PanTerra Gold Limited appointed Mr. Andrew Pooler as its Chief Executive Officer, effective July 1, 2012. Mr. Pooler is a US citizen but resident in Vancouver, Canada from where Pooler will continue to be based. From 2008 until recently, Mr. Pooler was Chief Operating Officer for Vancouver based Abacus Mining and Exploration Corp. where he was responsible for the conduct of a feasibility study and planning for the proposed Ajax copper/gold project in British Columbia. The Ajax project will involve large scale open pit mine development (22mtpa) with a concentrator processing 60,000tpd to produce 50,000t copper and 100,000oz gold per year. Mr. Pooler will have ultimate responsibility for the profitable operation of the company's Las Lagunas gold/silver project in the Dominican Republic as well as expansion of the company's management, and development of new projects in Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, and Peru.