Origen Resources Inc.: Origen Closes Plan of Arrangement with Forty Pillars Origen Resources Inc. (CSE: ORGN) ("Origen") and Forty Pillars Mining Corp. ("Forty Pillars") are pleased to announce that their previously announced plan of arrangement (the " Arrangement") has closed. Pursuant to the Arrangement, Origen completed a share reorganization and spun out its Silver Dollar Project and $66,893.60 in cash to Forty Pillars in exchange for 6,485,174 common shares of Forty Pillars (the " Forty Pillars Shares") at a deemed price of $0.08 per Forty Pillars Share, of which 3,891,102 Forty Pillars Shares were distributed to Origen's shareholders and 2,594,072 Forty Pillars Shares were retained by Origen. The Board of Forty Pillars now consists of Nader Vatanchi, Abbey Abdiye, Alex Klenman, Gary Schellenberg and Mike Sieb.