Rome Resources Ltd. announced that Mark Gasson has been appointed to the Company's board of directors. Mr. Gasson is a geologist with 38 years of experience and has been active in South Africa, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (‘DRC') since 1986 in exploration for gold and base metals and resource development. Mr. Gasson has served on the boards of and in senior management positions at several mineral exploration and mining companies, and was instrumental in the discovery of the Bisie tin project (250,000 tonnes of contained tin), the Kipoi one million tonne copper project and in the three million ounce Giro gold project, which are all located in the DRC.

Mr. Gasson is member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.