Banyan Gold Adds Steve Burleton and David Reid to the Board of Directors

Calgary, Alberta (FSCwire) - Banyan Gold Corp. (“Banyan” or “The Company”) is pleased to announce that Steve Burleton, Vice President, Business Development at Richmont Mines Inc. and David Reid, a senior partner and Global Co-Chair of Mining with DLA Piper (Canada) LLP have joined the Banyan Gold Board of Directors, bringing a wealth of capital market experience, mergers and acquisition knowledge and securities law.

"Steve has almost two decades of investment banking and corporate development experience as well as his capital markets contacts serve well to build out the Board’s reach as we look to continue to grow Banyan and take advantage of the strengthening junior resource market”, stated Tara Christie.

“David  brings us a wealth of mergers and acquisition and securities law knowledge to help advance Banyan’s vision of growing the breadth of our project portfolio. Together, these two additions vastly strengthen our Board and will assist in transforming Banyan into a premier go to name in the junior mining market. “

Biography of Steve Burleton, MBA, CFA

Mr. Burleton has been the Vice-President of Business Development at Richmont Mines Ltd. since February 2015. He has over 18 years of experience in the Canadian investment banking industry having dealt with companies in mining, fertilizers and industrial products. He was formerly the Vice President, Corporate Development for a publicly traded fertilizer producer with operations in Brazil and one of the few junior fertilizer development projects to reach production in recent years. In that role he was responsible for financing, strategic initiatives and investor relations. Previously, Mr. Burleton served as Managing Director of Investment Banking at Wellington West Capital Markets Inc. and at Scotia Capital Inc.  Mr. Burleton is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and holds an MBA from York University.

Biography of David Reid, LLB.

David Reid, LL.B., is a senior partner and Global Co-Chair of Mining with DLA Piper (Canada) LLP with over 30 years of experience in mining and securities law, including over $2 billion in corporate finance and M&A transactions since 2011. Mr. Reid is recognized by Lexpert as a Leading Canadian Lawyer in Global Mining, The Legal 500 Canada (Energy-Mining-Corporate-M&A), and Best Lawyers in Canada in the areas of mining, natural resources law and securities law. David led a team in connection with a transaction awarded Mining Deal of the Year by Canadian Dealmakers in 2012 and has served on the board of several TSX, NYSE and TSXV resource companies, including Far West Mining Ltd. (acquired in 2011 by Capstone Mining Corp. in a $1.1 billion M&A transaction).

The Company has issued 800,000 stock options at $0.11 per share to directors of the Company. They are exercisable for a period of 5 years.

Technical Information

The technical information in this news release has been reviewed and approved Paul D. Gray, P.Geo., a Qualified Person as defined by NI 43-101.

About Banyan Gold

Banyan is a gold exploration and development company whose flagship property, the Hyland Gold Project (“Hyland”), is approximately 70km NE of Watson Lake, Yukon, along the southeast end of the Tintina Gold Belt. The Main Zone gold Inferred Resource, at a 0.6 g/t gold equivalent ("AuEq") cutoff, hosts a NI 43-101 compliant Resource of 12,503,994 tonnes containing 361,692 ounces gold at 0.9 g/t and 2,248,948 ounces silver at 5.59 g/t for a combined gold and silver 396,468 ounces gold equivalent.

Banyan trades on the TSX-Venture Exchange under the symbol “BYN”. For more information, please visit the corporate website at www.BanyanGold.com or contact the Company.

ON BEHALF OF THE BANYAN BOARD OF DIRECTORS

(signed) "Tara Christie"

Tara Christie

President & CEO

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