AURORA GOLD CORPORATION

Aurora Gold Corp Completes US$ 5 Million private placement with Alltech Capital Limited.

Zug, Switzerland—(MARKET WIRE) — October 8, 2012 — Aurora Gold Corporation (the "Company," or "Aurora") (OTCQB: ARXG), is a mineral exploration company focusing on exploration and development in the Tapajos Gold Province, State of Pará, Brazil.

The board of Aurora is pleased to announce the completion of a private placement for the sale of 135,000,000 shares of the Company at a price of US$0.037 per share, raising a total of US$5,000,000.

The shares have been placed with Alltech Capital Limited (Alltech), a company incorporated under the laws of Gibraltar and the funds will provide working capital and enable further exploration and evaluation of Aurora’s Sao Domingo Property.

The Alltech Group is active across a broad spectrum of industries including Gold, Oil and Gas exploration, Coal (Anthracite) production and the Development of commercial and residential real estate.

Aurora is preparing to increase the technical staff in Brazil with the view to concurrently expand the current resource base on Sao Domingo at the Fofoca Resource area, and to test the lateral and depth extent of the recently discovered Toucano gold occurrence.

The Company has completed a revised exploration plan and budget for bulk sampling, trenching and drilling.

The board of Aurora feels the Toucano occurrence could evolve as the Company’s flagship target on the Sao Domingo property and previously had a technical team on site evaluating the geometry and mineralisation. Geochem and geophysics are included in the budget and results will assist the planning of the drill hole locations.

Mr. Lars Pearl, Aurora's CEO, stated, "This re-focusing of the Company’s direction and work on our Sao Domingo property starts a whole new period of excitement and project development for Aurora and its shareholders. The union with Alltech and the introduction of a fresh, motivated and highly skilled technical team will see Aurora achieve the goals that for so long have been expected."

Aurora’s common stock is also traded on the Stuttgart and the Berlin-Bremen Stock Exchanges in Germany under the symbols “(Stuttgart: A4G.SG - News) (Frankfurt:A4G.F - News) (XETRA:A4G.DE - News) (Berlin:A4G.BE - News).”

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For further information, please contact Lars Pearl.

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/