Fronteer Gold Inc. (FRG) Emerging Copper-Gold Porphyry Returns 646.50 Metres of Continuous Copper-Gold Mineralization

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire – 08/25/10) – Fronteer Gold (TSX:FRG – News)(AMEX:FRG – News) announces that a new drill hole has returned the longest interval of continuous copper-gold mineralization ever intersected at the early-stage Halilaga porphyry project in northwestern Turkey.

Assay highlights from HD-54, drilled within Halilaga’s Central Zone, are as follows:

 

--  0.26 g/t gold and 0.33% copper over 646.50 metres starting from surface
    and including:
    --  0.65 g/t gold and 0.89% copper over 106.80 metres, including 0.63
        g/t gold and 1.50% copper over 33.0 metres; and,
    --  a deeper zone averaging 0.23 g/t gold and 0.24% copper over 143.70
        metres.

Based on the success of this significant hole, the drill plan has been modified and an additional rig has been added to the program, for a total of four rigs.

“Halilaga’s Central Zone and the surrounding prospective district have seen relatively minimal exploration. This drill hole demonstrates the continuation of the deposit to the north, well beyond what was previously thought to be the edge of the system,” says Fronteer Gold President and CEO, Mark O’Dea. “Halilaga provides Fronteer Gold with excellent upside exposure to an exciting new deposit. Porphyry copper-gold deposits are an increasingly important part of global gold production because of their size, long mine life and strong cash-flow potential.”

The Halilaga project is accessible by road; situated in favourable terrain; and surrounded by excellent infrastructure.

HD-54 cored mineralized porphyry for its entire length, including two zones of moderate- to higher grade copper-gold mineralization. The hole cored the main zone of copper-gold porphyry mineralization and supergene enrichment before passing through a prominent east-west near-vertical fault and then intersecting a postulated down-dropped block of porphyry mineralization under younger volcanic cover on the northern portion of the property.

Teck Resources Limited’s Turkish subsidiary, (“TMST”) is Fronteer Gold’s 60% joint venture partner and project operator. There are currently three core rigs and one RC rig operating as part of a $2.7 million drill program, funded 60%/40% by TMST and Fronteer Gold. The program includes 10,000 metres of core drilling, with 8,500 metres of drilling planned for the Central Zone, and the remainder planned for regional porphyry targets through the property. This program is currently one-third complete.

Fronteer Gold anticipates completing the first resource estimate for the project by Q1-2011, dependent on sufficient drilling being completed.

 

Drill highlights
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                       From               Intercept
Hole ID             (metres) To (metres)    (metres)    Au (g/t)      Cu (%)
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HD-54                  0.00      646.50      646.50        0.26        0.33
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Including              0.00      392.80      392.80        0.32        0.41
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Including              4.50      111.30      106.80        0.65        0.89
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Including             17.00       50.00       33.00        0.63        1.50
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and
including            502.80      646.50      143.70        0.21        0.23
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All true widths are 80-90% of reported widths unless otherwise stated.
All intervals of no sampling have been assigned zero grade for the purposes
of compositing.

For a cross-section highlighting HD-54, please clickhttp://www.fronteergold.com/sites/files/fronteer_admin/HalilagaCrossSection1028.pdf

Drill samples and analytical data for Halilaga are collected under the supervision of TMST, Fronteer Gold’s joint venture partner and project operator, using industry standard QA-QC protocols. Ian Cunningham-Dunlop, P. Eng, Vice President Exploration for Fronteer Gold, who is the QP responsible for compiling the data contained in this release, has not verified all the data; however, the grades and widths reported here agree well with the company’s past results on the project and correspondence with TMST has given him no reason to doubt their authenticity. For further details on Halilaga, please view the NI 43-101 technical report entitled “NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Halilaga Exploration Property, Canakkale, Western Turkey”, dated March 30, 2009, prepared by Peter Grieve, of Geology and Resource Solutions Limited, on SEDAR at http://www.sedar.com.

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