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Intrepid Metals drills 105.2 m of 1.42% CuEq at Corral

2024-05-01 11:48 ET - News Release

Mr. Ken Brophy reports

INTREPID METALS INTERSECTS 105.20 METERS OF 1.17% COPPER (1.42% CUEQ) AND 48.85 METERS OF 2.24% COPPER (2.58% CUEQ) NEAR SURFACE IN ITS INITIAL DRILL PROGRAM AT ITS CORRAL COPPER PROPERTY IN ARIZONA

Intrepid Metals Corp. has released results from the first 12 diamond drill holes from its initial drill program on the company's Corral copper property in Cochise county, Arizona. The favourable results from the first 12 holes confirm the 3-kilometer-long trend of near surface carbonate replacement ("CRD") and related supergene enrichment oxide copper-gold-silver-zinc mineralization in the Holliday, Earp and Ringo zones, which falls within Intrepid's private property consisting of patented mining claims and additional surface rights. The planned 5,000m diamond drill program is ongoing within the three main mineralized zones on the Property. Highlights from the drill program to date are shown in Tables 1 through 3 below.

"The results from the first 12 drill holes returned long runs of robust CRD style mineralization punctuated by highly attractive high-grade intervals of copper-gold-silver-zinc, which confirms our confidence in the economic potential of the Property," stated Ken Brophy, Chief Executive Officer of the company. "Additional drilling will be completed at Corral Copper to further confirm historical copper-gold-silver-zinc grade and continuity and to lay the foundation for future exploration drilling designed to expand the Holliday, Earp and Ringo zones along strike and at depth and to identify a possible porphyry copper source for this mineralization."

"The results from the first holes of our initial drill program at Corral Copper reaffirms our belief in the full potential of the Property," says Mark Morabito, Founder and Chair of Intrepid. "We remain confident in the remainder of this drill program and look forward to returning more results to the market in the weeks ahead. In addition, we look forward to leveraging the data gained from the current program to propel the project forward and continue to add shareholder value."

Chris Osterman, geological advisor to the company, commented, "The quantity and tenor of gold in our intersections sets Corral Copper apart from typical Arizona copper deposits. The economic geology of the Ringo Zone is significant because drilling has yielded tens of meters of massive and semi-massive magnetite and hematite below the copper zones that open new possibilities on the origin of the deposit, as well as providing opportunities to guide future geophysical work and drill targeting."

The Corral Copper 2024 Drill Campaign

Intrepid has completed 18 diamond drill holes totaling approximately 3,300m as part of a planned 5,000m program within its private lands at Corral Copper. Intrepid is drill testing a 3.5 by 1.5 kilometer ("km") copper-gold-silver-zinc mineralized footprint to demonstrate its potential to host economic CRD, skarn, and related porphyry copper mineralization.

Precious and base metal mineralization at Corral Copper is concentrated in structurally controlled northeast dipping siliciclastic and carbonate sedimentary rocks including (oldest to youngest) Cambrian Bolsa Quartzite, upper-Cambrian Abrigo Limestone, Devonian Martin limestone and Mississippian Escabrosa limestone (Figure 1). The most intense mineralization occurs in the Abrigo Limestone (main host) and Bolsa Quartzite, which are intruded locally by a series of Jurassic (and possibly younger) mineralized intrusions including the Star Hill, Copper Bell and Sniveler porphyries, quartz latite sills, and cross-cutting mineralized breccia bodies.

The Corral Copper Property includes the Holliday, Earp and Ringo zones (northwest to southeast; Figure 1), which are related zones of discontinuously outcropping, locally high grade CRD and skarn related mineralization and associated supergene enrichment mineralization that are interpreted to have formed in the distal porphyry copper geological environment. Please refer to footnotes for details regarding assumptions for metal equivalent calculations and true widths.

The Holliday Zone

The Holliday Zone has a near surface mineralized footprint that is defined by historical drilling, favourable Abrigo Limestone (and Bolsa Formation), pre-mineral intrusions, alteration and copper-gold-silver-zinc replacement style mineralization and skarns (and secondary enrichment zones) that are locally high-grade (Figure 1; Tables 1 and 4). The Holliday Zone measures 860m (northwest to southeast) by 260m (southwest to northeast). To date, Intrepid has completed 7 holes in the Holiday Zone for a total of 1,148.59m. Highlight intercepts are included in Table 1 below and all results within Table 4.

The Earp Zone

The Earp Zone is located 250m southeast of the Holliday Zone and has a near surface mineralized footprint that is defined by historical drilling, favourable Abrigo Limestone (and Bolsa Formation), pre-mineral intrusions, alteration and copper-gold-silver-zinc replacement style mineralization, skarn, and secondary enriched copper oxide zones that are locally high-grade (Figure 1; Tables 2 and 4). The Earp Zone measures approximately 1,000m (northwest to southeast) by 320m (southwest to northeast). To date, Intrepid has completed 3 holes in the Earp Zone for a total of 383.75m. Highlight intercepts are included in Table 2 below and all results within Table 4.

The Ringo Zone

The Ringo Zone is located approximately 350m southeast of the Earp Zone and has a shallow mineralized footprint that is defined by historical drilling, favourable Abrigo Limestone (and Bolsa Formation), pre-mineral intrusions, alteration and copper-gold-silver-zinc replacement style mineralization and secondary enriched copper oxide zones that are locally high-grade (Figure 1; Tables 3 and 4). The Ringo Zone measures approximately 900m (northwest to southeast) by 800m (southwest to northeast). To date, Intrepid has completed 8 holes in the Ringo Zone for a total of 1837.88m. Highlights from the first two holes are included in Table 3 below and full results are within Table 4.

