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Aftermath Silver Ltd.'s (AAG:TSX.V; AAGFF:OTCQX; FLM1:FRA) largest shareholder, Eric Sprott, through his corporation 2176423 Ontario Ltd., will increase his equity position in the Canadian silver explorer by participating in an exclusive non-brokered private placement, according to a news release. Sprott will subscribe for the entire amount, up to 22,222,222 units, to be sold at CA$0.45 apiece for total gross proceeds of up to CA$10 million (CA$10M).

*"His backing provides strong validation for the company's strategy and enhances its credibility among both institutional and retail investors," wrote John Newell of Newell & Associates in a Sept. 9 note. "Sprott's involvement is a significant endorsement, indicating confidence in the company's ability to deliver value."

Prior to this financing, Sprott owned 21.22% of Aftermath, according to Reuters. With this transaction, he will become a "control person" of the silver junior, defined by the TSX Venture Exchange as someone holding enough securities of a corporation to materially affect control of it. Consequently, Aftermath's shareholders will vote on whether to approve Sprott as a control person, noted the news release.

Each unit in the Sprott financing will consist of one common share in the capital of Aftermath and one-half of a transferable purchase warrant. With each warrant, the shareholder may acquire one additional Aftermath common share at CA$0.70 apiece, for a period of 36 months from the date the warrant was issued.

In other news, Aftermath generated CA$1,795,453 in cash from 6,535,487 of its outstanding common share purchase warrants being exercised since June 1, 2024, it announced in a separate release.

The company plans to use the net proceeds of both the Sprott financing and the exercised warrants on exploration work to include geological, metallurgical, and engineering studies and a drill program at the Berenguela project and for general working capital purposes. Berenguela is a silver-copper-manganese project in southern Peru, into which Aftermath has the option to earn 100% over six years, per an agreement with the owner SSR Mining Inc. (SSRM:NASDAQ). The agreement went into effect about four years ago, on Sept. 30, 2020.

High Silver Recoveries

Aftermath also just announced on Oct. 16 that recent metallurgical studies on two composite samples of mineralization from the Berenguela project yielded high silver recoveries: 96% from one, 89% from the other.

Testing also showed that manganese and the other metals did not interfere with the standard leach process, according to the release. Further, the requirement for cyanide in the process was demonstrated to be less than 1 kilogram per silver ounce, indicating it is not a significant cost or technical problem.

Kappes, Cassiday & Associates in Nevada will complete the in-progress metallurgical work and flow sheet details using the other 14 composite samples from Berenguela that Aftermath provided.

"The next stage of our metallurgical test work is advancing and includes preliminary process and sizing studies for plant design purposes," Aftermath Executive Chairman Michael Williams said in the release.

Strong Projects, People, and Plan

Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Aftermath Silver is an exploration company working to create shareholder value through the discovery, acquisition, and development of quality silver projects in favorable mining jurisdictions. It currently has three assets in Latin America with growth and development potential.

"These projects are not only located in mineral-rich regions but also have significant potential to rapidly define resources and deliver strong economic returns," Newell wrote.

Berenguela, 6 kilometers (6 km) northeast of the town of Santa Lucia and spanning 6,594 hectares (6,594 ha), is Aftermath's earn-in and flagship project. It has a Measured and Indicated resource estimate, published by Aftermath in March 2023, of 101,200,000 ounces (101.2 Moz) of 78 grams per ton silver, 2,450,000 tons (2.45 Mt) of 6.1% manganese, 589,000,000 pounds (589 Mlb) of 0.67% copper and 299.3 Mlb of 0.34% zinc.

"His backing provides strong validation for the company's strategy and enhances its credibility among both institutional and retail investors," wrote John Newell of Newell & Associates in a Sept. 9 note. "Sprott's involvement is a significant endorsement, indicating confidence in the company's ability to deliver value."

