Fronteer Gold Inc. (FRG) Drilling Along Northern Extension Intersects 44.2 Metres of 10.14 g/t Gold

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire – 08/18/10) – Fronteer Gold Inc. (TSX:FRG – News)(AMEX:FRG – News) provides an update on exploration and development activities at its Long Canyon gold project, including the reporting of significant intervals of high-grade oxide gold intersected northeast and southwest of the current resource area.

Long Canyon, Sandman and Northumberland gold projects comprise Fronteer Gold’s development platform in Nevada. Long Canyon’s 2010 program is multidisciplinary and focused on resource definition and expansion, as well as metallurgical, engineering, and environmental work necessary to advance the project toward production in the near-term.

EXPLORATION UPDATE

Drilling in 2010 is largely focused in the northern half of the deposit. Five drill rigs are currently operating on the property and more than 40,000 metres of the year’s originally planned 45,000 metres have been drilled to date (an additional 15,000 metres of drilling is forecasted through November).

Drill result highlights from the northern part of the deposit include:

 

--  10.14 grams per tonne gold (0.296 ounces per ton) over 44.2 metres,
    including 15.39 g/t (0.449 oz/ton) over 24.7 metres in LC529C;
--  6.51 g/t (0.190 oz/ton) over 41.8 metres, including 20.00 g/t (0.584
    oz/ton) over 11.0 metres in LC515C;
--  8.48 g/t (0.248 oz/ton) over 20.3 metres in LC537C(i);
--  5.75 g/t (0.168 oz/ton) over 29.0 metres, including 13.54 g/t (0.395
    oz/ton) over 9.1 metres in LC518.
--  4.72 g/t (0.138 oz/ton) over 24.4 metres, including 14.32 g/t (0.418
    oz/ton) over 2.7 metres in LC506C.

(i)Hole abandoned in mineralization due to poor ground conditions. Assays from successful re-drill pending.

In addition, new results indicate the deposit’s growth potential to the southwest. Drilling 300 metres to the southwest of the resource area along trend returned several shallow intercepts, including:

 

--  3.10 g/t (0.091 oz/ton) over 9.1 metres and 1.66 g/t (0.049 oz/ton) over
    16.8 metres in LC560.

The deposit is now 2.7-km long and remains open for expansion. For a map highlighting recent drilling, please click: http://www.fronteergold.com/sites/files/fronteer_admin/LongCanyonDrillMap1027.pdf.

Five out of nine planned monitoring wells have also been installed at the project, with the remaining four to be completed by the end of August.

Four, 15-ton surface bulk samples and one three-ton large-diametre core sample have also been collected for large-column metallurgical testing. Run-of-mine, heap-leach conditions will be simulated.

Drill highlights

 

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                                          Intercept
Hole ID                From          To      Length          Au          Au
                    (metres)    (metres)    (metres)       (g/t)     oz/ton
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LC368C                 18.2        45.4        27.2        4.29       0.125
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LC484C                148.7       180.7        32.0        3.24       0.095
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LC485C                212.4       215.5         3.1        1.71       0.050
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and                   241.7       247.5         5.8        2.53       0.074
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LC491C                138.1       141.1         3.1        1.80       0.052
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and                   147.2       167.9        20.7        5.18       0.151
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including             157.9       164.0         6.1       12.64       0.369
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LC493C                125.3       153.9        28.7        3.65       0.107
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including             137.8       142.6         4.9        9.28       0.271
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LC498C                110.3       117.7         7.3        1.50       0.044
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and                   136.2       146.3        10.1        3.53       0.103
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including             139.3       141.9         2.6       10.94       0.319
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LC502                  57.9        62.5         4.6        1.13       0.033
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LC506C                102.7       127.1        24.4        4.72       0.138
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including             107.0       109.7         2.7       14.32       0.418
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LC515                  85.0       126.8        41.8        6.51       0.190
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including             101.8       112.8        11.0       20.00       0.584
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and                   135.0       137.0         2.0        2.49       0.073
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LC518                 163.1       192.0        29.0        5.75       0.168
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including             175.3       184.4         9.1       13.54       0.395
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LC519C                109.4       114.9         5.5        2.28       0.067
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LC521CB               130.1       140.8        10.7        2.74       0.080
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LC523                   9.1        12.2         3.1        4.56       0.133
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LC524C                197.2       201.6         4.4        1.75       0.051
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LC525                 239.3       280.4        41.2        2.17       0.063
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including             257.6       265.2         7.6        5.52       0.161
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LC526C                 91.6       114.3        22.7        2.79       0.081
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LC529C                159.4       203.6        44.2       10.14       0.296
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including             174.7       199.3        24.7       15.39       0.449
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LC537C                112.2       132.4        20.3        8.48       0.248
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LC538                 269.7       271.3         1.5        1.28       0.037
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LC539C                266.2       269.1         2.9        1.38       0.040
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and                   282.9       295.4        12.5        6.27       0.183
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including             286.1       288.3         2.3       14.82       0.433
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LC558                  27.4        38.1        10.7        2.87       0.084
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LC560                   9.1        18.3         9.1        3.10       0.091
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and                    74.7        91.4        16.8        1.66       0.049
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Primary drill composites were calculated using a cut-off of 0.30 g/t, with variably higher cut-offs for the sub-intervals. Drill intersections are reported as drilled thicknesses. True widths of the mineralized intervals are interpreted to be between 30-100% of the reported lengths. Intervals less than 1 g/t are not reported in this press-release table. “C” indicates a core hole. For a PDF of comprehensive drill results, including non-reportable intercepts, please click: http://www.fronteergold.com/sites/files/fronteer_admin/LongCanyonDrillResults1027.pdf

Fronteer Gold is majority owner (51%) and operator of Long Canyon in joint venture with AuEx Ventures (49%).

Moira Smith, P. Geo., Nevada Chief Geologist for Fronteer Gold, is the company’s designated Qualified Person for this news release and has reviewed and validated that the information contained in the release accurate. Drill composites were calculated using a cut-off of 0.30 g/t. Drill intersections are reported as drilled thicknesses. True widths of the mineralized intervals are interpreted to be between 30-100% of the reported lengths. Reverse circulation cuttings were sampled on 5.0 feet (1.52 metre) intervals and core was sampled at geologically selected intervals. Drill samples were assayed by ALS Chemex (ISO9001:2000) in Reno, Nevada for gold by Fire Assay of a 30 gram (1 assay ton) charge with an AA finish, or if over 5.0 g/t were re-assayed and completed with a gravimetric finish. For these samples, the gravimetric data were utilized in calculating gold intersections. QA/QC included the insertion and continual monitoring of numerous standards and blanks into the sample stream, and the collection of duplicate samples at random intervals within each batch. Selected holes are also analyzed for a 72-element geochemical suite by ICP-MS.

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