Mr. Kevin O'Connor reports

SILVER SPRUCE RESOURCES, INC. ADDS MINE PRODUCTION KNOWLEDGE TO THE BOARD

Silver Spruce Resources Inc.'s board of directors has approved the appointment of Lisa Ng as an independent director.

Ms. Ng is currently an independent director at Eastern Platinum Ltd., a Vancouver-based mining company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and Johannesburg Stock Exchange, with production mines in South Africa. Ms. Ng is an accomplished CPA with over 25 years of experience in mining, information technology, biotech and insurance. She has executive experience at both Nevada Copper Corp. and American Bonanza Gold Corp.; and provided controllership and consulting services to Yukon-Nevada Gold Corp. Ms. Ng's experience in mining, oil and gas extends back to her time as a senior manager at a mid-sized CPA firm in Vancouver, where she worked closely with publicly listed companies for a number of years. Ms. Ng will plan to join the corporation's audit committee.

The corporation also announces that the board of directors has approved the grant of 200,000 stock options to Ms. Ng. Each option entitles the holder to acquire one common share of the corporation at a price of 12 cents per share for a period of five years from the date of grant. The options were granted under, and are subject to, the terms and conditions of the corporation's stock option plan.

About Silver Spruce Resources Inc.

Silver Spruce Resources is a Canadian junior exploration company. The company's diversified exploration portfolio includes:

• Pino de Plata Ag (silver) project: high-grade silver property with historic artisanal mining located 15 kilometres west of Coeur Mining's Palmarejo mine in western Chihuahua, Mexico;
• Jackie Au-Ag (gold-silver) project: early-stage epithermal project with high-grade surface sampling and strong structural targets located less than 10 kilometres northwest from Minera Alamos's Nicho deposit in eastern Sonora, Mexico;
• Melchett Lake VMS (volcanogenic massive sulphide) Zn-Ag-Au-Cu (zinc-silver-gold-copper) project: polymetallic project with historical drilling in the Thunder Bay mining district of Ontario.

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