Silver Viper Mobilizes Drill To La Virginia Gold-Silver Project

VANCOUVER, BC - Silver Viper Minerals Corp. reported the mobilization of a camp building crew to La Virginia Gold-Silver Project, 220 kilometers (km) east-northeast of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Camp and drill pad construction is currently underway and Silver Viper expects to commence drilling on a 5,000m initial campaign shortly.  The Phase One program will include confirmation holes in and around the historic La Virginia and Con Virginia workings and will also continue to advance exploration on known mineralized trends. The first phase work will be conducted within the Rubi-Esperanza group of claims currently under option by Silver Viper.

Silver Viper has received all permits and completed land-owner agreements necessary to commence work. Due to the location of the drilling area, drilling as well as core logging and sampling will be conducted from the field camp currently under construction. Silver Viper's regional exploration effort continues to prospect and refine additional targets slated for drill testing in the coming months.

Characterized by laterally extensive epithermal style gold-silver mineralization in quartz stockworks, veins and hydrothermal breccias, strong mineralization has historically been identified within shoots developed along the main trend.  The initial 5000m Phase I drilling will include holes on the main trend and two parallel trends.  Historical mining activities evidenced by several underground workings are developed on zones of increased silica alteration and veining. The two largest historical workings, "La Virginia" and "Con Virginia" are still open and accessible and host mineralization ranging between one meter to greater than twenty meters in thickness.

Silver Viper's President and CEO Steve Cope states, "We are very excited to begin our first phase drilling program on the La Virginia Project. This asset has produced some fantastic results in the past and we look forward to continuing on that success. There is the potential here to both grow the existing mineralized zones, as well as the potential for new discoveries."