27 November 2015

Bacanora Minerals Ltd. ("Bacanora" or the "Company")

Director Appointment

The Board of Directors of Bacanora announces the proposed appointment of Mark Hohnen as a Director of Bacanora, subject to regulatory approval and finalisation of the terms of his appointment.

Mr. Hohnen brings with him experience in the Japanese, Chinese and Korean markets, all of which play a significant role in the production of lithium ion batteries and the development of electric vehicle technology.  Mr. Hohnen has been involved in the mineral resource sector since the late 1970s.  He has had extensive international business experience in a wide range of industries including mining and exploration, property, investment, software and agriculture.  He has held a number of directorships in both public and private companies and was founding Chairman of Cape Mentelle and Cloudy Bay wines, as well as the oil and coal company Anglo Pacific Resources Plc.  Mr. Hohnen was also a director of Kalahari Minerals and Extract Resources, having successfully negotiated the sale of both companies to Taurus (CGN).  He remains on the board of Swakop Uranium, which is developing the world's second largest uranium mine and the largest mine development in southern Africa.  He is also a director of ASX listed, Wildhorse Energy Limited.   

Colin Orr-Ewing, Bacanora Chairman, commented "We are delighted to have attracted such an experienced and qualified operator as Mark, whose proposed appointment significantly strengthens our Board and represents another positive endorsement of the Sonora Lithium Project and our ongoing progress in developing our assets.  We look forward to welcoming Mark to our team and working closely together with him to continue building value for our shareholders."

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ABOUT BACANORA:

Bacanora is a Canadian and London listed minerals explorer (TSX-V: BCN and AIM: BCN). The Company explores and develops industrial mineral projects, with a primary focus on lithium and borates. The Company's operations are based in Hermosillo in northern Mexico and it currently has two significant projects under development in the state of Sonora. The two main assets of Bacanora are: 

�         The Sonora Lithium Project, which consists of ten mining concession areas covering approximately 100 thousand hectares in the northeast of Sonora State. The Company, through drilling and exploration work to date, has established an Indicated Mineral Resource (in accordance with National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI 43-101")) of 5.0 Mt LCE¹ contained in 364 Mt of clay at a Li grade of 2,600 ppm and an Inferred Mineral Resource of 3.9 Mt LCE contained in 355 Mt of clay at a Li grade of 2,000 ppm; and 

�         The Magdalena Borate Project, covering 16,503 hectares in Sonora state, Mexico, where the Company's main borate zone, El Cajon, has an Indicated Resource (in accordance with NI 43-101) of 1.17 mt of B₂O₃, at an eight per cent. cut-off grade. The Company has completed a number of measures to determine the geological and commercial potential of the project and is undertaking a pre-feasibility exercise to determine the economic benefit of developing the mine and constructing a processing plant on site in order to become a supplier of boric acid.

¹LCE = lithium carbonate (Li₂CO₃) equivalent; determined by multiplying Li value in percent by 5.324 to get an equivalent Li₂CO₃ value in per cent. Use of LCE is to provide data comparable with industry reports and assumes complete conversion of lithium in clays with no recovery or process losses.

Frank Buhagiar

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