Tinka Resources Ltd. announced that the company has resumed drilling at both the Colquipucro and Ayawilca projects, west-central Peru. At Colquipucro, the company has the necessary permits in place to conduct a third phase drilling program. In-fill drilling will be done along the existing drill sections and along intervening sections spaced 50 metres apart.

The objective of the phase 3 drill program is to upgrade the NI43-101 compliant silver resource, and core from the program will used for further metallurgical studies. At Ayawilca, drilling will continue to test a series of large 3-D inversion, induced polarization (IP) anomalies that span a distance of 1,200 metres east-west; the anomalies remain open to the east. The company has filed an amendment to the existing drill permit for a further 84 drill platforms covering the anomalies identified by geophysics so far.