Commencement Of Drill Permitting At El Cristo Vein System

VANCOUVER - Zacatecas Silver Corp. reported that post the recent completion of a detailed modeling of its assay data, it has commenced drill permitting at the silver and base metal rich El Cristo vein system on the Zacatecas Property. The El Cristo vein system is the NW strike extension of the prolific and well known Veta Grande vein system, which has reported, but unverified, historical production of 200 Moz AgEq.

The Company plans to follow up with an additional 2,5000 meter diamond drill program to expand the deposit at depth and along strike. Deposit modeling and petrographic study by the Company, indicates that El Cristo is of a similar style of mineralization as the Veta Grande.

The El Cristo vein system has a strike length of over 3 km on the Company licenses and comprises multiple veins formed within a dilation jog that is up to 650 m wide. High-grade silver-base metal mineralization was historically mined from at least 31 shallow vertical shafts, reflecting the highly prospective nature of the El Cristo vein system, and presence of high-grade silver-base metal mineralization near surface.

The 28 holes drilled by the Company were scout holes designed to test the near surface depth extension of select veins over at least 2 km of strike extension. Silver-base metal mineralization was intercepted in 22 out of 28 drilled holes. Significantly, high grade silver equivalent mineralization was intercepted very close to surface (from 20 to 100 m downhole) over downhole widths of up to 9.3 m.