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Drilling Commences at Carlin East Project, Nevada

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Drilling Commences at Carlin East Project, Nevada

Vancouver, BC – July 23, 2019, Ethos Gold Corp. (“ Ethos ” or the “ Company ”) (TSXV:ECC) (OTCQB:

ETHOF) is pleased to announce that Ridgeline Minerals Corp. (“Ridgeline”) has commenced drilling

at its Carlin-East project. Ethos holds an approximately 8% interest in Ridgeline and has the right to

maintain this interest through the next phase of financing (see Ethos May 30, 2019 news release).

Carlin-East is a 17-square-km core land position in the Carlin trend that is on trend with Newmont’s

multimillion-ounce Leeville-Turf gold mine and adja cent to Barrick’s Goldstrike complex. The

primary structures (Four Corners & Lynn Faults) bou nding mineralization at the Leeville-Turf mine

are interpreted to extend onto the Carlin-East prop erty and coincide with a kilometer-scale Au in

soils anomaly centered over a pronounced gravity ge ophysics high. Exploration over the past 30

years was sporadic and restricted to geophysics, surface geochemistry and shallow drilling (<1000′)

that never reached its intended Lower Plate target. Recent work by Ridgeline suggests that the

Carlin-East property may be a dissected portion of the Goldstrike mineralized system that was

offset to the eastern margin of Little Boulder Basi n during post-mineral Miocene extension (see

Figure 1 below). Historic deep drilling by Newmont supports this theory and suggests the eastern

basin margin may host additional high-grade mineralization under Upper Plate cover.

Figure 1. Schematic Geological Section of Carlin-East.

Ridgeline has recently completed a property-wide gr avity survey, a phase I soils program totaling

250 samples, and a detailed structural mapping prog ram followed by integration of all data into a

leapfrog 3D model. A 5.0-acre BLM Notice of Intent drilling permit has been approved and bonded

with the first of two planned drill holes beginning on July 23rd, 2019. Drilling will target Carlin-Type

mineralization within Ridgeline’s highest priority target in the Four Corners – Lynn structural

corridor with a proposed target depth of 1700’-2200’ and a drill capable of extending to 3000+ feet

if warranted. Assay results are expected by end of August, 2019.

Qualified Person

Jo Price, M.Sc., MBA, P.Geo., VP Exploration of the Company and a Qualified Person as defined

under National Instrument 43-101 has reviewed and approved this release.

About Ethos Gold

Ethos’ strategy is to earn into potentially large, drill ready gold projects that can be drill tested over

a shorter time frame with a relatively modest budget. Ethos’ current projects include:

La Purisima (earning 100%) is a near surface, bulk tonnage, oxide gold target located in Chihuahua,

Mexico. Ethos is now conducting its maiden drill program at La Purisima, with 15 of a planned 18

holes now completed.

Iron Point (earning 50% from Victory Metals Inc: TSX-V: VMX) is a Lower Plate hosted Carlin-style

gold target, located 22 miles east of Winnemucca, N evada. Drilling at Iron Point is underway

supervised by Dr. Quinton Hennigh. The first two p lanned holes (Holes 1 and 2) have been

completed, and Hole 3 is now permitted, and constru ction of a short access road and drill pad is

underway.

Carlin East and Swift . Ethos also owns approximately 8% of the equity of Carlin Type Holdings Ltd.,

a private British Columbia company whose wholly own ed US subsidiary, Ridgeline Minerals

Corporation, is earning into 100% ownership of thre e Nevada gold exploration projects, including

two deep Carlin-type targets. Ridgeline has now commenced drilling of Carlin-East.

Ligneris (earning up to 70% from Vior Inc: TSXV:VIO) is loc ated 90 km north of Rouyn-Noranda,

Quebec. The project has a large mineralized surfac e expression, and approximately 200 holes

drilled to approximately 300 m depth, with some significant gold drill intercepts. The project rocks

and mineralization bear many similarities to Agnico’s LaRonde complex. Surface sampling and line

cutting for geophysics has now commenced and Ethos plans to commence a drill program in the

third quarter of 2019.

Perk-Rocky (earning 100%) is a large copper-gold porphyry tar get located 220 miles east of

Williams Lake, British Columbia. The 2019 explorat ion program including detailed airborne

geophysics and ground sampling and mapping has comm enced. Subject to results and permitting

Ethos may conduct some initial drilling at Perk-Rocky prior to the end of the 2019 season.

Ethos is also earning into the Pine Pass and Ursula vanadium projects (100% earn-in) in north-

central British Columbia. In March 2019 Ethos recei ved notice from the Province of British

Columbia that the mineral tenures making up its Pin e Pass vanadium project are included in an

area under consideration for an immediate moratoriu m on development proposals and possible

inclusion in an expanded environmental protected area, and Ethos is now waiting on the resolution

of this issue before proceeding with further work.

Ethos currently has cash of approximately C$6.5 million and 56.3 million shares issued .

For additional information please contact Tom Martin at E: [email protected] P: 1-250-516-

2455 or view the Company’s website, www.ethosgold.c om and the Company’s SEDAR profile at

www.sedar.com.

Ethos Gold Corp.

Per: " Craig Roberts "

Craig Roberts, P .Eng., President & CEO

Forward-Looking Statement Cautions:

This press release contains certain "forward-lookin g statements" within the meaning of Canadian securi ties

legislation. Although the Company believes that suc h statements are reasonable, it can give no assuran ce

that such expectations will prove to be correct. Fo rward-looking statements are statements that are no t

historical facts; they are generally, but not alway s, identified by the words "expects," "plans," "ant icipates,"

"believes," "intends," "estimates," "projects," "ai ms," "potential," "goal," "objective," "prospective ," and similar

expressions, or that events or conditions "will," " would," "may," "can," "could" or "should" occur, or are those

statements, which, by their nature, refer to future events. The Company cautions that forward-looking

statements are based on the beliefs, estimates and opinions of the Company's management on the date th e

statements are made and they involve a number of ri sks and uncertainties. Consequently, there can be n o

assurances that such statements will prove to be ac curate and actual results and future events could d iffer

materially from those anticipated in such statement s. Except to the extent required by applicable secu rities

laws and the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange, the Company undertakes no obligation to update thes e

forward-looking statements if management's beliefs, estimates or opinions, or other factors, should ch ange.

Factors that could cause future results to differ m aterially from those anticipated in these forward-l ooking

statements include the risk of accidents and other risks associated with mineral exploration operation s, the

risk that the Company will encounter unanticipated geological factors, or the possibility that the Com pany

may not be able to secure permitting and other agen cy or governmental clearances, necessary to carry o ut

the Company's exploration plans, and the risk of po litical uncertainties and regulatory or legal chang es in the

jurisdictions where the Company carries on its busi ness that might interfere with the Company's busine ss

and prospects. The reader is urged to refer to the Company's reports, publicly available through the

Canadian Securities Administrators' System for Elec tronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR) at

www.sedar.com for a more complete discussion of such risk factors and their potential effects

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

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

release.