Fortuna Adopts Advance Notice Policy and Majority Voting Policy

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - April 7, 2014) - Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. (the "Company") (NYSE:FSM)(TSX:FVI)(BVLAC:FVI)(FRANKFURT:F4S) announces that its Board of Directors (the "Board") has adopted an Advance Notice Policy and a Majority Voting Policy with respect to the election of directors.

The purpose of the Advance Notice Policy is to provide shareholders, directors and management of the Company with a clear framework for nominating persons for election as directors of the Company. No person will be eligible for election unless nominated in accordance with the Advance Notice Policy.

The Advance Notice Policy was adopted to further the Company's commitments to: (i) facilitating an orderly and efficient process for holding annual general or, where the need arises, special shareholder meetings; (ii) ensuring that shareholders receive adequate advance notice of director nominations and sufficient information regarding all director nominees; and (iii) allowing shareholders to register an informed vote on director elections.

The Advance Notice Policy requires advance notice to the Company where nominations of persons for election to the Board are made by shareholders. The Advance Notice Policy fixes a deadline by which nominations of potential directors must be submitted to the Company prior to any annual or special meeting of shareholders and sets forth the information that must be included in the notice to the Company.

Notice to the Company of nominations of potential directors must be made not less than 30 days and not more than 65 days prior to the date of the shareholder meeting; however, if the shareholder meeting is to be held on a date that is less than 50 days after the date on which the first public announcement of the date of the meeting was made, notice may be made not later than the close of business on the 10th day following such public announcement.

Pursuant to the terms of the Advance Notice Policy, the Company will seek shareholder ratification of the Policy at its next annual meeting of shareholders. If the Advance Notice Policy is not ratified at the next annual meeting of the Company's shareholders, the Advance Notice Policy will terminate and be of no further force and effect following the termination of the shareholder meeting.