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Aston BAY Holdings Grants Options

Share Capital & Compensation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TSX-V: BAY

ASTON BAY HOLDINGS GRANTS OPTIONS

March 10, 2020 - Aston Bay Holdings Ltd. (TSX -V:BAY; OTCQB:ATBHF) (“Aston Bay” or the

“Company”) announces that it has granted stock options in accordance with the terms and

conditions of its rolling Stock Option Plan, entitling the purchase of an aggregate 3,500,000

common shares by certain officers, directors, consultants, employees and advisors to the

Company. Each stock option will be exercisable at $0.06 per common share until March 10, 2027.

About Aston Bay Holdings

Aston Bay is a publicly traded mine ral exploration company exploring for gold and base metal

deposits in Virginia, USA, and Nunavut, Canada. The Company is led by CEO Thomas Ullrich with

exploration in Virginia directed by the Company’s advisor, Don Taylor, the 2018 Thayer Lindsley

Award winner for his discovery of the Taylor Pb-Zn-Ag Deposit in Arizona

The Company has also acquired the exclusive rights to an integrated dataset over certain

prospective private lands at the Blue Ridge Project and has signed agreements with timber and

land companies which grants the company the option to lease the mineral rights to 11,065 acres

of land located in central Virginia. These lands are located within a gold -copper-lead-zinc

mineralized belt prospective for Carolina slate belt gold deposits, as well as sedimentary VMS,

exhalative (SEDEX) and Broken Hill (BHT) type base metal deposits. Don Taylor, who led the

predecessor company to Blue Ridge and assembled the dataset, has joined the Company’s

Advisory Board and will be directing the Company’s exploration activities for the Blue Ridge

Project. The Company is actively exploring the Buckingham Gold Project in Virginia and is in

advanced stages of negotiation on other lands in the area.

The Company is also 100% owner of the Aston Bay Property located on western Somerset Island,

Nunavut, which neighbours Teck’s profitable, past-producing Polaris (Pb-Zn) Mine just 200km to

the north. The Aston Bay Property hosts the Storm Copper Project and the Seal Zinc Deposit with

drill-confirmed presence of sediment-hosted copper and zinc mineralization.

The Company’s public disclosure documents are available on www.sedar.com.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Statements made in this press release, including those regarding the closing and the use of

proceeds of the private placement, management objectives, forecasts, estimates, expectations,

or predictions of the future may constitute “forward-looking statement”, which can be identified

by the use of conditional or future tenses or by the use of such verbs as “believe”, “ex pect”,

“may”, “will”, “should”, “estimate”, “anticipate”, “project”, “plan”, and words of similar import,

including variations thereof and negative forms. This press release contains forward -looking

statements that reflect, as of the date of this press rel ease, Aston Bay’s expectations, estimates

and projections about its operations, the mining industry and the economic environment in

which it operates. Statements in this press release that are not supported by historical fact are

forward-looking statements, meaning they involve risk, uncertainty and other factors that could

cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking

statements. Although Aston Bay believes that the assumptions inherent in the forward- looking

statements are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on these statements, which

apply only at the time of writing of this press release. Aston Bay disclaims any intention or

obligation to update or revise any forward- looking statement, whether as a result of new

information, future events or otherwise, except to the extent required by securities legislation.

We seek safe harbour.

Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its regulation services provider (as that term is defined in

policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this

news release.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTACT:

Thomas Ullrich, Chief Executive Officer

Telephone: (416) 456-3516

Sofia Harquail, IR and Corporate Development

[email protected]

(647) 821-1337