Sonoro Gold Corp. announced that Neil Maedel did not seek re-election at the AGM held on June 29, 2023 and has therefore retired from his position as an Executive Director of the Company with effect from June 29, 2023. Mr. Maedel served as an Executive Director of the Company since February 2019. Mr. Jorge Alberto Diaz Avalos has been elected to the Board of Directors and appointed to the position of Vice-Chairman of the Board. Mr. Diaz is also the Vice-President of Operations, managing all aspects of field operations for the Company. In 2009, he co-founded the Company's wholly-owned Mexican subsidiary, Minera Mar De Plata, S.A. de C.V., which controls the Cerro Caliche project. Mr. Diaz is a mining engineer with a Master of Science, Mineral Economics degree from the Colorado School of Mines and a Mining and Metallurgical Engineer undergraduate degree from the University of Guanajuato. He is a
recipient of the Atlantic Richfield Award from the Colorado School of Mines, an award given to the top five students in mineral economics. Mr. Diaz has an extensive background in mining development including a successful and long career with Peñoles and Luismin where he developed underground and open pit mining operations. Mr. Diaz directed the development, construction and operations of both the La Colorada project for Eldorado Gold and later the Cieneguita heap leach mine for Glamis Gold. As General Manager, he led the multinational team that developed Alamos Gold's Mulatos Mine and also directed the design, construction and start of production of Morgain Minerals' El Cairo Mine. Through his consulting, engineering design and construction services company, Interminera, Mr. Diaz led the development of Pediment Gold's, and later Argonaut Gold's, La Colorada mine and the San Antonio
gold deposit. He subsequently discovered a new gold deposit in Quiriego, Sonora State, which he is currently operating as an open-pit heap-leach mine.