Kootenay Silver was the only company to release drill results from a program in Mexico during the week. The highlighted intercepts come from five holes , two of which were step-outs and three infill holes testing a large gap in drilling on the D-Vein at its Columba project in Chihuahua. The D-Vein has now expanded to 1,275 m in strike length from 450 m at the beginning of the program. Nearly 9,000 m have been completed in 27 holes on the 20,000 m program aiming to define a maiden resource. “Prospective veins on the project are hosted within a volcanic caldera setting, the surface extent of mapped veins measuring roughly 4 kilometres by 3 kilometres. Management believes that Columba may be a newly recognized vein district that is nearly entirely preserved from erosion.”

Mineralization at Columba is of intermediate sulfidation epithermal character.