The company now is advancing Berenguela toward a preliminary economic assessment (PEA), demonstrating it can potentially produce silver doré, copper metal and as a co-product, commercial, battery-grade high-purity manganese sulphate monohydrate (HPMSM). Recent metallurgical test work yielded 99.9% pure HPMSM, or MnSO4, a result that exceeds common industry specifications for batteries, the company said.

"We have demonstrated that we can potentially produce a battery-grade manganese sulfate product, and the recoveries of the silver and manganese to date are high," noted Williams in one of the latest news releases.

Aftermath owns 100% of Challacollo and Cachinal, two low-sulfidation epithermal silver-gold projects, each with an existing resource and derisked by past work. Challacollo spans about 19,000 ha in Chile's Region 1, or Grande Norte. Cachinal is a 4,867-ha property in northern Chile's Paleocene Precious Metal Belt, about 16 km north of Austral Gold Limited's (AGD:ASX) Guanaco gold-silver mine.

With its projects, Aftermath is pursuing a clear strategy, Newell pointed out, which is advancing them via exploration and development efforts toward a PEA and a feasibility study with the goal of building a robust silver mine.

"This focused approach provides investors with a clear roadmap to potential returns while mitigating the risks often associated with early-stage mining ventures," added Newell.

He also mentioned Aftermath's leadership team and noted the members' breadth of cumulative experience and knowledge in the mining industry, in exploration, project development, and capital raising, and their past successes.

Silver is "Wildly Undervalued"

Silver: Now is the time to invest in the silver market, experts say, because it's is undervalued and about to soar.

All of the data are pointing to the same conclusion, that silver is about to have "an upward revision," according to Investing Haven in an Oct. 16 article. The 50-year silver price chart is looking "insanely bullish" and the 20-year silver price chart is looking "very bullish." The silver adjusted for Consumer Price Index metric indicates that silver is "wildly undervalued," and the increasing imbalance in supply and demand of the metal supports this.

In addition, silver's hidden indicator, the silver miners to silver junior miners ratio, is breaking out after some years of consolidation, Investing Haven noted. This is indicating that risk is on and is confirming "strong bullish momentum is about to hit the silver market."

Silver juniors offer the greatest leverage to increasing commodity prices and the highest potential return, more so than silver senior/major and midtier miners, Ahead of the Herd's Richard Mills pointed out in a recent newsletter issue. Investing in a junior with an excellent project in a safe jurisdiction and led by a management team that can raise money "can reap huge rewards," he wrote. "Five, 10, even 20 times your money isn't uncommon."

The Silver Investor's Peter Krauth, in a recent presentation, discussed the ongoing silver supply deficit, Money Metals reported. By the end of this year, Krauth said, the undersupply will reach 759 Moz, an amount equivalent to about three-fourths of one year's supply. Silver demand for use in photovoltaic panels alone in 2024 will be about 232 Moz, nearly three times the 80 Moz needed in 2020, according to The Silver Institute. Growth of the artificial intelligence industry will boost demand for silver for use in energy storage, biotech, nanotechnology, transportation, and more.

Delegates from around the world who attended the London Bullion Market Association's annual meeting earlier this month predicted that by late October 2025, silver will have climbed 40% higher and reached US$45 per ounce (US$45/oz), reported Saxo's Head of Commodity Strategy Ole Hansen.

Based on the technical and historical indicators, Krauth thinks the silver price could actually reach triple-triple digits or US$300/oz, he said in an Oct. 8 video. "I don't believe it will stay there, but I do think that it could be in our future."

High-purity manganese: This commodity consists of highly refined, finished products, including high-purity manganese sulfate monohydrate (HPMSM), a focus of Aftermath at Berenguela, and high-purity electrolytic manganese metal (HPEMM), according to a Euro Manganese article.

These raw materials are essential to most lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and other energy storage applications. They increasingly are being used as a primary ingredient in the batteries, largely because the result is a product with better energy density. As such, high-purity manganese is now being added to lithium-iron-phosphate battery chemistry, in amounts as high as 60%, and being added to nickel-cobalt lithium ion batteries. Thus, demand for high-purity manganese is on the rise.

