Pretium Resources Inc.: Brucejack's Valley of the Kings Drilling Intersects 18,755 Grams per Tonne Gold

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - June 8, 2011) - Pretium Resources Inc. (TSX:PVG) ("Pretivm") is pleased to report that one of the first holes drilled in the 2011 Brucejack Project exploration program has encountered the highest-grading gold intersection to date on the property. Selected intercepts from the first 85 meters drilled of hole SU-115, in the Valley of the Kings Zone, include:

• 0.6 meters with uncut grades of 18,755 grams of gold and 9,312 grams of silver per tonne (2.0 feet averaging 547.1 ounces gold and 271.6 ounces of silver per ton);
• 1.3 meters with uncut grades of 1,005 grams of gold and 577 grams of silver per tonne (4.2 feet averaging 29.3 ounces gold and 16.8 ounces of silver per ton);
• 0.5 meters with uncut grades of 4,209grams of gold and 2,040grams of silver per tonne (1.6 feet averaging 122.8 ounces gold and 59.5 ounces of silver per ton).

Hole SU-115, which was drilled to a total depth of 306 meters, was collared 60 meters west of previously-reported hole SU-12, which had intersected 1.5 meters grading 16,949 grams per tonne gold and 8,696 grams per tonne silver. The Valley of the Kings Zone is 50 to 100 meters in width, extends 400 meters along strike, and has been drill tested to a depth of 600 meters below surface. High-grade gold bearing veins have been identified within this mineral corridor, and Valley of the Kings is the main focus of the +50,000-meter drill program currently underway on the Brucejack Project.

The Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) recently completed on a high-grade underground operation at Brucejack has been filed on SEDAR and is now available on Pretivm's website. An update to the PEA incorporating the results from the 2011 program will commence following completion of the 2011 program.

All eight drills are now turning on the Brucejack property, and work has begun on the access road connecting to Highway 37.

All samples were submitted for preparation and analysis by ALS Chemex at its facilities in Terrace, B.C. All samples were analyzed using multi-digestion with ICP finish. Samples over 100 ppm silver were reanalyzed using four acid digestion with an ore grade AA finish. Samples over 1,000 ppm silver were fire assayed with a gravimetric finish. Samples with over 10 ppm gold were fire assayed with a gravimetric finish. One in 10 samples was blank, one in 20 was a standard sample, and differing one in 20 samples was a field duplicate one-quarter split core assayed at ALS Chemex in Vancouver, B.C.

Only partial assay results for drillhole SU-115 are reported in this release. Full assay results for completed drilling will be reported as they are received over the course of the 2011 drilling season.

Kenneth C. McNaughton, M.A.Sc., P.Eng., Chief Exploration Officer, Pretium Resources Inc. is the Qualified Person (QP) responsible for the Brucejack Project exploration program.

About Pretivm

Pretivm is creating value through gold at its advanced-staged exploration projects Brucejack and Snowfield, located in northern British Columbia. Pretivm is advancing the high-grade, underground gold opportunity at Brucejack and the open pit opportunities at both Brucejack and Snowfield. The combined bulk tonnage resource at Brucejack and Snowfield, one of the largest in North America, comprises over 34 million ounces of measured and indicated gold resources and 22 million ounces of inferred gold resources; and 192 million ounces of measured and indicated silver resources and 202 million ounces of inferred silver resources. Details on the mineral resources at Pretivm's Brucejack and Snowfield projects are available at www.pretivm.com.

(SEDAR filings: Pretium Resources Inc.)

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