Gold Standard Begins 2019 Stepout And Infill Drilling at the Dark Star Oxide Gold Deposit

VANCOUVER, BC - Gold Standard Ventures Corp. reported the continuation of step-out and infill drilling at the Dark Star oxide gold deposit on its 100%-owned/controlled Railroad-Pinion Project in Nevada’s Carlin Trend.  The current program consists of approximately 9,150m of drilling in 67 reverse-circulation (RC) holes, and is a continuation of the expanded development program announced on September 20, 2018 (see news release).  Three RC rigs are on site assessing targets in the northern portion of the deposit where mineralization is open to the north, west and at depth; and shallow oxide targets in the southern portion of the deposit that remain open to the southeast.

Jonathan Awde, CEO and Director of Gold Standard said, “We are excited to get back to work on our lead Dark Star deposit which we expect to continue growing in 2019. We are also evaluating the results of our 2018 program prior to setting drill priorities for the rest of this year. Our preliminary assessment is that we have discovered several new high potential targets that will make for another exciting year of exploration on our Railroad-Pinion Project.”

Key Highlights from Dark Star: Currently 3 RC rigs are active on-site testing the following targets: 1) in the northern portion of Dark Star, potential continued expansion to the north, west and at depth of the current Dark Star resource.  Drilling will offset 2018 drill holes DR18-99 (56.4m of 2.94 g Au/t, including 16.8m of 8.67 g Au/t, and DR18-109 (33.5m of 2.33 g Au/t, including 15.2m of 4.24 g Au/t) in the southern portion of Dark Star, a new shallow oxide target that remains open to the south and southeast; In the southern portion of Dark Star, core hole DC18-24 intersected 35.7m of 0.60 g Au/t, including 10.5m of 1.28 g Au/t.  Oxide mineralization begins at the current topographic surface and is open to the south.  DC18-24, continues to expand the near surface mineralization found in previously released DC18-18 (September 24, 2018 returning 15.2m of 0.38 g Au/t) and DC18-23 (November 15, 2018 yielding 45.1m of 1.16 g Au/t).  Collectively, these new holes are coincident with a previously undrilled surface rock chip anomaly south of the known deposit; DC18-10, and DC18-12 were geotechnical core holes drilled away from the resource into the proposed west and east highwalls, to confirm geotechnical slope parameters in the proposed open pit highwall.  Gold mineralization was not expected in these drill holes.  Nonetheless, DC18-10 intersected 29.6m of 0.26 g Au/t of oxide mineralization and ended at 198.1m in 1.08 g Au/t.

The company’s address is 815 West Hastings Street, Suite #610, Vancouver, BC V6C 1B4, (604) 687-2766, www.goldstandardv.com.