VANCOUVER, BC (By Kootenay, 21.Jul.2025, Words: 514) — Kootenay Silver Inc. announced drill crews have been scheduled to arrive by month end to begin the staged 2025 drill program. One drill is expected to start during the first week of August with a second to follow about ten days later.
The first 25,000 to 30,000 meters will focus on expanding the size of existing resource bodies in the D, F, and B/Lupe Veins. The mineralized zones in all veins remain open either down dip, along strike or both directions. The company is fully funded for this program, having recently closed a $20,000,000 bought deal financing.
James McDonald President and CEO states, “Having just put out our maiden resource of 54 million ounces of silver at Columba at a very good grade of 284 gpt silver, we are now looking forward to this next round of drilling which is focused on increasing the size of the resource. All vein zones remain open to expansion, so we have a lot of low hanging fruit to go after as we advance to our objective of finding 100 million plus ounces of silver.”
Details of which are stated below:
- The underground MRE includes, at a base-case cut-off grade of 150 gpt Ag, Inferred Mineral Resources estimated at 5.92 Mt grading 284 gpt silver, 0.19% lead, and 0.50% zinc. The Mineral Resource Estimate includes Inferred mineral resources of 54.1 Moz of silver, 25.2 kt of lead, and 65.6 kt of zinc. The MRE is exclusive of mined out material (F Vein); and
- A total of 17 epithermal veins that comprise the Columba vein system were included in the Mineral Resource Estimate.
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 in Chihuahua.
The company inserts blanks, standards and duplicates at regular intervals as follows. On average a blank is inserted every 100 samples beginning at the start of sampling and again when leaving the mineral zone. Standards are inserted when entering the potential mineralized zone and in the middle of them, on average one in every 25 samples is a standard. Duplicates are taken in the mineralized intervals at an average 2 duplicates for each hole.
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 reported is HQ core and was completed by Globextools, S.A. de C.V. of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.
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