Mr. Jonathan Awde reports

GOLD STANDARD ANNOUNCES FILING OF NI 43-101 TECHNICAL REPORT ON THE OXIDE GOLD RESOURCE AT THE DARK STAR DEPOSIT

Gold Standard Ventures Corp. has filed an updated technical report prepared in accordance with National Instrument 43-101 on the Dark Star gold deposit. The report supports the disclosure made by the company in its news release on June 29, 2017, entitled "Gold Standard reports increased oxide gold resource and approval of an exploration EA at the Dark Star deposit, Carlin trend, Nevada," and there are no material differences in the mineral resources contained in the report from those disclosed in the news release.

The report dated Aug. 11, 2017, is entitled "Technical report and mineral resource update, Dark Star project, Elko county, Nevada, USA," and was prepared by independent qualified persons (as that term is defined in NI 43-101) under the direction of Michael B. Dufresne, MSc, PGeol, PGeo, and Steven J. Nicholls, BASc, MAIG, of Apex Geoscience Ltd. of Edmonton, Canada.

The report is available for review on both SEDAR and the company's website.

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 NI 43-101 (standards of disclosure for mineral projects).

About Gold Standard Ventures Corp.

Gold Standard is an advanced-stage gold exploration company focused on district-scale discoveries on its 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. The 2014 through 2017 definition and expansion of these two shallow, oxide deposits demonstrate their growth potential.

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