Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - June 4, 2024) - Atacama Copper Corporation (TSXV: ACOP) ("Atacama" or the "Company") is pleased to report results from five holes of a 10,000-metre diamond drilling program at its wholly-owned Cristina precious metals project in southwestern Chihuahua State, Mexico. Atacama has now reported ten holes totalling 3,094.5 metres of drilling as part of a 40-50-hole drill program. The Cristina project consists of multiple outcropping quartz veins that are frequently greater than 10 metres in width and extend for at least a five-kilometre strike length. Four parallel mineralized vein zones have been mapped and sampled to date, with most of the existing mineral resource estimate at Cristina contained within only one of the vein zones, the Guadalupe vein (Figures 1 and 2).

Drilling Highlights

Highlights of the five holes reported here, all from the eastern portion of the main Guadalupe vein system, include:

7.87 g/t AuEq over 1.3 m estimate true width (1.08 g/t Au, 282.5 g/t Ag, 3.84% Zn, 1.50% Pb and 0.17% Cu) in hole ACD24-226
This 1.3 m wide intercept occurs within a broader mineralized zone measuring 2.50 g/t AuEq over 22.0 m estimated true width (0.63 g/t Au, 60 g/t Ag, 1.42% Zn, 0.55% Pb, 0.04% Cu).
8.10 g/t AuEq over 1.8 m estimated true width (0.77 g/t Au, 214 g/t Ag, 5.18% Zn, 2.43 % Pb, 0.45% Cu) in hole ACD24-229
This 1.8 m wide intercept occurs within a broader mineralized zone measuring 4.76 g/t AuEq over 3.8 m estimated true width (0.93 g/t Au, 114 g/t Ag, 2.56% Zn, 1.38% Pb, 0.23% Cu).

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