Alianza Minerals

Overview

Resource-focused investors are all too familiar with mining companies aiming to explore and develop their portfolios. A typical junior or mid-tier mining company begins with exploration, then ideally moves towards developing the asset so it can eventually reach full production. It’s a story as old as mining itself, but is this the only way? The prospect generation model offers investors one of the best avenues to gain exposure to promising assets while simultaneously mitigating the risks associated with the exploration stage.

A prospect generator leverages its expertise to identify promising assets and conducts early-stage exploration, such as geophysics, geological mapping and geochemistry. Once an asset produces promising assay results, a partner may be solicited to help fund exploratory drilling. Rick Rule of Sprott USA said in an interview , “The idea is that the exploration business is very much like any other form of research and development business and that the chief value is actually the intellectual capital of the management team.”

Alianza Minerals (TSXV: ANZ ,OTCQB:TARSF) is an exploration company that embodies the prospect generation approach with a twist. The company employs a hybrid business model towards project generation, fully funding very select projects while finding partners for others. Alianza Minerals uses this approach to maximize opportunities for exploration success. The company boasts a diverse portfolio of projects in tier-one jurisdictions at different stages of exploration, with some having partnerships and others wholly owned by Alianza Minerals such as its high-grade Haldane silver project in Yukon.

The company is focused on politically stable jurisdictions throughout the Americas, particularly the Cordillera regions in Western, North and South America. The company has a large variety of assets, but three projects are currently at exciting stages of exploration. Its flagship project is the Haldane Silver project in Yukon, where the company recently completed exploration work in the historic Keno Hill District. The first phase program consists of mapping, prospecting and trenching of targets in preparation for drill testing to investigate exciting new targets as well as the extensions of new discoveries and historical, high-grade silver production on the property.

In addition to its flagship Haldane Silver project, the Tim Silver Project in Southern Yukon and the Twin Canyon Gold Project in Colorado are undergoing various stages of exploration. Twin Canyon Gold received approval for its planned drilling program from the United States Forest Service and the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety in January 2023. This provides the company all the necessary permits for the proposed 13-hole drill program from eight drill pads, totalling approximately 3,950 metres.

Both the Tim Silver and Twin Canyon Gold projects have access to roads and nearby power.

The company has optioned the Tim property in Yukon to Coeur Mining (NYSE:CDE) allowing the latter to earn 80 percent interest by completing $3.55 million in exploration over 5 years, making $575,000 cash payments and completing a feasibility study by the eighth anniversary.

Alianza also has two copper projects in Colorado – Klondike and Stateline – both projects covering rocks that host actively mined copper deposits nearby. Both projects have been optioned to Allied Copper.

Alianza Minerals has a diverse team of experts in both areas that builds confidence in the company’s ability to produce shareholder value with the prospect generation model. Jason Weber, Craig Lindsay and Marc Blythe have direct experience selling discoveries to other mining companies. Weber and Rob Duncan have a combined 55 years of mineral exploration experience, creating a solid foundation of expertise. Mark Brown was the founder of Rare Element Resources that he and his team built into a $500-million company. Experts in corporate management and accounting round out the management team.

Company Highlights

• Alianza Minerals is a prospect generation company that embraces a hybrid business model that enables them to bring on partnerships or fully own the asset, depending on what will maximize shareholder value.
• The company has an extensive portfolio of assets throughout tier one jurisdictions in the Americas. Most of its assets are within districts known for meaningful mineral deposits.
• The Haldane Silver Project is the company’s wholly owned flagship project and has recently seen some excellent high-grade silver intersections over potentially mineable widths.
• Coeur Mining is a meaningful partner providing its expertise and capital to the Tim Project. Alianza is seeking partners for the Twin Canyon Project.
• Alianza’s Colorado Copper projects - Klondike and Stateline - have been optioned to Allied Copper, which can earn a 100- percent interest in the projects in return for shares, cash and exploration work.
• Alianza Minerals has an experienced management team with asset exploration and sales expertise. Each management team member brings decades of experience in mineral exploration, corporate administration or corporate finance.

Key Projects

The Haldane Silver Project - Yukon

The 100-percent-owned Haldane Silver Project is in an underexplored yet high-grade silver property in a historic silver-mining region in Yukon. The project covers 8,164 hectares that host structurally-controlled silver veins. Phase Two exploratory drilling was recently completed and produced promising results.

