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Southern Silver Announces Cerro Las Minitas Drill Program and Incentive Stock Option Grant

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Southern Silver Announces Cerro Las Minitas

Drill Program and Incentive Stock Option

Grant

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - September 25, 2024) -

Southern Silver Exploration

Corp.

(TSXV: SSV) ("Southern Silver" or the "Company") reports that its Board of Directors has

approved a program of up to 6000 metres of diamond drilling on the silver, lead, zinc Cerro Las Minitas

project, Durango, Mexico. The focus of the drill program would include an initial phase of "Proof of

Concept" drilling to demonstrate further lateral projections of shallow high-grade mineralization adjacent

to planned mine and mill infrastructure in the area of the Eastern Deposits (South Skarn, Mina La

Bocona and North Felsite), which also would provide additional tonnage for extraction early in any

planned mining schedule. Further drilling beyond the 6000m current program would test down-dip of the

known eastern deposits which could further enhance the continued resource potential of the project. The

program is anticipated to commence in the coming weeks.

As currently modelled, the Cerro Las Minitas project features a large-scale underground mining

operation with a 17 year mine life, robust project economics and high gross revenues in a well-located

and mining-friendly jurisdiction in southeast Durango, Mexico.

For more information on the details of the

current economic assessment of the Cerro Las Minitas project, please refer to Southern Silver's news

release dated June 10, 2024.

Incentive stock options have been granted to various directors, officers and consultants to purchase

6,500,000 common shares of the Company at an exercise price of $0.31 per share, exercisable for a

period of five years. The stock options are subject to the terms and conditions of Southern Silver's stock

option plan and the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange.

About Southern Silver Exploration Corp.

Southern Silver Exploration Corp. is an exploration and development company with a focus on the

discovery of world-class mineral deposits either directly or through joint-venture relationships in mineral

properties in major jurisdictions. Our specific emphasis is the 100% owned Cerro Las Minitas silver-

lead-zinc project located in the heart of Mexico's Faja de Plata, which hosts multiple world-class mineral

deposits such as Penasquito, Los Gatos, San Martin, Naica and Pitarrilla.

We have assembled a team

of highly experienced technical, operational and transactional professionals to support our exploration

efforts in developing the Cerro Las Minitas project into a premier, high-grade, silver-lead-zinc mine. Our

property portfolio also includes the Oro porphyry copper-gold project and the Hermanas gold-silver vein

project where permitting applications for the conduct of a drill program is underway, both located in

southern New Mexico, USA.

On behalf of the Board of Directors

"Lawrence Page"

Lawrence Page, K.C.

President & Director, Southern Silver Exploration Corp.

For further information, please visit Southern Silver's website at

southernsilverexploration.com

or contact

us at 604.641.2759 or by email at

[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.

This news release contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements address future

events and conditions and therefore involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ

materially from those currently anticipated in such statements. Forward-looking statements in this

news release include the planned 6,000 m drill program at the Cerro Las Minitas property. These

statements are based on a number of assumptions, including, but not limited to, general economic

conditions, interest rates, commodity markets, regulatory and governmental approvals for the

Company's projects, and the availability of financing for the Company's development projects on

reasonable terms.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-

looking statements include the timing and receipt of government and regulatory approvals, and

continued availability of capital and financing and general economic, market or business conditions.

To view the source version of this press release, please visit

https://www.newsfilecorp.com/release/224644