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Tuesday, 08/27/2019 10:46:40 AM

Tuesday, August 27, 2019 10:46:40 AM

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[bPLATO GOLD ACQUIRES 100% OWNERSHIP IN GOOD HOPE NIOBIUM PROJECT

Plato Gold Corp. has met the terms of the KL226 option agreement and KL37 option agreement, as originally announced on May 31, 2017.

"I am very pleased to announce that Plato now has 100% ownership of the Good Hope Niobium Project," said Anthony J. Cohen, CEO of Plato Gold Corp. "I am also very pleased to announce our continuing work on the Project with both Dr. Rudy Wahl, the discoverer of the project and Dr. Roger Mitchell, one of the world's foremost experts on carbonatite rocks and niobium. With our World Class team of experts, I am looking forward to further development of the Good Hope Niobium Project releasing further news of its continuing development when we have completed important work," said Cohen.

Dr. Rudy Wahl was the recipient of the Bernie Schnieders Discovery of the Year Award 2014 presented by Don Hoy and Jonie Schnieders to Dr. Wahl at the NWOPA Awards Dinner in Thunder Bay on April 14, 2015.

In meeting the terms of the KL226 Option Agreement, Plato made a total payment of $106,600 and issued 7,500,000 common shares. The Optionors for the KL226 Option Agreement are Rudolf Wahl (45%), Mike Dorval (45%), Roger H. Mitchell (10%).

In meeting the terms of the KL37 Option Agreement, Plato made a total payment of $2,000 and issued 1,600,000 common shares. The Optionors for the KL37 Option Agreement are Rudolf Wahl (85%), Leonard Windover (5%), Darren Hutchinson (5%), Ryan Harasym (5%).

As well, exploration expenditures of $400,000 on either or both the KL226 and KL37 properties were exceeded with a total of $1,113,532 exploration work completed as of June 30, 2019.

The following conditions remains for each of the KL226 and KL37 Option Agreements:

A 3% Net Smelter Return Royalty (the "NSR Royalty") to Optionors with provisions that Plato has the right to buy back 50% of the NSR Royalty for $1,500,000 and that Plato has first right of refusal with respect to bona fide arm's length offers to purchase the NSR Royalty from the Optionors.

A 3% Gross Overriding Royalty (the "GOR Royalty") from the production of diamonds only to Optionors with provisions that Plato has the right to buy back 50% of the GOR Royalty for $1,500,000 and that Plato has first right of refusal with respect to bona fide arm's length offers to purchase the GOR Royalty from the Optionors.

1,000,000 common shares to Optionors upon completion of a NI 43-101 compliant resource exceeding 100 million tonnes of Nb205/P205 and an additional 2,000,000 common shares to Optionors upon a positive bankable feasibility study

10% of the sale price or option price in cash or shares to Optionors, if the KL226 or KL37 claims are sold or optioned to a third party.

About Good Hope Niobium

Project

As previously announced on May 31, 2017, the Good Hope Niobium Property consists of a total of 19 claims, 263 claim units (prior to Mining Lands Administration System claims conversions in 2018) and 4208 hectares in Killala Lake Area and Cairngorm Lake Area Townships, northwest of Marathon, Ontario. The Good Hope Property is located approximately 45 kilometers northwest of Marathon and 28 km north of Highway 17. The property is readily accessible from Trans-Canada Highway 17 and Dead Horse Road. The Property is also in close proximity to the Hemlo gold mining camp.

The regional geology around the Good Hope Property consists of alkaline and carbonatite intrusions formed during Midcontinental rifting within the Trans-Superior Tectonic zone. The Good Hope Property forms a doughnut around the Prairie Lake Complex. The Prairie Lake Complex is composed of carbonatite, ijolite and potassic nepheline syenite. The most common rock types on the Good Hope Property are carbonatite, syenite breccia and ijolite. The Good Hope Property hosts Niobium mineralization in pyrochlore. The Niobium mineralization differs from that in Prairie Lake Complex in that it is low in Th and U contents.

