Aztec Provides Update on 2024 Gold-Silver Exploration Program at Tombstone Project, Arizona - Seite 3

The 3D model of the project area is of the historic mine workings and geology of the principal portion of the Tombstone district and consists of the digitization of the historic maps and sections of the underground workings, stopes, drill holes and geology. The model is being geolocated to the current surface and geology and geochemistry and will then be interpreted to strengthen both shallow and deep targeting.

The Tombstone project is owned by Aztec Minerals and its JV partner Dragoon Resources LLC, ("Tombstone JV Partner"). Aztec Minerals (75%) and Tombstone JV Partner (25%) joint venture ("JV") and the JV Management Committee met last week to review and approve the surface exploration program for the second quarter of 2024.

The upcoming exploration program is expected to gain knowledge into the expansion potential of the oxidized mineralization, and from that, develop more advanced targeting for drilling. The focus of this exploration program is to better define the three styles of mineralization known to exist on the properties and to identify top priority targets for drilling. The three types of known mineralization at Tombstone are as follows:

• Bulk tonnage silver-gold north-northeast striking felsic intrusive dikes hosting mesothermal stock-works and hydrothermal breccias cutting the Bisbee Group and the Paleozoics, on which the Contention open pit heap leach mine was initially developed in the 1980's, which now is known to extend laterally and vertically
• High-grade silver-gold-lead quartz stringer lode veins striking northeast cutting Cretaceous Bisbee Group clastic sediments into the Paleozoics, which are related to several of the historic mines in the Tombstone district
• Often high grade, bulk tonnage silver-gold rich carbonate replacement deposits ("CRD"), which lie in the lowermost Bisbee Group and in the underlying Paleozoic limestones, a geologic setting similar to the Taylor deposit of South32, located 65 kilometers southwest of Tombstone. Strong structural controls of their locations related parallel to the crests of anticlines, usually with vertical ("reef") stacking on multiple, favorable horizons

Positive indications for mineralization at Tombstone include: