Kootenay Silver Inc unveiled encouraging high-grade drill results from the final three holes remaining at its Columba silver project in Mexico.
Highlights from the results include an intercept of 219 grams per ton (g/t) silver over 29.5 metres, including a bonanza intercept of 1,050 g/t silver over 2 metres within 667 g/t silver over 7.05 metres.
The results came from the B vein on the project and were the final three holes in Kootenay’s Phase 3 program, which drilled a total of 5,782 metres.
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The B Vein is approximately 400 metres east of the D Vein, which Kootenay has termed another promising high-grade area that recently produced the best results on the property to date, at 1,186 g/t silver over 4.6 metres within 691 g/t silver over 9 metres and 112 g/t silver over 70.5 metres.
The B Vein is yielding “impressive” grades and widths, according to Kootenay CEO James McDonald. “These results are amongst the best on the property and as such we view the B Vein as having excellent potential for the discovery of large, mineralized zones within the vein."
Kootenay’s chief geologic engineer Gustavo Gallego called the vein “very promising.”
“We have tested a little more than 200 metres in length of this system and up to 200 metres in depth with drilling. On the surface we did not find high values of silver, however important grades begin approximately 100 metres deep, which gives us confidence that almost the entire epithermal system is preserved from erosion,” Gallego said.
The firm has extended the area by up to 600 metres on strike with vein widths of up to 1 metres on the surface.
A Phase 4 drill program will expand the entire zone.
Columba is located in Chihuahua State, Mexico.
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