Endeavour Silver Defines High Grade, Silver-Gold Vein Mineralization at Terronera Property

Endeavour Silver (NYSE: EXK) (TSX: EDR) announces that in-fill drilling on the Terronera property in Jalisco State, Mexico continues to define high grade, silver-gold mineralization within the Terronera vein system. The main mineralized zone extends over 1,400 metres (m) in length, to 350 m deep and is still open along strike to the southeast and down dip (view long section here).
Recent drilling highlights are summarized in the table below and include 717 grams per tonne (gpt) silver and 2.94 gpt gold (923 gpt silver equivalent (AgEq)) over 6.56 metres (m) true width, or 26.9 ounces per ton (opT) AgEq over 21.5 feet (ft), including 4,860 gpt silver and 2.99 gpt gold (5,069 gpt AgEq) over 0.39 m true width, or 147.8 opT AgEq over 1.3 ft in hole TR10.5-1.

Hole		Structure		From		True Width		Au		Ag		AgEq
				(m)		(m)		(gpt)		(gpt)		(gpt)
TR10.5-1		Terronera		380.75		6.56		2.94		717		923
		Including		386.90		0.39		2.99		4,860		5,069
TR12-6		Terronera		419.15		4.53		1.83		71		199
		Including		423.35		0.34		3.90		206		479
		Fw Terronera		436.50		1.59		0.35		243		268
		Including		436.50		0.07		0.53		764		801
TR14-7		Terronera		363.90		4.78		3.91		109		383
		Including		372.25		0.48		11.05		246		1020
TR15-6		Hw Terronera		126.70		2.10		1.22		737		823
		Including		127.55		0.34		3.34		2,140		2,374
TR16-9		Terronera		212.20		2.67		2.18		72		225
		Including		214.45		0.38		5.56		133		522
		Hw Terronera		254.75		0.23		2.60		152		334
TR17-5		Terronera		83.35		1.80		0.43		216		246
		Including		83.35		0.40		0.88		484		546
TR18-6		Hw Terronera		48.10		5.28		3.48		53		296
		Including		52.75		0.20		23.80		90		1,756
TR19-6		Hw Terronera		57.85		1.74		0.35		179		204
		Including		59.35		0.13		0.25		354		372
TR20-7		Terronera		80.70		4.99		2.70		81		270
		Including		81.55		0.25		17.15		431		1,632
		Old Working		87.75		3.22		Old Working
		Hw Vein		97.80		5.85		1.54		174		282
		Including		99.10		0.31		6.48		186		640
TR20-8		Terronera		67.60		5.35		2.73		112		302
		Including		69.60		0.49		0.58		651		692
		Old Working		74.05		1.80		Old Working
		Hw Terronera		80.00		7.72		0.85		106		166
		Including		89.05		0.59		0.12		301		310
TR21-5		Terronera		42.45		13.22		1.55		145		254
		Including		45.60		0.48		4.57		102		422
		Hw Terronera		83.80		4.04		5.34		107		481
		Including		83.80		0.23		27.60		74		2,006
TR24-2		Terronera		46.55		2.11		0.35		168		192
		Including		46.55		0.49		0.09		402		408
TR24-3		Terronera		77.65		10.32		1.96		82		219
		Including		79.15		0.31		19.40		69		1,427
		Including		93.10		0.19		1.57		684		794
TR25-3		Terronera		102.70		1.69		7.21		268		773
		Including		103.25		0.40		13.05		354		1,268

Silver equivalents are calculated at a ratio of 70:1 silver:gold.
Luis Castro, Vice President of Exploration, commented, “These in-fill drill results continue to confirm high grade silver-gold mineralization over substantial true widths in the Terronera vein. The deposit is still open for expansion at depth and to the southeast, and we now have high priority drill targets identified in several other mineralized, subparallel veins to the north of the Terronera vein.
“Three drill rigs are currently working on the Terronera property for step-out drilling along the Terronera vein and exploratory drilling of some new targets. We used a June 30 cut-off date of drill results in order to update the resource estimate and facilitate mine engineering and economic analysis for the pre-feasibility study now underway.”
Godfrey Walton, M.Sc., P.Geo., Endeavour’s President and COO, is the Qualified Person who reviewed and approved this news release and supervised the drilling programs in Mexico. A Quality Control sampling program of reference standards, blanks and duplicates has been instituted to monitor the integrity of all assay results. All samples are split at the local field office and shipped to ALS-Chemex Labs, where they are dried, crushed, split and 50 gram pulp samples are prepared for analysis. Gold and silver are determined by fire assay with an atomic absorption (AA) finish.
About Endeavour — Endeavour Silver Corp. is a mid-tier precious metals mining company with three high-grade, underground, silver-gold mines in Mexico. Since start-up in 2004, Endeavour has grown its mining operations organically to produce 11.4 million ounces of silver equivalents in 2015. Development of Endeavour’s high-grade discovery on the Terronera property in Jalisco state, the permitted El Compas mine and plant in Zacatecas state, and the prospective Parral properties in Chihuahua state, should facilitate the Company’s goal to become a premier senior producer in the silver mining sector.
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