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                                  UNITED STATES
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549
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                                    FORM 8-K
                                 ______________
                                 CURRENT REPORT
     Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
       Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):  March 31, 2010
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                       GOLDEN RIVER RESOURCES CORPORATION
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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        Delaware                     0-16097                  98-007697
(State or Other Jurisdiction      (Commission             (I.R.S. Employer
     of Incorporation)            File Number)            Identification No.)

         Level 8, 580 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria Australia 3004
               (Address of Principal Executive Office) (Zip Code)

                                 61-3-8532-2860
              (Registrant's telephone number, including area code)

                                      N/A
         (Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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Item 1.01:     Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

Private  Placement  of  Shares  of  Common  Stock

     Effective  March  31,  2010, the  Company  and  Northern Capital Resources
Corp ("NCRC") closed the third tranche  of the private placement by the issue of
49,036,800  shares  of common stock at a purchase price of US$0.10 per share for
aggregate proceeds of US$4,903,680. The proceeds were utilized to repay loans to
NCRC,  which  had been used to make the final subscription for shares in Acadian
Mining  Corporation ("Acadian") in October 2009 and to make advances to Acadian.
The  Private  Placement  was made to and was affected pursuant to the terms of a
Subscription  Agreement  dated  September  3, 2009 that was filed on Form 8-K on
September  3,  2009,  as  amended.

     For  more information regarding the Company's investment in Acadian, please
see the  Company's Current Reports on Form 8-K filed March 20, 2009 and June 10,
2009,  which  is incorporated herein by reference. The Company's current holding
in  Acadian  is  68.7%  of  the  issued  and  outstanding  shares  of  Acadian.

Item 3.02:     Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities

     The  description  of  the  Private  Placement  set  forth  above  is hereby
incorporated  herein  by  reference to the Form 8-K filed on March 31, 2010. The
securities  that  are  being issued pursuant to this Private Placement are being
issued  in  reliance upon an exemption from the registration requirements of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act") under section 4(2) of the Act and
under  Regulation  S  and  D  promulgated  under  the  Act.


                                   SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

                           GOLDEN RIVER RESOURCES CORPORATION (Company)

                           By:




                                /s/ Peter Lee
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                                Peter Lee
                                Secretary

Dated: April 8, 2010