LeadFX Announces Close of Private Placement

(All dollar amounts are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise indicated)

PERTH, Aug. 15, 2018 - LeadFX Inc. (the "Company" or "LeadFX") (TSX: LFX) announces the private placement with InCoR Energy Materials Ltd. has closed.

The Company has issued 3,643,008 new common shares at $0.80 per common share, raising gross proceeds of $2,914,406. The private placement is a non-brokered financing. The proceeds from the private placement will be applied to advancing development of the Paroo Station Lead Mine including engineering, design and procurement and metallurgical test work programs and general corporate and working capital needs of the Company.

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SOURCE LeadFX Inc.