Appointment of Head of Exploration

Embargoed: 0700hrs 28 May 2012

Premier Gold Resources plc

("Premier Gold" or the "Company")

Appointment of Head of Exploration

Premier Gold Resources plc (AIM:PGR), the Central Asia-focused gold exploration and development company, is pleased to announce the appointment of Garth Earls as Head of Exploration.

Garth Earls comes to Premier Gold with extensive experience of exploration and development of mineralised gold, silver and base metal deposits. Most recently Mr Earls was Managing Director and Qualified Person at Dalradian Gold Limited and, during his time with that company, 1.2 Million ounces of gold resource base was added. Prior to this Mr Earls was Director at the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland where he provided scientific guidance to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment, was the liaison between the Northern Ireland Government and the British Geological Survey and also delivered the Tellus Project from start to completion.

Throughout his career Mr Earls has worked internationally exploring and evaluating projects in countries including Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South Africa, Greenland, Canada, China, Vietnam, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Russia, Tanzania and Uruguay.

Mr Earls has received several industry awards and is a Member of the Institute of Mining, Materials and Metallurgy, Member of the Society of Economic Geologists and Member of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits. He has also held appointed positions including President of the Irish Association for Economic Geology and representative to the European Federation of Geologists.

Commenting on Garth Earls' appointment, Gerry Desler, Chairman of Premier Gold, said:

"I am delighted to welcome Garth to the team at Premier Gold. His experience and distinguished career in orogenic gold exploration will be invaluable to Premier Gold as the Company moves towards further resource definition. Garth will shortly be undertaking a site visit to co-ordinate the 2012 drilling programme."

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