Trading Symbol:
TSX: SVM
 NYSE AMERICAN: SVM

VANCOUVER, BC, March 25, 2024 /CNW/ - Silvercorp Metals Inc. ("Silvercorp" or the "Company") (TSX: SVM) (NYSE American: SVM) announced today that, further to its off-market takeover bid (the "Offer") for all of the ordinary shares in OreCorp Limited ("OreCorp") (ASX:ORR), Silvercorp did not satisfy the 50.1% minimum acceptance condition prior to the close of the Offer on March 22, 2024 and elected not to exercise its "right to match" a competing offer for OreCorp. Silvercorp will remain entitled to payment of a break fee of approximately AUD$2.8 million in certain circumstances, as set out in the BID.