Haldane, central Yukon — Two drill rigs are active at Silver North Resources Ltd.'s flagship Haldane Silver Property in the historic Keno Hill Silver District as the company steps out along a major fault structure and follows up on earlier anomalous silver intersections.
Drilling progress and objectives
Since late June, crews have completed roughly 2,550 metres of drilling in 10 holes, all targeting the Main Fault structure that hosts known mineralization. One rig has now been relocated to the Bighorn Target to test a high-grade intercept reported in 2019, while the other remains focused on expanding the Main Fault.
Silver North says the Main Fault drilling aims to test strike and downdip continuity beyond the footprint defined by 2024 and 2025 programs. Previous results from those campaigns include high-grade intervals such as 818 g/t silver, 1.39 g/t gold, 2.54% lead and 0.98% zinc over 13.15 metres from hole HLD25-31.
Follow-up at Bighorn
The move to the Bighorn Target follows up on the only historical hole at that target, which returned 125.7 g/t silver over 2.35 metres in 2019. The company describes the Bighorn work as testing “strongly anomalous silver mineralization” previously intersected in that area.
Sampling and assays
Core from mineralized intervals in the first five holes of the current campaign has been sampled and shipped to ALS Laboratories for analysis. Results are pending; the company has prepared the core for laboratory processing as part of its standard assay workflow.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Holes completed (to date) | 10 |
| Metres drilled (to date) | ~2,550 m |
| Notable historical intercepts | 818 g/t Ag over 13.15 m; 125.7 g/t Ag over 2.35 m |
Veronica program targets CRD-style mineralization
Separately, Silver North has started a field program at the Veronica Property in southeast Yukon’s Silvertip District. The work is scheduled to run about three weeks and builds on a 2025 program that identified silver mineralization in float and outcrop within stratigraphy the company says is prospective for carbonate-replacement deposit (CRD) style mineralization.
That geology is comparable in style — though not necessarily in scale or grade — to the nearby Silvertip project operated by Coeur Mining, which lies about 11 kilometres southwest of Veronica.
- Veronica program: soil geochemical sampling, mapping and prospecting.
- Objective: test CRD-style stratigraphy and follow up on 2025 surface discoveries.
- Duration: approximately three weeks.
Local context and what to watch for
Exploration activity in the Keno Hill and Silvertip districts is closely watched in Yukon because the regions have produced significant silver-lead-zinc-gold mineralization historically and continue to attract junior explorers and majors. Ongoing drilling at Haldane aims to extend known mineralized zones and test nearby targets that have yielded high-grade intercepts in past campaigns.
For residents and land users, the immediate impacts are operational: drill pads, crews travelling to sites and routine sampling and logging. Longer term, any positive assay results that define an expanded, continuous high-grade mineralized zone could advance the project through follow-up drilling programs, resource estimation and eventual permitting discussions, all of which would draw broader community and regulatory attention.
Silver North is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (SNAG) and has reported the work publicly through TheNewswire. The company has shipped core to ALS Laboratories and will issue assay results when they become available.
As exploration field seasons wind up across the territory, this campaign at Haldane and the Veronica prospect are developments that may influence Yukon’s mining activity in the months ahead.
