Prophecy Provides Update on Titan and Gibellini Vanadium Projects

Vancouver, British Columbia, July 11, 2017 – Prophecy Development Corp. (“Prophecy” or the “Company”) (TSX:PCY, OTCPK:PRPCF, Frankfurt:1P2N) is pleased to provide the following updates on its vanadium projects:

Titan

The Titan vanadium-titanium-iron project (“Titan”) is located in eastern Ontario, approximately 120km east-northeast of Sudbury. The property is located in close proximity to necessary infrastructure such as 8km from a railway station, 18km from a highway, 2.5km from a major transmission line, and 25km from a natural gas pipeline.

A Technical Report prepared by Neil Prenn, P. Eng of Mine Development Associates dated February 26, 2010 (available at www.sedar.com and www.Prophecydev.com) disclosed in compliance with National Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects (“NI 43-101”) an inferred resource for the Titan project of:

The Company estimates vanadium content at 259 million lbs and titanium dioxide content at 7,259 million kgs.

^* Based on resource estimated at cutoff grade of 40% Fe₂O₃.
^** 100% metals recovery is assumed.

Titan’s previous operator completed a preliminary metallurgical test on material from one core hole at the facilities of Altairnano Inc. in the USA in 2009, which used a proprietary patented “Altair Hydrochloride Pigment Process” dissolution test on the composites. This process uses hydrochloric acid and hydrochloride gas to dissolve iron, titanium and vanadium metals. The test concluded that 88% of the iron, 96% of the titanium and 80% of the vanadium could be dissolved after 4 hours of using this process.

Since then, there has been a few maturing, patented hydrometallurgical technologies developed to extract titanium dioxide, iron, and vanadium from titaniferous vanadiferous deposits.

Prophecy is preparing and shipping samples from Titan to two independent laboratories in Canada for testing. Each batch of samples will undergo bench-scale testing to determine the percentage of metals dissolveable into solution and the recovery rate of metals from solution.

Prophecy has no preference as to a particular recovery technology but rather, seeks the best technology to recover valuable metals from Titan that will be both environmentally friendly and cost effective. Each laboratory has its own proprietary, patented hydrometallurgical process to treat materials similar to Titan. Results from the testing will be announced when they become available.

Gibellini

The Gibellini project (“Gibellini”) is located in Eureka County, Nevada, about 25 miles south of the town of Eureka and is easily accessed by a graded, gravel road extending south from US Highway 50.

To the Company’s knowledge, Gibellini is the only North American black shale vanadium project with a full feasibility study. The Gibellini feasibility study was published and prepared by AMEC E&C for Gibellini’s previous operator, American Vanadium Corp. (AVC), with an effective date of August 31, 2011 (available at www.sedar.com and www.Prophecydev.com) and disclosed in compliance with NI 43-101.

Black shale (also called stone coal) is an important vanadium resource in China, where it is found extensively in the southern provinces and autonomous regions of the country. It is regarded as a low-grade, multi-element ore. However, because of its relatively high vanadium grade compared to other metallic and nonmetallic elements found in black shale, studies of the recovery of vanadium from black shale have received considerable attention in China based on the Company’s research.

Gibellini represents one of a few pure-play, low-political-risk North American vanadium opportunities for investors, since Gibellini material typically contains less than 1% Fe, 0.5% Ca, 0.3% Mg, 0.2% Ti, and is low in other deleterious metals and non-metals and hence, appears conducive to established, low cost, solvent extraction and precipitation methods.

Prophecy’s management just concluded a visit to a Chinese university with over a decade of research and development in the recovery of vanadium from sulfuric and hydrofluoric mixed acid solutions generated by the direct leaching of black shale using solvent extraction and precipitation methods. The process consists of reduction, solvent extraction, and stripping, followed by precipitation and calcination to yield vanadium pentoxide. It was concluded that the combination of solvent extraction and precipitation is an efficient method for the recovery of vanadium from a multi-element leach solution generated from black shale.

Their faculty has practical experience from working with over ten black shale vanadium producing, or past producing, mines in China.

John Lee, Executive Chairman of Prophecy, states: “We are highly encouraged by what we witnessed at the university laboratory, which is a five-story building dedicated to metallurgical engineering and excellence. While black shale vanadium projects are relatively rare in North America, there have been a number of such projects in commercial production in China – some with production throughput double or triple of that proposed for Gibellini in the AMEC E&C feasibility study. From this visit and discussion with experts specialized in vanadium recovery from black shale, we believe there are a number of areas to improve on the feasibility study that would increase metals recovery, lower capital expenditures, and lower operating cost.”

Prophecy shall continue to investigate commercial-scale black shale vanadium recovery methods and report specific factual findings in due course. In addition, the Company also plans to expedite completion of the Gibellini environmental and mine permitting processes that were previously started by American Vanadium Corp..

With the Gibellini Project in Nevada, USA and the Titan vanadium-titanium-iron project in Ontario, Canada, Prophecy is well-positioned with these two vanadium projects, to be a leading North American vanadium exploration company. The Company’s objectives for these two projects are to:

1. Provide exposure and leverage to rising vanadium prices by defining and adding attributable vanadium resources in the ground in politically safe jurisdictions.
2. Build the first vanadium mine in North America by steadily advancing mine permitting, project financing and construction.

Qualified Persons

The technical contents of this news release have been reviewed and approved by Christopher M. Kravits, CPG, LPG, General Mining Manager of Prophecy. Mr. Kravits is a Qualified Person as defined in NI 43-101. Mr. Kravits is a consultant to the Company and is not independent of the Company since most of his income is derived from the Company.

About Prophecy

Prophecy Development Corp. is a Canadian public company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange that is engaged in worldwide mineral and energy exploration and development. Further information on Prophecy can be found at www.prophecydev.com.

PROPHECY DEVELOPMENT CORP.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
“JOHN LEE”
Executive Chairman
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