Western Metallica Validates Copper Porphyry Potential by Completing Scout Drilling Program at its Caña Brava Cu-Mo Project In Peru

TORONTO, Feb. 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Western Metallica Resources Corp. (TSXV: WMS) (“Western Metallica” or the “Company”) is pleased to report results from its inaugural scout drilling program at the Luz Maria copper-molybdenum target, located within the Company’s 100%-owned Caña Brava Project, Northern Peru. Full results from the three initial drill holes have been received, confirming homogeneous copper and molybdenum grades throughout. The increase in sulfide content, and the change from disseminated pyrrhotite dominated mineralization in drill holes LM24DD001 and LM24DD002, to a stockwork of sulfide (pyrrhotite-pyrite-molybdenite-chalcopyrite) veinlets in drill hole LM24DD003, suggests an eastward vector towards a hotter centre of the porphyry system. Such evidence confirms the prospectivity for a major porphyry style copper-molybdenum deposit, as similar signatures can be associated with large and economic copper systems along the Andean Belt.