Equinox Gold Corp. announced positive results from an additional 24 shallow step-out and infill drill holes totaling 4,200 metres ("m") that were drilled below the shallow, westernmost Piaba reserve pit and west along strike from existing reserves at the Company's 100%-owned Aurizona Gold Mine ("Aurizona") in Brazil. The Company completed over 14,000 m of drilling in Q4-2017, bringing the total for 2017 to over 22,000 m. Approximately 9,300 m of infill and step-out drilling was focused in the Piaba West area and 4,800 m tested six new near-mine targets with the remaining results to be released as they are available in first quarter-2018. In addition to analyzing the remaining results of the 2017 drill program, Equinox Gold's exploration team is currently integrating the results of regional geological mapping with the results of the airborne magnetic, radiometric and electromagnetic surveys that were flown by Company's greenfields exploration joint venture partner, AngloGold Ashanti Holdings plc., to define future exploration targets.