Kootenay Intercepts More High Grades On Columba Silver Project, Mexico Highlights include 1,070 gpt Silver over 0.9 meters within 516 gpt Silver over 2.9 meters and 408 gpt Silver over 4.85 meters within 33.5 Meters of 112 gpt Silver
Kootenay Intercepts More High Grades On
Columba Silver Project, Mexico
Highlights include 1,070 gpt Silver over 0.9 meters within 516 gpt Silver over 2.9 meters and
408 gpt Silver over 4.85 meters within 33.5 Meters of 112 gpt Silver
VANCOUVER
,
Aug. 29, 2019
/CNW/ -
Kootenay Silver Inc. (TSXV: KTN) (the "Company" or
"Kootenay")
is pleased to announce assay results from four (4) additional holes drilled on the
Columba high-grade silver vein system in Chihuahua State, Mexico. Drilling is ongoing with 16 holes
completed to date of a planned first phase 25 to 30-hole program.
Kootenay President and CEO
James McDonald
states, "
We are happy to see good high
grade now over a wide range of strike and depth along the F Vein. Just as exciting are the
high grades we are seeing in previously unknown hanging-wall veins with assays up to 1,070
gpt silver. The consistency of the known veins tested to date and the newly discovered
hanging-wall veins certainly increases our confidence in the resource potential of the
project".
Drilling Discussion and Highlights:
Three things of note thus far:
The F Vein has returned high grades over good widths.
The known veins are showing excellent continuity along strike and to depth.
Newly discovered veins in the hanging-wall also contain high grades.
The F Vein is where historic work concentrated including two shafts one to about 90 meters depth
and the other to 200 meters with 6 development levels. Click to see
plan map
and
longitudinal section
.
The Company is working on understanding how the various hanging wall veins correlate to one
another.
In some cases, the F Vein and associated 'stockwork' is substantially wider than the sampled
intervals reported in historic data which concentrated on the highest grades. Hole CDH 19-008, for
example, intercepted 33.5 meters of vein grading 112 gpt silver with wider intervals also found in
holes CDH 19-001, 002 and 006.
Drilling has now tested the F Vein along 400 meters of strike and to depths as far as 250 meters
vertically. This release reports drilling as deep as 160 meters vertically in hole CDH 19-010. See
longitudinal section
.
A total of 16 holes have now been completed and assays reported on ten. Holes CDH 19-011 to 016
have all hit vein with CDH 19-011, 012 and 015 testing the F Vein as deep as 250 meters vertically
and CDH 19-013, 014 and 016 testing the I Vein at shallow depths. See
plan map
. Drilling continues
to systematically test the known veins and assays will be reported once received and compiled.
CDH 19-007
:
Hanging Wall Vein:
417 gpt silver over 1.68
meters.
Newly discovered vein.
F Vein (historically worked):
693 gpt silver over 1.55
meters
before hitting 3.0-meter mined
stope.
CDH 19-008
:
F Vein:
707 gpt silver over 0.58 meters within 408 gpt silver over 4.85 meters and 112 gpt
silver over 33 meters.
Footwall Vein: 148 gpt silver over 1.46 meters.
CDH 19-009
:
Hanging Wall Vein:
519 gpt silver over 2.90 meters
including
1,070 gpt over 0.90 meters.
Newly discovered vein.
Hanging Wall Stockwork:
50 gpt silver over 10.40 meters
followed by a 3.0-meter mined
stope or tunnel interpreted as the F Vein.
CDH 19-010
:
Hanging Wall Vein:
200 gpt silver over 3.05 meters
intercepted immediately at surface. Newly
discovered vein.
Second Hanging Wall Vein:
42 gpt silver over 13.0 meters with 97 gpt silver over 1.0 meter.
Newly discovered vein.
