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Peruvian Metals Announces Encouraging Copper, Gold and Silver Results at its Aguila Norte Property in Northern Peru
Edmonton, Alberta--(Newsfile Corp. - December 17, 2025) - Peruvian Metals Corp (TSXV: PER) (OTC ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Peruvian Metals Announces Encouraging Copper, Gold and Silver Results at its Aguila Norte Property in Northern PeruEdmonton, Alberta--(Newsfile Corp. - December 17, 2025) - Peruvian Metals Corp (TSXV: PER) (OTC Pink: DUVNF) (\"Peruvian Metals\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce that the Company plans a 2026 exploration program focused on the gold, silver and copper veins located in close proximity to its 80-per-cent-owned Aguila Norte processing plant (\"Aguila Norte\" or the \"Plant\") located in Northern Peru. The Company holds an environmental permit (\"IGAC\") granted by the Peruvian government that permits the Plant to process mineral at the current 100-tonne-per-day level. Under the existing permit the Plant can be expanded to 350 tonnes per day. The Plant is located on a wholly owned concession covering 120 hectares held by Peruvian's 80% owned subsidiary Minera Aguila de Oro S.A.C (\"MADOSAC\"). MADOSAC owns two additional contiguous concessions totaling 263 hectares that are not covered by the environmental permit. The exploration program area contains numerous outcrops of the Late Cretaceous \"coastal batholith,\" composed of porphyritic diorite, granodiorite and tourmaline granodiorite rocks affected by a zone of strong shearing. These rocks intruded earlier metamorphic and volcanic sequences. Within the property, granodioritic rocks host several sets of subparallel veins and veinlets striking N40 degrees east, east-west, north-south and dipping sub-vertically.The Aguila Norte area was explored in 2009 by a Canadian junior, AndeanGold Ltd. (\"AndeanGold\"). Two areas of interest near the Plant were identified within the concessions, hosting a total of seven veins. One area contains a 140-metre adit developed in the 1980's where AndeanGold noted in their press release dated May 12th, 2009, that 31 samples taken from the adit returned a weighted average of 4.81 g/tonne (\"mt\"), Au, 41.7 g/mt Ag and 0.51% Cu. Due to the recent rise in gold, silver and copper prices, the Company is now reviewing the economic viability of these Au-Ag-Cu veins. The adit and old workings located 480 and 500 meters NE of the Plant expose two parallel mineralized quartz veins. Recent sampling by the Company confirms the Au-Ag-Cu mineralization in the two parallel veins with 6 grab samples from dumps and stockpiles averaged 1.10 grams...