Legend Reports Preliminary Results on the Randgold JV

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Aug 18, 2014) - Legend Gold Corp. (the "Company" or "Legend") (TSX VENTURE:LGN) is pleased to announce that Randgold Resources (Mali) Limited ("Randgold") has completed the initial review and ground truthing of the portfolio of seven permits held in Joint Venture with Legend (the "Randgold JV"), located 30 km south of the Sadiola Gold Mine in western Mali.

Randgold has confirmed previous work and preliminary sampling results are encouraging.

The work has included field mapping programmes with traverses conducted across a 5 km wide, 17 km long North South corridor on the eastern side of the Senegalo-Malian Shear (SMS), which marks the terrain boundary between the Kofi and Keniebandi formations and is an important regional control on gold deposit formation. At the same time an extensive, historical library of data has been collated to assist with interpretation. This includes a detailed VTEM survey flown over the portfolio as well as geochemical data from soil surveys and drilling programmes.

Work has identified a narrow unit of coarser grained sediments that runs along the eastern margin of the SMS which has received limited testing previously. Mapping along these units has identified greywackes as well as limestone in the field, with the latter being an important factor in the formation of many deposits in the Kofi formation and the host of the Sadiola and Yatela mineralizations, approximately 30 km along strike to the north. Of the 94 lithosamples collected across the mapped corridor, nine returned anomalous results of gold between 0.23 g/t and 5.9 g/t. The highest value was recorded in a limestone which is the same rock type that hosts the Sadiola and Yatela mines mineralization.

Under the terms of the earn-in agreement signed in March 2014, the Joint Venture will have a Management Committee composed of three members from Randgold and two members from Legend. The cost of all prospecting activities including the preparation of a pre-feasibility study will be borne by Randgold. Once the pre-feasibility study is approved by the Management Committee and definitive feasibility study commenced, Randgold and Legend will begin to share expenses on a 51:49 basis, respectively. If Legend elects not to participate in the financing of the definitive feasibility study, its interest will be diluted from 49% to 35% upon completion of the bankable feasibility study. Randgold is the operator of the Joint Venture and is responsible for all work and reporting requirements of the Joint Venture. For more information on the Randgold JV, please refer to the Company's news release dated March 4, 2014.

Qualified Person

Dr. Demetrius Pohl, PhD., Certified Professional Geoscientist (CPG), Legend's VP of Exploration, is the Company's Qualified Person for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosures for Mineral Projects of the Canadian Securities Administrators, and has approved the written disclosure of the technical information contained in this news release.

About Legend

Legend is a Canadian mineral exploration and development company focused on gold exploration in West Africa. Legend's flagship projects include the Diba, Lakanfla, Tabakorole (formerly Tiekoumala) and Mougnina projects and the Randgold JV. Further information is available at www.legendgold.com.

This press release has been prepared by Legend Gold Corp. Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Service Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

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