TALA.V · 2025-04-22 12:00:00

Fuerte Metals hits 8.5 g/t AuEq over 4.0 m, 6.1 g/t AuEq over 1.7 m and 6.1 g/t AuEq over 1.4 m at its Cristina Project, Chihuahua, Mexico

Drill Results

Fuerte Metals hits 8.5 g/t AuEq over 4.0 m, 6.1

g/t AuEq over 1.7 m and 6.1 g/t AuEq over 1.4

m at its Cristina Project, Chihuahua, Mexico

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - April 22, 2025) - Fuerte Metals Corporation (TSXV:

FMT) (OTCQB: FUEMF) ("

Fuerte

" or the "

Company

") is pleased to report results from the most recent

five holes of a diamond drilling program at its wholly-owned Cristina precious metals project in

southwestern Chihuahua State, Mexico.

Fuerte has now reported forty-five holes totalling 11,999.5 metres of drilling from the current program.

The Cristina project consists of multiple outcropping quartz veins that are frequently greater than 10

metres in width and extend for at least a five-kilometre strike length. Four parallel mineralized vein zones

have been mapped and sampled to date, with most of the existing mineral resource estimate at Cristina

contained within only one of the vein zones, the Guadalupe vein. These latest holes include one from the

Los Ingleses vein, with the remainder from the Guadalupe vein (Figure 1).

Drilling Highlights

Highlights of the holes reported here, from the Guadlupe and Los Ingleses vein systems, include:

8.5 g/t AuEq over 4.0 m

estimated true width (ETW) (0.9 g/t Au, 504 g/t Ag, 0.63% Zn, 0.1% Pb

and 0.02% Cu) in hole

ACD-25-263

in the Guadalupe vein system

This 4.0 m wide intercept occurs within a broader mineralized zone measuring 2.6 g/t AuEq

over 17.0 m ETW (0.4 g/t Au, 133 g/t Ag, 0.46% Zn, 0.16 % Pb, 0.01% Cu)

6.1 g/t AuEq over 1.4 m

estimated true width (ETW) (4.8 g/t Au, 60 g/t Ag, 0.68% Zn, 0.18% Pb

and 0.04% Cu) in hole

ACD-25-261

in the Guadalupe vein system

This 1.4 m wide intercept occurs within a broader mineralized zone measuring 2.4 g/t AuEq

over 11.0 m ETW (1.1 g/t Au, 73 g/t Ag, 0.48 % Zn, 0.17 % Pb, 0.02% Cu)

6.1 g/t AuEq over 1.7 m

estimated true width (ETW) (0.8 g/t Au, 64 g/t Ag, 7.94% Zn, 2.21% Pb

and 0.13% Cu) in hole

ACD-25-265

in the Los Ingleses vein system

This 1.7 m wide intercept occurs within a broader mineralized zone measuring 1.3 g/t AuEq

over 12.0 m ETW (0.2 g/t Au, 15 g/t Ag, 1.43 % Zn, 0.45 % Pb, 0.05% Cu)

5.2 g/t AuEq over 1.3 m

estimated true width (ETW) (0.8 g/t Au, 70 g/t Ag, 3.99% Zn, 0.95% Pb

and 0.87% Cu) in a second interval in hole

ACD-25-265

This 1.3 m wide intercept occurs within a broader mineralized zone measuring 1.0 g/t AuEq

over 13.0 m ETW (0.2 g/t Au, 8 g/t Ag, 0.24 % Zn, 0.05 % Pb, 0.02% Cu)

Tim Warman, Fuerte's CEO, commented: "These most recent holes were successful in helping in the

expansion eastward of several high-grade zones within the Guadalupe vein system, as well as

expanding westward a new high-grade area recently discovered in the Los Ingleses vein system. Both

high-grade areas remain open for further expansion supporting the theory that this is a large system with

multiple untested veins.

Geology and Context of Results

Hole ACD25-261 (Figures 3 & 7) expands the high-grade on the eastern edge of the Guadalupe

vein central zone and shows this high-grade area likely joins with the high-grade body immediately

to the east, suggesting a broader continuity of the high-grade bodies in this area.

Hole ACD25-262 (Figures 4 &7) cut a wide lower-grade zone within the main Guadalupe vein,

below the bottom of the resource pit and 100 m below a high-grade intercept. This suggests that

the high-grade portion of the vein lies in the 200 metres above this drill hole.

Hole ACD25-263 (Figures 5 & 7) expands and adds continuity to the eastern-most Guadalupe

high-grade body and supports the potential for this high-grade body to merge with the adjacent

zone to the west, encountered in hole ACD25-261. These results show the high grade is in the

upper part of the vein in this area.

Hole ACD25-264 (Figures 6 & 7) encountered a very wide zone of lower-grade mineralization

within the existing resource pit, eastward of an area where three high-grade veins merge.

Hole ACD25-265 (Figures 8 & 9 was drilled in the Los Ingleses vein system, following up on drill

hole ACD24-247 (7.1 g/t AuEq over 2.8 m; 1.9 g/t Au, 67 g/t Ag, 6.81% Zn, 1.06% Pb and 0.42%

Cu). ACD25-265 shows the three veins cut by ACD24-247 continue towards surface, with the

southernmost vein increasing in grade with depth. The proximity of these three veins suggests

good potential for exploitation by underground methods.

The forty-five holes completed in this most recent campaign have successfully defined a series of

continuous higher-grade zones extending over several hundred vertical metres within the main

Guadalupe vein, and now within the Los Ingleses and Mexico Libre vein systems. These higher-grade

zones remain open along strike and at depth.

The Cristina deposit is an epithermal to mesothermal vein system where the mineralisation is

predominantly gold and silver, with lesser base metal values. At least four known major parallel vein

zones trend east-west to northeast-southwest and are hosted in an andesitic volcanic sequence which

forms part of the Lower Volcanic Sequence of the Sierra Madre Occidental range. The andesites and

related flows and breccias are cut locally by dacitic intrusions, and the entire sequence is in turn cut by

andesitic and hornblende-plagioclase porphyry following fault trends. In some areas the veins are

covered by post-mineral rhyolite of the Upper Volcanic Sequence.

Figure 1- Known vein systems and existing drill holes at the Cristina Project

. Resource pit in

Figures 1 through 8 is based on the National Instrument 43-101 compliant report titled "Technical Report

on the Mineral Resource for the Cristina Project" prepared for TCP1 Corporation and Atacama Copper

Corporation by Independent Mining Consultants Inc., with an effective date of January 1, 2023, and issue

date of December 1, 2023.