Taranis Summarizes 2024 Exploration Surveys and Drilling at Thor

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ESTES PARK, CO / ACCESSWIRE / October 30, 2024 / Taranis Resources Inc. ("Taranis" or the "Company") (TSX.V:TRO)(OTCQB:TNREF) is providing an update on its Thor project located northeast of Trout Lake, British Columbia. Taranis has completed all of the field activities related to the 2024 exploration program at Thor. This exploration program had two main areas where exploration activities were focused, and these are discussed below.

Deep Drilling

A total of ten drill holes were completed in the Deep Drilling program of 2024. One drill hole was lost due to caving (Thor-241), and two others (Thor-244 & 245) were short confirmation holes that tested an unexpected zone encountered in Thor-242. Of the seven drill holes that tested deep exploration targets below the epithermal deposit, the average depth was 501 m. Drill hole results are pending, and will be provided once the analytical results are received and analyzed. The following table summarizes the statistics from the 2024 Deep Drilling program:

Drill Hole

Meters

Comments

Thor-241

105.5

Lost hole

Thor-242

576.0

South Tusk target

Thor-244

105.0

Thor-242 confirmation

Thor-245

141.0

Thor-242 confirmation

Thor-246

525.0

Spider Hole resistivity target

Thor-247

393.0

Spider Hole resistivity target

Thor-248

496.0

Spider Hole/magnetic target

Thor-250

546.0

West Spider Hole

Thor-251

393.0

Spider Hole resistivity target

Thor-252

579.0

North Crab Claw resistivity target

Total

3,859.5

One main drilling access road was completed in the area south and east of the Broadview Mine, and this road was approximately 1,100 m in length. A considerable amount of analytical sampling was undertaken on the drill cores, and this included standard drill core sampling to assess mineralization and specialized sampling that included determinations of graphitic carbon, calcite, rare earth elements and major oxide geochemistry.

Exploration Item

No. of Samples

Deep Drilling Assaying

~680

Deep Drilling Alteration Analytical

185

Total Samples

~865

Taranis has also initiated investigations regarding the mineralogy of drill cores from the deep drilling, and the results of this will be forthcoming.

Horton Area

Exploration continued in an area west of the Great Northern Zone where many high-grade boulders were discovered late in the 2023 field season. Systematic multi-channel Very Low Frequency ("VLF") and ground magnetic/gradiometer surveys were completed on a grid established in 2024 that covered this area. Soil sampling with a mechanized auger was completed on the grid and Induced Coupled Plasma ("ICP") trace element sampling was completed on the soil samples.