Project Highlights:

• 100 Years of Sporadic Work : The project has been known to host silver mineralization for over a century, but only received sporadic work that focused on specific areas rather than considering the entire property. Conversely, Alianza Minerals conducted thorough analyses before its exploratory drilling.
• Promising Historical Results : The property was mined in 1918, and the underground mine reportedly produced 24.7 tonnes of hand-sorted ore graded at 3,102 g/t silver and 59 percent lead.
• 2020/21 Drilling Discovery of High-Grade Mineralization : Phase Two drilling began in May 2021 and one drill hole intersected vein mineralization averaging 3,267 g/t silver, 5.8 percent lead and 7.02 percent zinc over 2.1 meters. Additional drill holes expanded upon this mineralization including 3.14 m (true width) averaging 1,351 g/t silver, 2.43 percent lead and 2.91 percent zinc
• Two additional High Grade Silver Targets : Drilling in 2019 and 2020 confirmed the presence of silver, lead and zinc at two other targets on the property including a brand new discovery at the Bighorn target and at Middlecoff, where the extensions of the high-grade silver production from the early 1900s were tested in drilling.
• NI 43-101 Report : In 2022, Alianza Minerals filed on SEDAR a National Instrument 43-101 compliant technical report on its Haldane project entitled "Technical Report on the Haldane Project, Yukon, Canada" prepared by Murray Jones, MSc, PGeo of Equity Exploration Consultants Ltd.
• 2022 Trenching and Mapping Complete : Alianza has completed exploration consisting of target mapping, prospecting and trenching to advance untested targets towards drilling in 2023.

Tim Project

The Yukon-based Tim Project consists of 72 mineral claims located 27 kilometers west of Watson Lake and only 19 kilometers northeast of the Silvertip deposit owned by Coeur Mining. Coeur Mining has partnered with Alianza and conducted mapping, soil sampling, trenching and airborne geophysical surveys. The company is currently awaiting receipt of a five-year Class 3 land use permit to allow drilling in 2023.

Project Highlights:

• Historic Trench Chip Samplings are Encouraging : Historic exploration trench chip samples returned 352.4 g/t silver and 9.12 percent lead over 4 meters. Additional grab samples returned assays of 1,248.1 g/t silver and 49.5 percent lead.
• Potential to Expand Known Mineralization : Alianza’s 2013 sampling returned 6.4 meters grading 220 g/t silver and 4.74 percent lead. These results, combined with Coeur’s application of its understanding of the Silvertip geology to Tim, lead management to believe that the known mineralization can be expanded.
• Encouraging SkyTEM Survey from Coeur : The airborne survey program identified several conductors that may correlate with oxidized silver-bearing mineralization found in the historic trench programs. The pending analyses from reopened trench samples taken during 2021 will substantiate the airborne exploration results .

Twin Canyon Project - Colorado

The Twin Canyon Project is located in Colorado and contains a sandstone-hosted gold prospect. The project is approximately 20 kilometers from the town of Mancos. A small family high-grade gold mining operation operated at Twin Canyon in the 1980s, using a simple crusher to liberate gold from the sandstone. Alianza acquired the property believing it may contain widespread gold mineralization on strike from the mine.

Project Highlights:

• A Novel, But Favourable Gold Host : Gold mineralization is known to be associated with bitumen and hosted within bleached and altered sandstone on the property, a largely unrecognized gold association not typically explored.
• Encouraging Underground Mine Samples : The Charlene Mine yielded gold values from grab samples that range from 0.1 to 15.77 g/t gold. Historic samplings from 1986 in the same area produced results ranging from 0.1 to 8.1 g/t gold over 3 meters.
• Geochemical Sampling Produced Promising Results : A sampling program in 2020 highlighted anomalous gold-in-soil values found throughout 3000 meters of strike length within the prospective sandstones. These results indicate that the known gold mineralization may extend beyond the mine.
• Drilling Program Approved. In January 2023, the company secured the approval from the United States Forest Service and the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety to conduct a proposed 13-hole drill program from eight drill pads, totalling approximately 3,950 meters.

Stateline and Klondike Copper Projects

In 2021, Alianza struck a strategic alliance with Cloudbreak Discovery to identify and acquire copper prospects in the Southwestern United States. The alliance focused on Southwest Colorado, acquiring and subsequently optioning two copper projects, Klondike and Stateline, to Allied Copper, which can earn a 100-percent interest in the projects in return for shares, cash and exploration work. Allied Copper is funding groundwork and remote sensing surveys that led to a five-hole drill program at Klondike (results pending).

Both projects target copper mineralization that occurs along fault grabens and extends into the surrounding permeable sandstones, in the same host rocks of the active Lisbon Valley copper mine. Copper (+/- silver) observed at the surface consists of malachite, azurite and chalcocite.

The Stateline property straddles the Utah/Colorado boundary, just eight kilometers on trend of the operating Lisbon Valley Copper Mine in eastern Utah. Stateline hosts copper oxide mineralization at surface, within host sandstone units bearing strong similarities to copper deposits at Lisbon Valley. Mineralized outcrops have yielded assay results up to 1.6 percent copper and 1.7 g/t of silver and 0.45 percent copper and 2.1 g/t of silver.

