OROCO OPTIONS HIGHLY PROSPECTIVE NEARBY CONCESSION

VANCOUVER, Canada, July 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Oroco Resource Corp. (TSX-V: OCO) ("Oroco" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned Mexican subsidiary, Minera Xochipala, S.A. de C.V. (“Xochipala”), has entered into an agreement with Aztec Zinc de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. (“Aztec Zinc”) to acquire, by way of option (the “Option”), a 100% interest in the Vainilla Mineral Concession, located in the mineral-rich Choix District of northern Sinaloa, Mexico.

The Vainilla Concession (Title No. 236,443) covers approximately 2,974 hectares of ground within a porphyry copper belt anchored by the Company’s Santo Tomás Project.  The concession incorporates or surrounds multiple zones of historical and active polymetallic mineralization, including skarns, breccia pipes, and vein systems that are inferred to relate to monzonite intrusions, and offers immediate exploration opportunities for copper and associated metals.

"The Vainilla acquisition option extends Oroco’s control of the Santo Tomas porphyry copper district, presenting immediate exploration upside and the potential for meaningful near-term results from multiple porphyry, skarn and breccia targets," stated Ian Graham, President of Oroco. "The acquisition was encouraged in part by the transformational community, state and federal governments’ support for the Santo Tomas project as part of its inclusion in Plan Mexico and Plan Sinaloa.  Vainilla is highly complementary to Santo Tomas’ development, both geologically and, potentially, economically.  It aligns very well with Oroco’s strategic and operational objectives and in no way impedes or detracts from our development plans at Santo Tomas.  We see this as potentially a key acquisition for the Company."

Geological Overview: A District-Scale Opportunity

The Vainilla Concession occupies a strategic position along the southern extension of the Santo Tomás porphyry copper trend, which traces southwards from Bahuerachi through Santo Tomas to Vainilla / La Cobre where (locally altered) monzonites / quartz monzonites of likely Laramide age are mapped and where a known skarn iron producer operates.  The geological setting includes:

• magnetite copper-gold skarn deposits (Mazomique, iron producer)

• hydrothermal breccia pipes (El Plátano)
• quartz-sericite stockwork vein systems (Mina Cristina).

These mineralized zones are interpreted as distal and proximal expressions of an adjacent concealed porphyry system related to the mapped monzonitic intrusions. The concession encompasses areas of intense surface alteration, indicative of porphyry-related fluid pathways and mineralization. A location and geology map of the Vainilla Concession and its relationship to the Santo Tomás porphyry district trend is shown in Figure .

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