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For Immediate Release
 
TSX.V: DAU
Frankfurt: QXR2 OTC: DAUGF


Desert Gold Grants Incentive Stock Options

Delta, British Columbia, January 22, 2021, DESERT GOLD VENTURES INC. ("Desert Gold" or the "Company") (TSX.V: DAU /FF:
--->QXR2 /OTC:DAUGF) announces that it has granted a total of 1,600,000 incentive stock options to certain directors, offi
--->cers, employees and consultants of the Company pursuant to the Company's Stock Option Plan.  The options are exercisab
--->le at $0.16 per share and expire five (5) years from the date of grant. Apaton Finance GmbH, which performs IR service
--->s for the Company, has been granted 200,000 stock options as part of this grant and will be subject to a quarterly ves
--->ting period.
  
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

s/"Jared Scharf"
Jared Scharf, CEO

+1 (858) 247-8195

For further information please visit our website www.desertgold.ca or information available on www.SEDAR.com under the
---> company's profile.

Certain statements contained  in this release  may constitute "forward-looking statements" or "forward-looking informa
--->tion" (collectively "forward-looking information") as those terms are used in the Private Securities Litigation Reform
---> Act of 1995 and similar Canadian laws. These statements relate to future events or future performance. The use of any
---> of the words "could", "intend", "expect", "believe", "will", "projected", "estimated", "anticipates" and similar expr
--->essions and statements relating to matters that are not historical facts are intended to identify forward-looking info
--->rmation and are based on the Company's current belief or assumptions as to the outcome and timing of such future event
--->s. Actual future results may differ materially. In particular, this release contains forward-looking information relat
--->ing to the business of the Company, the Property, financing and certain corporate changes. The forward-looking informa
--->tion contained in this release is made as of the date hereof and the Company is not obligated to update or revise any 
--->forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by
---> applicable securities laws. Because of the risks, uncertainties and assumptions contained herein, investors should no
--->t place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The foregoing statements expressly qualify any forward-looking 
--->information contained herein.

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--->TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. This news release does not 
--->constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the securities described herein in the United States.
---> The securities described herein have not been and will not be registered under the united states securities act of 19
--->33, as amended, and may not be offered or sold in the united states or to the account or benefit of a U.S. person abse
--->nt an exemption from the registration requirements of such act.