Directors' Shareholdings

Shanta Gold Limited
                        ('Shanta Gold' or 'the Company')

                                 14 March 2011

                            Directors' Shareholdings

Further  to the announcements on 31 January 2011 and 18 February 2011 (providing
for  certain Directors to acquire  existing ordinary shares in  the Company on a
monthly  basis), Shanta  Gold announces  that a  total of 58,024 ordinary shares
were purchased today by certain Directors of the Company.

Further  details concerning the share purchases by certain Directors are set out
below:

+--------------+----------------+-----------+------------------+---------------+
|Director      |Number of shares|Share price|Resultant         |Resultant % of |
|              |purchased       |paid       |shareholding      |issued share   |
|              |                |           |                  |capital of the |
|              |                |           |                  |Company        |
+--------------+----------------+-----------+------------------+---------------+
|Walton Imrie  |10,745          |29p        |9,348,436         |5.20           |
+--------------+----------------+-----------+------------------+---------------+
|Walter Vorwerk|10,745          |29p        |900,916           |0.50           |
+--------------+----------------+-----------+------------------+---------------+
|Gareth Taylor |32,236          |29p        |564,652           |0.31           |
+--------------+----------------+-----------+------------------+---------------+
|Paul Heber    |4,298           |29p        |45,898            |0.03           |
+--------------+----------------+-----------+------------------+---------------+



For further information, please contact:

 Shanta Gold Limited   Tel: [phone]
 Walter Vorwerk


 Nominated Adviser and Broker   Tel: [phone]
 Fairfax I.S. PLC
 Ewan Leggat / Laura Littley









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