Day: August 10, 2016

Kootenay President and CEO James McDonald, stated, “We are excited to start our drill program at La Cigarra, which will begin with the first ever drill test of the high-grade RAM silver target. The primary objectives of the program are to test this high priority target and to expand the existing La Cigarra resource which is open in three directions with particular attention to intercepting higher-grade silver. These are the first steps toward a new resource estimate and to proceeding with a Preliminary Economic Assessment on the project.”

A new tailings storage facility is necessary to allow the existing TSF to be decommissioned, which will enable Avino to begin assessing the upper sulphide bench as well as the lower oxide bench in areas that are currently being used to store tailings from our active operations.