Silver Stream Mining Corporation announced the appointments of Margaret Kent as the Non-Executive Chairman of the Board and a Director of the corporation and Richard Meschke as Vice President ­ Legal and Corporate Development of the corporation. Kent and Meschke have recently served as consultants to the company, assisting with the capital restructuring of the company and the conversion of the company's debt into common shares as well as reviewing and advising on the company's projects and property option agreements. In accepting the Chairman's role of the company, Kent is re-joining several former colleagues in the management team of the company.

Kent and Meschke will be joining the company's management team which consists of Terrence Byberg, President and CEO; Don Bossert, CFO; Michael Gross, Chief Operating Officer; and James Garber, Vice President of Exploration. Silver Stream Directors include Ms. Kent and Messrs. Byberg, Bossert, Peter Calder and Mike Robb.

Margaret "Peggy" Kent has spent almost 40 years in the resource industry, becoming a leader in the financing and development of new projects and taking on development projects that major companies had passed on. She has been the chairman and CEO of a number of publically traded resource companies and has been responsible for the direction of as many as 2,200 employees and the development and operation of eight mining operations. Richard Meschke has nearly forty years of experience in financial, legal, corporate development and commercial roles within the mining and engineering industries, initially with major companies and more recently in the junior mining sector.

Beginning in 2006, Meschke was chief financial officer and vice president, legal and corporate development for Century Mining Corporation, and has held similar responsibilities with other junior companies.