Star Metro - Continued Drilling At La Preciosa Delivers High-Grade Intercepts

Selected Intercept Highlights:

• Hole PMLP 25-12: 585 g/t Ag and 0.65 g/t Au over 4.90 metres true width

  • including 2,218 g/t Ag and 1.92 g/t Au over 0.51 metres true width

• Hole PMLP 25-14 at Gloria: 694 g/t Ag and 0.63 g/t Au over 4.52 metres true width

  • including 2,275 g/t Ag and 1.28 g/t Au over 0.61 metres true width

The variation of grades and thicknesses within relatively short distances (under 10 metres) compared with previously drilled intercepts were expected due to the "pinch and swell" geometry of the La Preciosa veins and the high nugget effects. The drill results exceeded grade expectations and verified the geometry of the current vein-based resource model.

"We are delighted to report excellent silver grades from all six holes at La Preciosa" said David Wolfin, President and CEO. "The significant widths at La Gloria encountered through the development and highlighted with these drill holes have us reconsidering our selected underground production mining method, which has the potential for larger tonnage per blast and lower mining costs. The silver grade continues to surprise to the upside with significantly higher silver grades compared to the average grade in our current mineral resource. These holes will also be outside of the upcoming mineral resource update and Avino's first La Preciosa mineral reserve due to the data not being received until after the cut of period in 2025. Having said that, we expect to encounter these high grades as we continue with development mining on each face of the vein to the north and south of the main San Fernando ramp."

Drilling Results

Assays have been received for six holes totalling 1,400 metres drilled at La Preciosa, with the full 2025 La Preciosa drill program comprising 14 holes for approximately 3,500 metres drilled. Hole PMLP 25-09 was twinned, while the remaining holes were completed as part of an infill drilling program. All six holes intersected the La Gloria and Abunduncia veins, as well additional unnamed veins in multiple holes. All assays were processed under Avino's standard QA/QC program, with no indications of bias or contamination detected. Copper values are not reported due to the La Preciosa deposit not containing significant copper mineralization.

Figure 1 - Longitudinal View of the La Gloria Vein Showing the Current Holes (highlighted) relative to the Historic Drilling

Figure 2 - Longitudinal View of the Abundancia Vein Showing the Current Holes (highlighted) relative to the Historic Drilling

Figure 3 - Cross-Section of PMLP25-14, looking North, Showing the Abundancia Vein, the La Gloria vein and the Projections of the Decline Ramp.

Geological Description

The La Preciosa deposit is situated on the eastern flank of the Cretaceous to mid-Tertiary Sierra Madre Occidental, (the "SMO"). The SMO is the largest silicic igneous province in North America, and it stretches from the USA-Mexico border to the latitude of Guadalajara, where the SMO is covered by the late Miocene to Quaternary Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt.

Mineralization at La Preciosa is hosted within multiple discrete poly-phase quartz veins, often displaying banded, smoky, drusy, and chalcedonic textures. Also, in each stage, there is variably crustiform banded fracture fill/breccia cement mineralogy. Fluorite, amethyst, a substantial number of barite laths, calcite, and rhodochrosite may also be present, and sulphide mineralization in the form of sphalerite, galena, pyrite, chalcopyrite, acanthite, sparse native silver, and free gold, as well as iron and manganese oxides have been noted in drill core. The principal silver-bearing mineral at La Preciosa is acanthite-pseudomorphic after argentite or as microcrystalline to amorphous grains.

The main vein system on the Abundancia ridge consists of dominantly north-south-striking and westward-dipping veins plus east-southeast -striking, south-dipping crosscutting veins. The Abundancia vein system has been traced on the surface for over 1.5 km. In the eastern part of the Project, a north- to northwest-striking, shallow west-dipping vein system with associated hanging wall veining and alteration is exposed in a series of hills. This vein system is referred to as the Martha vein and has been traced by drilling for over 2.5 km along the strike.

The mineralization in the area occurs in veins, veinlets, and stockwork. These veins average in true width less than 15 meters (Martha Vein) and consist of several stages of banded crustiform to colloform, quartz (and cryptocrystalline quartz at shallow depths), adularia, barite, and typically later carbonates (both calcite and rhodochrosite); illite commonly replaces the adularia. There are variable amounts of pyrite, sphalerite, and galena plus argentite, and variable amounts of tetrahedrite - tennantite, freibergite, and Ag sulfosalt.

About Avino

Avino is a silver producer from its wholly owned Avino Mine near Durango, Mexico. The Company's silver, gold and copper production remains unhedged. The Company intends to maintain long-term sustainable and profitable mining operations to reward shareholders and the community alike through our growth at the historic Avino Property and the strategic acquisition of the adjacent La Preciosa which was finalized in Q1 2022. Early in 2024, the Pre-feasibility Study on the Oxide Tailings Project was completed. This study is a key milestone in our growth trajectory. Avino has been included in the Toronto Stock Exchange's 2025 TSX30™. Avino has distinguished itself by reaching the 5th position on the TSX30 2025 ranking. As part of Avino's commitment to adopting sustainable practices, we have been operating a dry-stack tailings facility for more than two years with excellent results. We are committed to managing all business activities in a safe, environmentally responsible, and cost-effective manner, while contributing to the well-being of the communities in which we operate. We encourage you to connect with us on X (formerly Twitter) at @Avino_ASM and on LinkedIn at Avino Silver & Gold Mines . To view the Avino Mine VRIFY tour, please click here.

Note: All Avino Silver & Gold Mines Ltd. drill results are detailed in separate news releases and these releases are available on our website at www.avino.com and on our SEDAR profile at sedarplus.ca.

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Cautionary note to U.S. Investors concerning estimates of Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources

All reserve and resource estimates reported by Avino were estimated in accordance with the Canadian National Instrument 43-101 and the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum ("CIM") Definition Standards. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") now recognizes estimates of "measured mineral resources," "indicated mineral resources" and "inferred mineral resources" and uses new definitions of "proven mineral reserves" and "probable mineral reserves" that are substantially similar to the corresponding CIM Definition Standards. However, the CIM Definition Standards differ from the requirements applicable to US domestic issuers. US investors are cautioned not to assume that any "measured mineral resources," "indicated mineral resources," or "inferred mineral resources" that the Issuer reports are or will be economically or legally mineable. Further, "inferred mineral resources" are that part of a mineral resource for which quantity and grade are estimated on the basis of limited geologic evidence and sampling. Mineral resources which are not mineral reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability.

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SOURCE: Avino Silver & Gold Mines Ltd.

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W.Richard--SMC