Toronto, Ontario – (March 16, 2011) Argonaut Gold Inc. (TSX: AR) (“Argonaut” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that Standard & Poor’s Index Operations will be adding Argonaut Gold to the S&P/TSX Global Gold Index and the Global Mining Index, effective as at the open on Monday, March, 21, 2011. The S&P/TSX Global Gold Index and Global Mining Index are leading benchmarks of the global gold and mining industry sectors.
At the end of 2010, Argonaut Gold had a fully diluted market cap of $383 million and an average trading volume of 150,000 shares a day. Since closing the Pediment Gold transaction on February 1, the fully diluted market capitalization is approximately $560 million with average trading volume of over 400,000 shares. The Pediment Gold transaction added approximately 30 million shares.