Pretivm Makes Senior Management Appointment to Advance Project Development

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - April 14, 2011) - Pretium Resources Inc. (TSX:PVG) ("Pretivm") is pleased to announce the appointment of Ian I Chang, M.A.Sc, P.Eng. as Vice President, Project Development. With over 25 years of experience in project and engineering management ranging from smaller high-grade underground gold mines to large-scale projects, Mr. Chang will take the lead engineering role in the advance of Pretivm's high-grade underground gold-silver Brucejack Project and bulk minable copper-gold Snowfield Project.

Mr. Chang was recently Project Director and Head of Project Management for Fluor Canada Limited, with responsibility for the management of EPCM for mining and metal projects, including the EPCM contract for Vale's $3 billion Long Harbour nickel-copper-cobalt refinery in Newfoundland. Over the course of his career he has held management, engineering and commissioning roles on a number of projects that have progressed through feasibility to successful operation. His roles have included: project manager for the Engineering and Procurement portion of the $650 million mine expansion of Minera El Abra in Chile; pre-feasibility study manager for a 2,000 tpd mine at Meadowbank in Nunavut; project manager for the design of the 3,300 tpd Musselwhite gold mill; project engineer on the engineering, construction and commissioning of the copper and zinc autoclave system of Hudson Bay's Flin Flon operations; mechanical engineer involved in the design for the column flotation cells at the Campbell Red Lake mine and for the design of the 450 tpd gold-silver concentrator at the Mineral Hill mine in Montana. Mr. Chang holds Bachelor and Master of Applied Science degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of British Columbia and is a registered professional engineer.

Mr. Chang's experience brings the relevant engineering skills to Pretivm's senior management group to advance the Brucejack and Snowfield projects.

About Pretivm

Pretivm is creating value through gold at its advanced-staged exploration projects Brucejack and Snowfield, located in north-western British Columbia. We are advancing the high-grade, underground gold opportunity at Brucejack and the open pit opportunities at both Brucejack and Snowfield. The combined bulk tonnage resource at Brucejack and Snowfield, one of the largest in North America, comprises over 34 million ounces of measured and indicated gold resources and 22 million ounces of inferred gold resources; and 192 million ounces of measured and indicated silver resources and 202 million ounces of inferred silver resources.

(SEDAR filings: Pretium Resources Inc.)

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