Mr. James Hesketh reports

VIVA GOLD ANNOUNCES CHANGE OF AUDITOR

Viva Gold Corp. has changed its auditor from Dale Matheson Carr-Hilton LaBonte LLP to Saturna Group Chartered Professional Accountants LLP, effective Nov. 29, 2023.

Viva's board of directors accepted the resignation of the former auditor and appointed the successor auditor as the new auditor of the company effective Nov. 28, 2023, and to hold office until the close of the company's next annual general meeting of shareholders.

There were no reservations in the former auditor's audit reports for any financial period during which the former auditor was the company's auditor. There are no reportable events (as the term is defined in National Instrument 51-102, Continuous Disclosure Obligations) between the company and the former auditor.

In accordance with National Instrument 51-102, the notice of change of auditor, together with the required letters from the former auditor and the successor auditor, has been reviewed by the company's audit committee and board of directors, and will be filed on SEDAR+ accordingly.

About Viva Gold Corp.

Viva Gold's principal asset is its 100-per-cent ownership in the Tonopah gold project, a large land position on the world-class Walker Lane mineral trend in western Nevada, located about a 30-minute drive southeast of the Kinross Round Mountain gold mine. The project is well advanced with a positive preliminary economic assessment (PEA) (1) describing a potential open-pit, heap leach gold recovery operation and a pit-confined measured and indicated gold mineral resources containing 394,000 ounces at 0.78 gram per tonne (g/t) and 206,000 ounces of inferred resource at 0.87 g/t. Viva has announced that it has commenced a second PEA study to include results from approximately 40 additional drill holes completed in 2022 and 2023, the results of additional metallurgical gold recovery studies, and substantial information gained from its ESG (environmental, social and governance) focus of completing and advancing environmental and technical baseline study for the project.

Viva has 106.7 million shares outstanding, and a strong management team and board, who can claim both gold exploration and production experience. For additional information on Viva Gold and the Tonopah gold project, please visit the company's website.

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