Phase 1 Drilling Program Initiated at the Buchans Critical Minerals Project, Newfoundland
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Phase 1 Drilling Program Initiated at the Buchans Critical Minerals Project, Newfoundland
Vancouver, B.C. (March 25, 202 5) – Canterra Minerals Corporation (TSXV:CTM) (OTCQB: CTMCF) (FSE:DXZB)
(“Canterra” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce commencement of drilling and outlines its 2025 drill program
at the Buchans Project in the Central Newfoundland Mining District, 50 kms north of Calibre Mining’s Valentine Gold
Mine and 34 km from Teck Resources’ past producing Duck Pond Mine (Figure 2).
Key Points:
• Up to 10,000 m of diamond drilling at Buchans in a phased approach to coincide with the results from the
previously announced IP survey (see February 19, 2025 news release)
• Phase 1 focused on drill targets at Pumphouse and Lundberg to continue advancing near resource
expansion opportunities started in the 2024 Buchans drill program
Chris Pennimpede, President and CEO of Canterra commented: “We are excited to begin Canterra’s 2025 drilling
program, which we believe, together with results from the Company’s ongoing deep -seeking geophysical surveys,
has the potential to yield transformational results for Canterra and the Buchans Project. We are optimistic this work
may uncover new discoveries below depths explored by past operators at one of the world’s highest -grade past
producing VMS mines.”
Drill Targets in Order of Priority:
Pumphouse: This prospect represents a n underexplored fault repeat of the Oriental mine horizon located 500 m
northwest from the former Oriental orebody and 1.5 km northeast of the former Lucky Strike orebody (Lundberg
deposit area). Former mine operators, Asarco, are reported to have mined 3.3 Mt1 averaging 14.18% Zn, 7.90% Pb,
1.47% Cu, 154.0 g/t Ag & 1.96 g/t Au at Oriental between 1935 and 1983. Drilling aims to test the continuity of this
zone and provide additional information that may inform future drilling campaigns that will test for extensions of
the zone down plunge.
Lundberg: The program includes drilling to expand the current 16.8 Mt resource2 laterally and at depth , including
north of higher grade stockwork mineralization intersected by Canterra’s 2024 drilling and provide further
information relating to the underlying Lundberg stockwork footwall mineralization which had not been the focus of
previous operators.
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Figure 1. Buchans drilling targets and limits of Lundberg Resource estimate projected vertically to surface. 2025 drill targets
in white circles.
Buchans Project
The Buchans Project is an advanced critical minerals project that hosts a significant undeveloped mineral resource
adjacent to the past producing Buchans Mine. This brownfield project covers 87.5 square kilometres near the town
of Buchans and includes the past producing Buchans Mine operated by Asarco from 1928 to 1984. The project’s
undeveloped Lundberg resource is a volcanogenic massive sulphide -related (“VMS”) stockwork sulphide deposit
comprising a large, near-surface resource located beneath and adjacent to workings of the prev iously mined, high-
grade Lucky Strike massive sulphide orebody. At Buchans, Asarco is reported to have mined high-grade ore totaling
16.2 Mt1 at an average grade of 14.5% Zn, 7.6% Pb, 1.3% Cu, 1.37 g/t Au & 126 g/t Ag mined from five orebodies,
all located within Canterra’s Buchans Project. The Lundberg resource is located immediately beneath and adjacent
to workings of the previously mined, Lucky Strike massive sulphide orebody where Asarco is reported to have mined
5.6 Mt1 of high-grade ore averaging 18.4% Zn, 8.6% Pb, 1.6% Cu, 112 g/t Ag & 1.7 g/t Au . Historic mining at Lucky
Strike pre-stripped a significant portion of the Lundberg Resource.
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Figure 2. Canterra’s Central Newfoundland Mining District properties.
Notes:
(1) Past production figures from Kirkham, R.V., ed., 1987, Buchans Geology, Newfoundland. Geological Survey of Canada,
Paper 86-24, 288 p.
(2) Lundberg’s 2019 Resource Estimate (effective date of February 28, 2019) includes In -pit Indicated Mineral Resources
16,790,000 tonnes grading of 0.42% Cu, 1.53% Zn, 0.64% Pb, 5.69 g/t Ag & 0.07 g/t Au (containing 156 million pounds
Cu, 566 million pounds Zn, 237 million pounds Pb, 3.1 million ounces Ag, & 37,000 ounces Au) as well as In-pit Inferred
Mineral Resources totaling 380,000 to nnes at a grade of 0.36% Cu, 2.03% Zn, 1.01% Pb, 22.35 g/t Ag & 0.31 g/t Au
(containing 3.0 million pounds Cu, 17 million pounds Zn, 9 million pounds Pb, 270,000 ounces Ag, & 38,000 ounces Au;
see news release dated June 4, 2024 and associated Technical Report for additional details).
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 the completion of its 2025 exploration
programs at Buchans.
About Canterra Minerals
Canterra is a diversified minerals exploration company focused on critical minerals and gold in central
Newfoundland. The Company’s projects include six mineral deposits located in close proximity to the world -
renowned, past producing Buchans mine and Teck Resources’ Duck Pond mine that collectively produced copper,
zinc, lead, silver and gold. Several of Canterra’s deposits support current and historical Mineral Resource Estimates
prepared in accordance with National Instrument 43 -101 and the Canadian Inst itute of Mining, Metallurgy, and
Petroleum Definition Standards for Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves current at their respective effective
dates. Canterra’s gold projects are located on-trend of Calibre Mining’s Valentine mine currently under construction
and cover a ~60 km extension of the same structural corridor that hosts mineralization within Calibre’s mine project.
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Past drilling by Canterra and others within the Company’s gold projects intersected multiple occurrences of orogenic
style gold mineralization within a large land position that remains underexplored.
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.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF CANTERRA MINERALS CORPORATION
Chris Pennimpede
President & CEO
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to estimated mineral r esources, the opening of avenues for substantial discoveries within the belt, the Buchans
Project being ripe for a modern approach with significant exploration potential for high grade VMS mineralizatio n,
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