Silver Elephant Reports 106.7 Million Oz Indicated and 13.1 Million Oz Inferred Silver Mineral Resource Estimate for the Pulacayo Project
Silver Elephant Reports 106.7 Million Oz Indicated
and 13.1 Million Oz Inferred Silver Mineral
Resource Estimate for the Pulacayo Project
Vancouver, British Columbia, October 13, 2020 – Silver Elephant Mining Corp. (“Silver Elephant” or
“the Company”) (TSX: ELEF, OTCQX:SILEF, Frankfurt:1P2N) announces the results of a National
Instrument 43-101 (“NI43-101”) compliant Mineral Resource Estimate for the Pulacayo silver-lead-zinc project
(“Pulacayo Project”) in Bolivia. The Pulacayo Project consists of the Pulacayo Deposit and Paca Deposit (7km
north of Pulacayo deposit). The project is 107 km northeast of Sumitomo Corporation’s San Cristobal silver
mine, 171 km southwest of New Pacif ic’s Silver Sands discovery, and 139 km north of Pan American Silver
Corp.’s San Vicente silver mine.
The Mineral Resource Estimate has an effective date of October 13 , 2020 and includes an Indicated Mineral
Resource of 106.7 million oz of silver, 1,384.7 million pounds of zinc, and 693.9 million pounds of lead, and an
Inferred Mineral Resource of 13.1 million oz of silver, 122.8 million pounds of zinc and 61.9 million pounds of
lead. Silver Elephant’s wholly owned Bolivian subsidiary has invested over US$30 million at the Pulacayo Project
since 2006.
The Mineral Resource Estimate was prepared by Mercator Geological Services Limited (“ Mercator”) under
supervision of Matthew Harrington, P. Geo., who is an independent Qualified Person as defined under NI 43 -
101. A technical report documenting the Mineral Resource Estimate will be filed by the Company within 45 days.
A contained metal summary based on the Mineral Resource Estimate for the Pulacayo Project is reported below
in Table 1.
Table 1: Pulacayo Project Mineral Resource Estimate Summary of Total Contained Metal - Effective
October 13, 2020**
Zone Category Rounded Tonnes Ag Moz Zn Mlbs Pb Mlbs *AgEq Moz
Open Pit
Constrained
Indicated 47,380,000 101.0 1,365.0 687.5 202.0
Inferred 4,165,000 8.0 80.3 53.5 14.3
Out-of-Pit Indicated 660,000 5.7 19.6 6.4 6.5
Inferred 900,000 5.2 42.4 8.3 7.4
Total: Indicated 48,040,000 106.7 1,384.7 693.9 208.5
Inferred 5,065,000 13.1 122.8 61.9 21.7
** Accompanying notes for the Mineral Resource Estimate are presented below with Table 3.
The Pulacayo Deposit Mineral Resource Estimate is based on estimates of Pit -Constrained and Out of Pit
Mineral Resources, details of which are presented below in Table 2. These estimates are based on 73,016
metres of diamond drilling (244 surface and 42 underground drill holes). Table 3 presents the Pit - Constrained
Paca Deposit Mineral Resource Estimate. This estimate is based on results of 104 diamond drill holes and 6
reverse circulation drill holes totaling 19,916 meters completed between 2002 and 2020.
Table 2: Pulacayo Deposit Combined Pit -Constrained and Out -of-Pit Mineral Resource Estimate –
Effective Date October 13, 2020**
Cut -off
Grade Zone Category Rounded
Tonnes Ag g/t Zn % Pb % Ag
Moz
Zn
Mlbs
Pb
Mlbs
*AgEq
Moz
*AgEq
g/t
50 Ag g/t Oxide
In-Pit
Indicated 1,090,000 125 4.4
Inferred 25,000 60 0.0
30 *AgEq
g/t
Sulfide
In-Pit
Indicated 24,600,000 76 1.63 0.70 60.1 884.0 379.6 123.4 156
Inferred 745,000 82 1.79 0.61 2.0 29.4 10.0 3.9 164
100
*AgEq g/t
Sulfide
Out-of-
Pit
Indicated 660,000 268 1.35 0.44 5.7 19.6 6.4 6.5 307
Inferred 900,000 179 2.14 0.42 5.2 42.4 8.3 7.4 257
Total:
