the company has now outlined a new gold-copper zone at snowfield. this is shaping up to be a very large low-grade, bulk tonnage deposit, and we should see a new (and higher) resource estimate in early 2009.

Silver Standard Resources Inc.: Drilling Defines New Gold-Copper Zone at Snowfield

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Oct 22, 2008 (Marketwire via COMTEX News Network) -- Silver Standard Resources Inc. (TSX:SSO)(NASDAQ:SSRI) is pleased to report that diamond drilling in 2008 at its wholly-owned Snowfield project has outlined a new gold-copper zone. The Snowfield property is located 40 kilometers north of the town of Stewart in northern British Columbia and 15 kilometers southeast of Barrick's high-grade gold-silver mine at Eskay Creek.

The new Snowfield North Zone measures approximately 700 meters by 800 meters and lies 500 meters east of Seabridge Gold's Mitchell Deposit.