Blende Silver mobilizes drill crew for maiden drilling at Yukon silver-zinc-lead project

First drill hole(s) expected to commence within approximately 10 days as the opening phase of a multi-phase program targeting chargeability anomalies whose interpreted areal extent is greater than that of the chargeability response over the West Zone, which anchors the Company’s existing mineral resource

August 19, 2026 – TheNewswire - Vancouver, Canada - Blende Silver Corp. (the “Company”) (TSX.V: BAG) (OTC: BAGGF) (WKN: A2QKT9) (FSE: BCW1) is pleased to announce that field crews are mobilizing to its 100%-owned Blende Silver-Zinc-Lead Project (“Blende” or the “Project”) in north-central Yukon to commence the first phase of drilling targeting the Project’s 3D induced polarization (IP) chargeability anomalies. The first drill hole(s) will test the Central Zone, the approximately 2 km corridor between the Company’s West Zone and East Zone deposits and are expected to commence within approximately 10 days.

Highlights

Blende hosts an existing NI 43-101 mineral resource and is one of the larger known carbonate-hosted silver-zinc-lead occurrences in Western Canada. The current drill program is designed to test whether mineralization extends beyond the currently defined zones.

The Company’s drill contractor is mobilizing to site to complete an equipment inventory and finalize site readiness ahead of drilling.

These holes will represent the first drilling to directly test the priority 3D induced polarization (IP) chargeability anomalies identified in the Company’s recently completed survey (see news release dated April 27, 2026), notably in the Lower Central Zone and New Mountain Top areas, where the interpreted chargeability anomalies are several times greater in areal extent than the chargeability response over the defined West Zone mineralizatio