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Prime Mining drills 3.4 m of 6.1 g/t Au at Los Reyes

2022-06-29 09:25 ET - News Release

Mr. Daniel Kunz reports

PRIME INTERCEPTS 6.1 GPT AU AND 104 GPT AG OVER 3.4 METRES IN STEP-OUT DRILLING AT TAHONITAS - PHASE 2 PROGRAM EXPANDED

Prime Mining Corp. has released additional assays from its expanded phase 2 stepout and infill drilling program at Los Reyes, now planned to 70,000 metres. The project hosts an existing multimillion-ounce gold and silver resource located in the mining-friendly jurisdiction of Sinaloa, Mexico. Today's results are from 20 stepout drill holes into the Tahonitas deposit located on the western side of the project and one of eight known gold-silver deposits that comprise the resource.

Chief executive officer Daniel Kunz comments: "We are highly encouraged by the continuing high-grade intercepts of open-pit and underground gold-silver mineralization being encountered in our first two formal drill campaigns at Los Reyes. Today's results further support the significance of the Z-T structure at the western end of Los Reyes, from Mariposa to Tahonitas, which is now delineated over a strike length of three kilometres, a vertical extent of 200 to 300 metres and average thickness of five to 30 metres. Importantly, our drilling at both the western and eastern deposits continues to intersect multiple veins downhole and is improving our overall confidence in the continuity of the veins at depth and along strike. The remainder of the phase 2 program will continue to step out along strike and at depth and will target underdrilled areas within the growing resource."

Highlight drill intercepts

Tahonitas:

  • 6.08 grams per tonne gold and 103.5 gpt silver over 3.4 metres (2.9 m estimated true width (etw)), including 13.5 gpt Au and 123.1 gpt Ag over 1.3 m (1.1 m etw) (22TA-18);
  • 3.12 gpt Au and 24.5 gpt Ag over 4.5 m (3.1 m etw), including 7.67 gpt Au and 34.4 gpt Ag over 1.5 m (1.4 m etw) (22TA-23);
  • 1.37 gpt Au and 11.4 gpt Ag over 10.5 m (6.7 m etw) (22TA-29);
  • 0.86 gpt Au and 51.1 gpt Ag over 13.5 m (9.5 etw), including 4.36 gpt Au and 228 gpt Ag over 1.5 m (1.1 m etw) (22TA-17);
  • 0.92 gpt Au and 104.4 gpt Ag over 4.5 m (3.9 m etw), including 1.97 gpt Au and 244 gpt Ag over 1.5 m (1.3 m etw) (22TA-27);
  • 0.99 gpt Au and 41.4 gpt Ag over 4.5 m (2.2 m etw), including 2.28 gpt Au and 37.7 gpt Ag over 1.5 m (0.8 m etw) and 1.59 gpt Au and 2.20 gpt Ag over 1.5 m (0.8 m etw) (22TA-31).

To date, Prime has drilled approximately 81,000 metres and completed 310 holes at Los Reyes. The phase 2 program has now completed 54,466 metres, with drilling planned to continue until the end of October. To date, 188 phase 2 drill holes have been completed and five drills continue to operate. Including the drilling results herein, 216 drill holes have been released and 94 are pending.

Tahonitas

Limited drilling was completed in phase 1 at Tahonitas due to difficult access. For phase 2, access was improved, and current drilling has continued to successfully identify shallow near-surface mineralization as well as deeper mineralization down to 450 metres above sea level (masl) as in 22TA-31 where the deepest intercept was over 200 m below the previously reported pit-constrained resource. Drilling has continued to test the mineralized structure to connect the pit-constrained resource of Tahonitas to the north with Zapote South, as well as further testing of Tahonitas at depth, and assays are pending and further holes are planned. Additional road access is planned to be completed after the current rain season as drilling will continue to step out to the southeast following along strike of the structure and open mineralization encountered to date.

Advisory agreement renewed

The company also announces it has renewed the engagement with an arm's-length financial advisory firm to assist the company in various strategic and capital markets initiatives. The adviser has been engaged for an additional term of 24 months. In connection with the engagement, the adviser has received a one-time fee of one million warrants. Each share purchase warrant is exercisable to acquire a common share of the company at a price of $3 per share for a period of 36 months from the date of issuance.

