Dunnedin Ventures Inc. reported management changes to strengthen its diamond focus, and receipt of permits supportive of exploration work through 2017 - 2018. The company announced the appointment of Ms. Claudia Tornquist and Mr. Chad Ulansky to the company's Board of Directors, and the movement of Mr. Patrick McAndless and Dr. Gilles Arseneau to the company's Technical Advisory Board. Ms. Tornquist has been a Technical Advisor to Dunnedin since 2015, and was formerly a General Manager at Rio Tinto working extensively with Rio Tinto's diamond mines and development projects in Canada and Australia. She also worked as Executive VP Business Development for the royalty company Sandstorm Gold Ltd., financing junior mining companies with stream finance, equity and debt, and is currently also on the Board of Kennady Diamonds Inc. Mr. Chad Ulansky, a professional geologist, is currently President and CEO of Metalex Ventures Ltd. and Cantex Mine Development Corp., as well as serving as director of several public and private mineral exploration companies. Mr. Ulansky, together with Dunnedin's advisor Dr. Charles Fipke, guided Dunnedin's till sampling program in 2015, results of which are expected in the near future.

The company also reported it has received a positive vote from the Chesterfield Inlet Community Lands and Resource Committee (CLARC) for its multi-year diamond exploration program. The positive endorsement of Dunnedin's exploration plan is contingent upon Dunnedin integrating community knowledge into its work in order to minimize impacts upon wildlife, and Dunnedin providing assistance to the Kivalliq Inuit Association (the 'KIA') with cleanup of the abandoned Shear Minerals exploration camp at Josephine Lake. While not on the Kahuna project claims, the camp is a concern for many local residents and Dunnedin has formally offered assistance with the KIA's upcoming cleanup efforts. Such assistance is expected to take the form of transportation of people and equipment to and from the camp while the KIA remediates the site, during Dunnedin's upcoming field program. Following the CLARC endorsement, Dunnedin received a staking and prospecting permit from the KIA that is valid through 2018. This allows the company to undertake mapping, sampling and bulk sampling on Inuit controlled lands similar to that which it completed at the Kahuna project in 2015. The company also holds a permit from Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada allowing such work on federally controlled lands that is valid until 2017. Dunnedin is currently finalizing its Wildlife and Environment Monitoring and Mitigation Plan with input from community members and will soon submit its amended application for multi- year bulk sampling and drilling beyond 2017- 2018 to the Nunavut Impact Review Board.