Lionsgold Regulatory News (LION)

Kolar Gold Limited

Nick Spencer / Chris Clowes

+617 3846 0211

Singer Capital Markets Ltd (Nomad and Joint Broker)

James Maxwell / Jenny Wyllie

+44 20 3205 7500

Ocean Equities Limited (Joint Broker)

Will Slack

+44 20 7786 4370

Tavistock Communications

Ed Portman / Lydia Eades

+44 20 7920 3150

Your Company has made good progress in the period establishing our operations in India and mobilising two rigs for drilling targets in the South Kolar block.

Steady progress is being made in the revival process of Bharat Gold Mines Limited (BGML). We are awaiting the Supreme Court to direct that the sale tender process should begin.

Kolar Gold continues to work closely with its two Indian partners, SUN Mining and Geomysore India (Private) Limited ('GMSI'), to establish Kolar Gold as a responsible leading player in the gold mining industry in India.

Your company has made an encouraging start on the ground in India this period.

Exploration Programme

Diamond drilling commenced in February 2011 in the South Kolar Licence area and by December nearly 6000m of drilling had been completed on several prospects. Drilling principally targeted known zones of mineralization and extensions of auriferous lodes previously mined at the Chigargunta mine in the south and the Bisanatham mine in the north.

Drilling at the Chigargunta NE deposit has validated historic drilling results and provided valuable fresh geological data on the host rocks and structural controls to mineralisation. Results included:

·; KCN-02: 4.74m at 24.7g/t gold from 79.74m to 84.48m

·; KCN-05: 0.50m at 160.2 g/t gold from 117.14m to 118.89m

·; KCN-10: 1.00m at 12.1g/t gold from 45.65m to 46.65m

·; KCN-14: 1.10m at 16.4g/t gold from 45.29m to 46.39m

·; KCN-05: 3.65m at 4.6g/t gold from 20.54m to 24.19m (HW lode)

·; KCN-05: 2.60m at 6.0g/t gold from 134.04m to 136.64m (FW lode)

The combined historic and current drilling results are being modeled in preparation for the next campaign of drilling.

Scout diamond drilling, with six holes, was carried out on the Chigargunta Eastern Lodes namely E2, E3 and E4 lodes. These holes have confirmed the extension of the lodes mined in the historic Chigargunta mines. Five of the six holes intersected encouraging gold values including:

·; KCE 01 - 0.5m @ 4.90g/t from 41.55m & 1.0m @ 3.36g/t from 43.55m

·; KCE 02 - 11.5m @ 1.21g/t from 82.84m incl. 1.5m @ 4.74g/t from 92.84m

·; KCE 06 - 2.0m @ 3.04g/t from 14.3m and 3.0m @ 3.1g/t from 28.3m

Confirmation drilling has also been carried out at the Mallapakonda deposit which has a previous resource of 61,527 oz gold. This drilling has provided a good understanding of the controls to mineralisation at this priority target deposit. Modeling is been carried out to give a detailed interpretation of potential ore shoots and their continuity to depth. A resource update is also being computed.

Planning is underway to re-open one of the Mallapakonda adits to provide suitable underground drilling platforms. Difficult terrain hinders surface drilling at this deposit.

Drilling in this part of the South Kolar Licence area is in a forestry area, and ongoing foresty approval is required to drill additional surface holes in the area. An application for a 160 hole drill programme has been submitted to the State Forestry Department for approval.

IP Survey

To assist identification of priority targets at South Kolar, we undertook 40 line km of detailed Induced Polarisation ('IP') Surveys. The IP survey confirmed the continuity of auriferous structures previously mined at the Chigargunta and Old Bisanatham mines. A number of significant anomalies also exist along the north-south trend of the greenstone belt indicating a number of good target areas for drilling.

An RC drill rig was deployed in November to investigate the anomalies identified by the abovementioned IP surveys. This RC programme of 2,750m was completed in February with 30 shallow holes. Results are being interpreted to plan further follow up diamond and RC drilling going forward.

Exploration Review

Over the last year, the company has generated a large database comprising ground magnetics, IP surveys, mapping, RC and diamond drilling. An exploration review is currently underway to combine and interpret all these data sets. A further programme of detailed mapping is also being undertaken with the valuable knowledge gained from the drilling and in particular the controls to mineralisation within the different rock units with an emphasis on structure and alteration characteristics. This review will allow better targeting of drill holes to identify zones most likely to host mineralisation.

