Silver resources increase 143% at Pitarrilla’s Breccia Ridge Zone

Silver Standard Resources Inc., a well-financed silver resource company that continues to seek growth through exploration and development of its own silver projects, continues infill drilling to expand silver resources at its wholly-owned Pitarrilla silver project in Mexico.

Breccia Ridge Zone has shown growth in resource estimates by 143% and total project resources by 14% since the company’s last update in November 2007.

The company claims this block model resource estimate for Pitarrilla is based on approximately 159,457 meters of drilling, comprising 299 diamond drill holes totalling 138,900 meters and 186 reverse circulation holes totalling 20,557 meters.

It was prepared using available assay data up to Hole PD-299, while the most recently completed hole is PD-330.

An Independent Qualified Persons, Eugene Puritch, P.Eng., and Antoine Yassa, P.Geo, of P&E Mining Consultants Inc. (P&E) of Brampton, Ontario, had prepared the updated resource estimates of the project.