Trevali to Increase Interest in Rosh Pinah Mine

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 01, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Trevali Mining Corporation (“Trevali” or the “Company”) (TSX:TV) (BVL:TV) (OTCQX:TREVF) (Frankfurt:4TI) reports its majority-owned subsidiary Rosh Pinah Zinc Corporation (Proprietary) Limited (“RPZC”) in Namibia will, subject to receipt of Companies Registration Office and Registrar approval, undertake a partial share buy-back of issued RPZC shares under agreements with its Namibian shareholders.

RPZC will acquire issued shares tendered under the agreements for an aggregate amount of approximately NAD291,000,000 (approximately USD$24,260,000). The tendered shares will subsequently be cancelled by RPZC’s treasury.

Following the cancellation of the tendered shares, Trevali’s effective beneficial ownership in RPZC will increase from approximately 80 percent to approximately 90 percent.

RPZC Beneficial Ownership Structure:

“We welcome this opportunity to strengthen our involvement in Rosh Pinah, which globally is an upper-quartile zinc deposit in terms of grade and tonnage,” stated Dr. Mark Cruise, Trevali’s President and CEO. “Following our recent mineral reserve and resource updates at Rosh Pinah, which remains open for expansion, we have commissioned an independent engineering study examining potential production optionality given the deposit’s almost 50-year history of resource-reserve replacement and growth. Trevali views its operations and investment in Namibia as a long-term relationship to the mutual benefit of all groups involved.”

Rosh Pinah remains on-track for its 2018 production guidance⁽¹⁾ of 105-115 million pounds of payable zinc, 5.7-6.0 million pounds payable lead and 123,000-129,000 ounces of payable silver, on a 100 percent basis. Key strategic improvements started in late-2017 produced significant improvements in overall performance and has positioned the site well for the year with increasing metal output planned for the second half of 2018 as higher-grade stopes are sequenced.
⁽¹⁾ Constitutes forward-looking information; see “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements”.

ABOUT TREVALI MINING CORPORATION
Trevali is a zinc-focused, base metals company with four mines: the wholly-owned Santander mine in Peru, the wholly-owned Caribou mine in the Bathurst Mining Camp of northern New Brunswick, its 80% owned Rosh Pinah mine in Namibia and its 90% owned Perkoa mine in Burkina Faso.

The shares of Trevali are listed on the TSX (symbol TV), the OTCQX (symbol TREVF), the Lima Stock Exchange (symbol TV), and the Frankfurt Exchange (symbol 4TI). For further details on Trevali, readers are referred to the Company’s website (www.trevali.com) and to Canadian regulatory filings on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.

On Behalf of the Board of Directors of
TREVALI MINING CORPORATION
“Mark D. Cruise” (signed)
Mark D. Cruise, President

Contact Information:
Steve Stakiw, Vice President - Investor Relations and Corporate Communications
Email: sstakiw@trevali.com
Phone: (604) 488-1661 / Direct: (604) 638-5623

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This news release contains “forward-looking information” within the meaning of the Canadian securities legislation and “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Section 21E of the United States Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, or in releases made by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, all as may be amended from time. Statements containing forward-looking information express, as at the date of this news release, the Company’s plans, estimates, forecasts, projections, expectations, or beliefs as to future events or results and the Company does not intend, and does not assume any obligation to, update such statements containing the forward-looking information. Such forward-looking statements and information include, but are not limited to statements as to: the timing and amount of estimated future production, the estimation of Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves, costs and timing of development, operating efficiencies, including the ability to manage water, whilst reducing power consumption, costs and expenditures, expectations regarding milling operations and metal production shortfalls, metal output and throughput rates, cost guidance and anticipated annual results, anticipated results of future exploration, and forecast future metal prices.

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