Rise Provides Corporate Update

September 6, 2018 – Vancouver, British Columbia – Rise Gold Corp. (CSE: RISE, OTCQB: RYES) (“Rise Gold” or the “Company”) announces that Director and Chairman, Mr. Alan Edwards, has resigned from the Company’s Board of Directors.

Mr. Alan Edwards was appointed as a Director of Detour Gold Corporation on August 29^th, 2018. Detour Lake is one of the largest gold deposits in Canada with annual gold production in 2017 of 571,000 oz gold and a mine life of ~23 years.

To focus his attention on his new assignment as a Director of Detour Gold, Mr. Edwards has resigned as Director and Chairman of Rise Gold effective September 7^th, 2018.

Mr. Edwards will remain involved in Rise Gold and the Idaho-Maryland Gold Project with his appointment as a Technical Advisor.

Mr. Alan Edwards commented “The Idaho-Maryland is a very promising high-grade gold project and I believe Rise Gold has a bright future as the exploration program continues on the project. I am pleased to be able to continue to be involved with Rise Gold as a Technical Advisor.”

About Rise Gold Corp

Rise Gold is an exploration-stage mining company. The Company’s principal asset is the historic past-producing Idaho-Maryland Gold Mine located in Nevada County, California, USA. The Idaho-Maryland Gold Mine is one of the United States’ greatest past producing gold mines with total past production of 2,414,000 oz of gold at an average mill head grade of 17 gpt gold from 1866-1955. Historic production at the Idaho-Maryland Mine is disclosed in the Technical Report on the Idaho-Maryland Project dated June 1st, 2017 and available on  Rise Gold is incorporated in Nevada, USA and maintains its head office in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

On behalf of the Board of Directors:

Benjamin Mossman

President, CEO and Director

Rise Gold Corp.

For further information, please contact:

RISE GOLD CORP.

Suite 650, 669 Howe Street

Vancouver, BC V6C 0B4

T: 604.260.4577

info@risegoldcorp.com

www.risegoldcorp.com

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