Update: Aurora Gold Corp Sells Its Interest in AGC Resources LLC to Devtec Management Limited

ZUG, SWITZERLAND -- (Marketwire) -- 06/23/11 -- Aurora Gold Corporation (the 'Company,' or 'Aurora') (OTCQB: ARXG), is a mineral exploration company focusing on exploration and development of potential gold and silver reserves in the Tapajos Gold Province, State of Pará, Brazil.

The Board of Directors (the 'Board') of Aurora has been evaluating strategies of developing Aurora into the future. The Board has identified new opportunities in Brazil, which it believes will be better suited to add greater value and with a higher return on investment to the Company's shareholders. The Board feels that this can be achieved, in part, by increasing the mineral resources in Aurora's existing license areas in Brazil.

There have been numerous delays due to the operating agreement, permitting and water augmentation on the Company's Colorado properties. As a result, the Company has sold its subsidiary, AGC Resources LLC, which owns certain properties in Boulder, Colorado, to Devtec Management Ltd ('Devtec'), for a total of US$2 Million, plus royalty. Devtec will pay Aurora US$1 million upon production of the cumulative total of 1,000 ounces of gold and/or silver, and a further US$ 1 million payable on the six month anniversary of the payment of the first US$1 million. Additionally, Devtec will pay Aurora a 5% royalty from the start of production. With this royalty in place, Aurora shareholders will still participate in project.

Aurora now intends to focus on its Sao Domingo property in Brazil. Currently, the Sao Domingo property has an inferred JORC compliant resource of 130,000 ounces of gold, at 2 grams per ton. Geophysics has demonstrated that potential further mineralization is expected along strike of the current resource area.

The Board also feels that further ounces can be added to the Company's inventory via drill testing the areas at the Sao Joao property of known mineralization, previously identified from trenches and mapping. Previously completed follow up geophysics over the known mineralization has elucidated additional areas that demonstrate similar characteristics and will also be tested for subsurface mineralised potential.

Initial drilling on the Company's Sao Domingo property will test the areas along strike of the current Fofoca resource. As the Colibri occurrence is adjacent to the Sao Domingo property, exploratory drilling will test the depth extension below the known high grade channel samples previously announced.

On the Company's Sao Joao property, the Company will continue with drill testing below the mineralised trenches.

The Company has been made aware of several other opportunities for expansion in Brazil and elsewhere and intends to continue reviewing these opportunities and, when warranted, to bring these projects into the Company's portfolio in order to grow the Company.

Aurora is hopeful that additional exploration will now lead to expansion of the Company's mineral resources.

Aurora is also reviewing a Gold project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (the 'DRC') that has known gold occurrences noted from areas of intense artisanal activity. Gold projects in the DRC have shown in the past to host large multimillion ounce gold deposits, and Aurora has identified a potential acquisition that could significantly add value to the Company.

In addition to trading on the OTCQB under the symbol 'ARXG,' 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

Lars Pearl

CEO and Director

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