Honey Badger Silver Buys Yava Deposit, Continues to Build Silver Inventory
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Honey Badger Silver Inc. (TSXV:TUF)(OTCQB:HBEIF) has purchased the Yava project in Nunavut from Blue Moon Metals Inc. The acquisition involves 4,250,000 common shares of Honey Badger valued at CAD$0.08 per share, representing about 6.5% of Honey Badger's total issued and outstanding shares. The Yava project contains a historic resource of 4.5 million ounces of silver, acquired at approximately $0.08 per ounce. Located 45 km from Glencore's Hackett River project, Yava has significant exploration potential. The property includes four known base and precious metal occurrences and 9 km of strike-length along a volcanic-sedimentary rock interface. This acquisition aligns with Honey Badger's strategy of acquiring accretive silver ounces and projects.
Positive
- Acquisition of Yava project with 4.5 million ounces of silver in historic resource
- Purchase price of approximately $0.08 per ounce of silver in the historic resource
- Significant exploration potential and strategic location near Glencore's Hackett River project
- No cash payment or future obligations required for the acquisition
- Expansion of Honey Badger's portfolio of high-quality silver projects
Negative
- Issuance of 4,250,000 new shares, potentially diluting existing shareholders
- Historic resource estimate not verified as current mineral resource
- Additional work required to verify and update the historic resource estimate
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WHITE ROCK, BC / ACCESSWIRE / 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
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
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
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
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
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 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)(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,
(2) Clear Lake 2010 SRK historic Resource: Inferred 7.76 million tonnes grading 22 grams/tonne silver,
(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
For more information, please visit our website www.honeybadgersilver.com or contact Sonya Pekar for Investor Relations | spekar@honeybadgersilver.com |+1 (647) 498 - 8244
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Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information
This news release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of the applicable Canadian securities legislation that is based on expectations, estimates, projections and interpretations as at the date of this news release. Any statement that involves discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, interpretations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions, future events or performance (often but not always using phrases such as "expects", or "does not expect", "is expected", "interpreted", "management's view", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", "plans", "budget", "scheduled", "forecasts", "estimates", "believes" or "intends" or variations of such words and phrases or stating that certain actions, events or results "may" or "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken to occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and may be forward-looking information and are intended to identify forward-looking information. This forward-looking information is based on reasonable assumptions and estimates of management of the Company at the time such assumptions and estimates were made, and involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Honey Badger to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking information.
Such factors include, but are not limited to, risks relating to capital and operating costs varying significantly from estimates; delays in obtaining or failures to obtain required governmental, environmental or other project approvals; uncertainties relating to the availability and costs of financing needed in the future; changes in equity markets; inflation; fluctuations in commodity prices; delays in the development of projects; other risks involved in the mineral exploration and development industry; and those risks set out in the Company's public documents filed on SEDAR+ (www.sedarplus.ca) under Honey Badger's issuer profile. Although the Company believes that the assumptions and factors used in preparing the forward-looking information in this news release are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on such information, which only applies as of the date of this news release, and no assurance can be given that such events will occur in the disclosed timeframes or at all. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, other than as required by law.
SOURCE: Honey Badger Silver Inc.
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