AuRo Closes $2.5 Million Private Placement

NEWS RELEASE

AuRo Closes $2.5 Million Private Placement

Vancouver, British Columbia, March 3, 2011… Further to receipt of TSX Venture Exchange acceptance, AuRo Resources Corp. (the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARU) - announces it has closed its non-brokered private placement by issuing 16,922,416 Units at a price of $0.15 per Unit for gross proceeds of $2,538,624 (see press releases dated February 16 and 23, 2011). Each unit is comprised of one common share of the Company and one-half of one transferable common share purchase warrant, each whole warrant exercisable for a period of two years from the date of issue to purchase one common share of the Company at a price of $0.30 per share.

Finder’s fees were paid in the form of $208,926 in cash and 1,197,753 finders' warrants issued to Union Securities Ltd., Mackie Research Capital Corporation, Canaccord Genuity Corp., Haywood Securities Inc. and Opus 3 Inc. for the portion of the financing attributable to such finders. Each finder's warrant entitles the holder to acquire one common share at $0.30 for a two year period.

In addition to working capital, the net proceeds of the private placement will be used for the Company’s exploration activities in Colombia and AuRo’s ongoing review of potential property transactions.

All of the securities issued pursuant to this offering are restricted from trading until July 2, 2011.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

(sgd.) “Mark Lawson”, President & CEO

For further information please contact:

Jeremy Ross Tyler Ross Corporate Development T: 604-893-8838

Mark Lawson President & CEO T: 416-623-0565

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

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