Gold Standard has Retained San Diego Torrey Hills Capital as Investor Relations Consultants to the Company

Gold Standard Ventures Corp. (TSX VENTURE:GSV)(NYSE MKT:GSV)(NYSE Amex:GSV)
("Gold Standard" or the "Company") announced today that Effective May 16, 2014,
Gold Standard has retained San Diego Torrey Hills Capital, Inc. ("Torrey Hills")
to act as investor relations consultants to the Company.


Torrey Hills Capital is a leading investor and financial public relations firm
specializing in small and micro-cap companies, primarily in the natural resource
sector. Torrey Hills Capital will increase awareness about Gold Standard through
its established relationships with investment professionals, investment
advisors, and money managers focused on the microcap market space. This will
allow Gold Standard to build and maintain an informed investor audience in both
the U.S and Canadian marketplace. Torrey Hills Capital will also develop a
profile on Gold Standard for coverage on its website, www.babybulls.com, a
website developed to showcase and provide exposure for emerging micro-cap
companies to an audience of proven micro-cap investors.


Torrey Hills Capital has been engaged for an initial term of six months at a
monthly fee of US$8,500.


ABOUT GOLD STANDARD VENTURES - Gold Standard is an advanced stage gold
exploration focused on district scale discoveries in Nevada. The Company's
flagship project, the Railroad-Pinion Gold Project, is located within the
prolific Carlin Trend. The recent Pinion gold deposit acquisition offers GSV a
potential near-term development option and further consolidates the Company's
premier land package in the Carlin Trend. Gold Standard is moving towards
building NI 43-101 compliant gold resources at both the near surface, oxide-gold
Pinion deposit and the classic Carlin style, North Bullion gold deposit in 2014.


Neither the TSXV nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined
in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) nor the NYSE MKT accepts
responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.


CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS 

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. All statements, other than statements of historical fact,
included herein including, without limitation, statements about our proposed
financing are forward looking statements. By their nature, forward-looking
statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors
which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements, or other future
events, to be materially different from any future results, performance or
achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.


Risk factors affecting the Company include, among others: the results from our
exploration programs, global financial conditions and volatility of capital
markets, uncertainty regarding the availability of additional capital,
fluctuations in commodity prices; title matters; and the additional risks
identified in our filings with Canadian securities regulators on SEDAR in Canada
(available at www.sedar.com) and with the SEC on EDGAR (available at
www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml). These forward-looking statements are made as of the
date hereof and, except as required under applicable securities legislation, the
Company does not assume any obligation to update or revise them to reflect new
events or circumstances. 


On behalf of the Board of Directors of Gold Standard, 

Jonathan Awde, President and Director

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: 
Gold Standard Ventures Corp.
Jonathan Awde
President
604-669-5702
[e-mail]
www.goldstandardv.com