TORONTO, CANADA - May 27, 2010 - Duran Ventures Inc. ("Duran" or the "Company") (TSX-V: DRV) is pleased to announce that Mr. Todd Bruce has joined the Board of Directors of Duran. Mr. Bruce is well known in the mining and financial communities and the Board of Duran looks forward to benefiting from his guidance and knowledge. Mr. Bruce has held senior management and Board positions with Anglo Platinum, IAMGold Corporation and Crystallex. He brings extensive operational and development experience, and will strengthen and broaden Duran's collective board expertise.

From September 2003 to January 2007, Mr. Bruce served as CEO, President and Director of Crystallex International Corporation, Highlights of his tenure included completion of a bankable feasibility study on, and securing an EPCM contract with SNC Lavalin for the Las Cristinas project, financings that raised nearly C$250 million and two drill programs that increased gold reserves at Las Cristinas from approximately 10 million ounces to 17 million ounces.

From February 1996 to January 2003, Mr. Bruce served as President and Chief Operating Officer of IAMGOLD Corporation, whose principal assets during his tenure comprised the Sadiola and Yatala gold mines in Mali. Mr. Bruce played a leadership role in the growth of IAMGOLD from its initial non-producer status to attributable gold production of almost 300,000 ounces in 2002, financings that raised C$113 million, the implementation of IAMGOLD's innovative "Gold Money" policy and in the merger of Repadre and IAMGOLD in January, 2003.

From 1980 through January 1996, Mr. Bruce served in a number of senior management positions with the South African company Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Co. and its successor company, the Anglo American Platinum Corporation. Immediately prior to joining IAMGOLD, Mr. Bruce served as Executive Director in charge of Marketing, Business Development and Strategic Planning for Anglo American Platinum Corporation. Mr. Bruce holds a B.Sc. in Geology from the University of Rhodesia and a Graduate Diploma in Engineering (Mineral Economics) from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.

The Company also announces that a total of 250,000 options to purchase common shares of the Company have been granted to a director and consultants at an exercise price of $0.11 per share, expiring on May 27, 2015. The grant is subject to regulatory approval.

Duran Ventures is a Canadian exploration company focused on the exploration and development of porphyry copper, precious metal, and polymetallic deposits in Peru.