NuLegacy Gold John Budreski Appointed a Director of NuLegacy Gold

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NuLegacy Gold

C O R P O R A T I O N

John Budreski Appointed a Director of NuLegacy Gold

April 3, 2018 - Reno, NV - NuLegacy Gold Corporation is pleased to report the appointment of

Mr. John P.A. Budreski to its board of directors.

Mr. Budreski , MBA/BEng. has over 3 5 years of extensive capital markets and executive

management experience and is the Chief Executive Officer of Morien Resources Corporation. He is

also Executive Chairman of EnWave Corporation, a leading dehydration technology company.

“We welcome Mr. Budreski to the board”, commented NuLegacy Chairman Albert Matter, “as he

has a professional history of rapidly advancing and accelerating bus inesses to success, as well as

tangible engineering experience”.

In addition to Morien and EnWave, Mr. Budreski is currently a Director of Sandstorm Gold Ltd.,

and Input Capital Corp. John was formerly Vice Chairman of Cormark Securities Inc. from 2009 to

2012 and President and CEO of Orion Securities Inc. from 2005 to 2007, prior to its successful sale

to Macquarie Bank. He was Managing Director of Equity Capital Markets and Head of Investment

Banking for Scotia Capital Inc. from March 1998 to Februar y 2005. He also held senior roles in

investment banking, equity sales and trading for RBC Dominion Securities.

About NuLegacy Gold Corporation: NuLegacy is a Nevada exploration company focused on discovering additional

Carlin-style gold deposits on its premier district scale 98 sq. km (38 sq. mile) Red Hill Project in the prolific Cortez

gold trend of Nevada.

To date NuLegacy has discovered the Iceberg Carlin -style gold deposits and has identified several more highly

prospective exploration targets that are being drilled this year.

NuLegacy’s Red Hill Project is located on trend and adjacenti to the three multi-million ounce Carlin-type gold deposits

(the Pipeline, Cortez Hills and Goldrush deposits) that are amongst Barrick Gold’s largest, lowest cost and politically

safest gold minesii.

i The similarity and proximity of these deposits in the Cortez Trend is not necessarily indicative of the gold mineralization i n

NuLegacy’s Red Hill Project.

ii As extracted from Barrick’s Q4 -2013 and Q1 -2014 reports. As reported by Barrick, t he Goldrush r esource contains

8,557,000 indicated ounces of gold within 25.78 million tonnes grading ~10.57 g/t and 1,650,000 inferred ounces within 5.6

million tonnes grading ~9.0 g/t.

ON BEHALF OF NULEGACY GOLD CORPORATION

James E Anderson, Chief Executive Officer

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For further information, please phone 604-639-3640 or contact James Anderson (CEO) at [email protected], Albert Matter

(Chairman) at [email protected] or Roger Steininger, (CGO) at [email protected], or Frank Lagiglia (ICM)

at [email protected] or visit www.nulegacygold.com.

Dr. Roger Steininger, NuLegacy’s Chief Geoscience Off icer is a Certified Professional Geologist (CPG 7417) and the

qualified person as defined by NI 43 -101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects responsible for preparing and

reviewing the scientific and technical information contained in this news release

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX

Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.

This news release contains forward -looking statements, which relate to future events or future performance 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. Readers are cautioned that these forward -looking statements

are neither promises nor guarantees and are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to differ materially from those

expected. There are no known resources or reserves on the Red Hill Project and the proposed exploration programs are exploratory

searches for commercial bodies of ore. In addition, the presence of gold deposits on properties adjacent or near the Red Hill Project is not

necessarily indicative of the gold mineralization on the Red Hill Project. 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 including

our annual management’s discussion and analysis dated July 25, 2017 for the year ended March 31, 2017. These forward -looking

statements are made as of the date hereof and the Company does not assume an y obligation to update or revise them to reflect new events

or circumstances save as required under applicable securities legislation.