Vancouver, British Columbia- (Newsfile Corp. – April 5, 2018) – Southern Silver Exploration Corp. (TSXV: SSV) (“Southern Silver”) reported today that a 2018 budget totaling US$3 million has been approved by the joint venture partners for exploration
work at the Cerro Las Minitas project, Durango Mexico. The program comprises 13,000 metres of drilling in two phases which will target both the systematic resource expansion in the Area of the Cerro containing the existing Mineral Resource Estimate
and continued surface sampling and reverse circulation drilling on new discoveries in the recently staked CLM West claim group.