VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, April 12, 2016 – West Kirkland Mining Inc. (WKM:TSXV) announces that the Company is continuing with value engineering and preparation work for further permitting and construction at the Hasbrouck Gold Project located near Tonopah, Nevada.  The final permits required for construction at phase one of the Hasbrouck Project, the Three Hills open pit and heap leach recovery mine, were received by the Company through a Decision Record issued by Bureau of Land Management on November 27, 2015.

The Company is updating modelled project costs to reflect current contractor rates and oil prices and is actively investigating several opportunities for synergies with other similar scale projects or Nevada domiciled deposits and operations.

The Company has granted an aggregate of 3.8 million stock options to directors, officers, employees and consultants of the Company.  Each stock option entitles the holder to purchase one common share of the Company at a price of $0.10 per common share for a period of five years from the grant date. The last grant to officers and directors was June 2014.

These stock options are governed by the Stock Option Plan of the Company and are subject to TSX Venture Exchange acceptance.

About West Kirkland Mining Inc.

West Kirkland owns a 75% interest in the Hasbrouck Gold deposit in Tonopah, Nevada. A completed Pre-feasibility Study and Environmental Assessment with construction level drawings for the Three Hills pit and heap leach recovery provide a shovel ready gold project.

For more information, contact:
                
West Kirkland Mining Inc.
R. Michael Jones at (604) 685-8311
[email protected]
www.wkmining.com

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This press release contains forward-looking information or forward-looking statements (collectively "forward-looking information") within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Forward-looking information is typically identified by words such as: “believe”, “expect”, “anticipate”, “intend”, “estimate”, “postulate” and similar expressions, or are those, which, by their nature, refer to future events.  Forward-looking information in this news release includes, without limitation, the statements regarding the use of proceeds, ability to achieve the recoveries and the processing capacity of the mines; regulatory processes and permitting; estimates of gold or other minerals grades; anticipated costs, anticipated sales, project economics, the realization of expansion and construction activities and the timing thereof; production estimates and other statements that are not historical facts. Information concerning mineral re/_modules/bCMS/content/forms/source/reserve estimates and the economic analysis thereof contained in the prefeasibility study are also forward-looking statements in that they reflect a prediction of the mineralization that would be encountered, and the results of mining it, if a mineral deposit were developed and mined. Although West Kirkland believes that such timing and expenses as set out in this press release are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations and estimates will prove to be correct.  The Company cautions investors that any forward-looking information provided by the Company is not a guarantee of future results or performance, and that actual results may differ materially from those in forward-looking information as a result of various factors, including, but not limited to, the state of the financial markets for the Company's equity securities, the state of the market for gold or other minerals that may be produced generally, significant increases in any of the machinery, equipment or supplies required to develop and operate a mine, a significant change in the availability or cost of the labor force required to operate a mine, a significant increases in the cost of transportation for the Company’s products, variations in the nature, quality and quantity of any mineral deposits that may be located, the Company's ability to obtain any necessary permits, consents or authorizations required for its activities, to raise the necessary capital or to be fully able to implement its business strategies and other risks associated with the exploration and development of mineral properties.  The reader is referred to the Company's public filings for a more complete discussion of such risk factors and their potential effects which may be accessed through the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.

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