Silver Elephant Announces the first shipment of Paca's Silver Oxide Materials to Andean Precious Metals Corp.

Vancouver, British Columbia, October 17, 2023 -Silver Elephant Mining Corp. ("Silver Elephant" or the "Company") (TSX: ELEF, OTCQX:SILEF, Frankfurt:1P2N) is pleased to announce the Company's Bolivian subsidiaries ("Silver Elephant Subsidiaries") have started early ore shipments during the development of the Paca Open Pit Mine in Bolivia. The shipments are a part of the previously announced sales and purchase agreement ("the SPA") for the sale of up to 800,000 tonnes of silver-bearing oxide materials (the "Products") from the Company's Paca project located in Potosi department, Bolivia (the "Paca Project") to Andean Precious Metals Corp.'s ("Andean") Bolivian subsidiary ("Andean Subsidiary").

The early shipments are a result of the hard work and meaningful cooperation between the Andean technical team and local Silver Elephant Subsidiaries operations group. Among the early progress includes completion of a new wide haulage road of 7.3km joining the highway near Pulacayo, fabrication of weigh scale base, installation of calibrated scale, detailed surface survey and countless technical designs to ensure stable, high-quality material will be provided.

The early shipments are a part of the trial mining and metallurgical testing operations, which is permitted under the existing Paca exploration license. The mining activities will continue through 2024 when the environmental license is scheduled to be granted by the first quarter of 2024.

Pursuant to the SPA, the Andean Subsidiary will pay Silver Elephant Subsidiaries monthly in advance to purchase the Products to be delivered to Andean Subsidiary's plant (the "Facility") in Potosi which is approximately 191 km from the Paca Project. The purchase price for the Products will cover all expenses related to the extraction and transportation of the Products to the Facility. The Agreement will expire on the earlier of January 31, 2029, or when a total of 800,000 tonnes of Products have been delivered to the Facility.

Silver Elephant's COO Robert Van Drunen comments: "This exciting milestone is an example of our commitment to maximizing value of the Paca resource while providing on time shipments to our customer, Andean Precious Metals. "

There is an indicated resource of 5.9 million oz of silver (800,000 tonnes grading 239 g/t Ag) in oxide form near surface estimated by Mercator in a NI43-101 technical report dated October 20, 2020.

Paca Zone Category Tonnes Ag g/t Ag Moz AgEq
Phase 1 Oxide (In-pit) Indicated 800,000 239 5.9
Inferred 235,000 159 1.2
Phase 2 Sulfide (In-pit) Indicated 8,600,000 87 23.9 164
Inferred 950,000 114 3.1 171

The Paca project is part of the Company's Pulacayo project with a total indicated resource of 106.7 million oz silver, 1.4 billion pounds of zinc and 690 million pounds of lead published in the October-2020 Mercator report. Silver Elephant and its subsidiaries have spent over $35 million on Pulacayo and Paca, which is considered to be an advanced mining project with over 96,000 meters of drilling, and a historic feasibility study.

A subsidiary of Silver Elephant entered into a Mining Production Contract ("MPC") with Corporación Minera de Bolivia ("COMIBOL"), a branch of the Bolivian Ministry of Mining and Metallurgy on October 3, 2019. The MPC grants this subsidiary the 100% exclusive right to develop and mine at the Pulacayo and Paca concessions for up to 30 years.

The Pulacayo Project is at the center of a thriving Bolivia silver mining district and is within 250km driving distance to the San Cristobal mine, the Cerro Rico mine, Pan American's San Vicente mine, Eloro's Iska Iska project, and New Pacific's Silver Sands project.

Qualified Person

The technical contents of this news release have been prepared under the supervision of Bill Pincus, who is an independent consultant of the Company. Bill Pincus is a qualified person as defined by the guidelines of NI 43-101.

About Silver Elephant Mining Corp.

Silver Elephant Mining Corp. is a premier silver mining and exploration company, with its flagship Pulacayo silver project in Bolivia.

Further information on Silver Elephant can be found at www.silverelef.com.

SILVER ELEPHANT MINING CORP.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

"John Lee"

Executive Chairman

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Forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the Company's actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information.

Forward-looking information is based on the reasonable assumptions, estimates, analysis and opinions of management made in light of its experience and perception of trends, current conditions and expected developments, and other factors that management believes are relevant and reasonable in the circumstances at the date such statements are made. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such information, and there is no guarantee that the Transaction will yield positive results for the Company. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. All forward-looking information herein is qualified in its entirety by this cautionary statement, and the Company disclaims any obligation to revise or update any such forward-looking information or to publicly announce the result of any revisions to any of the forward-looking information contained herein to reflect future results, events or developments, except as required by law.

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