Rubicon Minerals Corporation announced the appointment of Dan Labine to the position of Vice President of Operations, effective January 21, 2013 and the hiring of Allan Candelario as the Director of Investor Relations, effective January 2, 2013. Mr. Labine has over 35 years of engineering, mine operation, and project management experience. Dan was recently the Senior Project Manager at Goldcorp Inc. Dan will replace Claude Bouchard, the former Vice President of Operations, who has left Rubicon to pursue other interests.

Mr. Candelario brings several years of investor relations and capital markets experience. Prior to joining Rubicon, Allan coordinated Alamos Gold Inc.'s top-ranked investor relations program. He previously worked in equity research at TD Securities and at a non-bank Canadian investment dealer.

Allan replaces Bill Cavalluzzo, the former Vice President of Investor Relations, who has decided to retire effective immediately.