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Alto Commences Drilling at Miner Lake, Ontario and Grants Stock Options

Exploration Programs Share Capital & Compensation

NEWS RELEASE

ALTO COMMENCES DRILLING AT MINER LAKE, ONTARIO

AND GRANTS STOCK OPTIONS

Vancouver, B.C., September 19, 2018. Alto Ventures Ltd. ( ATV: TSX-V) is pleased to announce the

commencement of a 1,000 metre drill program on the Miner Lake project in the Beardmore-Geraldton

gold camp in Ontario . A total of five to six holes will further test the main E ast-West mineralized

corridor as well as two holes at other targets on the property.

Drilling by Alto in 2011 intersected significant gold mineralization in eight of nine holes drilled

including hole MIN11-06 which intersected a wide zone of 39.2 m averaging 0.6 g/t gold followed by a

second zone averaging 0.385 g/t Au over 10.5 m (see Alt o news release dated October 18, 2011). Hole

MIN11-07, located 100 m east of MIN11-06, intersected 38.5 m averaging 0.483 g/t Au in an upper zone

and a second zone averaging 0.259 g/t Au over 17.0 m. Gold is associated with disseminated and veinlet-

controlled sulphides including pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite and pyrite occurring within zones of

hydrothermal breccia and brittle-ductile faulting.

Alto’s President, Mike Koziol, P. Geo. is a qualified person under the provisions of National Instrument

43-101 and approves the technical data and conclusions in this news release.

Stock Options

Alto Ventures announces that, in accordance with the Company’s stock option plan, it has granted to

certain officers and consultants, incentive stock options to purchase up to an aggregate of 2,000,000

common shares exercisable on or before September 19, 2023 at a price of $0.05 per share

About Alto Ventures Ltd

Alto Ventures Ltd. is an exploration and development company with a portfo lio of highly prospective

Canadian gold properties. The Company is active in the Abitibi greenstone belt in Quebec on the Destiny

gold property and is exploring in the Beardmore -Geraldton gold belt in Ontario. For more details

regarding the Company's projects, please visit our website at www.altoventures.com.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD,

Richard J. Mazur, P. Geo.,

CEO

ALTO VENTURES LTD.

Suite 615 - 800 W. Pender Street

Vancouver, B.C. V6C 2V6

Tel: 604.689.2599

Fax: 604.689.3609

www.altoventures.com

[email protected]

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.

For further information contact:

Mike Koziol,

President and Director

ALTO VENTURES LTD.

Unit 7 – 1351C Kelly Lake Rd

Sudbury, ON., P3E 5P5

Tel: 705-522-6372

Email: [email protected]

Rick Mazur,

CEO and Director

ALTO VENTURES LTD.

Suite 615-800 W. Pender Street

Vancouver, BC, V6C 2V6

Tel: 604-689-2599

Email: [email protected]