Eloro Resources Intersects Highest Silver Interval To Date At Its Iska Iska Project, Southern Bolivia With 72 Metres Grading 294.81 G/T Silver Within A Broader Interval Of 180 Metres Grading 164.74 G/T Silver In Hole DSB-93
| Hole No. | From (m) | To (m) | Length (m) | Ag | Zn | Pb | Sn | Ag eq. |
| g/t | % | % | % | g/t | ||||
| DSB-90 | 91.00 | 115.00 | 24.00 | 1.26 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.57 | 113.40 |
| 134.50 | 151.00 | 16.50 | 4.52 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.36 | 73.97 | |
| 199.00 | 205.00 | 6.00 | 8.70 | 0.00 | 0.05 | 0.11 | 29.95 | |
| 256.00 | 269.50 | 13.50 | 106.32 | 0.00 | 0.08 | 0.16 | 127.34 | |
| Incl. | 256.00 | 263.50 | 7.50 | 186.50 | 0.00 | 0.09 | 0.14 | 192.73 |
| 289.00 | 292.00 | 3.00 | 12.25 | 0.01 | 0.17 | 0.14 | 41.51 | |
| 311.50 | 334.00 | 22.50 | 7.64 | 0.02 | 0.04 | 0.20 | 48.46 | |
| Incl. | 311.50 | 322.00 | 10.50 | 12.03 | 0.04 | 0.09 | 0.29 | 71.00 |
| Incl. | 326.50 | 334.00 | 7.50 | 5.82 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.19 | 42.32 |
| 338.50 | 358.00 | 19.50 | 25.18 | 0.01 | 0.10 | 0.16 | 56.68 | |
| 380.50 | 394.00 | 13.50 | 20.74 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.24 | 66.81 | |
| 400.00 | 451.00 | 51.00 | 2.06 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.24 | 49.47 | |
| 464.50 | 473.50 | 9.00 | 7.67 | 0.06 | 0.02 | 0.16 | 40.49 | |
| 499.00 | 505.00 | 6.00 | 31.85 | 0.22 | 0.02 | 0.04 | 43.34 | |
| DSB-93 | 34.20 | 41.70 | 7.50* | 0.50 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.01 | 4.99 |
| 49.20 | 56.70 | 7.50 | 1.00 | 1.25 | 0.26 | 0.06 | 60.99 | |
| 86.70 | 92.70 | 6.00 | 1.00 | 3.09 | 0.54 | 0.03 | 122.86 | |
| 101.70 | 104.70 | 3.00 | 0.50 | 1.68 | 0.21 | 0.05 | 70.86 | |
| 112.20 | 292.20 | 180.00 | 164.74 | 0.72 | 0.74 | 0.16 | 217.46 | |
| Incl. | 131.70 | 203.70 | 72.00 | 294.81 | 0.21 | 0.44 | 0.06 | 288.25 |
| Incl. | 223.20 | 251.70 | 28.50** | 253.63 | 0.45 | 1.10 | 0.57 | 374.02 |
| 374.70 | 407.70 | 33.00 | 12.73 | 0.17 | 0.28 | 0.18 | 58.81 | |
| 416.70 | 425.50 | 8.80 | 20.42 | 1.45 | 0.19 | 0.07 | 84.27 | |
Note: True width is approximately 80% of core length. Silver equivalent (Ag eq) grades are calculated using 3-year average metal prices of Ag = US$24.14/oz, Zn = US$1.36/lb, Pb = 0.98/lb, and Sn = US$13.74/lb, and preliminary metallurgical recoveries of Ag = 88%, Zn = 87%, Pb = 80% and Sn = 50%. In selecting intervals, a cutoff grade of 30 g Ag eq/t has been used. Lower grade material may be included in intersections where geological continuity is warranted.
