Liberty Gold Begins Trading Under LGD on Toronto Stock Exchange

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - May 11, 2017) - Liberty Gold Corp. (TSX:PLG)(TSX:PLG.W) (formerly Pilot Gold Inc.) ("Liberty Gold" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company will change the ticker symbol of its common shares and common share purchase warrants listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange from PLG and PLG.W respectively, to LGD and LGD.W respectively, effective at the opening on Friday, May 12, 2017.

The Company changed its name from Pilot Gold Inc. to Liberty Gold Corp. on May 9, 2017 to reflect our dedicated focus on Carlin-style gold deposits in the Great Basin of western United States.

ABOUT LIBERTY GOLD

Liberty Gold is led by a proven technical and capital markets team that continues to discover and define high-quality assets. Our core projects are Goldstrike in Utah, Black Pine in Idaho and Kinsley Mountain in Nevada. The Company also holds important interests in two Turkish assets, Halilaga and TV Tower, and has a pipeline of Western US projects characterized by large land positions and district-wide potential that meet our growth needs for years to come. The management group at Liberty Gold is responsible for discovering and/or developing two of the latest seven heap leach gold deposits in the world that are now operating mines, including Long Canyon in Nevada and Karma in Burkina Faso.

For more information, visit www.libertygold.ca.

Except for statements of historical fact relating to Liberty Gold Inc., certain information contained herein constitutes "forward-looking statements". Forward-looking statements include statements that are predictive in nature, depend upon or refer to future events or conditions, or include words such as "expects", "anticipates", "plans", "believes", "considers", "intends", "targets", or negative versions thereof and other similar expressions, or future or conditional verbs such as "may", "will", "should", "would" and "could". The Company provides forward-looking statements for the purpose of conveying information about current expectations and plans relating to the future and readers are cautioned that such statements may not be appropriate for other purposes. By its nature, this information is subject to inherent risks and uncertainties that may be general or specific and which give rise to the possibility that expectations, forecasts, predictions, projections or conclusions will not prove to be accurate, that assumptions may not be correct and that objectives, strategic goals and priorities will not be achieved. These risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to those identified and reported in the Company's public filings, which may be accessed at www.sedar.com. Other than as specifically required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which such statement is made, or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, whether as a result of new information, future events, results or otherwise.