SILVERKNIFE AND AMY CLAIMS
Silverknife and Amy Claims
On February 10, 2021, the Company entered into a mineral property option agreement to acquire up to a 100% working interest in the Silverknife and Amy mineral properties in the Rancheria Silver District, north-central British Columbia (the “Rancheria Silver District”). The road accessible Silverknife Property lies just south of the British Columbia-Yukon border. The property claims are immediately adjacent, and to the west of, the claims owned by Coeur Mining that host the Silvertip deposit. Silverknife comprises of 2 mineral tenures covering approximately 538.3 hectares. Silverknife mineralization represents a zone of known silver-lead-zinc mineralization distal to, and stratigraphically lower than the Silvertip Deposit and more proximate to the Cassiar Batholith (heat source). This presents opportunities for the discovery of mineralization associated with chimney-type feeders and mantos that may be related to the SilverTip mineralizing event. The road accessible Amy Property lies 8 kilometers to the west of the Silvertip Mine complex. The Amy claims comprising of 16 mineral tenures (approximately 908.4 hectares) cover part of the Cassiar Batholith, a satellite plug and surrounding calcareous and non-calcareous sediments which in this area is a multikilometer extension of the same geological units that are mineralized in our Silver Hart Property. This highly prospective target stratigraphy extends southwards from our Rancheria South claims and transects the entire Amy claim block that is contiguous with the Rancheria South claims. A total of 7 mineralized showings have been identified within the Amy property comprising of high-grade silver veins and silver-lead-zinc carbonate replacement occurrences. The primary showing comprises of the Amy Showing which is a developed prospect comprising of a galena, sphalerite, pyrite, arsenopyrite, argentite, and friebergite “manto” body formed by replacement mineralization in folded Cambro-Ordovician Kechika Group metasediments. The property has been subjected to geological mapping, geochemical sampling, geophysical surveys. It hosts the developed prospect called “Amy” which has been subjected to 742 meters of drift/adit development and approximately 33 diamond drill holes focussed on a mineralized zone with a known strike length of 170 meters. The Amy prospect has a non-compliant 43-101 historic resource comprising of 72,431 tonnes grading 366.7 g/t silver, 6.03% zinc and 2.84% lead (i.e., 1.8 million ounces of silver equivalent at a grade of 790 g/t silver) (BC Minfile 104O 004).