Rogue Iron Ore Corp announced the appointment of Mr Freeman Smith as the president and CEO of the Company and that Mr Stephen de Jong will assume the role of Executive Director.

Mr Smith was appointed executive vice president of Rogue in November 2011. Mr Smith played a key role in identifying the core assets of the Company and helped rebrand Rogue as an iron ore explorer, in addition to working closely with Mr de Jong in the Company's first significant financing last June. Prior to working with Rogue, Mr. Smith has held senior officer and director roles in a number of TSX-V trading companies. He is a professional geologist who has consulted to mineral exploration companies and geotechnical engineering firms throughout North America for the past 20 years. Mr Smith holds a degree in geology from the University of British Columbia.

Consistent with the Company's plan to build a team to aggressively advance the Radio Hill Project and market the company, Mr de Jong will transition with Mr Smith and will continue to support Company management on product marketing and strategic initiatives.

The Company's short term focus will be to complete the metallurgical testing and evaluate the resource and all possible scenarios for Radio Hill ore. As the Company determines what the potential scenarios for the product are, it will continue to move forward discussions with potential off-take and strategic partners.

Mr Freeman Smith commented that "Rogue continues to advance the Radio Hill Project positioning the Company for success. Drilling is completed and we have started resource estimation and detailed metallurgical testing to determine what type of concentrate Radio Hill can produce. Following this we'll be able to identify who the potential buyers of that product might be.”

Source - Rogue Iron Ore

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