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TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – Feb. 1, 2012) – Continental Gold Limited (“Continental” or the “Company”) (TSX:CNL) is pleased to announce results for nine diamond drill-holes from the Company’s ongoing program at its 100%-owned Buritica Project in Antioquia, Colombia. Ten drills are currently on site as part of the Company’s Phase III, 60,000-metre diamond drill program for 2012.

Highlights

Yaragua (Figures 1 and 2)

--  Step-out drilling to the west at the Yaragua System has extended the

    strike length of several veins between 50 to 75 metres and the veins

    remain open along strike and at depth. Significant intercepts include 25

    metres @ 13.3 g/t Gold and 16 g/t Silver (including 4.5 metres @ 52.8

    g/t Gold and 16 g/t Silver) in drill-hole BUSY224, which is outside the

    current National Instrument 43-101 ("NI 43-101") compliant resource

    estimate.

--  BUSY238, the first deep penetrating drill-hole to test the Yaragua

    System vertically, was drilled to over 1,000 metres before completion.

    Significant intercepts below the current NI 43-101 resource estimate

    include 36 metres @ 6.7 g/t Gold and 11 g/t Silver. A second deep

    penetrating diamond drill hole is nearing completion and a series of

    deep holes are planned to probe the depth extent of the Yaragua System

    in 2012.

--  Step-out drilling in eastern Yaragua demonstrated that the system

    remains open to the east and at depth. Results outside the current NI

    43-101 compliant resource model include 3.65 metres @ 13.5 g/t Gold and

    552 g/t Silver.

La Mano (Figure 1)

--  BUSY228, the second drill hole completed at La Mano target prior to the

    end of 2011, yielded several high silver/gold mineralized zones at

    shallow depths and, encouragingly, at greater depths. A significant

    intercept to the south intersected 0.6 metres @ 55.4 g/t Gold, 6 g/t

    Silver and 1.42% Zinc. Two diamond drills are presently being mobilized

    to the La Mano target with drilling expected to commence towards the end

    of February. The next assay results from La Mano will be released once

    five to ten holes have been completed and analyzed.

Veta Sur System (Figures 1 and 3)

--  BUSY231, the third deep penetrating drill hole to test the Veta Sur

    system, intersected 5.95 metres @ 125.9 g/t Gold, 66 g/t Silver and 1.6%

    Zinc before the hole ran into technical difficulty and was abandoned at

    approximately 550 metres down-hole, ending in mineralization. This hole

    extended the northern Veta Sur system by more than 100 metres of strike

    length and to a depth of approximately 500 metres from surface outside

    of the current NI 43-101 resource estimate. The reader should be

    cautioned that due to drilling difficulties, a recovery rate of 25% was

    achieved in this portion of the interval and, consequently, the result

    should only be regarded as an indication that high-grade mineralization

    occurs at this depth in the northern portion of the Veta Sur System. The

    Company intends to re-drill this hole in short order.

--  BUSY225 drilled from northern Veta Sur intersected high silver/gold base

    metal-rich mineralization (including 1.9 metres @ 0.5 g/t Gold and 326

    g/t Silver), open laterally and at depth.

--  BUSY226 encountered several broad mineralized intervals (for example 7.2

    metres @ 5.2 g/t Gold and 36 g/t Silver, including 1.55 metres @ 16.3

    g/t Gold and 115 g/t Silver) mainly outside the current resource model.

“Our exploration efforts at Buritica continue to expand the mineralized footprint of the project. The initial deep hole at the Yaragua System and the La Mano intercept bode well for an updated NI 43-101 compliant resource due to be released during the summer of 2012,” commented Ari Sussman, CEO. “The Company is well funded for its exploration and development programs with a $58 million budget for 2012.”

Details

Continental’s 100%-owned, 19,452-hectare project, Buritica, contains several known areas of high-grade gold and silver mineralization, of base metal-carbonate style (“Stage I”) variably overprinted by texturally and chemically distinctive high-grade “Stage II” mineralization. The two most extensively explored of these areas (the Yaragua system and the Veta Sur system, Figure 1) are central to this land package. The Yaragua System has been drill-outlined along 650 metres of strike and 600 vertical metres and partially sampled in underground developments. The Veta Sur system has been drill intersected along 550 metres of strike and 1,180 vertical metres. Both systems are characterized by multiple, steeply dipping veins and broader, more disseminated mineralization and both remain open at depth and along strike, at high grades. Continental recently issued a NI 43-101 compliant maiden resource for parts of the Yaragua and Veta Sur systems. See “about Continental Gold” below.

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