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Defiance Announces Appointment of Orequest as Technical Advisor

Management Changes

DEFIANCE ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF OREQUEST AS

TECHNICAL ADVISOR

FOR RELEASE: October 22, 2019 TSXV: DEF

OTC: DNCVF

Defiance Silver Corp. (“ Defiance”) is pleased to announce the appointment s of Messrs. George Cavey

P.Geo and Douglas Cavey of OreQuest Consultants (“OreQuest”) to its Advisory Board and Technical

Committee. OreQuest will design and execute the ongoing exploration program at Defiance’s San Acacio

project.

Mr. George Cavey is a senior consulting geologist and the former Vice President for Orko Silver, who

discovered the 264 million ounce La Preciosa silver deposit in Mexico. Orko Silver was acquired by

Coeur Mining in April 2013 for $380 million.

With over 40 years of experience, he has been the President of OreQuest Consultants since 1982. He is

past President of the Canadian Council of Professional Geoscientists and was the recipient of the 2004

C.J. Westerman Memorial Award – British Columbia’s highest recognition award for a professional

geoscientist for his outstanding and profession al contributions. Mr. Cavey was also the recipient of the

2010 Canadian Professional Geoscientist Award – the highest recognition award for a professional

geoscientist in Canada. He is currently a member of the Canadian Securities Administrators Mining

Technical Monitoring and Advisory Committee.

Mr. Doug las Cavey is a diversified project development expert and the current VP of Business

Development for Norra Metals Corp . He has over a decade of experience in mineral project

management, venture market fun damentals, corporate and business development , and long term

project development strategies.

Defiance also welcomes the technical leadership of Ms. Jennifer Roskowski, senior consulting geologist

with OreQuest. Ms. Rosko wski is a skilled Geoscientist with key expertise in district- scale exploration

targeting. Ms. Roskowski’s skills at evaluating large exploration datasets will be invaluable in the

synthesis of the considerable database of work at the San Acacio and Tepal projects.

Mr. George Cavey stated, “We are excited by the opportunity to work with the team at Defiance Silver

and to help design the next phase of development at the San Acacio silver project. San Acacio is a well-

established project with excellent discovery potential, as demonstrated by the ongoing developments at

Capstone Mining’s neighboring Cozamin project. We look forward to employing the methods that led to

the discovery of the Martha Vein system at the La Preciosa silver deposit to the robust silver vein system

at San Acacio.”

About Defiance Silver Corp.

Defiance Silver Corp. (DEF | TSX Venture Exchange; DNCVF | OTC; D4E | Frankfurt) is an exploration

company advancing the district-scale San Acacio Deposit, located in the historic Zacatecas Silver District

and the 100% owned Te pal Gold/Copper Project in Michoacán state, Mexico. Defiance is managed by a

team of proven mine developers with a track record of exploring, advancing and developing several

operating mines and advanced resource projects. Defiance’s corporate mandate is t o expand the San

Acacio and Tepal projects to become premier Mexican silver and gold deposits. Please visit our YouTube

channel for more information on our projects.

On behalf of Defiance Silver Corp.

“Chris Wright”

Interim CEO, Chairman of the Board, Director

For more information, please contact: Investor Relations at +1 917-563-3821 or via email at

[email protected].

www.defiancesilver.com

704 - 595 Howe Street

Vancouver, BC V6E 2K3

Tel: 604-669-7315 Email:[email protected]

Neither 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.