*Interval also assayed 1.43% Cu. ** Interval also assayed 0.84 g/t Au
Table 2: Summary of Diamond Drill Hole Coordinates for Drill Holes Completed at Iska Iska as reported in this Press Release
| Hole No. | Type | Collar Easting | Collar Northing | Elevation | Azimuth | Angle | Hole length (m) |
| DSB-90 | S | 205182 | 7656125 | 4328 | 235° | -85° | 514.00 |
| DSB-93 | S | 205372 | 7656171 | 4224 | 230° | -60° | 425.50 |
| Subtotal | 939.50 |
Table 3: Main Intervals in the Second Phase Definition Diamond Drilling
| Date | Drillhole ID | Category | Az. (°) | Dip (°) | Length (m) | Main Intervals |
| 08-06-25 | DSB-78 | Step-out | 225 | -85 | 554.60 | 79.50m @ 0.40% Sn beginning at incl. 16.50m @ 0.89% Sn beginning at 366.60m |
| 08-06-25 | DSB-79 | Step-out | 225 | -85 | 500.30 | 43.50m @ 52.73 g/t Ag beginning at incl. 3.0m @ 401.65 g/t Ag beginning at 244.10m |
| 09-16-25 | DSB-80 | Step-out | 225 | -85 | 551.30 | 15.00m @ 53.10 g/t Ag beginning at 10.50m @ 34.50 g/t Ag beginning at 460.50m |
| 08-06-25 | DSB-81 | Step-out | 225 | -85 | 608.60 | 57.00m @ 0.18% Sn beginning at 9.60m, incl. 6.00m @ 0.33% Sn beginning at 9.60m and 6.00m @ 0.32% Sn beginning at 44.10m |
| 08-06-25 | DSB-82 | Step-out | 225 | -85 | 650.30 | 15.00m @ 0.16% Sn and 14.19 g/t Ag beginning at 12.00m @ 0.23% Sn beginning at 472.80m |
| 08-06-25 | DSB-83 | Step-out | 225 | -85 | 557.60 | 31.50m @ 39.43 g/t Ag beginning at incl. 25.50m @ 43.53 g/t Ag; 25.50m @ 51.24 g/t Ag beginning at incl. 13.50m @ 69.22 g/t Ag beginning at 49.50m @ 0.39% Sn and 33.62 g/t Ag beginning at 349.50m |
| 09-16-25 | DSB-84 | Step-out | 225 | -85 | 410.30 | 16.50m @ Ag beginning at incl. 3.00m @ 108.80 g/t Ag beginning at 109.00m |
| 09-16-25 | DSB-85 | Step-out | 225 | -85 | 452.30 | 22.50m @ 38.26 g/t Ag beginning at 10.50m @ 68.36 g/t Ag beginning at 9.00m @ 198.08 g/t Ag beginning at 166.50m |
| 09-16-25 | DSB-86 | Step-out | 225 | -60 | 515.60 | 241.00m @ 0.81% Zn and 0.80% Pb beginning at incl. 100.50m @ 1.56% Zn and 0.98% Pb beginning at 105.00m @ 0.85% Zn beginning at 344.20m |
| 09-16-25 | DSB-87 | Infill | 225 | -85 | 416.50 | 241.50m @ 0.47% Sn and 23.17 g/t Ag incl. 213.00m @ 0.51% Sn and 25.46 g/t Ag beginning at incl. 34.50 m @ 1.18% Sn beginning at 62.10m |
| 10-09-25 | DSB-88 | Step-out | 225 | -60 | 515.50 | 456.00m @1.72% Zn incl. 190.50m @ 2.35% Zn beginning at 56.20m |
| 10-09-25 | DSB-89 | Step-out | 225 | -60 | 509.50 | 13.50m @ 74.64 g/t Ag, 0.81% Pb and 0.24% Sn beginning at 19.50m @ 41.52 g/t Ag, 0.88% Zn beginning at 33.00m @ 28.96 g/t Ag, 0.75% Pb and 2.26% Sn beginning at 103.30m |
| 12-05-25 | DSB-90 | Infill | 235 | -85 | 514.00 | 51.00m @ 0.24% Sn beginning at 24.00m @ 0.57% Sn beginning at 16.50m @ 0.36% Sn beginning at 134.50m 13.50m @ 106.32 g/t Ag beginning at 256.00m |
| 11-19-25 | DSB-91 | Infill | 225 | -85 | 514.00 | 64.50m @ 37.33 g/t Ag beginning at 151.50m @ 1.41% Zn, 0.63% Pb and 13.35 g/t Ag beginning at 109.50m incl. 31.50m @ 34.90 g/t Ag, 1.49% Zn and 0.35% Pb beginning at 147.00m |
| 11-19-25 | DSB-92 | Step-out | 225 | -60 | 590.50 | 90.00m @ 61.05 g/t Ag and 0.20% Sn beginning at 492.30m incl. 15.00m @ 173.30 g/t Ag. 0.15% Sn and 1.59 g/t Au beginning at 49.00m @ 50.14 g/t Ag and 0.26% Sn beginning at 67.80m |
| 12-05-25 | DSB-93 | Infill | 230 | -60 | 419.50 | 180.00m @ 165.00 g/t Ag, 0.74% Pb, 0.72% Zn and 0.16% Sn beginning at incl. 72.00m @ 295 g/t Ag and 0.44% Pb beginning at 28.50m @ 254.00 g/t Ag, 0.84 g/t Au, 1.10% Pb and 0.57% Sn beginning at 223.20m |
Qualified Person (“QP”)
Dr. Osvaldo Arce, P.Geo. Executive Vice President, Latin America for Eloro and General Manager of Eloro's Bolivian subsidiary, Minera Tupiza S.R.L, and a Qualified Person (“QP”) as defined by National Instrument (“NI”) 43-101 has reviewed and approved the technical content of this news release. Dr. Arce who has more than 35 years of mineral exploration and extensive mining expertise across several countries in North and South America manages the overall technical program and supervises all field work conducted at Iska Iska.
