routinely introduced in the sample suites sent to the laboratory, and samples that exceeded their respective threshold levels for Ag, Zn and Pb were re-assayed by specific atomic absorption techniques.