Viva Gold Corp. announced high-grade gold results from its recently completed 10-hole, 1,515 drilling program at its 100% owned Tonopah Gold Project in Nevada. This program was highly successful in infilling gaps in the existing drill pattern to connect higher grade areas into much larger zones.

The Tonopah project is located on the prolific Walker Lane mineral trend in western Nevada, about 20 minutes' drive from the town of Tonopah. TG2409 (21.3 meters at 5.1 gpt Au) was drilled as an approximate 40-meter offset to the west of TG2211 (57.9-meters at 5.0 gpt Au commencing at 40-meters depth) and was oriented to locate and cross the East Fault zone. TG2409 had impressive gold intercepts on both sides of and in the fault zone with the highest grades being in the lower Tertiary Volcanics' (TVL) and lower grades in the Ordovician Palmetto Argillite (OPA).

These results suggest that the East Fault may represent a feeder structure. TG2409 extended the known location of the East fault over 100-meters to the south of previous intercepts into an under-drilled area which represents a good target for additional gold discovery. TG2408 (18.3 meters at 4.4 gpt Au) was drilled as an approximate 40-meter step-out to the north of TG2211 where additional shallow high-grade gold mineralization in the TVL was encountered.

The combination of TG2409, TG2408, TG2211, and TG2318 (54.9 meters at 1.0 gpt starting at 38-meters) to the south defines a large zone of shallow high-grade. TG2407 (89.9 meters@ 2.0 gpt Au) successfully infilled an approximate 60 to 80-meter gap between four known high-grade zones and extended mineralization to depth indicating the potential to increase the depth of mineralization in this area. The hole bottomed in gold mineralization.

TG2405 (16.8 meters @ 0.9 gpt Au) was drilled as a 40-meter offset to the east of TG2307 (50.3 meters at 0.9 gpt Au starting at 93 meters) in a sparsely drilled portion of the project on the southern extent of a zone of mineralization which includes TG2404, TG2409 and TG2219. This hole intersected a wide zone of mineralization at the TV/OPA contact. TG2404 (36.6 Meters @ 3.3 gpt Au) was drilled to define the potential east-west width extent of a mineralized zone first intercepted in holes TG2209 (86.9-meters at 1.3 gpt Au starting at 87-meters) and TG2219 (18.3-meters at 4.1 gpt Au starting at 73-meters).

TG2404 intercepted three long zones of mineralization in both the TV and OPA. The hole terminated in gold mineralization. The drill holes discussed in this release were drilled after publication of the 2022 PEA in January 2022 and are not included in any NI43-101 resource declarations for the project.

The mineralized intercept lengths mentioned in this release are down hole lengths. True width of intercept is undefined due to the numerous and varying structural and lithologic controls and orientations of mineralization encountered at the Tonopah project. Quality Assurance/Quality Control: Viva Gold utilizes a well-documented system of inserting blanks and standards into the assay stream and has a strict chain of custody for samples taken by the Company.

Assays by the Company are completed at independent laboratories which have internal quality assurance and quality control systems and procedures. Assays were performed by American Assay Laboratories Inc. of Reno, Nevada, by fire assay and ICP methods with gravimetric finish.