# Zacatecas Silver Provides Corporate Update for 2026 and Highlights Upcoming Drill Program at Silver Project

Canonical Atlas analysis: https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/zacatecas-silver-provides-corporate-update-for-2026-and-highlights-upcoming-dril--e3757633-9db0-4808-8ba2-5f416e22b186

Original source: https://money.tmx.com/en/quote/ZAC/news/5500907716242542/zacatecas-silver-provides-corporate-update-for-2026-and-highlights-upcoming-dril

Publisher: tmx

Original announcement: 2026-01-08T13:00:00.000Z

Analysis by Minestarters Atlas

Atlas analysis published: Unknown date

Atlas analysis updated: Unknown date

- Company: Zacatecas Silver Corp.

- Ticker: ZAC

- Exchange: TSX

- Region: Mexico

- Primary commodity: Silver

- Secondary commodities: Gold

- Document categories: Resource update, Other

- Extracted: 2026-08-24 18:44:56 UTC

Narrative sentiment: 0.40 · Bullish

## Minestarters Atlas summary

Zacatecas Silver provided a corporate update highlighting its advanced Mexican assets, the Zacatecas Silver Project and the Esperanza Gold Project. The company is preparing for a 4,000-metre drill program at Zacatecas and noted an improving regulatory environment for open-pit mining in Mexico.

Reasoning: The document is a corporate update providing a summary of existing resources and upcoming plans rather than new geological discoveries or resource upgrades.

- Positive factor: improving permitting environment in Mexico

- Positive factor: upcoming 4,000m drill program

- Positive factor: community access agreements secured

- Negative factor: resource data is historical restatements

Facts used in scoring: 6

## Classification and evidence

**Resource Update**

Polarity: neutral

Definition: Revised estimate for an existing resource — compare to prior to assess progress.

Why it applies: The document provides a summary of existing mineral resources for the Zacatecas Silver and Esperanza projects.

Evidence · text

> outlining key operational progress across its portfolio

## Extracted facts

Stored fact records: 6. Some facts used in scoring do not have a stored record.

## Resource Estimates (6)

### inferred

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Zacatecas Silver Project · silver

Historical result

Needs review: historical\_restatement

#### Identity

- Project: Zacatecas Silver Project
- Commodity: silver
- Region: mexico
- Reported Region: Zacatecas State, Mexico
- Ticker: ZAC

#### Resource Data

- Category: inferred
- Tonnes: 3410000
- Grade: 173
- Grade Unit: g/t

#### Review

- Needs Review: Yes
- Review Reason: historical\_restatement
- Historical: Yes
- Historical Source Date: 2023-05-30T00:00:00.000Z

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-01-08T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Historical inferred resource restatement.

Evidence · text

> Inferred mineral resource of 20.5 million ounces of silver equivalent... \(19.0 million ounces of silver \("Ag"\) and 19.2 thousand ounces of gold \("Au"\)\) from 3.41 million tonnes at 187 g/t Ag Eq \(173 g/t Ag and 0.18 g/t Au\)

### inferred

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Zacatecas Silver Project · gold

Historical result

Needs review: historical\_restatement

#### Identity

- Project: Zacatecas Silver Project
- Commodity: gold
- Region: mexico
- Reported Region: Zacatecas State, Mexico
- Ticker: ZAC

#### Resource Data

- Category: inferred
- Tonnes: 3410000
- Grade: 0.18
- Grade Unit: g/t

#### Review

- Needs Review: Yes
- Review Reason: historical\_restatement
- Historical: Yes
- Historical Source Date: 2023-05-30T00:00:00.000Z

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-01-08T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Historical inferred resource restatement.

Evidence · text

> 19.2 thousand ounces of gold \("Au"\) from 3.41 million tonnes at 187 g/t Ag Eq \(173 g/t Ag and 0.18 g/t Au\)

### indicated

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Esperanza Gold Project · gold

Historical result

Needs review: historical\_restatement

#### Identity

- Project: Esperanza Gold Project
- Commodity: gold
- Region: mexico
- Reported Region: Morelos State, Mexico
- Ticker: ZAC

#### Resource Data

- Category: indicated
- Tonnes: 30500000
- Grade: 0.93
- Grade Unit: g/t

#### Review

- Needs Review: Yes
- Review Reason: historical\_restatement
- Historical: Yes
- Historical Source Date: 2022-11-16T00:00:00.000Z

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-01-08T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Historical M&I resource restatement.

Evidence · text

> Measured and indicated mineral resource of 30.5 million tonnes at 0.97 g/t gold equivalent \("AuEq"\) \(0.93 g/t Au and 8.7 g/t Ag\)

### indicated

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Esperanza Gold Project · silver

Historical result

Needs review: historical\_restatement

#### Identity

- Project: Esperanza Gold Project
- Commodity: silver
- Region: mexico
- Reported Region: Morelos State, Mexico
- Ticker: ZAC

#### Resource Data

- Category: indicated
- Tonnes: 30500000
- Grade: 8.7
- Grade Unit: g/t

#### Review

- Needs Review: Yes
- Review Reason: historical\_restatement
- Historical: Yes
- Historical Source Date: 2022-11-16T00:00:00.000Z

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-01-08T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Historical M&I resource restatement.

Evidence · text

> Measured and indicated mineral resource of 30.5 million tonnes at 0.97 g/t gold equivalent \("AuEq"\) \(0.93 g/t Au and 8.7 g/t Ag\)

### inferred

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Esperanza Gold Project · gold

Historical result

Needs review: historical\_restatement

#### Identity

- Project: Esperanza Gold Project
- Commodity: gold
- Region: mexico
- Reported Region: Morelos State, Mexico
- Ticker: ZAC

#### Resource Data

- Category: inferred
- Tonnes: 8700000
- Grade: 0.91
- Grade Unit: g/t

#### Review

- Needs Review: Yes
- Review Reason: historical\_restatement
- Historical: Yes
- Historical Source Date: 2022-11-16T00:00:00.000Z

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-01-08T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Historical inferred resource restatement.

Evidence · text

> Inferred mineral resource of 8.7 million tonnes at 0.98 g/t AuEq \(0.91 g/t Au and 14.5 g/t Ag\)

### inferred

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/zacatecas-silver-provides-corporate-update-for-2026-and-highlights-upcoming-dril--e3757633-9db0-4808-8ba2-5f416e22b186#fact-resource-facts-5)

Esperanza Gold Project · silver

Historical result

Needs review: historical\_restatement

#### Identity

- Project: Esperanza Gold Project
- Commodity: silver
- Region: mexico
- Reported Region: Morelos State, Mexico
- Ticker: ZAC

#### Resource Data

- Category: inferred
- Tonnes: 8700000
- Grade: 14.5
- Grade Unit: g/t

#### Review

- Needs Review: Yes
- Review Reason: historical\_restatement
- Historical: Yes
- Historical Source Date: 2022-11-16T00:00:00.000Z

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-01-08T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Historical inferred resource restatement.

Evidence · text

> Inferred mineral resource of 8.7 million tonnes at 0.98 g/t AuEq \(0.91 g/t Au and 14.5 g/t Ag\)

## How Atlas produces this analysis

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