Exhibit 99.9
Certificate of qualified person – John Fox
I, John R.W. Fox, do hereby declare that:
| 1) | I currently reside in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and am currently a consulting metallurgical engineer with Laurion Consulting Inc with offices at 302-304 West Cordova St. Vancouver, B.0 , V6B 1E8 |
| 2) | I hold a Bachelors of Science in Applied Mineral Sciences and Extractive Metallurgy from the University of Leed, UK. |
| 3) | I am a member in good standing in the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia (APEGBC), member #12578. |
| 4) | I am an author and Qualified Person (within the meaning of National Instrument 43-101) responsible for part of the preparation of the Technical Report entitled: |
“SANTA ELENA EXPANSION PRE-FEASIBILITY STUDY AND OPEN PIT RESERVE UPDATE”
SONORA, MEXICO
NI 43-101 TECHNICAL REPORT
PREPARED FOR SILVERCREST MINES INC.
July 25, 2013
Effective Date: April 30, 2013
| 5) | I am responsible for sections 13 except 13.2, 17, 1.5, 18.3, 21.1.5 & 21.2.3. |
| 6) | As a Qualified Person for this report, I have read the National Instrument 43-101 and Companion Policy and confirm that this report has been prepared in compliance to National Instrument 43101. |
| 7) | I have visited the Santa Elena property in June 2013 for one day. |
| 8) | I have been involved in numerous gold and silver properties including, Escalante Silver (Utah USA) Patchway, Brompton & Renco Gold (Zimbabwe) Snip & Bronson Creek (B.C) Ketza River (Yukon) Kremnica (Czeck Republic) Congress (Arizona, USA) La Colorado (Mexico) Equis (Colombia) La Victoria(Venezuela) Pangkut and Way Linggo (Indonesia) and many more. |
| 9) | I am independent of SilverCrest Mines as independence is described in Section 1.5 of the National Instrument 43-101. In addition I am currently not a shareholder of SilverCrest nor am I directly entitled to financially benefit from its success. |
| 10) | Prior to this report, I have had no prior involvement on this property. |
| 11) | To the best of my knowledge, information and belief, as of the Effective Date of the report, the parts of the Technical Report for which I am responsible contain all scientific and technical information that is required to be disclosed to make the Technical Report not mis-leading. |
