2018_14-KTN-NEWS-UPDATE-LA-MINA_CAPSTONE-DRAFT_FINAL

Kootenay Silver Inc.(TSXV: KTN) (the “Company” or “Kootenay”) is pleased to announce that its wholly owned Mexican subsidiary has entered into an option agreement (“Agreement”) with Capstone Mining Corp. (TSX: CS) (“Capstone Mining”) on the Company’s La Mina Project (“La Mina”), located 180 kilometers southeast of the city of Hermosillo in Sonora State, Mexico.La Mina was staked by Kootenay as part of its generative property portfolio strategy and covers the upper levels of a zoned copper porphyry mineral system exposed over a 2 by 2 kilometer area.