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Kursziel 0,50 € Habanero is a diversified junior company that is focused on exploration and development of GOLD, SILVER, and LITHIUM prospects. Habanero is one of the largest landholders in the Yukon bordering Underworld Resources and has recently acquired the Haldane Silver prospect in the Keno Hill Silver district of central Yukon. Habanero is now one of the largest land holders within land prospective for lithium in Alberta and has recently acquired 5 GOLD prospects in BC next to recent major GOLD discoveries.
The Haldane is a structurally controlled, silver vein prospect located within the same geological formation as all the other major silver discoveries in the Keno Hill Silver District in central Yukon.
The Haldane Silver Prospect consists of 143 contiguous quartz mineral claims, covering over 7,100 contiguous acres, in one of the most prolific silver producing regions in Canada.
Between 1921 and 1988, the Keno Hill silver district produced more than 217 million ounces of silver with average grades of 40.5 ounces per ton silver, 5.6 per cent lead and 3.1 per cent zinc (Yukon government's Minfile database).
The historical production grades would rank Keno Hill in the top 3 per cent by grade of today's global silver producers. The Keno Hill district is the second-largest historical silver producer in Canada. The Haldane property is well situated about 25 kilometres west of the main Keno Hill deposits. Mineralization is controlled by northerly trending structures, and consists of galena, sphalerite and tetrahedrite-tennantite in quart-siderite gangue. The best mineralization found to date occurs where the mineralized structures cut the Keno Hill quartzite unit, below the Robert Service Thrust. This is almost identical to the setting for mineralization at the main Keno Hill deposits. Any historical data presented here is not necessarily representative of this prospect itself. Habanero plans to file a 43-101 report once completed.
Jason Gigliotti, President of Habanero stated, "This project offers Habanero an opportunity to enter into one of the most prolific silver producing regions in Canada. Silver prices are currently near historic highs and management is optimistic regarding what this prospect may mean for Habanero in the future."
The Bellekeno Silver Mine (Alexco)
The Haldane Prospect is located near Alexco Resources Corp. (AXR.T) who's Bellekeno mine is anticipated be operational later in 2010. Once operational, the Bellekeno mine will be Canada's only primary silver mine and will be one of the highest-grade silver operations in the world.
From Alexco news release of Nov. 11, 2009, "the Bellekeno silver deposit contains an indicated resource estimated at 401,000 tonnes grading 921 grams per tonne silver, 9.4 per cent lead and 6.5 per cent zinc, of which 321,941 tonnes containing an estimated 871 grams per tonne silver, 9.5 per cent lead and 5.6 per cent zinc on a payable-metals basis are included in the initial mine plan. The deposit remains open down dip and downplunge, and underground definition and exploration drilling to expand the minable resource is currently under way in parallel with mine development activities.
Once complete, the Bellekeno mine will operate at 250 tonnes per day, supplying feed to a conventional flotation mill, producing up to 12,000 tonnes of lead-silver concentrate per year and 8,400 tonnes of zinc concentrate annually, and generating up to 2.8 million ounces of silver per year. Initial silver grades in 2010 and 2011 are expected to be approximately 1,000 grams per tonne. The mine and mill operations will employ approximately 120 people and are expected to directly invest more than $25-million annually for labor, materials and supplies in the Yukon."
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