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Tarku Resources Commences Exploration Program at Apollo and Atlas Projects
SASKATOON, SASKATCHEWAN--(Marketwired - Nov. 2, 2017) - Tarku Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:TKU) (the "Company" or "Tarku") is pleased to announce the start of ex
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[{"type":"text","content":"SASKATOON, SASKATCHEWAN--(Marketwired - Nov. 2, 2017) - Tarku Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:TKU) (the \"Company\" or \"Tarku\") is pleased to announce the start of exploration work on its wholly owned Apollo and Atlas gold and base metals projects and situated 50 kilometres east of Matagami in the Eeyou Istchee James Bay territory. The contiguous projects are covering 104 km2 along a regional gold structure named the Rivière Waswanipi Shear Zone (RWSZ), a geological setting which Tarku interprets as similar to the Sunday Lake Deformation Zone hosting the Detour Lake mine. The planned work program includes a till, humus and rock samples program which aims to validate the historical results including a value of 4.94 g/t in the heavy mineral fractions in order to identify priority areas along the RWSZ as well as other promising structures and contacts over a distance of 19 kilometres. Exploration work The exploration work on the Apollo (Au) and Atlas projects (Au-Ag-Cu-Zn) includes a ground and helicopter-assisted till, humus and rock sampling program. In 1987, during an exploration work, Finnith Exploration found that more than 60% of their till samples contained gold grains (from 1 to 19 gold grains; GM 46862). In 1988, Inco's till sampling program yielded several gold values exceeding 0.5 g/t Au in the heavy mineral fractions, including a maximum value of 4.94 g/t Au (GM 48222). All these historical results are down-ice from the Rivière Waswanipi shear zone that hosts the Rivière Waswanipi showing (2.36 g/t Au over 1 m; 1991, GM 51193). Between 2004 and 2006, mapping programs revealed that the RWSZ is associated with alkaline lavas, polygenic conglomerates (Timiskaming type) and porphyry intrusions (Goutier et al., 2004 and 2006), a geological setting that Tarku interprets as similar to that of the Sunday Lake Deformation Zone, host of the Detour Lake mine. Tarku cautions that the mineralization at the Detour Lake mine may not be indicative of the mineralization that may be identified on the Company's Matagami properties, and is used a conceptual exploration model only. Tarku's planned work program aims to validate the historical results and cover all 193 claims in order to identify priority areas along the RWSZ as well as other promising structures and contacts over a distance of 19 kilometres on the two Tarku projects. Apollo an...