Dundee Sustainable Technologies Inc. announces the sale of mining assets in the Shining Tree Area, Ontario

MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwired - April 3, 2017) - Dundee Sustainable Technologies Inc. ("DST") (CSE:DST)(CSE:DST.CN) announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Creso Exploration Inc., has reached an agreement with Toronto, Ontario based Premet Inc. ("Premet"), to sell its mining assets in the Shining Tree Area in Ontario.

The assets consist of fourteen (14) mining leases and thirty-seven (37) mining claims. As part of the agreement, Premet agreed to pay Creso a sum of Four Hundred Thousand Dollars ($400,000) and assume the obligations towards existing net smelter royalty holders.

"This transaction advances our strategy to concentrate in our core technologies, which is the commercialization of our cyanide-free gold extraction and arsenic stabilization technologies", says Brian Howlett, DST's President & CEO.

About Dundee Sustainable Technologies, a company controlled by Dundee Corporation

The Corporation is engaged in the development and commercialization of environment-friendly technologies for the treatment of materials in the mining industry. Through the development of patented, proprietary processes, DST extracts precious and base metals from mineralized material, concentrates and tailings, while stabilizing contaminants such as arsenic, which could not otherwise be extracted or stabilized with conventional processes because of metallurgical issues or environmental considerations.

DST has filed, published and was granted patents for these processes in several countries.

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