Toronto, Ontario (FSCwire) - McLaren Resources Inc. ("McLaren" / the "Corporation") (CSE: MCL, Frankfurt: 3ML) announces that at the annual and special meeting of shareholders (the "Meeting") held on April 18, 2017, each of the four nominees listed in the Management Information Circular dated March 17, 2017 was elected as a director of McLaren.

John Heslop, John Holko and Paul Crath were elected with 100% of the votes cast and Michael Meredith was elected with 99.92% of the votes cast by shareholders voting 13,083,704 common shares, which represents 31.1% of the total shares outstanding.

Following the Meeting, the Board of Directors appointed the following officers of the Corporation: John Heslop as Executive Chairman, Radovan Danilovsky as Interim President, David McDonald as Chief Financial Officer and Nadim Wakeam as Corporate Secretary. Michael Meredith will serve as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors.

McLaren is focused on exploration work on its gold properties located in the Timmins Gold District. The TimGinn Property hosts the former Gilles Lake Mine located adjacent to the Hollinger Mine operated by Goldcorp. The Augdome Property hosts gold mineralized zones adjacent to the Dome Mine operated by Goldcorp in Central Timmins. The Blue Quartz property hosts the former Blue Quartz Mine located 10 km north of the Black Fox Mine in East Timmins operated by Primero Mining.

For more information see the McLaren website: www.mclarenresources.com

Contact information:

Radovan Danilovsky,

Interim President

McLAREN RESOURCES INC.

44 Victoria Street, Suite 1616

Toronto, Ontario M5C 1Y2

Tel: 416 203 6784

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Certain statements contained in this news release constitute "forward looking statements". When used in this document, the words "anticipated", "expect", "estimated", "forecast", "planned", and similar expressions are intended to identify forward looking statements or information. These statements are based on current expectations of management; however, they are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements in this news release. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these statements. McLaren Resources Inc. does not undertake any obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events or otherwise after the date hereof, except as required by securities laws.

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Source: McLaren Resources Inc. (CSE:MCL)

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