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Desert Gold Announces Appointments of Certain Malian Government Personnel

Management Changes

4770 72nd Street, Delta | British Columbia | Canada | V4K 3N3| Office +1 (604) 357 4726 | Fax +1 (604) 592 6882

For Immediate Release

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Desert Gold Announces Appointments of Certain Malian Government Personnel

Delta, British Columbia, December 21, 2018, DESERT GOLD VENTURES INC . (“Desert Gold” or the

“Company”) (TSX.V: DAU/FF: QXR2/OTCBB: DAUGF) announces that the following appointments were made

after completion of the 2018 Mali Presidential Election:

• Mme LELENTA Hawa Baba BAH, formerly Director of The National Directorate of Geology and Mines

(the “DNGM”), was confirmed as Minister of Mines on September 9th, 2018 and;

• Mr. Cheick G KEÏTA was confirmed as the new Director of the DNGM on December 20th, 2018

The Desert Gold team wishes to congratulate Honourable Minister LELENTA Hawa Baba BAH and Director

Cheick G KEÏTA on their respective appointments and looks forward to continuing to work with them in their new

leadership roles at the Ministry of Mines and DNGM.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Jared Scharf, President & Director

+1 (858) 247-8195

For further information please visit our website www.desertgold.ca or information available

on www.SEDAR.com under the company’s profile.

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