VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Feb. 21, 2014) - B2Gold Corp. (TSX:BTO)(NYSE MKT:BTG)(NAMIBIAN:B2G) ("B2Gold" or the "Company"), is pleased to announce 2013 exploration and resource drilling results from the Montana Vein extension at the Masbate Gold Mine, located in the Philippines approximately 300 kilometres south of Manila. The Masbate open pit mine is projected to produce between 190,000 and 200,000 ounces of gold in 2014.

Masbate Mine, Philippines

The 2013 drill program comprising 26,902 metres has defined an extension to the previously mined Montana Vein, extending more than 850 metres northwest from the Montana open pit, extending the strike length of the Montana Vein to 1,300 metres. The extension is located 600 metres west of the Colorado pit along the main haulage road to the mill, and as a result will provide a closer, higher grade source of ore for the Masbate mill. The Montana Vein remains open at depth and additional drilling is planned for the second quarter of 2014.

A new mineral resource estimate for the Montana Vein is currently underway and is expected to be released in Q2 2014.

Significant drill intersections from the 2013 drill program on the new Montana Vein extension include hole MONRC021 which intersected 9.5 metres true width (all drill intersections reported are true width) grading 27.73 g/t gold, MONRC092 which intersected 23.4 metres grading 7.31 g/t gold, MONRC070 which intersected 15.5 metres grading 7.41 g/t gold, MONRC093 which intersected 16.7 metres grading 5.63 g/t gold and MONRC053 which intersected 19.1 metres grading 4.65 g/t gold. The current average grade of the Masbate Mine reserves is 0.97 g/t gold.

An aggressive 2014 exploration program totaling $6.2 million is underway with five diamond drill rigs currently working. The 2014 program will comprise metallurgical and reserve/resource drilling on numerous mine Veins including Montana, Main Vein, Libra East, Grandview, Colorado and Panique. Exploration drilling designed to outline new resources will be carried out on near mine Veins outside of the current reserve/resource such as the Grandview East area which is open east of hole GVRC027 which intersected 75 metres grading 0.91 g/t gold and the Pajo South extension where trenching has intersected up to 15 metres grading 1.04 g/t Au.

In addition to drilling, geochemical sampling and follow-up trenching will be carried out on a number of priority target areas outside of the current resource. B2Gold's geologic team believes there is good potential to increase the Masbate reserves and resources with additional exploration drilling.

Recent significant drilling results from the Montana Vein include:

B2Gold's Quality Assurance/Quality Control

Quality assurance and quality control procedures include the systematic insertion of blanks, standards and duplicates into the core sample strings. The primary laboratories for the Masbate gold project are SGS in Tianjin, China and their on site laboratory at the Masbate gold project where samples are analysed by fire assay with atomic absorption finish. All sample preparation is carried out at the SGS Exploration sample preparation facility on site at the Masbate gold project. ACME Labs, Vancouver, Canada, is the umpire laboratory. All results stated in this announcement have passed B2Gold's quality assurance and quality control ("QA/QC") protocols.

Tom Garagan is the Qualified Person as defined under National Instrument 43-101.

ON BEHALF OF B2GOLD CORP.

Tom Garagan, Senior Vice President of Exploration

The Toronto Stock Exchange neither approves nor disapproves the information contained in this News Release.

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