Empire Metals Regulatory News (EEE)

Noricum Gold Limited / EPIC: NMG / Sector: Natural Resources

2 December 2011

Noricum Gold Limited ('Noricum Gold' or 'the Company')

Raises £680,000 to Develop Highly Prospective Austrian Gold and Precious Metals Portfolio

Noricum Gold Limited, the Austrian focussed gold exploration and development company, announces that it has raised £680,000 by way of a placing of 27,200,000 new ordinary shares in the capital of the Company ('the Placing Shares'), with new and existing shareholders in the Company at a price of 2.5 pence per Placing Share ('the Placing'). The funds raised will be used to implement a defined 2012 exploration programme across the Company's five highly prospective gold and precious metal assets in south-central Austria, with a particular focus on the 51 sq km Rotgülden gold and precious metal licence.

Work to date at Rotgülden has included a 1,800m drill programme designed to intercept massive sulphide targets at the previously producing gold mining centre, as well as facilitate further down hole electro-magnetic ('EM') work at this target. Assay results received to date from this campaign include 3.1 metres at 11.69g/t Au. In tandem with this, the Company has received bonanza gold and silver grades and encouraging multi-element results from extensive regional sampling work along the 8km of prospective strike running through the licence area. This has highlighted the Altenberg and Schurfspitze prospects as being worthy of further exploration in 2012, and the Board plans to conduct an airborne EM survey over the licence area followed by exploration drilling at these targets in the next field season.

Noricum Gold Managing Director Greg Kuenzel said, "I am delighted with the support we have received from both our existing and new shareholders in the Company for this placing. 2012 is set to be an exciting year for Noricum as we advance our highly prospective Rotgülden licence in Austria, with particular focus on the existing Rotgülden underground mine as well as the Altenberg and Schurfspitze prospects, where we plan to commence drilling and further EM work during the next field season.

Work to date has demonstrated the potential scalability of our asset portfolio as our understanding of these high grade precious metal sites has advanced beyond that which we gained from available historical data. We look forward to strengthening upon this tofurther underpin Noricum's growth potential during 2012."

In addition to the £680,000 being raised through the Placing, Noricum Gold Chairman Marcus Edwards-Jones and Managing Director Greg Kuenzel both intend to subscribe for new Ordinary Shares on the same terms as the Placing. An announcement will be made shortly when this has been completed.

Additionally, 1,500,000 ordinary shares have been issued to various consultants to the Company, in lieu of fees, at a price of 2.5 pence per share ("Consultant's Shares").

The Placing Shares and Consultant's Shares will, when issued, rank pari passu in all respects with the existing ordinary shares of the Company. Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for the Placing Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ('Admission'). It is expected that Admission will become effective and that dealings in the Placing Shares will commence on 8 December 2011.

As a result of the issue of the Placing Shares and Consultant's Shares the Company issued share capital will be 525,934,156 Ordinary Shares.

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