Indicated 26,350,000 70.2 903.7 386.0 133.4
Inferred 1,670,000 7.2 71.8 18.4 11.4
** Accompanying notes for the Mineral Resource Estimate are presented below with Table 3.
Table 3: Paca Deposit Pit-Constrained Mineral Resource Estimate – Effective Date October 13, 2020**
Cut -off
Grade Zone Category Rounded
Tonnes Ag g/t Zn % Pb % Ag
Moz
Zn
Mlbs
Pb
Mlbs
*AgEq
Moz
*AgEq
g/t
50 Ag g/t Oxide
In-Pit
Indicated 1,095,000 185 6.5
Inferred 345,000 131 1.5
30 *AgEq
g/t
Sulfide
In-Pit
Indicated 20,595,000 46 1.07 0.67 30.5 485.8 304.2 70.2 106
Inferred 3,050,000 46 0.76 0.65 4.5 51.1 43.7 9.2 94
Total:
Indicated 21,690,000 37 485.8 304.2 70.2
Inferred 3,395,000 6 51.1 43.7 9.2
**Notes:
1. Mineral Resources were prepared in accordance with NI 43-101, the CIM Definition Standards (2014) and CIM MRMR Best
Practice Guidelines (2019).
2. *Ag Eq. = Silver Equivalent (Recovered) = (Ag g/t*89.2%)+((Pb%*(US$0.95/lb. Pb/14.583 Troy oz./lb./US$17 per Troy oz.
Ag)*(10,000*91.9%))+((Zn%*(US$1.16/lb. Zn/14.583 Troy oz./lb./US$17 per Troy oz. Ag)*(10,000*82.9%)). Sulphide zone
metal recoveries of 89.2% for Ag, 91.9% for Pb, and 82.9% for Zn were used in the Silver Equivalent (Recovered) equation
and reflect metallurgical testing results disclosed previously for the Pulacayo Deposit. A metal recovery of 80% Ag was used
for oxide zone Mineral Resources.
3. Metal prices of US$17/oz Ag, US$0.95/lb Pb, and US$1.16 Zn apply. A currency exchange rate of CDN$1.00 t o US$0.75
applies.
4. Pit-Constrained Mineral Resources are defined for each deposit within optimized pit shells with average pit slope angles of 45⁰.
The Pulacayo Deposit Mineral Resource Estimate was optimized at a 12.3:1 strip ratio and the Paca Deposit Mineral Resource
Estimate was optimized with at a 4.3: strip ratio.
5. Base-case sulfide zone pit optimization parameters include: mining at US$2.00 per tonne; combined processing and G&A at
US$12.50 per tonne processed; haulage at US$0.50 per tonne processed for Pulacayo and US$2.00 per tonne processed for
Paca.
6. Base-case oxide zone pit optimization parameters include: mining at US$2.00 per tonne; combined processing and G&A at
US$23.50 per tonne processed; haulage at US$0.50 per tonne processed for Pulacayo and US$2.00 per tonne processed for
Paca.
7. Pit-constrained sulphide zone Mineral Resources are reported at a cut-off grade of 30 g/t Ag Eq. within the optimized pit shells
and pit-constrained oxide zone Mineral Resources are reported at a cut-off grade of 50 g/t Ag within the optimized pit shells.
Cut-off grades reflect total operating costs used in pit optimization and are considered to define reasonable prospects for
eventual economic extraction by open pit mining methods.
8. Out of Pit Mineral Resources are external to the optimized pit shells and are reported at a cut-off grade of 100 g/t Ag Eq. They
are considered to have reasonable prospects for eventual economic extraction using conventional underground methods such
as long hole stoping based on a mining cost of $35 per tonne and processing and G&A cost of $20 per tonne processed.