Eloro utilized both ALS and AHK for drill core analyses, both of whom are major international accredited laboratories. Drill samples sent to ALS were prepared in both ALS Bolivia Ltda's preparation facility in Oruro, Bolivia and the preparation facility operated by AHK in Tupiza with pulps sent to the main ALS Global laboratory in Lima for analysis. Drill core samples sent to AHK Laboratories are also prepared by AHK in Tupiza with pulps sent to the AHK laboratory in Lima, Peru.
Silver (Ag), zinc (Zn) and lead (Pb) are analyzed by Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-AES) using a four-acid digestion; Sn is analyzed by X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) and Au is analyzed by fire assay on 50g pulps with an Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS) finish. AAS measures absorbed light to quantify elements, while ICP, such as ICP-OES or ICP-MS, measure emitted light or ions to determine elements. XRF uses fluorescent X-rays to excite atoms and to emit X-rays that reveal the presence and concentration of tin. Sample size in ICP typically ranges from 100 mg (0.1 g) to 1 g, for AAS, is usually less than 100 mg (0.1 g) and for XRF is ideally below 75 μm.
Check samples between ALS and AHK are regularly done as a QA/QC check. AHK is following the same analytical protocols used as with ALS and with the same QA/QC protocols except for Sn for which a sodium peroxide fusion is used at AHK following by ICP. Check comparisons of Sn results from ALS and ALS indicate no statistically significant difference between results using the two different analytical techniques.
Eloro employs an industry standard QA/QC program with standards, blanks and duplicates inserted into each batch of samples analyzed at both laboratories with selected check samples sent to a separate accredited laboratory. Check results are regularly monitored.
About Iska Iska
The Iska Iska silver-tin polymetallic project is a road accessible, royalty-free property, wholly controlled by the Title Holder, Empresa Minera Villegas S.R.L. and is located 48 km north of Tupiza city, in the Sud Chichas Province of the Department of Potosi in southern Bolivia. Eloro has an option to earn a 100% interest in Iska Iska.
Iska Iska is a major silver-tin polymetallic porphyry-epithermal complex associated with a Miocene collapsed/resurgent caldera, emplaced on Ordovician age rocks with major breccia pipes, dacitic domes and hydrothermal breccias. The caldera is 1.6km by 1.8km in dimension with a vertical extent of at least 1km. Mineralization age is similar to Cerro Rico de Potosí and other major deposits such as San Vicente, Chorolque, Tasna and Tatasi, all located along the same overall geological trend.
Eloro began underground diamond drilling from the Huayra Kasa underground workings at Iska Iska on September 13, 2020. On January 26, 2021, Eloro announced significant results from the first drilling at the Santa Barbara Breccia Pipe (SBBP) including the discovery hole DHK-15 which returned 29.53g Ag/t, 0.078g Au/t, 1.45%Zn, 0.59%Pb, 0.080%Cu and 0.056%Sn over from surface. Subsequent drilling has confirmed the presence of significant values of Ag-Sn polymetallic mineralization in the SBBP and the adjacent Central Breccia Pipe (CBP). A substantive mineralized envelope which is open along strike and down-dip extends around both major breccia pipes. Continuous channel sampling along the walls of the Santa Barbara Adit located to the east of SBBP returned average grades of 164.96 g Ag/t, 0.46%Sn, 3.46% Pb and 0.14% Cu over 166m including 446 g Ag/t, 9.03% Pb and 1.16% Sn over The west end of the adit intersects the end of the SBBP.
Since the initial discovery hole Eloro has released a number of significant drill results in the SBBP and the surrounding mineralized envelope which, along with geophysical data, has defined an extensive target zone. On October 17, 2023, Eloro filed the NI 43-101 Technical Report outlining the initial inferred MRE for Iska Iska, prepared by independent consultants Micon International Limited. The MRE was reported in two domains, the Polymetallic (Ag-Zn-Pb) Domain which is primarily in the east and south of the Santa Barbara deposit and the Tin (Sn-Ag-Pb) Domain which is primarily in the west and north.
