Panoro Transaction with Hudbay Minerals for Kusiorcco Project Net Smelter Return Royalty

VANCOUVER, Jan. 8, 2025 - Panoro Minerals Ltd. ("Panoro" or the "Company") (TSXV: PML) (Lima: PML) (Frankfurt: PZM) (OTCQB: POROF) announces that Hudbay Peru S.A.C. ("Hudbay Peru"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hudbay Minerals Inc. ("Hudbay") has delivered notice to Panoro that it intends to exercise its option to repurchase and cancel the 2% net smelter return royalty on the Kusiorcco Project (the "Royalty") held by the Company, for cash consideration of USD $2.0 million. Hudbay Peru and Panoro are in the process of having the repurchase and cancellation of the Royalty registered in the Peru Public Registry ("Royalty Registration") which when finalized, will complete the transaction. The Royalty Registration is expected to be finalized in the coming weeks. The Company retained the Royalty from the sale of its Kusiorcco Project to Hudbay in 2018.

"We are grateful for Hudbay's continued strong relationship with, and support for, Panoro. We look forward to advancing the Cotabmabas project through prefeasibility and feasibility studies while the Company, in parallel, evaluates strategic alternatives to deliver value to shareholders and advance the Cotabambas Project into development," commented Luquman Shaheen, CEO and President of Panoro.

Panoro remains focussed on completing its technical objectives at the Cotabambas Project including project optimization studies which will feed into an updated PEA and help define the scope for the prefeasibility study.

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• Panoro delineating growth potential at the Cotabambas Project, while optimizing project economics.
• mineral resource estimates and assumptions; and
• the PEAs, including, but not limited to, base case parameters and assumptions, forecasts of net present value, internal rate of return and payback.

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• risks relating to metal price fluctuations
• risks relating to estimates of mineral resources, production, capital and operating costs, decommissioning, or reclamation expenses, proving to be inaccurate
• the inherent operational risks associated with mining and mineral exploration, development, mine construction and operating activities, many of which are beyond Panoro's control
• risks relating to Panoro's or its partners' ability to enforce legal rights under permits or licenses or risk that Panoro or its partners will become subject to litigation or arbitration that has an adverse outcome
• risks relating to Panoro's or its partners' projects being in Peru, including political, economic, and regulatory instability
• risks relating to the uncertainty of applications to obtain, extend or renew licenses and permits
• risks relating to potential challenges to Panoro's or its partners' right to explore or develop projects
• risks relating to mineral resource estimates being based on interpretations and assumptions which may result in less mineral production under actual circumstances
• risks relating to Panoro's or its partners' operations being subject to environmental and remediation requirements, which may increase the cost of doing business and restrict operations
• risks relating to being adversely affected by environmental, safety and regulatory risks, including increased regulatory burdens or delays and changes of law
• risks relating to inadequate insurance or inability to obtain insurance
• risks relating to the fact that Panoro's and its partners' properties are not yet in commercial production;
• risks relating to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, interest rates and tax rates
• risks relating to Panoro's ability to raise funding to continue its exploration, development, and mining activities; and
• counterparty risk under Panoro's agreements.

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SOURCE Panoro Minerals Ltd.