Kolar Gold Projects

We continue to work closely with GMSI and SUN Mining to progress the North and East Kolar tenement approvals which are in the final stages with the Government. The Company has retained cash balances for the acquisition of these rights. These license approvals remain with the relevant mining department for approval and management are confident they will be granted in due course. The process of granting of licences has been slower than the Company planned.

BGML acquisition

The Company and advisors have made solid progress via dialogue with the Government of India and recent agreement in the Supreme Court to proceed with the sale and revival by tender process. We now await the court order and the issue of the sale tender documents which have been drafted by Ernst & Young.

Key financials

The Company had £9.6m in cash deposits at period end. The bulk of these funds have been earmarked as consideration for the exercise of the options over the remaining tenements (£4.7m) and undertaking the Group's exploration activities (£3.2m) on these tenements during 2012.

The loss after tax for the period was £1,205,337, compared to £927,763 for the six months to 31 December 2010 and £3,256,290 for the year to June 2011.

Going concern

Careful attention is being paid to the profile of expenditure at South Kolar. An increase in exploration expenditure is anticipated when the grant of the North and East Kolar tenements are approved by the Government.

The Group has operated within the cashflows it anticipated at the time of the IPO in June 2011 and accordingly will need to raise finance during 2012 if all options are exercised over the tenements and exploration is to take place as planned. These matters are described in detail in Note 4 to the financial statements. If such finance is not obtained then, the Group will have sufficient funds to exercise its options over the tenements but will need to slow down or defer its exploration activities in order to have sufficient cash to see it through the next 12 months. However, we remain well funded for our planned 2012 activities at this stage.

We have a number of activities and initiatives underway and we foresee 2012 will be a year of growth and expansion for the company.

The Board

Condensed consolidated statement of financial position (unaudited)

as at 31 December 2011

Note

31 December

2011

£

(unaudited)

31 December 2010

£

(unaudited)

30 June

2011

£

(audited)

Non-current assets

Plant and equipment

26,215

19,302

21,859

Exploration and evaluation assets

7

4,961,887

2,429,100

4,496,933

Total non-current assets

4,988,102

2,448,402

4,518,792

Current assets

Prepayments and other current assets

68,111

273,449

37,751

Trade and other receivables

74,059

38,263

59,642

Cash and cash equivalents

9,645,300

1,515,247

11,544,630

Total current assets

9,787,470

1,826,959

11,642,023

Total assets

14,775,572

4,275,361

16,160,815

Current liabilities

Trade and other payables

495,903

803,171

1,085,852

Employee benefits

100,856

59,284

113,416

Total current liabilities

596,759

862,455

1,199,268

Non-current liabilities

Employee benefits

55,656

31,907

43,457

Total non-current liabilities

55,656

31,907

43,457

Total liabilities

652,415

894,362

1,242,725

Net assets/(liabilities)

14,123,157

3,380,999

14,918,090

Equity

Share capital

8

7,010,625

4,639,624

7,001,696

Share premium reserve

8

15,700,535

6,900,846

15,663,226

Reserves

3,941,361

836,029

3,577,195

Accumulated losses

(12,529,364)

(8,995,500)

(11,324,027)

Total equity

14,123,157

3,380,999

14,918,090

These financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors on 30 March 2012 and were signed on its behalf by:

________________________

Stephen Coe

Director

Condensed consolidated statement of comprehensive income (unaudited)

for the six months ended 31 December

Six months ended

31 December

2011

(unaudited)£

Six months ended

31 December

2010(unaudited)

£

Year ended

30 June 2011

(audited)

£

SUN Mining warrants issued for services

(610,930)

-

(547,006)

Broker warrants issued for services

-

-

(492,510)

Shares and options issued by Kolar Gold Plc to employees and consultants

-

-

(294,241)

Options to directors

-

-

(374,975)

Administrative expenses

(797,718)

(875,543)

(1,492,185)

Unrealised foreign exchange gains

133,116

(50,981)

(22,950)

Loss from operating activities

(1,275,532)

(926,524)

(3,223,867)

Finance income

75,201

3

530

Finance costs

(782)

(1,242)

(32,953)

Net finance costs

74,419

(1,239)

(32,423)

Loss before tax

(1,201,113)

(927,763)

(3,256,290)

Income tax expense

(4,224)

-

-

Loss for the period

(1,205,337)

(927,763)

(3,256,290)

Other comprehensive income

Foreign exchange translation variances

(246,764)

124,171

142,231

Total comprehensive income for the period

(1,452,101)

(803,592)

(3,114,059)

Basic loss per share (p)

1.2

2.0

5.7

Diluted loss per share (p)

