Brigus Gold Appoints New Vice President, Investor Relations

Brigus Gold Corp. ("Brigus” or the "Company”) (TSX: BRD)(NYSE Amex: BRD) announces that Jennifer Nicholson has been appointed Vice President, Investor Relations, effective immediately.

Ms. Nicholson joins Brigus’ senior management team and will initially work alongside Wendy Yang, who will remain with the Company through a transition period to the end of the second quarter of 2011. Ms. Nicholson, who joins the Company after serving as Senior Director, Stakeholder Relations at Emera Inc., will be based in the Company’s head office located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Brigus’ Chief Executive Officer and President Wade K. Dawe, said, "Jennifer is an experienced, high-energy financial and communications executive who will be a strong addition to our senior management team. We have been fortunate to have Wendy Yang lead our investor relations function over the past year, working through the merger of Apollo Gold Corporation and Linear Gold Corp. to create Brigus. The Board of Directors and I thank Wendy for her many valuable contributions.”

Ms. Nicholson, a Chartered Accountant ("C.A.”), has strong public company investor relations experience and has held increasingly senior finance and communications roles over her career. Before joining Emera, she worked as an accounting professor at Saint Mary’s University and earned her C.A. while at Ernst & Young LLP. Ms. Nicholson graduated from Saint Mary’s University with a bachelor of commerce degree. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Atlantic Innovation Fund of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nova Scotia (ICANS) Council.

About Brigus Gold

Brigus is a growing gold producer committed to maximizing shareholder value through a strategy of efficient production, targeted exploration and select acquisitions. The company operates the wholly owned Black Fox Mine and Mill in the Timmins Gold District of Ontario, Canada. The Black Fox Complex encompasses the Black Fox Mine and adjoining properties in the Township of Black River-Matheson, Ontario, Canada. Brigus is also advancing the Goldfields Project located near Uranium City, Saskatchewan, Canada, which hosts the Box and Athona gold deposits. In Mexico, Brigus Gold holds a 100 percent interest in the Ixhuatan Project located in the state of Chiapas. In the Dominican Republic, Brigus has a joint venture covering three mineral exploration projects.