Banyan Gold Corp. (the 'Company' or 'Banyan') (TSX-V: BYN) is pleased to announce results from the final seven (7) diamond drillholes on the McQuesten Airstrip Zone from the recently completed 3,385 metre (26 hole) Phase 2 diamond drill program on the Company's Aurex-McQuesten Gold Project near Mayo, Yukon.

All together the Phase 2 Airstrip drilling campaign tested great than 1km of strike length of the newly defined Airstrip mineralized zone.

'These latest Phase 2 Airstrip Zone results continue to return long intervals of on and near-surface gold mineralization within the interpreted mineralized zone and have upgraded our knowledge and confidence in the deposit as we step out east along strike into areas never previously drilled.', stated Tara Christie, President and CEO of Banyan. 'Combined historic and contemporary drilling indicates that the consistent, daylighting and approximately 90 metre thick prospective lithological package is preferentially mineralized with gold in excess of 1km of strike length and up to 350 metres down dip. The Airstrip Zone is open to the east, west and to depth'. Phase 2 Airstrip Zone drilling was designed to expand the strike length of the mineralization of Airstrip Block '1', from its previously defined 500 metre extension to greater than 1 kilometre in total. These seven holes, MQ-19-57 to MQ-19-63 together with previously announced drill holes MQ-19-46 to MQ-19-56 and MQ-19-64 extend and infill Airstrip mineralization approximately 400 metres east and 150 metres west of Block '1' of the Airstrip Zone Mineralized trend and further validate the McQuesten Mineralization Geologic Model.

About Aurex-McQuesten

The Aurex-McQuesten property is just 40 km from Victoria Gold Corp.'s Eagle Gold mine and adjacent to Alexco Resource Corp's highly mineralized Keno Hill Silver. The Airstrip and Powerline Zones are located just off the main Yukon Government highway between Mayo and Keno. The property has numerous historic exploration roads and trails and has cell phone coverage. The 3-phase powerline from the hydroelectric dam in Mayo passes through the property, as well as, the switching station and spur power line to Victoria Gold. There is an existing airstrip on the property and the Mayo airport is a 20 minute drive on the highway from the property.

About Banyan Gold

Banyan Gold is focused on gold exploration projects that have the geological potential, size of land package and proximity to infrastructure that is advantageous for a mineral project to have potential to become a mine. Our Yukon based projects both fit this model and our objective is to gain shareholder value by advancing projects in our pipeline. The Hyland Gold Project, located 70km NE of Watson Lake, Yukon, along the southeast end of the Tintina Gold Belt is a sediment hosted, structurally controlled, intrusion related gold deposit, with a large land package (over 125 sq. km), with the resource contained in the Main Zone area (900x600m) daylighting at surface and numerous other known surface gold targets. The Main Zone oxide zone is amenable to heap leach open pit mining, with column leach recoveries of 86%. The project has an existing gravel access road.

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