Fuerte Metals intercepts 7.3 g/t AuEq over 2.5m, 7.5 g/t AuEq over 1.5m and 9.2 g/t AuEq over 0.9m at its Cristina project in Chihuahua, Mexico

Vancouver, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – September 9, 2024) – Fuerte Metals Corporation (TSXV: FMT) (“Strong” or the “Company“) is pleased to report results from the latest five holes of a diamond drilling program at the wholly owned Cristina precious metals project in the southwestern state of Chihuahua, Mexico. Fuerte has now reported twenty holes totaling 5,411.5 meters of drilling as part of a 40-50 hole, 21,000 meter drill program. The Cristina project consists of multiple outcrop quartz veins that are often greater than 10 meters wide and extend for at least five kilometers. Four parallel mineralized vein zones have been mapped and sampled to date, with the majority of the existing mineral resource estimate at Cristina located within just one of the vein zones, the Guadalupe Vein (Figures 1 and 2).

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