Premier Gold Resources plc announced the appointment of Richard Nolan as Chief Executive Officer, following his previous role as Chief Operating Officer. Garth Earls, previously Head of Exploration, has been appointed to the Board as Chief Operating Officer. Both appointments are effective immediately.

These appointments are in line with Premier Gold's strategy to strengthen the Board in 2012 as a result of the transition in scale of the company's operations and ahead of an ambitious work programme for 2013. Richard Nolan was appointed as Chief Operating Officer of Premier Gold in September 2011. Since this time he has led the company from both an operational and executive level.

Garth Earls joined Premier Gold in May 2012 with significant experience of exploration and development of 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.