Tombstone Program Now Completed Thirty-Four RC Drill Holes

VANCOUVER – Aztec Minerals Corp. reported on the ongoing Tombstone Property Reverse Circulation and Core drilling program in Southeastern Arizona.  The 2025 drilling program has now completed 34 RC drill holes, 13 drill holes have been reported.  The drilling program has completed 5,960 meters of RC drilling and 495m of core drilling to date.  The company currently has 21 RC drill holes awaiting geochemical analysis at the Bureau Veritas Laboratory.
The Company also announces that the Tombstone Property JV Management Committee met recently and approved an expansion of the drill program from 7,500 meters to at least 8,500 meters.  The expanded program comprises of 7,000 meters of RC and a minimum of 1,500 meters of core drilling and is now expected to extend into the first quarter of 2026.
The core drilling portion of the program has resumed and has currently advanced 282 meters to 465 meters total depth in the drillhole TC25-03 (target TR24-13).  Core drilling is also expected to continue to test to depth the previously identified AMT target under the Bisbee formation in the thick Paleozoic carbonate formations below by re-entering the core drill holes.  Aztec has previously identified several large, strong, conductive bodies, underneath the historic gold-silver district through NSAMT (natural-source audio-frequency magneto-telluric surveys) anomalies.