9. “Total” Mineral Resources for the Pulacayo Deposit Combined Pit -Constrained and Out-of-Pit Mineral Resource Estimate is
the tonnage-weighted average summation of Pit-Constrained and Out-of-Pit Pulacayo Mineral Resources.
10. “Total” Mineral Resources for the Pulacayo Project Mineral Resource Estimate is the tonnage-weighted average summation of
total Pulacayo Deposit and Paca Deposit Mineral Resources.
11. Mineral Resources were estimated using Ordinary Kriging methods applied to 1 m downhole assay composites capped at
2,300 g/t Ag, 13% Pb and 15% Zn.
12. Bulk density was interpolated using Ordinary Kriging methods for Pulacayo Mineral Resources. An average bulk density of
2.32 g/cm3 or 2.24 g/cm3 was applied to Paca Mineral Resources based on grade domain solid models.
13. Mineral Resources may be materially affected by environmental, permitting, legal, title, taxation, sociopolitical, marketing, or
other relevant issues.
14. Mineral Resource tonnages have been rounded to the nearest 5,000; totals may vary due to rounding.
There are no known legal, political, environmental, or other risks identified by the Company at the October 1 3,
2020 effective date that would materially affect potential future development of the Pulacayo Project.
Pulacayo Project maps are available at www.silverelef.com.
Pulacayo Deposit
The Pulacayo and Paca Deposits are interpreted to be low-to-intermediate sulphidation epithermal deposits.
The Pulacayo Deposit occurs within the Tertiary age Pulacayo volcanic dome complex that consists of older
sedimentary rocks of the Silurian Quenhua Formation and the intruding andesitic volcanic rocks of the Rothchild
and Megacristal units. Mineralization hosted by volcanic rocks can be tens of meters in thickness and typically
consists of discrete veins plus stockworks of narrow veins and veinlets that occur within argillic alteration host
rock envelopes. Veins are commonly banded in texture and can contain semi -massive to massive sulphides.
The primary minerals of economic importance at Pulacayo are tetrahedrite, galena and sphalerite. There are
also silver sulfosalts and native silver which contribute to deposit silver grades. Mineralization is controlled by an
east-west oriented normal fault system which links two northeast trending, steeply dipping, regional strike slip
faults.
Historic Pulacayo mine production was predominantly from the Tajo vein system (TVS) which extends over a
strike length of more than 2.5 km and down dip 1,000 meters. Resource drilling spans 1.4 km mineralized strike
and extends down dip 400 meters from the surface. It covered an area that’s approximately 30% of TVS. There
is the potential of discovering additional resources by drilling along the strike and at depth.The sensitivity analysis
shown in Table 4 and Table 5 illustrates various pit -constrained grade- tonnage scenarios for the Pulacayo
deposit based on a range of cut -off grades. Table 6 shows sensitivity analysis for out -of-pit grade tonnage
scenarios.
Table 4: Pulacayo Deposit Pit-Constrained Cut-Off Grade Sensitivity Report for Oxide Zone
Cut -off
Grade
Category Rounded
Tonnes Ag g/t Zn
%
Pb
% Ag Moz Zn Mlbs Pb Mlbs *AgEq Moz AgEq
g/t
30 Ag g/t
Indicated 1,760,000 92 5.2
Inferred 35,000 55 0.1
45 Ag g/t
Indicated 1,220,000 116 4.6
Inferred 30,000 58 0.1
90 Ag g/t
Indicated 615,000 171 3.4
Inferred 0
200 Ag g/t
Indicated 185,000 250 1.5
Inferred 0
Note: Cut-off grade for pit-constrained oxide Mineral Resources is 50 g/t Ag.
