Filed by Automated Filing Services Inc. (604) 609-0244 - Silverado Gold Mines Ltd. - Exhibit 10.17






 FORM OF DELAY AGREEMENTS EXECUTED BETWEEN THE COMPANY AND
  

  CERTAIN OF THE SELLING SHAREHOLDERS AS OF MAY 11, 12 AND 13, 2004  


DELAY AGREEMENT 


	TO:	SILVERADO GOLD MINES
        LTD., a British Columbia company (the “Company”)

	 	 
	FROM:	THE UNDERSIGNED SHAREHOLDER
        OF SILVERADO GOLD MINES LTD. (the “Shareholder”)

	 	 
	RE:	Warrant Exercise Agreement
        between the Company and the Shareholder (the “Warrant Exercise
        Agreement”); Form SB-2 Registration Statement (the “Registration
        Statement”) to be filed by the Company with the United States
        Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) pursuant
        to the United States Securities Act of 1933 (the “1933
        Act”), as contemplated in the Warrant Exercise Agreement

	 	 


 In consideration of the Company issuing to the Shareholder
  the number of shares set forth in Schedule A hereto under the column “Delay
  Shares to be Issued” (the “Delay Shares”) and including such
  Delay Shares on the Registration Statement, the Shareholder hereby releases
  the Company from any and all liabilities, obligations, expenses and damages
  arising from delay by the Company in filing the Registration Statement with
  the Securities and Exchange Commission as contemplated by the Warrant Exercise
  Agreement in order to qualify the following shares: 

	 	1.	the shares issued to the shareholder
        upon exercise of the Replacement Warrants, as contemplated in the Warrant
        Exercise Agreement and as set forth in Schedule A;

	 	 	 
	 	2.	the shares issuable to the shareholder
        upon exercise of the remaining Replacement Warrants held by the Shareholder
        and as set forth in Schedule A; and

	 	 	 
	 	3.	the shares issuable to the shareholder
        upon exercise of the Additional Replacement Warrants issued to the Shareholder
        upon exercise of the Replacement Warrants and as set forth in Schedule
        A.



 This agreement will be of full force and effect without any
  further action of the Company upon issue of the Delay Shares in the name of
  the Shareholder and filing of the Registration Statement within five (5) business
  days of the date that delay agreements have been executed and delivered by each
  of the investors listed on Schedule A hereto. This Delay Agreement is further
  executed on the understanding that the Company will respond to all SEC comments
  on the Form SB-2 within three (3) weeks of receipt of any comment letter of
  the SEC. 

 Dated the _______ day of May, 2004. 

	SIGNATURE OF SHAREHOLDER:	    	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	NAME OF SHAREHOLDER:	 	 












SCHEDULE A TO DELAY AGREEMENT 


	Name	No. of

      Replacement

      Warrants

      Exercised	Balance of

      Replacement

      Warrants	Additional

      Replacement

      Warrant Issued	Number of Delay

      Shares to be

      Issued
	Platinum Partners
 
 	2,127,660	2,872,340	2,127,660	255,318
	M/S Family
 Foundation	297,872	402,128	297,872	35,745
	Mesivta of Long
 Beach (Private
 Placement
      #1)	531,915	718,085	531,915	63,830
	Mesivta of Long
 Beach (Private
 Placement
      #2)	85,106	114,894	85,106	10,214
	Salvatore Amato

        

      
	106,383	143,617	106,383	12,766
	Sara Heiman
 
 	127,660	172,340	127,660	15,318
	Harry Adler
 
 	297,872	402,128	297,872	35,745
	Philip Huberfeld
 
 	297,872	402,128	297,872	35,745
	Keren MYCB Elias
 Foundation	297,872	402,128	297,872	35,745
	Chancellor
 Apartments, LLC	106,383	143,617	106,383	12,766
	Zenny Trading
 Limited	638,298	861,702	638,298	76,595
	Rachel Mendelovitz
 
 	85,106	114,894	85,106	10,214
	

      TOTALS

      

      	5,000,000	6,750,000	5,000,000	600,000