Fortuna expands gold mineralization at Sunbird and also determines new local prospects at Séguéla, Côte d ´ Ivoire.


 

Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. (NYSE: FSM) (TSX: FVI) delights in to supply an update on its expedition program at the Séguéla gold Job located in Côte d'Ivoire. Paul Weedon, Senior Citizen Vice President of Expedition at Fortuna, commented, "Exploration at Sunbird has remained to prolong the high grade mineralized impact to at the very least 400 meters listed below surface area where it remains open with drill opening SGDD102 converging 5.1 g/t gold over an approximated real width of 10.5 meters showing the possible benefit at depth." Mr. Weedon proceeded, "In addition, arises from drill opening SGRD1411 of 13.6 g/t gold over a true width of 6.3 meters highlight the definition of a 2nd shoot to the south which also continues to be open at depth and along strike." Mr. Weedon concluded, "In addition to the expedition success at Sunbird, local target generation on the Séguéla home has identified numerous new high grade leads, including Kestrel with drill opening SGRC1456 intersecting 24.0 g/t gold over an estimated true size of 2.8 meters.". Sunbird Deposit drill highlights include:. SGRD1411: 13.6 g/t gold over an approximated real size of 6.3 meters from 332 meters. SGRD1423: 8.2 g/t gold over an approximated true width of 4.9 meters from 359 meters. SGDD095: 16.6 g/t gold over an estimated real width of 2.8 meters from 217 meters. SGDD098: 6.9 g/t gold over an approximated true size of 5.6 meters from 290 meters. SGDD099: 4.3 g/t gold over an approximated true width of 11.2 meters from 389 meters.

 

SGDD102: 5.1 g/t silver over an estimated real size of 10.5 meters from 373 meters. Drilling further down-dip and also down-plunge at Sunbird has remained to converge high quality mineralization beyond the previously reported junctions (describe Fortuna news release dated June 7, 2022) expanding drill specified mineralization connected with the central high quality core a more 100 meters down-plunge where it stays open at deepness, some 400 meters below surface area (see Number 1). Additional exploration is planned in the 4th quarter of 2022 to check the projected expansions at depth. Along with expanding the central high quality core, exploration has prolonged the down-plunge extent of the southern shoot an additional 200 meters to the south, with drill hole SGRD1411 intersecting 13.6 g/t gold over an estimated true width of 6.3 meters where it continues to be open roughly 250 meters below surface area. Further exploration is intended in the 4th quarter of 2022 to evaluate the projected depth extensions.

 

This current exploration has actually expanded the specified mineralized strike at Sunbird to more than 1.1 kilometers. A more 480 meters to the south along the projected strike, a single exploration trench converged two zones of mineralization analyzed from geophysics to be expansions of the Sunbird structure, returned true size intervals of 3.8 g/t gold over 7 meters and 1.3 g/t gold over 9 meters (see Prospect P14 in Figure 2). Drilling is prepared for this location. Complete results gotten for this current 15-hole, 5,093-meter drill program are detailed in Appendix 1.

Number 1: Sunbird Down payment long-section looking west showing current drilling results. Figure 2: Seguela Project local strategy showing current drilling results. Ancien Deposit below ground highlights. A 6-hole, 1,957-meter program was completed at Ancien which was pierced to check the forecast of a number of high quality areas to aid boost the architectural understanding of the mineralization controls. This program was developed to aid future testing for prospective targets and mineralized extensions that might be amenable to below ground mining. Emphasizes consist of arise from drill hole SGRD1432 of 4.1 g/t gold over an approximated real size of 11.9 meters, consisting of 1.4 meters at 23.5 g/t gold and also arises from drill opening SGRD721 of 3.5 g/t gold over 4.9 meters, including 11.7 g/t gold over 0.7 meters (see Number 3).

 

Describe Appendix 2 for complete outcomes. Figure 3: Ancien Deposit long-section looking west showing recent boring results at deepness. Séguéla Job Regional Expedition. Reverse circulation (RC) as well as ruby drilling (DD) at the Kestrel, G7 as well as Winy regional expedition targets returned encouraging results (see Number 2). Kestrel (previously P12): located approximately 500 meters to the south along strike of Antenna, a 10 hole, 1,137-meter initial pass precursor RC and also DD program identified a new structure associated with strong silica alteration and quartz veining, with highlights over a 100-meter strike size including:. SGRC1456: 24.0 g/t gold over an estimated real size of 2.8 meters from 87 meters. SGRC1452: 13.2 g/t gold over an estimated real width of 1.4 meters from 78 meters. SGRC1451: 5.3 g/t gold over an approximated real width of 2.1 meters from 31 meters. SGDD103: 14.3 g/t gold over an approximated true width of 1.4 meters from 36 meters.

 

Regional geophysical interpretations suggest this framework may be a southerly expansion of the framework organizing the major Antenna mineralization. Additional drilling is intended in the fourth quarter of 2022. Describe Appendix 3 for full outcomes. G7: following up on the previous air core as well as scout RC boring program (describe Fortuna news release dated June 7, 2022), a follow-up 9-hole 840meter RC program was finished. The program was designed to test the connection of mineralization associated with substantial surface gold anomalism with exploration results converging mineralization over a 200-meter zone which stays open along strike and also at deepness. True size junctions include 2.2 g/t gold over 6.3 meters from 115 meters in drill opening SGRC1442 as well as 1.8 g/t gold over 9.1 meters from 38 meters in drill hole SGRC1444 (see Figure 2). Additional mapping and a testimonial of the information is planned with G7 held in the easternmost volcaniclastic and also schistose domain and represents a potentially brand-new host setting. Refer to Appendix 4 for full outcomes. Winy: a 19-hole 1,961 meter scout RC program was completed over a 600 meter strike size at Winy, following up on previous air core outcomes (describe Fortuna news release dated June 7, 2022). Exploration intersected a fairly narrow yet constant silicification area and connected quartz veining with pyrite, with results consisting of 12.3 g/t gold over 1.4 meters from 26 meters in drill hole SGRC1460 and also 14.9 g/t gold over 1.4 meters from 39 meters in drill opening SGRC1461 (see Number 2). Refer to Appendix 5 for full outcomes.

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