Summa Silver Lets the Drills Speak at its Silver Project in Nevada

Here we go again! Summa Silver (TSXV SSVR / WKN A2P4EE) is returning to its Hughes Silver Project in Nevada, this time to drill test the eastern extent of the Tonopah Mining District. Drilling will begin at the Ruby discovery where Summa has already identified high-grade silver mineralization.

CEO Galen McNamara’s company is relying on a combination of reverse circulation drilling (RC drilling for shallower depths) and diamond core drilling. The RC drill rig is already in the field and has already tackled the first borehole. Summa expects the diamond core drill to arrive shortly to advance drilling through the promising target zones.

Summa Silver plans to drill a total of 7,000 meters between the Ruby and Sapphire discoveries, 1.3 to 4.2 kilometers east of the Tonopah Mining District boundary. This is a promising location, as the Tonopah district is historically the second largest silver producer in Nevada – and Nevada itself is often referred to as the “Silver State”.

On the hunt for high-grade

Summa’s drill team will begin a series of extension holes at the Ruby discovery, where high-grade silver mineralization was discovered in an earlier program. At that time, Summa Silver reported highlights of

– 1,450 g/t silver equivalent (8.41 g/t gold, 813 g/t silver) over 3.0 m in SUM23-59,
– 430 g/t silver equivalent (2.47 g/t gold, 243 g/t silver) over 2.0 m in SUM20-10 and
– 392 g/t silver equivalent (3.04 g/t gold, 147 g/t silver) over 3.0 m in SUM23-60.

The goal now is to significantly expand this high-grade mineralization to extend the extent of the known footprint to date. Accordingly, drilling will test the trend and continuity of mineralization from the Ruby discovery at least 600 metres to the east.

As Summa Silver’s CEO Galen McNamara explains, all of the targets selected for this program on the Hughes project are highly prospective and, in the company’s opinion, among the best targets available in Nevada. In addition, the Ruby vein system, located just 1.3 kilometers east of the Belmont mine, and the immediately surrounding area, which together represent the eastern extent of the prolific Tonopah mining district, are already known to have significant silver mineralization. Summa will therefore, Mr. McNamara continued, conduct extension drilling around the zones of known mineralization to begin to define the extent of these new zones.