Gold Standard Reports Cyanide Soluble Recoveries For Dark Star Oxide Gold Deposit

VANCOUVER, BC – Gold Standard Ventures Corp. reported favorable metallurgical results from the first comprehensive work designed to determine the metallurgical characteristics at the Dark Star oxide gold deposit on its 100%-owned/controlled Railroad-Pinion Project in the Railroad District of Nevada’s Carlin Trend. Cyanide soluble recoveries averaged 88.9% in the Main Dark Star oxide zone and 89.9% in the North Dark Star oxide zone. These results indicate this material is likely to support heap leach processing.

Jonathan Awde, CEO and Director of Gold Standard said, "These results have met our expectations for the Dark Star mineralization. We now have every reason to believe that the Dark Star and Pinion deposits could be amenable to joint exploitation, which supports the potential for a single large open pit/heap leach operation. One of our objectives this year is to demonstrate that the Pinion and Dark Star deposits are in fact linked and form one large mineral system."

Cyanide solubility analyses were completed on all of Gold Standard’s 2015 and 2016 Dark Star drill samples that returned fire assay values of greater than 0.14 g Au/t, the cut-off grade established in the NI 43-101 resource estimate announced on March 3, 2015. The cyanide solubility analyses were one-hour leach tests performed on 1,945 drill sample pulps from 39 drill holes distributed throughout the deposit, using the ALS Minerals Au-AA13s method.

Mac Jackson, Gold Standard’s Vice President of Exploration said, "With this positive news on Dark Star cyanide recoveries, we are looking forward to exploring our new newly-acquired southern land holdings for additional Dark Star type deposits. This highly prospective ground has all the earmarks we are looking for in Dark Star targets including Pennsylvanian-Permian host rocks, zones of alteration, folds, high-angle dike filled corridors, thrust faults and some existing historical intercepts with gold mineralization. We will apply the same systematic approach that has proven successful at Railroad-Pinion–detailed mapping, gravity/CSAMT and soil geochemistry–to define drill targets. We are also going to test a shallow seismic survey along two east-west lines across our property through both Pinion and Dark Star to help us locate the Pinion thrust fault and permissive host horizons. We will begin the gravity program in late April and drilling will commence in May in the Dark Star corridor and at North Bullion."