"Most emerging cathodes have a much higher manganese content than the average cathode today, which is good news for manganese miners," Ben Campbell, manager of battery research at E Source, told S&P Global Commodity Insights.

Manganese-containing battery chemistries are expected to dominate the battery market for the next two decades, noted Euro Manganese. Citing data from CPM Group, the article indicated that demand for high-purity manganese is forecasted to grow more than 1,000% between 2021 and 2031, to 1.1 Mt from 90,000 tons (90 Kt). To 2050, demand will continue to rise, another 309% to 4.5 Mt.

The future supply of HPMSM and HPEMM looks problematic. This is because most of the battery-grade manganese supply comes from China, 97% of it last year as an example. With the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act and the European Union's Critical Raw Materials Act incentivizing their region's carmakers to reduce their reliance on China, they will need to establish new supply chains, domestic or in allied countries. However, existing high-purity manganese production and project expansions will not meet the growing demand. Additional sources of supply will need to come online.

"Industry participants are expecting a deficit in battery-grade manganese by the end of the decade," S&P Global wrote.

CPM Group also forecasts an undersupply, noted Euro Manganese, of about 475 Kt of manganese equivalent by 2031. Looking another six years out, the deficit will increase to an estimated 1 Mt if demand keeps growing as anticipated and no additional mining projects materialize.

The Catalysts

Near-term catalysts for Aftermath pertain to its progress in advancing the Berenguela project, according to the company's Investor Presentation. Metallurgical testing and process design for an operation are continuing. Additional results of both are anticipated in the near term.

Also, Aftermath has started preliminary engineering work for an upcoming preliminary economic assessment it expects to complete next year.

Buy-Rated Stock, Good Entry Point

*Aftermath Silver warrants serious consideration by investors wanting to take advantage of the burgeoning worldwide demand for silver and other critical metals, Newell wrote. The company is a compelling investment opportunity because of its focus on silver-rich regions, its high-quality projects, its clear growth strategy, savvy leadership, and solid shareholder support.

Further, Aftermath's stock is at a favorable entry point, having corrected from its former high in 2021 and subsequently stabilized and formed a solid base.

The silver explorer, therefore, is a Buy, Newell wrote. [OWNERSHIP_CHART-6840]

Ownership and Share Structure

According to Refinitiv, five strategic entities own 22.45%, or 52.62 million (52.62M) shares, of Aftermath Silver. Ahead of the announced private placement mentioned above, Eric Sprott's company, 2176423 Ontario Ltd., owns 21.22% or 49.75M shares.

Four Aftermath insiders are the other strategic investors. They are Executive Chairman and Director Michael Williams who owns 0.85% or 2M shares, President, CEO and Director Ralph Rushton who holds 0.2% or 0.46M shares, Director David Terry who has 0.13% or 0.31M shares and Director Keenan Hohol who owns 0.04% or 0.11M shares.

As for institutional ownership, seven entities together own 2.33% or 5.47M shares. The Top 3 are FPS Vermoegensverwaltung GmbH with 0.79% or 1.85M shares, AIPM Azur International Portfolio Management AG with 0.55% or 1.33M shares and Sprott Asset Management LP with 0.45% or 1.06M shares.

The remaining 75.22% of Aftermath is in retail.

The company has 255.07M outstanding shares and 181.77M free float traded shares.

Its market cap is CA$101.03M, and its 52-week range is CA$0.165−$0.56 per share.

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The pandemic has taken a massive toll on people's mental health. But a new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms what many of us are seeing and feeling in our own lives: The impact has been particularly devastating for parents and unpaid caregivers of adults.

Two-thirds of survey respondents who identified as unpaid caregivers said they experienced mental health challenges during the pandemic, such as symptoms of anxiety or depression, or suicidal thoughts.

Only one-third of people with no caregiving responsibilities reported the same symptoms.

