Company’s focus is the development and restart of its 100% owned flagship asset, the Bunker Hill Mine, in Idaho, USA.
−Removed: Mine remains the largest single producing mine by tonnage in the Silver Valley region of northwest Idaho, historically producing
−Removed: over 165 million ounces of silver and 5 million tons of base metals between 1885 and 1981.
−Removed: The Bunker Hill Mine is located within
−Removed: Operable Unit 2 of the Bunker Hill Superfund site (EPA National Priorities Listing IDD048340921), where cleanup activities have been
+Added: remains the largest single producing mine by tonnage in the Silver Valley region of northwest Idaho, historically producing over 165
+Added: million ounces of silver and 5 million tons of base metals between 1885 and 1981.
+Added: The Bunker Hill Mine is located within Operable Unit
+Added: 2 of the Bunker Hill Superfund site (EPA National Priorities Listing IDD048340921), where cleanup activities have been completed.
Bunker Hill Mine
−Removed: Initial discovery and development of
−Removed: the Mine property began in 1885, and from that time until the Mine closed in 1981 it produced over 35.8 million tons of ore at an average
−Removed: mined grade of 8.76% lead, 4.52 ounces per ton silver, and 3.67% zinc, which represented 162Moz of silver, 3.16M lbs.
−Removed: of lead and 1.35M
+Added: discovery and development of the Mine property began in 1885, and from that time until the Mine closed in 1981 it produced over 35.8
+Added: million tons of ore at an average mined grade of 8.76% lead, 4.52 ounces per ton silver, and 3.67% zinc, which represented 162Moz of
+Added: silver, 3.16M lbs.
+Added: of lead and 1.35M lbs.
of zinc (Bunker Limited Partnership, 1985).
−Removed: Throughout the 95-year operating history, there were over 40 different lead-silver-zinc
−Removed: orebodies discovered and mined.
−Removed: Although known for its significant lead and zinc production, 45-50% of the Net Smelter Value of its historical
−Removed: production came from its silver.
−Removed: The Company and the Sullivan Mining Company had a strong history of regular dividend payments to shareholders
−Removed: from the time the Company went public in 1905 until it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Gulf Resources in 1968.
+Added: Throughout the 95-year operating history, there
+Added: were over 40 different lead-silver-zinc orebodies discovered and mined.
+Added: Although known for its significant lead and zinc production,
+Added: 45-50% of the Net Smelter Value of its historical production came from its silver.
+Added: The Company and the Sullivan Mining Company had a
+Added: strong history of regular dividend payments to shareholders from the time the Company went public in 1905 until it was acquired in a
+Added: hostile takeover by Gulf Resources in 1968.
Mine and Smelter Complex were closed in 1981 when Gulf Resources was not able to continue to comply with new regulatory structures brought
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advanced the rehabilitation and development of the Mine.
−Removed: In December 2021, the Company announced a project finance package with Sprott, an amended Settlement Agreement with the EPA, and the purchase of the Bunker Hill Mine,
−Removed: setting the stage for a restart of the Mine.
−Removed: January 2022, with the closing of the purchase of the Bunker Hill Mine, the funding of the $8,000,000 Royalty Convertible Debenture and
−Removed: $6,000,000 Series Convertible Debenture, and the announcement of an MOU for the purchase of the Pend Oreille process plant from a subsidiary
−Removed: of Teck, the Company embarked on a program of activities with the goal of achieving a restart of the Mine.
+Added: In December 2021, the Company announced a project finance package with Sprott,
+Added: an Amended Settlement Agreement with the EPA, and the purchase of the Bunker Hill Mine, setting the stage for a restart of the Mine.
+Added: January 2022, with the closing of the purchase of the Bunker Hill Mine, and the announcement of an MOU for the purchase of the Pend
+Added: Oreille process plant from a subsidiary of Teck, the Company embarked on a program of activities with the goal of achieving a
+Added: restart of the Mine.
Report Summary
−Removed: following summary is extracted from the S-K 1300 Technical Report Summary, Bunker Hill Mine Pre-Feasibility Study, Coeur
−Removed: D’Alene Mining District Shoshone County, Idaho, USA with a Report Date of April 14, 2023 and an Effective Date of August 29,
−Removed: 2022 (the “Technical Report Summary”).
