|   | (a)  Designed      such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure      controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure      that material information relating to the registrant, including its      consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those      entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being      prepared;                                   |
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|   | (b)  Evaluated      the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures      and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of      the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period      covered by this report based on such evaluation; and                                                                                                                                       |
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|   | (c)  Disclosed      in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over      financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent      fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an      annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to      materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial      reporting; and  |

|   | (a)  All      significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or      operation of internal control over financial reporting which are      reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record,      process, summarize and report financial information;and |
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|   | (b)  Any      fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other      employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control      over financial reporting.                                                                                                    |

|                             | SEARCHLIGHT      MINERALS CORP. |
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| Date:  July 6,    2009 | By:                             | /s/      IAN R. MCNEIL |
|                             |                            | Ian      R. McNeil |
|                             |                            | Chief      ExecutiveOfficer |

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