Reliant Gold Appoints Experienced Chartered Professional Accountant as CFO and Grants Options

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - June 1, 2016) - Reliant Gold Corp. ("Reliant" or the "Corporation") (TSX VENTURE:REC) is pleased to announce the appointment of highly experienced Chartered Professional Accountant, Peter W. Hogg, B.Comm., CPA, CA, as the Corporation's new Chief Financial Officer ("CFO") effective June 1, 2016, subjective to regulatory approval.

Peter is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) with more than twenty years of professional accounting experience. He received his Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto in 1992 and obtained his professional designation as a Chartered Accountant in 1995. After working with a mid-sized, full-service accounting firm in Markham, Ontario for several years, Peter has been practicing as a Chartered Accountant, in private practice, in downtown Toronto since 2000. Peter also has extensive public company financial reporting experience, having served as the CFO of several Canadian publicly-traded companies since 2005.

"We are very pleased and fortunate to have someone of Peter's professional experience and caliber join our senior management team, and we look forward to working with him," said Kabir Ahmed, Chairman, President & CEO of Reliant.

The Corporation also granted incentive stock options to acquire an aggregate of 100,000 common shares of the Corporation at an exercise price of $0.05 per share to an officer of the Corporation pursuant to the Corporation's stock option plan. These options, which vest quarterly over 12 months, expire on June 1, 2021.

ABOUT RELIANT

Reliant is a junior mineral exploration company with an experienced management team engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of properties for the mining of precious and base metals. Reliant holds (1) a 49% interest in Borden Lake South, comprised of 20 mining claims representing 294 claim units covering approximately 4,704 hectares, located 10 kilometres east of the Town of Chapleau, Ontario and (2) a 100% interest in the East Bay Property, comprised of 56 mineral claims totalling 896 hectares in the McVicar Lake area, located approximately 90 kilometres west of Pickle Lake, Ontario, and 130 kilometres southwest of Goldcorp Inc.'s Musselwhite Gold Mine.

The common shares of Reliant trade on the TSX Venture Exchange under the stock symbol "REC". The Corporation has 22,945,169 common shares issued and outstanding.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

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