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1 TSX:ETG | NYSE MKT:EGI | FRANKFURT:EKA On the Path to Production November 2012 Entrée Gold at Oyu Tolgoi Headframe Copper Oxide Ann Mason Project Ann Mason Drilling

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On the Path to Production

November 2012

Entrée Gold at

Oyu Tolgoi Headframe

Copper Oxide

Ann Mason Project Ann Mason

Drilling

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Cautionary Statement

This corporate update contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and forward-looking information within the meaning

of applicable Canadian securities laws.

Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to the future prices of copper, gold, molybdenum and silver; the estimation of mineral reserves and resources; the

realization of mineral reserve and resource estimates; future mineral production; costs of production and capital expenditures; the availability of project financing; potential size of a mineralized zone;

potential expansion of mineralization; potential discovery of new mineralized zones; the timing and results of future resource and reserve estimates; potential types of mining operations; amount and

timing of proposed production figures; government regulation of exploration and mining operations; potential metallurgical recoveries and grades; plans for future exploration and/or development

programs and budgets; permitting time lines; anticipated business activities; corporate strategies; uses of funds; proposed acquisitions and dispositions of assets; and future financial performance.

While Entrée Gold Inc. (“Entrée” or the “Company”) has based these forward-looking statements on its expectations about future events as at the date that such statements were prepared, the

statements are not a guarantee of the Company’s future performance and are subject to risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from

future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors and assumptions include, amongst others, that the size, grade and continuity of deposits and resource and

reserve estimates have been interpreted correctly from exploration results; that the results of preliminary test work are indicative of what the results of future test work will be; that the prices of

copper, gold, molybdenum and silver will remain relatively stable; the effects of general economic conditions, changing foreign exchange rates and actions by Rio Tinto, joint venture partners and by

government authorities including the Government of Mongolia; the availability of capital; that applicable legislation, including legislation with respect to royalties and taxation, will not materially change;

uncertainties associated with legal proceedings and negotiations; and misjudgements in the course of preparing forward-looking statements. In addition, there are also known and unknown risk

factors which may cause the actual results, performances or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by

the forward-looking statements. Such risk factors include, among others, risks related to international operations, including legal and political risk in Mongolia; recent global financial conditions; actual

results of current exploration activities; changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined; inability to upgrade inferred mineral resources to indicated or measured mineral resources;

inability to convert mineral resources to mineral reserves; conclusions of economic evaluations; future prices of copper, gold, silver and molybdenum; possible variations in ore reserves, grade

recovery and rates; failure of plant, equipment or processes to operate as anticipated; accidents, labour disputes and other risks of the mining industry; delays in obtaining government approvals,

permits or licences or financing or in the completion of development or construction activities; environmental risks; title disputes; limitations on insurance coverage; as well as those risk factors

described in the section entitled “Risk Factors” in the Company’s Annual Information Form dated March 29, 2012 filed with the Canadian Securities Administrators and in the Company’s most recently

filed Management’s Discussion and Analysis, both available at www.sedar.com. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future

events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Except as required under applicable securities legislation, the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-

looking statements.

The Company's exploration activities are under the supervision of Robert Cann, P.Geo., Vice President, Exploration of Entrée. Mr. Cann is a “qualified person” as defined in National Instrument 43-

101- Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects (“NI 43-101”). Mr. Cann has approved this corporate update.

All minerals reserves and mineral resources have been calculated in accordance with the standards of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum and NI 43-101. Cautionary Note to

United States Investors: United States investors are advised that while the terms “measured mineral resources”, “indicated mineral resources” “inferred mineral resources” and “probable mineral

reserves” are recognized and required by Canadian regulations, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) does not recognize them. United States investors are cautioned not to

assume that any part or all of the mineral deposits in these categories will ever be upgraded to a higher category, or converted into mineral reserves. Inferred mineral resources have a great amount

of uncertainty as to their existence, and as to their economic and legal feasibility. Under Canadian rules, estimates of inferred mineral resources may not form the basis of feasibility or other

economic studies. United States investors are cautioned not to assume that all or any part of an inferred mineral resource exists, or is economically or legally minable. Disclosure of “contained

ounces” is permitted disclosure under Canadian regulations; however, the SEC normally only permits issuers to report mineralization that does not constitute reserves as in place tonnage and grade

without reference to unit measures. Accordingly, information contained in this corporate update containing descriptions of the Company’s mineral properties may not be comparable to similar

information made public by U.S. companies subject to the reporting and disclosure requirements under the United States federal securities laws and the rules and regulations thereunder.

The information in this corporate update is for informational purposes only. Readers should not rely on the information for any purpose other than to gain general knowledge of Entrée. This

information is not intended to be, and should not be construed as, part of an offering or solicitation of securities.

