VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Sept. 18, 2013) - Tarsis Resources Ltd. (News - Market indicators) ("Tarsis" and "the Company") is pleased to announce exploration results from the newly acquired BP property, located 60 km south of Carlin, Nevada. The BP property is being explored for Carlin-style gold mineralization within the southern Carlin Trend between the Rain and Bald Mountain deposits.

Prospecting and outcrop sampling carried out by the Company has identified gold-bearing jasperoid breccia samples with grades ranging from below detection to 247 ppb gold. The most significant of these samples occur intermittently along an 850 meter linear trend believed to coincide with a series of high-angle faults providing conduits for Carlin-style gold bearing fluids.

Geochemistry

A variety of jasperoid is present at BP and some styles are altered but unmineralized. Jasperoid with anomalous gold values feature elevated Carlin-style pathfinder elements which include arsenic, thallium, mercury and antimony. The most significant gold-bearing samples are shown below accompanied by anomalous key Carlin-style pathfinder elements.

During 2013, Tarsis collected 144 rock samples from the property in addition to 232 infill and grid expansion soil samples. Anomalous gold-in-soil values range from 5 ppb to a maximum of 34.9 ppb and are coincident with the gold-bearing jasperoid samples listed in the table above.

Stratigraphy/Structure

Detailed geological mapping by Tarsis and a cursory inspection by a local Great Basin specialist identified a sequence of upper Silurian to early Mississippian clastic and carbonate rocks of which at least four sub-units are believed to host gold mineralization elsewhere within the southern Carlin Trend.

Structural mapping has identified a network of high-angle normal faults that are associated with highly silicified carbonate and/or jasperoid. Intense jasperoid development occurs at the intersection of NNW, E and NE striking high-angle fault zones.

A simplified structural interpretation of the BP property consists of a series of large horst and graben fault blocks that have down-dropped younger siliciclastic units against older carbonate stratigraphy. All stratigraphy is believed to be upright.

A broad open syncline occurs within a large fault block located in the northeast part of the property and some of the higher gold-bearing jasperoid development occurs within the hinge zone of the syncline.

Marc G. Blythe, President & CEO states "We are very pleased to have identified key technical indicators that support the presence of a Carlin-style gold system at BP. Gold-bearing jasperoid may be of particular significance as there are many documented spatial links of this style of mineralization above and lateral to known Carlin gold deposits."

Tarsis is actively pursuing a JV partner as per its business model for the project as the Company believes the property is close to drill ready. 

The technical information contained in this press release was prepared under the supervision of Mr. Marc G. Blythe, P.Eng., the President and CEO of Tarsis Resources Ltd. Mr. Blythe is a Qualified Person as defined by NI 43-101.

About Tarsis Resources

Tarsis is an exploration company following the prospect generator business model. The Company acquires prospective exploration projects by acquisition or through its own grass roots generative exploration, adds value and then vends or options out projects to partners for advancement.

On behalf of the Board,

Marc G. Blythe, P.Eng., MBA., President and Chief Executive Officer

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