chinese investor announcement out, page-2

VERY interesting!

The Board of Republic Gold (“Republic” or the “Company”) today announces that Company
directors and consultants spent several days last week with a delegation of senior executives
from the major Chinese mining group that visited the Company in late 2007.
One of the delegates for last week’s visit was the Chairman of the Chinese mining group.
During the delegation’s initial visit in December it viewed the Company’s Far North Queensland
projects. On this visit the delegation viewed the Company’s 75%-owned Burraga Base Metals
Project.
The Company is looking now to work closely with the Chinese group on developing its projects. To
this end the Company proposes to visit China within the next four weeks to commence detailed
discussions with the Chinese mining group on technical and financial issues.