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Aztec Minerals Completes Earn-in and Exercises Option to Acquire a 65% Interest in the Cervantes Project in Sonora, Mexico from Kootenay Silver Appoints Andy Bowering to Advisory Committee

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Aztec Minerals Completes Earn-in and Exercises Option to Acquire a 65%

Interest in the Cervantes Project in Sonora, Mexico from Kootenay Silver

Appoints Andy Bowering to Advisory Committee

Vancouver, Canada – July 3 0, 2019 - Aztec Minerals Corp. (AZT: TSX -V, OTCQB: AZZTF)

announces that it has completed the terms of its earn-in and has exercised its option to acquire a 65% interest

in the Cervantes porphyry gold-copper project in Sonora, Mexico from Kootenay Silver Inc., Kootenay

retains the remaining 35% interest in Cervantes.

Aztec and Kootenay expect to finalize the terms of the joint venture agreement shortly, then form a joint

venture management committee, review the exploration results to date and approve the next exploration

program and budget at Cervantes.

Aztec also announces the appointment of Andrew Bowering to its business and technical advisory board.

Mr. Bowering is a venture capitalist with 30 years of experience in mineral exploration and development

worldwide. He has founded, funded and built management teams that have operated numerous companies

in the pursuit of precious, base and industrial metals from early exploration through to production.

Mr. Bowering has a financial background as a stock broker and a business background as the founder and

an owner of Sunrise Drilling Ltd. In recent years, Andy has held senior leadership roles in public and

private companies from investor relations to CEO. He is a founder and significant shareholder of Millennial

Lithium Corp and is the founder and current CEO of Prime Mining Corp.

Joey Wilkins, Aztec CEO, stated: “We are pleased to reach this milestone after four years of productive

mineral exploration on the Cervantes property. The r esults of our geophysical surveys, geochemical

sampling, and geologic mapping have outlined a district-scale porphyry gold-copper system with multiple

targets, most of which have never been drilled.”

“Our first drill program at the California prospect resulted in the discovery of a large, well mineralized gold

oxide zone hosted by a strongly altered and brecciated quartz feldspar porphyry intrusion. A strong, broad

IP chargeability anomaly underlies the California gold oxide zone down to at least 500 meters depth, is

interpreted to be an underlying sulfide zone and has not yet been tested by drilling.”

“A recently completed Phase 2 geophysical survey has uncovered additional high priority chargeability and

resistivity anomalies on trend with the California prospect in two separate porphyry targets, more details to

follow. The number of high -quality targets continues to grow as we explore the full extent of th is

prospective 3,500 hectare property.”

“I would like to welcome Andy Bowering to our advisory committee. Andy has enjoyed much success in

the management of and capital formation for exploration and mining ventures. We look forward to working

with him as we advance our mineral exploration projects through the discovery phase.”

About Aztec Minerals – Aztec is a mineral exploration company focused on the discovery of large mineral

deposits in the Americas. Our core asset s include the prospective, district scale Cervantes porphyry gold-

copper property in Sonora, Mexico , and the Tombstone CRD silver-lead-zinc-copper district in Arizona.

The Company board and management have successful track records of value creation through discovery,

development and production in the mining sector. Aztec’s shares trade on the TSXV (symbol AZT) and on

the OTCQB (symbol AZZTF).

Contact Information - For more information, please contact:

Joey Wilkins, President / CEO or Bradford Cooke, Chairman

Tel: (604) 685-9770

Fax: (604) 685-9744

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.aztecminerals.com

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responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. No stock exchange, securities commission or other regulatory

authority has approved or disapproved the information contained herein.