Southern Silver Intersections At Cerro Las Minitas

VANCOUVER, BC - Southern Silver Exploration Corp. reported assay results from the Winter 2017 core drilling program on the Cerro Las Minitas project, Durango State, Mexico. Drilling continues to intersect intervals of heavily disseminated to massive sulphide mineralization on the Blind Shoulder zone. These mineralized intercepts remain open laterally and reflects a flattening of the Blind Zone mineralization from a sub-vertical-orientation near surface, to a gently to moderately southwest-dipping horizon below 600m depth. Current drilling has now identified significant intervals of mineralization throughout an approximate 350m x 300m zone within the originally targeted 600m x 400m area. With approximately 4,280 meters now completed of the planned 10,000 meter US$2 million exploration program, further drilling with two core rigs will focus on continuing the systematic expansion of the Blind Shoulder mineralized zone.

Mineralization in drill hole 16CLM-095 is a continuation of earlier reported mineral intercepts in the Blind Shoulder zone and significantly, contains much higher silver grades than earlier drilling in this part of the deposit. Further drilling to delineate this high-grade silver zone is planned for this target area.

The mineralization in drill hole CLM-095 is open both down-dip to the southwest and along strike to the north and northwest and represents a 90 meter step-out from previously reported mineralization in hole 17CLM-091. “Assay results from this recent drilling have returned some of the better silver and base metal grades on the project to date and continues to not only expand the dimension of the Blind Shoulder target but have also yielded further improvement in potential size, quality and scope of the Cerro Las Minitas project," said Lawrence Page, Southern Silver's President. "Our focus remains to establish this rapidly evolving district into one of the most significant economic polymetallic discoveries in our industry."

Exploration on the company's flagship Cerro Las Minitas property, Durango Mexico is funded by Electrum Global Holdings L.P., which has financed a broad range of exploration activities and has earned a 60% interest in the project through a US$5.0M earn-in on the property, with Southern Silver acting as operator.

The Cerro Las Minitas project contains an estimated Inferred Resource of 17.5M ozs silver and 237M lbs of lead and 626M lbs zinc (77.3M ozs AgEq) and an estimated Indicated Resource of 10.8M ozs silver, 189M lbs lead and 207M lbs zinc (36.5M ozs AgEq).(1)

A total of 93 drill holes for 37,255 meters have been completed on the Cerro Las Minitas project with exploration expenditures of approximately US$8.6 million spent through to the end of 2016.