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Visionary Expands Slipstream Porphyry Gold-Copper-Silver Project in Utah, Secures Five-Year SITLA Exploration Agreement with Option to Lease
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - February 25, 2026) - Visionary Metals Corp. (TSXV...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Visionary Expands Slipstream Porphyry Gold-Copper-Silver Project in Utah, Secures Five-Year SITLA Exploration Agreement with Option to LeaseVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - February 25, 2026) - Visionary Metals Corp. (TSXV: VIZ) (\"Visionary\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Lost Creek Utah Corp, has entered into a Mineral Exploration with Option to Lease Agreement with the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) on behalf of the State of Utah.The agreement covers 2,584.80 acres (approximately 4.04 square miles) of State Trust Lands located in Box Elder County, Utah, directly within and adjacent to Visionary's unpatented mining claims.\"This agreement with SITLA represents an important milestone for the Slipstream Project and we are pleased to be working with SITLA to advance porphyry copper, gold and silver exploration in a responsible manner on SITLA lands and on our adjacent claims on federal lands,\" commented Wes Adams, CEO of Visionary Metals. \"There has never been a more important time than the present to be focused on new critical and precious metals discoveries in the United States and we believe the Slipstream Project has the potential to play an important role in contributing to future domestic precious and critical metals supply. SITLA revenue is a large contributor to K-12 education in Utah, so we are pleased that Utah school systems may benefit from the Project.\" About Slipstream ProjectThe newly consolidated land position consists of 468 unpatented mining claims and covering key parts of an approximately 37 km2 northeast-trending corridor containing porphyry-related copper-gold mineralization, proximal skarn, and distal carbonate-replacement (CRD) lead-zinc-silver mineralization centered on a porphyritic monzogranite intrusion within the historic Lucin Mining District in the northern Pilot Range.Visionary has compiled and evaluated all available geologic and geochemical data, including 380 surface rock samples collected between 1988-1997 and 25 new samples collected by independent geologists during 2025 project due diligence. Certain samples within the historic database exceeded 1% detection limits of 10,000 grams per tonne (\"g/t\") gold; 1% copper, molybdenum, lead and zinc; and 100 g/t silver. Highlights from the combined 405 sampl...