Ascot Resources Ltd. brought on a new chairman, president and CEO, and chief operating officer towards the end of 2017. With this new leadership came a new vision for resuming operations on its Premier-Dilworth property at the southern tip of British Columbia's Golden Triangle. This 100-square-kilometer (39 square miles) land package still has infrastructure from the Premier Mine – a past-producer of 2.1 million ounces of gold and 44.9 million oz silver – including mill, assay lab building, crusher, tailing storage area and underground development.

Instead of the open-pit scenario previously envisioned, the new leadership sees the development of higher grade, underground resources as the most efficient and profitable path towards production at this historic mine about 25 kilometers (16 miles) north of Stewart.

The new management said operations can be re-started within a potentially shorter timeframe by using the existing underground infrastructure and higher-grade resources to maximize profitability of the processing facilities already in place on the property.

Ascot's focus on higher-grade underground gold-silver deposits is reflected in an updated resource, which highlights a maiden high-grade resource calculation for Premier-Northern Lights, which is located at and adjacent to the historical mine areas in the southern part of the Premier property.

Premier-Northern Lights hosts 1.21 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 7.02 grams per metric ton (273,000 oz) gold and 30.6 g/t (1.19 million oz) silver; and 1.64 million metric tons of inferred resource averaging 6.01 g/t (317,000 oz) gold and 24.9 g/t (1.31 million oz) silver.

This is within a much larger but lower grade resource for the entire property – 94.71 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 0.9 g/t (2.75 million oz) gold and 7.2 g/t (21.97 million oz) silver; and 80.92 million metric tons of inferred resource averaging 0.7 g/t (1.81 million oz) gold and 7.56 g/t (19.55 million oz) silver.

A 45,000-meter drill program planned for 2018 got underway in April, starting in the western part of the high-grade Northern Lights-Premier area before moving to Big Missouri-Martha Ellen, an area that required snow removal before it could be accessed.

Highlights from the first 25 holes drilled this year at Big Missouri include 7.3 meters averaging 15.27 g/t gold and 9.73 g/t silver in hole P18-1652; and seven meters of 10.28 g/t gold and 9.5 g/t silver in P18-1617.

Ascot encountered significant gold-silver mineralization in most of the more than 75 holes reported so far from Big Missouri.

A seven-kilometer (4.3 miles) road connects Big Missouri to the Premier mill; Martha Ellen is located about 1,500 meters farther north.

"The company's vision of re-starting the Premier mill with sufficient feed has just received a strong boost by these excellent results from Big Missouri," said Ascot Resources President and CEO Derek White.

This vision was further bolstered with the purchase of Silver Coin, an advanced stage, gold-silver property about 800 meters from Ascot's Big Missouri project and five kilometers (about three miles) from the Premier mill.

In August, Ascot entered into agreements with Jayden Resources Inc. and Mountain Boy Minerals Ltd. to acquire full ownership of Silver Coin in exchange for Ascot shares.

The high-grade core of Silver Coin hosts 702,000 metric tons of indicated resource grading 4.46 g/t (100,660 oz) gold and 967,000 metric tons of inferred resource grading 4.39 g/t (136,480 oz) gold.

"Material from the Silver Coin property was successfully mined and processed in the early 1990s at the Premier mill," said White. "The project's proximity to Ascot's infrastructure and the identical metallurgical characteristics create key synergies with Ascot's existing resources."

-SHANE LASLEY

Ascot Resources Ltd. - TSX.V: AOT

Ascot Resources Ltd.

Ascot Resources President and CEO Derek White.

Chairman: Rick Zimmer

President and CEO: Derek White

Consulting Geologist: Graeme Evans

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