Platinum Group Metals Files Waterberg Preliminary Economic Assessment

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Mar 13, 2014) - Platinum Group Metals Ltd. (TSX:PTM)(NYSE MKT:PLG) ("Platinum Group" or the "Company") announces that further to its news release dated February 14, 2014 (the "Release") announcing a positive preliminary economic assessment ("PEA") on the Company's Waterberg Joint Venture Project located in the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex of South Africa, it has today filed the associated National Instrument 43-101 technical report. The report, entitled "Waterberg Mineral Project Preliminary Economic Assessment" is dated effective February 14, 2014 and was prepared by Dr. Michael Roberts, MSc, PhD, SAIMM of Worley Parsons TWP and Kenneth Lomberg, B.Sc. (Hons) Geology, B. Com., M. Eng. Pr.Sci.Nat., MGSSA, of Coffey Mining (SA) Pty Ltd. supporting the disclosure of the PEA. The technical report is consistent in all material respects with the PEA and mineral resource information announced in the Release. A copy of the report can be found at http://www.sedar.com/ and on the Company's website at www.platinumgroupmetals.net.

About Platinum Group Metals Ltd.

Platinum Group is based in Johannesburg, South Africa and Vancouver, Canada. The Company's business is currently focused on the construction of the WBJV Project 1 platinum mine and the newly discovered Waterberg platinum deposit, where the Company is the operator of the Waterberg Joint Venture Project with JOGMEC and Mnombo. The Company has also expanded its exploration northward on to the Waterberg Extension project. As a result of the resource scale and thickness of the Waterberg deposit, the Waterberg Joint Venture project and the Waterberg Extension project have increased in importance in the Company's business.

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