Honey Badger Silver Buys Yava Deposit, Continues to Build Silver Inventory
HONEY BADGER SILVER BUYS YAVA DEPOSIT, CONTINUES TO BUILD
SILVER INVENTORY
White Rock, British Columbia , October 2 , 2024 – Honey Badger Silver Inc. (TSXV:TUF |
OTCQB:HBEIF) (“Honey Badger” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has purchased
the Yava project located in Nunavut from Blue Moon Metals Inc. (“Blue Moon”). Pursuant to the
purchase agreement, Blue Moon is receiving 4,250,000 common shares (“Shares”) of Honey
Badger valued at CAD$0.08 per Share . No other obligations by Honey Badger are required (e.g.
no cash, no spending requirements, nor any future payments). This consideration represents
approximately 6.5% of the total issued and outstanding shares of Honey Badger.
The Shares are subject to a hold period under applicable securities laws which ends on February
2, 2025. Blue Moon has agreed not to resell the Shares for 12 months following closing without
the consent of the Company.
Honey Badger’s CEO, Dorian L. (Dusty) Nicol, commented, “ The Yava project is an exciting
addition to Honey Badger’s growing portfolio of high- quality silver projects. We already have
projects in Nunavut, NWT, and the Yukon and have experience operating in these areas. We are
acquiring this project that contains 4.5 million ounces of silver at a price of approximately $0.08
per ounce of silver in the historic resource. The millions of pounds of substantial strategic base
metal inventory come at zero cost in that calculation. In addition to its historic al resource, Yava
has tremendous upside exploration potential. Its location only 45 kilometres from Glencore’s
Hackett River project (which contains a huge silver resource, 105 million ounces Indicated plus
184 million ounces Inferred), and on the same mineralized belt, adds to the project’s value. This
is one more step in our strategy of acquiring accretive silver ounces and projects. We welcome
Blue Moon as a shareholder.”
Yava Deposit
The Yava Property is in the Mackenzie Mining District, Territory of Nunavut, approximately 450
kilometers northeast of Yellowknife. The Yava Property consists of one mining lease of 1,304
hectares.
The Yava Property envelopes four known base and precious metal occurrences mid- way along
the length of the Hackett-Back River greenstone belt. The north end of this greenstone belt hosts
the Hackett River base and precious metal resource currently held by Glencore. According to
Xstrata’s December 31, 2012, report, Hackett River’s resource estimate includes 25 million
indicated tons of 4.2% zinc, 0.6% lead, 0.5% copper, 130 g/t silver and 0.3 g/t gold as well as 57
million inferred tons of 3.0% zinc, 0.5% lead, 0.4% copper, 100 g/t silver and 0.2 g/t gold. This
represents 105 million ounces of silver Indicated plus 184 million ounces Inferred, among the
largest undeveloped deposits of silver in the world. The Nunavut government has been
supportive of mining and of initiating infrastructure projects including roads and ports.
Known metal occurrences at the Yava Property, the Hackett River occurrence and the Musk
occurrence are at or near the interface between uppermost felsic volcanic rocks of the
greenstone belt and overlying sedimentary rocks. The Yava mining lease includes 9 km of
northwest-trending strike-length along the aforementioned volcanic-sedimentary rock interface.
Brascan Resources Ltd. estimated that the Yava Main Zone contains 1.3 million tons of 4.96%
zinc, 1.03% copper, 1.60% lead, 3.42 oz/t silver, and 0.008 oz/t gold to a depth of 100 metres.
The Yava Zone remains fully open at depth, down dip and/or down plunge and along strike.
In addition, there is significant exploration potential associated with untested geophysical and
geochemical anomalies and along the favorable volcanic stratigraphy.
The map below shows the location of the Yava Property relative to Glencore’s Hackett River
Project.
Comments on the Historic Mineral Resource Estimate
The historic preliminary resource estimate of 1.3Mt grading 1.03% Cu, 1.6% Pb, 4.96% Zn, 3.42
opt Ag and 0.008 opt Au (Salaken, 1976, 1977) was prepared for Brascan Resources Ltd. It is
classed as a historic mineral resource estimate. A qualified person has not done sufficient work
to classify this historic tonnage estimate as a current mineral resource and the Company is not
treating the estimate as a current mineral resource. The historic resource estimate cannot be
relied upon. Additional work, including verification drilling / sampling and remodeling, will be
required to verify the estimate as a current mineral resource. In addition, the assessment of
economic viability would need to be redone using current or foreseeable metals prices, which
are higher than those used in the historic estimate.
Qualified Person
Technical information in this news release has been approved by Dorian L. (Dusty) Nicol, the
Company’s CEO (PG, FAusIMM), who is a Qualified Person (QP) for the purpose of National
Instrument 43-101.
About Honey Badger Silver Inc.
Honey Badger Silver is a silver company. The company is led by a highly experienced leadership
team with a track record of value creation backed by a skilled technical team. Our projects are
located in areas with a long history of mining, including the Sun rise Lake project with a historic
resource of 12.8 Moz of silver (and 201.3 million pounds of zinc) Indicated and 13.9 Moz of silver
(and 247.8 million pounds of zinc) Inferred (1)(3) located in the Northwest Territories and the Plata
high grade silver project located 165 km east of Yukon’s prolific Keno Hill and adjacent to
Snowline Gold’s Rogue discovery. The Company’s Clear Lake Project in the Yukon Territory has a
historic resource of 5.5 Moz of silver and 1.3 billion pounds of zinc (2)(3). The Company also has a
significant land holding at the Nanisivik Mine Area located in Nunavut, Canada that produced
over 20 Moz of silver between 1976 and 2002 (2,3). A qualified person has not done sufficient work
to classify the foregoing historical resources as current mineral resources and the Company is not
treating the estimates as current mineral resources. The historical resource estimates are
provided solely for the purpose as an indication of the volume of mineralization that could be
present. Additional work, including verification drilling / sampling, will be required to verify any
of the historical estimates as a current mineral resources.
(1) Sunrise Lake 2003 RPA historic resource: Indicated 1.522 million tonnes grading 262 grams/tonne silver, 6.0% zinc, 2.4% lead,
0.08% copper, and 0.67 grams/tonne gold and Inferred 2.555 million tonnes grading 169 grams/tonne silver, 4.4% zinc, 1.9% lead,
0.07% copper, and 0.51 grams/tonne gold.
(2) Clear Lake 2010 SRK historic Resource: Inferred 7.76 million tonnes grading 22 grams/tonne silver, 7.6% zinc, and 1.08% lead.
(3) Geological Survey of Canada, 2002 -C22, “Structural and Stratigraphic Controls on Zn -Pb-Ag Mineralization at the Nanisivik
Mississippi Valley type Deposit, Northern Baffin Island, Nunavut; by Patterson and Powis.”
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
Dorian L. (Dusty) Nicol, CEO
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