04 January 2013 AIM:AMA / TSX:AMZ

Amara Mining plc ("Amara" or "the Company") FILING OF TECHNICAL REPORT FOLLOWING BAOMAHUN RESOURCE UPDATE

Amara Mining plc, the dual AIM and TSX-listed West African focused gold mining company, is pleased to announce that a National Instrument 43-101-compliant technical report, dated 03 January 2013, detailing the resource update for its Baomahun Gold Project ("Baomahun") in Sierra Leone was filed on SEDAR yesterday. This follows the news release dated 19 November 2012.

A copy of the technical report may be obtained via www.sedar.comand on Amara's website at http://www.amaramining.com/Investor-Relations/NI43-101-Reports. A copy of the news release may also be obtained via SEDAR and on Amara's website.

The previously announced highlights of the Baomahun resource update are as follows: