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Honey Badger to begin exploration work at Plata

2025-06-12 16:44 ET - News Release

Mr. Chad Williams reports

HONEY BADGER ANNOUNCES SUMMER PLANS TO EXPLORE EXCITING NEW SILVER AND GOLD TARGETS AT PLATA

Honey Badger Silver Inc. will begin exploration work at Plata on or about June 17, 2025. The upcoming program will focus on new targets discussed in a news release dated April 16, 2025.

The company's executive chairman, Chad Williams, commented:

"We are excited to launch our 2025 exploration program at Plata, which is located immediately west of Snowline Gold's world-class Rogue gold discovery. We believe that we can extend the strike length of the high-grade Aho zone, where historical drilling intersected an impressive 2,827 g/t Ag, 3.65 g/t Au, 2.21 per cent Pb and 6.17 per cent Zn over 1.6 metres, through targeted prospecting to the east. This field season, we will rigorously test this high-priority target, alongside the Northwest target and a magnetic low anomaly that shows high potential for a Snowline-style gold system. Backed by a $50,000 Yukon government grant, Honey Badger is poised to prove up Plata's potential as a premier high-grade silver and gold project, paving the way for another transformative discovery in the Yukon's Tombstone gold belt."

Mineralization and targets at 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 district 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 Valley deposit adds the potential for a large gold deposit in addition to the high-grade silver vein potential.

Three targets will be the focus of the upcoming field program:

  1. Potential Snowline-style RIRGS and/or high-grade mineralization in the Northwest target;
  2. Potential extension of the high-grade Aho zone to the east; potential unrecognized mineralization along the Plata and Rogue thrust faults;
  3. Potential for RIRGS mineralization in newly staked claims over the magnetic low anomaly in the southern part of Plata.

Northwest target

This target is in the northwestern part of the Plata property, eight kilometres southwest of Snowline Gold's Cujo target, which has returned significant drill intercepts up to 0.11 gram per tonne Au (gold) over 407.4 metres. Importantly, major faults that occur at the Cujo showing have been interpreted to continue into the Northwest target at Plata. Additionally, the stream draining this area yielded highly anomalous Ag (silver), Pb (lead), Zn (zinc), As (arsenic) and Sb (antimony) stream sediment values during historic sampling carried out by the Yukon Geological Survey. Samples were not analyzed for Au (gold) during that program. The upcoming exploration program will comprise:

  • Geologic mapping, prospecting and geochemical sampling focused on the Ag-Au vein and RIRGS Au potential in the area;
  • Follow-up of anomalous silver-in-soil geochemical anomalies in the eastern part of this target area. These anomalies coincide with a regional structure and may be a target similar to the Plata and Rogue thrusts;
  • All samples will be analyzed for Au and Ag as well as pathfinder elements that can be associated with RIRGS mineralization, including Sb, As, Te (tellurium) and Bi (bismuth).

Aho area

This is in the central-eastern part of the Plata project. High-grade silver and gold mineralization occurs throughout the Aho zone, which has produced drill results up to 2,827 g/t Ag, 3.65 g/t Au, 2.21 per cent Pb and 6.17 per cent Zn over 1.6 m, and returned high-grade grab samples up to 78.6 g/t Au. The potential extension of the Aho zone to the east has never been examined in detail. The upcoming program will comprise:

  • Geologic mapping and prospecting of the eastern extension of the Plata thrust to determine whether high-grade silver mineralization of the Aho zone extends to the east.
  • Detailed prospecting and mapping of the Rogue thrust. Mineral occurrences P6 and P17 lie along the Rogue thrust and sheeted veins were discovered parallel to the Rogue thrust during the company's 2023 exploration program, indicating the potential for RIRGS mineralization along the structure, including east of the Aho zone.
  • Prospecting and mapping will follow up historical (1970s) anomalous silver-in-soil values one kilometre southwest of the Plata thrust.

Magnetic low

The company's most recent claims at Plata were staked in 2024 to cover a magnetic low anomaly postulated to represent a shallow intrusion. This is a potential host to Snowline-type RIRGS mineralization. The upcoming program will prospect in the area looking for exposures of the intrusive and take reconnaissance soil samples to see if there are indications of shallow mineralization.

Yukon Minerals exploration program agreement

The company has been awarded a grant from the government of the Yukon Territory to help finance the upcoming exploration program at Plata, under the Yukon Minerals exploration program (YMEP). Honey Badger will be eligible to receive up to $50,000 from the Yukon government under YMEP as reimbursement for up to 50 per cent of incurred exploration costs implementing this program.

Qualified person

Technical information in this news release has been approved by Dorian L. (Dusty) Nicol (PG, FAusIMM), a director and technical adviser 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 record of value creation backed by a skilled technical team. The company's projects are located in areas with a long history of mining, including the Sunrise Lake project with a historic resource of 12.8 Moz (million ounces) of silver (and 201.3 million pounds of zinc) indicated and 13.9 Moz of silver (and 247.8 million pounds of zinc) inferred 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. 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. 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.

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