Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Kootenay Gold Hits 706 gpt Silver Equivalent Over 16 Meters (370 Ag and 7.79 % Pb-Zn) as Promontorio Drilling Continues to Encounter High Grade Intercepts of Silver in Top Priority Southwest and Northeast Zones


Kootenay Gold Inc. (TSX VENTURE: KTN.V) is pleased to announce assay results from an additional 20 drill holes from its 25,000 meter, ongoing, multi-phase, step out drill and resource definition program on its Promontorio Silver Project in Sonora, Mexico.

The Company reports the multi-rig diamond drilling program continues to yield exceptional results extending from the Pit Discovery Zone across the central 1km mineralized corridor.

The strike continuity of silver mineralization in the Southwest Zone connecting to the NI 43-101 Pit Resource has now been extended from 140 meters to 300 meters. In the Northeast Zone, which sits 700 meters outside of the current NI 43-101 Pit Resource, mineralization along strike is now 210 meters.

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