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Impact Silver Announces New Discovery At The Royal Mines Of
Zacualpan
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IMPACT Silver Corp. ("IMPACT") is pleased to announce a new discovery,
the Los Reyes Zone, within the Royal Mines of Zacualpan Silver District
in Mexico. Recent drilling of this new discovery returned wide,
mineralized drill intercepts within close proximity to the operating
Chivo Silver Mine.
LOS REYES ZONE
Discovered through the ongoing regional surface and underground
sampling program at Zacualpan, the Los Reyes Zone is located 4.5
kilometers southeast of the Zacualpan processing plant and 600 meters
east of the Chivo Silver Mine. It is a thick vein system that trends
parallel to the silver-rich Chivo Vein. On surface, Los Reyes is
marked by a series of old mine workings. Highlights from the
eleven-hole drill program include the following:
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TOP ESTIMATED
DRILL OF TRUE
HOLE INTERCEPT WIDTH ZINC LEAD SILVER GOLD
No. (m) (m) (%) (%) (g/t) (g/t)
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SECTION 1N (Sections listed from south to north, drill holes listed from
west to east)
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Z07-42 111.2 4.5 2.05 0.64 262 0.09
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Including: 2.2 2.05 0.64 496 0.15
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Including: 1.1 1.67 0.44 717 0.27
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Z06-33 115.1 5.2 1.64 0.50 17 0.18
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SECTION 2N
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Z07-35 194.9 1.1 4.35 1.28 25 2.21
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SECTION 3N
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Z07-37 191.1 4.1 4.46 1.07 46 0.34
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Including: 0.6 17.80 4.62 135 1.24
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SECTION 4N
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Z07-38 202.4 5.9 1.99 0.53 22 0.18
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The other holes in this program intersected lower grades. The holes
were drilled on a 35 x 50-meter grid over a length of 200 meters. The
zone is open for expansion to the northwest, southeast and down dip.
Several splay veins branching off the main Los Reyes Vein returned
significant assays from the drill program as follows:
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LOS REYES DRILL HOLES (SPLAY VEINS)
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TOP ESTIMATED
DRILL OF TRUE
HOLE INTERCEPT WIDTH ZINC LEAD SILVER GOLD
No. (m) (m) (%) (%) (g/t) (g/t)
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SECTION 1N
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Z07-42 26.7 1.0 0.35 0.14 260 0.07
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and: 94.0 0.5 10.05 2.09 338 0.05
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SECTION 3N
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Z07-40 44.5 2.5 0.17 0.09 187 0.03
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37 Splay1 147.6 1.5 2.51 2.41 52 0.19
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SECTION 4N
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Z07-38 90.4 1.0 4.35 1.05 139 0.07
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Z07-39 99.5 1.2 4.48 2.14 57 0.06
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With its close proximity to the operating Chivo Silver Mine, Los Reyes
Zone could readily be accessed underground from existing mine workings.
IMPACT's mine staff will evaluate the Los Reyes Zone for possible
integration into the Chivo Mine plans.
George Gorzynski, P. Eng. and Nigel Hulme, P. Geo., Qualified Persons
under the meaning of Canadian National Instrument 43-101, are
responsible for the technical content of this news release. Drill core
was NTW size (5.71 cm diameter) and BTW size (4.20 cm diameter). Half
core samples were collected with a rock saw and tagged for
identification. All samples were securely stored at the IMPACT base
camp until shipment. A total of 5% assay standards and 5% blanks were
inserted into every sample shipment as a quality control measure. All
samples were shipped to the ALS Chemex preparation laboratory in
Guadalajara, Mexico, where they were fine crushed (70% passing a 2 mm
screen), pulverized (85% passing a 75 micron screen) and pulp split
separated for assay by a riffle splitter. These pulps were shipped to
the ALS Chemex laboratory in North Vancouver, Canada, where a 30-gram
split of each was assayed for gold and silver by standard fire assay
and a 10-gram split was analyzed for an additional 30 elements by ICP
spectrometry.
IMPACT Silver Corp. is a silver focused mining and exploration company
operating in Mexico with a producing silver operation at Zacualpan, the
200-square-kilometer advanced Mamatla Silver District and an advanced
project with a producing mill at Zacatecas. Energold Drilling Corp.
(EGD: TSX.V) who was the contractor for the drill program, owns 6.6
million shares of IMPACT.
On behalf of the Directors of IMPACT Silver Corp.,
"Frederick W. Davidson"
President, CEO
For further information, please contact:
Darrell Rader, Corporate Development
Telephone: 604-681-9501
The TSX Venture Exchange does not accept responsibility for the
adequacy or accuracy of this news release.
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Copyright (c) 2008 IMPACT SILVER CORP. (IPT) All rights reserved. For
more information visit our website at http://www.impactsilver.com/ or
send mailto:inquiries@impactsilver.com
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