2013-03-08 15:03:47 -

Vancouver, British Columbia CANADA, March 08, 2013 /FSC/ - Banyan Gold Corp. (BYN - TSX Venture), wishes to announce that it has completed a non-brokered private placement of 2,000,000 Units for gross proceeds of $200,000. Each unit consists of one $0.10 share and one-half of a share purchase warrant exercisable at $0.15 for a period of 12 months. A finders fee of 6% is payable in connection with this transaction. Funds will be used for general working capital and advancement of Banyan's Hyland Gold Project.


About Banyan

Banyan is a gold exploration and development company whose flagship property, the Hyland Gold Project ("Hyland"), is approximately 70 km NE of Watson Lake, Yukon. The Main Zone gold inferred resource, at a

0.6 g/t gold equivalent ("AuEq") cutoff, hosts a NI 43-101 compliant resource of 12,503,994 tonnes containing 361,692 ounces gold at 0.9 g/t and 2,248,948 ounces silver at 5.59 g/t for a combined gold and silver 396,468 ounces gold equivalent. Based on the success of previous exploration and numerous untested drill ready targets Banyan management foresees potential for a significant regional exploration.

Paul D. Gray, P.Geo. is Banyan's Qualified Person with respect to Hyland and has reviewed and approved this press release.


ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF BANYAN

(signed) "Richmond Graham"
Richmond Graham
President and Chief Executive Officer

For more information, please contact:
Richmond Graham
Tel: (604) 648-8450
Email: rgraham@banyancoast.com


The TSX Venture Exchange has in no way passed upon the merits of the proposed transaction and has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this press release

Neither the Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.


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