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NEWS RELEASE

March 15th, 2018 TSXV: FWZ

Fireweed Grants Stock Options

Vancouver, British Columbia: FIREWEED ZINC LTD. (“Fireweed” or the “Company”) (TSXV: FWZ)

announces that it has granted, pursuant to its stock option plan, a total of 860,000 stock options

exercisable at a price of $1.45 per share for a five-year term. Employees and consultants were granted

485,000 stock options, and directors and officers were granted 375,000 stock options.

About Fireweed Zinc Ltd.: Fireweed Zinc is a public mineral exploration company focused on zinc and

managed by a veteran team of min ing industry professionals. The Company is advancing its Macmillan

Pass Project where it owns 100% of the Tom-Jason property in Yukon, Canada which is host to the large,

advanced Tom and Jason zinc-lead-silver deposits, and has an option on the adjacent large MAC property

which covers projected extensions of mineralization from the Jason area and where previous exploration

identified zinc, lead and silver geochemical anomalies in critical host geology.

Additional information about Fireweed Zinc and its Macmillan Pass Project, can be found on the

Company’s website at www.FireweedZinc.com and on SEDAR at www.sedar.com .

ON BEHALF OF FIREWEED ZINC LTD.

“Brandon Macdonald”

CEO & Director

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.