1.2

2.0

5.7

Condensed consolidated statement of changes in equity

for the six months ended 31 December

Share capital

Share premium reserve

Options

reserves

Foreign currency translation reserve

Accumulated losses

Total equity

(Unaudited)

£

£

£

£

£

£

Balance at 1 July 2011

7,001,696

15,663,226

3,510,291

66,904

(11,324,027)

14,918,090

Total comprehensive income for the period

Loss for the period

-

-

-

-

(1,205,337)

(1,205,337)

Other comprehensive income - foreign exchange translation variances

-

-

-

(246,764)

-

(246,764)

Total comprehensive income for the period:

-

-

-

(246,764)

(1,205,337)

(1,452,101)

Contributions by and distributions to owners:

Issue of ordinary shares

8,929

37,309

-

-

-

46,238

Equity-settled transactions for the period

-

-

610,930

-

-

610,930

Total contributions by and distributions to owners:

8,929

37,309

610,930

-

-

657,168

Balance at 31 December 2011

7,010,625

15,700,535

4,121,221

(179,860)

(12,529,364)

14,123,157

(Audited)

Balance at 1 July 2010

3,544,336

3,715,557

696,321

(75,327)

(8,067,737)

(186,850)

Total comprehensive income for the period

Loss for the period

-

-

-

-

(3,256,290)

(3,256,290)

Other comprehensive income - foreign exchange translation variances

-

-

-

142,231

-

142,231

Total comprehensive income for the period:

-

-

-

142,231

(3,256,290)

(3,114,059)

Contributions by and distributions to owners:

Issue of ordinary shares

3,735,150

13,816,568

-

-

-

17,551,718

Cancellation of shares

(277,790)

277,790

-

-

-

-

Share issue costs

-

(2,146,689)

-

-

-

(2,146,689)

Equity-settled transactions for the period

-

-

2,813,970

-

-

2,813,970

Total contributions by and distributions to owners:

3,457,360

11,947,669

2,813,970

-

-

18,218,000

Balance at 30 June 2011

7,001,696

15,663,226

3,510,291

66,904

(11,324,027)

14,918,090

Condensed consolidated Statement of Cash Flows

for the six months ended 31 December

Six months ended

31 December

2011

(unaudited)

Six months ended

31 December

2010(unaudited)

Year ended

30 June 2011

(audited)

£

£

£

Cash flows from operating activities

Loss for the period

(1,205,337)

(927,763)

(3,256,290)

Adjustments for:

Depreciation

2,898

1,757

4,439

Net finance costs/(income)

(74,419)

1,240

1,945

Unrealised foreign exchange gains

(185,303)

(105,670)

(60,846)

Costs in relation to planned initial public offering

-

(202,994)

-

Equity-settled share-based payment transactions

610,930

322,769

1,708,732

Operating loss before changes in working capital and provisions

(851,231)

(910,661)

(1,602,020)

Change in trade and other receivables

(14,417)

(21,779)

(24,140)

Change in other current assets

(30,360)

(2,920)

(33,099)

Change in trade and other payables

(685,688)

276,536

794,308

Change in employee benefits

(361)

1,564

79,424

Cash used in operating activities

(1,582,057)

(657,260)

(785,527)

Interest and finance costs paid

(782)

(1,242)

(2,475)

Net cash used in operating activities

(1,582,839)

(658,502)

(788,002)

Cash flows from investing activities

Interest received

75,201

2

530

Payments for mineral exploration activities

(420,857)

-

-

Payments for acquisition of mineral exploration rights

-

(1,893,551)

(2,189,930)

Payments for plant and equipment

(7,732)

(2,415)

(7,577)

Net cash used in investing activities

(353,388)

(1,895,964)

(2,196,977)

Cash flows from financing activities

Proceeds from issues of convertible notes

-

250,000

250,000

Proceeds from issues of equity securities

46,238

3,000,000

15,645,000

Payments for share issue costs

-

(24,314)

(2,108,630)

Net cash from financing activities

46,238

3,225,686

13,786,370

Net increase/(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents

(1,889,989)

671,220

10,801,391

Foreign exchange gain/(loss) on closing cash balances

(9,341)

104,617

3,829

Cash and cash equivalents at 1 July

11,544,630

739,410

739,410

Cash and cash equivalents at 31 December

9,645,300

1,515,247

11,544,630

Kolar Gold Limited

Notes to the condensed consolidated interim financial statements

for the six months ended 31 December 2011

1

Reporting entity

Kolar Gold Limited (the 'Company') is a company incorporated and registered in Guernsey. The Company's shares were admitted to trading on AIM in London on 17 June 2011, following the successful completion of an Initial Public Offering raising gross funds of £12 million. The condensed consolidated interim financial statements of the Company as at and for the six months ended 31 December 2011 comprises the Company and its subsidiaries (together referred to as the "Group"). The Group primarily is involved in and also acquiring, exploring and developing the rights to mining assets in the Kolar Belt and the potential acquisition of the mining assets of Bharat Gold Mines Limited ("BGML") from the Government of India.