−Removed: The following information does not purport to be a complete summary of the
−Removed: Technical Report Summary, is subject to all the assumptions, qualifications and procedures set out in the Technical Report Summary
−Removed: and is qualified in its entirety with reference to the full text of the Technical Report Summary.
−Removed: Each of the Qualified Persons of
−Removed: the Technical Report Summary is an independent qualified person under the definitions of Item 1300 of Regulation S-K (each a
−Removed: “Qualified Person”, and together the “Qualified Persons”) and have approved the summary of the Technical
−Removed: Report Summary below.
+Added: following summary is extracted from the S-K 1300 Technical Report Summary, Bunker Hill Mine Pre-Feasibility Study, Coeur D’Alene
+Added: Mining District Shoshone County, Idaho, USA with a Report Date of April 14, 2023 and an Effective Date of August 29, 2022 (the “Technical
Report Summary”).
+Added: The following information does not purport to be a complete summary of the Technical Report Summary, is subject
+Added: to all the assumptions, qualifications and procedures set out in the Technical Report Summary and is qualified in its entirety with reference
+Added: to the full text of the Technical Report Summary.
+Added: Each of the Qualified Persons of the Technical Report Summary is an independent qualified
+Added: person under the definitions of Item 1300 of Regulation S-K (each a “Qualified Person”, and together the “Qualified
+Added: Persons”) and have approved the summary of the Technical Report Summary below.
+Added: Report Summary
Technical Report Summary describes the mining and processing operations at the Company’s 100% owned Bunker Hill Mine located near
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were used in the analytical process and the results verified using industry accepted Quality Assurance and Quality Control procedures
−Removed: QAQC procedures included the submission of blanks and certified standard reference material with the submittal of samples.
−Removed: were analyzed in order to verify the accuracy of the sample preparation process.
−Removed: Certified standard reference material results were evaluated
−Removed: in order to assess the accuracy of the laboratory assaying procedure.
−Removed: Additionally, preparation duplicates were submitted in order to
−Removed: assess the accuracy of sample collection at the project site.
−Removed: Any failures from expected results were addressed and explained before
−Removed: being used for mineral resource estimates.
+Added: QAQC procedures included the submission of blanks and certified standard reference material with the submittal
+Added: Blanks were analyzed in order to verify the accuracy of the sample preparation process.
+Added: Certified standard reference material
+Added: results were evaluated in order to assess the accuracy of the laboratory assaying procedure.
+Added: Additionally, preparation duplicates were
+Added: submitted in order to assess the accuracy of sample collection at the project site.
+Added: Any failures from expected results were addressed
+Added: and explained before being used for mineral resource estimates.
and uncertainties exist in the quantification of the spatial distribution on mineralization.
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1-3 Bunker Hill Project Economic Summary
−Removed: Initial Capex
−Removed: ANNUAL AVERAGE
−Removed: Silver ($/oz)
−Removed: Ore mined (kt)
−Removed: Zinc grade (%)
−Removed: Lead grade (%)
−Removed: Silver grade (oz/t)
−Removed: Zinc eq grade (%)
−Removed: Zinc concentrate (t)
−Removed: Lead concentrate (t)
−Removed: Zn grade - Zn conc (%)
−Removed: Pb grade - Pb conc (%)
−Removed: Ag grade - Pb conc (oz/t)
+Added: concentrate (t)
+Added: concentrate (t)
+Added: grade - Zn conc (%)
+Added: grade - Pb conc (%)
+Added: grade - Pb conc (oz/t)
- Zn conc (klbs)
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- Pb conc (koz)
−Removed: Zinc eq produced (klbs)
−Removed: Processing ($/t)
−Removed: Opex - total ($/t)
−Removed: Sustaining capex ($/t)
+Added: eq produced (klbs)
+Added: - total ($/t)
($/lb Zn payable)
($/lb Zn payable)
−Removed: FCF & Valuation ($000’s)
−Removed: Silver revenue
−Removed: Gross revenue
−Removed: TC - Zinc conc
−Removed: TC - Lead conc
−Removed: RC - Lead conc
−Removed: Net smelter return
−Removed: Processing costs
−Removed: Sustaining capex
−Removed: Initial capex
−Removed: Land & salvage value
−Removed: Pre-tax free cash flow
+Added: & Valuation ($000’s)
+Added: smelter return
+Added: & salvage value
free cash flow
−Removed: Payback (years)
1-4 Sensitivity Analysis
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and Mineralization
−Removed: Northern Idaho Panhandle Region in which the Bunker Hill Mine is underlain by the Middle Proterozoic-aged Belt-Purcell Supergroup
−Removed: of fine-grained, dominantly siliciclastic sedimentary rocks, which extends from western Montana (locally named the Belt Supergroup) to
−Removed: southern British Columbia (locally named the Purcell Supergroup) and is collectively over 23,000 feet in total stratigraphic thickness.
