Luca Mining Engages Mining Contractor for Campo Morado
Luca Mining Corp.
Suite 410, 1111 Melville Street
Vancouver, BC, V6E 3V6, Canada
NEWS RELEASE
Luca Mining Engages Mining Contractor for Campo Morado
Vancouver, British Columbia, August 6, 2024
Luca Mining Corp. (“Luca” or the “Company”) (TSX-V: LUCA) (OTCQX: LUCMF) (Frankfurt: Z68) is
pleased to announce that it has engaged Cominvi, S.A. de C.V. (“Cominvi”) to carry out core mining
operations at the Company’s 100% owned Campo Morado copper-zinc-gold mine located in the state
of Guerrero in southwestern Mexico.
Cominvi is one of the largest and most respected mining contractors in Latin America with a
particular expertise in underground mining. They have a well- earned reputation for delivering
excellent results with the highest degree of safety and responsibility.
Working with Cominvi will allow Luca to quickly increase production at Campo Morado and will
provide cost effective access to newer mining equipment for the Company’s ongoing operations. The
addition of Cominvi to our operations team will help ensure that Campo Morado can meet and exceed
its daily production targets and will provide a rapid path to further increase s in production and
revenues without incurring significant capital expenditures.
Dan Barnholden, CEO, commented, “I am very pleased to have Cominvi join our team at Campo Morado.
They bring incredible expertise and experience and will greatly enhance our operational flexibility. The
timing of this decision is fortuitous as Cominvi has just completed a major mining project nearby and
therefore, mobilization will occur very quick. We intend to increase our mill throughput from the current
1,400-1,600 tonnes per day (“tpd”) to 2,000 tpd by year end and continue to push forward to 2,400 tpd
mill rate during 2025. These achievements, along with the Company’s previously announced Campo
Morado Improvement Project to increase metal lurgical recoveries and produce higher value
concentrates, will have a material positive impact on the Company’s production, costs and cash flow.
Cominvi’s seasoned team will be an important factor in the execution of these plans.”
About Luca Mining Corp
Luca Mining (TSX -V: LUCA, OTCQX: LUCMF, Frankfurt: Z68) is a diversified Canadian mining
company with two 100%-owned producing mines in Mexico within the prolific Sierra Madre Mineral
Luca Mining Corp.
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Belt. The Company produces gold, copper, zinc, silver and lead from these mines that each have
considerable development and resource upside.
The Campo Morado mine, is an underground operation located in Guerrero State, an important
mining region in Mexico. It produces copper -zinc-lead concentrates with precious metals credits. It
is currently undergoing an optimisation program which is already generating significant
improvements in recoveries and grades, efficiencies, and cashflows. The mill at Campo Morado has a
capacity of 2,400 tonnes per day.
The Tahuehueto Gold, Silver mine is a new underground mine in Durango State, Mexico which hosts
numerous producing and historic mines on trend. Tahuehueto has a designed processing capacity of
1,000 tonnes per day and expected to achieve commercial production in 2H 2024.
Luca Mining is focused on growth with the aim of maximizing shareholder returns.
For more information, please visit: www.lucamining.com
On Behalf of the Board of Directors
(signed) “Dan Barnholden”
Dan Barnholden, Chief Executive Officer
Qualified Persons
The technical information contained in this News Release has been reviewed and approved by Mr. Chris
Richings, Vice -President Technical at Luca Mining as the Qualified Person for the Company as defined in
National Instrument 43-101.
Cautionary Note Regarding Production Decisions and Forward-Looking Statements
It should be noted that Luca declared commercial production at Campo Morado prior to completing a feasibility
study of mineral reserves demonstrating economic and technical viability. Accordingly, readers should be
cautioned that Luca’s production decision has been made without a comprehensive feasibility study of
established reserves such that there is greater risk and uncertainty as to future economic results from the
Campo Morado mine and a higher technical risk of failure than would be the case if a feasibility study were
completed and relied upon to make a production decision. Luca has completed a preliminary economic
assessment (“PEA”) mining study on the Campo Morado mine that provides a conceptual life of mine plan and
a preliminary economic analysis based on the previously identified mineral resources (see news releases dated
November 8, 2017, and April 4, 2018).
Positive operating cash flow is defined as excluding capital, debt repayment and Trafigura financing.
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Statements contained in this news release that are not historical facts are “forward -looking information” or
“forward-looking statements” (collectively, “Forward-Looking Information”) within the meaning of applicable
Canadian securities laws. Forward Looking Information includes, but is not limited to, disclosure regarding the
planned program to improve mining operations at Campo Morado; and other possible events, conditions or
financial performance that are based on assumptions about future economic conditions and courses of action;
the timing and costs of future activities on the Company’s properties, such as production rates and increases;
success of exploration, development and bulk sample processing activities, and timing for processing at its own
mineral processing facility on the Tahuehueto project site. In certain cases, Forward -Looking Information can
be identified using words and phrases such as “plans,” “expects,” “scheduled,” “estimates,” “forecasts,”
“intends,” “anticipates” or variations of such words and phrases. In preparing the Forward -Looking
Information in this news release, the Company has applied several material assumptions, including, but not
limited to, that the current exploration, development, environmental and other objectives concer ning the
Campo Morado Mine and the Tahuehueto Project can be achieved; that the program to improve mining
operations at Campo Morado will proceed as planned; the continuity of the price of gold and other metals,
economic and political conditions, and opera tions. Forward -Looking Information involves known and
unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance, or
achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements
expressed or implied by the Forward -Looking Information. There can be no assurance that Forward -Looking
Information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those
anticipated in such statements. Accor dingly, readers should not place undue reliance on Forward -Looking
Information. Except as required by law, the Company does not assume any obligation to release publicly any
revisions to Forward- Looking Information contained in this news release to reflect events or circumstances
after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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For further information about Luca Mining Corp., please contact:
Sophia Shane
Director of Corporate Development
Tel: +1 (604) 306-6867
or
Glen Sandwell
Corporate Communications Manager
Tel: +1 (604) 684-8071 [email protected]