Eric Sprott announces that, today, 2176423 Ontario Ltd., a corporation beneficially owned by him, exercised 10,000,000 common share purchase warrants of
Outcrop Silver & Gold Corp.., at $0.20 per common share for aggregate consideration of $2,000,000. The exercise of Warrants, combined with prior corporate treasury issuances of Shares, resulted in a decrease in holdings of approximately 2.3% of the outstanding Shares on a partially diluted basis since the date of the last early warning report. Prior to such exercise, Mr. Sprott beneficially owned 31,042,800 Shares and 12,000,000 Warrants representing approximately 10.4% of the outstanding Shares on a non-diluted basis and approximately 13.9% on a partially diluted basis assuming the exercise of such Warrants. As a result of th...