Terra Balcanica Drills 499 g/t AgEq Over 3.8 m At Cumavici Ridge in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Closes Private Placement Financing

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Vancouver, British Columbia, Jan. 17, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  Terra Balcanica Resources Corp. (“Terra” or the “Company”) (CSE:TERA; FRA:UB1) is pleased to announce additional assay results from the 2023 Phase II drill campaign confirming continuation of the high-grade Cumavici Ridge polymetallic mineralization within its flagship Viogor-Zanik project in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Company further announces closing of the final tranche of its non-brokered private placement financing (the “Offering”) of shares (the ”Shares”) for total gross proceeds of $212,200.

Highlights

• Drillhole CMV23002b intersected 499 g/t AgEq over 3.8 m from 22 m downhole with a further mineralized interval of 227 g/t AgEq over 2.0 m from 31 m (Table 1);
  
  
• Drillhole collar for CMV23002b is located 39 m northeast of previously reported CMV23003 and 004 and 38 m SE of 2022 drillhole CMVDD001 which returned:
  
  
  • CMVDD001 – 824 g/t AgEq over 4 m (see company news release dated 8^th September, 2022);
  • CMV23003 – 457 g/t AgEq over 4.15 m;
  • CMV23004 – 1168 g/t AgEq over 1.35 m;

• The mineralization remains open immediately northwest and down-dip to the southwest;
  
  

Terra Balcanica CEO, Dr. Aleksandar Mišković, comments: “We are delighted to continue reporting impressive silver grades from the central Cumavici Ridge system. This polymetallic, near-surface target keeps on delivering and is open along strike and down-dip. Cumavici Ridge is only one of five target zones along the 7.2 km NW-SE trending fault-hosted system that remains to be drilled, thus offering upside to advance a deposit immediately adjacent to the existing Sase Pb-Zn-Ag mine with infrastructure including mining and processing facilities. We are excited to continue advancing Viogor-Zanik’s full potential as a unique critical raw minerals land package right at Europe’s doorsteps. Additional assay results will continue to be released very shortly.”

Hole ID	From (m)	To (m)	Length (m)	Ag (g/t)	Au (g/t)	Pb (%)	Sb (%)	Zn (%)	AgEq (g/t)
CMV23002b	22.00	25.80	3.80	125	0.70	2.72	0.48	5.53	499
CMV23002b	31.00	33.00	2.00	166	0.57	0.11	0.12	0.21	227

Table 1. Assay results from drillhole CMV23002b of the Phase II drilling campaign. Interval lengths reported are drilled lengths, not true widths. Silver equivalents (“AgEq”) are based on assumed metal prices of US$1,980/oz for gold (Au), US$23/oz for silver (Ag), US$1.15/lb for zinc (Zn), US$5.42/lb for antimony (Sb) and US$1.00/lb for lead (Pb). Assumed metal recoveries of 90% Au, 93% Ag, 95% Sb, 94% Pb and Zn are based on published metallurgical tests on analogous intermediate sulphidation epithermal vein deposits.