Kootenay Commissions a Preliminary Economic Assessment on La Cigarra Silver Deposit and Continues to Aggressively Drill Columba Kootenay Commissions a Preliminary Economic Assessment on La Cigarra Silver Deposit and Continues to Aggressively Drill Columba /* Style Definitions */ span.prnews_span { font-size:8pt; font-family:"Arial"; color:black; } a.prnews_a { color:blue; } li.prnews_li { font-size:8pt; font-family:"Arial"; color:black; } p.prnews_p { font-size:0.62em; font-family:"Arial"; color:black; margin:0in; } .prngen8{ PADDING-RIGHT:0.17em; PADDING-LEFT:0.17em; VERTICAL-ALIGN: TOP; TEXT-ALIGN: LEFT; BORDER-TOP:black 0pt; BORDER-RIGHT:black 0pt; BORDER-BOTTOM:black 0pt; BORDER-LEFT:black 0pt } .prngen4{ PADDING-RIGHT:0.17em; PADDING-LEFT:0.17em; VERTICAL-ALIGN: MIDDLE; TEXT-ALIGN: CENTER; BORDER-TOP:black 1pt; BORDER-RIGHT:black 0.5pt solid; BORDER-BOTTOM:black 0.5pt solid; BORDER-LEFT:black 1pt } .prngen6{ PADDING-RIGHT:0.17em; PADDING-LEFT:0.17em; VERTICAL-ALIGN: BOTTOM; TEXT-ALIGN: RIGHT; BORDER-TOP:black 1pt; BORDER-RIGHT:black 0.5pt solid; BORDER-BOTTOM:black 0.5pt solid; BORDER-LEFT:black 1pt } .prngen5{ PADDING-RIGHT:0.17em; PADDING-LEFT:0.17em; VERTICAL-ALIGN: MIDDLE; TEXT-ALIGN: CENTER; BORDER-TOP:black 1pt; BORDER-RIGHT:black 0.5pt solid; BORDER-BOTTOM:black 0.5pt solid; BORDER-LEFT:black 0.5pt solid } .prngen3{ PADDING-RIGHT:0.17em; PADDING-LEFT:0.17em; VERTICAL-ALIGN: MIDDLE; TEXT-ALIGN: CENTER; BORDER-TOP:black 0.5pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT:black 0.5pt solid; BORDER-BOTTOM:black 0.5pt solid; BORDER-LEFT:black 1pt } .prngen7{ PADDING-RIGHT:0.17em; PADDING-LEFT:0.17em; VERTICAL-ALIGN: BOTTOM; BORDER-TOP:black 0pt; BORDER-RIGHT:black 0pt; BORDER-BOTTOM:black 0pt; BORDER-LEFT:black 0pt } .prngen10{ TEXT-ALIGN: CENTER; MARGIN-TOP:0em; MARGIN-RIGHT:0em; MARGIN-BOTTOM:0em; MARGIN-LEFT:0.33em !IMPORTANT } .prnml4{ MARGIN-TOP:0em; MARGIN-BOTTOM:0em; MARGIN-LEFT:0.33em !IMPORTANT } .prntal{ TEXT-ALIGN: LEFT } .prnbsbls{ BORDER-LEFT:black 0.5pt solid } .prncbts{ BORDER-TOP:black 0.5pt solid } .prnbbbs{ BORDER-BOTTOM:black 0.5pt solid } .prnvam{ VERTICAL-ALIGN: MIDDLE } .prnpr2{ PADDING-RIGHT:0.17em } .prnbcc{ BORDER-COLLAPSE: COLLAPSE } .prnpl2{ PADDING-LEFT:0.17em } .prntac{ TEXT-ALIGN: CENTER } .prnbrbrs{ BORDER-RIGHT:black 0.5pt solid } PR Newswire VANCOUVER, BC, Jan. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Kootenay Silver Inc. (TSXV: KTN) (OTCQX: KOOYF) (the "Company" or "Kootenay") is pleased to announce it has engaged engineering firms Sacré-Davey Engineering Inc. ("Sacré-Davey") and Canenco Consulting Corp. ("Canenco") to conduct a Preliminary Economic Assessment ("PEA") on its La Cigarra Silver deposit ("La Cigarra") which sits in the famous Parral Mining District of Chihuahua. The PEA is expected to be finished in the second quarter of this year. James McDonald President and CEO of Kootenay states "In late 2023 and early 2024, in anticipation of silver decisively breaking above $30 dollars per ounce, we updated our resource estimates on the existing deposits of La Cigarra and Promontorio, and at the same time published a maiden resource on the La Negra deposit. These three deposits are well positioned to be quickly advanced with silver experiencing a nominal record high of $94.09 per ounce driven by a multi-year supply deficit and intense industrial demand. As such, we have commissioned a Preliminary Economic Study on the first of those three deposits, La Cigarra, for delivery in Q2. At the same time, we are aggressively drilling Columba to achieve our goal of increasing its maiden resource of 54 million ounces of silver to 100 million ounces followed by a PEA of its own." Ken Berry, Chairman, added "With 43-101 estimates on four deposits and active programs to deliver a PEA on La Cigarra and an aggressive 50,000 meter program to push Columba's resource to 100 million ounces we aim to exit 2026 as a developer with a stellar set of assets in the pipeline". La Cigarra La Cigarra is host to a pit constrained resource totaling 51.57 million ounces of measured plus indicated category (M+I) silver in 15.73 million tonnes grading 102 gpt silver, 0.07 gpt gold, 0.16% lead and 0.21 % zinc (60.56 million ounces Ag equivalent1) and another 11 million ounces of inferred category silver in 3.37 million tonnes grading 102 gpt silver, 0.06 gpt gold, 0.2 % lead an 0.19 % zinc (12.85 million ounces Ag equivalent1). See news release dated January 25th, 2024. La Cigarra sits along a mineralized trend extending from the famous Santa Barbara and San Francisco Del Oro mines about 30 km to the south where the Mexican mining companies Penoles and Frisco are actively mining up to depths of 2000 meters. About Sacré-Davey and Canenco Sacré-Davey provides innovative multi-disciplinary engineering and project management solutions, backed by nearly four decades of satisfied clients and thousands of successfully completed projects. As a mid-market organization, their unique approach combines the reliability of a large organization with the