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    ASTORIUS ANNOUNCES ADDITION TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Vancouver, British Columbia   February 23, 2018   Astorius Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: ASQ,
Frankfurt: 47AF) ("Astorius" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr.
Peter Born, P.Geo. to the board of directors and as the Company's qualified Technical Person.

Dr. Peter Born is a P.Geo. with the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario and a
Fellow of the Geological Association of Canada. He brings more than 30 years experience
exploring and evaluating mining properties for senior and junior Canadian resource companies.
He also spent a ten year period of post graduate research in basin studies at the geological
survey (government) and university. In addition, Dr. Born did exploration and research for
sedimentary ore deposits (zinc, copper, uranium and gold deposits). He holds a Ph.D. in Earth
Sciences (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, 1996) with expertise in Precambrian
Sedimentary Geology, Sedimentary Ore deposits, Basin Analysis, Sedimentology, and Stratig-
raphy.

Dr. Born also has past experience as Senior Geologist and then Resource Geologist for West-
ern Mining (WMC International Ltd) as well as modeling the geology/mineralization at the Aquar-
ius mine (Timmins, Abitibi greenstone belt) for Echo Bay Mines. He worked extensively in Ar-
chean greenstone terrains throughout Canada and modeled/explored gold systems/alteration
halos in both iron formation gold deposits as well as vein type deposits. As a Resource Geolo-
gist, Dr. Born dealt extensively with QA/QC issues with respect to, assessment and uncertainty
in data handling generating ore reserves, geological and geochemical models. His Ph.D. thesis
includes an extensive study of the geological environment for the Timmins gold camp (>74
million oz. of gold). During his PhD studies he was a three time recipient of Canada's prestig-
ious National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Post-Graduate Scholarship
(1991-1993). He was one of the authors/leaders for the Geological Association of Canada 1999
GAC Field Guide 3B: Controls for Gold Mineralization in the Southern Abitibi Greenstone belt.
Trip 3B Guidebook, (1999). Since 2000 he has been working from his Ottawa-based consulting
firm for select Canadian resource companies, including VP Exploration and Qualified Person
(QP) for several junior mining companies (2007 to present), directed exploration for gold, lithi-
um, base metals & uranium and liaised with geophysical, geochemical, geology and drilling
contractors etc. to achieve positive results. Dr. Born is currently involved with 6 junior mining
companies either as VP Exploration/(QP) or director/QP or just a Qualified Person (QP).

About Astorius

Astorius Resources Ltd. (www.astoriusresources.com) is currently engaged in the business of
mineral exploration for the purpose of acquiring and advancing mineral properties located in
North and South America.

For further information please contact:

Arthur Brown, President & Director
Phone: (604) 662-7902
art.astoriusresources@gmail.com
www.astoriusresources.com

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