Gold Standard Ventures (GSV) : to commence Drilling at the Lewis Project, Battle Mountain District, Nevada

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Gold Standard Ventures will commence a drill program in mid-October at its 100%-owned Lewis Project in the Battle Mountain mining district, Lander County, Nevada

Highlights

• Completing core hole BVM16C-03B which was suspended due to adverse weather conditions in January, 2017. The hole was halted in visually-encouraging alteration above the targeted permissive host formations (Antler Sequence).
• Site MGH-F will test for the down-dip extension of the Phoenix deposit which has the potential for high grade gold-silver deposits in Antler Peak Limestone similar to the adjacent Lower Fortitude deposit that produced 1.9 moz of gold and 7.5 moz of silver at an average grade of 8 g/t gold and 32 g/t silver. {See Cary, et al., 2000, Geology, skarn alteration, and Au-Cu-Ag mineralization of the Phoenix project, (Battle Mountain mining district), Lander County, Nevada, in Cluer, J.K., Price, J.G., Struhsacker, E.M., Hardyman, R.F., and Morris, C.L., eds., Geology and Ore Deposits 2000: The Great Basin and Beyond: Geological Society of Nevada, Symposium Proceedings, May 15-18, 2000, p. 1021-1045. (See Table 1)}
• One RC precollar/core tail hole is planned in the Southwest target area to offset by 300 m a 17 m skarn intercept drilled by Barrick Gold grading 5.7 g/t Au (from 776 to 793 m in FWL-30 using a 2.5 g/t cutoff). The bottom of this interval has 4.6 meters of 9 g/t Au and 21 g/t Ag. This hole will also test for Fortitude-style gold mineralization in Antler Peak Limestone.