Within a belt of high-grade gold occurrences including the Ketza Mine with very high-grade silver in rock samples.
Located 50 km south of Ross River and 30 km west of the former Ketza Gold Mine in the Watson Lake Mining District of the Yukon, the road accessible 4200 hectare Groundhog project had its initial silver discovery in 1956. Since that time, over one hundred silver showings have been discovered in the district with a bulk sample from one showing of 52.5 tonnes grading approximately 3,800 gpt silver. Past rock samples grading up to 13,028 g/t silver, 85% lead, 4.46% zinc and 3.73% copper have been found on the property.
Highlights from Honey Badger Silver’s 2022 filed program at the Groundhog project include:
• 2,410 g/t silver, 7.8% copper, 0.27% lead and 0.75% zinc over 0.3 m (Cirque Showing).
• 2,430 g/t silver, 0.71% copper, 21.3% lead and 6.3% zinc over 0.3 m (Cirque Showing).
• 2,120 g/t silver, 78.6% lead, 0.45% zinc (grab from Foggy Showing).
• 755 g/t silver, 29.2% lead, 24.7% zinc (grab from Foggy Showing); and,
• 234 g/t silver, 11.7% lead and 3.2% zinc (grab from Rob #1 Showing).