For additional information regarding Lookout Hill, see the technical report titled "Technical Report 2012 on the Lookout Hill Property" dated March 29, 2012 ("LHTR12") prepared by AMC Consultants

Pty Ltd, a copy of which is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. For additional information regarding the Ann Mason Project, see the News Release dated October 24, 2012. The documents are

available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on the Company’s website. All references to “$” are to U.S. dollars.

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On the Path to Production

Ann Mason, Nevada

N 3

5.6 billion lbs Cu

873 Mt @ 0.29% Cu

0.2% Cu cut-off

Inferred Indicated

8.2 billion lbs Cu

1,137 Mt @ 0.33% Cu

0.2% Cu cut-off

Pit outline

City of Yerington

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Oyu Tolgoi Open Pit Development Nearing Completion

Phase I Construction 97% Complete

HNE Development Production as early as 2015

On the Path to Production

Hugo North Extension and Heruga, Mongolia

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Resources

Note: 5.4B lbs Cu 0.3% Cut-off Indicated Resource and 2.6B lbs Cu Inferred Resource at 0.3% Cut-off at Ann Mason

*CuEq estimated using US$1.35/lb Cu, US$650/oz Au, US$10/lb Mo. Figures are NI 43-101 compliant.

Inferred Resource

5.6B lbs Cu0.2% Cut-off

Indicated Resource1.1B lbs CuEq*

(with 0.5M oz Au)0.6% Cut-off

HNE

Inferred Resource4.1B lbs CuEq*

(with 3M oz Au)0.6% Cut-off

HNE and HerugaIndicated Resource

8.2B lbs Cu0.2% Cut-off

HNE = Hugo North Extension

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Shareholder Base Fully Diluted

57%

Held by top 12

Shareholders

* Rio Tinto holds beneficial ownership over shares held by Turquoise Hill 6

12.0%

10.0%

9.1%

7.7%

4.8%

4.1%

2.6%2.1% 2.1%

1.4%1.1%

0.2%

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Board of Directors

Greg Crowe President & CEO, Director

James Harris Chairman, Director

Michael Howard Deputy Chairman, Director

Lindsay Bottomer VP Business Development, Director

Peter Meredith Director

Mark Bailey Director

Alan Edwards Director

Gorden Glenn Director

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Financial Information

Treasury (As of September 30, 2012)

Issued and OutstandingOptions - 9,223,000 (Average price ~Cdn$1.98)

Fully Diluted

52 week High / Low

Analyst Coverage

~Cdn$6.6 million

128,877,243

138,100,243

Cdn$1.77 / $0.39

TD Newcrest

Hallgarten & Co. LLC

CIBC

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Growth Through Exploration & Acquisitions

USA

MongoliaNevada

Lordsburg

Oak Grove

New Mexico

Shivee West

AustraliaBlue Rose

MystiquePeruLukkacha

Ann Mason Deposit

Blue Hill DepositHugo North Extension

Heruga

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USA

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The Nevada Advantage

Top global mining jurisdiction

Limited political risk

Long history of mining

Yerington, MacArthur and Minnesota Mines

Local community support

Clear permitting guidelines

Excellent infrastructure

Power, road, water and rail near project

Year round accessibility

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Underdeveloped camp

Significant copper discoveries

Camp contains >20 billion pounds Cu

No major company investment

Nearby deposits include:

· Yerington Mine - Quaterra

Produced 1.9 Billion lbs Cu (1918-1982)

· MacArthur - Quaterra

0.68 Billion lbs Cu @ 0.21%

· Pumpkin Hollow - Nevada Copper

5.8 Billion lbs Cu @ 0.48% (M&I; OP & U/G)

Yerington, Nevada

USA

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Ann Mason Project

PEA Highlights

Proposed 100,000 tpd

Open pit mine

Sulphide flotation mill

24 year initial mine life

NPV7.5 Base Case

$1.11 billion

IRR 14.8%

5.6 years payback

(Cu$3.00 / Mo$13.50 / Au$1200 / Ag$22)

NPV7.5 Spot Case (Oct 15, 2012 prices)

$2.54 billion

IRR 22.9%

3.8 years payback

(Cu$3.71 / Mo$10.43 / Au$1736 / Ag$33.22)

Note: The PEA is preliminary in nature, it includes inferred mineral resources that are considered too speculative geologically to have the economic considerations applied to them

that would enable them to be categorized as mineral reserves, and there is no certainty that the PEA will be realized. Mineralized resources that are not mineral reserves do not have

demonstrated economic viability.

