Harte Gold Retains Rene Marion P.Eng., for Sugar Zone Development

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 13, 2012) - HARTE GOLD CORP. ("Harte Gold") (TSX:HRT)(FRANKFURT:H4O) is pleased to announce that Mr. René Marion, P.Eng. of RJLM Professional Services Ltd. has joined the Harte Gold operating team as a consulting Project Manager responsible for the development of the Sugar Zone Deposit.

Mr. Marion is a Queen's University graduate in Mining Engineering who has had a very successful career in project development at a number of companies including Denison Mines Limited, Barrick Gold Corporation, Strathcona Mineral Services and most recently AuRico Gold Inc. where he was President and Chief Executive Officer.

"We are pleased to have a professional mining engineer of Mr. Marion's caliber join the Harte Gold team," said Stephen G. Roman, Harte Gold's Chairman, President & CEO. "Mr. Marion has reviewed the project details and has already made a significant contribution by streamlining the scheduling and mining methods which should result in a lower capex, higher rate of return project. A person with Mr. Marion's expertise will be a valuable addition to Harte Gold, first, to develop the Sugar Zone Deposit and also, to assist Harte Gold with corporate development as we transition from explorer to producer and begin to assess other opportunities for expansion of our business," said Mr. Roman.

About Harte Gold Corp.

Harte Gold Corp. is focused on the development of its 100% owned Sugar Zone property and is currently permitting an advanced exploration program for the Sugar Zone Deposit. The Sugar Zone property is located 60 kilometres east of the Hemlo Gold Camp. and contains an NI 43-101 compliant Indicated Resource of 980,900 tonnes, grading 10.13 g/t for 319,280 ounces of contained gold (uncapped) and an Inferred Resource of 580,500 tonnes, grading 8.36 g/t Au for 155,960 ounces of contained gold (uncapped). Harte also holds the Stoughton-Abitibi property located on and adjacent to the Destor-Porcupine Fault Zone in close proximity to the 2.5 million ounce Holt-Holloway Gold Mine in the Timmins, Ontario Porcupine gold camp.

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