Golden Queen Mining Company Ltd. Announces Filing of NI 43-101 Technical Report for the Soledad Mountain Project

VANCOUVER, Feb. 27, 2015 /CNW/ - Golden Queen Mining Co. Ltd. (the "Company") (TSX:GQM; OTCQX:GQMNF) announces that it has filed an independent technical report (the "Technical Report") prepared in accordance with Canadian Securities Administrators' National Instrument 43-101 ("NI 43-101"). The Technical Report may be found on the Company website at www.goldenqueen.com or under the Company's profile at www.sedar.com.

The Technical Report, dated February 25, 2015, entitled "Soledad Mountain Project, Technical Report and Updated Feasibility Study, Kern County, California" was issued by Kappes, Cassiday & Associates (Reno, Nevada) with contributions from Mine Development Associates (Reno, Nevada) and Norwest Corporation (Vancouver, British Columbia).  The Technical Report provides technical and financial details to the disclosure contained in the Company's news release issued on February 10, 2015, in which the Company announced the key results of its revised resource estimates and updated feasibility study. The named parties are Qualified Persons as defined by NI 43-101 and are independent of the Company as defined in Section 1.5 of NI 43-101.

About Golden Queen Mining Co. Ltd:

The Company is developing a gold-silver, open pit, heap leach operation on its fully-permitted 50% owned Soledad Mountain property, located just outside the town of Mojave in Kern County in southern California.  The Project will use conventional open pit mining methods and the cyanide heap leach and Merrill-Crowe processes to recover gold and silver from crushed, agglomerated ore. 

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SOURCE Golden Queen Mining Co. Ltd.

Lutz Klingmann, President & CEO, Telephone: [phone], Email: [email protected]