RooGold Inc. announced the appointment of Mr. David Melling as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and member of the Board of Directors. David will be replacing Vishal Gupta, who has resigned from his role as interim-CEO and director to pursue other business endeavors. David Melling is an exploration geologist with over than 35 years of experience in the mining industry.

Throughout an extensive career, David has senior leadership experience on exploration and development projects in Canada, USA, Cuba, Ecuador, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Mr. Melling's specialized experience extends to working in challenging and isolated settings, and managing all aspects of surface and underground exploration projects. David has worked on a variety of deposit types including all classes of lode-Au deposits; porphyry Cu-Au, epithermal Au, Carlin type Au, high-sulphidation Au-Cu, and VMS deposits, Kambalda type Ni deposits, magmatic Cu-Ni-PGE deposits, and unconformity type U deposits.

Mr. Melling is also experienced with lithium deposits having prepared the 43-101 Technical Report on the Thompson Brother's LCT pegmatite deposit in Manitoba, Canada. David has served as an officer, director, and Vice-President Exploration for several Canadian exploration companies. David holds a B.Sc.

and M.Sc. in Geology from Carleton University, and is a registered professional geologist with the Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia, Canada.