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Tinka announces airborne magnetic survey results and discovery of outcropping porphyry at "Los Pinos"
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nTinka announces airborne magnetic survey results and discovery of outcropping porphyry at \"Los Pinos\"\n\n/* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTinka announces airborne magnetic survey results and discovery of outcropping porphyry at \"Los Pinos\"\nCanada NewsWire\nVANCOUVER, Aug. 17, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLos Pinos connected to Ayawilca Zinc resource via a 5 kilometre magnetic anomaly, largely untested by drilling\n\n\n\nVANCOUVER, Aug. 17, 2016 /CNW/ -Tinka Resources Limited (\"Tinka\" or the \"Company\") (TSXV: TK) (OTCPK: TKRFF) is pleased to provide initial results of the 150 km2 helicopter-borne magnetic survey recently completed over its 100%-owned Ayawilca Property, Pasco region, central Peru.  Results indicate that the Ayawilca Inferred Mineral Resources (18.8 million tonnes grading 8.2% Zinc Eq, and 5.4 million tonnes grading 0.89% Tin Eq; see News Release dated May 25, 2016) lie at the southwestern end of a 5 kilometre-long NE-SW trending magnetic anomaly.  The magnetic anomaly remains largely untested by drilling, in particular where the anomaly underlies a thick section of Pucará Formation limestone at \"Zone 3\", and at \"South Ayawilca\" where the high-grade Zinc resources remain open.\n\nKey highlights:\n\n\nField checking of magnetic anomalies following the recent helicopter-borne survey has led to the discovery of the \"Los Pinos porphyry\" at the north-eastern end of a 5 kilometre long series of magnetic anomalies that encompass the Ayawilca Zinc and Tin mineral resource areas – Figure 1;\n\n\nThe 300 metre by 100 metre outcropping Los Pinos porphyry, which hosts quartz-sulphide stockwork veining, is the first intrusive rock discovered at Ayawilca, and may be the source intrusion for the base metal mineralization along trend to the southwest – Figure 2;\n\n\nThe 2.6 kilometre 'gap' between the outcropping intrusive and the Ayawilca Zinc Mineral Resource has not been tested by drilling, including a strong magnetic anomaly coincident with surface zinc gossans hosted by the Pucará limestone at \"Zone 3\".\n\n\...