Arizona Sonoran Copper Company Inc. announced 60% completion of its 105,000 ft (32,000 m) infill to indicated drilling program at Parks/Salyer ("P/S"), located 1.3 mi (2 km) southwest of the Company's Cactus Mine Project. A total of 27 holes have now been drilled out of an anticipated 46 holes, with assays received to date for 15 holes, including the five reported in this release. The program continues to support the tenor of mineralization while reducing drill spacing from 500 ft (150 m) to 250 ft (76 m) centres, suitable to upgrade the resource from the inferred category to the indicated category.

Drilling has been staged to infill areas closest to the inferred high-grade core initially, before expanding out towards the west. The current 105,000 ft (32,000 m) drilling program is reducing drill spacings to 250 ft, aimed at upgrading the mineral resource category to indicated in support of the potential definition of maiden reserves in the upcoming PFS. To date the drilling of 27 infill core holes (59,289 ft | 18,071 m) has defined a high-grade zone within the eastern half of the deposit, which is currently being pursued westward with the remainder of the drilling, as demonstrated by the grade/thickness map of completed drilling.

Chalcocite and covellite are the dominant copper species in the enriched mineralization, replacing primary pyrite and chalcopyrite in their original depositional habits, such as veins, breccia fillings, voids and disseminations. Chalcocite also tends to build on itself, resulting in zones of higher- grade mineralization where the enrichment fluids had time and opportunity to continue the secondary enrichment process. Drilling completed on the project between 2020 and 2022 was supervised by on-site ASCU personnel who prepared core samples for assay and implemented a full QA/QC program using blanks, standards, and duplicates to monitor analytical accuracy and precision.

The samples were sealed on site and shipped to Skyline Laboratories in Tucson AZ for analysis. Skyline's quality control system complies with global certifications for Quality ISO9001:2008. Technical aspects of this news release have been reviewed and verified by Allan Schappert - CPG #11758, who is a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101- Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.