VANCOUVER - Zacatecas Silver Corp. ('Zacatecas Silver' or the 'Company', (TSXV: ZAC) (OTC Markets: ZCTSF) (Frankfurt: 7TV) is pleased to announce it has received positive preliminary metallurgical test results from SGS Minerals at Lakefield ('SGS').

The work completed by SGS was a first-pass bench-scale scoping study based on a small bulk sample of historical drill core, being 100 kg. It is the first metallurgical test-work completed at Panuco and demonstrates robust gold, silver, lead and zinc recoveries above 90% are achievable.

The metallurgical test work supports both bulk flotation flow-path and sequential flotation flow-path, with the bulk floatation flow-path producing a single gold, silver, lead and zinc rougher concentrate (15 minutes of floatation and 23% mass pull) with 697 g/t silver, 0.97 g/t gold, 1.67% zinc and 0.58% lead and recovering 96.2 % of the silver, 93.6% of the gold, 96.5% of the zinc and 92.1 % of the lead.

This is an attractive processing option for silver-rich but base metal-poor material.

Dr. Chris Wilson, Zacatecas Silver Chief Operating Officer and Director, states, 'The rougher flotation recoveries are extremely encouraging especially given they have been achieved using historical core. It is anticipated that optimization work using fresh core will further enhance metallurgical performance. Mineralization at Panuco is silver-rich but base metal-poor (

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