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PIOCHE SEPIOLITE PROJECT, NEVADA, USA
Sunrise Resources Plc has completed a field program at its Pioche Sepiolite Project in Nevada, collecting seven mini-bulk samples from new sepiolite outcrops and forty-four additional core samples from previously untested layers identified through detailed review. These samples will support further performance testing, including applications in the US oil and gas drilling market, and have been provided to an interested European industrial minerals company. This follows positive test results from October 2025 and builds on previous work by Tolsa, confirming extensive sepiolite beds at the project. Disclaimer*
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n \nSUNRISE RESOURCES PLC\n(\"Sunrise\" or the \"Company\")\n \n8 January 2026\n \nPIOCHE SEPIOLITE PROJECT, NEVADA, USA\n \n \nFurther the Company's announcement (31 October 2025) of positive test results from its Pioche Sepiolite Project in Nevada, USA, the Company is pleased to provide the following report on a field-work programme carried out at Pioche in December 2025.\n \nSummary:\n \n· New field programme completed in December 2025.\n \n· Sepiolite outcrops located and sampled for further performance testing - seven mini-bulk samples collected.\n \n· Detailed review of core samples from 2024 drilling suggests additional layers and thicknesses of sepiolite not previously sampled or tested.\n \nØ Forty-four additional core samples selected for performance testing.\n \n· New samples provided to interested party, a large European industrial minerals company.\n \n· Samples collected will also support a planned Phase 3 testwork programme to apply Company's processing methodology across a wider range of samples, particularly for sepiolite applications in the valuable US oil and gas drilling markets.\n \nMore detailed information and field photographs are provided below.\n \n \nCommenting today, Executive Chairman Patrick Cheetham said:\n \n\"We have made considerable progress with the Pioche Sepiolite Project in 2025, building on the good work carried out by Tolsa in 2024.\n \n\"Tolsa's work has demonstrated that there are extensive sepiolite beds at Pioche, extending over several square kilometres, and our process development testwork in 2025 has laid a good foundation for the commercial development of this deposit, one of just a handful of commercial sized deposits in the World for this rare industrial mineral.\n \nThe samples resulting from the December field programme provide a bank of samples available to interested parties with the first batch of samples having now been received by a large European industrial minerals group.\"\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nFurther information:\n \n\n\n\n\nSunrise Resources plc\nPatrick Cheetham,\nExecutive Chairman\n\n\nTel: +44 (0)1625 838 884\n\n\n\n\n \nB...