Mr. Morgan Good reports

SILICON METALS CORP. ACQUIRES CONTIGUOUS GROUND AROUND ITS ONTARIO CRYSTAL HILLS PROPERTY INCREASING ITS SIZE OVER 300%

Silicon Metals Corp. has secured additional mineral claims surrounding the company's 100-per-cent-owned Crystal Hills project. The additional mineral claims are highly prospective for high-purity silica. With the addition of 59 new mineral claim cells, the Crystal Hills property has increased in size from approximately 400 hectares to approximately 1,700 hectares, an approximately 300 per cent increase in size. The claims were acquired by the company directly via online map staking.

Morgan Good, Silicon Metal's chief executive officer, stated: "This expansion of contiguous ground around our prospective and recently acquired and 100-per-cent-owned Crystal Hills Ontario high-purity silica project enhances the company's goals in seeking further value in the area which we are optimistic exists."

About Silicon Metals Corp.

Silicon Metals is currently focused on exploration and development in Canada, namely British Columbia and Ontario. The company's Maple Birch project, located approximately 30 kilometres southeast of Sudbury, Ont., is a high-purity quartz pegmatite project with a 3,000-tonne-per-year production permit. The company holds a 100-per-cent interest in the Crystal Hills project, located approximately 40 km north of the city of North Bay, Ont., Canada, which consists of five mineral claims comprising 18 cells totalling approximately 400 hectares. The company also holds an undivided 100-per-cent right, title and interest in the exploration stage, and now fully five-year permitted Ptarmigan silica project, located approximately 130 km from Prince George, B.C. The company has also acquired an undivided 100-per-cent right, title and interest in both the exploration stage Silica Ridge silica project located approximately 70 km southeast from the town of MacKenzie, British Columbia, as well as the exploration stage Longworth silica project located approximately 85 km east from Prince George, B.C.

Technical information

Raymond Wladichuk, PGeo, chief operating officer of Silicon Metals, a qualified person as per National Instrument 43-101 -- Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects, has reviewed and approved the scientific information in his new release. Mr. Wladichuk is a professional geoscientist registered in British Columbia and Ontario.

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