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Ann Mason Project

PEA Highlights

Unit Base Case* Spot Case**

Copper $/lb $3.00 $3.71

NPV (5%) $ Million $1,918 $3,846

NPV (7.5%) $ Million $1,106 $2,538

NPV (10%) $ Million $576 $1,669

IRR % 14.8% 22.9%

Payback Period Years 5.6 3.8

Metal Revenue (after smelting, refining, roasting, payable)

$ Million $15,600 $19,500

*Cu$3.00 / Mo$13.50 / Au$1200 / Ag$22

**Cu$3.71 / Mo$10.43 / Au$1736 / Ag$33.22 (Oct 15/2012)

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Ann Mason Project

PEA Highlights

Item Amount

Development capital costs $1.28 billion

Average cash costs (net of by-product sales) $1.46/lb copper

LOM – Net annual undiscounted cash flow $227 million

LOM – Strip ratio 2.16:1

LOM – Average copper recovery 93.5%

Copper concentrate grade 30%

LOM – Copper production 5.14 billion pounds

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Cu-Mo porphyry

2.3 km by 1.3 km

>1 km depth

Open

Cu recovery >93%

High quality Cu concentrate

Ann Mason Deposit

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Ann Mason Deposit

Section 304,300 E

Not 43-101 compliant

See Appendix A for grade of each mineral used to establish the copper equivalent grades.

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Ann Mason Deposit

Section 4,317,700 N

Not 43-101 compliant

See Appendix A for grade of each mineral used to establish the copper equivalent grades.

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8.2 Billion lbs Cu

Indicated

5.6 Billion lbs Cu

Inferred

(0.2% Cu cut-off)

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873 Mt @ 0.29% CuInferred

(0.2% Cu cut-off)

1,137 Mt @ 0.33% CuIndicated

Ann Mason Deposit

Advancing to PEA

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Ann Mason - Blue Hill

Schematic Long Section

OPENOPEN

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Shallow oxide mineralization

Sulphide mineralizationBelow oxides & continuing SE

Column leaching testworkAverage 85% Cu recovery

(91 day column leach test)

Fast extraction (60% recovery in 10 days)

Blue Hill Deposit

Near surface oxide Cu and underlying Cu-Mo porphyry

ZoneCut-off(Cu%)

Tonnes(Million)

Cu(%)

Cu(Million lb)

Oxide/Mixed 0.10 72.13 0.17 277.49

Sulphide 0.15 49.86 0.23 253.46

Inferred Mineral Resources

Mineral resources that are not mineral reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability.

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Ann Mason Project

Exploration potential

Untested IP targets

Between Ann Mason and

Blue Hill

Blackjack targets

Untested Magnetic target

Roulette

Exploration potential

Majority of project untested

Limited outcrop

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Sierrita

Bagdad

GibraltarHighland

Valley

Red Chris*

Schaft Creek

Mt Milligan*

Rosemont

Pumpkin Hollow

Copper Mountain

Ajax

Excelsior

Copper Creek

Mineral Park *

Chino

Poplar

MacArthur

Tyrone

Yerington

Porphyry Related Copper Deposits

Western North America

0.5

0.4

0.3

0.2

% C

op

per

Ann Mason

1.1 Bt

*CuEq

Inferred resources not included. Additional Ann Mason inferred resources: 873 million tonnes averaging 0.29% Cu at 0.2% Cu cut-off.

Sourced from publically available documents.

1.5

1.0

0.5

Billion Tonnes

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Other Properties

* Copper equivalent estimated using $1.35/lb Cu and $650/oz Au. Intercept contains 0.31% Cu and 0.21 g/t Au.

Lordsburg

Porphyry discovery

District known for

vein style deposits

Intercepts to 0.44%

CuEq* over 60 m

Further exploration

planned

Oak Grove

New target

Magnetic anomaly

similar to Chino Mine

Near producing

Tyrone Mine

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Mongolia

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Strategic Partners

Entrée-OTLLC JV

US$35,000,000 JV earn-in

>US$54 million to date

Entrée 20% - OTLLC 80% (deep)

Entrée 30% - OTLLC 70% (shallow)

Carried Interest

Rio Tinto (13%)*

51% of Turquoise Hill

Commitment to funding development at Oyu Tolgoi

Turquoise Hill (11%)*

66% of Oyu Tolgoi

*Issued & Outstanding

Joint Venture

Entrée – OTLLCHugo North Extension

& Heruga

Entrée

Oyu Tolgoi LLC

Turquoise HillMongolian

Government

Rio

Tinto

20/30%

80/70%

34% 66%

~11%

51%

~13%

Rio Tinto beneficial ownership is now 23.6% due to majority ownership of Turquoise Hill

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Shivee Tolgoi - Oyu Tolgoi Trends

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Oyu Tolgoi Trend

*Indicated resource grade; HNE inferred resource grade = 1.4% CuEq **Inferred resource grade

Modified from LHTR12

Mineral reserves are not additive to the mineral resources

Copper equivalent estimated using $1.35/lb Cu, $650/oz Au, $10/lb Mo. A 0.6% CuEq cut-off was used

Phase 2 does not include mine plan for Lift 2 extraction

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Hugo North Extension Development

Modified from LHTR12

Entrée has a 20% interest in the mineralization of the Hugo North Extension deposit

650 m

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Entrée-OTLLC JV Deposit Resources

Entrée ownership - 20% Carried Interest

*The mineral reserves are not additive to the mineral resources.

