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Marimaca Signs Binding Option to Acquire the Pampa Medina Project

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Marimaca Copper Corp.
Marimaca Copper Corp.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Marimaca Copper Corp. (“Marimaca Copper” or the “Company”) (TSX: MARI) is pleased to announce the signing of a binding option agreement (the “Agreement”) to acquire the Pampa Medina project (“Pampa Medina”) from Sociedad Contractual Minera Elenita (“SCM Elenita”). Details of the transaction are found below in the “Transaction Summary” section of this press release.

The Pampa Medina project consists of 4 mining concessions totaling 144 hectares. Pampa Medina is located within the southern portion of the Company’s broader 14,500ha Sierra de Medina (“SdM”) property package (see Figures 1, 2 and 3), and is situated approximately 28km in distance and ~200m higher elevation relative to the Company’s planned processing infrastructure as defined in the ongoing Marimaca Oxide Deposit (“MOD”) Definitive Feasibility Study (“DFS”) (see press release dated January 16th, 2024).

Pampa Medina hosts a historical, National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects (“NI 43-101”) non-compliant resource estimate of copper hosted in dominantly oxide mineralization, which is detailed below in Table 1 alongside relevant technical and regulatory disclosure. Approximately 41,000m of historical drilling data at Pampa Medina was inherited per the Agreement. The Company has commenced a detailed quality assurance, quality control and validation program which is summarized below. Marimaca Copper will review results of the program and define next steps with the intention to release a maiden resource estimate at Pampa Medina in early Q1 2025.

Hayden Locke, President & CEO, commented:

“This acquisition aligns with our strategy to grow our base of leachable copper resources to complement the MOD, to underpin mine life growth and, perhaps more importantly, support our goal of increasing our scale of production target to more than 50,000 tonnes of copper cathode per annum.

A cornerstone of this strategy is proximity of resources to the planned infrastructure of the MOD development. Pampa Medina is located within 25km of the preferred plant site for the MOD development, and there are several clear routes for a synergistic development using the MOD infrastructure. We have run an initial, internal, technical and economic evaluation to understand how it may fit with the broader development strategy and, as expected, the results were positive. As a result, we will take some additional time to consider whether this may change our base case development strategy for the MOD, which is currently being designed in our Definitive Feasibility Study.