Excellon Announces Management Changes

TORONTO, ON--(Marketwired - January 27, 2015) - Excellon Resources Inc. (TSX: EXN) (OTC: EXLLF) ("Excellon" or the "Company"), Mexico's highest grade silver producer, is pleased to announce key additions to its management and technical advisory team. In an ongoing effort to continually improve operations and realize further efficiencies at the Platosa mine, the Company has engaged a team of water management consultants, including Multiurethanes Ltd., Hydro-Ressources Inc., and Technosub Inc.

• Multiurethanes Ltd. is a technical services company specializing in support services for grouting operations in heavy civil construction, utility and mining industries. The company is led by Peter White, a Mining Engineer and renowned grouting specialist with over 30 years of experience in international mining projects in Canada, United States, Mexico, South America, Europe and Asia. He is an expert in controlling major water inflows and troubleshooting difficult grouting projects. Mr. White has supervised and designed grouting programs for several well-known companies including, Vale, Goldcorp, KGHM, De Beers, Nyrstar, Pan American Silver and Agnico Eagle Mines.

• Hydro-Ressources Inc. is led by Michael Verreault, a hydro-geologist and expert in optimizing water management and mine dewatering. He has worked on several projects using groundwater recharge, numerical simulation, tracer test and hydro-geological studies in groundwater and surface water. Mr. Verreault has worked on several notable projects for Goldcorp, Osisko and Iamgold and on Cameco's Cigar Lake deposit.

• Technosub Inc. is one of the premier suppliers of pumps in Canada, supplying pumps to 65% of Canadian mines and 80% of underground mines in Canada. The company provides an integrated platform for efficient dewatering systems from concept design, through pump supply and ongoing maintenance. Technosub has provided pumping solutions to, among others, Detour Gold (Detour Lake), Debeers (Victor), Rio Tinto (Labrador Trough) and Agnico Eagle (Canada and Mexico).

The Company has also engaged Marty Dregischan as a technical consultant to coordinate ongoing enhanced water management efforts. He has over 15 years of international mining experience, with project economics, underground mining and geotechnical evaluations and was previously an analyst at Fraser Mackenzie and consulting mining engineer at Roscoe Postle Associates, Toronto-based international geological and mining consultants. Mr. Dregischan has a Bachelor of Science in Mining Engineering from Queens University and a Masters in Applied Earth Science in Mining from Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.