Grasset Gold Discovery Leads to Further Expansion of Balmoral's Detour Trend Gold Project

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - July 14, 2011) - Balmoral Resources Ltd. ("Balmoral" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:BAR) announced today that as a result of the recent discovery of a new gold system on its wholly owned Grasset Property, it has further expanded its property position along the Detour Gold Trend ("DGT") in central Quebec. Balmoral has acquired, by staking, an additional 243 claim units covering a further 12 kilometres of the Detour/Sunday Lake Deformation Zone ("DSDZ") and surrounding prospective targets. The new claims will form part of the expanded Grasset Property and Balmoral's district scale Detour Gold Project.

On July 7, 2011 (see NR11-14) Balmoral announced the discovery of a significant new zone of gold mineralization on the Grasset Property located along the DSDZ. This new discovery returned higher-grade gold intercepts of 6.15 g/t gold over 4.04 metres and 4.18 g/t gold over 5.00 metres within a broader zone of gold mineralization which returned 1.66 g/t gold over 33.00 metres. The mafic intrusion hosted gold bearing quartz-carbonate vein system at Grasset occurs in a setting strongly analogous to several of the large gold deposits in the Timmins and Kirkland Lake gold camps located further south in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt. The Grasset discovery is located 4.0 kilometres from any historic drilling.

The newly acquired claims cover the intersection of at least two additional large magnetic anomalies and the DSDZ. Balmoral's geologists interpret these features to be mafic/ultramafic intrusive bodies similar to those which host the Company's Martiniere West, Grasset and Fenelon gold zones and the multi-million ounce Detour Gold deposit elsewhere along the DGT. There is no historic drilling over most of the new property position acquired by Balmoral.

Balmoral now controls a land package which extends for over 82 kilometres along the DGT, the least explored of the major gold bearing trends in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt - North America's most prolific gold producing region.

"The Grasset gold discovery and Balmoral's other active gold projects in Quebec clearly indicate the potential of the DSDZ to host significant gold mineralization along its entire length," said Darin Wagner, President and CEO of Balmoral Resources. "The geological similarities of the DGT to the multi-million ounce Timmins, Kirkland Lake and Val d'Or gold camps located further south in the Abitibi are numerous and Balmoral is now positioned to control this prospective trend over a length that would equal or exceed the core portions of any of these famous gold camps."

Balmoral has now resumed drill testing of its Martiniere West high-grade gold zone and a second drill is anticipated on site within the next several days. Permitting is now underway for a 20+ hole, 6,000 metre diamond drill program to further test and expand the new Grasset discovery which the Company anticipates could begin in early to mid-August.

Mr. Darin Wagner (P.Geo.), President and CEO of the Company, is the non-independent qualified person for the technical disclosure contained in this news release and has reviewed and approved the disclosure herein. Mr. Wagner has supervised the initial work programs on the properties, visited the properties on multiple occasions and reviewed the technical documents from each of the properties.

About Balmoral Resources Ltd. (www.balmoralresources.com)

Balmoral Resources Ltd. is a Vancouver-based precious metal exploration and development company focused on district scale precious metal opportunities in politically favourable jurisdictions in North America. With a philosophy of creating value through the drill bit and with a focus on proven productive precious metal belts in Canada, Balmoral is following an established formula with a goal of maximizing shareholder value through discovery and expansion of high-grade gold resources.

On behalf of the board of directors of BALMORAL RESOURCES LTD.

Darin Wagner, President and CEO

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