Silver North Resources Ltd.
Silver North Resources Ltd. is a silver-focused explorer whose flagship Haldane project sits in the Keno Hill Silver District, Yukon, immediately adjacent to Hecla Mining's producing Keno Hill mine, alongside the earlier-stage Tim and Veronica properties. The company closed a C$11,576,985 placement in Feb 2026 to fund continued exploration. Silver North has no NI 43-101 mineral resource estimate on Haldane or its other properties at this stage.
Lifecycle Milestones
Jurisdiction (40%)8/10
Yukon: Fraser PPI 2025 is 62.19 of 100 (rank 47 of 68), which maps to 8 on this site's scale. The flagship Haldane project is in Yukon's Keno Hill silver district. Yukon has Canadian rule of law, but mining executives rate its policy climate below Canada's leading provinces.
Infrastructure (40%)No verified figure
Researched with nothing found: no source we could cite confirms or rules out an existing mill, road access, grid power, or tailings facility at Haldane Silver Project, Keno Hill Silver District, Yukon, Canada (checked Sep 30, 2026; recheck due Mar 29, 2027). Counts at a neutral 5/10 until one does.
Nearby producing mine (20%)10/10
Keno Hill (Hecla Mining Company) is 20 km away -- within shared-mill trucking range.
Acquisition Susceptibility
A relative ranking of how closely this company matches the profile of juniors that have actually been acquired — not a probability, and not a reason to buy. Acquisitions are rare: only a few dozen significant deals happen a year across a universe of thousands of juniors, so even a high score here describes a long shot. The strongest signal in the research, a producer that already owns part of the company, is scored from its disclosed strategic shareholders. A producer that is a joint-venture or earn-in partner on the project, rather than a shareholder, isn't captured yet.
How this score is built
- Disclosed pending dealSub-score: Not scored
No pending acquisition or merger disclosed (checked)
Not scored: having no deal in flight isn't held against a company.
Weight 26.25% - Producer's strategic stakeSub-score: Not scored
No producer holds a disclosed stake on file (holder register researched) See holders
Not scored: most juniors that do get bought had no prior toehold, so a missing stake says little either way.
Weight 25% - Distance to a producing mineSub-score:8/10
Nearest producing mine: Keno Hill (Hecla Mining Company), 20 km
10 next to a producing mine, 8 at 20 km, 5 at 50 km, 0 beyond 200 km.
Weight 22.5% · 46% here - Lifecycle stageSub-score:1/10
Stage: Grassroots Exploration
Feasibility and permitting score 10, where deals cluster, and production 5.5; earlier stages score less, down to 1 at grassroots.
Weight 15% · 31% here - JurisdictionSub-score:8/10
Canada: jurisdiction score 8/10
Our jurisdiction score, used as is: higher means lower political and permitting risk.
Weight 6.75% · 14% here - CommoditySub-score:5/10
Primary commodity: Silver
Gold 10, copper 8, silver 5, nickel and uranium 4, others 2: most majors' deals are for gold.
Weight 4.5% · 9% here
Weight is each input's share of the full score. “Here” is its share of this company's score: inputs that aren't scored are left out and the rest re-weighted, never counted as zero.
Your Rankings
Management Team
President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Silver North Resources Ltd. Professional geologist (P.Geo.) with over 25 years in mineral exploration. Previously President and CEO of Rimfire Minerals Corporation from 2007 to 2009, when Rimfire merged with Geoinformatics to create Kiska Metals Corporation, which he also headed.
Vice President, Exploration of Silver North Resources Ltd. M.Sc., with over 30 years of mineral exploration experience across major and junior companies, including senior management positions at junior explorers active throughout the North American Cordillera, Canadian Shield and Eastern Europe, plus more than 10 years of prospect-generator management experience.
Chief Financial Officer of Orestone Mining Corp. (TSXV: ORS); also Chief Financial Officer of Gold Terra Resource Corp., Copper Fox Metals Inc., Adamera Minerals Corp. and EGR Exploration Ltd.; Executive Chair of Silver North Resources Ltd.; and Executive Chairman of Avrupa Minerals Ltd. B.Comm., CPA, CA. President of Pacific Opportunity Capital Ltd., a Vancouver-based financial consulting and merchant banking firm active in North American venture capital markets, which he founded in 1997. Over 35 years of executive management experience in the mining sector spanning M&A, financing, strategic corporate planning and corporate development. After completing his Chartered Accountant designation at PricewaterhouseCoopers he managed the financial departments of TSX-listed Miramar Mining Ltd. (later sold to Newmont Mining for $1.4 billion) and TSX-listed Eldorado Gold Corp. In 1999 he co-founded Rare Element Resources Ltd., which grew to a valuation of well over $500 million during his tenure; he was CFO of Nevada Pacific Gold when it was sold to McEwen Mining, founded Animas Resources Ltd. (sold to GoGold Resources), and was CFO and Director of Pitchstone Exploration Ltd. through its sale to Fission Uranium Corp. Founded Avrupa Minerals Ltd. in 2008 and chairs Mineral and Financial Investments Ltd., listed in the UK. Holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1993.
Chief Financial Officer of Silver North Resources Ltd.; also Chief Financial Officer & Corporate Secretary of Au Gold Corp. and Avrupa Minerals Ltd. CA, CPA; Vice President, Client Services at Pacific Opportunity Capital Ltd. Previously Chief Financial Officer of Rare Element Resources and other TSX Venture-listed companies.
Vice President Corporate Development of Kodiak Copper Corp.; also a director of Silver North Resources Ltd. (BA) 25+ years in resource-sector communications and development; twice nominated by IR Magazine for Best Investor Relations by a TSX Venture Exchange Company.
Insiders, Investors & Smart Money
Notable shareholders and insiders whose involvement is worth knowing about, plus what we're seeing from institutional/large-investor activity.
No named institutional holder is on record. A director has bought repeatedly on the open market through the spring of 2026.
No notable insiders tracked for this miner yet.
Reports, Presentations & Documents
Silver North Resources is a silver explorer whose flagship Haldane project lies in the Keno Hill silver district of Yukon, next to Hecla Mining's producing Keno Hill mine, and it also holds the earlier-stage Tim and Veronica properties. It closed a C$11,576,985 placement in February 2026 to fund exploration. Since late June 2026 it has drilled 10 holes totalling about 2,550 metres at Haldane, extending the Main Fault target to 100 metres of strike and 150 metres down dip, with the first assays expected from September 2026, and it ran a soil sampling program at Veronica. No NI 43-101 resource has been estimated on any of its properties.