Asante Gold Corporation announced the passing of long-time director and friend, Florian Riedl-Riedenstein, who passed away suddenly on July 7 in Vienna. He will be greatly missed. The Board of directors have appointed Carsten Korch as a non-executive Director of the Company. Mr. Korch has also agreed to serve as an independent director on the company’s audit committee and has been granted 500,000 incentive stock options for a five-year term at a price of $0.10 per share. Mr. Korch is one of the founding shareholders of Asante and has a long history of investing in mine development in Ghana as an early shareholder and supporter of the company’s President & CEO Douglas MacQuarrie (the former CEO of PMI Gold Corp. now owned by Galiano Gold Inc.).