Honey Badger Receives 10-Year Exploration Permit for its Plata Silver Project, Yukon

TORONTO, May 16, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Honey Badger Silver Inc. (TSX-V: TUF) (OTCQB: HBEIF) (“Honey Badger” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has received a 10-year Class 3 Quartz Mining Land Use Approval (“Land Use Approval”) from the Yukon Government for its high-grade Plata Silver Property (“Plata”) located in east-central Yukon.

The Land Use Approval allows Honey Badger to perform ground exploration activities that allow for up to 300 diamond drill and 300 reverse circulation holes, each for a total length of 30,000 metres, significant trenching and bulk sampling, as well as road construction, as required, to define areas of mineralization on the property. 

Chad Williams, Chairman of Honey Badger stated, “Plata has produced high-grade silver from small-scale mining in the past and currently hosts 32 showings⁽¹⁾, many of which have returned high-grade silver, lead and zinc values, from drilling and trenching. We are looking forward to unlocking the extraordinary potential we believe Plata possesses.”

Technical information in this news release has been approved by Heather Burrell, P.Geo., a senior geologist with Archer Cathro and qualified person for the purpose of National Instrument 43-101.

Notes: ⁽¹⁾Assessment Report Describing Compilation and Digitization of Historical Data of the Plata Property, prepared by Archer, Cathro & Associates (1981) Limited for Strategic Metals Ltd., J. Morton, P. Geo., June 2020

For more information, please visit our website above, or contact:

Christina Slater: cslater@honeybadgersilver.com 
(647) 848-1009 
https://honeybadgersilver.com

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

Chad Williams
Chairman and Director

About Honey Badger Silver Inc.

Honey Badger Silver is a Canadian silver company based in Toronto, Ontario focused on the acquisition, development and integration of accretive transactions of silver ounces. The Company is led by a highly- experienced leadership team with a track record of value creation, backed by a skilled technical team. With a dominant land position in Ontario’s historic Thunder Bay Silver District and advanced projects in the southeast and south-central Yukon including the Plata property 180 kms to the east of the Keno Hill silver district, Honey Badger is positioning to be a top-tier silver company.

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