Canterra Minerals Samples 12.5% Cu and Expands the Victoria Project in Newfoundland
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Canterra Minerals Samples 12.5% Cu and Expands the Victoria Project in Newfoundland
Vancouver, B.C. (August 7, 2024) – Canterra Minerals Corporation ( TSXV: CTM) (OTCQB: CTMCF) (“Canterra” or
the “Company”) is pleased to announce exploration results returning up to 12.5% copper in grab samples from the
Victoria Project, and that it has entered into an Option Agreement (the “Agreement”) with local prospectors
(collectively, the “Optionors”), to acquire a 100% interest in adjacent properties to expand the Company’s Victoria
Project in the Central Newfoundland Mining District. The Victoria Project is a critical minerals prospect with small
scale historic mining and known high-grade copper occurrences.
Highlights:
• 12.5% and 12.1% copper grab samples from angular boulders located within newly acquired claims
• Samples are located 1 kilometre (“km”) east of Company’s previously announced high-grade copper
exploration results from the Victoria Project (see news release dated April 22, 2024) and represents
additional mineralization that potentially extends high-grade copper mineralization beyond the previously
known limits of the known Victoria Project
• The acquisition expands Canterra’s Victoria property position by 1,095 hectares (11 km2) to 1,275
hectares (12.75 km2), located within an area of historic small scale mining dating back to the early 1900s
• The project benefits from excellent access provided by a network of logging roads that are expected to
further open and enhance access to the project with work scheduled in 2024
• Previous operator drilling on the Victora Project included an intersection of up to 5.5% Cu over 20.58 m
• The project is located immediately west and contiguous to 300 claims (7,500 ha) staked by Teck Resources
Limited in June 2024 where mapping extends volcanic and sedimentary rocks located within Canterra ’s
property northeast of the Victoria Project, as well as rocks of the Buchans Group; a similar belt of rocks
prospective for volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposits covered by Canterra’s nearby Buchans
Project
Rock Samples
Grab samples collected from the project returned the following results:
Sample
Number
UTM NAD83E
Zone 21
UTM NAD83N
Zone 21 Sample Type Cu
%
Zn
%
Ag
g/t
D00236016 522875 5398815 Grab Sample Angular Boulder 12.50 0.03 18.12
D00236017 522874 5398809 Grab Sample Angular Boulder 10.14 0.01 5.01
D00236018 522883 5398817 Grab Sample Angular Boulder 12.12 0.23 24.01
D00236027 519179 5396519 Grab Sample Angular Boulder 0.14 3.61 2.85
Chris Pennimpede, CEO & President of Canterra, commented : “This acquisition, highlighted by the spectacular
copper numbers returned from our prospecting samples, shows the larger potential of the Victoria Project within
the Central Newfoundland Mining District. This project is located along strike of multiple known VMS deposits
already held by Canterra and further underscores the great potential for high -grade critical mineral mineralization
within the Tulks VMS Belt. W ith the addition of this project to our grow ing portfolio , Canterra continues to
consolidate assets in the district with focused exploration work to come later this year.”
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Victoria Project
The Victoria Project includes historic exploration adits, shafts and drifts completed during the early 1900s while
evaluating the potential development of copper -bearing massive sulphide mineralization. C ommercial production
was never declared, and the Victoria Project was subsequently explored by Noranda in the 1990s and Celtic Minerals
Ltd. between 1999 and 2007 as well as Messina Minerals Inc. (“Messina”) in 2011 . Highlights from past drilling
include reported intersections of up to 5.5% Cu over 20.58 m (estimated true thickness) drilled by Messina (Messina
press release February 21, 2012). The Project includes two mineral leases already held by Canterra and covers the
northern extension of the Tulks Volcanic Belt, which is the same prospective belt that hosts the Company’s Bobby’s
and Daniel’s Pond deposits located approximately 6 km and 13 km to the southwest of the expanded Victoria Project,
respectively.
Figure 1. Canterra’s Land Position in the Central Newfoundland Mining District.
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Figure 2. Victoria Project map with rock grab samples displayed. See Canterra News Release dated April 22, 2024
for previously reported rock samples.
Option Agreement
Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, Canterra must make cash payments and issue common shares of the
Company to the Optionors over two years as follows:
• $10,000 Canadian Dollars and 100,000 shares of the Company upon execution of the Agreement
• $20,000 Canadian Dollars and 200,000 shares of the Company on or before the first anniversary of the
Agreement
• $30,000 Canadian Dollars and 300,000 shares of the Company on or before the second anniversary of the
Agreement
The Agreement assigns a 2% Net Smelter Return (“NSR”) to the Optionors upon commencement of production, with
Canterra retaining rights to buy -down 50% of the NSR for $1,000,000 and right of first of refusal on the remaining
NSR (1%).
Newfoundland and Labrador Junior Exploration Assistance
Canterra would like to acknowledge the financial support it may receive from the Junior Exploration Assistance
Program from the government of Newfoundland and Labrador related to its exploration efforts throughout 2024.
Assay and Sample Information
Rock samples are comprised of grab samples, which are selective samples and not necessarily representative of
mineralization found on the property . All rock samples were either collected from outcrops (bedrock) or as float
samples and put into sample bags with unique sample tags. The exact location of the collected grab sample was
taken using a handheld GPS unit and field notes were taken on lithology, structure, and mineralization. The rock
samples were securely transported directly to the SGS Mobile Prep Lab in Grand Falls -Windsor, NL and forwarded
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by SGS chain of custody to SGS Vancouver Lab for Multi -Acid (4 Acid) Digestion ICP -OES and ICP-MS (49 elements)
with ore grade analysis on over limit Zn and Cu samples.
Qualified Person
Paul Moore MSc. P.Geo. (NL), Vice President of Exploration for Canterra Minerals Corporation, a Qualified Person
within the meaning of National Instrument 43 -101, has reviewed the technical disclosure in this news release for
accuracy and either prepared or supervised its preparation.
About Canterra Minerals
Canterra Minerals is a diversified mineral exploration company with a focus on critical and precious metals projects
in the C entral Newfoundland Mining District . Canterra’s projects include seven mineral deposits located in the
central Newfoundland Mining District including the prolific, past producing Buchans mine. The central
Newfoundland Mining District includes Teck Resources’ past producing Duck Pond mine that produced copper, zinc,
lead, silver and gold and Calibre Mining’s Valentine gold mine development.
Canterra’s projects include several exploration-stage gold projects that cover 60 km of strike of the regional gold -
bearing Rogerson Lake structural corridor that hosts Calibre Mining Corporation’s development stage Valentine
Gold Mine. Canterra’s Newfoundland gold projects have been subject to four drilling campaigns, demonstrating
many gold occurrences warranting further exploration.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF CANTERRA MINERALS CORPORATION
Chris Pennimpede
President & CEO
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