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Opawica Explorations Inc. Announces Board Changes

Management Changes

1100 – 595 Howe Street, Vancouver, BC Canada V6C 2T5

T (604)681-3170, F (604)681-3552, [email protected]

www.opawica.com

OPAWICA EXPLORATIONS INC. ANNOUNCES BOARD CHANGES

Vancouver, B.C. – December 17, 2018 – Opawica Explorations Inc. (the “Company”) (TSX.V: OPW) is

pleased to announce the appointments of Mr. Owen King and Mr. B radley Rourke to the Board of

Directors. Messrs. King and Rourke bring valuable experience i n corporate finance and capital markets

to the Company.

Mr. King has over 20 years of experience in the financial marke ts and management consulting fields. He

was previously employed at Mackie Research Capital Corporation as an Investment Advisor with a focus

on venture capital financings and since 2014, has worked with p ublic companies in business development

and assisting with capital raises and initial public offerings. Mr. King was most recently a director of

Squire Mining Ltd.

Mr. Rourke has several years of experience in raising capital f or resource companies, both public and

private. He was previously director of sales and a principal pa rtner with a small firm based out of Calgary

that raised over $100-million in private investment funds, main ly in the energy and real estate sectors.

Prior to corporate finance, Mr. Rourke spent 10 years working i n the mining service sector and he is

currently the President and CEO of Rotation Minerals Ltd.

Mr. Edmond Hatoum has resigned as a director of the Company to pursue personal interests effective

immediately. The Company would like to thank Mr. Hatoum for his years of service to the Company.

Mr. Yvan Bussières has also resigned as a director of the Compa ny but he remains the Qualified Person

for the Company’s mineral properties in Quebec.

ABOUT OPAWICA EXPLORATIONS INC.

Opawica Explorations Inc. is a junior resource company engaged in the acquisition, exploration and

evaluation of gold and base metal mineral properties in Canada. The Company owns 100% interest

subject to certain royalties in the Bazooka gold property locat ed in the Beauchastel Township

approximately seven kilometres southwest of Rouyn-Noranda, Queb ec. The Bazooka property comprises

seven contiguous kilometres of strike length along the prolific Abitibi Gold Belt on the Cadillac Larder

Lake Break. The eastern border of the Bazooka gold property ad joins Yorbeau Resources Inc.’s Rouyn

Property and the western border adjoins Monarques Gold Corporat ion’s Wasamac gold property

(2,882,000 oz Au resources per Monarques NI 43-101 technical re port dated October 25, 2017). The

Company also holds 100% interest subject to certain royalties i n the McWatters gold property in the

Rouyn-Noranda area and the Arrowhead gold property in the Joannes Township, Quebec.

For more information, please visit the Company’s website at www.opawica.com.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mark Lofthouse

Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

Opawica Explorations Inc.

Telephone: 604-681-3170

Fax: 604-681-3552

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