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REGIS RESOURCES LIMITED AGM Information 2006

Nov 8, 2006

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Level 11, 461 Bourke Street Melbourne Victoria 3000 Australia

Telephone: +61 3 8602 6500 Facsimile: +61 3 8602 6560

9 November 2006

Manager Announcements Company Announcements Office Australian Stock Exchange Limited 4th Floor, 20 Bridge Street Sydney NSW 2000

Dear Sir

Date of Annual General Meeting - 8 December 2006

The Directors wish to advise that the Australian Securities Commission have granted the Company an extension of time to hold the 2006 annual general meeting. The reasons for the Company seeking an extension of time to hold the annual general meeting were as follows.

On 29 September 2006, the Company announced that it had exercised a call option whereby the Company would acquire a further 26% interest in Newmont Duketon Pty Ltd ("Newmont Duketon")(to take its interest in Newmont Duketon from 40% to 75%) for a consideration of 207,185,527 fully paid ordinary shares in the capital of the Company.

The 207,185,527 ordinary shares are to be issued to Newmont Capital Pty Ltd ("Newmont Capital"). Newmont Capital already holds in excess of 20% of the ordinary shares of the Company. Accordingly, the issue of shares to Newmont Capital requires shareholder approval under Chapter 6 of the Corporations Act and ASX Listing Rule 10.14.

The Company had appointed an expert to prepare the report in respect to the exercise of the call option to shareholders required under the ASIC class order and chapter 10 of the ASX Listing Rules.

On 18 October 2006, Newmont NGL Holdings Pty Ltd exercised a put option to put the final 25% interest of Newmont Duketon to the Company. This transaction is also to be settled in a further issue of ordinary shares to Newmont Capital. Accordingly, it will also require shareholder approval under Chapter of the Corporations Act and ASX Listing Rule 10.14.

As a result of the exercise of the put option, the Company was required to have the expert update the expert's report for the exercise of the put option (i.e. from a transaction to acquire a 26% interest in Newmont Duketon and issue 207,185,527) to two separate transactions for a cumulative total of 51% of Newmont Duketon for approximately 395,093,438 ordinary shares.

The application for an extension of time to hold the annual general meeting was required to allow the Company to revise the meeting documentation for the exercise of the put option which occurred on 18 October 2006, for the expert to update the expert's report, to update meeting documentation, to allow ASX time to review documentation as required by the Listing Rules, to allow time to print and mail meeting documentation (which was in the vicinity of 150 pages) and to give the required 28 days clear notice.

If an extension is not granted, the Company would have been required to hold two meeting within 2 weeks and there would have been a significant cost to the Company as it would require two separate experts' reports and meeting documentation. In addition the Company believes it would have been potentially misleading to have the first set of meeting documentation in the market which describes the call option and not the put option when the put option had been exercised.

ASIC extended the time for the Company to hold the annual general meeting until 15 December 2006. However, the Company has mailed meeting documentation to shareholders for the annual general meeting to be held on 8 December 2006.

Yours sincerely

PETER LEE Company Secretary