The playbook — silver · September 8, 2026
All 85 holes hit silver at Langis tailings — grades run tight
Brixton's maiden tailings drill program returns a uniform 40–90 g/t band. But the sheet is thin, and there's still no resource.
Brixton Metals drilled 85 holes into the tailings pile at its Langis silver project in Ontario’s Cobalt camp — the pond of finely ground rock a mine leaves behind after it processes ore — and reports every single one hit silver. When we last covered Langis, the headline was a bonanza vein deep in the bedrock. This is the other half of the story: not the veins, but the leftovers on surface. The program-wide composite runs 61.7 grams of silver per tonne across 119.5 metres — roughly two ounces of silver in every tonne. The richest single hole, LT-26-051, cut 1.53 metres at 311.66 g/t, including a half-metre at 810 g/t.
Here the interesting number is not the high grade — it’s the sameness. Seventy-seven of the 85 holes fall in a tight 40 to 90 g/t band, with a median of 56 g/t. In tailings, that consistency is exactly what lets geologists carve the pile into clean blocks for a resource estimate. Tailings sit on surface, so there’s no expensive underground mining — a real cost advantage in a district with existing infrastructure. Thompson, who co-founded Brixton in 2009, also serves as Executive Chairman of Silver47 Exploration and founded Longview Gold Corp. in 2025 — three companies at once, a real question of where his hours go. His team knows this ground. The stock rose 5.6% over the quarter while silver itself slipped 2.3% — but the junior silver index ran 21.2%, more than three and a half times Brixton’s gain. It caught part of the tide, not the wave.
On our three open promises: the maiden tailings resource estimate is now closer but not delivered — modelling is underway, timing not stated. Metallurgical test work is in progress, so recovery rates — how much silver you can actually pull out — remain unconfirmed. More S6, S6-SE and S6-W bedrock assays stay pending. The caveats matter more than usual here. The tailings sheet averages just 1.41 metres thick (range 0.09 to 3.70 metres), so contained metal hinges on how wide the pond spreads, not the grade — and total tonnage is not disclosed. That 810 g/t hit is one 0.50-metre sample, not a trend. Reported intervals are downhole lengths said to approximate true thickness, disclosed by blanket geometry statement rather than modeled hole by hole. Two areas inside the facility went undrilled. And this is surface tailings, explicitly not a mineral resource — no resource, no recovery data, no economics yet.