The discovery of Niobium mineralization at Good Hope was made by Rudy Wahl in 2010 when he identified 1.63 % Nb2O5 in a small outcrop on site #28. In 2014, he followed up with mapping and prospecting in 5 pits that he dug in the area. Subsequent exploration work on the property includes: grab sampling, channel sampling, trenching, ground radiometrics survey, airborne magnetic - radiometrics surveys and mineralogical studies. Mineralogical studies completed in 2014 by Professor Roger H. Mitchell on samples from site #28 shows that the pyrochlore minerals are ThO2-free and contain very low UO3 so radionuclide problems are low for future extraction.

During the summer of 2015, a detailed prospecting-geological survey was completed on the Good Hope Property with the objective of finding larger zones of mineralized, non-radioactive carbonatite. The first trench, TR-01, revealed a non-radioactive carbonatite at the contact with a syenite. The carbonatite is at least 5 meters wide by 15 meters long, and observations indicate that it extends underneath the swamp for an unknown distance. The best result from 26 channel samples in trench TR-01 is 1.205% Nb2O5 over 1.10 meters. Trench TR-04 revealed a contact between ijolite breccia and syenite breccia, both matrix being carbonatite, with a chunk of massive carbonatite. Again, the carbonatite most likely extends underneath the swamp. The best channel sampling result for TR-04 is 0.437% Nb2O5 over 0.60 meters. In summary, the 2015 exploration program was successful in discovering a new type of niobium mineralization which is potentially a non-radioactive carbonatite intrusion. As the discovery coincides with a low magnetic/low topography sector, all the multi square-kilometers low topography, low magnetics area covered by the Good Hope Property, is considered highly prospective.

Two drill holes were completed in 2016 for a total of 280.7 m on an airborne radiometric anomaly near the discovery site #28. The assay highlights for drill hole PL-01 include 0.45 % Nb2O5 over 1.0 m and 6.25 % P2O5 over 1.0 m. The assay highlights for drill hole PL-02 include 0.34 % Nb2O5 over 1.0 m and 5.81 % P2O5 over 1.0 m. The Niobium mineralization in drill core is associated with carbonatite and syenite carbonatite breccia.

Dr. Selway is a Qualified Person ("QP") as defined by National Instrument 43-101 was responsible for the technical information contained in the May 31, 2017 news release and has reviewed and approved its content.

As previously announced on September 19, 2018, Plato completed 5016 metres of diamond drilling on the Good Hope Property. The drilling focused on outcropping mineralization at 'Site 28' in the northwestern part of the property and encompassed an area of approximately 500m by 500m (see Figure 3). All holes were drilled in a northwesterly direction. The nine completed drill holes ranged in length from 372 to 672 metres, testing the area to a vertical depth of between 285 and 580 metres (see Press Release dated 6 June 2018 for drill collar information). All holes intersected zones (up to 27m wide) of massive carbonatite within a brecciated system consisting of variably fenitized syenite/quartz-syenite intruded by carbonatite dykes and crosscutting carbonatite veins. Although the brecciated nature of the host rocks makes any orientation or trend of mineralization difficult to determine, the intersection of massive carbonatite in every drill hole from surface up to approximately 500m depth suggests that significant potential exists for niobium mineralization over a large area.

Assays of the drill core samples collected from the program peaked at 0.950% niobium (Nb2O5) with 6.20% phosphorus (P2O5) over 1.1m in a sample of massive carbonatite (PGH-18-06, 382.94-384.04m).

The two most significant intersections from the drilling program were 0.190% Nb2O5 and 2.04% P2O5 over 93.08m (drill hole PGH-18-06; 354.18-447.26m) and 0.175% Nb2O5 and 2.03% P2O5 over 89.24m (drill hole PGH-18-10A; 345.0-434.24m).]

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