Golden Queen Mining Co. Ltd. announced drill results for nine (9) additional holes at its 50%-owned Soledad Mountain gold-silver mine (the "Mine") located south of Mojave, California. The drill results are part of the Company's recently completed 2018 Main Pit 2 Infill Drilling program. The completed holes GQ-836 through GQ-844 continue to be successful in intersecting and geologically verifying existing shallow mineralized zones in and around the currently mined East Pit, and also continue to be successful in exploring for and intersecting deeper mineralized zones. In some cases, new mineralized zones have potentially been identified. Each hole listed in the table below has intersected strong alteration envelopes and locally significant gold/silver mineralization associated with the Patience, Independence, Queen Esther and Main Fault zones, and has continued to encounter the Silver Queen target beneath the East Pit and at shallower levels adjacent to the East Pit. Several key features have been observed in the drill cuttings from this group of nine (9) holes and, in fact, these features have largely been observed in most drill holes from this program: Several unnamed or unknown mineralized zones continue to be intersected in most holes drilled from the East Pit, usually situated between the Patience and Queen Esther zones and/or between the Queen Esther and Silver Queen zones. Previous interpretive work has concluded that these zones may be subparallel to the Queen Esther zone, may be relatively flat-lying, and locally carry significant gold and silver grades. Further work and interpretation must be completed to determine whether the gold/silver grades encountered so far in these structures show continuity from section to section. It is worthy to note that the current drilling program was designed to explore new areas around the Queen Esther and Silver Queen veins for potential ore zones that may expand the current pit design; A potentially new style of mineralization at Soledad Mountain has continued to be observed from several drill holes in this final series of assays, specifically in holes GQ-836 and GQ-838. This mineralization appears to be associated with the contact between porphyritic rhyolite dikes and small plugs (rock unit Trp) with the pyroclastic volcanic country rock (rock unit Tmp). Quartz veinlet and stock work zones are hosted by the pyroclastic rocks with mineralization ranging from 5 to 20+ feet outward from the rhyolite dike contact. Further interpretive work is required to determine if this "new" mineralization is volumetrically significant, or if it represents a local phenomenon. Two (2) drill holes, GQ-842 and GQ-843, were completed to target and test relatively shallow portions of the Silver Queen vein adjacent to the East Pit and between two (2) areas of historic mining on this vein system. These holes were successful in verifying the presence of unmined and in-place vein material with significant gold/silver mineralization. Additional mineralization was also encountered from vein zones in the hanging wall (HW) and footwall (FW) areas of the Silver Queen vein structure. Hole GQ-842 also hit a deeper structure below the Silver Queen vein. Initial interpretations suggest that this deep structure may be the Main Fault. Previous interpretive work at Soledad Mountain has concluded that the Main Fault is a post-mineral fault only; however, gold and silver mineralization was intersected in an area where the Main Fault would project through. If this intersection represents Main Fault mineralization, then, in addition to post-mineral movement, this structure was active during periods of mineralization in addition to the previously noted post-mineral movement. Consequently, it would also become a noteworthy future exploration target. Holes GQ-840 and GQ-841 were drilled mostly for geotechnical and mine planning purposes, but also to test for any remaining mineralization in and around areas of historical mining. Hole GQ-840 targeted stoping areas within the Golden Queen vein, and GQ-841 targeted stoping areas within the Silver Queen vein. After hitting underground workings, the drilling operations were hampered by poor drill circulation, poor sample returns and other adverse conditions, but satisfactory mineralized material was recovered nonetheless. Although this material is most likely not 'in-place' and should not be used in any resource determination, it shows that mineralized material exists around these old stopes and potentially could be recovered should future mining progress down to these levels. GQ-839 was completed to target the strike extension of the Silver Queen vein system to the southeast. The hole hit several substantial vein quartz and silicified zones, including a vein zone underneath the main Silver Queen structure, which may represent the Main Fault or a new structure. Although only a small gold mineralized zone was intersected, trace element geochemistry throughout this hole was strongly enriched in elements such as mercury, arsenic and antimony. This suggests that the drill hole penetrated the upper level of an epithermal, precious metals-bearing vein system, which is typically precious metals-poor. Future drilling in this vicinity would target areas which are deeper and underneath the vein quartz zones intersected in this hole. Productive, precious metals-bearing vein systems could exist in this targeted area and future drilling programs would test this hypothesis.