Nord Gold NV : Share and GDR Buyback Update

Share and GDR Buyback Update

, - ('Nordgold' or the 'Company', LSE: NORD), the internationally diversified low-cost gold producer, announces that on January 11- 15, 2016, in accordance with the 2016buyback programme, it purchaseda total of 37,612 GDRs for the total amount of .

The daily transactions are detailed below.

Since the beginning of the 2016 buyback programme on Nordgold has purchased a totalof 79,131 GRDs for the total amount of .

On , the Board approved the 2016 GDR buyback programme for up to 5,000,000 GDRs to a maximum total amount of at a price of up to per GDR. The buyback programme will end as soon as the aggregate purchase price of GDRs acquired by the Company has reached the amount of or ultimately, by .

TheCompany has an entire issued share capital of 370,821,439 shares.

Following the withdrawal from the GDR programme of the shares underlying the GDRs, the Company intends to cancel the shares.

Due to the generally low trading volume in the Company's GDRs, purchases of the GDRs under the programme on any trading day are likely to represent a significant proportion of the daily trading volume in the GDRs on the LSE.

Daily Transactions

Period	No. of acquired GDRs	Average price per GDR, in US$	Total Amount, in US$
January 11, 2016	2,529	2.6500	6,702
January 12, 2016	13,545	2.6496	35,889
January 13, 2016	15,000	2.6525	39,788
January 14, 2016	1	2.6000	3
January 15, 2016	6,537	2.6000	16,996

About Nordgold

Nordgold (LSE: NORD)is an internationally diversified low-cost gold producer established in 2007 and publicly traded on the . The Company has expanded rapidly through carefully targeted acquisitions and organic growth, achieving a rate of growth unmatched in the industry during that period. In 2014, Nordgold's gold production increased to 985 thousand ounces from 924 thousand ounces in 2013.

The Company operates 9 mines and has 2 development projects, 4 advanced exploration projects and a diverse portfolio of early-stage exploration projects and licenses in , , , , and . Nordgold employs over 8,000 people.

For further information on Nordgold please visit the Company's website:www.nordgold.com

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Forward-looking information involves significant risks, assumptions, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual future realities or anticipated events to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking information and, accordingly, should not be read as guarantees of future performance or realities. Material factors or assumptions that were applied in formulating the forward-looking information contained herein include the assumption that the business and economic conditions affecting Nordgold's operations will continue substantially in their current state, including, without limitation, with respect to industry conditions, general levels of economic activity, market prices for gold, competition for and scarcity of gold mine assets, achievement of anticipated mineral reserve and mineral resource tonnages or grades, ability to develop additional mineral reserves, acquisition of funding for capital expenditures, adequacy and availability of production, processing and product delivery infrastructure, electricity costs, continuity and availability of personnel and third party service providers, local and international laws and regulations, foreign currency exchange rates and interest rates, inflation, taxes, and that there will be no unplanned material changes to Nordgold's facilities, equipment, customer and employee relations and credit arrangements. Nordgold cautions that the foregoing list of material factors and assumptions is not exhaustive. Many of these assumptions are based on factors and events that are not within the control of Nordgold and there is no assurance that they will prove correct. The risks and other factors that may cause actual future realities or anticipated events to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking information include, but are not limited to Nordgold's ability to execute its development and exploration programs; the financial and operational performance of Nordgold; civil disturbance, armed conflict or security issues at the mineral projects of Nordgold; political factors; the capital requirements associated with operations; dependence on key personnel; compliance with environmental regulations; estimated production; and competition.

Actual performance or achievement could differ materially from that expressed in, or implied by, any forward-looking information in this press release and, accordingly, investors should not place undue reliance on any such forward-looking information. Further, any forward-looking information speaks only as of the date on which such statement is made, and Nordgold does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking information to reflect information, events, results, circumstances or realities after the date on which such statement is made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by applicable Canadian securities laws. All forward-looking information contained in this press release is qualified by such cautionary statements. New risk factors emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for management to predict all of such risk factors and to assess in advance the impact of each such factor on Nordgold's business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual realities to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking information.