TSX Trading Symbol: GBU TORONTO, May 10 /CNW/ - The Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Yani Roditis, has been appointed Chief Operating Officer of Gabriel Resources and will assume his duties in this capacity immediately. In his role, based out of Bucharest, Mr. Roditis' primary focus will be the development of the Rosia Montana project. "With his extensive engineering, environmental permitting and operations experience, Yani Roditis has been a tremendous asset in completing the project design and moving our Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) processes forward" commented Alan R. Hill, Gabriel's President and Chief Executive Officer. "His experience in developing EIA's as well as his experience in mine development for world scale projects will directly benefit Gabriel's efforts for bringing its Rosia Montana project in Romania into production." Mr. Roditis joined Gabriel in June 2005. Prior to joining the Company, he spent 11 year with a senior gold mining company , where he gained extensive engineering, environmental permitting and mine development experience through a number of positions at operating mines and development projects in the United States, Peru, Chile and Argentina. Mr. Roditis holds two Master of Science degrees from the University of Arizona, as well as a Bachelor of Science degree from the National Technical University in Athens, Greece. About Gabriel Gabriel is a Canadian based resource company committed to responsible mining and sustainable development in the communities in which it operates. Gabriel is currently engaged in the exploration and development of mineral properties in Romania and is presently engaged in the development of its 80% owned Rosia Montana gold project.