Quality assurance/quality control protocols and sampling procedures

Drill core at the Los Reyes project is drilled in predominately HQ size (63.5 millimetres), reducing to NQ or BQ size ranges (47.6 mm and 36.5 mm, respectively) when required. Drill core samples are generally 1.50 m long along the core axis with allowance for shorter or longer intervals if required to suit geological constraints. Each entire hole is split, and one-half is submitted for assay. Reverse circulation drilling returns rock chips and fines from a 133.35 mm diameter tricone bit. The returns are homogenized and split into two halves, one submitted for analysis and the other stored.

Sample QA/QC measures of unmarked certified reference materials, blanks and field duplicates, as well as preparation duplicates, are inserted into the sample sequence and make up approximately 8 per cent of the samples submitted to the lab for each drill hole.

Samples are picked up from the project by the laboratory personnel and transported to their facilities in Durango or Hermosillo, Mexico, for sample preparation. Sample analysis is carried out by Bureau Veritas and ALS Labs, with fire assay, including overlimits fire assay reanalysis, completed at their respective Hermosillo, Mexico, laboratories, and multielement analysis in North Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Drill core sample preparation includes fine crushing of the sample to at least 70 per cent passing less than two mm, sample splitting using a riffle splitter and pulverizing a 250-gram split to at least 85 per cent passing 75 microns.

Gold in diamond drill core is analyzed by fire assay and atomic absorption spectroscopy of a 30-gram sample (code FA430 or Au-AA23). Multielement chemistry is analyzed by four-acid digestion of a 0.25-gram sample split (code MA300 or ME-ICP61) with detection by inductively coupled plasma emission spectrometer for a full suite of elements.

Gold assay techniques FA430 and Au-AA23 have an upper detection limit of 10 parts per million. Any sample that produces an overlimit gold value via the initial assay technique is sent for gravimetric finish via method FA-530 or Au-GRA21. Silver analyses by MA300 and ME-ICP61 have an upper limit of 200 ppm and 100 ppm, respectively. Samples with overlimit silver values are reanalyzed by fire assay with gravimetric finish FA530 or Au-GRA21.

Both Bureau Veritas and ALS Labs are ISO/IEC accredited assay laboratories. Drill core assay results range from below detection to 200 gpt gold and 4,955 gpt silver. Composite intervals use a cut-off grade of 0.20 gpt gold.

Qualified person

Scott Smith, PGeo, executive vice-president of exploration, is a qualified person for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101 and has reviewed and approved the technical content in this news release.

Los Reyes gold and silver project

Los Reyes is a rapidly evolving high-grade, low-sulphidation epithermal gold-silver project located in Sinaloa, Mexico, within the prolific Sierra Madre mining region. Historic operating results indicate that an estimated one million ounces of gold and 60 million ounces of silver were recovered from five separate operations at Los Reyes between 1770 and 1990. Prior to Prime's acquisition, recent operators of Los Reyes had spent approximately $20-million (U.S.) on exploration, engineering and prefeasibility studies. The project remains underexplored as only 40 per cent of the known structures have been systematically drilled, leaving 10 kilometres of untested strike length. Los Reyes holds potential for additional discovery and resource expansion.

Los Reyes hosts a pit-constrained measured and indicated resource of 630,000 gold and 16.6 million silver ounces plus inferred resources of 180,000 gold and 6.8 million silver ounces inferred across the west (Z-T structure), central and east (Guadalupe) deposits. Additional prospects exist for property-wide underground resources and for open-pit resources in the central zone at Las Primas and Fresnillo and farther east at Orito and Mina.

Prime Mining acquired Los Reyes in 2019, completed initial data compilation that included 51,000 metres of historical drilling, field mapping and trenching in 2020, and in 2021, executed a phase 1 exploration program that included 25,650 metres of drilling. Results suggest the eight known deposits are much larger than previously reported and potential exists for new discoveries outside of current defined resource areas. The company is currently undertaking an expanded 70,000-metre phase 2 exploration program.

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