Gold Standard Ventures Corp. (NYSE AMERICAN: GSV, TSX-V: GSV) is an advanced stage, gold exploration company focused on district scale, gold discoveries in Nevada. The company owns district scale projects, the Railroad-Pinion and Lewis projects, on Nevada’s Carlin and Battle Mountain Trends respectively. The company’s flagship project is the Railroad-Pinion gold project, at which the company has consolidated the second largest contiguous land package (208 sq.km) on the Carlin Trend, as well as making discoveries at: North Bullion, Bald Mountain and North Dark Star. Railroad-Pinion now hosts NI 43-101 compliant, near-surface, oxide gold resources at the Pinion Deposit and the Dark Star Deposit. The resources offer potential near-term development options, while the numerous discoveries illustrate the project’s district scale. The company has commenced a 48,800m drill program for 2017.