Minera Alamos Inc. announce that further to its news release dated January 31, 2023, this year's exploration plans at Santana are underway. The focus on this year's drilling plan will be led by discovery drilling on a number of gold bearing breccia pipes in the cluster that comprise the Santana project. Some of these priority targets like Zata and Benjamin West have never been drilled before but have been shown to be gold bearing from several passes of surface sampling programs completed in recent years.

Up to 80 holes totaling 10,000 m of drilling have been laid out by the Company's exploration team with the first phase of the drilling commencing at Benjamin Hill (5-6 holes) and Benjamin West (2 holes) before moving to Zata (5-8 holes). With two active areas of drilling the Company expects to have the initial assays back from the Benjamin area while drilling continues at Zata enabling the next round of Benjamin drilling to be properly informed by the results received. Benjamin West is several hundred meters west of the Benjamin Hill target and has never been drilled.

Several passes of surface sampling of the outcropping breccia have returned grab assays as high as samples MC-1945 (15.28 g/t Au) and MC-1942 (20.88 g/t Au) within a cluster of 28 samples greater than 0.12 g/t Au that averaged 1.59 g/t Au. The target sits close to the andesite, quartz monzonite and tertiary sediment contacts that appear to be a highly prospective contact across the property. Zata has a surface expression of roughly 400m by 400m where surface rock chip samples have confirmed mineralization with grades up to 2 g/t gold.

The zone appears to be consistent with the type of feldspar porphyry system exposed at the Nicho Norte starter pit area. Total meterage will depend on results received but the planned program is well within the Company's budgets aided by a low cost of drilling due to the utilization of Minera's own drill rig at site.