======================================================================= News Release - April 8, 2013 SilverCrest Continues to Expand Santa Elena Deposit More High Grade Intercepts; 21.6m @ 1.46 gpt Au and 169.1 gpt Ag including 0.60m @ 5.2 gpt Au and 1,840 gpt Ag ======================================================================= Dear MvM Commodity Group <>, VANCOUVER, BC � April 8, 2013 � SilverCrest Mines Inc.

(the �Company�) is pleased to announce results of further delineation drilling at the Santa Elena Mine in Sonora, Mexico.

Since mid 2012, 132 drill holes have been completed to further expand underground resources and reserves (see attached Figure).

This drill program continues to be extremely successful with the most recent holes identifying additional bonanza grades (as defined below) and providing further intercepts in the El Cholugo Zone.

To date, resources at Santa Elena have been delineated along a strike length of over 1,200 metres and to a depth of 600 metres.

The results of all holes included in this news release will be part of the ongoing resource expansion and reclassification to be included in the Pre-Feasibility Study for the Santa Elena Expansion Project which is nearing completion. J.

Scott Drever, President stated; �This delineation drill program has been immensely successful.

We have drilled the known portion of the deposit at 35 to 40 metre centres, the Main Mineralized Zone has been extended by approximately 300 metres beyond our current resource boundary and we have identified two new sub-parallel zones, El Cholugo and El Cholugo Dos.

The results of the revised underground resource and reserve estimations is expected to demonstrate an extended mine life with a conventional mill facility well beyond the original 5.5 years estimated for the open pit heap leach operation.� In this reported series, core hole SE-13-126 intercepted further Bonanza grades (greater than 34 gpt Au or greater than 1,000 gpt Ag) with 0.60 metres grading 5.2 gpt Au and 1,840 gpt Ag These high grades are included in a broader interval of 21.6 metres grading 1.46 gpt Au and 169.1 gpt Ag (see tables below).� Assay values in this series of holes range from 0.1 gpt to 22.0 gpt gold and 34.8 gpt to 1,840.0 gpt silver.

Mineralized intervals range from 0.6 metres to 22.7 metres.

All mineralized drill intercepts are near true thicknesses.

The most significant assay results in this series of holes are shown in the following tables.

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