Blind Creek Resources Ltd. Confirms Dates for Completion of Plan of Arrangement with Engineer Gold Mines Ltd.

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VANCOUVER, May 29, 2018 /CNW/ - (TSX.V:BCK) – Blind Creek Resources Ltd. ("Blind Creek" or the "Company"), further to its press release of May 28, 2018 (the "Prior Press Release"), wishes to confirm that the effective date for the plan of arrangement (the "Plan of Arrangement") with Engineer Gold Mines Ltd. ("Engineer Gold Mines") will occur June 1, 2018 (the "Effective Date"). Shareholders of record of Blind Creek as of the close of trading on the Effective Date will retain their Blind Creek common shares and be entitled to receive one Engineer Gold Mines common share for each two Blind Creek common shares held on that day. For more information, see the Company's Information Circular dated April 18, 2018 filed under the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.SEDAR.com.

For settlement reasons, Blind Creek common shares purchased on or after May 31, 2018 (the "Ex-Date") – AND NOT MAY 30, 2018 AS ANNOUNCED IN THE PRIOR PRESS RELEASE – will not be eligible to participate in the distribution of Engineer Gold Mines common shares pursuant to the Plan of Arrangement.

Computershare Investor Services Inc. will forward to each Blind Creek shareholder who is entitled to receive Engineer Gold Mines common shares, certificates representing their allotted number of such shares in accordance with the Arrangement. Shareholders should not deliver certificates for Blind Creek common shares as certificates representing Blind Creek common shares are not being exchanged pursuant to the Arrangement.

About Engineer Gold Mines Ltd.

Engineer Gold Mines is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blind Creek which was incorporated on January 16, 2018 to enter into the Arrangement Agreement with Blind Creek. Following completion of the Arrangement, Engineer Gold Mines will focus on the Engineer Gold Mine project situated 32 km southwest of Atlin, B.C in northern British Columbia.

About Blind Creek Resources Ltd.

Blind Creek is a Vancouver-based junior resource company focused on lead-zinc-silver and gold-silver project acquisition, exploration and development in Yukon (Blende Property), Northwest Territories (AB Property) and British Columbia (Engineer Gold Mine). The Company's flagship property is the Blende Property in north-central Yukon.  More recently the company has signed an agreement to acquire a 100% interest in the AB Property (MV-Type Zinc-Lead) in the Northwest Territories.   

For additional information please visit the company website www.blindcreekresources.com.

On behalf of the Board of Directors,              

Mr. Brian P. Fowler, P.Geo.                          
President
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Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements made and information contained herein in the press release constitutes "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable securities legislation (collectively, "forward-looking information"). The forward-looking information contained in this press release is based on information available to the Company as of the date of this press release. Except as required under applicable securities legislation, the Company does not intend, and does not assume any obligation, to update this forward looking information. Generally, this forward-looking information can frequently, but not always, be identified by use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events, conditions or results "will", "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved" or the negative connotations thereof.

All statements other than statements of historical fact may be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking information is necessarily based on estimates and assumptions that are inherently subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to: risks and uncertainties relating to, among other things, the risk of the Company; the risk of unexpected tax consequences to the Arrangement, the risk of unanticipated material expenditures required by the Company prior to completion of the Arrangement; risks of the market valuing Blind Creek and Engineer in a manner not anticipated by the Company; risks relating to the benefits of the Arrangement not being realized or as anticipated, the inherent uncertainties regarding cost estimates, changes in commodity prices, currency fluctuation, financing, unanticipated resource grades, infrastructure, results of exploration activities, cost overruns, availability of materials and equipment, timeliness of government approvals, taxation, political risk and related economic risk and unanticipated environmental impact on operations, as well as other risks uncertainties and other factors, which may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information.

The Company believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements and information included in this press release are reasonable but no assurance can be given that these expectations will prove to be correct and such forward-looking statements and information should not be unduly relied upon.

The TSXVE has in no way passed upon the merits of the proposed transaction and has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this press release.

Neither the TSXVE nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSXVE) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

SOURCE Blind Creek Resources Ltd.

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