Kootenay Silver Inc. is pleased to announce that, further to the press release dated October 4, 2012, it has received subscriptions for $8,253,000 under the brokered private placement offering of units and has today closed the first tranche of the Offering of $7,203,000 and issued an aggregate of 6,860,000 Units at a purchase price of $1.05 per Unit. The Company anticipates closing the balance of the Offering shortly and will provide an update in due course. The Offering was conducted by Dundee Securities Ltd., on behalf of a syndicate including PI Financial Corp.