Nova Pacific Completes Mobile Metal Ion Orientation Survey at Lara

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Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - July 31, 2024) - Nova Pacific Metals Corp. (CSE: NVPC) (OTCQB: NVPCF) (FSE: YQ10) (WKN: A40GFH) (the "Company," or "Nova Pacific") is pleased to announce that it has received results from a recent Mobile Metal Ion (MMI) orientation survey at the Lara volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposit located 15 km west of the port of Chemainus, British Columbia, Canada. The Lara Property comprises 4 mineral claims (~1848.1 ha) and is road accessible year-round via a network of logging roads throughout the claims.

MMI Soil Sampling

MMI is an innovative, high-resolution soil geochemistry exploration tool that is especially well-suited for deeply buried mineral deposits. The advantages of MMI soil geochemistry include the definition of sharp anomalies with few false anomalies, repeatability, defined metal zones and associations and low noise and limits of detection.

MMI orientation sampling was carried out on a small grid over known mineralization, namely the Coronation Zone, within the Lara Property. The mineralization is defined as a Kuroko style of massive zinc-lead-copper sulphides containing significant values of gold and silver. The purpose of the survey was to test the effectiveness of this technique in responding to this type of mineralization for future exploration on the Lara Property.

"Results of the MMI survey were successful in establishing correlation between underlying mineralization and the surface signature presented by MMI assay data when plotted for each element analysed. This will be extremely valuable when evaluating known mineralizing trends outside of the Main Coronation Zone, the Coronation Extension Zone, and the Hanging Wall zone where the existing mineral resource was established prior to the downturn in mineral prices in the late 1980's. Additional MMI surveys will be incorporated into Nova's exploration plans in the near future "commented Nova Pacific's CEO, Mr. Malcolm Bell.

The sampling was carried out along four survey lines with a 100-meter separation and a sampling interval of 25 meters. Each line was 500 meters long for a total survey length of 2,000 meters. This resulted in 84 samples which were taken into the laboratory at SGS Canada located in Burnaby, BC, with the testing including a 53-element MMI-M package. These results have now been received and colour contour plan maps were then created for 15 of the elements, five of which namely silver, gold, copper, nickel, zinc, and lead (Figure 1).

Figure 1. surface Projection, Heberlein & Dunn, 2017