Fire River Gold Corp. announced that it implemented a new mine plan effective December 31, 2012 and the January 2013 results of mining operations were encouraging. The 2013 Mine Plan, focusing on high confidence targets and conservative grades is starting to produce results.

Ore development headings, started in the latter part of 2012, continue to demonstrate continuity with good grade being realized. As confidence in the newly implemented mine plan increased during the month, infrastructure and resources were put in place to support additional development work and subsequent production. The first production stope in the Mystery Mine was started and continues to deliver high grade ore.

Subsequent to the completion of the CIL (carbon in leach) circuit in November 2012, the operations team at Nixon Fork has made significant progress in the processing plant. December saw improvement take place, including repairs to the Larox tailings filter, purchasing of a second Larox filter, replacement of the rod mill liners, and repairs to the Falcon concentrator and the flotation cells. During this time, the mill was shut down for 7 days resulting in an unusually low plant availability in December.