Arizona Silver Appoints Additional Director

Arizona Silver Exploration Inc.

Suite 303, 595 Howe Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6C 2T5 Phone: (604) 336-8619 Fax: (604) 718-2808 www.arizonasilverexploration.com

Arizona Silver Appoints Additional Director

Vancouver, BC, March 20, 2017 – Arizona Silver Exploration Inc. (the "Company") (TSX-V: AZS) is pleased to announce that Ronald Shorr has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Company. Mr. Shorr is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a graduate from the University of Michigan (B.A.) and Harvard Business School (M.B.A.), subsequently attending graduate school at the Krumb School of Mines at Columbia University. He is a member of the AIME, the New York Society of Security Analysts, and has authored a chapter for Economics of the Mineral Industry. Currently he acts as CEO of Vermillion Gold, a private company exploring for gold in Minnesota's Abitibi Greenstone Belt, and is a director of Resinco Capital Partners, a closed end mutual fund of junior explorers listed on the TSX Venture Exchange.

Mr. Shorr has been involved with researching, development, restructuring, and financing corporations for over 30 years, including operations, acquisitions and fund raising, and the Company welcomes his expertise to the Board.

For clarification the Officers and Directors of the Company are comprised as follows:

Greg Hahn, CEO, President and director Richard Barnett, CFO, Secretary Mike Stark, non-executive Chair and director Keturah Nathe, director Joseph Charland, director Ronald Shorr, director

On behalf of the Board of Directors

SIGNED: “Mike Stark”

Mike Stark, Non-Executive Chairman and Director

Contact: Mike Stark Phone: (604) 833-4278

For further information on AZS please visit our website at www.arizonasilverexploration.com The Company’s public documents may be accessed at www.sedar.com

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.