AGC Resources LLC, a Fully Owned Subsidiary of Aurora Gold Corporation Is Pleased to Announce That the Company Entered a Lease Agreement With Sweeney Mining and Milling Corporation for Its Water Rights in the Anderson Ditch Company

ZUG, SWITZERLAND -- (Marketwire - March 16, 2011) - Aurora Gold Corporation (the "Company," or "Aurora") (OTCQB: ARXG), a mineral exploration company focusing on exploration and development in the Tapajos Gold Province, State of Pará, Brazil, and through its wholly owned subsidiary, AGC Resources LLC ("AGC"), the Front Range Gold Project located in Boulder County, Colorado, is issuing this press release to update its shareholders on the Front Range Gold project ("FRGP") located in Boulder County, Colorado.

AGC is pleased to announce that it has executed a lease agreement with Sweeney Mining and Milling Corporation for the rights to a one eighth (1/8th) fully paid share in the Anderson Ditch Company. The lease agreement is for the term of five (5) years. This lease provides one of the water rights that are critical to AGC's water augmentation plan and overall plan of operations.

Lars Pearl, AGC's Manager commented "AGC is extremely pleased to have secured this water right. Everyone who has worked in Colorado knows the complexity of the States' water laws. Water is an extremely valuable resource in the State. The securing of this water right goes a long way to realizing our short to mid-term water management plan".

Aurora's common stock is also traded on the Stuttgart and the Berlin-Bremen Stock Exchanges in Germany under the symbols "(STUT: A4G) (FRANKFURT: A4G) (XETRA: A4G) (BERLIN: A4G)."

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

"Michael Montgomery"
Michael Montgomery
COO and Director

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Aurora Gold Corporation
Lars Pearl
President, CEO & Director
C/- Coresco AG,
Level 3, Gotthardstrasse 20
6304 Zug, Switzerland
Tel. (+41) 7887 96966
http://www.aurora-gold.com/

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