Antler Gold Inc. announced that final assays have been received from the 2016 fall trenching program at the Wilding Lake Gold Project in central Newfoundland. The most recent data include high grade gold assays from the Elm prospect and confirmation that portions of the Alder zone are wider than originally thought. These results further emphasize the potential of the largely untested structural corridor through the Project. Cedar-Elm (CE) Zone.  The CE zone is located approximately 1.1 kilometers northeast of the Alder-Taz zone and the high grade assays received indicate the robust gold tenor in this particular area. The main shear vein, which attains widths of up to 2.0 metres, yields gold values ranging from 1.0 to 101.5 g/t Au, averaging 20.6 g/t Au (based on the 22 channels that sampled the shear vein). Trenching has exposed the vein for approximately 60 metres and it remains open along strike in both directions. The style of mineralization is very similar to Alder, occurring as a northeast-striking and moderately to shallowly southeast-dipping quartz vein within sheared Rogerson Lake Conglomerate. Free coarse gold is common and occurs in association with chalcopyrite, minor chalcocite, and locally tourmaline. Alder-Taz (AT) Zone.  Final assays from expanded trench work at Alder indicates the mineralized shear zone in the widened Trench 1 now has an expanded apparent width of up to 10.55 metres.  Previously reported assays in this trench yielded a composite saw cut channel sample of 13.8 g/t Au over 4.0 metres.  The mineralized zone has been expanded by several metres in each direction across strike (northwest and southeast) and revised composite channel samples include: 8.7 g/t Au over 6.65 metres (includes 13.8 g/t Au over 4.0 metres), 3.9 g/t Au over 6.05 metres, 6.5 g/t Au over 3.70 metres (includes samples of 19.2 g/t Au over 0.90 metres). Dogberry Zone. Grab samples collected from the Dogberry main vein have returned assay values of 26.8, 55.8 and 78.8 g/t Au. The mineralization at Dogberry is similar in tenor to channel sample results previously reported. Late in the fall, the Dogberry trench was extended and uncovered several narrow quartz veins containing chalcopyrite within altered conglomerate. Grab sample results from the veins include 5.6 g/t Au, 15.0 g/t Au and 27.8 g/t. A 0.5 m channel across a similar vein in the same area assayed 7.8 g/t Au. Channel sampling of the altered conglomerate returned insignificant results. The Wilding Lake Project encompasses 21,500 hectares and covers greater than 50 kilometres of prospective strike length following an important regional gold bearing structural corridor immediately northeast of Marathon Gold Corporation's Valentine Lake project.  The Project hosts multiple occurrences of newly discovered high grade gold mineralization within shear-related quartz veins in an area that has not previously been systematically explored for gold. Antler has the option to acquire the Project from Altius and Altius will be the operator of the Project during the option period.  The 2017 winter exploration program has commenced with ground magnetic and IP-resistivity geophysical surveys over the new gold occurrences, and an airborne triaxial magnetic geophysical survey will commence in early February covering the entire Project at a 75 metre line spacing.