+Added: Northern Idaho Panhandle Region in which the Bunker Hill Mine is underlain by the Middle Proterozoic-aged Belt-Purcell Supergroup of
+Added: fine-grained, dominantly siliciclastic sedimentary rocks, which extends from western Montana (locally named the Belt Supergroup) to southern
+Added: British Columbia (locally named the Purcell Supergroup) and is collectively over 23,000 feet in total stratigraphic thickness.
Mineralization
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entered into a Settlement Agreement and Order on Consent with the EPA and the DOJ on May 14, 2018.
−Removed: Section 9, Paragraph 33 of that
−Removed: agreement stipulates that BHMC must obtain a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (“NPDES”) permit for
−Removed: effluent discharged by Bunker Hill Mine by May 14, 2023.
−Removed: This obligation currently exists and will be reviewed at a point in time
−Removed: when restart activities are planned to occur.
+Added: Section 9, Paragraph 33 of that agreement
+Added: stipulates that BHMC must obtain a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (“NPDES”) permit for effluent discharged
+Added: by Bunker Hill Mine by May 14, 2023.
+Added: This obligation currently exists and will be reviewed at a point in time when restart activities
+Added: are planned to occur.
will initiate a voluntary Environmental, Social and Health Impact Assessment (“ESHIA”) for the activities described in the
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does not have a history of rock burst events that are frequent in the deeper mines to the east.
−Removed: Hill plans to reconstruct a crush-grind-flotation-concentration mill from the nearby Pend Oreille mine in northern Washington on
−Removed: the Bunker Hill Kellogg Mine Yard.
+Added: Hill plans to reconstruct a crush-grind-flotation-concentration mill from the nearby Pend Oreille mine in northern Washington on the
+Added: Bunker Hill Kellogg Mine Yard.
The future structures to house the grind-flotation-concentration circuit, the secondary crushing circuit
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Company saw the wealth of information that was available but not readily usable and embarked on a scanning and digitizing program.
−Removed: this, the Company was able to build a three-dimensional (“3D”) digital model of the mine workings and 3D surfaces and solids of important
−Removed: geologic features.
−Removed: To add to this, all of the historic drill core lithology logs and assay data (>2900 holes) was entered into a database
−Removed: and imported with the other data into Maptek Vulcan 3D software.
+Added: this, the Company was able to build a three-dimensional (“3D”) digital model of the mine workings and 3D surfaces and solids
+Added: of important geologic features.
+Added: To add to this, all of the historic drill core lithology logs and assay data (>2900 holes) was entered
+Added: into a database and imported with the other data into Maptek Vulcan 3D software.
addition to both continued geologic digitization and the completed 2021 exploration drill program, the Company has performed a geophysical
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Technical Report Summary is based on all available technical and scientific data available as of August 29, 2022.
−Removed: Mineral resources
−Removed: are considered by the Qualified Persons to meet the reasonable prospects of eventual economic extraction due two main factors:
−Removed: grades are based on scientific data and assumptions related to the project and (2) mineral resources are estimated only within
−Removed: blocks of mineralization that have been accessible in the past by mining operations as well as by using generally accepted mining
−Removed: and processing costs that are similar to many projects in Idaho.
+Added: Mineral resources are
+Added: considered by the Qualified Persons to meet the reasonable prospects of eventual economic extraction due two main factors:
+Added: grades are based on scientific data and assumptions related to the project and (2) mineral resources are estimated only within blocks
+Added: of mineralization that have been accessible in the past by mining operations as well as by using generally accepted mining and processing
+Added: costs that are similar to many projects in Idaho.
Recommendations
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span allowances based on previous ground support methods.
−Removed: resource delineation and conversion drilling and mine block modeling should continue to increase the conversion of inferred
−Removed: resources to indicated resources.
+Added: resource delineation and conversion drilling and mine block modeling should continue to increase the conversion of inferred resources
+Added: to indicated resources.
1-6 Proposed Work Program to Advance Bunker Hill
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