Impact Silver – Review Of Q1 2025 Financials, Operations, and Exploration Initiatives At Both The Plomosas and Zacualpan Mines And District-Scale Land Packages
Fred Davidson, President and CEO of Impact Silver (TSX.V:IPT – OTCQB:ISVLF), joins me to outline the key takeaways from the Q1 2025 financial and operations, and provides an update on the current production and exploration upside at the Zacualpan Silver-Gold District, as well as the Plomosas Zinc-Lead-Silver Mine in Chihuahua, Mexico.
The Company reported revenue of $10.7 million for Q1 2025, more than double the $5.3 million reported in Q1 2024. This significant increase was driven by the commencement of new production at the Plomosas mine and higher commodity prices. EBITDA for Q1 2025 was $1.0 million, marking a strong recovery from the negative $3.6 million in Q1 2024. Net loss for the quarter was $0.1 million, a notable improvement compared to the net loss of $4.4 million in the same period last year. This reflects a substantial year-over-year improvement, as inflationary pressures on costs eased and commodity prices remained strong, supported by a higher aggregate production volume. At quarter-end, the Company had $6.6 million in cash and no structured debt.
Fred also unpacked that in 2024, the Company revised its accounting policies for early-stage exploration. This change has been applied retrospectively, resulting in $0.8 million in exploration costs being expensed in Q1 2025 and $1.2 million in Q1 2024. Subsequent to quarter-end, the Company announced an equity financing of up to $5.0 million.
With regards to all the exploration initiatives for this year, we kick things off with opportunities to keep exploring deeper underground for more high-grade zinc, lead, and silver at the Plomosas Mine. Fred also points out that there is a new area of interest nearby that is more endowed with gold and copper mineralization, and that will be getting some upcoming surface drilling.
Shifting over to the Zacualpan Silver-Gold District the Company has 4 underground mines and 1 open-pit mine all feeding into the Guadalupe processing plant. Fred and I review exploration targets at the new Kena Discovery at the Guadalupe Mine, the San Ramon Deeps and San Ramon South area at the San Ramon Mine, both a gold-rich and a silver-rich vein respectively at the Alacran Mine, some silver targets like San Antonio at the Mina Grande Mine, and a few target like Carlos Pacheco and Chapanial at the Valley de Oro exploration area.
We wrap up having Fred outline that the purpose of the recent $5million capital raise is to accelerate all this exploration efforts at both district-scale properties, looking for areas to exploit with mining, and eventually growth the production profile.
If you have any follow up questions for Fred about Impact Silver, then please email me at Shad@kereport.com.
- In full disclosure, Shad is a shareholder of Impact Silver at the time of this recording.
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Here at the market close on Friday, I’d say the reaction in most silver stocks to the silver price finally breaking above $35 resistance and closing the week above $36 (which is technically very bullish), was quite underwhelming.
Most of the silver stocks were bizarrely down in the red on the day. SIL was down 1.1% and SILJ was down 1.6%, even though silver futures were up over 1% most of the day and closed up 0.84%.
Personally, I was expecting a bit more excitement in the silver stocks to end the week with these higher underlying silver prices, translating over into increased margins, and expanding economics on so many development projects. One would think $36 silver would be more bullish than $33-$35 silver that we saw earlier in the week, and would have resulted in follow-through moves to even higher levels.
Sure, overall the silver stocks had a really strong week leading up to today’s trading session, but it still ended on a bit of a fizzle considering silver was ending the week at the strongest level its been at in 13 years.
Maybe some investors don’t expect the silver prices to stick and decided to pull profits in front of the weekend. (?)
Yes … all my silver down except for Capitan hitting a 52 week high. Accounts overall looked capped.
To my way of thinking is who could arrive at a reasonable idea of what a given stock was worth now that all standards of value have been upset. The US dollar has no value; you can’t have an economy if you can’t figure out the price value of the US dollar. What is the value of gold and silver in US currency. We don’t know to try to predict this even a month ago would have been insanity. DTDT
For the last 18 years the TSX-V has been in a secular bear market but that’s about to change. In 2020 it made a lower low but in 2021 it made a higher high. In 2023 it made a higher low and is now on its way to breaking its 18 year downtrend and heading for a higher high. The bull markets of 2020-21, 2016 and 2008 thru 2011 were all countertrend affairs which explains a lot about them.
https://schrts.co/JaDzAKMZ
I like what I see in the oversold GLD:SLV…
https://schrts.co/mIvDQEti
Weekly
https://schrts.co/eIDFCRYp
IPT daily
https://schrts.co/AyuPNRjg
Weekly (Notice the finish above the important “P” price pivot as well as the 50 week MA and Kaufman’s moving average, KAMA. The last such finish happened last October.)
https://schrts.co/arraVIEa
Gold is now a clear weekly chart SELL versus Silver.
https://schrts.co/cJxZrfyz
GDX has been rejected at the same resistance that stopped it in April (and last year)…
https://schrts.co/dZERHjgP
https://www.tradingview.com/x/onczR5tk/
DOLLAR : Bullish Pattern Forming
https://www.tradingview.com/x/cxTMtDlZ/
NatGas : Bear Stage : Likely Lower
ISS EVA downgrades IPT to SELL
Red Flags
Diminishing profitability
Thin and shrinking cash margin
Detereorating Gross Margin
Slow turning receivables
Burdensome and escalating SG&A expense profile
Seems management may be taking too big of a piece from a dwindling pie
That’s hilarious Terry!
Thanks!
I just saw this report on Interactive and thought some people might be interested.
I’m glad you’re keeping the wall of worry alive. That’s more beneficial to the health of the move than spreading a bullish opinion.
An interesting close for ISVLF:
https://schrts.co/zgwmfdNK