New Talisman Gold Mines Limited has announced that it has appointed Murray Stevens to the board. Murray has more than 35 years experience as a geologist and has provided consulting services to the company since 2002. Mr. Stevens has extensive expertise exploring for epithermal gold deposits in the Coromandel and the wider Asia-Pacific region. He has held senior management and consulting roles in a number of public and private companies and was NTL's (formerly Heritage Gold Ltd) first exploration manager, a position he held from 1987 to 1996. He was instrumental in recognising the potential for the Talisman mine and the Rahu area when NTL acquired these areas in the early 1990's. Murray played a key role in the original discovery made at Rahu which is currently under a Heads of Agreement between Newcrest Mining and New Talisman. Mr. Stevens was the exploration consultant for New Talisman (then called Heritage) when the work undertaken in 2003 to 2006 delineated the current resource of 204K ounces gold and 800K ounces silver at the Talisman mine. The company also announced that Ian Pringle has retired as a director of the NTL board.