GMV Minerals Inc. (the “Firm” or “GMV”) (TSXV:GMV)(OTCQB:GMVMF) is happy to announce optimistic outcomes from the up to date Preliminary Financial Evaluation (“PEA”) examine of the Mexican Hat Gold Venture (the “Mexican Hat Venture”), situated in Cochise County, southeastern Arizona.
A Nationwide Instrument 43-101 -Requirements of Disclosure for Mineral Initiatives (“NI 43-101”) compliant technical report (the “Report”) entitled “Up to date NI 43-101 Technical Report Preliminary Financial Evaluation, Mexican Hat Venture” with an efficient date of August 8, 2025 can be filed on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca beneath the Firm’s profile inside 45 days of this information launch. All quantities are acknowledged in second quarter 2025 US {dollars} (US$).
The Mexican Hat hosts a shallow oxide gold useful resource with wonderful metallurgy and excessive recoveries, supported by a low strip ratio and minimal pre-stripping. Infrastructure is in place and the Mexican Hat Venture demonstrates a strong NPV and IRR. With quick leach kinetics and low reagent consumption, the Firm believes the Mexican Hat Venture provides distinctive potential economics.
Highlights:
The Base Case generates a pre-tax Inside Fee of Return (“IRR”) of 66.1% (after-tax 50.2%) and a pre-tax web current worth (“NPV”) at a 5% low cost charge of US$390.2 million (after-tax US$268.3 million) with a 1.53 12 months payback (1.82 12 months after-tax) of invested capital utilizing a US$2,500 per ounce gold worth.Based mostly on worth sensitivity evaluation at roughly the present worth of US$3,350 per ounce of gold, the venture returns a pre-tax IRR of 106.8% (after-tax 82.5%) and a pre-tax NPV at a 5% low cost charge of US$767 million (after-tax US$538.1 million) with a payback interval of 1.10 years (1.3 years after-tax).Base Case mine lifetime of 10 years with whole manufacturing of 597,841 ounces, averaging roughly 60,000 ounces per 12 months.Crushed mineralized materials can be conveyor stacked at a charge of roughly 10,000 tonnes/day on a standard heap leach pad.Capex: US$89,997,000 (together with US$15.4 million contingency).Opex: US$788 million LOM with Low LOM Strip Ratio of two.05Estimated money value of manufacturing is US$1,354 per ounce with an all-in-sustaining value of $1,545 per ounce inclusive of sustaining capital and extra overhead assist.Engineering design evaluation signifies the potential to extend pit dimension and contained ounces with elevated gold costs.
FINANCIAL INDICATORS
The next desk summarizes the monetary indicators for the Mexican Hat Venture for each earlier than and after taxes.
Monetary Indicators Earlier than Taxes
Values
NPV money circulate (undiscounted)
US$537.7M
NPV @ 5%
US$390.2M
IRR %
66.1%
Payback (years)
1.53
Monetary Indicators After Taxes
Values
NPV money circulate (undiscounted)
US$377.9M
NPV @ 5%
US$268.3M
IRR %
50.2%
Payback (years)
1.82
GOLD PRICE SENSITIVITY TABLE (US$ MILLIONS)
The next desk summarizes the pre-tax and post-tax financial outcomes to gold worth sensitivity.
Pre-Tax and Publish-Tax Sensitivity to Gold Value
-60%
-45%
-30%
-15%
Base
+15%
+34%
+45%
+60%
US$/troy oz Gold
1,000
1,375
1,750
2,125
2,500
2,875
3,350
3,625
4,000
IRR (Pre-Tax)
18.3%
45.0%
66.1%
85.0%
106.8%
118.7%
134.2%
NPV @ 5% (Pre-Tax) US$M
-274.7
-108.5
57.7
224.0
390.2
556.4
767.0
888.9
1,055.1
IRR (Publish-Tax)
11.3%
33.4%
50.2%
65.2%
82.5%
91.9%
104.2%
NPV @ 5% (Publish-Tax) US$M
-274.9
-117.3
25.8
149.3
268.3
387.4
538.1
625.4
744.4
INITIAL CAPITAL EXPENDITURES (US$ MILLIONS)
Preliminary capital expenditures are estimated at US$89,997,000 million as detailed beneath:
OPERATING COSTS
The mine working prices have been calculated to common $3.49 per tonne mined as summarized beneath.