The consolidated annual financial report of the Group as at and for the year ended 30 June 2011 is available upon request from the Company's registered office at Frances House, Sir William Place, St. Peter Port, Guernsey GY1 4HQ.

2

Statement of compliance

These condensed consolidated interim financial statements have been prepared in accordance with IAS 34 Interim Financial Reporting. They do not include all of the information required for full annual financial statements and should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements of the Group as at and for the year ended 30 June 2011.

These condensed interim consolidated financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors on 30 March 2012.

3

Significant accounting policies

The accounting policies applied by the Group in these condensed consolidated interim financial statements are the same as those applied by the Group in its consolidated financial statements as at and for the year ended 30 June 2011, except as set out below.

The Company's functional and presentation currency is British pounds (GBP) and the functional currencies for its subsidiaries are GBP, Australian dollars and Indian Rupees respectively.

Assets and liabilities denominated in a currency other than British pounds are translated into British poundsat exchange rates prevailing at the reporting date. Items of income and expense are translated to British pounds at exchange rates prevailing at the dates of transactions or where appropriate at average monthly foreign exchange rates.

4

Going concern

These condensed consolidated interim financial statements have been prepared on the basis of accounting principles applicable to Kolar Gold being a "going concern" which assumes the Group will continue in operation for at least 12 months from the date of these interim financial statements and will be able to realise its assets and discharge its liabilities in the normal course of operations.

As an explorer, the Group currently has no source of operating cash inflows, other than interest income, and has incurred net operating cash outflows for the six months ended 31 December 2011 of £1,582,839 (2010: £658,502). During this period, the Company received net financing inflows of £46,238 (2010: £3,225,686) and applied £420,857 (2010: nil) to mineral exploration activities at the South Kolar PL area. At 31 December 2011 the Group had cash balances of £9,645,300 (30 June 2011: £11,544,630) and a surplus in net working capital (current assets less current liabilities) of £9,190,711 (June 2011: £10,442,755).

4

Going concern (cont'd)

The Directors have prepared forecasts which include cash outflows in respect of the Group's agreement with GMSI to exercise the options on further mineral exploration rights adjacent to BGML and subsequent exploration activities. These outlays will only proceed if and when the mineral exploration rights have been approved by the Government of India. In the event that the Government of India approves all of the mineral exploration rights specified in the agreement with GMSI and as set out in the IPO prospectus in June 2011, the Group is committed to exercising its options over the remaining tenements for consideration of approximately £4.7m and has budgeted for additional exploration expenditure of approximately £3.2m to December 2012. The bulk of the Group's current cash reserves will be applied to these purposes.

In order for the Group to continue its exploration and development programme beyond December 2012, at current planned levels, it will need to raise additional finance and the Directors are in the process of determining the likely timing and amount of such a fund raising with their advisors.

If additional finance is not obtained during 2012, the Group will have sufficient cash to exercise its options over the tenements, but will need to slow down or defer its exploration activities in order to have sufficient cash for the period to at least March 2013, and to allow the Group more time to raise additional funding.

There can be no assurance that the Group will be successful in its efforts to arrange additional financing, if needed, on terms satisfactory to the Group. However, the directors, having taken advice and having reviewed the exploration results and prospects for the Group, are confident that additional funding will be received and, consequently, the directors consider that the Group will have adequate resources to continue its operations for at least 12 months from the date of these interim financial statements. Notwithstanding the above, there can be no certainty in this matter and the financial statements do not include any adjustments that would be necessary should the going concern basis not be appropriate.

5

Estimates

The preparation of interim financial statements requires management to make judgements, estimates and assumptions that affect the application of accounting policies and the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, income and expense. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

In preparing these condensed consolidated interim financial statements, the significant judgements made by management in applying the Group's accounting policies and the key sources of estimation uncertainty were the same as those that applied to the consolidated financial statements as at and for the year ended 30 June 2011.

6

Capital commitments

In 2010 the Group entered into a contract to acquire the rights to mining assets in the North Kolar, South Kolar and East Kolar regions of India. The mining assets comprise mineral exploration rights in these regions. The Group is committed to acquire the rights when, and only when, they have been approved by the Government of India.

