Layne de Mexico Commences Phase 1 Drilling at Silver Spruce El Mezquite Au-Ag Project, Sonora, Mexico

BEDFORD, NS / ACCESSWIRE / June 3, 2021 / Silver Spruce Resources Inc. ("Silver Spruce" or the "Company") (TSXV:SSE) (FRA:S6Q1) is very pleased to announce the commencement of Phase 1 exploration drilling by Layne de Mexico at the El Mezquite Au-Ag property ("El Mezquite" or the "Property").

The first-ever drilling program at El Mezquite should be completed by July with samples submitted to ALS Global in Hermosillo on a weekly basis. Laboratory assay results are anticipated from two to six weeks after submittal and will guide Phase 2 drilling after the summer rainy season. New targets also are developing from our ongoing geological, hyperspectral and LiDAR compilation.

"Drill pad construction will be completed on June 3^rd and the drill also will be turning today. With new land access agreements in place and our LiDAR digital topographic base received from Eagle Mapping, we look forward to a successful maiden drilling campaign for El Mezquite," stated Greg Davison, Silver Spruce Vice-President Exploration and Director. "The Phase 1 2,000 metre RC program will utilize eight drill pad locations focused around a 400m x 600m area with elevated precious metal values to 3.41 g/t Au and 387 g/t Ag. Collars were defined by several northeast-trending veins, structural lineaments and oxide/sulphide transitions interpreted from geological mapping, precious metal assays, multi-element geochemistry, epithermal alteration assemblages and coincident 3D IP chargeability anomalies."

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Figure 1. Looking south across El Mezquite - TRAX D7 CAT preparing to clear northern drill pad B2 for south and southeasterly directed RC holes targeting northeast-trending gold-bearing structures. Large gossan area, in background, with additional, recently identified, anomalous gold in rock samples.

The geological and construction teams arrived on site May 20^th to May 23^rd and returned to the Property on June 2^nd to carry out the remainder of the pad preparation accompanied by a D7 Caterpillar dozer (see Figure 1) contracted from Constructora Trax, S.A. de C.V. ("TRAX"), a Hermosillo-based construction firm. Layne de Mexico also mobilized the reverse circulation ("RC") rig to the Property on June 2^nd.

El Mezquite, a drill-ready precious metal project located 10 km northwest of the town of Tepoca, and 170 km southeast of the capital city of Hermosillo, eastern Sonora, Mexico, is very well situated in terms of logistics for exploration and is located only twelve kilometres northwest of the Nicho deposit currently under mine development by Minera Alamos (see Figure 2).