GUYANA PRECIOUS METALS AGREES TO PURCHASE AREMU, PETERS AND ARAKAKA PROPERTIES FROM GUYANA GOLDFIELDS

TORONTO, April 26 /CNW/ -- 
TORONTO, April 26 /CNW/ - GUYANA PRECIOUS METALS INC. (TSXV: GPM) ("GPM") announces that it has entered into an agreement (the "Peters and Aremu Agreement") with Guyana Goldfields Inc. ("GGI") pursuant to which GPM has agreed to purchase and GGI has agreed to
 sell GGI's 100% interest in the Peters property and Aremu property
 (collectively, the "Peters and Aremu Properties") located in Guyana, South America for US$2,400,000 payable in cash
 upon closing (the "Peters and Aremu Transaction").


GPM has also agreed to enter into an agreement (the "Arakaka Agreement") to purchase and GGI has agreed to sell GGI's 70.1% participating
 interest in the Arakaka property (the "Arakaka Property") located in Guyana, South America for US$3,734,000 and a 1% net
 smelter royalty in favour of GGI on the GGI's participating interest
 (the "Arakaka Transaction").


The Peters property consists of approximately 8,358 acres and the Aremu
 property consists of approximately 9,134 acres. The Arakaka Property
 consists of approximately 77,000 acres.


GPM formed an independent committee of its board of directors to
 consider the terms of the Peters and Aremu Transaction and the Arakaka
 Transaction (collectively the "Transactions").  In addition, the independent committee retained Cormark Securities
 Inc. ("Cormark") to provide a fairness opinion and has received its verbal
 confirmation that the Transactions are fair, from a financial point of
 view, to GPM and its shareholders.  Cormark's written opinion will be
 included in the materials to be sent to GPM's shareholders in
 connection with the meeting to be held to consider the Transactions
 (the "Meeting").  The Meeting is scheduled to be held on June 20th, 2011.


Completion of the Transactions are subject to a number of conditions,
 including, without limitation, receipt of the approval of a majority of
 GPM's shareholders (excluding GGI) at the Meeting and the receipt of
 all required regulatory approvals, including the approval of the TSX
 Venture Exchange. In addition, GPM's acquisition of the Arakaka
 Property is subject to the expiry or waiver of 30 day rights to acquire
 in favour of the former and current venture partners in the Arakaka
 Property.


Closing of the Transactions are scheduled to occur on or before June 30,
 2011.


About Guyana Precious Metals Inc.


GPM is a Canadian based exploration and development company. GPM
 presently controls and holds the Coppermine River Project, Nunavut
 Territory and the Rory Claims, Yukon Territory. Both of these projects
 are described as Copper-Nickel-Platinum-Palladium prospects. Guyana
 Goldfields Inc. currently holds for investment purposes approximately
 8% of the issued shares of GPM. 


Forward Looking Statements - Certain information set forth in this news
 release may contain forward-looking statements that involve substantial
 known and unknown risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking
 statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, certain of
 which are beyond the control of GPM, including, but not limited to the
 impact of general economic conditions, industry conditions, volatility
 of commodity prices, risks associated with the uncertainty of resource
 and reserve estimates, currency fluctuations, dependence upon
 regulatory approvals, the availability of future financing and
 exploration risk. Readers are cautioned that the assumptions used in
 the preparation of such information, although considered reasonable at
 the time of preparation, may prove to be imprecise and, as such, undue
 reliance should not be placed on forward-looking statements.


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