RSS SubscribeVancouver, BC, February 19, 2026 – Mercado Minerals Ltd. (CSE: MERC) (“Mercado” or the “Company“) is pleased to report continued progress from ongoing exploration activities at its flagship Copalito Project (“Copalito” or the “Project”). The Company’s technical team in Mexico has been actively mapping, sampling, and advancing preparations for Mercado’s inaugural 3,000‑metre diamond drill program.
Prospecting across underexplored areas of Copalito has led to the discovery of multiple new vein occurrences in outcrop. Three newly identified areas of vein mineralization, which occur as quartz to quartz-carbonate veins, vein breccias and stockworks that range in width from 0.5 metres to 1.5 metres. Individual vein outcrops have been traced over a strike length of 1 metre to 10 metres, with two of the three new areas having veins exposed intermittently over a strike length of approximately 100 metres and 200 metres, respectively