Tinka Drills 70 metres of 4.8% Zinc (Including 19 metres of 9.0% Zinc) and 18.5 metres of 6.6% Zinc at Ayawilca Project, Peru

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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\nTSXV - TK; Frankfurt - TLD; Pinksheets - TKRFF\n\n\nVANCOUVER, Jan. 8, 2013 /CNW/ - Tinka Resources Limited (the \"Company\"), (TSXV - TK; Frankfurt - TLD;\n Pinksheets -TKRFF), announces additional results from the Company's ongoing drill campaign\n at the Ayawilca project located in west-central Peru.\n\n\nMr Carter said: \"We are extremely pleased with these results as they\n continue to demonstrate the presence of strong zinc mineralization\n within the IP anomaly at Ayawilca. Drilling will continue to test the\n geophysical conductors.\"\n\n\nThe Company has, for the past year, been drill testing the southernmost\n of a series of large 3-D inversion, induced polarization (IP) anomalies\n that span a distance of 1,200 metres east-west; the anomalies remain\n open to the east. So far, twelve holes have tested the favourable\n horizon that lies beneath the Gollyar sandstones—the Gollyar is host to\n the silver resource found at the Company's Colquipucro project located\n 1.5 kilometres to the north. The underlying favourable host rock\n consists of sedimentary breccias, greywacke, siltstone and calcareous\n units believed to be part of the Oyon formation. So far, ten of the\n twelve holes intercepted either semi-massive or massive sulphides\n consisting of pyrite, pyrrhotite and sphalerite with lesser galena,\n chalcopyrite and arsenopyrite.\n\n\nHole A12-08 contains the best intercepts of zinc mineralization found\n thus far. Several intervals of massive sulphide were intercepted,\n ranging from a few metres to 10's of metres in thickness, interspersed\n with zones of semi-massive and disseminated sulphides. The mineralized\n zones contain hematite and magnetite with siderite (an iron carbonate)\n and argillic alteration. Surrounding the mineralization is a wide\n envelope of propylitic alteration dominated by chlorite. Holes A12-05\n and A12-06, drilled to the north of the southernmost IP anomaly,\n intercepted mostly propylitic alteration with localized intercepts of\n mineralization: hole A12-05 intercepted several narrower zones (2 to 4\n metres @ 1% to 3% Zn) throughout the length of the hole, but hole\n A12-06 yielded only anomalous values in Zn. Hole A12-07, drilled\n vertically from the same site as A12-06, encountered stronger\n alteration and a 10 metre section of massive pyrrhotite at the base of...

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