AurCrest Gold Inc. announced that Chris Angeconeb, Executive Vice President and Director, has accepted the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of the company. This role, effective immediately, represents a culmination of the Company's long-standing Management and Board policy toward growing a positive and progressive cultural relationship between the mineral exploration and development industry and Aboriginal communities and governments. Chris will now be setting the direction of the Company, focusing on exploration and expansion of Company holdings as an active participant to the socioeconomic development of neighboring Aboriginal communities.

Chris will also continue to serve as President of Wiigwaasaatig Energy Inc. The Board of Directors would like to thank outgoing President and CEO Ian Brodie-Brown for his years of service and dedication to the Company and his many efforts to foster a strong First Nations presence in the Canadian resource sector. Ian will continue to be an active participant on the Companys Board, taking on the role of Director of Business Development.