Board Changes

Ovoca Gold PLC
31 July 2006

                                 OVOCA GOLC PLC

                       CHANGES TO THE OVOCA GOLD BOARD




Monday 31 July 2006



Ovoca Gold Plc (AIM: OVG; IEX: OVX) wishes to announce the following board
changes that were effective from 28 July 2006:



Mr Rowan Maule has been appointed to the board of the Company.  Mr. Maule is
currently the Chief Operating Officer in the Company, focussing on the
development of Ovoca's Goltsovoye silver deposit in eastern Russia.  As a mining
engineer, Mr Maule will bring additional technical skills to the board.



Mr John O'Connor takes over the role of Chief Financial Officer.  Mr O'Connor is
a Chartered Accountant and has been with the Company since 1997.



Mr Paul Smithwick, Mr. Harry Dobson and Mr. Danesh Varma have resigned from the
board.



Commenting on the Board changes Ovoca Gold Chairman, Roger Turner, said,



Following the acquisition of the Goltsovoye Project in Russia in June of this
year, at which time Leonid Skoptsov, Mikhail Mogutov and Yuri Radchenko became
Non Executive Directors, Ovoca needed to strengthen the Executive of the Board
and I would like to welcome Rowan Maule as Chief Operating Officer and John
O'Connor as Chief Financial Officer. Rowan is an experienced mining engineer and
has been working on Goltsovoye for the past 12 months. He is directly
responsible for bringing the Goltsovoye mine into production. John O'Connor, in
addition to the role of Secretary, is now the full time Chief Financial Officer
based in the London office and responsible for the commercial and financial
affairs of Ovoca and it's subsidiaries in Kola, Magadan, and Sweden. I would
like to take this opportunity of thanking the outgoing Directors, Paul, Harry
and Danesh, for their contributions to the Board over the past months and years
and welcome Rowan and John to their new posts.





Ovoca Gold Plc is an international exploration company quoted in London (OVG.L)
 and Dublin (OVX.IR), exploring for precious and base metals in Russia, Sweden
                                  and Ireland



For further information please visit www.ovocagold.com or contact:

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31 July, 2006


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