The Polymetallic Domain is estimated to contain 560Mt of inferred mineral resources at 13.8 g Ag/t, 0.73% Zn & 0.28% Pb at an NSR cutoff of US$9.20 for potential open pit and an NSR cutoff of US$34.40 for potential underground. The majority of the mineral resource is contained in the constraining pit which has a stripping ratio of 1:1. The Polymetallic Domain contains a higher-grade inferred mineral resource at a NSR cutoff of $US25/t of 132 million tonnes at 1.11% Zn, 0.50% Pb and 24.3 g Ag/t which has a net NSR value of US$34.40/t which is 3.75 the estimated operating cost of US$9.20/t. The Tin Domain which is adjacent to the Polymetallic Domain and does not overlap, is estimated to contain an inferred mineral resource of 110Mt at 0.12% Sn, 14.2 g Ag/t and 0.14% Pb but is very under drilled.
Metallurgical tests reported on January 23, 2024 from a 6.3 tonne PQ drill core bulk sample representative of the higher grade Polymetallic (Ag-Zn-Pb) Domain returned a significantly higher average silver value of 91 g Ag/t compared to the weighted average grade of the original twinned holes at 31 g Ag/t strongly suggesting that the average silver grade is likely significantly underreported in the original twinned holes due to the much smaller sample size.
The Company reported on July 30, 2024, that updated modelling of the potential starter pit area at Santa Barbara zone highlights the importance of completing additional drilling to better define the grade and extent of the mineral resource in this area. Areas with higher-grade resource typically have much better drilling density but holes outside the core potential pit area are too widely spaced to give an accurate estimate of grade.
On September 4, 2024, the Company announced the restart of definition drilling in the potential starter pit area at Santa Barbara. It was highly focused on infill and step-out drill program in order to better define the full vertical and lateral extent of high-grade Sn and Ag mineralization, expanding higher-grade Sn mineralization to the west and the silver to the central and west parts. Also, to fill-in gaps that were formerly categorized as low-grade or internal waste in the mineral resource model and to drill in a closer-spacing 50m x 50m grid. Previous drilling has shown that areas with high-grade mineralization typically have much better drilling density, whereas holes outside the core area are too widely spaced to give an accurate grade estimate. This increased drilling density is particularly important for defining the extent of the high-grade Ag-bearing and Sn-bearing structures, and for categorizing the mineral resources from inferred to indicated, which have a major influence on overall grade and resources that will contribute to the PEA.
Since September 4, 2024 the Company has completed 27 drill holes totalling 14,085.80 metres of definition drilling in 2 distinct phases of diamond drilling in the potential starter pit area of the Santa Barbara Zone. This drilling has continued to intersect strong, broad zones and high-grade mineralization with good continuity in both the predominant Sn-Ag domain to the west (15 drill holes) and in the predominant Ag-Zn-Polymetallic domain to the east (12 drill holes). Both zones remain open along and across strike as well as downdip.
The intercepts of 151.47 g Ag/t over 135m found in hole DSB-75; 66.90g Ag/t over 289.13m in hole DSB-68; 126.10g Ag/t over 127.49g Ag/t over 41.25m and 49.71g Ag/t over 142.50m found in hole DSB-69; and 45.71g Ag/t over 81.00m and 30.08g Ag/t over 255.75m found in hole DSB-70 confirm the presence of continued silver pockets grading over 50 g Ag/t. Moreover, tin enriched pockets such as 1.39% Sn over 33m, 0.74% Sn over 87m found in hole DSB-72 and 0.55% Sn over 0.34% Sn over 0.31% Sn over 103.5m in hole DSB-74 demonstrate the existence of consistent high grade tin pockets at the Santa Barbara zone. And finally, the presence of intercepts such as 1.41% Zn over 151.50m in hole DSB-91, 1.77% Zn over 238.50m and 1.72% Zn over 456m found in hole DSB-88 reveal continuous Zn (and Pb) ore shoots in the property. These results have further expanded, at least 200m laterally, the higher-grade tin and silver and polymetallic (Ag-Sn-Zn-Pb) mineralization and the footprint of this large multi-phase hydrothermal system at Iska Iska.
About Eloro Resources Ltd.
Eloro is an exploration and mine development company with a portfolio of precious and base-metal properties in Bolivia, Peru and Quebec. Eloro has an option to acquire a 100% interest in the highly prospective Iska Iska Property, which can be classified as a polymetallic epithermal-porphyry complex, a significant mineral deposit type in the Potosi Department, in southern Bolivia. A NI 43-101 Technical Report on Iska Iska, which was completed by Micon International Limited, is available on Eloro's website and under its filings on SEDAR+. Iska Iska is a road-accessible, royalty-free property. Eloro also owns an 82% interest in the La Victoria Gold/Silver Project, located in the North-Central Mineral Belt of Peru some 50 km south of the Lagunas Norte Gold Mine and the La Arena Gold Mine.
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