
Honey Badger Silver Inc. (TSX-V: TUF) (OTCQB: HBEIF) is pleased to announce that it has added a significant number of new claims to its 100%-owned Plata project in the Yukon.
The Company’s Executive Chairman, Chad Williams, commented, “We are very excited to have expanded the claim package at Plata to cover the multiple new geologic targets identified by our team. These targets are fertile potential discovery ground for 1) high-grade silver vein mineralization and 2) for “Snowline-style” intrusive-related silver-gold mineralization.“
The current program is focused on geologic mapping and sampling of new targets as discussed in a news release dated June 12, 2025 (“Honey Badger’s Work Outlines New High-Grade and Rogue-Like targets at the Plata Project“) as well as on evaluating the new targets overlain by the new claims.
New Targets and Claims
Ninety-five claims covering 1985.50 hectares were recently staked. The map below shows the location of the new claims. The Plata property now comprises 465 claims covering a total area of 9,718.50 hectares. The new claims represent a 25.7% increase in the size of the property.
The rationale behind staking these claims is:
Property Map
About Plata
Plata is located in east-central Yukon within the Tombstone Gold Belt and is a past producing high-grade silver property that produced about 290,000 ounces of silver (Ag) from small-scale mining of high-grade veins that are exposed at surface. Ore was mined and flown by fixed wing aircraft to Idaho for processing. Historical exploration at Plata has primarily focused on the outcropping high-grade silver veins. These are analogous to the rich Keno Hill Silver Mine in the Yukon, one of the highest-grade silver deposits in the world, now operated by Hecla Mining. While the analogy to Keno Hill remains valid, the Company has continued to develop its understanding of Plata as part of a larger “Snowline-style” mineralized system. Understanding how Plata might fit into a Reduced Intrusion Related Gold System (RIRGS) like Snowline Gold’s Rogue and Valley deposits adds the potential for a large gold deposit in addition to the high-grade silver vein potential.
Qualified Person
Technical information in this news release has been approved by Dorian L. (Dusty) Nicol (PG, FAusIMM), a director and technical advisor of the Company, 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 Sunrise 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) 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). 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 (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.”2) Clear Lake 2010 SRK historic Resource: Inferred 7.76 million tonnes grading 22 grams/tonne silver, 7.6% zinc, and 1.08% lead.
(4) Carlson, G.G., 2010, “Technical Report Describing Exploration and Development at the Plata Project, located in the Mayo Mining District, East-Central Yukon”, report prepared for Platoro West Holdings Inc.
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