Sabina Gold & Silver Corp (TSX:SBB), is pleased to announce results from six drill holes completed at the Llama Extension zone where drilling has principally focused on expanding the up-plunge extent of the mineral zone towards the known Llama underground resource (Figure 1.0 & Figure 2.0) at the Company’s 100% owned Back River Project (“Back River” or the “Project”).

Five of the six drill holes completed during the current summer drilling campaign have successfully targeted the Llama gold structure over a strike extent of approximately 200 m up-plunge from the previous 2017 and 2018 drilling that returned a number of high grade intercepts over significant lengths (see previous news releases: Sept 5, 2017, April 2, 2018 & May 8, 2018). Selected significant values from these six drill holes are listed below in Table 1.0 and include 17.96 g/t Au over 4.60 m from drill hole 18GSE548B and 6.20 g/t Au over 13.80 m from drill hole 18GSE547. A single drill hole, 18GSE546, drilled 26 m along strike in the open down-plunge direction from current drilling, returned values of 11.43 g/t Au over 5.48 m and continues to demonstrate that the gold structure is open at depth. For a complete list of significant intercepts from these six drill holes see Table 2.0.

“Drilling continues to show that the Llama Extension zone has strong potential to add significant value as a growth option to the Back River development plan,” stated Bruce McLeod, President and CEO. “The Llama Extension zone has now been extended to over 400 m of strike length, located along the Llama gold structure approximately 150 m below the current Llama underground resource. From the drilling it appears the Llama open pit, underground and Extension zone are contiguous. It is notable that the Llama open pit is included in the current development plan while the underground resource is not and any new drilling success in this zone represents future opportunity for growth and expansion at Llama. The Llama Extension zone combined with the Llama underground resource, the Echo resource and additional potential new zones of mineralization such as the Nuvuyak target, offer a strong endorsement for the continued expansion of the mineral footprint within the Goose Project gold complex.”

Llama Extension Zone

The Llama Extension zone is associated with the same host rock iron formation stratigraphy and gold structure that is host to the Llama open pit and the Llama underground resource. Llama underground Mineral Resource Estimate is comprised of 110,000 tonnes at 5.72 g/t gold for 20,000 ounces of gold in the Measured category, 752,000 tonnes at 8.72 g/t gold for 211,000 ounces of gold in the Indicated category, and 295,000 tonnes at 6.77 g/t gold for 64,000 ounces of gold in the Inferred category. Llama Extension mineralization, which has now been tested to within 150 m of the limits of the defined underground resource, has now been tested by a total of 14 drill holes over a strike length of 400 m. Drilling has partially defined a relatively tightly folded syncline structure, with a plunge of approximately 22 degrees to the southeast, intruded by a series of axial plane parallel quartz-feldspar dykes. The mineralization is described as disseminated to banded pyrrhotite and arsenopyrite with locally occurring visible gold, all coincident with quartz veined and sulphidized iron formation. A number of higher grade intersections have been drilled within the zone during 2017 and early 2018 and include 15.67g/t Au over 23.25 m in drill hole 18GSE530, 9.48 g/t Au over 38.55 m in drill hole 17GSE516B and 28.95 g/t Au over 5.65 m in drill hole 18GSE535.

Summer Drilling Progress

Drilling with three rigs continues, prioritizing the Nuvuyak target in an effort to expand the new discovery both up- and down-plunge. Two drill rigs are currently active on the Nuvuyak discovery while a third rig has been advancing additional regional target areas including a 1.5 km long untested stretch of prospective iron formation at the Boulder property.

Field exploration mapping, till geochemistry and geochronology programs have now been completed for 2018 in order to advance both the Goose Property and regional targeting initiatives. Sabina controls a series of highly prospective exploration properties over an area of approximately 80 km at the Back River project that are believed to have district scale synergies for future development.

Qualified Persons

The Qualified Person as defined by NI 43-101 as pertains to the Back River Project, is James Maxwell P.Geo, Exploration Manager, for the company.

All drill core samples selected within the exploration program are subject to a company standard of internal quality control and quality assurance programs which include the insertion of certified reference materials, blank materials and duplicates analysis. All samples are sent to SGS Canada Inc. located in Burnaby, British Columbia where they are processed for gold analysis by 50 gram fire assay with finish by a combination of atomic absorption and gravimetric methods. Additionally, analysis by screen metallic processes is performed on select samples. SGS quality systems conform to requirements of ISO/IEC Standard 17025 guidelines and meets assay requirements outlined for NI 43-101.

Sabina Gold & Silver Corp.

Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. is well-financed with approximately C$62.4 million in cash and equivalents (Q2/18). The Company is an emerging precious metals company with district scale, advanced, high grade gold assets in one of the world’s newest, politically stable mining jurisdictions: Nunavut, Canada.

Sabina released a Feasibility Study on its 100% owned Back River Gold Project which presents a project that has been designed on a fit-for purpose basis, with the potential to produce ~200,000 ounces a year for ~11 years with a rapid payback of 2.9 years (see “Technical Report for the Initial Project Feasibility Study on the Back River Gold Property, Nunavut, Canada” dated October 28, 2015) (the “Study”). At a US$1,150 gold price and a 0.80 (US$:C$) exchange rate, the Study delivers a potential after tax internal rate of return of approximately 24.2% with an initial CAPEX of $415 million.

The Project received its final Project Certificate on December 19, 2017. The Project is now in the final regulatory and licensing phase expecting the Project’s Type A Water License prior to the end of the year.

In addition to Back River, Sabina also owns a significant silver royalty on Glencore’s Hackett River Project. The silver royalty on Hackett River’s silver production is comprised of 22.5% of the first 190 million ounces produced and 12.5% of all silver produced thereafter.