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Kuya Silver Corp
Symbol KUYA
Shares Issued 104,501,729
Close 2024-08-27 C$ 0.385
Market Cap C$ 40,233,166
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Kuya Silver begins phase 1 drilling at Silver Kings

2024-08-27 14:15 ET - News Release

Mr. David Stein reports

KUYA SILVER COMMENCES 2024 PHASE 1 DRILLING AT SILVER KINGS PROJECT, ONTARIO, CANADA

Kuya Silver Corp. has commenced a first phase of drilling at its wholly owned Silver Kings project in Ontario, Canada, with plans to drill a total of 10,000 metres in multiple phases. A diamond drill is now on site to test for high-grade silver-cobalt mineralization at depth in the historic Cobalt silver mining camp in Ontario. The program is expected to include drilling of the company's new Frontier NW target, the Campbell-Crawford target as well as the Airgiod target, where the first known drill hole, completed by Kuya in 2023, intersected silver-cobalt mineralization in an identical setting to the Angus vein at the adjacent Campbell-Crawford prospect.

David Lewis, Kuya Silver's vice-president, exploration, commented: "It's great to have a drill back on site again at the Silver Kings project, especially given the accomplishments that Kuya Silver made here in 2023. We've updated and refined our technical skill set and I'm looking forward to testing and expanding our discoveries in this world-class historic mining district."

Frontier NW target zone update

The brownfield Frontier NW target area is located 350 metres northwest of the Frontier mine, which produced seven million ounces silver and 1.7 million pounds cobalt, primarily from the north-south-trending Woods-Watson fault and fault-hosted veins (Sergiades, 1968). This new zone is hosted by a 400-metre-long, northwest-trending fault, named the Hammerstrom fault, which is of a comparable width with the Woods-Watson fault (approximately three metres). In 2018, eight 100-metre-spaced drill holes intersected anomalous to mid-grade silver-cobalt mineralization (0.01 per cent to 0.46 per cent cobalt). A trenching program in 2023 uncovered three fault-hosted mineralized veins, which assayed up to 23 grams per tonne silver, 4.1 per cent cobalt and 1.1 per cent nickel (1,250 grams per tonne silver equivalent) over 1.74 metres (see Kuya Silver's June 24, 2024, news release).

Note: Silver equivalent values were calculated on Aug. 26, 2024, using the following values and assuming full recovery: $29.94 (U.S.) per ounce for silver, $24,300 (U.S.) per tonne for cobalt and $16,758 (U.S.) per tonne for nickel.

Follow-up work in 2024 included surface mapping of the trenched areas, relogging of the previous drill holes and the commissioning of a detailed induced polarization (IP) survey. Details of the surface width and extent of the Hammerstrom fault display well in the IP resistivity plan maps and known mineralized veins (FNW target 1) are extremely apparent in the chargeability data. Importantly, a second area has a similar chargeable response within the Hammerstrom fault zone, suggesting the presence of additional, previously unknown mineralized veins (FNW target 2). This work was designed and quality assured by Jeremy S. Brett, MSc, PGeo, senior geophysical consultant of Jeremy S. Brett International Consulting Ltd.

Historically, mineralization in the Silver Centre camp can be discontinuous along mineralized faults and/or veins but is generally arranged in parallel, cigar-shaped, high-grade, plunging shoots. For example, a north-south long section of the Woods vein at the Keeley and Frontier mines shows several steeply plunging shoots, defined by underground stopping on a north-south section. On an east-west long section of the No. 16 vein, mineralized shoots plunge more shallowly, parallel to the Nipissing diabase rock contact.

Two aspects of mineralization can be made with the geophysical results and compiled mine workings:

  1. If the plunge of mineralized shoots can be established, high-grade mineralization on surface can be predicted to depth;
  2. Mineralization may follow an evenly spaced periodicity along mineralized structures.

Campbell-Crawford and Airgiod targets

The Campbell-Crawford and Airgiod target areas, defined historically as separate mining claims, are otherwise continuous properties. In both cases, weakly mineralized veins occur on surface within the 300-metre-thick Nipissing diabase sill, and mineralization is being targeted in these structures at the lower diabase contact, which was essentially untested prior to 2023, when Kuya Silver intersected bonanza-grade silver in a new discovery drill hole (see Kuya Silver's news releases dated March 15, 2023, April 4, 2023, and May 30 2023). In subsequent trenching and drilling, at least six mineralized veins (both northwest-southeast and west-southwest-east-northwest trending) have been identified and traced at depth, with mineralization increasing dramatically in vein intersections and bends (see Kuya Silver's news releases dated June 29, 2023, Jan. 11, 2024, and Jan. 29, 2024). Drilling will be focused on interpreted high-grade mineralized shoots at the Campbell-Crawford target and will follow up on surface veins, fault zones and historic projected mineralization at the Airgiod target.

National Instrument 43-101 disclosure

The technical content of this news release has been reviewed and approved by David Lewis, PGeo, vice-president, exploration, of Kuya Silver, and Jeremy S. Brett, MSc, PGeo, senior geophysical consultant, both qualified persons as defined by NI 43-101.

About Kuya Silver Corp.

Kuya Silver is a Canadian-based, growth-oriented mining company with a focus on silver. Kuya Silver operates the Bethania silver mine in Peru while developing district-scale silver projects in mining-friendly jurisdictions, including Peru and Canada.

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