VANCOUVER, March 15 /PRNewswire/ - Luna Gold Corp. (TSXV: LGC) ("Luna" or the "Company") is pleased to announce positive assay results from eight holes from its ongoing resource drill program at the Piaba gold deposit, Aurizona. An updated drill plan map and cross sections have been uploaded to the Luna Gold website at www.lunagold.com or to view directly click below. Significant mineralized intercepts are highlighted below:

• 19.00 m @ 1.45 g/t Au including 2.00 m @ 5.99 g/t Au and 1.00 m @ 6.44 g/t Au in BRAZD285
  
  
• 15.00 m @ 1.46 g/t Au including 1.00 m @ 4.20 g/t Au in BRAZD286
  
  
• 9.00 m @ 2.23 g/t Au including 1.00 m @ 10.65 g/t Au and 2.00 m @ 8.85 g/t Au in BRAZD287
  
  
• 2.00 m @ 130.45 g/t Au and 6.00 m @ 1.67 g/t Au including 2.00 m @ 3.83 g/t Au in BRAZD288

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Aurizona Drill Plan Map Feb. 2010

Luna's President & CEO, John Blake, comments, "We are pleased with the level of consistency in our drill results that demonstrate the strike and depth continuity of the ore body. Consistent mineralization along strike and at depth is encouraging for our objective to increase gold ounces in a resource update at the completion of our drill program planned for delivery in the Q4 of 2011."

The Company embarked on a 20,000 m drill program in August 2010 and currently has seven drill rigs in operation at Aurizona. Assays from 15 holes have been received and samples from 7 additional holes are at the assay lab. Drilling is currently focused on infilling over the 3 kilometer strike length of the Piaba deposit to increase measured and indicated resources. Holes are being drilled on 100 meter spaced sections to a maximum depth of -300 meters RL. Drill production has increased significantly in recent weeks.

Complete assay results have been received for eight drill holes totaling approximately 1,738 m drilled on five sections in the central portion of the Piaba deposit. In seven holes core was recovered from 100 meters depth to accelerate drill production and reduce costs. All drill holes intersected gold mineralization and the deposit remains open at depth on all sections. Significant mineralized intercepts are tabulated below.

Table 1. Mineralized drill intercepts from the ongoing Aurizona resource drill program. Intervals are calculated as composites using a 0.30 g/t Au cut-off and maximum 2 meter internal waste. True widths to be established.

Luna's VP Exploration, Titus Haggan, states, "Drilling rates have accelerated significantly with the mobilization of two additional rigs and we are currently on schedule to finalize drilling ahead of an updated resource estimate at Aurizona in the fourth quarter of 2011. Near mine exploration targets are also being brought to the drill stage and will be included in the 2011 resource update."

About Luna Gold Corp
Luna Gold is a producing gold company, with development and exploration projects. Gold production is from the Aurizona Mine in Maranhão state Brazil, development is the Cachoeira deposit Para, Brazil and the Company is exploring in a large strategically placed land position in Maranhão, Brazil.

On behalf of the Board of Directors

LUNA GOLD CORP.

John Blake- President and CEO

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Regulatory Footnotes

Luna operates a rigorous QA/QC protocol on all aspects of sampling and analytical procedure. Drill core is checked, logged, marked for sampling and sawn in half. One half of the HTW (71 mm diameter) core is maintained for future reference and one half of the core is sent for analysis. Samples are collected at approximately 2 meter intervals, which is reduced to 1 meter interval or less when a mineralized zone is encountered. All core and samples are stored in secure locked areas. Samples are transported from the Aurizona project to the ALS Chemex sample preparation facility in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais accompanied by Luna personnel. Samples are assayed at ALS Chemex Labs in Lima, Peru using a 50 gram fire assay with AAS finish. Each sample batch contains 10% of randomly inserted internal control samples consisting of certified analytical standards, blanks (barren rock) and duplicates. These QA/QC procedures provide several measures of data quality and assure the Company that the assay data is representative of the original sample. Additional technical information about the Aurizona Project is available in our technical report dated September 1, 2010, filed on SEDAR.

Titus Haggan Ph.D., EurGeol Certified Professional Geologist #746, Luna's VP Exploration is the Qualified Person as defined under National Instrument 43-101 responsible for the scientific and technical work on the exploration program and has supervised the preparation of and reviewed the technical disclosure in this press release. Non qualified persons currently work on Luna's exploration programs under the guidance of Titus Haggan. Dr Haggan takes responsibility for work, information and advice generated by non-Qualified persons and has taken the steps required to ensure that the work, information and advice is sound.

This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to sell any of the securities in the United States. The securities have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to U.S. persons unless registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933 and applicable state securities laws or an exemption from such registration is available.

Forward-Looking Statements

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SOURCE Luna Gold Corp.