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Enormous Exploration Potential in the Golden Triangle of British Columbia

April 20, 2011

Business Summary

Romios Gold Resources Inc. is a Canadian exploration company focused on the acquisition and exploration of precious and base metal prospects.

The Company's Business Plan is to create shareholder value and reduce exploration risk by acquiring projects with a high discovery potential or a known resource with significant expansion potential and located in major mining districts. The execution of this plan has led to the systematic acquisition of nine strategically located gold- copper properties between Nova Gold/Teck Cominco's and Barrick Gold's properties in the prolific Galore Creek area.

The company has completed drilling programs, geophysical surveys, mapping, soil geochemical and metallurgical work on the Newmont Lake property to further expand the known resource.

The Newmont Lake property has an NI 43-101 Inferred resource of 200,000 ounces of gold at 4.3 g/t ton, 6,790,000 lbs of copper at 0.22% and 291,000 ozs. of silver at 6.4 g/t. In 2008, the company carried out an aggressive $4.3 million exploration program at its Newmont Lake and Trek properties and also added 7,289 hectares to its extensive land position in the Galore Creek area. The drilling program at the Trek property led to the discovery of high grade gold- copper breccias and wider zones of porphyry style mineralization.

The company also holds gold exploration properties in Ontario and Nevada and a molybdenum property in Quebec.

Galore Creek

Northwestern British Columbia hosts two of Canada's most significant mineral deposits: Barrick Gold's Eskay Creek Mine and NovaGold/Teck Resources' massive copper-gold-silver Galore Creek Project.

In 2006, NovaGold announced resources of 7.4 million ounces of gold, 117.1 million ounces of silver and 8.5 billion pounds of copper. All mineralized zones remain open to further expansion.

Since late 2004, Romios Gold Resources Inc. has systematically acquired an extensive land position between NovaGold/Teck Resources' and Barrick Gold's properties.

Regional geologic maps published by the BC Ministry of Energy & Mines and property-wide exploration suggests the underlying rocks and mineralization to many of Romios' mineral tenures may be closely related the porphyry copper-gold-silver deposits at NovaGold/Teck Resources' Galore Creek Project. Romios' mineral tenures contain many exposures of surface mineralization; continued exploration and development of the mineral potential on these lands has led to the discovery of several mineralized zones and a substantial rise in asset value.

Romios' Project in the Galore Creek Area consists of 10 properties including options for a total of 25,826 hectares. Our most advanced properties include Trek, Dirk, Newmont Lake, JW and Royce/Porc properties.

Future Galore Creek Area Work Programs

Drilling Trek Property: Continued North Zone expansion and initiate drilling on the Tangle Zone
Further Exploration, Sampling, and Drilling at the Dirk property. Scoping study for development of the NI 43-101 Inferred Resource of the Northwest Zone, Newmont Lake

Trek's North Zone, B.C. High-Grade Intercept highlights from the 2008-2010 drill programs are as follows:

TRK08-01: 32.0 metres (105 feet) of 2.06% Cu, 1.05 g/t Au, 26.01 g/t Ag
TRK08-02: 27.0 metres (88 feet) of 0.31% Cu, 3.27 g/t Au, 5.71 g/t Ag
TRK09-06: 5.50 metres (18 feet) of 0.14 % Cu, 8.49 g/t Au, 4.10 g/t Ag
TRK09-09: 4.50 metres (14 feet) of 2.16% Cu, 1.66 g/t Au, 12.03 g/t Ag
TRK10-03: 4.60 metres (15 feet) of 3.84% Cu, 1.82 g/t Au, 8.52 g/t Ag
TRK10-05: 10.0 metres (33 feet) of 0.76% Cu, 0.99 g/t Au, 1.3 g/t Ag
TRK10-07: 5.20 metres (17 feet) of 1.75% Cu, 0.60 g/t Au, 14.3 g/t Ag
TRK10-08: 8.00 metres (26 feet) of 1.52% Cu, 0.75 g/t Au, 5.98 g/t Ag

Trek's North Zone, B.C. Long intercept highlights from the 2008-2010 drill programs are as follows:

TRK08-01: 131.4 metres (431 feet) of 0.61% Cu, 0.39 g/t Au, 8.47 g/t Ag
TRK08-02: 124.7 metres (409 feet) of 0.19% Cu, 0.82 g/t Au, 8.47 g/t Ag
TRK09-06: 208.0 metres (682 feet) 0.11 % Cu, 0.4 g/t Au, 1.48 g/t Ag
TRK09-05: 120.0 metres (393 feet) of 0.13 % Cu, 0.25 g/t Au, 1.62 g/t Ag
TRK09-09: 159.0 metres (522 feet) 0.19% Cu, 0.13 g/t Au, 1.06 g/t Ag
TRK10-01: 78.0 metres (256 feet) of 0.20 % Cu, 0.26 g/t Au, 2.18 g/t Ag
TRK10-03: 102.0 metres (335 feet) of 0.37% Cu, 0.15 g/t Au, 1.18 g/t Ag
TRK10-07: 152.0 metres (499 feet) of 0.25% Cu, 0.15 g/t Au, 1.94 g/t Ag
TRK10-08: 50.8 metres (166 feet) of 0.33% Cu, 0.18 g/t Au, 2.68 g/t Ag

Exploration Results: Newmont Lake for 2008 and 2009 Assay Highlights:

Metallurgical drill hole at Northwest Zone: 0.44 metres (1.45 ft) of 753 g/t (21.96 oz.) Au, 462 g/t (13.47 oz.) Ag and 0.69% Cu within an interval of 14.10 m (45.95 ft.) of 26.44 g/t Au (0.77 oz), 21.36 g/t Ag (0.62 oz.) and 0.21% Cu
R-08-05: 0.34 metres (1.10 ft) of 185 g/t Au, 108.0 g/t Ag and 3.28% Cu
R-08-08: 0.65 metres (2.10 ft) of 32.4 g/t Au, 6.0 g/t Ag and 0.12% Cu
R-08-11: 1.23 metres (4.03 ft) of 51.70 g/t Au, 33.70 g/t Ag and 0.97% Cu

Dirk Property (100% Owned)

9,874 hectares (24,400 acres) with porphyry copper-gold mineralization
BC Geological Survey confirmed that the geology is similar to Galore Creek (Press Release March 3, 2011)
Three mineralized zones (Dirk, Telena and Ridge) were sampled revealing significant copper, gold and silver mineralization
Dirk Zone: 3.0 metre chip assaying 6.21 % Cu, 0.577 g/t Au, and 44.1 g/t Ag
Telena Zone: 3.0 meter chip assaying 1.23% Cu, 1.00 g/t Au, and 12.88 g/t Ag
Ridge Zone: Grab samples included 3.49% Cu and 0.28 g/t Au; 2.47% Cu and 0.19 g/t Au; 1.83% Cu and 0.38 g/t Au; and 1.83 % Cu and 0.49 g/t Au
Andrei Zone (new zone): 2 grab samples averaged 0.16%, 0.40% Zn, and 5.8 g/t Ag

Recent News: Mapping Project by British Columbia Geological Survey Identifies "Unprecedented Opportunities" in New Zones and Offers Insights in Romios' Dirk/Newmont Lake Area Geology

Romios Gold Resources Inc. announced that a 2010 mapping project from the British Columbia Geological Survey ("BCGS") confirmed Romios' previous claims that the Dirk property mineralization is analogous to and may be as large as the Galore Creek project.

Samples collected by Romios from the Dirk property produced numerous anomalous values (Press Release February 9, 2011) including a 3.0 metre chip sample of 6.21% Cu, 0.57 g/t Au, and 44.1 g/t Ag. The BCGS also reports values up to 21 ppb platinum and 64 ppb palladium from samples that they collected from the Dirk property.

Mitch Mihalynuk and Jim Logan of the BC Ministry of Forests, Mines and Lands first presented the information to the public at the 2011 AMEBC Roundup Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.They postulated that the Dirk property and the VMS belt discoveries, of which Romios is the primary tenure holder, are "unprecedented opportunities to expand the 'Golden Triangle' to the north, from the Eskay Creek, Snip, and Rock and Roll deposits, towards the large Cu-Au-Ag porphyries in the neighbouring Galore Creek area" which includes Romios' Trek property and the NovaGold/Teck Resources' Copper Canyon property.

