EX-99.1 2 ex99_1.txt EXHIBIT 99.1 Exhibit 99.1 AURORA GOLD CORPORATION NEWS RELEASE 02-2007 March 20, 2007 Trading Symbols: CUSIP No.: 051642106 NASD OTC BB: ARXG WKN: (Germany) 904846 FRANKFURT: A4G.FSE, A4G.ETR BERLIN-BREMEN: A4G.BER NEWS RELEASE ------------ Aurora Gold Corporation is pleased to announce further high grade rock chip samples from the Sao Joao Property, located in the Tapajos Gold Province, Para, Brazil. Balcatta, WA, Australia, - March 20, 2007 - (NASD OTC BB: "ARXG"; FRANKFURT: "A4G.FSE", "A4G.ETR"; BERLIN-BREMEN: "A4G.BER") Aurora Gold Corporation (the "Company", "Aurora Gold"), a mineral exploration company focusing on exploration and development in the Tapajos Gold Province, State of Para, Brazil, is pleased to announce further high grade rock chip samples from the Sao Joao Property. Aurora Gold is pleased to announce high grade gold assays of rock chip sampling from quartz veins believed to be associated with the principal vein. Previously reported trenching on the principal vein has resulted in 80m at 30.94 g/t gold. Recent sampling and mapping has shown this vein system to be extensive and a series of other veins have been located and sampled. Results from other veins include: SRJ-46 155.26 g/t Gold SRJ-08 54.43 g/t Gold SRJ-07 53.78 g/t Gold SRJ-05 34.8 g/t Gold SRJ-03 31.92 g/t Gold SRJ-06 29.32 g/t Gold SRJ-04 21.64 g/t Gold SRJ-72 20.78 g/t Gold SRJ-69 13.96 g/t Gold SRJ-70 12.45 g/t Gold SRJ-68 11.76 g/t Gold SRJ-71 8.75 g/t Gold SRJ-78 7.81 g/t Gold SRJ-55 6.17 g/t Gold SRJ-77 5.43 g/t Gold Follow up exploration and further target definition is continuing in preparation for future drill testing. Drilling is scheduled to begin during the second quarter of 2007, and the Company is confident of finding and defining resources to compliment the Molly Resource located at the Company's Sao Domingo Property. The Molly Resource is currently defined as inferred and is estimated at: 1,428,000 tonnes @ 3.94 g/t Au for 180,000 ounces of gold (rounded)*. * Resources quoted in this news release have been prepared in accordance with the Australasian Joint Ore Reserves Committee (the "JORC") code for reporting of Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves (the "JORC Code"). Due to sub economic drill intercepts at the Santa Isabel Project the Company has decided not to continue with this option agreement. 1 Aurora Gold is a mineral exploration company focusing on the exploration and development of its 5 exploration properties totalling 44,469 hectares in the Tapajos Gold Province, State of Para, Brazil. The project areas were selected due to their proximity to known gold occurrences and from historical records of gold production. The lithologies associated with the projects are similar to those that have proven to be the host of significant gold occurrences elsewhere in the Tapajos. Aurora Gold's stock trades on the following exchanges under the symbol "ARXG" on the NASD OTC Bulletin Board in the United States of America, under the symbols "A4G.FSE" and "A4G.ETR" on the Frankfurt Exchange and "A4G.BER" on the Berlin-Bremen Stock Exchanges in Germany. For Further information, please call Klaus Eckhof Phone: (+61) 8 9240-2836 Address: 30 Ledger Road, Balcatta, WA, 6021 Australia Website: www.aurora-gold.com ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD "Klaus Eckhof" Klaus Eckhof President, CEO and Director CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS This press release contains statements that plan for or anticipate the future, called "forward-looking statements." In some cases, you can identify forward looking statements by terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "could," "expects," "plans," "intends," "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "potential" or "continue" or the negative of those terms and other comparable terminology. 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