Company Website: http://www.ardentmines.com
NEW YORK -- (Business Wire)

Ardent Mines Ltd. (OTCQB: ADNT) (the "Company" or "Ardent Mines"), a precious resources exploration, development, and mining company focused on advancing its two gold properties in Brazil, announced today that Luciano Borges, President, Director and Head of Brazilian Operations, will present at the SIMEXMIN Conference in the historic mining city of Ouro Preto, the birth-place of the Brazilian mining industry. Mr. Borges, a regular speaker at the symposium since its inception, will present on the “Mechanisms to Foster Mineral Exploration in Brazil” in the Convention Center of the Metallurgic Park and Museum at 11:30 AM on Monday, May 21, 2012.

The SIMEXMIN is held every two years and is considered the most important Brazilian mineral exploration convention, gathering more than three thousand participants from the business, academic and government sectors, including representatives of all junior and major mining companies that operate in Brazil.