Kootenay Reveals Drill Results from Columba Project Chihuahua, Mexico -

HOUSTON, TEXAS (Editors at Energy Analytics Institute, 12.Feb.2025) — Kootenay Silver Inc. provided results from 11 new drill holes at the Columba high grade silver project in Mexico.

The batch reported comprises tests from the F and I-Veins and the first holes into a new target area La Preciosa, an outcropping structure that shows a pattern of improving grades with depth, Kootenay said 12 Feb. 2025 in an official statement.

“Recent holes on the F Vein to fill large drill gaps have intersected similar and slightly better grades than previous holes, a positive sign for future infill drilling. In the case of the I-Vein and Preciosa structure they both represent excellent targets for discovery of additional high grade mineralized shoots so keep an eye out for follow up drilling,” Kootenay president & CEO James McDonald said in the statement.

F Vein

Hole CDH-24-184

Hit an old working at the F vein projection. Intercepted a hanging wall vein grading 411 gpt silver, 0.184% lead, and 0.323% zinc over 0.63m drill length from 63.15m downhole.

Hole CDH-24-186

522 gpt silver, 0.46% lead, and 0.8% zinc over 2.33m core length within 21m of 126 gpt silver from 142.67m downhole.
Plus 5 other veins
- Footwall
  - 490 gpt silver over 0.95m from 37.23m downhole
  - 214 gpt silver over 1.24m from 96.76m downhole
- Hanging Wall
  - 511 gpt silver over 1m core length from 177m downhole
  - 607 gpt silver over 1m core length from 194m downhole
  - 457 gpt silver over 1m core length within a 5.75m zone grading 218 gpt silver from 230.25m downhole
CDH-24-186 fills a gap in dip of 100m with high grades found previously up dip and down dip in CDH-19-010 and CDH-21-090 plus five high grade veins on either side of F Vein.

I Vein

Hole CDH-24-185

2 zones
- 207 gpt silver, 0.11 % lead and 0.36% zinc over 5.53 meters core length from 93 meters downhole, includes;
  - 394 gpt silver, 0.06% lead, and 0.29% zinc over 0.46 meters core length from 95.54 meters downhole
- 263 gpt silver, 0.31 % lead, and 1.37 % zinc over 0.56 meters from 142.93 meters downhole

CDH-24-188

4 zones
- 551 gpt silver, 0.6% lead, 0.49% zinc over 3.73m core length from 76m downhole
- 155 gpt silver, 0.2% lead, 0.7% zinc over 5m core length from 139m downhole
- 139 gpt silver, 4.33% lead, and 1.71% zinc over 4.2m core length from 233.8m downhole, includes;
  - 440 gpt silver, 10% lead, 0.05% zinc over 1m core length from 236m downhole
- 38 gpt silver over 11m core length from a deeper alteration zone starting at 300m downhole.

CDH-24-194

3 zones
- 119 gpt silver over 1m core length from 120m downhole
- 1455 gpt silver, 0.78% lead, 2.21% zinc over 0.5m core length from 219.2m downhole
- 181 gpt silver, 3.92% lead, 5.83% zinc from 0.88m core length from 278.12m downhole

The Columba project

The Columba project is a classic high grade epithermal vein system. It is typical in character and size of other vein districts in Mexico known to have deposited significant resources of silver or gold such as La Chispas and Panuco.

Hosted within a volcanic caldera setting, the surface extent of mapped veins measures roughly 4km by 3km. Vein mineralization occurs over a minimum vertical extent of 350m as shown by drilling. The veins appear to be intermediate sulfidation veins indicating the potential for depths exceeding 700m of vertical extent. This remains to be tested and all veins remain open to depth.

A general rule of thumb on the project is at levels deeper than 1,750m above sea level is where good grades begin to appear. This is what is referred to as the grade line, Kootenay said.

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