SilverCrest Expands Babicanora High-Grade Footprint to 600 metres; New High-Grade Vein Discoveries Highlight District Scale Potential

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VANCOUVER, Oct. 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ - SilverCrest Metals Inc. ("SilverCrest" or the "Company") is pleased to announce additional Phase II drill results for the Las Chispas Property (the "Property") located in Sonora, Mexico. Step-out drilling targeting extensions of the Babicanora Vein continues to intersect high-grade mineralization. With the latest results, SilverCrest has drill-tested the Babicanora Vein over a 600 metre strike length (previously 500 metres), with a near-surface mineralized height of 150 to 175 metres. In addition, drilling has intersected high-grades in two veins named Granaditas and Amatista (Amethyst) at the Babicanora area (see attached Figures). With these two new discoveries, SilverCrest has now intersected high-grade silver-gold mineralization on nine of the 19 known epithermal veins on the Property including Babicanora, Babicanora Footwall (FW), Las Chispas, Giovanni (includes La Blanquita extension), William Tell, Varela, Granaditas and Amatista (Amethyst) veins.

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