Mr. Geoff Loudon reports

NAUTILUS MINERALS APPOINTS INTERIM PRESIDENT AND CEO

Mike Johnston, Nautilus Minerals Inc.'s vice-president for strategic development and exploration, has accepted the position of interim president and chief executive officer, effective immediately. After more than four years as president and CEO, Steve Rogers has decided to return interstate to be with his family; he will however, remain a non-executive director of Nautilus.

With Mr. Johnston's appointment on an interim basis, the Nautilus board intends to undertake a formal recruitment process in order to appoint a permanent president and CEO for Nautilus going forward. Mr. Johnston will be considered for this permanent position together with other candidates.

Geoff Loudon, chairman of Nautilus, noted: "Firstly, I wish to formally thank Steve for his hard work and dedication over the last six years, four of which were spent in the role of president and CEO. Mr. Johnston's appointment is the result of his demonstrated leadership ability and extensive experience in mining projects. Nautilus remains clearly focused on the construction and delivery of our first project, Solwara 1, and Mr. Johnston has the skills to successfully position Nautilus as the world's leading deepwater exploration and sea floor resource production company."

Mr. Johnston remarked: "I look forward to continuing to work with the world-class team that Nautilus has assembled and to build Nautilus into a major copper, gold and zinc producer."

Mr. Johnston joined Nautilus in 2006 as the vice-president for strategic development and exploration. During his time with Nautilus Mr. Johnston has been instrumental in the company delivering the first resource in accordance with NI 43-101 for a sea floor massive sulphide system and in obtaining the first licence granted to a publicly listed company by the International Seabed Authority. Mr. Johnston was formerly the general manager for exploration with Placer Dome Asia Pacific, where he oversaw Placer Dome's exploration efforts in Australia and Asia, and was a senior member of Placer Dome's exploration and Asia-Pacific operations management team. Prior to this role, Mr. Johnston was technical services manager for Placer Dome at the massive Porgera gold mine in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, where he managed the technical teams responsible for exploration, geology, geotech and engineering within the 210,000-tonne-per-day open pit and 3,000-tonne-per-day underground operations. Mr. Johnston has been involved in Papua New Guinea for 18 years.

With more than 25 years of experience in the mining industry, 11 of which were with Placer Dome, and a further six years with Nautilus, Mr. Johnston brings to Nautilus a strong knowledge of the mining industry, people, decision makers, and laws throughout PNG and the Asia-Pacific region. He also has extensive ore reserve and project evaluation experience, a record of finding orebodies, and a strong understanding of all aspects of deep sea mining, through his management of Placer Dome's involvement in the Solwara projects.