Santacruz Silver Intersects 1,687 g/t Ag Over 4.58 m, Including 7,520 g/t Ag Over 0.61m at the Gavilanes Project

Santacruz Silver Mining Ltd. (TSXV:SCZ) announced drill results from the first six holes at their Gavilanes Silver project in Durango, Mexico.

As quoted in the press release:

Highlights (reported as true widths and assays uncut) include:

GSA Vein;

SCHN-12: 4.58 m @ 1,741 g/t Ag eq. (1,687 g/t Ag, 0.15 g/t Au, 1.03% Zn, 0.34% Pb and 0.05% Cu).
SCHN-12: 3.20 m @ 1,064 g/t Ag eq. (1,048 g/t Ag, 0.03 g/t Au, 0.26% Zn, 0.14% Pb, and 0.03% Cu).
SCGP-27: 4.01 m @ 766 g/t Ag eq. (716 g/t Ag, 0.12 g/t Au, 0.51% Zn, 0.67% Pb, and 0.07% Cu ).

SantaCruz’s President and CEO, Arturo Préstamo, said:

The start of the Phase II drilling campaign at Gavilanes has been very successful so far. The program is on-going and will be incorporated into a resource estimate we intend to complete prior to year-end 2013. The results continue to show exciting potential at Gavilanes and we believe this trend should continue.

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