** Copper equivalent estimated using $1.35/lb Cu, $650/oz Au, $10/lb Mo.

*** 0.6% CuEq cutoff.

Mineral resources that are not mineral reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability.

Hugo North Extension

Cu-Au

Probable

Mineral

Reserves*

27Mt ore1.85% Cu and 0.72 g/t Au1B lbs Cu / 0.53M oz Au

Indicated

Resources**

5.6B lbs CuEq

117 million tonnes*** - 1.80% Cu, 0.61 g/t Au

4.6B lbs Cu / 2.3M oz Au

Inferred

Resources**

2.8B lbs CuEq

95.5 million tonnes***- 1.15% Cu, 0.31 g/t Au2.4B lbs Cu / 0.95M oz Au

Hugo North Extension

Cu-Au

Heruga

Cu-Au-Mo

Probable

Mineral

Reserves*

27Mt ore1.85% Cu and 0.72 g/t Au1B lbs Cu / 0.53M oz Au

Indicated

Resources**

5.6B lbs CuEq

117 million tonnes*** - 1.80% Cu, 0.61 g/t Au

4.6B lbs Cu / 2.3M oz Au

Inferred

Resources**

2.8B lbs CuEq

95.5 million tonnes***- 1.15% Cu, 0.31 g/t Au2.4B lbs Cu / 0.95M oz Au

17.4B lbs CuEq

910 million tonnes***

0.48% Cu, 0.49 g/t Au, 0.014% Mo9.6B lbs Cu / 14M oz Au

HUGO

NORTH

EXTENSION

HERUGA

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Hugo North Extension & Heruga

On the Path to Production

Current

Premier asset

High grade – long life

OT Phase I construction 97% complete

Entrée carried by debt financing at

prime +2%

Timeline for Entrée’s Assets

Development Production from HNE as

early as 2015

50+ year potential mine life

LOM Case: HNE1+HNE2+Heruga

HNE & Heruga Deposits remain open

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Heruga

Hugo NorthExtension

Lookout Hill Ann Mason

Building Value

Resources inventory and relative NPV

NPV = $1.1 Billion

NPV = $129 Million

Indicated

Inferred

Underground reserve

Mongolia Nevada

Open pit mine resources

Mineral resources that are not mineral reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability.

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Advancing Ann Mason

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016+

Pre-feasibility?

Feasibility?

Blue Hill resource

estimate

Ann Mason updated

resource estimate

PEA

Permitting

Drilling

Baseline studies

Exploration

Metallurgy

Geotechnical

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HNE Lift 1 production to 2030

Advancing Joint Venture

Hugo North Extension and Heruga

2012 2013 2014 2015

Lift 1 development

2070+

Drilling Javhlant

Hugo North Extension development and production

50+ year potential production in LOM case

Drilling Shivee Tolgoi

HNE Lift 2 production to 2044

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Current Copper Assets

*CuEq estimated using $1.35/lb Cu, $650/oz Au, $10/lb Mo. Figures are NI 43-101 Compliant.

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

Indicated Inferred

Bil

lio

n lb

s

5.6B lbs Cu

8.2B lbs Cu

HNE & Heruga

0.6% CuEq cut-off

Ann Mason

0.2 % Cu cut-off

4.1B lbs CuEq*

(with 3M oz Au)

1.1B lbs CuEq*

(with 0.5M oz Au)

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$0.00

$0.50

$1.00

$1.50

$2.00

$2.50

$3.00

$3.50

$4.00

0

4

8

12

16

20

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012Indicated (Billion lbs) Inferred (Billion lbs)

Ann

Mason

Updated

Mineral

Resources

Copper Resources vs. Share Price

Sh

are

Pri

ce

Share price

*0.2% Cu Cut-off

Billio

n P

ou

nd

s C

op

per

IVN Deal

Rio

Investment

HNE

Discovery

Mongolian Windfall Tax

Falling Metal Prices

IVN-Rio

Deal

Rio-IVN

Exercise

2005

Warrants

Heruga

Discovery

Withdrawal of

Windfall Tax

PacMag

Acquisition

BMO

Financing

Investment

Agreement

Ann Mason

PEA

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Appendix A

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Mona Forster – Executive Vice President

[email protected]

604-687-4777

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