Extorre Adopts Shareholder Rights Plan

Extorre Gold Mines Limited's (NYSE Amex:XG)

board of directors has approved the adoption of a Shareholder Rights Plan (the "Plan"). The Plan is effective as of today but is subject to shareholder ratification within six months in order to remain in place. The purpose of the Plan is to provide shareholders and the Company's Board of Directors with adequate time to consider and evaluate any unsolicited bid made for the Company, to provide the Board with adequate time to identify, develop and negotiate value-enhancing alternatives, if considered appropriate, to any such unsolicited bid, to encourage the fair treatment of shareholders in connection with any take-over bid for the Company and to ensure that any proposed transaction is in the best interests of the Company's shareholders.