Kootenay Silver Inc. announced resumption of drilling at Columba High Grade Silver Project, located 25 km south of the township of Nueva Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico. To date Kootenay has drilled 135 holes for just over 27,000 meters on the project. The current campaign will drill a minimum of 3,000 meters comprising of 12 to 15 holes focused on expanding on impressive, wide high-grade intercepts hit to date in the west-northwest trending D-Vein.

The D-Vein has intercepted high grades in drilling over a horizontal length of 400m and to a maximum depth of about 300 meters. Mineralization on D-Vein is open to depth and along strike. Favourable results from the initial program would warrant an additional 7,000 meters in 19 holes to aggressively step out on D-Vein toward its projected intersection with similarly mineralized B Vein.

The D- Vein is a quartz-calcite vein flanked by mineralized stockwork/breccia with intercepts exceeding 10 to 15 meters in true width in places. Previous drilling reported very encouraging results, as evidenced by the best interval to date in hole CDH-22-125, with 34.45 meters downhole length averaging 540 gpt silver with 0.26 gpt gold, 0.37% lead and 1.56% zinc including a high-grade interval averaging 5,840 gpt silver, 3.0 gpt gold, 3.08% lead and 17.25% zinc over 2.45 meters.