Vancouver, British Columbia – April 16, 2025 – TheNewswire - Stellar AfricaGold Inc. (TSX-V: SPX) ("Stellar" or the "Company") announces that work has started at the Tichka Est Gold Project in Morocco.

 

Tichka Est 2025 Exploration Program

 

The Company has launched its 2025 exploration program at its Tichka Est Gold Project in the High Atlas Mountain region of Morocco. The first step in the 2025 program is rehabilitating the access road that was damaged in the 2024 earthquake in Morocco. The access road winds for 8.5 kilometers from Analghi village at the 1,890-meter level to the Zone B gold discovery zone at 2,500 meters elevation. A contractor has been engaged, its heavy equipment has been mobilized, and the rehabilitation work has commenced.

 

The Zone B gold discovery is a N80° trending gold structure extending for over two kilometers along strike. It lies along a highly sheared contact of limestone and schist that is injected by quartz-ankerite-calcite veins and veinlets with traces of pyrite, chalcopyrite and arsenopyrite.

 

Fig 1. Extensional veins exposed by Road Construction at Structure B

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Following completion of the access road rehabilitation the Company will initiate a mechanical trenching campaign to follow up on previous trenching at Zone B which yielded 3.5 g/t Au over 155.7 meters.1 Among other targets, the trenching campaign is designed to cut across a diorite sill intrusion that was mapped previously and the shear zone identified in previous exploration campaigns. This trenching program is anticipated to take approximately three months to complete.

 

A similar campaign in 2023 uncovered an important gold anomaly and the current trenching campaign will target the projected expansion of the same gold-bearing structure. All sampling will be conducted according to industry standards and sent to Afrilab for assays.

About the Tichka Est Zone B Gold Discovery

 

The identified Zone B structures are within an approximately 1 km2 area of the 82 km2 total area of the Tichka Est Gold Project. To date, Stellar has built an 8.5-kilometer mountain access road and conducted extensive mapping, sampling and trenching focussing on the regions in and around Zone B. Thus far three significant zones of gold mineralization have been discovered with much of the overall Tichka Est project area still unexplored or only superficially examined.

 

At the Zone B several programs of mechanical and hand trenches delivered a series of impressive assay results including trenches MT1 3.5 g/t gold over 155.7 meters1, MT2 1.52 g/t gold over 39.7 meters and 1.58 g/t Au over 8.6 meters4, MT3 1.27 g/t gold over 80 meters4, T7B 3.4 g/t gold over 20 meters3, T6B 3.4 g/t gold over 17 meters3, and T2B 4.56 g/t gold over 15 meters2. Zone B is the primary exploration target for 2025 although Stellar will continue reconnaissance exploration throughout the Tichka Est Gold Project permits area.

 

1 News Release October 4, 2022

2 News Release April 19, 2021

3 News Release October 25, 2021

4 News Release January 25, 2022

 

About Stellar Africagold Inc.

 

Stellar AfricaGold Inc. is a Canadian precious metal exploration company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange symbol TSX.V: SPX, the Tradegate Exchange TGAT: 6YP and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange FSX: 6YP.

 

The Company maintains its head office in Vancouver, BC and has a representative office in Casablanca, Morocco.

 

Stellar’s principal exploration projects are its advancing gold discovery at the Tichka Est Gold Project in Morocco, and its early-stage exploration Zuenoula Gold Project in Côte d’Ivoire.

 

The technical content of this press release has been reviewed and approved by M. Yassine Belkabir, MScDIC, CEng, MIMMM, a Stellar director and a Qualified Person as defined in NI 43-101.

 

Stellar’s President and CEO J. François Lalonde can be contacted at +1 514-9940654 or by email at lalondejf@stellarafricagold.com

Additional information is available on the Company’s website at www.stellarafricagold.com.

 

On Behalf of the Board

J. François Lalonde

J. François Lalonde

President & CEO

 

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