Gold & Silver Identified In Westside Area Of Tombstone Project

VANCOUVER – Aztec Minerals Corp. has received the results from an additional five drill holes from its reverse circulation (RC) portion of the 2025-2026 drilling program at the Tombstone Property in Southeastern Arizona. The 2025-2026 drilling program has now completed 53 RC and 5 core drill holes. The results from the final 5 RC holes drilled in 2025 are announced herein. The successful drilling of the step out drill holes of the Contention pit area have joined the Main and South target zones and the main zone to the Westside and Westside Anticline target areas. These are important unifications and expansions of the shallow oxidized gold-silver mineralized zones of the Property. These strong, wide, shallow oxide gold-silver intersections have extended the Contention Au/Ag zone from the northern property limit to now over 1km N-S on strike and approximately 0.4km of width into the Westside area. Pending drill results include additional Westside area drill targets as well as several step out targets drilled in the immediate, westerly and deeper extensions of the Main Contention zone.
Drill hole TR25-34 intersected 40.2m averaging 1.09 gpt AuEq (0.99 gpt Au and 6.9 gpt Ag) including 4.6m of 9.861 gpt AuEq (9.569 gpt Au and 20.43 gpt Ag) of oxidized mineralization. This drill hole was collared in the northern portion of the Property to the east of TC25-03 as a step out from the Westside area. Mineralization found in it connects to the east with the Main Contention zone. Drilled to 243.9 m depth, it has five mineralized zones from collar to end.
Drill hole TR25-36 intersected 44.1m averaging 0.86 gpt AuEq (0.221 gpt Au and 44.64 gpt Ag), including 65.3-71.4m, 6.1m averaging 3.724 gpt AuEq (0.905 gpt Au and 197.37 gpt Ag). This drill hole was collared 200 m east from TR25-35 and the mineralization was encountered in the Bisbee sediments at 56.2-100.3m. TR25-36 represents a significant step out from the Main Contention zone, by over 250m to the West from the prior drilling in 2024.
RC drill hole TR25-33 intersected five mineralized zones including 42.6m averaging 0.452 gpt AuEq (0.257 gpt Au and 11.5 gpt Ag) of oxidized mineralization over its 152 m depth. The drill hole was collared on the unmined land bridge marking the limit between the Contention Main and South pits. Along with TR25-32 this drill hole has defined and joined the Contention Zone mineralization over its plus one-kilometer length identified to date.
All of the five RC drillholes reported herein intersected Ag-Au mineralization and joined portions of and also expanded the Contention and Westside target areas to the west and to depth. The intercepts show broad continuity of mineralization. All reported intersection lengths are apparent widths of mineralization, not true widths, which can range at the property from 30% to 100% of apparent widths.