Mr. Jonathan Awde reports

GOLD STANDARD BEGINS 2015 PHASE 2 DRILLING AT THE PINION AND DARK STAR OXIDE GOLD DEPOSITS, CARLIN TREND NEVADA

The second phase of reverse circulation (RC) drilling has commenced on the Pinion gold deposit at Gold Standard Ventures Corp.'s 100-per-cent-owned/controlled Railroad-Pinion project in Nevada's Carlin trend. The second phase of the 2015 exploration program will focus on the most promising near-term targets which emerged in phase 1 with the aim of adding significant oxide gold resources at Pinion and Dark Star. Phase 2 will also test new high-value targets that have been identified over the last year.

Key highlights of the phase 2 program include:

Pinion

• Complete up to 10 RC holes (about 3,950 metres) offsetting 24.4 m of 1.38 grams per tonne gold (g/t Au) in PIN15-02 and testing other high-potential targets along the highly prospective South fault zone. This oxidized intercept in PIN15-02 is 150 m northwest of the limits of the maiden Pinion resource along the west-northwest-striking South fault zone, a structural corridor of higher-grade gold mineralization parallel to the Main zone.
• Drill up to three holes (450 m) at the new Sentinel target, which is approximately 100 m west of the Far North zone, which is part of the National Instrument 43-101-compliant Pinion gold resource estimate announced Sept. 10, 2014. Rock sampling in late 2014 identified an interval of 27.4 m of 1.05 g/t Au hosted in breccia along the contact between the Devil's Gate limestone and the underlying Sentinel Mountain dolomite (see news release dated Oct. 15, 2014). Gold-bearing alteration extends for 180 m along strike at surface. This target has not been drill tested by previous operators.
• Bottle roll tests will be completed in phase 2, as a follow-up to cyanide soluble recovery results, which averaged 82.4 per cent in oxidized multilithic dissolution collapse breccia, the main gold host at Pinion (see news release dated Aug. 19, 2015).

Dark Star

• Drill up to 11 RC holes (about 3,000 m) to extend areas of known gold mineralization along strike to the north of DS15-03, a phase 1 drill hole that intersected two zones of gold mineralization including 32.0 m of 0.58 g/t Au and 21.3 m of 1.90 g/t Au (see news release dated July 28, 2015). Results in holes DS15-03 and DS15-05, an RC hole 800 m north of the maiden resource, indicate that the gold system extends northward along the Dark Star structural corridor into favourable geologic terrane that has not been systematically drill tested.
• Drill two RC holes (about 700 m) to test the intersection of the South fault and the Dark Star fault corridor, to the south of the Dark Star resource.
• Acquire approximately 18 line km of CSAMT geophysical data to identify drill targets in the Dark Star trend of prospective rocks between the Dark Star maiden resource and the Dixie prospect to the south. CSAMT, in combination with gravity and geologic mapping, is a proven set of systematic techniques to identify drill targets.

Irene

• The Irene prospect is a new target area 2.4 km west of the Pinion deposit along the projection of the South fault, an important control on gold mineralization at Pinion. Surface examination and a review of available data suggest that Irene may be part of the greater Pinion mineralizing system. At this location, north- and northwest-trending gold-in-soil (values ranging from less than 1 to 325 parts per billion (ppb)) and arsenic-in-soil anomalies (values ranging from 10 to 2,670 parts per million (ppm)) are coincident with silicified quartz- and barite-veined breccias (see news release dated March 25, 2015). The extensive footprints of mapped alteration and soil anomalies indicate the gold system in this area is larger than previously described by past exploration. One RC hole (about 500 m) is designed to begin to test this target.

Jonathan Awde, Gold Standard's president, stated: "We are very excited for the second phase of drilling which has just commenced, there are several robust untested targets that could potentially add significant oxide ounces to our existing discovery. We are also very pleased with our metallurgical results to date and look forward to further test results."

Sampling methodology, chain of custody, quality control and quality assurance

All sampling was conducted under the supervision of the company's project geologists and the chain of custody from the field to the sample preparation facility was continuously monitored. A blank or certified reference material was inserted approximately every 40 samples. The samples are delivered to ALS Minerals' preparation facility in Elko, Nev., where the samples are crushed, screened and pulverized. Sample pulps are shipped to ALS Minerals' certified laboratory in Vancouver, B.C. Pulps are digested and analyzed for gold using fire assay fusion and an ICP-AES finish on a 30-gram split. All other elements are determined by a two-acid ICP analysis at ALS Minerals in Vancouver. Data verification of the analytical results includes a statistical analysis of the duplicates, standards and blanks that must pass certain parameters for acceptance to insure accurate and verifiable results.

The scientific and technical content and interpretations contained in this news release have been reviewed, verified and approved by Steven R. Koehler, Gold Standard's manager of projects, BSc, geology, and CPG-10216, a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, standards of disclosure for mineral projects.

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