SSV Southern Silver Exploration Corp

Southern Silver Exploration Corp. (TSX VENTURE:SSV)(FRANKFURT:SEG) reported
today that a preliminary 3,000 metre diamond drill program has commenced at the
Company's Cerro Las Minitas project in Durango State, Mexico. The 10,980 hectare
project includes a 425 hectare area that has been the subject of historic
small-scale mining and a much larger unexplored gravel covered area.


The company said it has completed a 1,100 line kilometre airborne magnetic
survey over the property and additional IP geophysics, which is ongoing, has
developed a significant number of targets that will be tested in the drill
program. The initial program will focus on four main target areas and will probe
for both high-grade, silver-rich polymetallic replacements and copper-gold skarn
targets distributed along the margins of the central intrusion.


Limited historical drilling on the project by Noranda (not independently
verified by Southern Silver) returned numerous intervals of higher grade silver
and base metals, including a 11.45 metre interval (down hole) grading 123g/t
silver, 1.55% lead and 7.79% zinc from drill hole NGV-00-02 and a 1.41 metre
interval (down hole) grading 529g/t silver, 6.99% lead and 1.27% zinc from drill
hole NGV-00-06.


President Lawrence Page noted that, "Only a small portion of the property is
exposed and the recent airborne and on-going surface geophysics have identified
potentially significant unexplored gravel covered targets along some of the 25
kilometre strike-length. The Cerro Las Minitas project is ideally located in
Mexico's famed Faja de Plata where more than three billion ounces of silver
reserves/resources have been produced and developed in multiple world-class
mineral deposits," he said.


About the Cerro Las Minitas property

The Cerro Las Minitas property comprises 17 concessions which total 10,980
hectares and an approximate 25 kilometre lineal strike length.


Mining has been conducted on the property since colonial times and has
identified several types of silver-, lead- and zinc-enriched massive-sulphide
pipes, veins and carbonate-replacement deposits (CRDs), as well as mineralized
skarns at the margins of a large intrusive body. The Santa Eulalia replacement
deposit (45Mt of 310g/t Ag, 7.1% Zn and 8.2% Pb) and the skarn deposit of San
Martin (60Mt of 118g/t silver, 0.9% copper and 3.9% zinc) are examples of two
major Mexican mines occurring in similar geological environments(1). The
mineralized zones at Cerro Las Minitas have been exploited to depths of 300
metres and over widths of 60 metres.


About Southern Silver Exploration Corp.

Southern Silver Exploration Corp. is an emerging precious/base metal exploration
company and a member of the Manex Resource Group; a private company comprised of
an exceptional multi-disciplinary team of professionals with specific expertise
in all the areas of exploration, development, corporate finance and public
company administration.


The company's growth strategy is to acquire, explore and develop high-quality
properties in progressive jurisdictions within North America. Its current
projects include the silver-lead-zinc Cerro Las Mintas project,
copper-gold-silver Minas de Ameca, the porphyry copper-molybdenum Dragoon
project in Arizona and the gold-silver Oro project in New Mexico.


Robert Macdonald (P.Geo) is a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument
43-101 and has reviewed and approved the technical contents of this release.


(1) Southern Silver advises that tonnage and grade of adjacent properties or
those used for comparative purposes may not reflect the ultimate potential of
the Cerro Las Minitas project.


On behalf of the Board of Directors

Lawrence Page, President, Southern Silver Exploration Corp.

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