Solvista Gold Announces Second Porphyry Discovery at Caramanta New Results Include 113.7 Metres at 1.14 g/t Gold Equivalent

Solvista Gold Corporation ("Solvista" or the "Company") (TSX
VENTURE:SVV)(OTCQX:SVVZF) is pleased to announce the discovery of a second
mineralized porphyry system at its El Corral target, the second target drilled
of six identified targets, within the Company's 100% owned Caramanta Porphyry
Cluster ("CPC") at its Caramanta Project. These results confirm the Company's
model that the three kilometre long CPC represents an aligned cluster of related
mineralized bodies and as such, has the potential to host additional,
significant new gold-copper porphyry and other related discoveries in the Middle
Cauca Belt of Colombia. The Company had previously announced the discovery of a
mineralized porphyry system at El Reten, the first target drilled within the CPC
(see press releases dated September 17, 2012, September 25, 2012 December 11,
2012 and May, 21, 2013). Final assay results from the third target area (Ajiaco
Sur) drilled as part of the Phase 1, 8,000 metre drill program are pending and
the Company looks forward to releasing these, once all data have been received
and verified.


Highlights



--  Five drill holes, from one drill platform, were completed at the El
    Corral target, and all five intersected significant intervals of Cu-Au-
    Ag-Mo mineralization: 
    
    --  Drill hole CAD-1205, drilled to the northeast at -55 degrees,
        intersected 197.9 metres at 0.92g/t AuEq, including 113.7 metres at
        1.14 g/t AuEq, 
        
    --  Drill hole CAD-1207, drilled vertically, intersected 88.6 metres at
        0.79g/t AuEq, 
        
    --  Drill hole CAD-1209, drilled to the northwest at -55 degrees,
        intersected 128.8 metres at 0.78g/t AuEq, including 57.2 metres at
        0.91 g/t AuEq, 
        
    --  Drill hole CAD-1211, drilled to the southeast at -55 degrees,
        intersected 153.2 metres at 0.69g/t AuEq, including 42.9 metres at
        0.83 g/t AuEq, 
        
    --  Drill hole CAD-1213, drilled to the southwest at -55 degrees,
        intersected 94.8 metres at 0.88g/t AuEq, including 68.3 metres at
        1.00 g/t AuEq. 
        
--  Significantly higher levels of silver (included in the above AuEq
    values) than those seen previously in drilling at El Reten were
    intersected in all drill holes at El Corral and are considered to
    represent some of the highest silver values encountered in a porphyry
    environment in Colombia. This further supports the Company's belief that
    the CPC represents a dynamic, long-lived, magmatic-hydrothermal system
    with the potential to host distinct styles of mineralization throughout
    the district. As an example of this, the Company is also pleased to
    announce the discovery of high-grade, silver-gold mineralization to the
    west of the CPC, in the area known as La Florida. 
    
--  The El Corral target forms the southern part of an irregularly shaped
    surface rock chip geochemical anomaly measuring up to 700 metres in a
    northeast direction by 390 metres in a southeast direction (Figure 1).
    More drilling will be required to fully evaluate the true potential of
    the El Corral target. 
    
--  The Company is soliciting bids from drilling contractors for a 4,000
    metre program to drill test the Malabrigo and Casa Verde targets in Q3
    of 2013. Located to the north of El Corral and Ajiaco Sur, both these
    targets show a strong correlation between surface rock chip sampling,
    soil sampling and mapped porphyry-style alteration and mineralization
    (Figure 1). 



Commenting on the drill results, Solvista's President and CEO, Miller O'Prey,
stated: "We are very pleased to be announcing a second discovery at our second
target within the Caramanta Porphyry Cluster, which is in addition to our
previously announced El Reten discovery. The fact that we have now confirmed
discoveries at the first two targets drilled strengthens our belief that the
Caramanta Project has the potential to host a number of significant new
gold-copper porphyry discoveries, as well as other related styles of
mineralization such as that discovered at La Florida. We look forward to
releasing the results from our third target, Ajiaco Sur, once all of the assay
data have been received and verified."


Details

Drill hole CAD-1205 was drilled from a platform located 920 metres
north-northeast of the original El Reten discovery platform (Figure 1) to test
the southern end of a 700 metre x 390 metre surface gold and copper rock chip
anomaly in an area characterized by porphyry-style alteration and mineralization
of igneous rocks that are mineralogically distinct from the El Reten porphyry
and related intrusive rocks. The drill hole encountered significant
mineralization essentially from the surface with a continuously mineralized
interval of 197.9 metres at 0.92 g/t AuEq, including 113.7 metres at 1.14 g/t
AuEq, as illustrated in Figures 2 and 3. The mineralization encountered in drill
hole CAD-1205, and in all other drill holes completed to-date at El Corral, is
more polymetallic in nature than that discovered at El Reten; for example in
CAD-1205 an interval within the abovementioned 197.9 metres returned 30.1 g/t Ag
over 61.9 metres, starting at 43.9 metres depth.


