Tarku Resources Ltd. announced to confirm the presence of a strong gold-bearing orogenic system identified over a 3-km strike length during its 2022 drilling campaign on its Apollo project. One of the 3As, which comprise a total of 217 claims covering about 130 square kilometres, Apollo is wholly owned by Tarku and straddles 20 km of the Sunday Lake Fault, host of the Detour Lake Mine. The discovery hole AP-22-07, drilled on the edge of a magnetic high, is of particular interest as it intersected four significant structures, each more than 10 metres wide.

The extensive alterations observed and the long, continuous gold intersections relating to a regional deformation zone associated with syenite intrusions are features of the type of deposit Tarku is looking for. In December 2022, Tarku carried out an initial drilling program on its Apollo project, consisting of 3,048 m in eight holes on a 4-km-wide priority area along the Sunday Lake Deformation Zone, where no prior exploration for gold had ever been reported. The targeted zones corresponded to magnetic and induced polarization anomalies between surface and 577 m depth.

Visual inspection of the core reveals intensive hydrothermal alteration similar in style to orogenic gold deposits, as well as magmatic alteration, including hematization, carbonatization and sericitization. The results reveal several >10 m sections of anomalous gold-bearing rock associated with very finely disseminated cubic pyrite within pervasive silicification and/or quartz stockwerk systems.