Dorato Announces Non-Brokered Private Placement

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/17/11 -- Dorato Resources Inc. ('Dorato' or the 'Company') (TSX VENTURE: DRI) (OTCQX: DRIFF) (FRANKFURT: DO5), subject to regulatory approval, will conduct a non-brokered private placement of up to 20 million shares at $0.09 cents per share for gross proceeds of up to 1.8 million.

Finders' fees equal to 5 per cent of the gross proceeds raised may be paid to certain finders for part of the private placement.

The financing is subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange. All securities issued pursuant to the private placement will be subject to a four-month hold period.

The finances will be used to finance initial exploration of its Deborah Gold Property (100% owned) in Cajamarca, Peru and for general working capital.

The Deborah Gold property is located only one hour east of the city of Cajamarca, with good access via paved and dirt roads. Work is scheduled to commence following receipt of approvals and completion of the abovementioned financing. In addition to remapping, the property will be sampled with both soil and rock grids, since very little of the historic surface data are available. The recessive area between two groups of drill holes will be a priority. The trail cuts leading up across the recessive area will be mapped first to determine the depth of overburden, and, if they are less than a few metres, trenches and pits will be dug in the area and any bedrock will be sampled. (See September 23, 2011 News Release for additional information).


About Dorato Resources Inc.

Dorato Resources Inc. is mineral exploration company focused on the highly prospective Northern Peru copper-gold porphyry-epithermal belt. The Company has property rights in two geographic centres:

- Cajamarca Region Project-- Dorato has acquired rights on the Deborah property, which is nestled between several important copper-gold deposits, including Michiquillay and El Galeno.

- Cordillera del Condor Asset-- one of the most important gold-bearing districts in northern Peru since pre-Incan times. Dorato, through a series of option agreements has the right to wholly acquire an extensive land package of approximately 1,050-square-kilometres, providing the Company with the largest land position in the Cordillera del Condor.

The Company focuses on grassroots opportunities in strategically important locations where prospectivity can be demonstrated by proximity to existing deposits. The Cajamarca Region, in contrast, is an established mining district with excellent infrastructure. The Deborah property is a foothold for Dorato into an established area with excellent exploration potential. The Cordillera del Condor project represents an exceptional land position and an emergent copper-gold district, located close to the border with Ecuador. This remote area of Peru was unexplored until recently, but it is located within kilometres of recent discoveries like Fruta del Norte and the Mirador District (both located just across the border in Ecuador).


On behalf of the board of directors of Dorato Resources Inc.

Anton Drescher
Interim President and CEO



Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements and forward-looking information (collectively, 'forward-looking statements') within the meaning of applicable Canadian and US securities legislation. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein including, without limitation, statements regarding the anticipated content, commencement and cost of exploration programs, anticipated exploration program results, the discovery and delineation of potential mineral deposits/resources/reserves, business and financing plans and business trends, are forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes that such statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words such as: believe, expect, anticipate, intend, estimate, postulate and similar expressions, or are those, which, by their nature, refer to future events. The Company cautions investors that any forward-looking statements by the Company are not guarantees of future results or performance, and that actual results may differ materially from those in forward looking statements as a result of various factors, including, but not limited to, variations in the nature, quality and quantity of any mineral deposits that may be located, variations in the market price of any mineral products the Company may produce or plan to produce, the Company's inability to obtain any necessary permits, consents or authorizations required for its activities, the Company's inability to produce minerals from its properties successfully or profitably, to continue its projected growth, to raise the necessary capital or to be fully able to implement its business strategies, to obtain the required supreme decree from Peruvian authorities and other risks and uncertainties disclosed in the Company's Amended 2010 Annual Information Form filed with certain securities commissions in Canada and the Company's 2010 Annual Report on Form 40-F filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the 'SEC'), and other information released by the Company and filed with the appropriate regulatory agencies. All of the Company's Canadian public disclosure filings may be accessed via www.sedar.com and its United States public disclosure filings may be accessed via www.sec.gov.

Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.



Contacts:

Dorato Resources Inc.
Michael Pound, Manager - Investor Relations
(604)-638-5817
(604) 408-7499 (FAX)
info@doratoresources.com
www.doratoresources.com