Aurania Appoints Vice President – Exploration and Grants Stock-Based Options

Toronto, Ontario, November 3^rd, 2017 – Aurania Resources Ltd. (TSXV: ARU) (“Aurania” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that Mr. Jean Paul Pallier has been appointed Vice President – Exploration to lead the exploration of the Company’s Lost Cities – Cutucu Project in southeastern Ecuador (the “Project”).  The Company also granted 430,000 stock options and 124,500 restricted stock units (“RSUs”) to management, directors and members of the Ecuadorian exploration, community relations and administration team.

Appointment of VP-Exploration

Jean Paul (“JP”) has been Aurania’s Chief Geologist since 2013 and played a central role in due diligence of the Project, leading up to its acquisition in April of this year.  We are pleased to announce his promotion to VP-Exploration, effective immediately.  JP worked closely with CEO, Dr. Keith Barron, and President, Dr. Richard Spencer, in setting out an effective exploration strategy for the large and underexplored Project area.  Subsequently JP has been responsible for assembling and training the in-country technical team that has hit the ground running, conducting the stream sediment geochemical survey, reconnaissance geology and sampling programs, while monitoring the airborne geophysics, which is near completion.

JP holds an MSc in Geology from Lorraine Université (1995) and a BSc (Maitrise) from the University of Oviedo (Spain) and UBO – Brest.  He has over 20 years’ experience in exploration for precious metals and uranium.

JP started his career as a junior geologist with ASARCO during the discovery of the Camp Caiman project in the jungle in French Guiana and remained with the project through grassroots exploration, geophysical surveys,  drilling of a 1.6 Moz gold resource and completion of a feasibility study under Iamgold.  JP also worked as an exploration geologist on the Dornod uranium project in Mongolia with Emeelt Mines LLC and as a project manager with Golden Star Resources Ltd. on the Paul Isnard gold project that contains 2.75Moz proven and probable reserves and 3.85Moz measured & indicated resources in French Guiana. In 2009, JP joined Aurania as manager of the Siviez and Marecottes uranium and Mont-Chemin gold projects in Switzerland.

Stock-based Incentives

Aurania has granted a total of 430,000 stock options to management, directors, and members of the exploration, community relations and administration team. A total of 13 individuals participated in this grant, many of whom have joined the Company since the acquisition of EcuaSolidus S.A. (“ESA”).  The stock options have an exercise price of $2.00, corresponding to the pricing of the most recently completed private placement and at a premium to yesterday’s closing price.

Members of ESA’s community relations, administration and exploration team in Ecuador were granted a total of 124,500 RSUs in Aurania that vest over a period of three years.

Dr. Keith Barron, CEO and major shareholder of the Corporation, who draws no salary from the Company, was not granted additional stock options or RSUs.

About Aurania

Aurania is a junior exploration mining company engaged in the identification, evaluation, acquisition and exploration of mineral property interests, with a focus on precious metals and copper.  Its flagship asset, The Lost Cities – Cutucu Project, is located in the Jurassic Metallogenic Belt in the eastern foothills of the Andes mountain range of southeastern Ecuador.

Information on Aurania and technical reports are available at www.aurania.com and www.sedar.com, as well as on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/auranialtd/, Twitter at  https://twitter.com/auranialtd, and LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/aurania-resources-ltd-.

For further information, please contact:

Dr. Richard Spencer
President
Aurania Resources Ltd.
(416) 367-3200
[email protected]

Donna McLean
Chief Financial Officer
Aurania Resources Ltd.
(416) 417-8349
[email protected]

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Forward-Looking Statements

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