Mr. George Ogilvie reports

ARIZONA SONORAN CLOSES C$21.6 MILLION PRIVATE PLACEMENT WITH HUDBAY AND NUTON

Further to Arizona Sonoran Copper Company Inc.'s press release dated Jan. 9, 2025, it has closed its private placement with Hudbay Minerals Inc. of 11,955,270 common shares at a price of $1.68 for gross proceeds to the company of $20,084,853-million. Additionally, Nuton LLC, a Rio Tinto venture, exercised its pre-emptive rights in respect of the Hudbay placement, pursuant to the terms of its investor rights agreement, to maintain its 7.2-per-cent equity interest in the company for gross proceeds of $1,562,210. Pursuant to the Hudbay placement and the Nuton placement, the company issued a total of 12,885,157 common shares at a price of $1.68 per share for aggregate gross proceeds of $21,647,064 to the company. The subscription by Hudbay reflects the base offering of 11,852,064 common shares as well as top-up shares of 103,206 common shares to achieve its 9.99-per-cent ownership of the company after giving effect to the private placement.

Arizona Sonoran Copper president and chief executive officer George Ogilvie commented: "With the completion of this financing, our company is fully funded with additional runway to complete our 2025 work programs. Our main deliverable in 2025 is the preparation of updated technical data on the entire Parks/Salyer deposit and producing a prefeasibility study in the second half of the year. We are excited to welcome Hudbay as a strategic investor of the company; an endorsement by a well-known and sophisticated entity. Hudbay has significant experience in mine development and construction, and we look forward to tapping into that wealth of knowledge as we continue to derisk the Cactus project through the remaining study phases to an eventual final investment decision, followed by construction and development. We also value the ongoing support of and partnership with Nuton."

Concurrent with the closing of the Hudbay placement, Arizona Sonoran Copper and Hudbay executed an investor rights agreement substantially on the terms disclosed in the Jan. 9 PR (press release). A copy of the investor rights agreement will be available in due course on SEDAR+ under the company's issuer profile.

Proceeds of the private placement are to be allocated for drilling, exploration, technical studies advancement of the company's Cactus project, and for general corporate purposes.

The common shares issued under the private placement are subject to a statutory hold period under applicable Canadian securities laws, expiring four months after closing the transaction. The private placement is subject to the final approval of the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Scotiabank acted as financial adviser, and Bennett Jones LLP as legal adviser, to the company in connection with the private placement.

About Arizona Sonoran Copper Company Inc.

Arizona Sonoran is a copper exploration and development company with a 100-per-cent interest in the brownfield Cactus project. The project, on privately held land, contains a large-scale porphyry copper resource, and a recent 2024 PEA (preliminary economic assessment) proposes a generational open-pit copper mine with robust economic returns. Cactus is a lower-risk copper developer benefiting from a state-led permitting process, in-place infrastructure, highways and rail lines at its doorstep, and on-site permitted water access. The company's objective is to develop Cactus and become a mid-tier copper producer with low operating costs that could generate robust returns and provide a long-term sustainable and responsible operation for the community, investors and all stakeholders. The company is led by an executive management team and board that have a long-standing record of successful project delivery in North America complemented by global capital markets expertise.

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