Alaska Silver CEO Aaron Schutt explains how the company stretched its 2026 Illinois Creek program from 6,000 to 9,496 metres after an August financing, with assays from Waterpump Creek and Silver Sage arriving through year end and into January. He describes metallurgical work on a one tonne bulk sample, including the copper that cut silver recovery during the 1990s operation, as a step toward a possible preliminary economic assessment.