Group Eleven Intersects 3.6m of 345 g/t Silver and 0.75% Copper at Ballywire

By Mining Hub News Desk
20 August 2026, 8:27 a.m. EDT 2 min read

Group Eleven Resources Corp. has returned assay results from four drill holes at the Ballywire discovery within its 100%-owned PG West Project in Ireland, highlighted by hole 26-468-24 testing a deeper copper-silver target 710 metres from the nearest comparable test and returning 3.61 metres of 345.4 g/t silver and 0.75% copper from 449 metres downhole.

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Plan map of the main Ballywire discovery corridor showing new assays. Source: Group Eleven Resources Corp.

The interval included a 0.57-metre section grading 2,120 g/t silver, 4.50% copper, and 0.27% antimony. Hole 26-468-24 also filled a 180-metre gap between previous drilling and provided further evidence that deeper copper-silver mineralization may extend across the entire Ballywire discovery, which currently spans 3.2 kilometres along a 6-kilometre prospective trend.

At the northeast end of the currently defined discovery area, hole 26-3552-56 filled a 110-metre gap and intersected 17.55 metres of 4.09% combined zinc and lead, 110.6 g/t silver, and 0.27% copper from 305.3 metres downhole within the Waulsortian Limestone. This intercept included a 3.69-metre higher-grade section grading 7.68% combined zinc and lead, 417.9 g/t silver, and 1.02% copper.

Hole 26-3552-60, drilled approximately 80 metres downdip, returned 15.36 metres of 39.2 g/t silver and 0.82% copper, including a 0.74-metre interval grading 643 g/t silver, 13.95% copper, and 1.42% antimony.

Meanwhile, hole 26-468-25 became the first hole ever drilled at gravity-high 'Anomaly A', located approximately 2 kilometres southwest of the outlined discovery limits. The hole intersected trace mineralization alongside steeply south-dipping faults, returning anomalous values including 1.0 metre of 15 g/t silver and 0.09% copper.

Four drill rigs remain active at Ballywire. Thirteen new holes are currently completed and undergoing logging, sampling, and assaying, or are in the process of being drilled.

“Today's results represent significant progress on several fronts at Ballywire,” stated Bart Jaworski, CEO. “First, we have demonstrated high-grades of Cu-Ag-Sb along the SW end of the currently defined discovery area, 710m away from the nearest such test. Four rigs continue to be active at Ballywire.”

Read the full announcement: Group Eleven Cuts Deeper Cu-Ag Mineralization in 710m Step-Out; Drills 3.7m of 7.7% Zn+Pb, 418 g/t Ag and 1.02% Cu in a Wider 17.6m Interval; Returns Mineralization in First Hole at 'Anomaly A'