Defiance Silver Corp. announced the resumption of drilling after encouraging results showed high-grade Ag-Ag-Zn-Pb mineralization in the heart of the Veta Grande vein system at the Zacatecas silver project, further extending the limits of mineralization below the 2014 resource area. The approximate 4000m program is an extension of the previous phases of drilling, all of which returned high grades down plunge and outside of the current resource estimate.

Drilling will be focused at the Veta Grande structure primarily in the following areas: The newly-discovered deep historic workings east of the previously known limit of mining. Down-plunge of the high-grade results below the current resource estimate. The footwall vein north of the main Veta Grande structure.

The recently-identified cross structures and vein splays with the potential to host significant mineralization. A component of the planned drill program will also include metallurgical drilling for a planned resource estimate.