Adventus Zinc Corporation and Salazar Resources Limited announced the commencement of an extensive surface exploration program for 2018 at the 21,537-hectare Curipamba project located in Ecuador. The 2018 regional work program at the Curipamba Project is based upon a thorough target generation review of a large historical database that includes prospecting, geological mapping, surficial geochemistry, geophysics and drilling. Adventus and Salazar are confident their methodical approach will result in positive outcomes, and greatly improve their knowledge and understanding of mineralizing system surrounding the El Domo volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit.

Work in 2018 is primarily targeting new VMS discoveries, and kick-off programs have commenced at the Sesmo target. The Curipamba Project hosts El Domo and more than a dozen underexplored precious metal enriched targets; however, when Salazar discovered El Domo in First Quarter 2008, focus shifted away from the regional targets and towards Mineral Resource definition drilling. Salazar's subsequent work programs have resulted in the current Mineral Resource estimate for El Domo that consists of 6.08 Mt grading 2.33% Cu, 3.06% Zn, 0.28% Pb, 2.99 g/t Au and 55.8 g/t Ag in the Indicated category, and 3.88 Mt grading 1.56% Cu, 2.19% Zn, 0.16% Pb, 2.03 g/t Au and 42.9 g/t Ag in the Inferred category.

This Mineral Resource estimate was part of a technical report filed on SEDAR: "Curipamba Project - El Domo Deposit Amended and Restated Preliminary Economic Assessment Central Ecuador" that was prepared by Independent Qualified Persons Gustavo Calvo Martin, M.Sc.A., P. Geo and Adam Johnston, B. Eng., FAusIMM.