Giga Metals Announces Appointment of Ms. Juliet Heading as Corporate Communications Manager

May 15 2018 TSX.V - GIGA

Giga Metals Announces Appointment of Ms. Juliet Heading as

Corporate Communications Manager

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

today that Ms. Juliet Heading has joined the Company as Corporate Communications

Manager effective May 15, 2018.

Ms. Heading was educated at the University of Aberdeen and Napier University,

Scotland, and her previous employment includes Lehman Brothers Europe, Nomura

International plc and most recently Teck Resources Limited.

“We are very pleased to add Juliet’s capital markets and communications experience to

Giga Metals,” said Mr. Jarvis. “This, combined with her energy and professionalism will

help us move the Turnagain project forward.”

“I am very happy to be joining the Giga team,” said Ms. Heading. “The battery materials

space is the right place to be as adoption of electric vehicles is growing so rapidly, and

the Turnagain project has such scale that the next few years should prove extremely

exciting for this company.”

Pursuant to the Company’s stock option plan, 150,000 options will be granted to Ms.

Heading with a strike price of $0.60 and a term of five years, subject to certain vesting

provisions and to TSXV approval.

On behalf of the Board of Directors,

“Mark Jarvis”

MARK JARVIS, President

Tel: 604 681 2300

GIGA METALS CORPORATION

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policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this

release.

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