VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 07/20/12 — Timmins Gold Corp. (TSX:TMM)(NYSE MKT:TGD)(NYSE Amex:TGD) (the “Company”) announces that it held its annual and special meeting of shareholders on July 19, 2012 and the following persons were elected to the board of directors: Arturo Bonillas, Bruce Bragagnolo, Miguel Soto, Frank Cordova, Eugene Hodgson, R. Barry Fraser, Paula Rogers and Keith Peck. Lawrence Dick resigned from the board of directors prior to the meeting but will continue as the Company’s Qualified Person. Mr. Dick was one of the original directors and helped the Company transition from a developer to a producer. The Company thanks Mr. Dick for his many years of service as a director.

About Timmins Gold

Focused solely in Mexico, Timmins Gold Corp. is in commercial gold production at its wholly owned San Francisco gold mine in Sonora, Mexico. The mine is an open pit heap leach operation. Timmins Gold has forecast production at a rate in excess of 100,000 ounces of gold per year. (Micon International NI 43-101F1 Technical Report dated November, 2011).

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