09:38 AM EDT, 10/28/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Soma Gold ( SMAGF ) Tuesday reported "positive" results from a preliminary Ore Sorting study conducted on a bulk sample of mineralized material from the Cordero Mine in Antioquia, Colombia.

The company said a series of calibration samples, representing four grade bins, was scanned with four standard sensors. This data was used to inform the decision to utilize the 3D laser and XRT sensors for the bulk sample test.

In the final sorted product from the coarse and middling samples, the 1,200kg sample was reduced by 70% to 570kg, "effectively increasing" the grade by 275% from 7.45 grams per tonne (g/t) to 20.44 g/t, while accounting for 90% of the gold in the bulk sample. It added that the results demonstrate that Cordero Mine ore is "amenable" to sorting and that Sensor-Based Sorting technology can achieve desired gold-grade targets with high mass recovery, minimizing the amount of metal lost to the reject stream.

"The next step is to install a pilot plant to process ROM material at a commercial level, enabling us to adjust algorithm parameters to optimize the sorted product for plant feed," said Soma's VP operations Mark Bren. "Installing this equipment at each of the El Bagre and El Limon Mills could effectively double throughput and ounces produced, reducing reliance on either mill to maintain planned production levels."

Shares of the company were last seen down 0.8% at $1.22 on the TSX Venture Exchange.

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