Aethon Minerals Corp. announced drill results from the Company's initial eight hole drill program at the Llanos De Llahuin project (‘Llanos’ or the ‘Project’), located approximately 250 km north of Santiago in Chile, and a change in its year end. The 2018 maiden drill program at Llanos consists of eight diamond drill holes totaling 1,417 metres.  The shallow drilling program tested 700 metres of strike length to depths of up to 200 metres below surface.  All of the drill holes targeted in the alteration zone were successful in intersecting copper and gold mineralization related to quartz veining over narrow thicknesses within a broad (up to 300 metres wide) zone of intense alteration. The Llanos project is ideally situated in between the Llahuin cluster of copper porphyry bodies (70% optionee Hudbay Minerals Inc. /30% Southern Hemisphere Mining Ltd.), and the El Espino IOCG project (100% Pucobre [Sociedad Punta del Cobre S.A.]). Pervasively quartz-sericite-chlorite altered dioritic-granodioritic intrusive rocks at Llanos contain abundant disseminated pyrite mineralization, with quartz veining and veinlets hosting variable chalcopyrite and gold mineralization. Surface geology and geochemistry include gossanous outcrops with anomalous copper, gold and molybdenum values suggestive of porphyry style mineralization. These were the main drill target at Llanos. The quartz-sericite alteration zone intersected by drilling at Llanos is several hundred metres (500-700) higher in altitude than the copper-gold mineralization at the adjacent Llahuin porphyries and the El Espino IOCG deposit. If the Llanos mineralization is genetically related to the adjacent systems, the alteration intersected by drilling at Llanos could be several hundred metres above a more prospective potassic alteration zone. All sample assay results have been independently monitored through a quality control/quality assurance ("QA/QC") program including the insertion of a blind standard and blank every 20 samples. Logging and sampling are completed at a secure facility located at Llahuin, adjacent to the project area. Drill core is sawn in half on site and half drill-core samples are bagged and securely transported to the ALS sample preparation facility in La Serena, Chile. All samples are analyzed for gold by standard 30-gram fire-assaying with ICP (Inductively Coupled Plasma) or gravimetric finish. Other elements, including copper, are analyzed using four-acid ICP-AES (Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectroscopy) method. Samples that exceed 1% copper are re-analyzed by four-acid ICP-AES optimized for high grades. The technical information in this news release was reviewed and approved by Michael Schuler, P.Geo. AIPG  - CPG11559, independent consultant to the Company who is the Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.