December 8, 2009 - Bridgewater, NS - Silver Spruce Resources Inc. (TSXV: SSE)  is pleased to provide the diamond drilling results for the area to the north of the Centauro mesa, drilled as part of the 2nd Phase drill program carried out in August and September 2009. Two areas were drilled - to the north of Centauro mesa in the Line 6 area, where strong quartz veining carrying arsenic and antimony mineralization is noted and to the northeast, on the east side of the mesa, where the extensive silica breccias zones are found and where the gold/silver values in CEN-08-10 (see below) were located. Drill results from the northeast area are pending and will be reported when received and compiled.

Results of the 2008 drilling (3,960 metres in 14 holes - CEN-08-1 to 14) which tested the Centauro alteration zone over a 2.3 kilometre strike length and 1 kilometre width were reported in late 2008 and early 2009 (see news releases - Oct. 7 and Dec. 9, 2008 and Jan. 20, 2009). The highlight was a gold/silver intersection of 7.5 m at 1.93 g/t Au and 64 g/t Ag at the top of hole CEN-08-10, in a 92.1 metre zone, from 3 to 95.1 m, which assayed 237 ppb Au and 8.4 g/t Ag . The hole collared in mineralization so the full width of the intersection remains unknown as does its orientation and true width. Acanthite, a silver-bearing mineral, and native gold were identified (news release Dec. 9, 2008). The gold / silver values are associated with the strong silicification in the silica breccia better defined by 2009 field work which appears to be dipping to the east / northeast, basinward.

Work in 2009, prior to the drilling, consisted of relogging the 2008 core, geological mapping, field checking and geological compilation. This resulted in a better understanding of the geological setting of the alteration package and mineralized zones and defined areas requiring further diamond drilling (News release July 7, 2009). A total of 1,864.5 meters were drilled in the 2009 program, 705 m in six drill holes (CEN-09-15,16,16A,17,18,19) in the north area on Line 6 (reported on here) and 1,159.5 m in nine holes (CEN-09-20,21,22,23,24,25,26,26A,27) in the northeast area. 

The only hole in the north area, prior to the 2009 drilling, was CEN-08-1 which was drilled on L 6 further to the west. In the 2009 program, drill-holes CEN-09-15,16,16A,18 and 19 were drilled to the southwest (240 degrees), as a fence along Line 6, while CEN-09-17 was drilled perpendicular to the line to evaluate a possible fault (see section on website). The drill-holes targeted a wide (600 x 200 m) area anomalous in gold-silver-mercury-arsenic-antimony. CEN-09-15, collared at the base of El Pozo hill, cut 82 meters of a highly sheared, gossanous unit before passing into unaltered calcareous polymitic conglomerate. CEN-09-16, collared 100 to the southwest of hole #15, was lost in bad ground and was re-started as CEN-09-16A a few meters from the original collar. The upper portion of the hole, from 0 to 36 m, was sheared to gossanous diorite after which a wide section, from 36 to 148 m, of sheared, decalcified, and locally silicified, conglomerate and mafic dikes were intersected. Sulphides, pyrite and arsenopyrite, averaging 5 to 7%, are disseminated throughout the zone. Local silicified zones are vuggy with botryoidal quartz carrying realgar, an arsenic mineral. CEN-09-17 intersected 94 meters of sheared, sulphide bearing intrusive before intersecting fresh polymictic conglomerate carrying weak decalcified zones associated with sheared sections. CEN-09-18 intersected 84 meters of highly sheared, locally silicified, sulphide bearing (pyrite and arsenopyrite), diorite and mafic dikes before being lost in bad ground, which prevented further drilling. CEN-09-19 cut similar units and was lost at 156 meters also in bad ground.

Analytical results from all holes gave wide zones of anomalous gold/silver/mercury/arsenic/antimony associated with alteration including decalcification and silicification associated with shearing, which is sometimes gossanized. The strong, pervasive mercury geochemical signature encountered in all holes suggests that the drilling, which tested to a maximum of 100 m vertical, is too high in the system for "bonanza style" gold-silver epithermal veins and deeper holes are required to properly test the system.

Results from the 2009 drilling will be combined with 2008 drill results to create a more accurate geological picture of the area in order to try to vector in on the source of the strong epithermal fluid flow. A summary of analytical results for the 2009 holes which tested the north area in the vicinity of L 6, are provided in Table 1 below.

TABLE 1 Centauro North drilling 2009 Composites
Hole	From	To	Length	Au (ppb)	Ag (ppm)	Hg (ppb)	As (ppm)	Sb (ppm)	Ba (ppm)
CEN-09-15	12	82.9	70.9	145	6.5	21853	1098	202	695
CEN-09-16A	36	148.4	112.4	125	7.5	20008	968	124	2911
CEN-09-17	27	37.5	10.5	50	4.7	9374	907	70	559
"	104	114	10	42	2.7	7193	395	44	1856
CEN-09-18	6	84	78	71	5.3	13167	2241	95	735
CEN-09-19	6	90	84	51	5.9	8123	1216	147	1092
"	96	129	33	67	5.9	14323	1439	104	640

Using minimum grade of 25 ppb Au; background values Au < 5 ppb, Ag < 0.3 ppm; Hg < 150 ppb; As < 50 ppm; Sb < 10 ppm; Ba < 50 ppm;

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