VANCOUVER, Feb. 2, 2017 /CNW/ - Tinka Resources Limited ("Tinka" or the "Company") (TSXV: TK) (OTCPK: TKRFF) announces the granting of stock options to its directors, officers and consultants to purchase up to 3,500,000 common shares of the Company at an exercise price of $0.325 per option share for a period of three years.

About Tinka Resources Limited
Tinka is an exploration and development company with projects in Peru. Tinka's flagship property is its 100%-owned Ayawilca Property in the highly mineralized zinc-lead-silver belt of central Peru, 200 kilometres north of Lima. Ayawilca has two separate Inferred Mineral Resource Zones of 18.8 Mt at 8.2% Zinc Eq, and 5.4 Mt at 0.89% Tin Eq, both open for expansion (news release of May 25, 2016). The Colquipucro silver deposit, located 2 km north of the Ayawilca Zinc Zone, has Indicated Mineral Resources of 2.9 Mt at 112g/t Ag for 10.4 Moz Ag and Inferred Mineral Resources of 2.2 Mt at 105g/t Ag for 7.5 Moz Ag contained within a larger lower-grade resource envelope (news release of Feb. 26, 2015).  Dr. Graham Carman, Tinka's President and CEO, is a Qualified Person as defined in National Instrument 43-101 and has reviewed and approved the scientific and technical disclosure contained in this news release.

On behalf of the Board,

"Graham Carman"
Dr. Graham Carman, President & CEO

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