- Blackrock Silver (TSXV:BRC) released its latest high-grade silver and gold intercepts from its Tonopah West project in Nevada
- Highlights include 4.24 metres grading 700 grams per ton silver equivalent in TXC25-138, which yielded multiple over 1 kg/ton silver intercepts
- Blackrock Silver is a junior miner developing demonstrated gold and silver ounces in the ground along Nevada’s Walker Lane trend and Northern Nevada rift
- Blackrock Silver stock has given back 10.29 per cent year-over-year but remains up by 45.24 per cent since 2020
Blackrock Silver (TSXV:BRC) released its latest high-grade silver and gold intercepts from its Tonopah West project in Nevada, where a 2024 resource estimate details 577,000 ounces of gold and 48.5 million ounces of silver.
The results are part of a 62-hole program started in July 2024 that aims to convert up to 1 million tons of material from inferred to measured and indicated resources, covering the initial years of production based on Tonopah’s 2024 preliminary economic assessment. Here are highlight assay intercepts using a 150 grams per ton (g/t) silver equivalent (AgEq) cut-off:
According to Thursday’s news release, “the highest-grade results are associated with thicker intercepts of quartz vein material,” aligning with previous drilling under the M&I Conversion Program released in November, January and February, making management optimistic about Tonopah West’s updated resource estimate slated for Q3 2025.
Gold and silver mineralization features shoots plunging to the northwest within the M&I Conversion Area that remain open to the northwest, east and down plunge. Ten drillholes have assays pending.
Investors can also look out for seven additional drillhole assays from Blackrock Silver’s exploration program seeking to expand a 1-kilometre trend of vein corridor linking Tonopah West’s Northwest step-out resource area with the Denver-Paymaster and Bermuda-Merten vein groups.
Leadership insights
“Additional results from our M&I conversion program continue to validate our model, supporting mineral continuity as we track and define the geometry of the high-grade shoots within the vein system,” Andrew Pollard, Blackrock Silver’s president and chief executive officer, said in a statement. “Today’s results, coupled with results previously announced from this same program, highlight that broader intercepts are associated with higher-than-average grades, which should be beneficial in delineating high-grade tons. The broad zones of high-grade mineralization encountered in drillhole TXC-138 are a standout for us, as at a composite of 11.46 metres of 514 g/t silver equivalent (290 g/t silver & 2.48 g/t gold), this is the thickest (composite) zone we’ve drilled throughout the district outside of the historic Victor mine. As we await the final assays from the M&I conversion program, modelling has begun for our upcoming mineral resource update on Tonopah West, currently on track for Q3 2025.”
About Blackrock Silver
Blackrock Silver is a junior miner developing demonstrated gold and silver ounces in the ground along Nevada’s Walker Lane trend and Northern Nevada rift.
Blackrock Silver stock (TSXV:BRC) last traded at C$0.30. The stock has given back 10.29 per cent year-over-year but remains up by 45.24 per cent since 2020.
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