Atlantic Gold Corporation (Formerly Spur Ventures Inc.) and Atlantic Gold NL Complete Merger

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Aug. 20, 2014) - Atlantic Gold Corporation (TSX VENTURE:AGB)(ASX:AGB) (formerly known as Spur Ventures Inc.) ("AGB") is pleased to announce the successful implementation of the merger of Atlantic Gold NL (ASX:ATV) ("Atlantic") and AGB by way of a scheme of arrangement under Part 5.1 of the Australian Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) ("Scheme"), under which AGB has acquired all the fully paid and partly paid ordinary shares on issue in Atlantic. As of August 21, 2014 (Sydney time) following the implementation of the Scheme, and including the 46,275,272 AGB common shares ("AGB Shares") and 23,137,361 share purchase warrants in respect of unissued AGB common shares ("AGB Warrants") issued under the Scheme, AGB has 106,682,459 AGB Shares and 23,137,361 AGB Warrants issued and outstanding. Each AGB Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one AGB Share at an exercise price of $0.60 at any time up to 5:00 pm (Vancouver time) on August 20, 2018, subject to the terms of a warrant indenture between AGB and Computershare Trust Company of Canada dated June 20, 2014.

Out of the 46,275,272 AGB Shares issued under the Scheme, as at implementation of the Scheme, 42,506,236 CHESS Depositary Interests ("CDIs") in respect of AGB Shares are listed on the Australian Securities Exchange ("ASX") and 3,769,036 AGB Shares are listed on the TSX Venture Exchange ("TSX-V"). Out of the 23,137,361 AGB Warrants issued under the Scheme, as at implementation of the Scheme, 21,252,851 CDIs in respect of AGB Warrants are listed on the ASX and 1,884,510 AGB Warrants are listed on the TSX-V.

A summary of AGB's capital structure as at implementation of the Scheme is presented below:

CDIs in respect of AGB Shares listed on ASX	42,506,236		CDIs in respect of AGB Warrants listed on ASX	21,252,851
AGB Shares listed on TSX-V	64,176,223		AGB Warrants listed on TSX-V	1,884,510
Total number of AGB Shares issued and outstanding	106,682,459		Total number of AGB Warrants issued and outstanding	23,137,361

In addition, a total of 973,700 stock options in respect of unissued AGB Shares, with an exercise price of $0.50, expiring on August 28, 2017 have been granted to individuals who were previously stock option holders in Atlantic. These individuals will continue to have an ongoing role with the combined company.