Mine Working Value Heart
Unit Value (US$/t mined)
Proprietor Mining Personnel
$0.11
Proprietor Provides & Misc.
0.03
Contractor Mining
3.35
Complete Value (Rounded)
$3.49
The life-of-mine working prices have been calculated to common US$20.44/tonne useful resource processed as summarized beneath.
Working Value
Value per Tonne of Crushed Materials Processed (US$/t)
Mining
$10.60
Processing
$8.79
G&A
$1.05
Complete Web site Working Value
$20.44
MINERAL RESOURCES
An up to date Mineral Useful resource Estimate ready by DRW Geological Consultants Ltd., with an efficient date of August 8, 2025, was used within the PEA. Particulars of the Mineral Useful resource Estimate might be discovered within the Report back to be filed on SEDAR+ inside 45 days of this launch.
Class
Minimize-off (g/t Au)
Grade (Au, g/t)
Tonnes
Gold Oz
Strip Ratio
Inferred
0.20
0.58
36,733,000
688,000
2.36
The Mineral Useful resource Estimate has been constrained to a preliminary optimized pit shell, utilizing the next parameters: SG = 2.57 gm/cc primarily based on testwork, mining prices = $3.00/tonne, mining restoration = 98%, mining dilution = 2%, course of value = $5.00 per tonne, G&A = $1.05 per tonne, gold worth = $2,500 per troy ounce, throughput at 10,000 tpd., low cost charge = 5%. A price of $0.03 was added per bench to the mining value beneath the present stage floor.A high minimize of 32 gpt gold is utilized to all zones besides Zone 6 which has a high minimize of fifty gpt gold.Mineral Assets have been calculated utilizing the Inverse Distance Squared technique.Mineral Assets constrained to optimized pit shells aren’t Mineral Reserves and should not have demonstrated financial viability.Conforms to NI 43-101, Companion Coverage 43-101CP, and the CIM Definition Requirements for Mineral Assets and Mineral Reserves. Inferred Assets have been estimated from geological proof and restricted sampling and have to be handled with a decrease stage of confidence than Measured and Indicated Assets.All numbers are rounded. Total numbers might not be actual on account of rounding.There are not any recognized authorized, political, environmental, or different dangers that might materially have an effect on the potential growth of the mineral assets.
MINE PLAN
The mine plan is conceived as a standard open pit tuck and shovel/loader operation. There are two impartial pits that are developed with five-phase or pushback designs. Pit shells have been designed utilizing 6.0-meter benches with a catch bench put in each 18 meters. A bench face angle of 66° was used, leading to an inner-ramp angle of 45° when catch benches have been included. An 88% total gold restoration has been used on this examine, which was primarily based on bottle roll and column leach take a look at outcomes. Base case haulage ramps are 26 meters broad and have a design gradient of 10%. Processing charges are primarily based on a each day crushing charge of roughly 10,000 tonnes per day using two stage crushing
The mine and crushing can be operated by contractors with oversight by GMV mine administration. The mine plan produces a nominal tonnage to the crushing and heap leach of three,500 Ktonnes per 12 months (10,000 tpd) from a complete materials motion of 93.8 Ktonnes for the lifetime of mine (26,106 tpd LOM common).
The PEA is preliminary in nature; it consists of inferred Mineral Assets which can be thought-about too speculative geologically to have the financial concerns utilized to them that might allow them to be categorized as Mineral Reserves, and there’s no certainty that the PEA can be realized. There isn’t a Mineral Reserve on the Mexican Hat Venture presently. Mineral assets that aren’t mineral reserves should not have demonstrated financial viability. Over the course of the mine life, 38.6 Mtonnes of Mineralized Useful resource is deliberate for processing out of a complete materials motion of 117.8 Mtonnes.
