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Marathon's Latest Sprite Zone Bog Drilling Returns 6.17 g/t Au over 49.0 meters including 22.40 g/t Au over 10.0 meters, Valentine Lake Gold Camp, Newfoundland


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Drilling

Program Update

TORONTO, June 25, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Marathon Gold Corporation ("Marathon" or the "Company") (TSX:MOZ) is pleased to announce the intersection of wide thicknesses of en-echelon stacked QTP veining in new step-out drilling at the Sprite Zone bog area. Drill hole VL-18-676 intersected 6.17 g/t Au over 49.0 meters including 22.40 g/t Au over 10.0 meters and 7.36 g/t Au over 6.0 meters; and VL-18-677 intersected 1.07 g/t Au over 32.0 meters including 2.47 g/t Au over 4.0 meters. Additional stacked QTP veining with good gold values was also intersected in widely spaced step out drill holes covering a 1.5 km strike length of the Sprite Zone bog area (Figure 1). The gold in these new drill holes, combined with previously released drill holes VL-18-657 to 667, supports the Sprite Zone as a significant target for additional exploration and gold resource development.

"The step-out drill hole VL-18-676 is the best intersection in the Sprite Zone so far and a fine start to the summer exploration program at the Valentine Gold Camp," said Phillip Walford, President and CEO of Marathon Gold. "After the release of our very positive PEA on May 17, 2018, Marathon's current goal is to discover new gold deposits and increase the measured and indicated gold resources in advance of a Pre-Feasibility Study."

TABLE 1: Significant assay intervals, Marathon Deposit, Valentine Lake Gold Camp.

DDHSectionFromToCore Length (m)True Thickness (m)Gold g/tGold g/t (cut)*
VL-18-67713460454832.60.88 
  525532.60.67 
  57893227.21.07 
including 838743.42.47 
VL-18-67613410586465.11.05 
  9710032.60.5 
  1451944941.76.175.86
including 147157108.522.420.86
including 16917565.17.36 
VL-18-67514900262932.10.62 
  687132.10.94 
VL-18-67414650283132.10.47 
  566596.30.67 
including 565932.11.68 
  12112432.10.47 
VL-18-6721480011312296.33.00 
including 11311632.15.04 
  13814574.91.34 
VL-18-67114700616432.14.80 
  677142.82.12 
  13413732.11.55 
VL-18-6701398012713032.10.85 
  13614042.80.84 
VL-18-66914590111432.11.37 
  263042.81.81 
  666932.12.22 
  11311964.23.11 
  11712032.10.48 
VL-18-66813820838632.10.49 
  13113542.80.64 
* Fire Assays cut to 45 g/t Au.     

A photo accompanying this announcement is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/2432c565-76a9-4e86-85c4-659c25725d9e

Acknowledgments

Marathon acknowledges the financial support of the Junior Exploration Assistance Program, Department of Natural Resources, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Quality Assurance-Quality Control ("QA/QC")

Sherry Dunsworth, M.Sc., P. Geo., Senior VP of Exploration, Marathon's Qualified Person, has reviewed the contents for accuracy and has approved this press release on behalf of Marathon. Thorough QA/QC protocols are followed including the insertion of blanks and standards at regular intervals in each sample batch. Drill core is cut in half with one half retained at site, the other half tagged and sent to Eastern Analytical Limited in Springdale, Newfoundland. All reported core samples are analyzed for Au by fire assay (30g) with AA finish. All samples above 0.10 g/t Au in economically interesting intervals are further assayed using metallic screen to mitigate the presence of coarse gold. Significant mineralized intervals are reported in Table 1 as core lengths and estimated true thickness (75-80% of core length).

About Marathon

Marathon Gold Corp. ("Marathon") is a high-quality growth-oriented gold development company with a long-term strategy of moving the 100% owned Valentine Lake Gold Camp through to production in central Newfoundland. Marathon recently completed a positive PEA that shows an average annual production of 188,500 ounces per year over the first 10 years with an after-tax payback of 2.8 years, an after-tax NPV (5%) of $466 million and an after-tax IRR of 25%. The Valentine Lake Gold Camp currently hosts four near-surface, mainly pit-shell constrained, deposits with measured and indicated resources totaling 2,137,400 oz. of gold at 1.99 g/t and inferred resources totaling 1,104,700 oz. of gold at 1.99 g/t. Most of the resources occur at the Marathon and Leprechaun Deposits. All the deposits are open to expansion. Marathon's 240 sq. km sized Valentine Lake property has multiple exploration targets to be explored in 2018.

To find out more information on the Valentine Lake Gold Camp please visit www.marathon-gold.com.

For more information, please contact:

Christopher Haldane  Phillip Walford 
Investor Relations Manager  President and Chief Executive Officer
Tel: 1-416-987-0714  Tel:  1-416-987-0711 
e-mail: [email protected]  e-mail: [email protected] 

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Except for statements of historical fact relating to Marathon Gold Corporation, 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". We provide forward-looking statements for the purpose of conveying information about our 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 Marathon Gold Corporation's public filings, which may be accessed at www.sedar.com.  Other than as specifically required by law, we undertake 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. 


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