Turquoise Hill Resources Announces Results of Voting for the Election of Directors

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwired) -- 05/15/13 -- Turquoise Hill Resources (TSX: TRQ)(NYSE: TRQ)(NASDAQ: TRQ) today announced that the nominees set forth in the company's management proxy circular dated March 22, 2013 and the press release dated May 1, 2013 were elected as directors of Turquoise Hill Resources. The detailed results of the vote for the election of directors held at the Annual Meeting of shareholders, which took place on May 10, 2013 in Vancouver, are set out below.

Election of Directors

According to proxies received, each of the following 11 nominees proposed by management were elected as a director of Turquoise Hill Resources until the next annual shareholder meeting, or until such person's successor is elected or appointed, with the following results:

Name of Nominee             Votes For    % For  Votes Withheld   % Withheld
Virginia Flood            841,466,708    98.7%      11,371,757         1.3%
Jill Gardiner             845,270,136    99.1%       7,568,329         0.9%
R. Peter Gillin           845,013,786    99.1%       7,824,679         0.9%
Warren Goodman            848,723,605    99.5%       4,114,860         0.5%
Isabelle Hudon            845,261,084    99.1%       7,577,381         0.9%
Jean-Sebastien Jacques    842,721,876    98.8%      10,116,589         1.2%
David Klingner            844,592,715    99.0%       8,245,750         1.0%
Charles Lenegan           850,616,821    99.7%       2,221,644         0.3%
Kay Priestly              843,232,338    98.9%       9,606,127         1.1%
Russel C. Robertson       850,730,221    99.8%       2,108,244         0.2%
Jeffrey Tygesen           846,939,007    99.3%       5,899,458         0.7%

Final results on all matters voted on at the Annual Meeting of shareholders will be filed on SEDAR.

About Turquoise Hill Resources

Turquoise Hill Resources (TSX: TRQ)(NYSE: TRQ)(NASDAQ: TRQ), formerly Ivanhoe Mines, is an international mining company focused on copper, gold and coal mines in the Asia Pacific region. The company's primary operation is its 66% interest in the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold-silver mine in southern Mongolia. Other assets include a 58% interest in Mongolian coal miner SouthGobi Resources (TSX: SGQ)(HK: 1878); a 57% interest in copper-gold miner Ivanhoe Australia (TSX: IVA)(ASX: IVA); and a 50% interest in Altynalmas Gold, a private company developing the Kyzyl Gold Project in Kazakhstan, which is in the process of being sold.

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