The BCGS also indicated that the rocks hosting the Northwest Zone's NI 43-101 inferred gold resource of 200,000 oz Au on the Newmont Lake property are part of "an active VMS mineralizing system of regional extent" (Mihalynuk et. al, 2011). Romios refers to this belt of rocks as the "Stikine VMS Belt", extending for at least 20 km and contains numerous occurrences of volcanogenic massive sulphide Cu-Au-Ag-Zn mineralization, which includes the Ken, Rope, Glacier, Jazzman, and Matterhorn Zones on Romios' Newmont Lake property. Drilling at the Ken Zone by Pezgold Resources in 1988 intersected near surface, skarn-type copper and gold mineralization including a 5.4 metre drill hole intersection averaging 2.81 g/t Au and 0.83% Cu as well as other mineralized intercepts. Two samples taken 10 metres apart by the BCGS at a newly discovered zone which they named 'Andrei', striking along the northern end of this belt, assayed a combined average grade of 0.16% Cu, 0.40% Zn, and 5.8 g/t Ag.

Romios staked 19 additional claims totaling 8,112 hectares- called the Andrei property- to cover the extensions of this Cu-Au-Ag-Zn mineralized VMS belt to the northwest of the Newmont Lake property. In addition to the continuing exploration on the Trek property, Romios plans to conduct additional exploration consisting principally of geological mapping, ground geophysical surveys, sampling and diamond drilling to further develop the Dirk, Newmont Lake, and Andrei properties in the near future.

Maps of the new claims, mineral showings, and sample results have been posted on the Romios website. Details and additional information about the BC Ministry of Mines mapping project in the Dirk, Andrei, and Newmont Lake area (Geofile 2011-2) can be found on the web at: www.empr.gov.bc.ca/Mining/Geoscience/PublicationsCatalogue/GeoFiles/Pages/2011-2.aspx

Fundamental Considerations

Galore Creek

Galore Creek is one of the world's largest undeveloped copper-gold-silver deposits, owned equally by NovaGold and Teck Resources and managed by the Galore Creek Mining Corporation ("GCMC").

Since acquiring Galore Creek in 2003, NovaGold's exploration team has more than tripled the size of the project's resource base.

With 786 million tonnes of good-grade copper-gold-silver porphyry measured and indicated resource, 523 million tonnes of inferred resource and a number of untested targets, there remains considerable potential to increase the resource base at Galore Creek.

IF NOVAGOLD OWNS ONE OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST UNDEVELOPED COPPER-GOLD-SILVER DEPOSITS AT GALORE CREEK (>40 MILLION OUNCES OF AUEQ), THEN ROMIOS GOLD IS WELL PLACED TO FOLLOW SUIT.

THE PROPERTIES OF ROMIOS ARE ADJACENT TO THE HUGE GALORE CREEK DEPOSITS AND PAST DRILLING HAS CONFIRMED SIMILAR TYPES OF MINERALIZATION.

Galore Creek pre?feasibility study by NovaGold, Q2?2011

Copper, silver and additional gold reserves
Capital costs, production estimates, construction timeline
Advance to feasibility and permitting

THE COMPLETION OF THE PRE-FEASIBILITY STUDY AT GALORE CREEK IN Q2 WILL CERTAINLY HAVE A POSITIVE IMPACT ON THE SURROUNDING AREAS. ROMIOS WILL BE A PRIME BENEFICIARY.

FURTHERMORE, THE INTESIVE DRILL PROGRAM TO BE CARRIED OUT BY ROMIOS THIS SUMMER WILL REVEAL TO THE WORLD THAT ROMIOS IS SITTING ON AN "UNPRECEDENTED OPPORTUNITY", WHICH IN NO WAY IS REFLECTED IN THE CURRENT LOW MARKET CAPITALIZATION OF ROMIOS. NEVERTHELESS, INVESTORS SEEM TO BE WAKING-UP TO "THE OPPORTUNITY" AS THE SHARE PRICE HAS BEEN STEADILY MOVING UP IN RECENT WEEKS.

Technical Considerations