Appointment of Interim President and CEO of Coventry Resources Inc. and New Director

VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Coventry Resources Inc. (TSX-V:CYY, ASX:CYY) (“Coventry” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Steven Chadwick as Interim President and CEO effective immediately. Mr Chadwick replaces Mr Mike Naylor who has resigned for medical reasons so he can focus on his recovery to full health.

Since January 2013 Mr Chadwick has been Coventry’s Vice President of Operations. He is an experienced company executive so is highly capable of filling this role with minimal impact whilst the Company undertakes a search for a permanent President and CEO. Mr. Chadwick has over 35 years' experience in the mining industry, incorporating technical, operating and management roles, as well as a strong metallurgical background. He is presently a director of RMG Limited and recently resigned as director of TSXV company Oceanic Iron Ore Corporation. He was a founding director of BC Iron Limited and a former managing director of PacMin Mining Limited and Northern Gold Limited, prior to their corporate acquisitions. Mr Chadwick has been a director of and consulted to major Canadian miner Teck Resources’ Australian subsidiary for the past 10 years.

The Company has appointed a sub-committee comprising the Company’s Non-Executive Directors to oversee the selection of a permanent appointee.

Mr Nick Day the present (Australian) Company secretary has been appointed to the Board as a replacement director for Mr Mike Naylor.

Further details regarding Mr Chadwick and Mr Day are available on the Company website.

The Board expresses its appreciation and gratitude for the considerable efforts of Mr Naylor and wishes him a speedy recovery and every success in future endeavours.

ABOUT COVENTRY RESOURCES INC.

Coventry Resources Inc. is advancing the Cameron Gold Camp Project in Northwestern Ontario, Canada towards production. In addition to currently-defined mineral resources, Coventry has identified a number of priority exploration targets within the project area and at its highly-prospective Rainy River District Properties where the Company believes it can continue to expand the resource base through further discovery. The Company is led by a strong management team with the proven ability to explore, develop, finance and operate mining projects.

For further information about Coventry Resources Inc., please contact:

Steven Chadwick	Don Halliday
Interim President and CEO	Vice President, Investor Relations
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Forward-Looking Statements

This news release may contain "forward-looking statements" and/or "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities regulations in Canada and the United States (collectively, forward-looking information"). Any forward-looking information contained in this news release is made as of the date of this news release. Except as required under applicable securities legislation, Coventry does not intend, and does not assume any obligation, to update this forward-looking information except as may be required by applicable laws. Forward-looking information includes, but is not limited to, statements with respect to the use of the proceeds of the offering, satisfaction of the escrow release conditions, mineral resource estimates, drill plans, planned work programs, future upgrading of mineral resources and expected outcomes. Often, but not always, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of words such as "plans", "expects, "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", forecasts", "intends", "anticipates", or "believes", or the negatives thereof or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might", or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved.

Any forward-looking information contained in this news release is based on certain assumptions that Coventry believes are reasonable, including, that the escrow release conditions will be satisfied, with respect to any mineral resource estimates, the key assumptions and parameters on which such estimates are based, that the current price of and demand for gold will be sustained or will improve, that general business and economic conditions will not change in a material adverse manner, that financing will be available if and when needed on reasonable terms, that supplies, equipment, personnel, permits and local community approval required to conduct Coventry’s planned exploration and development activities will be available on reasonable terms and that Coventry will not experience any material accident, labour dispute, or failure of equipment.

However, forward-looking information involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Coventry to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking information. Such factors include, among others, risks and uncertainties relating to the actual results of exploration activities being different than anticipated, cost of labour increasing more than expected, cost of equipment or materials increasing more than expected, fluctuations in the price of gold and other commodities, currency fluctuations, mineral resources not being as estimated, unexpected variations in mineral resources, grade or recovery rates, risk of accidents, labour disputes and other risks generally associated with mineral exploration and unanticipated delays in obtaining or failing to obtain governmental or community approvals or financing. Although Coventry has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause actions, events or results to not be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that forward-looking information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information due to the inherent uncertainty thereof.