Kootenay Silver Inc. is pleased to announce that, further to its press release dated October 31, 2012, announcing that the Company had closed a fully subscribed, $8,253,000 brokered private placement financing, it has secured drilling contracts and has begun mobilizing drill rigs to commence a major, multi-phase, 30,000 meter drill and resource expansion program on its flagship Promontorio Silver Project in Sonora, Mexico. The upcoming drill and resource expansion program is expected to employ up to five drill rigs at full capacity, representing the single largest drilling campaign conducted on the Promontorio project to date.