Gold Continues To Be Intersected At The Cervantes Property

VANCOUVER, BC - Aztec Minerals Corp. continues to intersect long intervals of porphyry-type gold (copper, silver) mineralization at the California Target on the Cervantes property in Sonora, Mexico. Drill hole 18CER010 intersected 160.0 meters (m) grading 0.77 grams per tonne (gpt) gold, 0.125% copper and 3.4 gpt silver, including a higher grade intercept assaying 1.04 gpt Au, 0.11% Cu, and 4.0 gpt Ag over 80.0 m starting at a down hole depth of 4.0 m. 

President and CEO Joey Wilkins said, “Hole 18CER010 is the best we’ve seen thus far at Cervantes as part of our Phase 1, 17 hole, 3,000 m drill program. These positive drill results, combined with our recent land acquisition that expanded the property six-fold to 3,619 hectares and added several new porphyry-type gold-copper targets, significantly enhance the potential of the Cervantes Property.”

 Drill holes were oriented to cross the most prominent structures seen in outcrops so core lengths reflect the approximate interpreted true width of the California zone mineralization. One sample in hole 18CER010 had a value of 183.8 gpt Ag but was capped at 20.5 gpt Ag by statistical analysis. No other sample results required capping.

Aztec is a mineral exploration company focused on the discovery of large porphyry gold-copper deposits in the Americas. Our first project and core asset is the prospective Cervantes gold-copper property in Sonora, Mexico. The second project is the district-scale historic Tombstone properties in Cochise County, Arizona.