Drill hole CAD-1207 was drilled vertically from the same platform and also
encountered significant mineralization essentially from the surface with a
continuously mineralized interval of 88.6 metres at 0.79 g/t AuEq, followed by
an 86.5 metre interval averaging 0.52 g/t AuEq from 109.7 metres.


Drill hole CAD-1209 was drilled from the same platform, but in a northwesterly
direction and intersected 128.8 metres at 0.78 g/t AuEq from 5.5 metres depth,
including an upper interval of 57.5 metres with 16.4 g/t Ag.


Drill hole CAD-1211 was also drilled from the same platform, but in a
southeasterly direction and encountered 153.2 metres averaging 0.69 g/t AuEq,
including a copper-rich interval starting at 40.5 metres, which intersected 42.9
metres at 0.31 % Cu. At 176.4 metres a high-grade silver interval, averaging
41.5 g/t Ag over 7.1 metres was intersected.


Drill hole CAD-1213 is the final drill hole completed at El Corral to date. It
intersected 94.8 metres at 0.88 g/t AuEq with Au, Cu and Ag being of almost
equal importance. At 124.8 metres the drill hole intersected the highest grade
molybdenum interval seen at the project to date, averaging 113 ppm Mo over 14
metres.


Table 1 includes all the intervals of significant gold-copper-silver-molybdenum
mineralization and Table 2 provides location information for the five drill
holes reported in this press release. Due to the distinctly polymetallic nature
of the mineralization at El Corral a new AuEq (g/t) calculation has been
utilized, which includes both silver and molybdenum values, as they are orders
of magnitudes greater at El Corral than at El Reten. Surface geology, drill hole
collars and drill hole traces (with intervals of significant mineralization) are
shown on Figure 2. Significant intervals are defined as being at least six (6)
metres in length and averaging more than 0.4 g/t AuEq with no "internal
dilution" greater than six (6) metres at less than 0.4 g/t AuEq.




                                                                            
Table 1                                                                     
                                                                            
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CAD-1205 Significant Intervals                                              
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                            Length                                 Mo   AuEq
          From (m)  To (m)     (m)  Au (g/t)  Ag (g/t)  Cu (%)  (ppm)  (g/t)
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               6.0   203.9   197.9      0.30      13.2    0.21     33   0.92
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including     43.9   156.9   113.1      0.30      19.9    0.27     30   1.14
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             212.3   222.0     9.7      0.13       2.3    0.15     15   0.44
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             247.0   255.7     8.7      0.14       1.7    0.17     15   0.46
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CAD-1207 Significant Intervals                                              
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                            Length                                 Mo   AuEq
          From (m)  To (m)     (m)  Au (g/t)  Ag (g/t)  Cu (%)  (ppm)  (g/t)
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               5.9    94.5    88.6      0.31       5.5    0.22     19   0.79
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             109.7   196.2    86.5      0.13       7.3    0.14     19   0.52
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             137.2   151.1    13.9      0.20      13.1    0.27     11   0.91
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CAD-1209 Significant Intervals                                              
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                            Length                                 Mo   AuEq
          From (m)  To (m)     (m)  Au (g/t)  Ag (g/t)  Cu (%)  (ppm)  (g/t)
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               5.5   134.3   128.8      0.30      10.3    0.17     13   0.78
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including      5.5    63.0    57.5      0.38      16.4    0.12     13   0.91
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             140.5   147.7     7.2      0.34       6.8    0.08      7   0.61
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CAD-1211 Significant Intervals                                              
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                            Length                                 Mo   AuEq
          From (m)  To (m)     (m)  Au (g/t)  Ag (g/t)  Cu (%)  (ppm)  (g/t)
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               4.5   157.7   153.2      0.19       8.2    0.19     51   0.69
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including     40.5   83.35    42.9      0.19       5.3    0.31     39   0.83
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             176.4   181.5     7.1      0.03      41.5    0.04     61   0.94
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CAD-1213 Significant Intervals                                              
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                            Length                                 Mo   AuEq
          From (m)  To (m)     (m)  Au (g/t)  Ag (g/t)  Cu (%)  (ppm)  (g/t)
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               2.0    96.8    94.8      0.27      15.3    0.18     15   0.88
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including     23.0    91.3    68.3      0.26      19.8    0.21     16   1.00
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             105.5   112.0     6.5      0.21      64.2    0.28     19   1.94
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             124.8   138.8    14.0      0.20       4.6    0.24    113   0.74
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Table 1: AuEq (g/t) calculated using the following long-term metal prices:  
Au - $1386/oz, Cu - $3.33/lb, Ag - $27.15/oz & Mo - $11/lb. No adjustments  
have been made for metallurgical recoveries or net-smelter returns as these 
remain uncertain at this time. AuEq formula: AuEq g/t = Au g/t + (Cu % x    
((3.33/1386) x 0.06857 x 10,000)) + (Ag (g/t) x (27.14/1386)) + Mo % x      
((11/1386) x 0.06857 x 10,000)). Intercepts are reported as downhole lengths
and may not represent true thicknesses.                                     
                                                                            
