Cassidy Gold Corp. : Announces Board Appointment

 Tue Jan 31, 2012
Cassidy Gold Corp. Announces Board Appointment
 Cassidy Gold Corp. ("Cassidy") is pleased to announce the appointment of Sir Nicholas Bonsor as a director and the Chairman of the board of Cassidy, on the resignation of Jean-Jacques Lefebvre as a director of Cassidy.

Sir Nicholas was a member of British Parliament from 1979 to 1997 where he specialised in foreign affairs and defence, and was chairman of the Defence Select Committee from 1992 to 1995 and Minister of State at the Foreign Office from 1995 to 1997. Sir Nicholas is currently the Non-Executive Chairman of TomCo Energy plc, Non-Executive Chairman of Metallon plc, Non-Executive Deputy Chairman of London Mining plc and has been Chairman of Egerton International Ltd since 2004. Sir Nicholas has served on the board of several other companies, including Blue Note Mining Inc. (Canada) from 2006 to 2008. He is a Deputy Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire, a freeman of the City of London (1988), a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Sir Nicholas practised as a barrister specialising in regulatory and commercial law from 1967 to 1975 and from 2003 to 2010.

The Board of Directors sincerely thanks Mr. Lefebvre for his past services as a director of Cassidy.

Cassidy also announces that it has granted to Sir Nicholas incentive stock options to purchase 400,000 common shares at a per share price of $0.215 until January 30, 2017.

For additional information, please contact:

Paul Rankine, President and Chief Executive Officer
Marion Bush, Chief Operating Officer
Telephone: [phone]

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