Technical Information

All scientific and technical information in this news release has been prepared by, or approved by Daniel MacNeil, PGeo. Mr. MacNeil is a Technical Advisor to the company and is a qualified person for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.

Mr. MacNeil has verified the drilling data disclosed in this news release, including the assay and test data underlying the information or opinions contained in this news release. Mr. MacNeil verified the data disclosed (or underlying the information disclosed) in this news release by reviewing imported and sorted assay data; checking the performance of blank samples and certified reference materials; reviewing the variance in field duplicate results; and reviewing grade calculation formulas. Mr. MacNeil detected no significant QA/QC issues during review of the data and is not aware of any sampling, recovery or other factors that could materially affect the accuracy or reliability of the drilling data referred to in this news release.

However, some of the data disclosed in this news release is related to historical drilling results which have been identified as such. Intrepid Metals and Mr. MacNeil have not undertaken any independent investigation of the sampling nor have they independently analyzed the results of the historical exploration work in order to verify the results. Intrepid and Mr. MacNeil considers these historical drill results relevant as the company is using this data as a guide to plan exploration programs. The company's current and future exploration work includes verification of the historical data through drilling.

Quality Assurance and Quality Control

Drill core was first reviewed by a geologist, who identified and marked intervals for sampling. The marked sample intervals were then cut in half with a diamond saw; half of the core was left in the core box and the other half was removed, placed in plastic bags, sealed and labeled. Intervals and unique sample numbers are recorded on the drill logs and the samples are sequenced with standards and blanks inserted according to a predefined QA/QC procedure. The samples are maintained under security on site until they are shipped to the analytical lab.

All core samples were sent to ALS Geochemistry (ALS), a division of ALS Global, in Tucson, Arizona, for sample preparation, with pulps sent to the ALS Geochemistry laboratory in Reno, Nevada for analysis. ALS meets all requirements of International Standards ISO/IEC 17025:2017 and ISO 9001:2015 for analytical procedures and is independent of the company. HQ size core was split and sampled over approximately two metre intervals. Samples were analyzed using: ALS's Fire Assay Fusion method (Au-AA23) with an AA finish for gold and by gravimetric finish (Au-GRA21) for samples assaying greater than 10 ppm (g/t) gold; by a 36-element four acid digest ICP-AES analysis (ME-ICP61) with additional analysis for Ore Grade Cu (Cu-OG62), Ore Grade Zn (Zn-OG62) and Ore Grade Pb (Pb-OG62); and for silver assays above 100 ppm (g/t) by Fire Assay Fusion method with gravimetric finish (Ag-GRA21). ME-ICP61 results were reported in parts per million (ppm), Ore Grade (OG62) results were reported in percent (%). In addition to ALS quality assurance- quality control (QA/QC) protocols, Intrepid implements an internal QA/QC program that includes the insertion of sample blanks, duplicates, and standards, with QA QC control samples comprising approximately 10% of the sample stream.

About Corral Copper

The Corral Copper Property is a district scale advanced exploration and development opportunity in Cochise County, Arizona. Corral Copper is located 15 miles east of the famous mining town of Tombstone and 22 miles north of the historical Bisbee mining camp which has produced more than 8 billion pounds of copper. Production from the Bisbee mining camp, or within the district as disclosed in the next paragraph, is not necessarily indicative of the mineral potential at Corral.

The district has a mining history dating back to the late 1800s, with several small mines extracting copper from the area in the early 1900s, producing several thousand tons. Between 1950 and 2008, various companies explored parts of the district, but the effort was uncoordinated, non-synergistic and focused on discrete land positions and commodities due to the fragmented ownership. Intrepid has been able to secure data from various sources which provides a solid foundation in creating geological interpretations and identifying new target areas.

The Corral Copper Property is comprised of the Excelsior Property, the CCCI Properties, the Sara Claim Group and the MAN Property. The company has completed the acquisition of the Excelsior Property and Sara Claim Group through purchase and sale agreements. The company has the right to acquire the corporate group that holds the CCCI Properties through an option agreement. The company has the right to acquire the MAN Property through an option agreement. See the "Commitments" section of the company's most recently filed Management Discussion and Analysis for further details.

Intrepid is confident that by combining modern exploration techniques with historical data and with a clear focus on responsible development, the Corral Copper Property can quickly become an advanced exploration stage project and move towards development studies.

About Intrepid Metals Corp.

Intrepid Metals Corp. is a Canadian company focused on exploring for high-grade essential metals such as copper, silver, lead, and zinc mineral projects in proximity to established mining jurisdictions in southeastern Arizona, USA. The company has acquired or has agreements to acquire several drill ready projects, including the Corral Copper Project (a district scale advanced exploration and development opportunity with significant shallow historical drill results), the Tombstone South Project (within the historical Tombstone mining district with geological similarities to the Taylor Deposit, which was purchased for $1.3B in 2018, though mineralization at the Taylor Deposit is not necessarily indicative of the mineral potential at the Tombstone South Project) both of which are located in Cochise County, Arizona and the Mesa Well Project (located in the Laramide Copper Porphyry Belt in Arizona). Intrepid has assembled an exceptional team with considerable experience with exploration, developing, and permitting new projects within North America. Intrepid is traded on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV) under the symbol "INTR" and on the OTCQB Venture Market under the symbol "IMTCF".

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