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Drill Hole     East UTM  North UTM  Elevation   Azimuth Inclination   Length
Number       Coordinate Coordinate (m.a.s.l.) (degrees)   (degrees) (metres)
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CAD-1205         423769     614208       2561        45         -55    304.0
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CAD-1207         423768     614207       2561         0         -90    333.0
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CAD-1209         423765     614207       2561       315         -55    375.0
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CAD-1211         423768     614206       2561       135         -55    234.0
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CAD-1213         423766     614205       2561       225         -55    184.5
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Table 2: Drill hole location data for the five drill holes completed in the 
El Corral target area. Coordinates are in UTM WGS 84, Zone 18N.             



Discussion of the Results

The drilling completed to-date at El Corral has defined an irregular,
near-surface zone, locally up to 30 metres thick, comprised of colluvium and
variably weathered bedrock where drill core recoveries average between 60%-90%.
Below this zone, surficial effects are minimal and drill core recoveries are
typically greater than 90%.


The 1,430.5 metres of drilling at El Corral is substantially less than that
completed to-date at El Reten, only partially covering the surface rock chip
anomaly. However, even at this early stage a number of conclusions can be drawn
which will help guide future drilling the in El Corral target area.


To-date, four separate porphyry phases have been identified at El Corral and no
drill hole intersected the surrounding country rocks to the west. At El Reten,
contacts of the porphyries with the older volcanic rocks are commonly zones of
higher grade mineralization than the mineralized porphyry itself. Determining
the location of these contact zones at El Corral represents a priority target
for future drilling there. The geology of the mineralized porphyries at El Reten
and El Corral is subtly distinct, as is the nature of the alteration and
mineralization. It is believed that some of the observed differences in the
mineralization geochemistry (e.g., higher copper gold ratio and higher Mo at El
Corral) are due to these geological variations, however, the possibility of
mineral zoning on a larger scale remains. Solvista geologists believe that the
alteration and mineralization at both El Reten and El Corral are related to the
same district scale magmatic-hydrothermal event.


The higher grade silver values at El Corral correlate with the presence of a set
of lower temperature quartz veins with sulfide mineralization. Several
restricted zones of higher grade silver mineralization do occur at El Reten
(e.g., CAD-1204 - 159.9 to 179.7m @ 34.7g/t Ag; CAD- 1214 - 164.0 to 173.4m @
49.7g/t Ag), however, this mineralization is related to later calcite- quartz
veins with anomalous base metals. The silver mineralization at El Corral is
essentially silver only with no associated anomalous base metal values. Silver
grades as high as those seen at El Corral have not been noted in literature
published on other porphyry gold-copper projects in Colombia. The silver
mineralization at El Corral further supports the Company's belief that the CPC
represents a dynamic, magmatic-hydrothermal system which could also produce
other styles of potentially important alteration and mineralization. As such,
the Company believes that there is good potential to discover different,
epithermal-style mineralization peripheral to the CPC, but all related to its
evolution. As evidence of this potential, 49 rock chip samples from the La
Florida area (1200 metres NNW of El Reten and 1100 metres west of Ajiaco Sur,
see Figure 1) returned an average of 60g/t Ag, 0.32g/t Au, 0.10% Pb, 0.13% Zn
and 3187ppm Mn, all elements common in epithermal systems.


The Company's recently completed Phase 1 drill program was focused on three
target areas - El Reten, El Corral and Ajiaco Sur, which represent the three
southernmost targets within the CPC (as currently defined) (Figure 1). As it is
presently understood, the CPC is a three kilometre long trend with a generally
north-south orientation that remains open for further discoveries in all
directions.


