The Great Treasure Hunt at Maverick Springs

The fine gentlepeople at Sun Silver Limited have set their sights on a grand undertaking in the wilds of Nevada, a land that has never lacked for folks with picks in their hands and gold dust in their dreams.

With an eye toward fortune and formality, the company has commenced environmental surveys at its Maverick Springs Silver-Gold Project, a necessary bit of paper-waving to appease the regulatory gods and keep the development wagon from losing a wheel. These surveys shall march on until August, collecting all manner of ecological intelligence to assure the world that Sun Silver is not just digging holes but doing so with a sense of decorum.

Maverick Springs rests between Elko and Ely, perched on the northwest flank of the Maverick Springs Range, where men have long suspected the good Lord stashed a great deal of silver and gold. Access to this promised land is via a gravel road from Ruby Valley, a journey no doubt best made with auto springs and a determination to avoid getting bogged down in the dust.

The company is quite proud that its Maverick Springs asset now boasts a mineral resource of nearly 196 million tons, with a silver equivalent of over 423 million ounces—enough to make a prospector’s head spin and a tax collector’s hands itch. A thorough combing of old drill records and some fresh reimagining of what the earth might still be hiding has confirmed what Sun Silver has suspected all along–there’s more where that came from.

Sun Silver, not being the sort to sit back and merely count numbers, has been drilling, particularly to the northwest, where recent findings suggest richer veins than previously imagined. One particular hole, MR24-186, turned up a mighty promising stretch of silver, proving their suspicions were not just empty tavern talk. The company believes these results indicate a grander treasure still awaiting discovery beyond their current claims, and they intend to press forward, ever hopeful and ever digging.

So it is that Sun Silver finds itself at the helm of what may be the largest pre-production silver asset on the Australian Securities Exchange, a position that makes investors swoon and rival companies grind their teeth. If all goes well—and the hills of Nevada are as generous as they seem—Maverick Springs may be a modern El Dorado, mined with careful science, legal paperwork, and just enough old-fashioned luck.