Of the more than 10,000 survey respondents, more than 40% identified as being unpaid caregivers.

"What is striking here is just how widespread unpaid caregiving responsibilities are in the population and how much of a burden and a toll these responsibilities" are having, says Shantha Rajaratnam, a co-author of the study and a psychologist at the Turner Institute of Brain and Mental Health at Monash University in Australia.

The study also found that people who care for both children under 18 and adults — many of them part of the sandwich generation — are faring the worst, with 85% of this group experiencing adverse mental health symptoms.

"It's an extremely important study," says psychologist Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, professor emeritus at Stanford University who has researched family caregivers and their challenges.

The study is the first to document the problems caregivers have experienced during COVID-19, she notes, and underscores "the importance of paying attention to caregiver issues, caregiver mental health" and the need for education and resources to better support them.

The contrast between caregivers and others is stark

The study, part of ongoing research by The COVID-19 Outbreak Public Evaluation (COPE) Initiative, is based on surveys conducted in December 2020 and February-March 2021.

More than half of those who identified as caregivers said they had experienced symptoms of anxiety or depression, or of disorders like PTSD related to the stress and trauma of COVID-19.

A significant number of caregivers said they had contemplated suicide. Nearly 40% reported having passive suicidal thoughts, meaning "wishing that they had gone to bed and didn't wake up," says study co-author Mark Czeisler, a graduate student at Monash University and a research trainee at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

And more than 30% had seriously considered taking their own life — about five times the number of noncaregivers, the study found.

Across the board, mental health impacts have been more severe for people who care for both children and adults. Half of this group said it had seriously considered suicide in the past month.

The pandemic worsened the challenges caregivers face

Even before the pandemic, being an unpaid caregiver was stressful and associated with a higher risk of mental health issues, says Gallagher-Thompson. The COVID-19 pandemic has made things even harder.

For instance, the pandemic has taken away many formal and informal sources of support for caregivers.

That was the case for Dr. Nicole Christian-Brathwaite. She's a Boston-based child psychiatrist and lives with her husband, her mother, her husband's father and two sons, who are 4 and 6.

Before the pandemic, her father-in-law, who has dementia, went to a day program for seniors with cognitive decline. Her mother, a survivor of breast and lung cancers, went to physical therapy twice a week, doctor appointments and met with friends.

When the pandemic hit, they lost those services and social support — at the same time Christian-Brathwaite and her husband began working from home while taking care of their sons and parents.

Life at home became much more complicated. Her sons developed behavioral problems with the transitions and stresses of the pandemic. Her mother struggled with chronic pain, and was hospitalized during the pandemic. And there were days when her father-in-law was confused, disoriented or aggressive.

"Many days I was walking around on edge waiting for something to happen because our entire setup was so very fragile and vulnerable," says Christian-Brathwaite. "It's been exhausting."

And her mental health has suffered. "I certainly was dealing with insomnia," she says. "I was short tempered. I was more irritable. I didn't have the same tolerance for things."

More support needed to help caregivers cope

The new study highlights the extent to which unpaid caregivers have struggled during the pandemic, says Gallagher-Thompson.

"There are some serious issues here that shouldn't be ignored," she says.

And yet caregivers are often ignored by the health system, which is set up to focus only on patients.

"Family members are rarely asked, 'How does this affect you? What is difficult? How can we help you? How can we support you in being able to carry out your role, your tasks, your responsibilities?'" Gallagher-Thompson says.

As the new study shows, support can make a big difference — respondents who could rely on others for help with caregiving had a lower incidence of mental health symptoms.

So it's important to educate and support caregivers. For example, physicians can start by screening their patients' caregivers for mental health symptoms and provide more resources to those who need it, says Gallagher-Thompson.

Christian-Brathwaite hopes the new study will help physicians recognize that family caregivers are just as important to consider while treating patients.

"We really need to take a step back and look at the village that's around them because our patients can't be successful without having the support from family," she says.

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