Corina Gold Project

The Corina Gold Project comprises a block of licenses totalling 8,300 hectares in area in the Antabamba region, Apurimac Department, Southern Peru.

The geological setting is a belt of Tertiary-age volcanic rocks that also host to Hochschild’s Pallancata and Immaculada mining operations and past producer Selene, with Lara’s main targets located approximately 15km north (approximately 25km by road) of the mill at Selene, which serves the Pallancata mine.

At Corina the host rocks are mostly felsic tuffs, cut by an E-W fault, with brecciation and veining that has been mapped at surface over several kilometres. Mineralization is typically hosted by zones of brecciation with silicification, stockworks and quartz veining, within two sub-parallel structures denominated Corina and Micky. The Corina structure is mineralized but has so far returned lower grades and carries grey-white quartz and pyrite. The Micky structure has returned better grades, associated with chalcedonic quartz and coliform textures typical of low sulphidation epithermal alteration systems. The current working hypothesis is that the better intercepts on the Micky structure represent shoots that plunge shallowly to the east (comparable to the comportment of the Pablo-Yurika silver vein at Pallancata and the Angela gold vein at Immaculada).

The property was under option to Hochschild until late 2022, with a total of 13,045 metres of diamond drilling completed. The first drill program at Corina in 2019 intercepted a number of mineralized structures with high gold and silver values (see Lara news release of October 1, 2019 for details). The Covid-19 pandemic delayed follow-up work, but drilling resumed in later 2020 (see Lara news release of February 2, 2021 for details).

The Corina and Micky vein system is only partly tested and considered open both along strike and at depth. There are a number of other veins on the property identified by surface mapping and geophysics that remain largely untested.

The Hochschild Corina-Micky intercepts are summarised in the table below:

Hole_IDFromToWidth Au_ppm Ag_ppm Vein_Breccia
DHCOR19001201.55204.753.201.1323.79Corina
DHCOR19001218.80228.209.400.437.11Hydrothermal Breccia
DHCOR19002253.15256.002.850.372.91Corina
DHCOR19002330.20348.5018.300.261.35Hydrothermal Breccia
DHCOR19003142.85146.854.000.281.57Corina
DHCOR19003156.00165.259.250.243.46Hydrothermal Breccia
DHCOR19003219.80221.001.200.4667.40Corina
DHCOR19004245.90249.904.000.201.15Hydrothermal Breccia
DHCOR19004265.00266.351.350.619.00Corina
DHCOR1900591.1094.603.508.9732.00Micky Breccia
DHCOR1900594.60117.9023.300.463.36Veinlets/Disseminated
DHCOR19005117.90122.905.000.604.99Corina
DHCOR19006162.30163.301.000.3412.36Hydrothermal Breccia
DHCOR19006168.30169.301.001.2111.16Quartz Veinlets
DHCOR19006209.60211.101.501.727.65Corina
DHCOR19007126.40142.1015.704.5653.69Micky Breccia
DHCOR19007184.60189.204.601.1027.64Veinlets/Disseminated
DHCOR19007200.75201.751.001.3214.50Corina
DHCOR19008209.40211.001.600.522.05Hydrothermal Breccia
DHCOR19008220.00223.003.002.4822.07Micky Breccia
DHCOR19009144.80151.506.700.927.34Hydrothermal Breccia
DHCOR19009160.40165.405.001.086.98Micky Breccia
DHCOR19010186.60230.3043.704.0925.71Micky Breccia
DHCOR19011130.20138.708.500.4612.73Micky Breccia
DHCOR19011138.70143.304.600.402.51Quartz Veinlets
DHCOR19011143.30147.504.200.6081.51Micky Breccia
DHCOR1901281.8098.0016.200.391.80Quartz Veinlets
DHCOR19013172.65175.502.851.0717.34Corina
DHCOR19014245.60247.802.200.9023.17Hydrothermal Breccia
DHCOR19014270.65276.706.051.6219.78Micky Breccia
DHCOR20015182.70212.3029.602.5322.69Corina
DHCOR20016127.75138.1010.350.7314.83Corina
DHCOR20017172.90181.558.650.985.32Corina
DHCOR20017190.30191.801.502.5313.55Quartz Vein
DHCOR20018157.80159.802.001.2314.48Corina
DHCOR20019205.50211.305.801.3522.75Corina
DHCOR20020204.65236.2031.554.8643.34Corina
DHCOR20021143.75163.1019.353.8746.59Corina
DHCOR20022243.50245.301.801.36<5Corina
DHCOR20023204.90210.305.400.549.93Corina
DHCOR20024258.80265.857.050.458.32Corina
DHCOR20025201.40206.705.303.6217.00Corina
DHCOR21026141.80144.502.705.9737.57Corina
DHCOR21027226.30230.203.900.312.57Corina
DHCOR21028248.35250.502.153.1222.01Corina
DHCOR21029206.50207.300.80<3<5Luciano Vein
DHCOR21029278.70281.102.40<3<5Clara Vein
DHCOR21030213.85215.801.95<3<5Calvario Vein
DHCOR21031No intercept
DHCOR21032260.50261.200.701.2210.39Corina Este
DHCOR21033No intercept
DHCOR21034243.10243.400.304.936.69Quartz Veinlets
DHCOR21035175.60178.252.65<329.97Corina Este
DHCOR21036243.90246.852.950.625.38Corina Este
DHCOR21037212.00213.101.10<36.88Corina Este
DHCOR21037215.80216.100.30<315.11Corina Este
DHCOR21037219.10220.201.10<36.90Corina Este
DHCOR21038No intercept
DHCOR21039No intercept
DHCOR21040No intercept
DHCOR21041218.70222.453.75<323.98Hydrothermal Breccia
DHCOR21042No intercept
DHCOR21043No intercept
DHCOR21044No intercept
DHCOR21045No intercept
DHCOR21046No intercept
DHCOR21047225.10234.008.90<3<5Hydrothermal Breccia
DHCOR21048No intercept
DHCOR21050No intercept

Diamond drilling from 2019 was supervised by Hochschild’s exploration geologists based at site, who then take the core down to the exploration base in Calhuanca, where it is photographed, logged and the altered sections sampled. One quarter of core is sent to their certified internal laboratory at the Selene plant nearby and one-half of the core is sent to ALS Chemex in Lima. The results reported in the table above are all from the independent ALS Chemex laboratory. In addition to running all the samples through these two laboratories, Ares follows the standard QAQC procedures of inserting blank, reference and duplicate samples into its sample lots.

Diamond drilling from 2020-21 was supervised by Hochschild’s brownfields technical team, based at the Pallancata Mine. The core samples were submitted for analysis at Hochschild’s internal laboratory at the Selene Plant nearby, along with QAQC reference samples (blanks, standards and duplicates).

Michael Bennell, Lara’s Vice President Exploration and a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM), is a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects and has approved the technical disclosure and verified the technical information in this news release.

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