Mr. Eric Vanderleeuw reports

ZACATECAS SILVER ANNOUNCES INVESTOR RELATIONS ENGAGEMENT

Zacatecas Silver Corp. has engaged Ryan Johnson to serve as vice-president, corporate communications. Mr. Johnson will support the company's corporate communication and marketing strategy, and provide marketing and public relations advisory and consulting services, including co-ordinating marketing initiatives, news flow and events, and facilitating introductions to media, digital and social media marketing contacts, and other communications service providers.

In consideration of the services, the company will pay Mr. Johnson $8,000 per month plus applicable taxes. The engagement is month-to-month and may be terminated by either party upon 30 days of notice. The engagement is subject to TSX Venture Exchange approval.

Mr. Johnson and the company are not related parties and deal at arm's length. Mr. Johnson does not own, directly or indirectly, any securities of the company, nor does he have any right or intention to acquire such securities.

Mr. Johnson bring over 19 years of capital market experience focused on corporate communications, investor relations and digital marketing for public issuers. He has extensive experience in managing integrated multichannel marketing campaigns, and has advised companies through financings and corporate transactions, working closely with management teams, boards, and counsel on disclosure-compliant communications.

About Zacatecas Silver Corp.

Zacatecas Silver is a multiasset precious metals exploration company with a portfolio of six projects across Mexico, spanning Zacatecas, Sonora, Morelos and Oaxaca.

The Zacatecas silver project is located in Zacatecas state, within the highly prospective Fresnillo silver belt, which has produced over 6.2 billion ounces of silver. The company holds 7,826 hectares of ground prospective for low-sulphidation and intermediate-sulphidation silver-base-metal mineralization. A mineral resource estimate at the Panuco deposit comprises 3.41 million tonnes at 187 grams per tonne (g/t) silver equivalent (AgEq) for 20.5 million ounces AgEq (see news release dated May 31, 2023). The property is 25 kilometres (km) southeast of MAG Silver's Juanicipio mine and Fresnillo PLC's Fresnillo mine, and shares boundaries with Defiance Silver and Endeavour Silver.

Esperanza is an advanced-stage, attractive low-cost, low-capital-intensity and low-technical-risk growth project located in Morelos state, Mexico. The company announced a mineral resource estimate at Esperanza consisting of a measured and indicated mineral resource estimate of 45.4 million tonnes at 0.79 g/t AuEq (0.76 g/t gold and 8.5 g/t silver) for 1.15 million ounces AuEq (1.11 million ounces gold and 12.37 million ounces silver), and an inferred mineral resource estimate of 11.2 million tonnes at 0.57 g/t AuEq (0.53 g/t gold and 11.2 g/t silver) for 208,000 ounces AuEq (190 thousand ounces gold and 4.02 million ounces silver) (see news release dated June 22, 2026).

The company also holds four exploration properties in Sonora and Oaxaca. Oso Negro (Sonora) is an undrilled, high-grade low-sulphidation epithermal system with multiple veins mapped over more than three km of strike length. Cumaro (Sonora) is situated along trend from Coeur Mining's El Picacho development and hosts extensions of proven low-sulphidation vein systems with high-grade channel sampling results. La Lola (Sonora) is a large, underexplored 1,183-hectare property anchored by the La Barra vein, a five km structure reaching up to 40 metres (m) in width. Ejutla (Oaxaca) comprises 10,603 hectares in the Taviche-Miahuatlan region near the former Fortuna Silver San Jose mine, hosting multiple vein systems and alteration zones anomalous in gold, silver and Carlin-style pathfinder elements.

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