Tarku Resources Ltd. announced that it has received the required permits for it to commence drilling at the Apollo Gold Project, part of the 3As Projects, located in the Matagami area, Eeyou Istchee James Bay, Quebec. Receipt of permits paves the way for drilling to commence in October 2022. Initial program of 3,000 to 3,500 meters of diamond drilling planned.

Drilling to initially test six (6) of the nine (9) high-priority Target Zones defined in the May 26, 2022, release. The first six targets will be AZ-1, AZ-2, AZ-4, AZ-5, AZ-6 and AZ-8, but the program may be expanded to test other targets depending on results. The nine Target Zones cover a total strike length of 5.35km.

The Apollo Project is part of the 100%-owned, 3 As projects (Apollo, Atlas, Admiral), and is located adjacent and to the north of the Atlas Project. It consists of 69 claims (3,775 ha, or 37.7 km2) centred on the RiviFre Waswanipi Shear Zone (RWSZ). Collectively, the 3 As projects consists of 217 claims covering 130 km2 in prolific area.

The 3 As projects were acquire in 2016, as Tarku staked open ground, based on a detailed data compilation exercise in the region, this process also took into account the historical zinc mining district of Matagami (4.6 Mt Zn and 0.494 Mt Cu from 1960 to 2004) and the overlooked potential for gold mineralization. These studies suggested that the regional shear zone was the eastern extension of the Sunday Lake Fault, which host's the 15 Moz Au Detour Lake Mine and the Kirkland Lake Mining Camp, which historically produced over 50 million ounces of gold. Similar to the Sunday Lake Fault the RWSZ is characterized by the presence of alkaline rocks, polygenic conglomerates (Timiskaming type) and porphyry intrusions bearing anomalous gold values on the order of hundreds of parts per billion (GM 52712).

Along the same regional structure, other explorers, such as Maple Gold, Balmoral and Midland Exploration, have returned exciting drill results and demonstrated the strong gold potential of the area. Tarku's Drilling is targeting orogenic-style gold mineralization, for which drill results of between 0.5 and 1g/t Au over several meters are typical and would be considered very encouraging for the future of this project.