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Gold/Mining/Energy : Great Basin Gold GBG.VSE (merger of Pacific Sentinel Gold)
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From: Savant10/10/2011 10:02:57 AM
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Great Basin Gold announces the appointment of Chief Operating Officer

VANCOUVER, Oct. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Great Basin Gold Ltd. ("Great
Basin Gold" or the "Company") (CA:GBG)(GBG)(jse:GBG) announces a change to its
management team with the appointment of Dana Roets as Chief Operating Officer.

Dana Roets is a qualified Mining Engineer and an alumnus of the University of
Pretoria (1986), who also holds an MBA through the University of Cape Town
(1995). He started his mining career at Gold Fields' St Helena Gold Mine in the
Free State, and then spent two years as Manager Mining and General Manager at the
Oryx Gold Mine. He was Managing Director of Kloof Mines before spending four
years as Managing Director of Gold Fields' Free State Mines and Vice President
and Head of Operations at Beatrix Gold Mine. Subsequently, he spent a further
three years as the Vice President: Technical Services and a year as Vice
President and Head of Operations at the Kloof Gold Mine. He was appointed VP
Corporate Development with Great Basin Gold in February 2010, before joining
Anglo Platinum in mid-2011.

President and CEO Ferdi Dippenaar said: "Dana Roets replaces Johan Oelofse, who
has been our Chief Operating Officer for the past five years and has left the
company to pursue other opportunities. The Board and management would like to
acknowledge Johan's contribution to the development of Great Basin and wish him
good luck in the future."

"We also welcome Dana back and look forward to his input in the growth of our
company in his new role as Chief Operating Officer. Dana was instrumental in the
development and application of Long Hole Stoping as mining method at our
Burnstone operations, the success thereof being evident today. His experience in
the design and project management of large capital projects will prove equally
valuable at this particular time, as we are progressing with two projects: the
build-up of production at our Burnstone Mine in South Africa and the advancement
of our Hollister Project in Nevada, USA."

Ferdi Dippenaar President and CEO

No regulatory authority has approved or disapproved the information contained in
this news release.
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