Patriot Minefinders Inc. announced the exploration plans for 2013. In addition to exploration targeting new discoveries, Patriot will focus on the KM 66 project that includes an advanced stage silvergold deposit located in the mining friendly and prolific silver belt in the state of Durango, Mexico. The KM 66 project contains a historical (2008) indicated resource of 22,297,800 silver equivalent ounces (6,585,900 tonnes grading 28 g/t silver, 0.09 g/t gold, 0.41% lead, 1.14% zinc) and a further 6,305,000 silver equivalent ounces (2,027,900 million tonnes grading 34 g/t silver, 0.13 g/t gold, 0.54% lead, 0.81% zinc) in the inferred category using a cutoff grade of 50 g/t silver equivalent in the La Gloria and Las Palmitas areas ("La Gloria").

In 2013 Patriot plans to update the historic resource to current NI 43101 standards and carry out a Preliminary Economic Assessment to determine the potential economics of the project. KM 66 covers a five kilometre-long trend of mineralization that includes the La Gloria and Las Palmitas breccia hosted epithermal silvergoldleadzinc deposits. The style of mineralization in KM 66 exhibits similarities to Goldcorp's Penasquito and Camino Rojo deposits and Patriot's focus will be on expanding the La Gloria deposit area.

The company believes that the breccia zone which hosts the deposit has not been defined and that the precious and base metal mineralization identified to date on KM 66 is indicative of a larger mineral system under shallow cover.