The company reported intersections at the Carmen target and new drilling results aimed at expanding the Yaxtché silver resource in the province of Salta.
By Panorama Minero
Argenta Silver Corp. reported new results from its 2025-2026 drilling program at the El Quevar project, located in the province of Salta, with gold and copper intersections at the Carmen target and new silver results in areas outside the currently defined resource at the Yaxtché deposit.
The results correspond to the sixth batch of assays from the campaign and include holes QVD-465, QVD-475 and QVD-479. According to the company, the work is part of a program aimed at both expanding the mineral resource and evaluating new exploration targets.
Gold and Copper at Carmen
At the Carmen target, hole QVD-465 intersected a 46-metre zone grading 0.45 g/t gold and 0.19% copper, from a depth of 233 metres.
Within that interval, 11 metres grading 0.49 g/t gold and 0.10% copper were recorded; 4 metres grading 1.28 g/t gold; and 1 metre grading 1.71 g/t gold, 2.43% copper and 100 g/t silver.
The drilling was carried out approximately southeast of Yaxtché. According to Argenta Silver, the result reduced the still-undrilled distance between the Yaxtché silver deposit and the Carmen gold-copper target to approximately 120 metres.
The company indicated that the results obtained to date show an increase in gold and copper grades at depth. The information presented also indicates the presence of structural controls and lateral zoning between the two areas.
New Silver Intersections at Yaxtché
Work aimed at evaluating the expansion of Yaxtché also returned new results outside the current resource boundaries.
In the northwestern extension, hole QVD-475 intersected 1,599 g/t silver over 4 metres, from 310 metres, including 2,780 g/t silver over 2 metres. At greater depth, the same hole returned 192 g/t silver over 6 metres, including 259 g/t over 2 metres and 484 g/t over 1 metre.
In the southeastern sector, hole QVD-479 returned 122 g/t silver over 9 metres, from a depth of 145 metres, including a one-metre interval grading 553 g/t silver.
Argenta Silver noted that this sixth batch of results consolidates a 20% to 25% expansion of the mineralized footprint toward the northwest and southeast compared with the current boundaries of Yaxtché.
Since drilling began in May 2025, the company has reported an approximate 25% increase in the strike length of the Yaxtché footprint.
More Than 27,500 Metres Drilled
Since May 26, 2025, Argenta Silver has completed more than 27,500 metres of diamond drilling across 92 holes at El Quevar. The campaign currently operates with two drilling rigs dedicated to resource expansion and exploration.
The program also includes more than 80 km² of ground magnetic geophysics and various exploration targets identified by the company.
Prior to Argenta Silver’s acquisition of the El Quevar property in October 2024, approximately 104,000 metres had been drilled at the project.
Review of Historical Drilling
In September 2026, Argenta Silver’s geological team completed a program to review, re-log and sample historical diamond drilling at El Quevar.
The work covered 171 historical holes and yielded 4,372.6 metres of previously unsampled core, mainly from the Quevar South sector, including the Carmen, Mani and Carolina targets, as well as the Yaxtché deposit.
Results from 85 holes have been received to date. Reported intersections include 1,465 g/t silver over 1 metre in QVD-361; 501 g/t over 3 metres in QVD-120, including 1,270 g/t over 1 metre; 454 g/t over 2 metres in QVD-169; and 374 g/t over 2 metres in QVD-100.
The company plans to incorporate the new geological and analytical data into the next mineral resource estimate update, scheduled for the first quarter of 2027.
Yaxtché’s Current Resource
The El Quevar project covers an area of approximately 57,000 hectares in the province of Salta.
The current mineral resource estimate for Yaxtché includes 45.3 Moz of silver in Indicated resources, contained in 2.93 million tonnes grading 482 g/t silver.
This is complemented by 4.1 Moz of silver in Inferred resources, corresponding to 0.31 million tonnes at an average grade of 417 g/t silver.
According to the technical information presented by Argenta Silver, the resource area remains open at depth and in several directions, particularly toward the southeast and northwest.
