Troy Resources Limited announced that, over the past six to eight months, the company has secured tenements over targets adjacent to its 100%-owned Karouni Gold Project in Guyana that are considered to be highly prospective for large-scale gold discovery. These tenements see the company's landholding at Karouni increase to an area of approximately 3,000 hectares. Significantly, the company has secured a package of tenements over an area referred to as the Potaro target. Located approximately 20 kilometres to the south of the Karouni Mill, Potaro was identified by Troy as a must-have target approximately two years ago. A map illustrating Troy's ground position at Karouni, identifying the location of the Potaro target within the newly acquired tenements: The Potaro target is considered highly prospective for Gold, interpreted to be underlain by the Makaba Kuribrong Shear Zone. As illustrated in the figure above, Potaro is situated in the area of a major "jog" (i.e. bend) in the interpreted position of the MKSZ. The MKSZ, mostly covered by sand along the newly acquired tenements, is defined by aeromagnetic surveys and is understood to be a crustal fault zone. The fault zone is suggested to extend for more than 300 kilometres within Guyana as well as into Venezuela towards the northwest. To the east, the MKSZ is interpreted to connect with the Central Guiana Shear Zone (CGSZ), which extends for several hundreds of kilometres through Suriname and French Guiana, and which is interpreted by some to connect up with the Senegal-Mali Shear Zone in West Africa. A map illustrating the MKSZ, CGSZ and the Senegal-Mali Shear Zone through both the Guiana and West Africa. With the MKSZ-CGSZ interpreted as being crustal shear zones, they rank alongside other crustal shear zones such as occur in Canada, the Cadillac fault system, and Australia, the Boulder-Lefroy fault system. Crustal shear zones are understood to be the pathway for gold bearing fluids in most orogenic gold districts worldwide.