Mr. Graham Downs reports

ATAC RESOURCES MAKES A NEW GOLD DISCOVERY ON ITS RAU GOLD PROJECT-YUKON

Atac Resources Ltd. has made another significant gold discovery at its wholly owned Rau gold project in the Keno Hill mining district of central Yukon territory.

Osiris gold discovery highlights:

• Gold mineralization associated with realgar and orpiment grading from 1.92 to 12.15 grams per tonne gold;
• Soil samples grading up to 17.5 g/t gold;
• 517 new claims staked to complete coverage of a 150-square-kilometre area of highly anomalous gold and pathfinder elements in stream sediments;
• Fifth drill mobilized to test the Osiris target.

The Osiris showing occurs within the Sten claim block that was staked in 2009 to cover a 17-kilometre-long mountain range, where five of six steam-sediment samples in the federal government steam-sediment database were highly anomalous for arsenic. Follow-up reconnaissance-scale stream-sediment sampling in 2009 identified several areas that warranted additional exploration, in particular one two-kilometre-long tributary of one of the anomalous drainages that is characterized by stream-sediment gold values ranging from trace to two g/t gold. Prospecting in the headwaters of this creek revealed gold mineralization over a widespread area.

Mineralization is hosted by carbonate rocks of uncertain age that are folded into a southerly plunging anticline, and occurs in the form of narrow veins, veinlets, stockworks, and disseminations of realgar and orpiment (both are arsenic sulphide minerals), accompanied by calcite flooding. The discovery has been traced for a one-kilometre strike length on both limbs of the fold. The strongest soil geochemical response corresponds to a 40-metre-wide breccia zone that lies along the fold axis where soils commonly contain in excess of one g/t gold, and range from trace to a maximum value of 17.5 g/t gold. The core of the gold and arsenic geochemical anomaly covers an area of approximately 150 by 500 m with 60 per cent of the soil samples grading in excess of one g/t gold.

      ASSAYS OF FLOAT MATERIAL SAMPLED FROM THE OSIRIS SHOWING 

                  Au
Sample No.      (g/t) Description

G285159         2.52  realgar
G285162         6.09  dark green grit with 1-per-cent patchy realgar
G285187         7.43  partially oxidized realgar
G285189         9.42  10-centimetre-wide piece of vuggy, pale-grey 
                      quartz-alunite (?)
                      altered limestone containing 4-per-cent to 
                      5-per-cent disseminated realgar and traces of 
                      orpiment
G285190         1.92  weakly altered limestone with realgar in pits and
                      traces of disseminated pyrite
G285191         1.95  white-grey vuggy quartz-alunite-altered (?) limestone;
                      vugs containing realgar and lesser orpiment
G285192        12.15  limestone with veinlets of quartz and fluorite; cavity
                      fillings of realgar and minor pyrite

The Osiris mineralization is distinctly different in character from the Tiger zone mineralization in that realgar and orpiment appear to be the primary gold-bearing minerals -- rather than pyrite and arsenopyrite. The Osiris mineralization occurs in limestone debris flows and turbidite deposits characteristic of an offshore sedimentary environment, whereas the Tiger zone is hosted by shallow water-dolomitized limestone. The mineralogy, chemistry and geological setting of the Osiris showing are more characteristic of Carlin-style mineralization than the Tiger zone. Realgar and orpiment with calcite flooding are common attributes of areas peripheral to, or above, certain gold deposits of the Carlin type.

A 4.2-by-1.5-kilometre soil sampling program has been in progress over the Osiris target for three weeks, and more than 1,000 soil samples have been collected from a detailed grid covering the entire anomalous drainage. Results for approximately 250 soil samples have been received. A total of 517 new claims have been added to the over 1,400-square-kilometre Rau project to provide additional regional coverage, as well as to incorporate drainages anomalous for gold pathfinder elements that lie to the west of the Sten and Osiris area.

"The Osiris discovery is very significant, as it shares important characteristics with deposits located in the Carlin trend of Nevada," states Graham Downs, Atac's chief executive officer. "The fact we have such highly anomalous gold and arsenic stream sediment samples in such a large area surrounding the Osiris showing demonstrates the potential to identify additional targets in the area. We eagerly await the arrival of the fifth drill and expect drilling to begin at Osiris in the first week of August."

Initial results of first-pass stream-sediment sampling on the entire 160-kilometre Rau project have recently been received and a number of new areas for detailed follow-up have been identified. This work will start with the arrival of an additional prospecting crew in early August.

Meanwhile, drilling continues with two drills at the Tiger zone. One drill continues to test the high-grade northwest oxide zone, and one drill is currently testing downdip extensions of higher-grade sulphide mineralization outlined by the 2009 drilling and exploring for a possible faulted offset of the Tiger zone. Infill drilling of much of the oxide areas of the Tiger zone has been completed and final assays are expected to be received within the coming weeks. A third drill, which had been exploring the East zone mineralization, has been moved to a newly discovered area of gold mineralization three km west of the Tiger zone, called the Condor target. Ocelot zone drilling is also under way with three holes complete.

Associated figures and pictures can be viewed on the company's website on the news release page.

The technical information in this news release has been reviewed by Robert C. Carne, MSc, PGeo, a qualified person for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101.