Castillian Announces Passing of Board Member

TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 05/09/12 -- Castillian Resources Corp. ("Castillian" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: CT)(OTCQX: CTIIF) is sad to announce the sudden passing of Paul C.M. Roberts, M.A.Sc, M.B.A., P.Eng., C.Eng, a member of the Board of Directors of the Company since June 2011. Mr. Roberts was President of Minvest Inc., a consulting organization providing technical and financial expertise to mining companies, the investment fraternity and governments. He successfully ran four publicly traded junior mining companies and served on several boards for various companies. Previously he headed the mining research team at Merrill Lynch Canada, working in corporate finance and institutional sales. Mr. Roberts was a geological and civil engineer who spent the first decade of his career in resource definition and development for an international mining consulting firm.

Bill Pearson, President & CEO of Castillian, commented: "We are all very saddened by Paul's sudden passing. He was an excellent director and an enthusiastic supporter of the Company who was very active in helping our projects move forward, especially the projects in South America. We extend our deepest condolences to Mrs. Roberts and all of the Roberts family."


ABOUT CASTILLIAN

Castillian Resources Corp. is a Canadian mineral exploration company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "CT" which has gold and base metal properties in Canada and South America. Castillian's flag ship property is the Hope Brook Gold Project located in southwestern Newfoundland, which has 290,000 ounces of NI 43-101 compliant indicated mineral resources and 740,000 ounces of inferred mineral resources. Castillian has also outlined an extensive new Gold-in-Soil anomaly trend on its Canadian Creek property in the Yukon that is adjacent to Kaminak's Sugar Gold-in-Soil trend.


Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-looking Information

This press release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Forward-looking information includes, but is not limited to, statements regarding exploration prospects. Generally, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved". Forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to: general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties; the actual results of current exploration activities; future prices of mineral prices; failure of plant, equipment or processes to operate as anticipated; accidents, labour disputes and shortages and other risks of the mining industry. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking information, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.


Information Concerning Estimates of Indicated and Inferred Resources

This news release uses the terms "indicated resources" and "inferred resources". Castillian advises investors that although these terms are recognized and required by Canadian regulations (under NI 43-101), the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission does not recognize them. Investors are cautioned not to assume that any part or all of the mineral deposits in these categories will ever be converted into mineral reserves. In addition, inferred resources have a great amount of uncertainty as to their existence, and economic and legal feasibility. It cannot be assumed that all or any part of an inferred mineral resource will ever be upgraded to a higher category. Under Canadian rules, estimates of inferred mineral resources may not form the basis of feasibility or pre-feasibility studies, or economic studies except for preliminary economic assessments as defined under NI 43-101. Investors are cautioned not to assume that part or all of an inferred resource exists, or is economically or legally mineable.

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Contacts:

Castillian Resources Corp.
Sabina Srubiski, Investor Relations Manager
416-309-2957
ssrubiski@castillian.ca

Castillian Resources Corp.
Bill Pearson, President & CEO
416-861-2968
president@castillian.ca
www.castillian.ca