Brazilian Gold Corporation (TSX VENTURE:BGC) (the "Company") is pleased to
announce they have signed an option agreement through their wholly owned
subsidiary, Regent Brazil Holdings Ltd. ("Regent"), to acquire 100% of the Santa
Julia gold project located approximately 43 kilometres north of the town of Novo
Progresso, which is situated along the Santarem - Cuiaba (BR-163) highway in
Para state, northern Brazil. 


Highlights of the acquisition are:



--  Underexplored area in the Tapajos Mineral Province (unofficial gold
    production of 30 million ounces), 
--  Large land package (39,025 Ha) with highly prospective geology, 
--  Low cost option agreement with staged payments over four years, 
--  Good infrastructure including road access, nearby hydro-electric
    transmission lines and services companies, 
--  Synergies with the Company's adjacent advanced stage Sao Jorge project,
    and 
--  Several grams/tonne gold returned from grab samples of quartz+sulphide
    stockwork exposed in garimpeiro (artisanal) pit. 



The Santa Julia agreement consists of two prospecting licenses and an
exploration license for a total area of approximately 9,690 hectares. The
Company applied for three additional concessions over open ground that are
contiguous with and will form part of the Santa Julia project. One of the
concessions is located to the north and two of them are located to the southeast
of the Santa Julia acquisition for a total area of 29,335 hectares. The
northeast boundary of the project including the three claims mentioned above is
approximately 8 kilometres southeast of the Sao Jorge property, the Company's
most advanced stage project. 


The Sao Jorge Gold Project is host to an NI43-101 compliant indicated resource
of 8,334,000 tonnes grading 1.3 grams/tonne gold (343,000 ounces) and an
inferred resource of 12,576,000 tonnes grading 1.1 grams/ tonne gold (458,000
ounces) using a 0.5 gram/tonne gold cutoff (Coffey Mining, September 14, 2010).
The Company currently has two drills on the property and is looking to expand
the existing resource that is open down dip by targeting the area between 200 to
300 metres below surface. Results from the first drill hole that targeted this
area returned 86 metres grading 1.37 grams/tonne gold (NR01/11, January 18
2011). Geophysical surveys are planned to start in February followed by
drilling, which will test the strike potential of the deposit to the southeast
and northwest.


The Santa Julia acquisition fits with the Company's strategy of identifying high
quality projects that are road accessible (ranch land), close to electrical
transmission lines and adjacent to the Company's advanced stage Sao Jorge
project. The Company now has four exploration projects (Pista Manual, Surubim,
Rio Novo and Santa Julia) within a 100 kilometre radius of Sao Jorge, which will
allow for lower cost exploration and development, and may provide synergies
whereby product from more than one project are trucked to a central processing
facility.


The Santa Julia project is underlain by Iriri Group volcano-sedimentary rocks
and coeval intrusive rocks that have a northwest trend similar to the overall
structure at Sao Jorge. The Belo garimpo, one of a number of garimpeiro
(artisanal) pits found on the property, exposes quartz+sulphide stockwork hosted
in felsic volcanic rocks. Five selected grab samples from the pit ranged from
0.24 to 57.5 grams/tonne gold.




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Sample No.  Type Au g/t Ag g/t                                       Comment
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Ber-001     Grab   0.24    0.7  Clay altered felsic volcanic rock, 2% pyrite
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Ber-002     Grab  14.56   13.7  Quartz + sulphide (pyrite) + iron oxide vein
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Ber-003     Grab  57.53   64.5  Quartz + sulphide (pyrite) + iron oxide vein
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Ber-004     Grab  12.12   32.0  Quartz + sulphide (pyrite) + iron oxide vein
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Ber-005     Grab  12.70   33.8  Quartz + sulphide (pyrite) + iron oxide vein
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The Company plans an initial exploration program consisting of prospecting,
mapping, soil sampling and geophysics to identify targets for follow-up diamond
drilling.


Santa Julia Agreement Terms

The terms of the agreement are outlined in the table below and are subject to a
1.5% net smelter return ("NSR"). Regent has the option to purchase 1% of the NSR
at any time for total consideration of US$1 million leaving the vendor a 0.5%
NSR. 




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                                                       Payment
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Signing                                              R$100,000
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180 days after title transferred to Regent           R$200,000
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1 year after title transferred to Regent             R$200,000
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2 years after title transferred to Regent            R$600,000
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3 years after title transferred to Regent            R$700,000
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4 years after title transferred to Regent          R$1,000,000
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Total                                              R$2,800,000
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Laboratory Procedures

Grab samples were collected by a Company geologist and dispatched to Acme
Analytical Laboratories Ltd.'s sample preparation facility in Itaituba, Brazil,
where the sample is crushed, split and pulverized to -200 mesh. The pulp is
shipped to Santiago, Chile for gold fire assay and another pulp is shipped to
Vancouver, Canada for multi-element induced coupled plasma analysis. Acme
Analytical Laboratories Ltd. is an internationally certified ISO 9001
laboratory. Brazilian Gold's Quality Assurance - Quality Control Program
involving the insertion of appropriate blanks, standards and duplicates was
employed with acceptable results.


Garnet Dawson, M.Sc., P.Geo. (British Columbia), Vice President, Exploration for
the Company and a Qualified Person, as defined by National Instrument 43-101,
has reviewed and approved the technical disclosure contained in this News
Release.


About Brazilian Gold Corporation

Brazilian Gold Corporation is a Canadian based public company with a focus on
acquisition, exploration and development of mineral properties in the Tapajos
region of Northern Brazil. For more information on the Company, please visit its
website at http://www.braziliangold.ca.
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