Giga Metals Completes Second Tranche of Non-Brokered Private Placement

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - December 27, 2017) - Giga Metals Corp. (TSXV: GIGA) announced today that it has completed the second tranche of the 3.4 Million Unit non-brokered private placement previously announced December 15, 2017.

The Company completed the placement of 1,250,000 Units at $0.60 Cdn. per Unit for gross proceeds of $750,000.

There was no insider or pro group participation.

The balance of the private placement is expected to close next week.

Use of proceeds will be for general corporate purposes, metallurgical and engineering studies of the company's Turnagain project and for potential acquisitions in the battery materials space.

The private placement remains subject to regulatory acceptance and approval.

On behalf of the Board of Directors,

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