Giga appoints Manager of Development

July 31, 2019 TSX.V - GIGA

Giga appoints Manager of Development

(Vancouver) – Mark Jarvis, CEO of Giga Metals Corp. (TSX.V – GIGA) announced today

that Lyle Trytten has joined the Company as Manager of Development. Mr. Trytten will

be responsible for all technical aspects of advancing the geology, metallurgy and

engineering of the Turnagain Project. His mandate will also include oversight of

environmental, permitting and government relations.

Mr. Trytten has more than 25 years’ experience in the nickel industry, and was previously

General Manager, Sustainability with Sherritt International Corporation at their Alberta

nickel refinery , where his role included overseeing environmental and community

stakeholder work areas . Previously, Ly le managed Sherritt’s acclaimed metallurgical

research group and full -service engineering group and managed the project review

component (including technical review and economic modelling) for the growth mandate

of Sherritt’s technology division . Lyle has been personally involved with metallurgical

operations on five continents, including a 1 -year secondment to the Murrin Murrin nickel

refinery in Australia (now owned by Glencore) and start -ups of metallurgical processing

facilities in the US and Indonesia.

“We are very pleased to welcome Mr. Trytten to the team,” said Mr. Jarvis. “People of

Lyle’s caliber are rare in our industry. He will be a critical part of advancing the Turnagain

Project as a credible alternative to the giant greenfields HPAL projects as a potential source

of new supply of nickel suitable for conversion to Class 1 or chemical products to feed the

rapidly growing lithium ion battery industry.”

“Giga Metals has a very exciting project,” said Mr. Trytten. “Turnagain has a large

resource that has the potential to produce high-grade nickel and cobalt concentrate with

very low impurities, using a relatively simple flow sheet. I look forward to helping

optimize the project and to working with local communities and First Nations as we

develop a sustainable project that will deliver economic benefits for many years to come.”

Stock Options

Pursuant to the Company’s Stock Option plan, approved by the TSX Venture Exchange,

the Company will be granting 150,000 stock option s to Mr. Trytten , subject to certain

vesting provisions, exercisable at $0.30 per share, expiring July 26, 2024.

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About Giga Metals

Giga Metals Corporation is focused on metals critical to modern batteries, especially those

used in Electric Vehicles and Energy Storage. The Company’s core asset is the Turnagain

Project, located in northern British Columbia, which contains one of the few significant

undeveloped sulphide nickel and cobalt resources in the world.

Technical aspects of this news release have been reviewed and approved by Lyle Trytten,

P.Eng., a Qualified Person as defined by NI 43-101.

This press release contains “forward looking statements”. Such forward -looking

statements involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors

which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the company’s plans

to materially differ from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or

implied by such forward-looking statements.

On behalf of the Board of Directors,

“Mark Jarvis”

MARK JARVIS, President

GIGA METALS CORPORATION

604-681-2300

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defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy

or accuracy of this release.

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