Mercado Minerals Signs Multiple LOI's to Acquire District Scale Land Holdings in the Prolific San Dimas Mining District of Durango, Mexico

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - June 2, 2026) - Mercado Minerals Ltd. (CSE: MERC) (OTCQB: MRMNF) ("Mercado" or the "Company") is pleased to announce it has signed two Letters of Intent ("LOI") to acquire two adjacent silver - gold epithermal projects (the "Projects") (see Figure 1), creating a 4,617 ha district scale opportunity with over 6.5 km of cumulative strike potential in the Sierra Madre Occidental.