Mr. Jonathan Awde reports

GOLD STANDARD ANNOUNCES GRANT OF OPTIONS

Gold Standard Ventures Corp. granted a total of 2,540,140 incentive stock options today at yesterday's closing price to certain officers, directors, employees and consultants of the company pursuant to the company's stock option plan. With respect to 1,930,540 of such 2,540,140 options, they are exercisable for a period of five years, and one-third of these options vests immediately, one-third of these stock options will vest on Jan. 2, 2018, and the final third of these stock options will vest on Jan. 2, 2019. With respect to 84,600 of such 2,540,140 options, these options are exercisable for a period of one year from the date of grant, and they vest immediately.

The stock options are subject to the terms of the company's stock option plan and regulatory approval.

About Gold Standard Ventures Corp.

Gold Standard is an advanced-stage gold exploration company focused on district-scale discoveries on its 208-square-kilometre Railroad-Pinion gold project, located within the prolific Carlin trend. The company has consolidated the southern end of the Carlin trend by patiently assembling a 208-square-kilometre (80-square-mile) land position containing four gold deposits, two of them discovered by Gold Standard.