Azarga Completes Shares for Debt Settlement Transaction and Sale of Redundant Assets

GREENWOOD VILLAGE, COLORADO--(Marketwired - March 3, 2016) - AZARGA URANIUM CORP. (TSX:AZZ)(OTC PINK:PWURF)(FRANKFURT:P8AA) ("Azarga" or the "Company") has entered into shares for debt settlement agreements with certain creditors and non-insider former employees to settle outstanding payables in the amount of C$262,318. The issuance of common shares to settle outstanding payables is consistent with the Company's strategy of preserving cash.

The Company issued 89,461 common shares at a deemed price of $0.60 per share and 643,405 common shares at a deemed price of $0.32 per share (collectively, the "Shares"). The Shares are subject to a hold period expiring on July 4, 2016. The Company has an arm's length relationship with each of the creditors and the non-insider former employees.

The issuance of the Shares is subject to final approval from the Toronto Stock Exchange.

In addition to the shares for debt settlement agreements, on March 2, 2016, the Company received net proceeds of approximately C$430,000 from the sale of redundant assets. The sale of the Company's redundant assets will not impact the overall strategy of Azarga.

About Azarga Uranium Corp.

Azarga is a mineral development company that controls six uranium projects, deposits and prospects in the United States of America (South Dakota, Wyoming and Colorado) and the Kyrgyz Republic, together with investment holdings in Uranium Resources, Inc. and Western Uranium Corporation. The Dewey Burdock Project in South Dakota (the "Project"), which is the Company's initial development priority, has received its Nuclear Regulatory Commission License and the Company is in the process of completing all other major regulatory permit approvals necessary for operation of the Project, including those from the Environmental Protection Agency and the South Dakota Department of Natural Resources.

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