800 Hectare Mineral Concessions Acquired Including Artisanal Mine Near Bethania


VANCOUVER - Kuya Silver Corporation has acquired three mineral concessions located in Acombabilla, Huancavelica Department and Chongos Altos, Junín Department. The Company has entered into three separate agreements represented by the same parties to acquire the Carmelita 2005, Carmelita 2005 I, and Carmelita 2005 II concessions. The three properties total 800 hectares and are strategically located less than three kilometers west of Kuya's Bethania Mine. The Project provides the Company with additional high-priority exploration targets, including a potential strike extension of the high-grade silver-polymetallic vein system that has been identified at Bethania. Located on the land package is the Carmelita Mine, an artisanal mine approximately 3.6 kilometers west of the Bethania Mine. The Project also borders Kuya's Chinita I concession to the west (see figure 1). With this acquisition, Kuya now holds 2,545 hectares of mineral concessions in the Bethania district.

President and CEO, David Stein, said, "We are very pleased to acquire this exciting Project, located along strike from the Bethania vein system and only a short distance to the mine. Apart from Bethania, we feel that Carmelita is the most advanced prospect in the district, and the veins here bear a striking similarity to mineralization that has been produced from the Bethania mine. It is our intention that if economic mineralization is discovered at Carmelita, it would be run as a satellite mining operation feeding the Bethania mill."

Kuya recently conducted due diligence on the Project where review focused on the Carmelita Mine area, which has experienced recent small-scale production, targeting silver-polymetallic veins. During the Company's visit, Kuya geologists observed five veins outcropping on surface and took several samples of the near surface vein system, that can be traced in outcrop over one kilometer in strike length (see figure 2). Access to the Carmelita mine includes three separate adits corresponding to three different veins.

A total of 6 rock chip samples were collected. The coordinates of the locations of each sample were recorded, and the samples dispatched to the SGS laboratory in Lima for geochemical analysis. The analyses were carried out using the following methods: FA313 - Fire Assay for gold, ICP40B - ICP-AES Multi-acid digestion for 36 elements, and AAS41B - Atomic Absorption, multi-acid digestion for Ag, Pb, Zn over detection limit. SGS Laboratories in Lima has international certifications OHSAS 18001, ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 and is accredited by INACAL under the NTP-ISO /IEC 17025.