공시 • Jan 19
Honey Badger Reports Second Batch of Assays from Plata Yukon Program More Keno Hill-Style High Grade Silver Values
Honey Badger Silver Inc. announced further results of rock and soil geochemical analyses from its 100%-owned, 5,690-hectare Plata Silver Property (“Plata”) located in east-central Yukon. Highlights of silver, gold, lead and zinc assays from five channel and chip samples collected from the Aho zone at Plata are listed below: 4,500 g/t silver, 7.26 g/t gold, 24.13% lead, 0.83% zinc over 0.85 metres; 3,480 g/t silver, 4.63 g/t gold, 23.79% lead, 2.05% zinc over 1.6 metres; 1,546 g/t silver, 3.28 g/t gold, 5.04% lead, 0.09% zinc over 1.45 metres; 868 g/t silver, 5.30 g/t gold, 7.47% lead, 1.95% zinc over 1.93 metres; and 202 g/t silver, 3.69 g/t gold, 1.12% lead, 10.1% zinc over 1.32 metres. In addition, gold assays have been received for five composite grab samples of hand sorted material collected from 90 ore bags left behind by historic miners at Plata. These are reported below in conjunction with silver, lead and zinc assays previously reported by the Company on December 13, 2021: 4.25 g/t gold, 5,190 g/t silver, 23.4% lead and 3.62% zinc; 7.56 g/t gold, 4,820 g/t silver, 13.15% lead and 2.78% zinc; 6.24 g/t gold, 4,000 g/t silver, 20.97% lead and 3.41 g/t zinc;2.67 g/t gold, 3,500 g/t silver, 17.5% lead and 3.07% zinc; and 5.61 g/t gold, 2,930 g/t silver, 10.5% lead and 2.26% zinc. Plata lies within the Tintina Gold Belt and displays numerous similarities to the world-class Keno Hill Mining Camp, Canada’s second primary producer of silver, located 165 km west of the Plata Silver Property. Keno Hill produced more than 200 million ounces of silver at an average grade of 44 ounces per ton (oz/t) of silver from approximately thirty-five vein deposits between 1913 and 1989. Honey Badger’s 2021 program comprised detailed structural and lithological mapping of the core region of the property, accompanied by rock and channel sampling of several historical occurrences (the P2, P3, P4 and P6 zones in particular) and soil geochemical sampling. In addition, composite grab samples were also collected from about 90 large ore bags of hand-sorted mineralization that were cached at the Plata airstrip by historical miners, in order to determine the approximate grade of the mined material. Analyses of channel, chip and outcrop samples from the P3 and P4 zones, collectively known as the Aho zone, have returned highly significant silver, gold, lead and zinc results. Channel samples were cut using a gas-powered rock saw and were taken from channels that were 8 to 10 cm wide and 6 to 10 cm deep. Channels were cut perpendicular to the mineralized zone and represent true widths. Where channel sampling was not possible (soft rock or clay) chip samples were taken. In all, a total of 16 channel and chip samples were collected at the Aho zone, as well as rock samples from outcrop. All of these samples returned elevated values for gold, silver, lead and zinc. Channel and chip sample highlights from the Aho zone include:,500 g/t silver, 7.26 g/t gold, 24.13% lead, 0.83% zinc over 0.85 metres; 3,480 g/t silver, 4.63 g/t gold, 23.79% lead, 2.05% zinc over 1.6 metres; 1,546 g/t silver, 3.28 g/t gold, 5.04% lead, 0.09% zinc over 1.45 metres; 868 g/t silver, 5.30 g/t gold, 7.47% lead, 1.95% zinc over 1.93 metres; and 202 g/t silver, 3.69 g/t gold, 1.12% lead, 10.1% zinc over 1.32 metres. Rock samples from outcrops at the Aho zone, returned: 4,260 g/t silver, 27.4 g/t gold, 9.72% lead, 0.12% zinc; 3,500 g/t silver, 2.27 g/t gold, 26.89% lead, 3.17% zinc; and 1,030 g/t silver, 4.92 g/t gold, 12.9% lead, 5.66% zinc Historical soil geochemistry data covers only the central portion of the Plata property with the majority of the samples taken in the 1970s and subsequent samples taken in 2008 and 2009. Some of the historical data comprises only silver and lead results, and none of the historical analyses included gold. Surprisingly, the historical data did not identify anomalous silver-in-soil values over the P1, P3, P4 or P5 zones, areas of substantiated high-grade mineralization. This may be due to the analytical technique used in the 1970s because these areas are marked by high lead values. Significantly, strong multi-element anomalies that occur elsewhere on the property have seen little to no follow-up work, including anomalies V, VI and IX all of which have strongly anomalous silver, lead and zinc values. These anomalies offer excellent potential for new discoveries. In 2021, a total of 260 soil samples were taken from a small grid to the west along trend of the P2 and Aho zones. The new soil results discovered another multi-element anomaly (VIII) that includes moderate to strongly elevated values for silver and zinc with moderate lead results. This anomaly also includes highly elevated values for gold, which suggests there is potential in this area for Type II mineralization similar to that at the Aho zone.