February 18th, 2016, VANCOUVER, B.C. – ASHBURTON VENTURES INC. (ABR-TSX:V) (ARB-FRANKFURT)  (“Ashburton” or the "Company”) announces it has received assay results from its recent work program on the 100% owned Elon claims located in Clayton Valley, Nevada. Eleven samples were submitted to ALS Minerals in Reno, Nevada and all have come back with positive lithium numbers.  The program consisted of surface sediment sampling from various locations across the property. 

 “We are extremely encouraged with the lithium results received to date. Our property is directly beside Pure’s discovery and right beside the CV-6 hole recently completed by Pure.   We are pleased now that Lithium-X has also acquired a large land package directly to our west to now completely enclose our property in between them and Pure.  Management is encouraged by these initial results and is actively searching for additional property in the vicinity to increase shareholder value.” stated Michael England, CEO of Ashburton Ventures. 

Aurora Geosciences Ltd. conducted the sampling on the Property and submitted 11 samples from the Elon property to ALS Minerals in Reno NV for analysis.  The samples were crushed, split, a portion was pulverized and a one (1) gram aliquot analyzed by ALS Chemex method ME-MS61 (48 element, including lithium, four acid ICP-MS).  

Roger Hulstein, B.Sc., P.Geo., a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia, is a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, and is responsible for the accuracy of the technical information in this press release.

Ashburton Ventures Inc. is a Canadian-based junior exploration with active mineral programs in Canada and Nevada, USA.

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ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

Signed “Michael England”
Michael England, President

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