St. Augustine Gold and Copper Limited announced that its Board of Directors approved in a meeting called for the purpose the engagement of MR. MICHAEL G. REGINO as Chief Operating Officer of the Company. Mr. Regino is a business executive with over thirty five (35) years of extensive managerial experience in construction, real estate development and mining.

Since 2014, Mr. Regino served as officer of mining companies, including as Managing Director of mining company TVI Resource Development (Phils.) Inc. and a board director of Philex Mining Corporation, a listed company in the Philippine Stock Exchange. He was formerly the Executive Vice President of the Company, but resigned from the Company in 2016, having been appointed to the Government, initially as Commissioner of the Social Security System (SSS) and then its President. Having finished his term with the SSS, he now returned to the provide his invaluable expertise to the Company to assist in advancing the Company's Kingking Copper-Gold Project.