Safety note

17 Jul 2007 12:00

Highland Gold Mining Limited17 July 2007 News Release HIGHLAND GOLD MINING LIMITED UNDERPINS ITS COMMITMENT TO SAFETY 17 July 2007 - Highland Gold today confirmed that it exceeded 1 million hoursworked without any lost time incidents (LTI) across all of its operations sincethe last LTI recorded on May 1. This exceeds our previous record by 560,372hours, a significant improvement and never achieved before in the history ofthis Company. Henry Horne, Managing Director of Highland Gold said, "We have achieved thissignificant milestone, part of our ongoing objective of making Highland Goldincident free, as a result of teamwork with all our employees taking ownershipof safety at all our sites. While being satisfied by this benchmark, we remaincommitted to further improvements in our safety performance." For further information please contact: Enquiries: Henry Horne, Managing Director Dmitry Yakushkin, Director of Communications Moscow: + 7 (495) 777 31 55 Dominic Palmer-Tomkinson, Head of Investor Relations London: +44 (0) 207 851 64 00 E-mail: info@highlandgold.com Or, WMC Communications, Alex Glover on +44 20 7930 9030 website: www.highlandgold.com * * * This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange