Solitario Exploration & Royalty Corp. Announces the Resignation of Mark E. Jones as Vice-Chairman and Director

Solitario Resources Corp. is a natural resource exploration company focused on high-quality Tier-1 gold and zinc exploration projects. The Company’s primary business is to acquire exploration mineral properties and/or discover economic deposits on its mineral properties and advance these deposits, either on its own or through joint ventures, up to the development stage of the project. Its projects include Florida Canyon Zinc-Peru, Lik Zinc-Alaska and Golden Crest Gold-South Dakota. The Florida Canyon Zinc project is located approximately eight kilometers (km) from a paved road that connects coastal northern Peru with the Amazon basin. The consolidated Florida Canyon land position stands at 48,700 hectares (120,300 acres). The Lik high-grade zinc project located in northwestern Alaska is an advanced exploration project joint ventured with Teck American Incorporated (Teck). The Golden Crest Gold Project is located in western South Dakota.