Gold Standard Announces Grant of Options

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Aug. 1, 2017) - Gold Standard Ventures Corp. (TSX VENTURE:GSV)(NYSE MKT:GSV) ("Gold Standard" or the "Company") announced that it has 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 5 years, and one third of these options vest immediately, one third of these stock options will vest on January 2, 2018, and the final third of these stock options will vest on January 2, 2019. With respect to 84,600 of such 2,540,140 options, these options are exercisable for a period of 1 year from the date of grant and they vest immediately.