AbraSilver Resource (TSXV:ABRA) has announced new assay results from the ongoing Phase III drill program at the Diablillos property in Salta Province, Argentina. The results come from four additional diamond drill holes at the company’s 100%-owned property with significant results from the New JAC Zone. 

John Miniotis, President and CEO, commented in a press release: “We continue to encounter very impressive drill results, in practically every drill hole, in the new JAC zone.    We are also very pleased that the Company remains well-funded to complete the recently expanded drill campaign and deliver on its next set of upcoming milestones including: additional drill results from JAC and other targets, drill results from the La Copita project, an updated Mineral Resource Estimate and a Pre-Feasibility Study at Diablillos before the end of the year. With multiple significant catalysts on the horizon and ongoing exploration drilling, we expect investors will ultimately recognize AbraSilver’s significant value proposition.”

Highlights from the results are as follows:

• DDH 22-083 intersected a broad zone of high-grade silver mineralization in mixed oxides and sulphides, with 25.0 metres at 774 g/t Ag, 0.28 g/t Au and 1.36% Cu starting from a down-hole depth of 159 metres. The interval contained high-grade copper with associated silver mineralization in sulphide bearing feeder structures near the base of the hole.    
• DDH 22-086 encountered high-grade silver and copper in sulphides containing 9.0 metres at 342 g/t Ag and 1.55% Cu, directly beneath an oxide zone of 5.0 metres grading 282 g/t Ag 
• DDH 23-002 intersected high-grade silver mineralization in an oxide/sulphide transition zone, with 17.0 metres at 289 g/t Ag, including bonanza grades of 2,029 g/t Ag and 2.09 g/t Au over 1.0 metre.  
• DDH 23-083 encountered multiple zones of silver mineralization in oxides, and 5.8 meters at 502 g/t Ag and 0.26% Cu in sulphides starting at 156 metres down-hole. 

The latest assay result highlights are summarized in Table 1 below.

Table 1 – Diablillos Drill Result Highlights in JAC Zone

(Intercepts greater than 2,000 gram-metres AgEq shown in bold text):

Note:  All results in this news release are rounded. Assays are uncut and undiluted. Widths are drilled widths, not true widths. True widths are estimated to be approximately 80% of the interval widths.

1AgEq based on 81.9(Ag):1(Au) calculated using long-term prices of US$25.00/oz Ag and US$1,750/oz Au, and 73.5% process recovery for Ag, and 86.0% process recovery for Au as demonstrated in the Company’s Preliminary Economic Assessment in respect of Diablillos dated January 13, 2022, using formula:  AgEq g/t = Ag g/t + Au g/t x (Gold Price/Silver Price) x (Gold Recovery/Silver Recovery).  No value is ascribed to copper grades in the AgEq calculations.

Exploration Update  

Drilling activity at Diablillos remains focused on the recently discovered JAC zone which is located several hundred metres southwest of the conceptual open pit that constrains the current Mineral Resource estimate (“MRE”) on the main Oculto deposit (M&I MRE containing 1.3 Moz gold and 109 Moz silver – Table 2).  

To date, the Company has completed approximately 12,900 metres of drilling, in 65 holes, as part of the 22,000-metre Phase III program.  Drilling results to date, combined with interpretation of magnetics, suggest that the new JAC zone remains open in multiple directions.

At the La Copita project, drilling is progressing with the hole currently at a down-hole depth of approximately 130 metres.  The deep hole is targeting the anticipated higher-grade zone of the porphyry system intercepted in hole DDHC 22-002.  

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