INFRASTRUCTURE & PROCESS PLANT
The Mexican Hat Venture is situated within the southeastern a part of the State of Arizona, roughly 72 miles east-southeast of Tucson, and might be accessed from the Previous Ghost City Street., a gravel street extending south of the City of Pearce or north from Gleeson Street.
Groundwater can be used because the supply of water for mining operations. No allowing restrictions or amount points are anticipated.
A 69 kV powerline to web site can be equipped by Sulphur Springs Valley Electrical Cooperative from their energy plant situated 30 km north of the venture web site.
The crushing plant can be operated by a contractor to supply a crushed product for heap leaching with a 25 mm high dimension. Pregnant resolution from the heap leach can be processed in a standard adsorption desorption restoration (ADR) plant. The method plant will produce doré gold bars.
TECHNICAL REPORT AND QUALIFIED PERSONS
The Report entitled Up to date Preliminary Financial Evaluation, Mexican Hat Venture”, with an efficient date of August 8, 2025 and which was ready by the next Certified Individuals (as outlined beneath NI 43-101), all of whom are impartial of the Firm, can be filed by the Firm inside 45 days of this launch on www.sedarplus.com:
Mr. Brian Olson, Q.P., Samuel Engineering, Inc. (Metallurgical Check Work and Restoration, Course of Plant and Course of Working Prices)Mr. Steven Pozder, P.E., Samuel Engineering, Inc. (Venture Economics and Infrastructure)Dr. Dave Webb, Ph.D., P.Eng., P.Geo., DRW Geological Consultants Ltd. (Mineral Useful resource Estimate, Property Description and Location, Accessibility, Local weather, Native Useful resource, Infrastructure and Physiography, Historical past, Geological Setting and Mineralization, Deposit Sorts, Exploration, Drilling, Pattern Preparation, Evaluation and Safety, Information Verification).Mr. Thomas L. Dyer, P.E., RESPEC LLC. (Mine Design, Manufacturing Schedule, Capital and Working Prices)Mr. Francisco J. Barrios, P.E., BBA Consultants Worldwide LP (Pad Design and Loading)Ms. Daybreak Garcia, CPG, PG, Stantec Consulting Companies Inc. (Environmental)
All Certified Individuals have contributed to their corresponding sections in Interpretation, and Suggestions. The Certified Individuals have reviewed and authorised the scientific, technical, and financial data obtained on this information launch.
For an outline of the information verification course of and limitations, underlying assumptions and the outcomes of surveys and high quality assurance program relating to exploration data, please confer with the Firm’s present NI 43-101 Technical Report filed on SEDAR+ entitled “Preliminary Financial Evaluation, Mexican Hat Venture” with an efficient date of October 20, 2020.
Ian Klassen, President & CEO remarked that “The strong PEA confirms our competition that the venture’s robust financial potential de-risks the event pathway, offering a strong basis for development. The outcomes validate the open-pit, heap-leach idea, exhibit wonderful metallurgy and recoveries, and description a easy mining and processing technique. With excessive margins, speedy payback, and easy engineering, the PEA positions the venture effectively for the long run, the place detailed design, capital optimization, and allowing can advance with confidence.”
2025-2026 Ahead Trying Plan
The Mexican Hat Venture PEA economics justify continued funding in venture growth. The forward-looking plan for Mexican Hat consists of work required to advance the venture by way of Feasibility Research and into the allowing course of.
These duties embody:
Approx. 7000 meters of in-fill drilling to extend confidence within the present geological understanding and mineral useful resource estimation to ample stage to assist mineral reserve developmentMetallurgical column, hardness, and grinding exams to additional optimize and enhance heap leach gold restoration, and to supply data for feasibility design workPerforming a trade-off examine for self-mining and crushing versus contract mining and crushingGeotechnical drilling and evaluation to optimize pit slope design parametersConduct base-line water sampling, and replace of hydrologic, cultural, and environmental research for allowing
About GMV Minerals Inc.