As at balance date the total commitments to acquire these rights totalled £4,716,981 (2010: £4,716,981).

7

Exploration and evaluation assets

Six months ended

31 December 2011(unaudited)

Year ended

30 June 2011(audited)

£

£

Balance at beginning of period

4,496,933

-

Transfer from investments

-

984,046

Exploration expenditure

516,596

303,978

Payment to SUN Mining by the issue of shares

-

1,749,936

Foreign exchange translation adjustment

(51,642)

241,377

Acquisition of tenement rights

-

1,217,596

Balance at end of period

4,961,887

4,496,933

Tenement rights will be accounted for in accordance with the Group's accounting policy for exploration and evaluation expenditure and the recoverability of the carrying amounts of exploration and evaluation assets is dependent on the succcessful development and commercial exploitation or sale of the respective area of interest.

8

Share capital and share premium

Issuance of ordinary shares

Ordinary shares (7p each)

Six months ended

31 December 2011

(unaudited)'000

Year ended 30 June 2011

(audited)'000

Opening balance

100,024

-

Reorganisation of share capital approved by shareholders and completed on 8 April 2011

-

62,312

Issued for cash

30,000

Issued as settlement of debt

128

7,712

Closing balance

100,152

100,024

(i) On 27 July 2011 Kolar Gold Limited issued 82,784 shares with a par value of 7p per share, at 40p per share, to directors and former directors of Kolar Gold (UK) Limited, for settlement of debt.

(ii) On 19 December 2011 Kolar Gold Limited issued 44,777 shares with a par value of 7p per share, at 29.31p per share, to a director as part payment of directors' fees. The share issue price is the volume weighted average price for the period covered.

(iii) All shares issued by the Company are 'ordinary' shares and rank equally in all respects, including for dividends, shareholder attendance and voter rights at meetings, on a return of capital and in a winding-up.

Dividends

No dividends were declared nor paid during the six months ended 31 December 2011 (2010: nil).

9

Share-based payments

a) Options

The Company has issued options to directors, employees and long-term consultants to compensate them for services rendered and incentivise them to add value to the Group's longer term share value. They comprise Reward Options in exchange for the provision of services and Bonus Options, which are only receivable upon the Company's shares being admitted to trading on a stock exchange.

No options were issued during the period and no options were exercised during the period.

4,850,000 options expired on 1 December 2011.

The following unexpired options existed as at 31 December 2011.

Name

Date of Grant

Ordinary Shares under option

Expiry Date

Exercise Price £

Nicholas Taylor Spencer

01.12.10

500,000

01.12.13

0.30

Non-Directors

5.5.10

150,000

05.05.13

0.30

Non-Directors

1.12.10

350,000

01.12.13

0.30

Norman Coldham-Fussell

17.6.11

675,000

17.06.14

0.40

Nicholas Taylor Spencer

17.6.11

1,350,000

17.06.14

0.40

Richard Johnson

17.6.11

675,000

17.06.14

0.40

Harvinder Hungin *

10.6.11

450,000

10.06.16

0.40

Stephen Coe

10.6.11

350,000

10.06.16

0.40

Stephen Oke

10.6.11

350,000

10.06.16

0.40

4,850,000

Each option entitles the holder to subscribe for one ordinary share in the Company. Options do not confer any voting rights on the holder.

a) Warrants

No warrants were issued during the period.

No warrants expired and no warrants were exercised during the period.

The following unexercised warrants existed as at 31 December 2011:

Name

Date of Grant

Ordinary Shares under option

Expiry Date

Exercise Price

£

Investor warrants

30.6.10

3,664,000

1.3.12

0.30

Investor warrants

20.7.10

1,000,000

1.3.12

0.30

Broker warrants Series 1

5.5.11

1,300,000

17.6.14

0.40

Broker warrants Series 2

17.6.11

1,500,000

17.6.14

0.60

SUN Mining initial warrants Series 1

24.2.11

2,916,559

24.2.12

Nil

SUN Mining initial warrants Series 2

24.2.11

2,916,559

24.2.13

Nil

SUN Mining initial additional warrants

24.2.11

3,499,871

24.2.13

VWAP

16,796,989

Each warrant entitles the holder to subscribe for one ordinary share in the Company. Warrants do not confer any voting rights on the holder.

10

Operating segments

The Group currently has one operating segment, being the exploration for gold in India.

11

Subsequent events

There have been no significant events subsequent to the balance sheet date to report that would alter the financial statements as at 31 December 2011 or require disclosure.