- CEO
- Andrew Hutchinson Rees
- Sector
- Non-energy minerals
- Industry
- Precious metals
- Address
- Vancouver Canada
- IPO Date
- Jul 5, 2011
- Business
- Blende Silver Corp. is a Canadian junior mineral exploration and development company focused on the acquisition, exploration, and advancement of precious and base metal mineral properties in Canada. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, the company operates in the metals and mining sector, specializing in the exploration and evaluation of silver, zinc, lead, and copper assets. Blende Silver Corp. provides systematic mineral resource development activities, comprising geological mapping, surface sampling, and geophysical surveying; exploratory and definition diamond core drilling; geochemical assaying and mineralogical analysis; 3D geological modeling and NI 43-101 compliant mineral resource estimation; metallurgical testwork and process flow-sheet optimization; preliminary economic assessment and engineering studies; environmental baseline monitoring; and First Nations and community stakeholder relations. The company’s flagship asset is the 100% owned Blende Project, a carbonate-hosted silver-zinc-lead-copper deposit situated in the Mayo Mining District of central Yukon, Canada. In recent developments, Blende Silver Corp. has advanced the technical and economic evaluation of the Blende deposit through updated resource modeling, optimized metallurgical recoveries for silver and base metal concentrates, and renewed land-use permitting and environmental assessment frameworks. Additionally, the company has completed equity financing initiatives through private placements of flow-through and non-flow-through units to fund exploration drilling programs and general working capital, while restructuring its technical advisory team to support future project feasibility phases.