Zacatecas Silver Corp. announced its exploration plans on a key deep intrusion target near the Esperanza Gold Project as well as other near surface targets around the Esperanza Gold Project. Recently completed review of historical drilling suggests gold and silver enriched fluids were sourced from a deeper mineralized intrusion.

Geophysical studies to be carried out on deeper mineralized intrusion to determine potential target types. Several near surface priority targets for near surface gold and silver mineralization. Exploration planning follows recently announced strategic alliance with the Tetlama Community, home of the Esperanza Gold Project.

Western Limb Deep Intrusion Related Target: The previous operators drilled several holes targeting mineralization on the western edge of the Esperanza Gold Project beneath the planned depth of the open pit. Drill result intercepts in primary (hypogene) sulphide mineralization included: 9 m @ 2.04 g/t Au from 256.5 to 265. 5 m and 9 m @ 106 g/t Ag from 246 to 255 m in hole 11-219.

30 m @ 2.56 g/t Au from 324 to 354 m, including 7.5 m @ 7.36 g/t Au from324 to 331.5 m, and 27 m @ 26.0 g/t Ag and 0.18% Cu from 321 to 348 m in hole 11-214. 25.5 m @ 1.14 g/t Au from 303 to 328.5 m including 9 m @ 2.26 g/t Au from 319.5 to 328.5 m, and 36 m @ 38.4 g/t Ag, 0.97% Zn and 0.15 % Cu from 283.5 to 319.5 m in hole 11-213. Mineralization in the above three holes is open at depth and along strike, suggesting that gold and silver-mineralized fluids were sourced from a deeper Mineralizing intrusion.

Potential target types include stockwork, disseminated and breccia-hosted gold and silver mineralization proximal to the mineralizing intrusion, and skarn and disseminated gold and silver mineralization in limestone and calcareous sediments. Although zinc and copper grades were generally low, grades increase downhole, highlighting the potential for deep base metal targets. The highest grades of these assays were contained in 1.5 m at 0.52% Cu an and 7.82 % Zn and further support this hypothesis.

The previously un-drilled Southwest Extension Prospect is defined at surface by skarn facies and marble with quartz-iron oxide veins. This prospect is along strike of the Esperanza Deposit and feldspar porphyry, and the Coatetelco Prospect 3.5 km to the southwest. The Southwest Extension Prospect appears to lie within a northeast-southwest trending corridor that has exerted a fundamental control on mineralization at Esperanza.

It is a robust deep exploration target. Planned Exploration Program: Based on the foregoing high priority exploration targets, the Company plans a focused geochemical sampling and field-based geophysical sampling program:Soil geochemistry will be completed across all prospects on an initial 50 by 100 m grid. The program will start on the near-surface targets where soil anomalism is likely to be strongest and then focus on the deeper targets.

Field magnetic studies are an effective exploration tool for porphyry and associated deposit types. Magnetics provide important information on the distribution of host rocks and intrusive stocks (due to differences in primary magnetite content), alteration facies, and regional structures. A focused induced polarization and resistivity program is planned to target areas of geochemical anomalism and favourable magnetic signature to help delineate sulphide rich and silica-rich targets.

Dependent upon the results of the above studies, deep-sensing audio-frequency magnetotellurics (AMD) or large-scale controlled audio magnetotellurics (CSAMT), may be used to assist deep targeting on the western limb of the Esperanza Gold Project. These techniques are increasingly used in the exploration of deeply buried mineralized systems (CSAMT was successfully deployed in the discovery of the Cukari Peku copper-gold porphyry and high sulphidation deposit in Serbia).