Aurania’s Team to Participate at PDAC 2018 International Convention

TORONTO, Feb. 22, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aurania Resources Ltd. (TSXV:ARU) (“Aurania” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that the Company will be exhibiting at booth number 2905 in the Investors Exchange at PDAC 2018 being held Sunday March 4^th - Wednesday March 7^th at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, Canada. Members of the Board and Management team will be available to discuss the Company's Lost Cities -Cutucu Project in Ecuador.

Further participation by Aurania's team at PDAC 2018 includes:

• Aurania is hosting a meet-and-greet exclusively for Aurania shareholders. We have booked an afternoon at The OverDraught Irish Pub at 156 Front Street West in Toronto so that shareholders can meet with management. This event requires an RSVP. Please refer to our website for further details: http://www.aurania.com/event/shareholder-management-1-1/
  
• Aurania’s CEO and Chairman, Dr. Keith Barron will be speaking at PDAC on Monday March 5^th as part of Ecuador Day. Ecuador Day is being hosted by the Government of Ecuador and will run from 8:30am-6:00pm in room 205D. Dr. Barron will be speaking at 12:30pm as part of Session 2A: “Mining as a Pillar of the Country”. Ecuador Day is open to all who are attending PDAC.
  
• Monica Ospina, of “O-Trade”, who is responsible for the Company's Corporate Social Responsibility program, will be participating in a panel discussion titled "Valuation of water quality, waste management and other external costs" [related to mineral resource development] on Wednesday, March 7th from 9:35am-12:05pm in Room 717. Ms. Ospina will speak specifically about the correlation between water and community relations and social risk at 10:25am in a presentation entitled "Water in the Community: Social Risk, Water as a Nexus".

The PDAC International Convention, Trade Show & Investors Exchange is the world’s leading convention for people, companies and organizations in, or connected with, mineral exploration. In addition to meeting over 1,000 exhibitors, 3,800 investors and 24,000 attendees from 130 countries, you can also attend technical sessions, short courses and networking events. To pre-register for PDAC, visit http://www.pdac.ca/convention/registration/registration-information

About Aurania
Aurania is a junior exploration mining company engaged in the identification, evaluation, acquisition and exploration of mineral property interests, with a focus on precious metals and copper. Its flagship asset, The Lost Cities – Cutucu Project, is located in the Jurassic Metallogenic Belt in the eastern foothills of the Andes mountain range of southeastern Ecuador.

Information on Aurania and technical reports are available at www.aurania.com and www.sedar.com, as well as on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/auranialtd/, Twitter at https://twitter.com/auranialtd, and LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/aurania-resources-ltd-.

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