Vancouver, British Columbia - TheNewswire - May 18, 2021 – Arizona Silver Exploration Inc. (TSXV:AZS) (OTCQB:AZASF) is pleased to announce that it has staked three placer mining claims at the Company's Philadelphia gold-silver project located in Mohave County, Arizona. The three placer claims cover 4500 feet of a dry stream bed that drains approximately 6000 feet of strike on the exposed Philadelphia Arabian gold-silver vein system.  Historic maps dating from the 1920s refer to “rich float” in the alluvium draining the vein system.  The claims cover the potential that a significant portion of the vein system has been eroded away, which may have occurred over the past 4 million years when the region first experienced uplift and erosion.  If the vein has been significantly eroded over time virtually all the eroded material was washed down this single drainage, which would have acted as a sluice for entrapment of any contained gold.  Bedrock beneath the drainage is composed of granite and volcanic unist which have a fabric that crosses the drainage at a high-angle, and which would act as natural riffles to entrap any gold transported in the drainage.

Arizona Silver’s Vice President – Exploration, Greg Hahn, commented, "We have staked these claims to cover the possibility that there may be significant placer gold trapped in the drainage due to erosion of the vein, which is currently exposed across the entire 6000 feet of strike length that this drainage captures.  We are currently considering how best to evaluate the placer gold potential on these claims.”

Results from the last round of core drilling on the Philadelphia vein and the vein exposed on the Perry claim remain outstanding, and we expect those results shortly.

Qualified Person

Gregory Hahn, VP-Exploration and a Certified Professional Geologist (#7122) is a Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101 ("NI 43-101") and has reviewed and approved the technical information contained in this news release.

About Arizona Silver Exploration Inc.

Arizona Silver is a young exploration company focused on exploring underexplored gold-silver properties in western Arizona and now Nevada. The Company plans to continue to drill test the Ramsey Silver Mine property located a short distance east of Quartzsite, Arizona as time allows. The Company has recently received a positive Record of Decision on its Notice of Intent to drill an initial eight exploration holes on its recently acquired Silverton gold-silver property with carlin-type targets. Drilling there will be scheduled as time and equipment allow.

 Please refer to our web site for all news and updated property information. www.arizonasilverexploration.com

On behalf of the Board of Directors:

ARIZONA SILVER EXPLORATION INC.

Mike Stark, President and CEO, Director

Phone: (604) 833-4278

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