The Klondike Property is located 25 kilometers south of Naturita, Colorado within the Paradox Copper Belt, which includes the producing Lisbon Valley Copper Mine. Currently optioned to Allied Copper, the property hosts numerous copper occurrences on surface, including a new target that returned 1.56 percent copper from a 4.6 meter chip sample. The recently completed initial five-hole drill program at Klondike, fully funded by Allied Copper, tested three separate multi-kilometer copper-mineralized targets at the West Graben, East Graben and Northeast faults. Analytical results from this program are pending.

Management Team

Jason Weber - President, CEO and Director

Jason Weber is a geologist with 30 years of experience in the minerals exploration industry. Before Alianza, Weber held the position of president and CEO of Kiska Metals Corporation, an exploration company focused on exploring and developing the Whistler gold-copper porphyry project in Alaska. Weber was president and CEO of Rimfire Minerals Corporation from 2007 to 2009, when Rimfire merged with Geoinformatics to create Kiska. He initially joined Rimfire in 1999 as Manager of Corporate Communications after working as a consulting project geologist with Equity Engineering in Canada, the USA and Central America. Weber has served as a director and advisor to numerous junior exploration companies.

Rob Duncan - VP of Exploration

Rob Duncan has over 30 years of experience in mineral exploration with a wide range of companies, from major producers such as Rio Tinto and Inmet Mining to junior explorers. In addition, he has held senior management positions with junior explorers throughout the North American Cordillera, Canadian Shield and Eastern Europe. Duncan’s work entailed various deposit types, including orogenic gold, porphyry copper (gold), VMS, intrusion-related gold and epithermal gold-silver systems. He also has over 10 years of management experience, specifically with prospect-generator companies. In addition, he has held the position of exploration manager at Rimfire Minerals and VP of exploration and project development at Evrim Resources, now Orogen Royalties. (TSXV: OGN ,OTCQX:OGNRF).

Marc G. Blythe - Director

Marc Blythe has a Master of Business Administration from La Trobe University in Melbourne and a Bachelor of Mining Engineering degree from the Western Australian School of Mines. Blythe served as vice president of mining at Almaden Minerals from 2006 to 2011, also acting as president & CEO of Tarsis Resources, a predecessor of Alianza Minerals . He was also the vice president of corporate development at Nevsun Resources. Before that, Blythe held the position of corporate senior mining engineer for Placer Dome, a Vancouver-based company, from 2004 until 2006. During this tenure, Blythe completed internal and external mine evaluations, including advising on potential acquisitions and mining technology implementation.

Craig Lindsay - Director

Craig Lindsay has over 25 years of experience in corporate finance, investment banking and business development. His focus has been on mineral resources in the Western United States. He was the founder, president and CEO of Otis Gold until its sale to Excellon Resources (TSX:EXN) in 2020. Lindsay is currently the managing director of Arbutus Grove Capital, a private company offering corporate finance and merchant banking services.

Lindsay was a founder and president of Magnum Uranium until its merger with Energy Fuels (TSX: EFR ) in June 2009. He also served as vice president of the Corporate Finance and Investment Banking Group at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Lindsay was also the founder of Malaspina Capital, a junior capital pool company. He was responsible for identifying its merger with Miranda Mining, a Mexico-based gold producer subsequently acquired by Wheaton River Minerals.

Sven Gollan - Director

Sven Gollan spent 16 years as an investment/private banker in Germany and Austria, during which time he was active in the education and training of securities advisors and investment bankers. From 2011 to 2015, Gollan was an external consultant for the Grabher Family, Austria. Gollan has been with FruchtExpress Grabher as corporate treasurer since 2015. He is currently with FruchtExpress Norge, the Norwegian branch of FruchtExpress.

Mark T. Brown - Executive Chairman

Mark Brown obtained his Chartered Accountant designation in 1993 while working with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Vancouver, BC. Brown has led the financial aspects of Alianza Minerals since 2007, including financing, regulatory and reporting issues. Before Alianza, Brown was the controller of two operating gold mining companies with operations in Northern Canada and South America. Brown currently sits on the boards of other public companies. He leads a team of ten people in the Vancouver office of Pacific Opportunity Capital, a financial consulting and merchant banking firm that’s active in venture capital markets in North America.

Winnie Wong - CFO

Winnie Wong is the vice president of client services at Pacific Opportunity Capital, Alianza has retained to provide financial management and accounting services. After graduation from Queen’s University, Wong worked with Deloitte & Touche, where she earned her Chartered Accountant designation. She currently acts as the CFO and corporate secretary of certain TSX Venture Exchange companies. She was formerly CFO of Rare Element Resources, a company with a $500 million market cap, as well as Animas Resources and AQM Copper.