Peter Meredith, Chief Executive Officer of SouthGobi Energy Resources Ltd. (TSX
VENTURE:SGQ), is pleased to announce the appointment of Jay Gow as the company's
new Vice-President, Coal Marketing.


Mr. Gow has more than 25 years of experience in international and domestic
resource marketing and transportation and is currently Vice-President, Marketing
for Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. Mr. Gow has extensive experience in negotiating large
supply and transportation contracts with international customers and has
wide-ranging resource industry and transportation contacts in Asia, Europe and
the Americas.


"Mr. Gow brings to SouthGobi proven expertise in global markets that will help
to expand and develop opportunities for the sale of the company's thermal and
metallurgical coking coal products," Mr. Meredith said.


The company has granted Mr. Gow 50,000 incentive stock options exercisable at a
price of $11.46 per share. The options vest over a period of three years, with
initial vesting on the first anniversary of the date of grant, and expire on
June 5, 2014.


The options were granted in accordance with the company's Employees' and
Directors' Equity Incentive Plan.


Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN)(NYSE:IVN)(NASDAQ:IVN) is SouthGobi Energy Resources'
largest shareholder, currently owning, directly and indirectly, approximately
80% of the issued and outstanding shares.


About SouthGobi Energy Resources

SouthGobi Energy Resources is focused on exploration and development of its
Permian-age metallurgical and thermal coal deposits in Mongolia's South Gobi
Region and its Eocene-age metallurgical and thermal coal deposits in East
Kalimantan, Indonesia. The company's flagship coal mine, Ovoot Tolgoi, is
selling coal to customers in China. The company plans to supply a wide range of
coal products and electricity to markets in Asia. The company also is
investigating the implementation of clean-coal technologies in the development
of coal power-generating capacity to benefit all of its stakeholders.


Forward-Looking Statements: This document includes forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the company's future
ability to supply coal markets in Asia, and other statements that are not
historical facts. When used in this document, the words such as "could", "plan",
"estimate", "expect", "intend", "may", "potential", "should", and similar
expressions are forward-looking statements. Although SouthGobi Energy Resources
believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are
reasonable, such statements involve risks and uncertainties and no assurance can
be given that actual results will be consistent with these forward-looking
statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ from
these forward-looking statements are disclosed under the heading "Risk Factors"
in SouthGobi Energy's Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations for the year end Dec. 31, 2008, which is
available at www.sedar.com.


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