TINKA GRANTED DRILL PERMIT FOR TIBILLOS COPPER PORPHYRY PROJECT, PERU

VANCOUVER, Feb.

2 /CNW/ - Tinka Resources Limited (the "Company"), (TSXV - TK; Frankfurt - TLD; Pinksheets -TKRFF).  Mr.

Andrew Carter, President, reports that the Peruvian authorities have granted the Company a drill permit for the Tibillos copper porphyry property, located in the coastal batholith 65 km east of Ica, Peru.

The permit for the phase 1 drill program will allow for up to 18 drill platforms.

Construction work on the drill platforms and access roads will begin as soon as possible and the Company is seeking a drill contractor to undertake this drill program.

Data from a recently completed geophysical survey produced a target area in the central part of the porphyry roughly 800 m east-west by up to 500 m north-south and is the subject of this phase 1 drill program.

The geophysical anomalies coincide favourably with the geology mapped along the streambeds.

The strongest conductors can be attributed to a strongly altered intrusive body that is in contact with the surrounding sediments and volcanics which have locally been altered to hornfels near the contacts.

Previous rock sampling surveys along these drainages have yielded highly anomalous copper values over an area of at least 800 m east-west by 600 m north south, again supported by the observed geology.

Mr.

Carter said: "We are pleased with the rapid progress that the Company has made at Tibillos and that this important step of obtaining the drill permit has now been achieved as it will allow the Company to advance the project to the next level".

The Companys Qualified Person, John Nebocat (P.Eng.), has reviewed and approved the contents of this news release.

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