Hanging Wall Vein immediately above F vein:
112 gpt silver over 2.0 meters
F Vein:
338 gpt silver over 2.53 meters
including
392 gpt silver over 1.60 meters
Detailed results of drill holes can be seen in the table listed below
:
Hole ID
From
(meters)
To
(meters)
Interval
(meters)
Silver
gpt
Pb
%
Zn
%
Geologic
Intersection
CDH-19-007
110
111.68
1.68
417
N/A
0.125
Hanging Wall Vein
149.45
151.00
1.55
693
0.428
1.13
151
154.00
3.00
N/A
N/A
N/A
Mined Stope
CDH-19-008
19
52.50
33.50
112
N/A
N/A
Hanging Wall Vein
Includes
42.45
47.30
4.85
408
0.695
1.08
F Vein
Includes
44.25
44.83
0.58
707
0.271
0.43
Includes
44.83
46.00
1.17
366
0.135
0.162
Includes
46
47.30
1.30
509
0.164
0.26
63.92
65.38
1.46
148
N/A
N/A
Footwall Vein
CDH-19-009
145
147.90
2.90
516
N/A
0.206
Hanging Wall Vein
Includes
147
147.90
0.90
1,070
0.0193
0.411
168
178.40
10.40
50
N/A
N/A
178.4
181.45
3.05
N/A
N/A
N/A
Mined Stope
CDH-19-010
0
3.05
3.05
200
N/A
N/A
Hanging Wall Vein
177
190.00
13.00
42
N/A
N/A
Altered Intrusive
Includes
188
189.00
1.00
197
N/A
N/A
Hanging Wall Vein
215
217.00
2.00
112
N/A
0.256
219
221.53
2.53
338
0.275
0.63
F Vein
Includes
219
220.60
1.60
391
0.293
0.72
All widths are drilled widths. At this time, it is estimated true widths will range from 60 to 80% of drilled widths depending on dip of the vein and inclination of the hole. All silver
composites rounded to the nearest whole number.
Qualified Persons
The Kootenay technical information in this news release has been prepared in accordance with the
Canadian regulatory requirements set out in National Instrument 43-101 (Standards of Disclosure for
Mineral Projects) and reviewed and approved on behalf Kootenay by
James McDonald
, P.Geo,
President, CEO & Director for Kootenay, a Qualified Person.
Sampling and QA/QC at Columba
All technical information for the Columba exploration program is obtained and reported under a
formal quality assurance and quality control ("QA/QC") program. Samples are taken from core cut in
half with a diamond saw under the direction of qualified geologists and engineers. Samples are then
labeled, placed in plastic bags, sealed and with interval and sample numbers recorded. Samples are
delivered by the Company to ALS Minerals ("ALS") in Chihuahua. The samples are dried, crushed
and pulverized with the pulps being sent airfreight for analysis by ALS in
Vancouver, B.C.
Systematic
assaying of standards, blanks and duplicates is performed for precision and accuracy. Analysis for
silver, zinc, lead and copper and related trace elements was done by ICP four acid digestion, with
gold analysis by 30-gram fire assay with an AA finish. All drilling will be with HQ or NQ core and has
been contracted to Globexplore Drilling from
Hermosillo, Mexico
.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in
policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this
release.
About Kootenay Silver Inc.
Kootenay Silver Inc. is an exploration company actively engaged in the discovery and development
of mineral projects in the Sierra Madre Region of
Mexico
and in
British Columbia, Canada
.
Supported by one of the largest portfolios of silver assets in
Mexico
, Kootenay continues to provide
its shareholders with significant leverage to silver prices. The Company remains focused on the
expansion of its current silver resources, new discoveries and the near-term economic
development of two of its priority silver projects located in prolific mining districts in
Sonora
, State
and Chihuahua, State,
Mexico
, respectively.
CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS:
The information in this news release has been prepared as at
August 28, 2019
. Certain statements
in this news release, referred to herein as "forward-looking statements", constitute "forward-looking
statements" under the provisions of Canadian provincial securities laws. These statements can be
identified by the use of words such as "expected", "may", "will" or similar terms.
Forward-looking statements are necessarily based upon a number of factors and assumptions that,
while considered reasonable by Kootenay as of the date of such statements, are inherently subject
to significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies. Many factors,
known and unknown, could cause actual results to be materially different from those expressed or
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or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.
Cautionary Note to US Investors:
This news release may contain information about adjacent
properties on which we have no right to explore or mine. We advise U.S. investors that the SEC's
mining guidelines strictly prohibit information of this type in documents filed with the SEC. U.S.
investors are cautioned that mineral deposits on adjacent properties are not indicative of mineral
deposits on our properties. This news release may contain forward-looking statements including
but not limited to comments regarding the timing and content of upcoming work programs,
geological interpretations, receipt of property titles, potential mineral recovery processes, etc.
Forward-looking statements address future events and conditions and therefore involve inherent
risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those currently anticipated in such
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This press release uses the terms "Measured", "Indicated", and "Inferred" resources.
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the United States Securities and Exchange Commission does not recognize them. "Inferred
Mineral Resources" have a great amount of uncertainty as to their existence, and as to their
economic and legal feasibility. It cannot be assumed that all or any part of an Inferred Mineral
Resource will ever be upgraded to a higher category. Under Canadian rules, estimates of Inferred
Mineral Resources may not form the basis of feasibility or other economic studies.
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Resources will ever be converted into Mineral Reserves.
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investors are also
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mineable.
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For further information:
James McDonald, CEO and President at 403-880-6016; Ken Berry,
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