Mr. Marco Gagnon reports

ADVENTURE GOLD APPOINTS MARIO CARON TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Adventure Gold Inc. has appointed Mario Caron, PEng, to the board of directors, effective Aug. 19, 2014.

Mr. Caron is a mining executive with over 35 years of experience in the mining industry including board and management expertise in operations, development, exploration and capital markets as well as government relations, with companies having projects in the Americas, Africa and Southeast Asia. Until last year, he served as chief executive officer and director of Aldridge Minerals Inc., a company developing a polymetallic VMS deposit in Turkey. Mr. Caron previously held similar positions, chief executive officer and director, with Axmin Inc., a company with a gold project in the Central African Republic, and Tiberon Minerals Ltd., the developer of a tungsten/fluorspar mine in Vietnam. Mr. Caron is also a former vice-president, mining and infrastructure, with PricewaterhouseCoopers Securities Inc. Since last year, Mr. Caron has been a consultant and he is currently a director of Avanti Mining Inc. and of Maya Gold & Silver Inc. Mr. Caron received his bachelor of engineering, mining, at McGill University and is a member of the Quebec Order of Engineers and the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario.

"We are delighted to welcome Mr. Caron. His solid mining and financial background will be a valuable addition to the Adventure Gold board of directors. It's the perfect timing to bring an experienced mining engineer to the board as we are entering in resource development stage at our Val d'Or East project," stated Marco Gagnon, president and chief executive officer.

Adventure has granted 200,000 stock options to Mr. Caron. Each option entitles the holder to purchase one common share of the company at a price of 20 cents per share until Aug. 19, 2024.

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