Nevada Exploration Inc. Completes First 2,600 Metres of Scorpion Drilling at its Kelly Creek Project

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - April 20, 2017) -

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Nevada Exploration Inc. ("NGE" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:NGE)(OTCQX:NVDEF) is very pleased to announce that it has completed 36 Scorpion drill holes totalling more than 2,600 metres (8,600 feet) at its Kelly Creek Project located along the Battle Mountain-Eureka Trend in north-central Nevada, and that the preliminary results indicate that vectoring using gold and related geochemistry in the groundwater at the Project is leading to increasing gold and related geochemistry in the bedrock and alluvium.

Further to the Company's news release dated February 6, 2017, NGE is using its Scorpion Drill Rig to evaluate several mineralized, structurally controlled, shallow bedrock targets extending north under cover from Silver Standard's Marigold Mine. The objective of this stage of NGE's exploration program is to map the gold and related geochemistry found in the bedrock, alluvial cover, and groundwater at these targets, and to vector towards one or more mineralized footprints large enough to be associated with a major gold deposit.

With its Scorpion Drill Rig, NGE is focusing on completing fences of holes across its main targets at the Project to sample the bedrock, alluvial cover, and groundwater. NGE has now completed fences across the first two targets and a portion of a third. The locations of these Scorpion drill holes are shown on the attached map. The Scorpion drill holes range in depth from 23 to 120 metres (75 to 400 feet), with an average depth of 73 metres (240 feet).

While NGE is waiting for assays from a majority of the drill holes, the initial results show significant and increasing concentrations of gold and related trace-elements in the bedrock (up to 0.15 ppm Au), in the alluvial cover above the bedrock (up to 0.10 ppm Au), and in the groundwater (up to 890 ppt Au). Also of significance, the drilling continues to define areas of very shallow bedrock, as shallow as 20 metres (70 feet), which is considerably shallower than previously believed. NGE expects to provide a detailed update with full results once it has completed the next drill shift, scheduled to end in early May, and received all assays.