Focus Ventures Ltd. provided its shareholders with an update on exploration at its Santa Cruz silver project in Mexico. Focus controls a district-scale land position covering a number of silver discoveries made since late 2011 and is currently preparing for a drill program. New mineralization was sampled at Colorin and La Plomosa, located 400m east of the Estrella mine in the El Reventon property area.

At Colorin, channel sampling of hydrothermal breccias gave 12m at the rate of 176 g/t Ag, 0.2 g/t Au, 3.1% Pb and 0.8% Zn. Sampling at La Plomosa returned 6m at the rate of 78 g/t Ag, 0.38 g/t Au. These are additional breccia structures to those mapped at the Estrella Mine and El Taco, where previous sampling gave intervals of 5.6m at the rate of 687 g/t Ag, 0.2 g/t Au, 2.6% Pb, 1.3% Zn and 8.9m at the rate of 165 g/t Ag, 0.32 g/t Au, respectively.

At least five mineralized structures have now been discovered in the Estrella area over an area of roughly 700m long x 250m wide. Given their northerly dipping nature and spacing, management believes that it will be possible to test several zones within individual drill holes. Trenching in the Camino Real area, 1.4 km northeast of the Reventon Breccia, identified low-grade oxide gold and silver mineralization that assayed 28m at the rate of 0.88 g/t Au and 14 g/t Ag with gold values ranging from 0.1 to 4.93 g/t Au (median value 0.62 g/t).

The mineralization is hosted within a tuffaceous dacite that outcrops on a northeast trending ridge for approximately 1km. Previous sampling returned 2m at the rate of 2.35 g/t Au and 29 g/t Ag 100m to the southwest. Further work is planned.

Surface trenching and sampling has now defined five targets for drill testing, not including recent discoveries at Camino Real and La Bellota where trenching by Focus assayed 98.3 g/t Ag over 24m. La Fragua Trend - disseminated and high-grade silver-gold-zinc target along a 1,800m trend defined by surface and underground sampling and 4 widely spaced historic drillholes with intercepts including 34m at the rate of 55.1 g/t Ag, 58m at the rate of 42.9 g/t Ag, and 20m at the rate of 77.7 g/t Ag, 0.27 g/t Au, 1.3% Zn. Don Blas - disseminated silver associated with diatreme breccia, 22m section averaged 377.8 g/t Ag & 16.3m at the rate of 63 g/t Ag, with individual assays ranging from 14.1 g/t Ag to 2,350 g/t Ag over 2m.

El Padre - high grade breccia vein and adjacent structures traced for +900m, underground sampling includes 643 g/t Ag over 2.35m, 400 g/t Ag + 1 g/t Au over 0.9m. Additional structures identified in surface sampling. La Estrella and Chicle areas - underground and surface sampling includes 5.6m at the rate of 687 g/t Ag, 0.2 g/t Au, 2.6% Pb, 1.3% Zn, and 8.9m at the rate of 165 g/t Ag, 0.32 g/t Au.

Reventon Breccia - previous drilling in 2007 and 2008 by International Northair Mines Ltd. cut breccia-hosted silver, zinc and lead in the majority of holes including 155.4m at the rate of 71.3 g/t Ag, 0.46% Pb and 0.61% Zn, and 22.9m at the rate of 287 g/t Ag, 1.39% Pb and 3.48 % Zn.