Quantum Critical Metals Corp. has bolstered its Babine South Silver Project by staking the neighbouring East Sunrise adit, bringing the total land package to 1,108 hectares of contiguous tenure in northwest British Columbia. The newly acquired claim carries no underlying royalties or option commitments, granting Quantum 100% unencumbered ownership of a prospective structural corridor defined by multiple historic surface exposures, underground workings and favorable host lithologies. CEO Marcy Kiesman highlighted that consolidating these historic silver occurrences under a single title enhances the company’s ability to execute systematic, modern exploration across the entire corridor.

BC Minfile 093K 028 and Assessment Reports #22157 and #15358 document grab and chip samples returning assays as high as 835 oz/t silver (26,000 g/t Ag) from an East Adit reopening in 1991, plus float at 417 oz/t Ag and chips at 34.2 g/t Ag. Secondary sampling above the East Sunrise portal yielded 13,000 g/t Ag (417 oz/t Ag), 42.8 g/t Au and 6.39% Pb, confirming a polymetallic epithermal vein system with significant lead, zinc and gold credits. Historic production in the 1920s produced 94 kilograms of native silver from trenching, while two adits were advanced to target multi-phase quartz-carbonate veins containing native silver, galena, sphalerite, tetrahedrite and chalcopyrite.

Quantum plans a phased 2026 field program to advance Babine South toward drill-ready targets. Phase one will comprise detailed geological and structural mapping of the four cross-cutting vein sets, followed by targeted surface sampling to validate grade distribution and mineral paragenesis. Phase two will deploy an induced-polarization (IP) survey across the expanded claim group to detect blind vein extensions beneath historic workings and along strike. Results from these programs will be integrated into a 3D geological model to prioritize drill targets for a planned inaugural diamond-drill campaign late in the year.