Vista Gold Corp. announced that it has increased the size of its Board of Directors from six to seven, and appointed Ms. Deborah Friedman as a director of the company. Ms. Friedman is a successful mining company executive with over 38 years of international and domestic industry experience with major, mid-tier and junior companies, and a retired partner from the law firm of Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP. The Board of Directors will consider board committee appointments at its next regularly scheduled meeting.