VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - March 31, 2017) - Columbus Gold Corp. (TSX:CGT)(OTCQX:CBGDF) ("Columbus") is pleased to announce that Robert Giustra, Donald Gustafson, Gil Atzmon, Oleg Pelevin and Peter Gianulis were re-elected as directors of Columbus at the 2017 Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders held on March 30, 2017 (the "Meeting").
In addition, shareholders approved amendments to Columbus' existing Stock Options Plan (the "Plan"), as described in the information circular for the Meeting. A copy of the amended Plan will be filed under the Columbus profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
Detailed voting results for the Meeting are as follows:
| Motion | Votes For | % For | Votes Against | % Against | Votes Withheld | % Withheld | |||||||
| Number of Directors | 95,550,139 | 99.54 | 439,835 | 0.46 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||||||
| Election of Director Nominees: | |||||||||||||
| Robert Giustra | 59,625,284 | 99.61 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 233,216 | 0.39 | |||||||
| Peter Gianulis | 52,268,734 | 87.32 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7,589,766 | 12.68 | |||||||
| Donald Gustafson | 59,715,135 | 99.76 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 143,365 | 0.24 | |||||||
| Gil Atzmon | 52,401,553 | 87.54 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7,456,947 | 12.46 | |||||||
| Oleg Pelevin | 52,249,036 | 87.29 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7,609,464 | 12.71 | |||||||
| Appointment of Auditors | 95,719,718 | 99.72 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 270,256 | 0.28 | |||||||
| Amendment to Stock Option Plan*: | 57,509,723 | 97.76 | 1,318,876 | 2.24 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||||||
| * Excludes 1,029,901 shares held by Insiders | |||||||||||||
