Mirasol Resources Advances Exploration Program at Sobek Copper-Gold Project in Chile in Preparation for Drilling

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Sobek located 7 km directly west of Filo Mining’s Filo del Sol Project and 3 km from NGEx’s Lunahuasi discovery Construction of access road to priority drill targets at Sobek Central and Sobek North complete Priority drill targets identified by Airborne Mobile MT survey with coincident geochemical anomalies and select high-grade surface samples Maiden 3,000-meter drill campaign scheduled to resume in early 2024 VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mirasol Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: MRZ) (OTC: MRZLF) (the “Company” or “Mirasol”) is pleased to report that exploration has resumed at the Company’s 100%-owned Sobek Copper-Gold Project (“Sobek” or “the Project”) in the Vicuña Copper-Gold-Silver District of Chile. The field program is currently underway in preparation for the continuation of the maiden drill program that was suspended late last season due to the onset of winter weather (news release dated August 21, 2023). Drilling is scheduled to start at Sobek Central early in Q1 2024, following which the drill is expected to be mobilized to Sobek North. Sobek was staked by Mirasol in 2016 based on prospective local geology and attractive structural architecture prior to the 2021 discovery of the high-grade feeder zone at the Filo del Sol gold-copper deposit. The Project is located on the same trend and just 7 km to the east of the Filo del Sol deposit and only 3 km to the southeast of NGEx Mineral’s discovery at Lunahuasi (formerly Potro Cliffs).    Figure 1: High-Profile Vicuña Copper-Gold-Silver District Regional Map “The Sobek project is located in the middle of the high-profile Vicuña Copper-Gold district in northeast Chile, positioning Mirasol adjacent to the north-south trend which hosts Filo del Sol and NGEx’s Lunahuasi discovery,” Mirasol’s President Tim Heenan stated. “We are excited about the high-quality drill targets at Sobek and look forward to resuming the drill program in early 2024.” Sobek Central – Continuing the Maiden Drill Campaign Exploration at Sobek is currently well underway with all permits and community access agreements in place. The completion of the new access road has substantially improved exploration crews’ access into the area to continue field evaluation at a much more detailed scale. Exploration activities currently underway include detailed geological and structural mapping, sampling, an...

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