Kootenay drills high-grade gold in the Hanging Wall and F Vein at Columba Project, Mexico
Kootenay Silver Inc. [KTN-TSXV; KOOYF-OTC] reported assay results from the first six core drill holes completed from its 2021 drill program at its 100%-optioned Columba high-grade silver project in Chihuahua State, Mexico.
Kootenay President & CEO,├é James McDonald, stated,├é “We continue to be extremely pleased as we see the first drill results of 2021 start to come in. The first six holes continue to show grade and continuity of the F Vein in large untested gaps with grades to├é 899 g/t silver├é and├é 559 g/t silver├é in the Hanging Wall and F Vein respectively.”
Highlights
CDH-21-90 returned 503 g/t silver over 1.2 metres, including 889 g/t silver over 0.55 metres in the Hanging Wall Vein. Hole CDH-21-90 is a shallow test about 65 metres below surface and includes 2.4 metres of 245 g/t silver, including 365 g/t silver over 0.6 metres in the F Vein.
CDH-21-89 returned 439 g/t silver over 2.7 metres, including 533 g/t silver over 0.57 metres and 511 g/t silver over 0.65 metres in the F Vein. The high-grade sits within a wide interval of 162 g/t silver over 15.45 metres. Also, 411 g/t silver over one metre within 4 metres of 233 g/t silver in a footwall vein to the F Vein.
Hole CDH-21-89 is important as it tests a large 100 by 150-metre gap in drilling where six peripheral drill holes encountered grades from 456 g/t over 1.5 metres (CDH-20-45) to 782 g/t over 1.05 metres (CDH-20-47) and 755 g/t silver over 1.75 metres (CDH-19-12) some 75 metres below.
CDH-21-87 returned 559 g/t silver over 1.09 metres within 4 metres of 200 g/t silver in the F Vein. CDH-21-87 was filling an untested area in the F Vein of about 100 by 75 metres where five peripheral holes hit grades ranging from 456 g/t over 1.5 metres (CDH-20-45) to 911 g/t silver over 1.4 metres (CDH-20-46).
Kootenay Silver Inc. is an exploration company actively engaged in the discovery and development of mineral projects in the Sierra Madre Region of Mexico and in British Columbia, Canada.