Vancouver, British Columbia (FSCwire) - SUNVEST MINERALS CORP. ("Sunvest" or the "Company") (SSS-TSX-V) is pleased to announce the Company has closed a first tranche of its previously announced non-brokered private placement (see PR dated September 28^th, 2017) issuing 5,310,000 units (the "Units") at a price of $0.10 per Unit for an aggregate proceeds of $531,000.

Each Unit is comprised of one common share (a "Share") and one half of one Share purchase warrant (a "Warrant") of the Company.Each full Warrant will entitle the holder to purchase one Share (a "Warrant Share") at a price of $0.15 per Warrant Share for an 18 month period after the Closing Date. The warrants are subject to an acceleration clause, which states that the issuer will have the right to accelerate the expiry date of the warrants if, at any time, the average closing price of the shares is equal to or greater than 25 cents for 10 consecutive trading days. In the event of acceleration, the expiry date will be accelerated to a date that is 30 days after the issuer issues a news release, announcing that it has elected to exercise this acceleration right. Finders fees of $16,000 will be payable including 160,000 broker warrants.

Michael England, CEO of Sunvest states, "We are pleased with the support the market has shown us and welcome all the new shareholders who participated in this round of financing, we look forward to closing on the second tranche shortly.This financing enables Sunvest to conduct initial work at its newly acquired Golden Triangle Clone property as well as further advancing our Evening Star project located in Nevada."

The proceeds raised will be used for general corporate purposes and for advancing the Company's 4,621 hectare high grade gold-cobalt Clone Project located near Stewart in the Golden Triangle region of northwestern British Columbia as well as the Company's Evening Star project located near Hawthorne, Nevada.

For more details regarding the Clone project please refer to PR dated September 28, 2017 ("Sunvest Enters the Golden Triangle by acquiring and unifying the high grade Clone gold-cobalt project"). For more details regarding the Evening Star project please refer to PR dated July 24, 2017 ("EVENING STAR DRILLING RETURNS UP TO 7.45% COPPER").

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

"Mike England"

Mike England, CEO & DIRECTOR

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: Telephone: 1-604-683-3995

Toll Free: 1-888-945-4770

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS: This news release contains forward-looking statements, which relate to future events or future performance and reflect management's current expectations and assumptions. Such forward-looking statements reflect management's current beliefs and are based on assumptions made by and information currently available to the Company. Investors are cautioned that these forward looking statements are neither promises nor guarantees, and are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to differ materially from those expected. These forward -looking statements are made as of the date hereof and, except as required under applicable securities legislation, the Company does not assume any obligation to update or revise them to reflect new events or circumstances. All of the forward-looking statements made in this press release are qualified by these cautionary statements and by those made in our filings with SEDAR in Canada (available at WWW.SEDAR.COM).

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Source: Sunvest Minerals Corp. (TSX Venture:SSS)

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