Silver Mountain Resources Announces Appointment to Board of Directors

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TORONTO, May 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Silver Mountain Resources Inc. ("Silver Mountain" or the "Company") (TSXV:AGMR) is pleased to announce that Blair Zaritsky has been appointed to the board of directors of the Company, effective immediately.

Mr. Zaritsky is a chartered professional accountant with over 15 years of professional experience, primarily in the mining sector. Mr. Zaritsky has been Chief Financial Officer of Osisko Mining Inc. since June 2011, O3 Mining Inc. since August 2019 and was the Chief Financial Officer and a director of Oban Exploration Limited until 2014. Mr. Zaritsky possesses over ten years of Canadian public company experience with exposure to various types of engagements and clients, gained through managing audit engagements of publicly listed companies traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange. Mr. Zaritsky holds a Chartered Professional Accountant designation and a dual Bachelor of Arts in accounting and economics. Mr. Zaritsky is considered an independent director of the Company.

The Company also announces that it has granted to Mr. Zaritsky 660,000 options to acquire class A common shares of the Company (the "Options"). The Options are exercisable at a price of $0.50 per share for a period of four years.

About Silver Mountain

Silver Mountain Resources Inc. is a silver explorer and mine developer planning to re-commence production at the Reliquias underground mine and undertake exploration activities at its prospective silver camps at the Castrovirreyna Project in Huancavelica, Peru.

Silver Mountain's subsidiary Sociedad Minera Reliquias S.A.C. owns 100% of its concessions and holds more than 27,000 Ha. in the district of Castrovirreyna, in Huancavelica, Peru.

For Further Information Contact:

Silver Mountain Resources Inc
82 Richmond Street East
Toronto, ON M5C 1P1
[email protected]
(647) 262-4017

www.silvermountainresources.com

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