GMV Minerals Inc. is a publicly traded exploration firm centered on growing valuable steel belongings in Arizona. GMV, by way of its 100% owned subsidiary, has a 100% curiosity in a Mining Property Lease generally known as the Mexican Hat Venture, situated in Cochise County, Arizona, USA. The venture was initially explored by Placer Dome (USA) within the late 1980’s to early 1990’s. GMV is concentrated on growing the asset and realizing the total mineral potential of the property by way of close to time period gold manufacturing.
PEA Data and Cautionary Notice Relating to Inferred Mineral Assets
The mine plan evaluated within the PEA is preliminary in nature and consists of Inferred Mineral Assets, as outlined by NI 43-101 which can be thought-about too speculative geologically to have the financial concerns utilized to them that might allow them to be transformed to Mineral Reserves. Extra drilling and technical research will should be accomplished with a view to absolutely assess its viability. There isn’t a certainty {that a} manufacturing choice can be made to develop the Mexican Hat Venture or that the financial outcomes described within the PEA can be realized. Mine design and mining schedules, metallurgical circulate sheets and course of plant designs would require further detailed work and financial evaluation and inner research to make sure passable operational circumstances and selections relating to future focused manufacturing.
Cautionary Notice to U.S. Buyers
America Securities and Change Fee permits U.S. mining corporations, of their filings with the SEC, to reveal solely these mineral deposits that an organization can economically and legally extract or produce. We use sure phrases on this report, corresponding to “measured,” “indicated,” “inferred,” and “assets,” that the SEC tips strictly prohibit U.S. registered corporations from together with of their filings with the SEC.
Cautionary Assertion Relating to Ahead-Trying Data
This information launch consists of sure “forward-looking data” beneath relevant Canadian securities laws. Ahead-looking data embody estimates and statements that describe the Firm’s future plans, targets or objectives, together with phrases to the impact that the Firm or administration expects a acknowledged situation or consequence to happen. Ahead-looking data could also be recognized by such phrases as “believes”, “anticipates”, “expects”, “estimates”, “might”, “may”, “would”, “will”, or “plan”. Ahead-looking data contained on this information launch embody, however aren’t restricted to, statements or data with respect to: the outcomes of the PEA, together with the IRR and NPV, lifetime of mine and manufacturing, capital and working expenditures, value estimates; allowing restrictions, and the mine plan, together with infrastructure necessities and future plans; the submitting of the PEA, together with timing thereof, mineral assets; and future gold costs. Since forward-looking data are primarily based on assumptions and deal with future occasions and circumstances, by their very nature they contain inherent dangers and uncertainties as described within the Firm’s filings with Canadian securities regulators. Assumptions upon which forward-looking data contained on this information launch relies, with out limitation, embody: outcomes of future exploration; gold costs; accuracy of the outcomes of the PEA, together with key assumptions and strategies used to find out mineral assets and the outcomes of the PEA; the power to acquire required permits and approvals; the power to execute future plans; alternate charges; skill to acquire funding; and adjustments in regulatory or neighborhood setting; Dangers, and uncertainties embody: outcomes of additional exploration; dangers associated to mineral tenure, permits and approvals; dangers associated to the execution of future plans; adjustments in gold worth and alternate charges; dangers associated to acquiring financing; overseas nation dangers; regulatory dangers and liabilities; and people dangers and uncertainties as additional described within the Firm’s filings with Canadian securities regulators which might be discovered on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca beneath the Firm’s profile. There might be no assurance that such data will show to be correct, as precise outcomes and future occasions may differ materially from these anticipated in such data. Accordingly, readers mustn’t place undue reliance on forward-looking data. The Firm disclaims any intention or obligation to replace or revise any forward-looking data, whether or not because of new data, future occasions or in any other case, apart from as required by legislation.
Dr. D.R. Webb, Ph.D., P.Geo., P.Eng. is the Q.P. chargeable for this launch throughout the that means of NI 43-101 and has reviewed the technical content material of this launch and has authorised its content material.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Ian Klassen, President
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