Table 5: Pulacayo Deposit Pit-Constrained Cut-Off Grade Sensitivity Report for Sulfide Zone
Cut -off
Grade Category Rounded
Tonnes
Ag
g/t
Zn
%
Pb
% Ag Moz Zn Mlbs Pb Mlbs *AgEq Moz AgEq
g/t
30 AgEq g/t
Indicated 24,600,000 76 1.63 0.7 60.1 884 379.6 123.4 156
Inferred 745,000 82 1.79 0.61 2 29.4 10 3.9 164
45 AgEq g/t
Indicated 23,715,000 78 1.67 0.72 59.5 873.1 376.4 122 160
Inferred 735,000 83 1.81 0.61 2 29.3 9.9 3.9 166
90 AgEq g/t
Indicated 13,700,000 121 2.17 0.99 53.3 655.4 299 100 227
Inferred 290,000 154 3.62 0.97 1.4 23.1 6.2 2.9 312
200 AgEq g/t
Indicated 5,385,000 249 2.75 1.54 43.1 326.5 182.8 66.3 383
Inferred 180,000 230 4.57 1.22 1.3 18.1 4.8 2.5 426
400 AgEq g/t
Indicated 1,860,000 387 3.62 2.25 23.1 148.4 92.3 33.8 565
Inferred 105,000 297 5.29 1.46 1 12.2 3.4 1.8 521
Note: Resource Estimate cut-off grade bolded.
Table 6: Pulacayo Deposit Out-of-Pit Cut-Off Grade Sensitivity Report for Sulfide Zone
Cut -off
Grade Category Rounded
Tonnes Ag g/t Zn
%
Pb
% Ag Moz Zn Mlbs Pb
Mlbs *AgEq Moz AgEq
g/t
100 AgEq g/t
Indicated 660,000 268 1.35 0.44 5.7 19.6 6.4 6.5 307
Inferred 900,000 179 2.14 0.42 5.2 42.4 8.3 7.4 257
150 AgEq g/t
Indicated 530,000 321 1.3 0.49 5.5 15.2 5.7 6 354
Inferred 680,000 220 2.25 0.46 4.8 33.7 6.9 6.6 300
200 AgEq g/t
Indicated 435,000 359 1.41 0.53 5 13.5 5.1 5.5 394
Inferred 505,000 260 2.37 0.54 4.2 26.4 6 5.6 343
250 AgEq g/t
Indicated 350,000 397 1.53 0.59 4.5 11.8 4.6 4.9 435
Inferred 375,000 309 2.14 0.64 3.7 17.7 5.3 4.6 381
300 AgEq g/t
Indicated 290,000 429 1.63 0.64 4 10.4 4.1 4.4 468
Inferred 310,000 327 2.23 0.72 3.3 15.2 4.9 4 403
350 AgEq g/t
Indicated 230,000 462 1.74 0.7 3.4 8.8 3.5 3.7 504
Inferred 225,000 358 2.18 0.85 2.6 10.8 4.2 3.1 434
400 AgEq g/t
Indicated 180,000 490 1.93 0.74 2.8 7.7 2.9 3.1 538
Inferred 165,000 384 2.01 0.99 2 7.3 3.6 2.4 455
Note: Resource Estimate cut-off grade bolded.
Paca Deposit
The Paca Deposit is located 7 km north of the Pulacayo Deposit.
Paca Deposit mineralization occurs at surface and has been defined to date to a maximum depth below surface
of approximately 200 metres. The current near surface dimension of the Paca Deposit measures approximately
750 meters North- South by 750 meters East -West. The deposit includes a core zone of feeder -style
mineralization associated predominantly with brecciated andesite, plus additional zones of shallowly dipping
mantos-style mineralization that are hosted by the surrounding volcano- sedimentary sequence. Mineralization
occurs in association with the same Tertiary age volcanic dome complex that produced the Pulacayo Deposit
and takes the form of thin veinlets, fracture fillings and disseminations hosted by altered volcaniclastic
sedimentary lithologies and altered intermediate to felsic igneous lithologies. The Paca Deposit remains open at
depth and along the strike.
Sensitivity analysis shown in Tables 7 and 8 illustrates various pit-constrained grade-tonnage scenarios at the
Paca Deposit based on a range of cut-off grades.