The Company continues to explore additional areas within the CPC and is
currently defining drill platform locations for the Malabrigo and Casa Verde
targets, which the Company plans to drill test in Q3 of 2013. As can be seen on
Figure 1, ridge and spur soil sampling completed across the CPC has highlighted
anomalies coincident with rock chip sampling at both Malabrigo and Casa Verde.
In fact the soil anomalies indicate extension to both targets, in areas where
outcrops (and therefore rock chip sampling) are limited.


In accordance with National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for
Mineral Projects ("NI 43-101"), it is noted that the potential quality and grade
identified to-date at El Corral is conceptual in nature, that there has been
insufficient exploration to define a mineral resource and that it is uncertain
if further exploration will result in a target being delineated as a mineral
resource.


Quality Control and Assurance

The Company utilizes an industry-standard Quality Assurance/Quality Control
program for the taking and analyzing of samples. Rock, drill core and stream
sediment samples are prepared and analyzed at facilities in Antioquia, Colombia
and Ontario, Canada run by the ActLabs Group of Companies. Gold values were
determined by fire assay with an atomic absorption finish on 30 gram samples;
other elements were analyzed with a 4 acid digestion and an ICP finish. Blanks,
duplicates and certified reference standards are routinely inserted into the
sample stream to monitor laboratory performance and a portion of the samples are
periodically check assayed at SGS Laboratories in Medellin, Colombia.


The scientific and technical information contained in this news release has been
reviewed by the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Miller
O'Prey P.Geo., who is a "Qualified Person" as such term is defined under NI
43-101.


About the Caramanta Project

The Caramanta Project is located at the center of the Middle Cauca Belt, one of
the most prolific gold districts in Colombia, with production dating back to
pre-Colonial times. It has also been the focus of intense exploration over the
past five years with a number of new discoveries including La Colosa (Anglogold
Ashanti), a porphyry-gold deposit with a JORC-compliant Inferred Resource of
24.15 Moz Au at 0.94 g/t Au. Directly south of Caramanta is Gran Colombia Gold's
Marmato Project with NI 43-101 compliant Measured and Indicated Resources of
12.4 Moz Au at 1.02 g/t Au and Inferred Resources of 2.4 Moz Au at 1.1 g/t Au.
To the north is Sunward Resources' Titiribi deposit where a NI 43-101 compliant
Measured and Indicated Resource of 4.6 Moz Au at 0.52 g/t Au and Inferred
Resource of 6.4 Moz Au at 0.56 g/t Au have been announced.


About Solvista

Solvista is a gold exploration company with two projects, Caramanta and
Guadalupe. These projects cover approximately 60,000 hectares in the Antioquia
province of Colombia, a region rich in historic gold mining tradition and where
several new gold discoveries have recently been made. Solvista is well funded
and has completed Phase 1 drill programs at both its projects, with the
discovery of significant mineralization at both. Additional drilling is planned
for the Caramanta Project during Q3 of 2013 and exploration is ongoing at
Guadalupe. Solvista's head office is located in Toronto, Canada with its
Colombian headquarters located in Medellin. For further details on Solvista, its
management team and its projects, please refer to Solvista's website
(www.solvistagold.com).


CAUTIONARY STATEMENT: This news release contains forward-looking information
which is not comprised of historical facts. Forward-looking information involves
risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events, results,
performance, prospects and opportunities to differ materially from those
expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Forward-looking
information in this news release includes, but is not limited to, Solvista's
objectives, goals or future plans, statements regarding the estimation of
mineral resources, exploration results, potential mineralization, exploration
and mine development plans, timing of the commencement of operations and
estimates of market conditions. Factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially from such forward-looking information include, but are not
limited to, failure to convert estimated mineral resources to reserves, capital
and operating costs varying significantly from estimates, the preliminary nature
of metallurgical test results, delays in obtaining or failures to obtain
required governmental, environmental or other project approvals, political
risks, uncertainties relating to the availability and costs of financing needed
in the future, changes in equity markets, inflation, changes in exchange rates,
fluctuations in commodity prices, delays in the development of projects and the
other risks involved in the mineral exploration and development industry, and
those risks set out in Solvista's public documents filed on SEDAR. Although
Solvista believes that the assumptions and factors used in preparing the
forward-looking information in this news release are reasonable, undue reliance
should not be placed on such information, which only applies as of the date of
this news release, and no assurance can be given that such events will occur in
the disclosed time frames or at all. Solvista disclaims any intention or
obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a
result of new information, future events or otherwise, other than as required by
law.


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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: 
Solvista Gold Corporation
Miller O'Prey, PGeo
Chief Executive Officer
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Solvista Gold Corporation
Don Christie, CPA
Chief Financial Officer
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[e-mail]
www.solvistagold.com