RCG Provides Update on Completion of the Sale in Its Option Interest in the Corcoran Project

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 12, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Resource Capital Gold Corp., TSXV:RCG (“RCG” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that the previously announced sale of its option agreement in the Corcoran project in Nye County, Nevada, see press release of February 2, 2018, is complete. 

The Company sold its option interest in the Corcoran project to AUSAG Resources Ltd. (“AUSAG”), subsequently renamed Metals 479 Ltd, for a previously received cash payment of US$2 million.

The Company also announces that it has canceled the previously arranged share purchase agreement between ACT2 Pty Limited and Maritime Gold Corp. Both parties mutually determined to cancel the transaction due to regulatory complications. The share purchase agreement was arranged to acquire the 10% holding of ACT2 Pty Ltd. (“ACT2”) in Maritime Gold Corp., the sole shareholder of Maritime Dufferin Gold Corp., the owner of the Dufferin project.   

About Resource Capital Gold and the Dufferin Project

Resource Capital Gold Corp. is developing the high-grade Dufferin Gold Mine and mill in Nova Scotia, with initial gold production from test milling achieved in March 2017. The Dufferin project covers 1,684 hectares in 104 mineral claims which contain more than 14 east-west trending “saddle reef" quartz vein gold-bearing structures, each with free-milling gold. The stacked gold reefs are open at depth and extend along trend for over 3.2 kilometers within the Dufferin and West Dufferin projects, with additional strike length being held in claims by the Company up to a total of 11 km of strike length.

The Company is also advancing the Tangier and Forest Hill gold projects and is preparing preliminary economic assessments on both.

Additional information with respect to the Dufferin gold project is available in the revised technical report of the Company filed on SEDAR entitled “Revised Preliminary Economic Assessment of the Dufferin Gold Deposit”, dated as of April 3, 2017.

Qualified Persons

The scientific and technical data contained in this news release was reviewed and approved by David Smith, CPG, who is a Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.

On behalf of the Board of Directors of Resource Capital Gold Corp.

Jack R. Cartmel

Interim President & CEO

For further Information please contact:

Jack R. Cartmel at (604) 642 6114

Resource Capital Gold Corp.
Vancouver Park Place
666 Burrard Street, Suite 500
Vancouver V6C 3P6
BC Canada 
P +1 604 642 6114
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Forward-Looking Information

This news release contains “forward-looking information” and “forward-looking statements” (collectively, “forward-looking information”) within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Forward-looking information is generally identifiable by use of the words “believes,” “may,” “plans,” “will,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “could”, “estimates”, “expects”, “forecasts”, “projects” and similar expressions, and the negative of such expressions. Forward-looking information in this news release include statements about the Company’s plans for the Project and the respective timing for completion of any activities to further such plans (including the closing date of the land acquisition), the results of any PEA or other study on the Project, the Tangier project or the Forest Hill project, or any press release, presentation or other description of such projects, and the ability of the Company to achieve those results, including capital and operating costs, mine life, anticipated internal rate of return and net present value, payback period, ramp-up periods, production costs, production parameters, recovery rates, assumptions on which the PEA is based including metal prices and exchange rates, and the Company’s prospects for growth and the ability to attain such growth.

Forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the Company’s actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including, without limitation, risks as a result of the Company having a limited operating history, uncertainty as to the ability to achieve the results described in any economic assessment on the Company’s projects, including the preliminary economic assessment on the Project  as such economic assessment is preliminary in nature and may have a wide variance from actual results, risks from making a production decision without any feasibility study completed on the Company’s properties, uncertainty regarding the inclusion of inferred mineral resources in the mineral resource estimate which are too speculative geologically to have the economic considerations applicable to them that would allow them to be classified as mineral reserves, uncertainty regarding the ability to convert any part of the mineral resource into mineral reserves, uncertainty involving resource estimates and the ability to extract those resources economically, or at all, uncertainty involving drilling programs and the Company’s ability to expand and upgrade existing resource estimates, any applicable regulatory processes and actions, risks applicable to mining operations generally, and risk as a result of the Company being subject to certain covenants with respect to its activities by creditors, as well as other risks.

Forward-looking information is based on the reasonable assumptions, estimates, analysis and opinions of management made in light of its experience and perception of trends, current conditions and expected developments, and other factors that management believes are relevant and reasonable in the circumstances at the date such statements are made. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such information. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information.

All forward-looking information herein is qualified in its entirety by this cautionary statement, and the Company disclaims any obligation to revise or update any such forward-looking information or to publicly announce the result of any revisions to any of the forward-looking information contained herein to reflect future results, events or developments, except as required by law.

The Company is not basing its production decision on a feasibility study of mineral reserves demonstrating economic and technical viability; as a result there is increased uncertainty and economic and technical risks of failure associated with its production decision.