Table 7: Paca Deposit Pit-Constrained Cut-Off Grade Sensitivity Report for Oxide Zone
Cut -off Grade Category Rounded
Tonnes Ag g/t Zn
%
Pb
%
Ag
Moz
Zn
Mlbs
Pb
Mlbs
*AgEq
Moz
AgEq
g/t
30 Ag g/t
Indicated 1,805,000 128 7.4
Inferred 500,000 102 1.6
45 Ag g/t
Indicated 1,225,000 170 6.7
Inferred 375,000 124 1.5
90 Ag g/t
Indicated 800,000 231 5.9
Inferred 235,000 159 1.2
200 Ag g/t
Indicated 420,000 311 4.2
Inferred 55,000 285 0.5
400 Ag g/t
Indicated 80,000 493 1.3
Inferred 5,000 459 0.1
Note: Cut-off grade for pit-constrained oxide Mineral Resources is 50 g/t Ag.
Table 8: Paca Deposit Pit-Constrained Cut-Off Grade Sensitivity Report for Sulfide Zone
Cut -off
Grade Category Rounded
Tonnes Ag g/t Zn % Pb % Ag
Moz
Zn
Mlbs
Pb
Mlbs
*AgEq
Moz
AgEq
g/t
30 AgEq g/t
Indicated 20,595,000 46 1.07 0.67 30.5 485.8 304.2 70.2 106
Inferred 3,050,000 46 0.76 0.65 4.5 51.1 43.7 9.2 94
45 AgEq g/t
Indicated 19,315,000 48 1.11 0.69 29.8 472.7 293.8 68.3 110
Inferred 2,650,000 51 0.81 0.7 4.4 47.3 40.9 8.7 102
90 AgEq g/t
Indicated 8,600,000 87 1.38 0.95 24.1 261.6 180.1 45.4 164
Inferred 950,000 114 0.94 0.95 3.5 19.7 19.9 5.2 171
200 AgEq g/t
Indicated 1,810,000 256 1.22 1.22 14.9 48.7 48.7 18.5 318
Inferred 190,000 338 0.61 0.98 2.1 2.6 4.1 2.2 360
400 AgEq g/t
Indicated 300,000 490 1.38 1.47 4.7 9.1 9.7 5.2 542
Inferred 50,000 545 0.39 0.82 0.9 0.4 0.9 0.9 530
Note: Resource Estimate cut-off grade bolded.
Regional Exploration Potential
Numerous prospective targets which exhibit mineralization expression on surface have been identified around
and between the Pulacayo and Paca deposits. The Company has already commenced activities to explore these
areas.
Silver Elephant Remarks
Joaquin Merino, VP for South American Operation, commented: “With an Indicated Mineral Resource Estimate
of 106.7 million oz of silver, 1,384.7 million pounds of zinc, and 693.9 million pounds of lead, and an Inferred
Mineral Resource Estimate of 13.1 million oz of silver, 122.8 million pounds of zinc and 61.9 million pounds of
lead, the Pulacayo Project should be recognized as a top- tier silver project with significant zinc and lead by -
product credits. There is demonstrated potential for further resource expansion, and this overall large resource
could eventually lead to a district-scale open-pit operation.”
Qualified Persons
Mr. Harrington, P. Geo. of Mercator Geological Services Limited is responsible for disclosure regarding the
Pulacayo Project Mineral Resource Estimate.
The technical contents of this news release have been prepared under the supervision of Danniel Oosterman,
VP Exploration. Mr. Oosterman is not independent of the Company in that he is employed by it. Mr. Oosterman
is a qualified person (“QP”) as defined by the guidelines in NI 43-101.
About Mercator
Mercator Geological Services Limited is a Canadian consulting firm founded in 1997 that offers a broad range of
professional project management services including technical reporting to stand ards referenced in NI 43- 101,
exploration program management, and professional staffing for mineral exploration projects. Mercator prepared
the Pulacayo deposit mineral resource estimations for Apogee Silver Ltd during the 2011 to 2013 period.
About Silver Elephant
Silver Elephant Mining Corp. is a premier silver mining company. The Company’s goal is to enable
shareholders to own as much silver in the ground as possible.
SILVER ELEPHANT MINING CORP.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
“Joaquin Merino”
VP For South America Operation
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