Vangold Mining : Reports Continuous Channel Sample Assays up to 1136 gpt AgEq

VANCOUVER - VanGold Mining Corp (the 'Company' or 'VanGold') (TSXV: VGLD) reports assays from underground channel sampling at its El Pinguico silver and gold project, located 7km south of Guanajuato, Mexico.

Sampling of Vein Exposures: 267 channel samples ranging in sample width from 0.4m to 2.2m and averaging 1.1m were taken from vein exposures of the Pinguico vein along adit level 4, and from the San Jose vein along crosscuts parallel to adit level 4. These samples were assayed for silver and gold in order to isolate target areas for the Company's upcoming underground drill program.

Company director and QP Hernan Dorado said, 'The fact that within adit level 4 - which has largely remained accessible for 110 years - there remains so many exposures of good grade material, often continuously observed for dozens of meters, is remarkable. We are eager to drill these targets to extend this mineralization toward adit Level 7, and also to sample other less accessible areas of the mine'.

Sampling of Adit Level 4: Significant silver and gold values from this sampling tend to be located in 'clusters' and are more meaningful when the higher-grade samples are grouped over significant strike lengths of the vein. Stopes above adit level 4 were generally mined out historically between c.1902 and 1913. This recent sampling suggests that good grades by today's standards exist below adit level 4 and were passed over by the historical miners as the grades they encountered did not exceed the very high cutoff grade utilized at that time. VanGold's sampling has now established drill targets that may form pillars of mineralization between adit level 4 and adit Level 7 and will be the focus of the Company's upcoming drill campaign which initially will be conducted entirely within the Company's 'Don Ricardo' target area.

Sampling of San Jose Vein: The San Jose Vein runs approximately 60m to the east and roughly parallel with the Pinguico vein, before the two veins merge further north. Material sampled from the San Jose vein appears to have more erratic values, however some of the assays have excellent grades. New historical data recently discovered by the Company suggests that the San Jose vein runs parallel to the Pinguico vein to the south for close to 700m in strike length. This theory will be tested by the Company's upcoming drill campaign.

Upcoming Drill program

As described in the Company's September 24, 2020 news release, VanGold has purchased an Explorer - 75E core drill rig from Grupo Ingetrol S.A de C.V. (Ingetrol) of Torreon, Mexico. Among other desirable attributes, this drill is small enough to fit into many of the adits, drifts, and galleries of El Pinguico's old workings, while still being able to target the broad strike length of potential new in-situ material of the Pinguico and San Jose vein systems, as well as other known and unknown parallel veins. The machine is rated capable for drilling up to 430 meters of NQ size core or 200 meters of HQ size core. The Company now expects to receive the drill rig in the third week of December and to be in a position to commence its underground drill program shortly thereafter.

The Company plans to use drill stations being created in galleries located at the end of the San Jose 1 and San Jose 2 crosscuts. From these stations and drilling east, most holes will be able to test both the San Jose vein as well at the Pinguico vein. Additionally, a third drill station has been created in a short parallel drift, several meters east of adit level 4, which will be used to test the most northerly pillars, as illustrated in the accompanying long section. Click here.

Clearing of the El Pinguico Shaft

The Company continues to focus on clearing the remaining material blocking access from the El Pinguico shaft to the adit Level 7. The remaining material blocking passage to the Level 7 is now estimated to be less than two meters in vertical depth, and the Company anticipates making that breakthrough imminently. The Company plans to sample the bottom of its underground stockpile once access is achieved.

Market Maker

VanGold announces that it has, subject to regulatory approval, retained Mackie Research Capital Corp. ('Mackie') to act as trading adviser to the Company, and to provide market-making services to the Company in compliance with the policies and guidelines of the TSX Venture Exchange ('TSXV') and other applicable legislation.

Mackie will trade shares of VanGold on the TSXV for the purposes of maintaining an orderly market and improving the liquidity of the Company's common shares. The agreement calls for Mackie to be paid $5,000 per month on a month-to month basis. The engagement may be terminated by either party with written notice of 30 days. The Company and Mackie act at arm's length. The agreement is principally for the purposes of maintaining an orderly market and liquidity for the Company's common shares. There are no performance factors contained in the agreement between Mackie and the Company, and Mackie will not receive any shares or options from the Company as compensation for services it will render.

Repurchase of Underlying El Pinguico Royalties

Further to the Company's news releases of August 20 and October 13, 2020, the Company has completed its upfront option payment of C$200,000 and 3,750,000 units ('Units') of the Company to Exploraciones Mineras Del Bajio S.A. de C.V., the original vendor of the El Pinguico property, in order to eliminate three underlying royalties from the property. Each Unit consisted of one common share of the Company and one non-transferable warrant to purchase an additional common share at a price of C$0.175 for period of five years. The Units are subject to a four month hold period expiring April 1, 2021.

About VanGold Mining Corp.

VanGold Mining is an exploration and development company engaged in reactivating high-grade past producing silver and gold mines near the city of Guanajuato, Mexico. The Company's El Pinguico project is a significant past producer of both silver and gold located just 7km south of the city. The Company remains focused on the near-term potential for development and monetization of its surface and underground stockpiles of mineralized material at El Pinguico, and in delineating silver and gold resources through underground and surface drilling on projects located in this historic mining camp.

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Forward-Looking Statements

This news release contains certain forward-looking statements, which relate to future events or future performance (including, but not limited to, the proposed work program at the Company's El Pinquico project and the potential for near term monetization of existing stockpiles of mineralized material thereon and the potential intersection at depth of the 'Veta Madre' with the Company's El Pinguico and El Carmen viens) and reflect management's current expectations and assumptions. Such forward-looking statements reflect management's current beliefs and are based on assumptions made by and information currently available to the Company. In addition, there is uncertainty about the spread of COVID-19 and the impact it will have on the Company's operations, supply chains, ability to access El Pinguico or procure equipment, contractors and other personnel on a timely basis or at all and economic activity in general. All the forward-looking statements made in this news release are qualified by these cautionary statements and those in our continuous disclosure filings available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date hereof and the Company does not assume any obligation to update or revise them to reflect new events or circumstances save as required by law.

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