Glass Earth Gold Limited ("Glass Earth Gold" or "the Company") (TSX
VENTURE:GEL)(NZAX:GEL) is pleased to announce the commencement of a substantial
5,500m diamond drill program at the WKP gold-silver prospect, Hauraki, New
Zealand.


Commencement of the 2012 drill program at WKP marks an important milestone in
the development of this project, where both broad zones of 100m of 1 g/t gold
and silver, and significant high grade intersections 3-9m of 15-60 g/t gold and
silver have inspired the exploration team.


Results to date have demonstrated that this project represents a very large gold
mineralised system. The current program will test both the size and tenor of
broad mineralised zones and connectivity of high grade intervals. 


Simon Henderson, President and CEO of Glass Earth Gold, commented that
"exploration within the WKP area continues to demonstrate new enticing targets
south of the current drilling areas and higher grade intersections within the
envelope of current drilled zones (e.g. WKP 31 9.7m of 17.2 g/t gold and 24.2
g/t silver (see news release dated February 29, 2012). The current 5,500m
program will test both southern extensions of known targets, and examine the
potential of both rhyolite and basement andesites as these are preferred host
rocks to economic mineralisation."


The WKP prospect is a joint venture between Glass Earth Gold (35%) and Newmont
Mining (65%). The prospect is a large, three by five km mineralised alteration
zone, just 10km from Newmont's producing Martha gold mine at Waihi
(approximately 10Moz gold equivalent) and five km northeast of the Golden Cross
deposit (634koz gold). The program is budgeted to cost approximately $C3.3M
(Glass Earth Gold's share approx. $C1.2M).


The WKP epithermal system has magnetic/alteration characteristics similar to the
Martha epithermal system and has open-along-strike potential of at least 1-2km.
The WKP Central zone currently outlines an area approximately 180m wide with a
strike continuity of over 800m. 


The Glass Earth Gold/Newmont Joint Venture began drilling exploration at the WKP
prospect with DDH WKP 24 in March 2010. Highlights from results achieved to date
are summarised in Table 1:




Table 1: Significant drilling results from Glass Earth Gold/Newmont joint   
 venture exploration at WKP Project                                         
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Drillhole ID                 From      To   Interval m  Au g/t        Ag g/t
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WKP 24                      125.9     282        156.1     1.6           2.6
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incl.                       268.2     282         13.8     6.6           3.0
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                            207.7   209.3          1.6    30.2          44.0
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WKP 25                        221     236           15     9.4          12.8
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incl.                         225   226.8          1.8    61.4          80.3
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                              235     236            1     9.5          19.3
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WKP 26                        115     293          178     1.1           3.0
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incl.                         141     205           64     2.0           2.6
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                                                               greater than
                            167.2     168          0.8    24.5           100
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WKP 27                        129   281.4        152.4     1.2           2.2
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incl.                       181.4   182.8          1.4    30.7          77.7
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WKP 28                        174     223           49     1.1           3.3
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incl.                         174     175            1     7.7          34.0
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WKP 29                        216   219.2          3.2    37.0          17.0
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incl.                       217.1     218          0.9    89.2          39.2
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and                         279.8     293         14.8     4.8           2.7
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WKP 30                        194     237           43     0.9           1.2
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incl.                         194     203            9     3.2           2.6
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WKP 31                      146.1   155.8          9.7    17.2          24.2
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To view "Figure 1: WKP Project - Hauraki, New Zealand", please visit the
following link: http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/WKP417.pdf.


About Glass Earth Gold

Glass Earth Gold is one of New Zealand's largest gold exploration companies with
landholdings proximal to world-class gold deposits and cash flow from its wholly
owned placer projects. With an experienced geological team the Company is
exploring promising gold prospects across a land position of approximately
10,000 km2, in both the North and South Islands. The Company held a net cash
position of C$2.2 million at the end of Q1 2012 to fund exploration progress.


In the North Island, exploration efforts are focused on large epithermal gold
systems in the Hauraki Region, akin to the 10Moz gold equivalent Martha Hill
mine, (Newmont Mining).


In the Hauraki Region, Glass Earth Gold has identified and developed significant
ground positions around the active Martha Hill gold mine operations at Waihi.
The Newmont-Glass Earth Gold Waihi West JV (Newmont earning in) and Hauraki JV
(65/35), including drilling at the WKP discovery, are being actively explored
and managed by Newmont in collaboration with Glass Earth Gold. 


Glass Earth Gold has also defined several significant epithermal gold targets to
independently explore in this region, including the Muirs Reef project where
drilling is ongoing. A historical resource of 390,000 oz (non NI
43-101-compliant, at 1.5 g/t Au and cut-off grade of 0.5 g/t Au), as well as
recent drilling provided further encouragement with intersections of 2m of
38.4g/t gold and 49.2g/t silver.


In the South Island, exploration efforts are focused on the Otago Region, home
to OceanaGold's 7Moz Macraes Goldfield, for identification of mesothermal
"Macraes-style" gold targets and revenue generation through placer (alluvial)
gold production. 


Qualified Person

Mr Kyle Howie, Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists, Glass
Earth's Senior Geologist, is the Qualified Person for Glass Earth Gold regarding
the WKP Project. Mr Howie has reviewed and approved this news release.


For more information on Glass Earth Gold, please visit www.glassearthgold.com.

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