Silver Bear Announces Its Annual General Meeting Will Be Delayed Until July 16, 2015

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Jun 1, 2015) - Silver Bear Resources Inc. ("Silver Bear" or the "Company") (TSX:SBR) announces that the Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX") has extended the deadline for Silver Bear to hold its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") from June 30, 2015 to July 16, 2015. Silver Bear applied for the extension due to the recent changes in management and Company personnel that have now been addressed.

Silver Bear's CEO, Graham Hill commented: "I look forward to updating the Silver Bear shareholders at my first AGM with the Company. I am pleased to report that the NI 43-101 Feasibility Study is on-track for completion in the second half of the year. In addition, we are pushing ahead with infrastructure and development projects at Mangazeisky project with first concrete pour on-site and building of new permanent dormitories, workshop and warehouses."

About Silver Bear

Silver Bear (TSX:SBR) is focused on the development of its wholly-owned Mangazeisky Silver Project, covering a licence area of ~570 sq km that includes the high grade Vertikalny deposit (amongst the highest grade silver deposits in the world) located 400 km north of Yakutsk in the Republic of Sakha within the Russian Federation. The Company was granted a 20-year mining licence for the Vertikalny deposit in September 2013 and completed a Preliminary Economic Assessment in February 2014. The Feasibility Study, scheduled for completion in H2 2015, is contracted to Tetra Tech in the UK with SRK and ERM as subcontractors for the mining and environmental studies respectively. Other information relating to Silver Bear is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com as well as on the Company's website at www.silverbearresources.com.

Cautionary Notes

This release and subsequent oral statements made by and on behalf of the Company may contain forward-looking statements, which reflect management's expectations. Wherever possible, words such as "intends", "expects", "scheduled", "estimates", "anticipates", "believes" and similar expressions or statements that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved, have been used to identify these forward-looking statements. Although the forward-looking statements contained in this release reflect management's current beliefs based upon information currently available to management and based upon what management believes to be reasonable assumptions, Silver Bear cannot be certain that actual results will be consistent with these forward-looking statements. A number of factors could cause events and achievements to differ materially from the results expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Such risk factors include but are not limited to risk factors identified by Silver Bear in its continuous disclosure filings filed from time to time on SEDAR. These factors should be considered carefully and prospective investors should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements necessarily involve significant known and unknown risks, assumptions and uncertainties that may cause Silver Bear's actual results, events, prospects and opportunities to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Although Silver Bear has attempted to identify important risks and factors that could cause actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors and risks that cause actions, events or results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, prospective investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this release, and Silver Bear assumes no obligation to update or revise them to reflect new events or circumstances, unless otherwise required by law.

Contact

Graham Hill
President and Chief Executive Officer
UK+44 755 2524 982
info@silverbearresources.com
Robin Birchall
Executive Chairman
UK+44 771 131 3019
rbirchall@silverbearresources.com
Judith Webster
Investor Relations Manager
+416 453 8818
jwebster@silverbearresources.com