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All widths presented above are drilled widths and do not necessarily represent true width.

Both laboratories use fire assay analysis for gold with a 30 g sample charge while Eco Tech uses an AA finish and the QR laboratory uses a gravimetric finish.

Ore and waste from development headings are being placed on their respective stockpiles in preparation for mill startup. Additional work on the apron feeders, mill seals, and equipment controllers were warranted prior to continuous operation. While the mill is designed for a maximum capacity of 900 tpd, a lower rate is expected during the initial startup period and until the underground operations are fully developed. Custom milling of Bonanza Ledge ore and other ores from nearby operations is expected to increase production rates.

As stope mining is initiated in the West Zone, the underground drill will continue working to define other blocks for stope development. This work may be assisted by the surface exploration drilling where needed.

New Appointments - Mining Operations

The Company is pleased to announce the addition of key personnel to the production and operations division of Barkerville Gold Mines.

Mr. Kevin L. McMurren joins Barkerville as Mine Manager. Mr. McMurren will be on site, overseeing all of the mining operations at the QR Mine and Mill. Mr. McMurren has over 30 years of mining operations experience most recently as Mine Manager from 2005 through 2009 for New Gold Incorporated at the New Afton Project, an 11,000-tpd, block cave, copper-gold project near Kamloops, BC. In prior years, Mr. McMurren has held senior technical and supervisory positions with an emphasis on the startup of mining operations Projects have included: the LAC Minerals – Billiton Tin Project in New Brunswick, the Canmine Resources' Werner Lake Cobalt Project in Ontario, the Maskwa Nickel Project in Manitoba, and the Tantalum Mining Corporation's Lac du Bonnet Project also in Manitoba.

Mr. Arnie Pollmer, P.Geo joins Barkerville as Mine Geologist. Mr. Pollmer will be supervising the development, drilling and exploration operations at the QR Mine site. Mr. Pollmer has over 37 years experience as a geologist holding past positions as underground and open pit mine geologist to Chief Geologist. His areas of specialization as mine and exploration geologist are in porphyry copper-moly, skarn-hosted and epithermal gold deposits.

Dr. Art Ettlinger, Ph.D., P.Geo. joins Barkerville as a consulting Mine Geologist. Dr. Ettlinger has thirty years of mineral exploration experience with gold, tungsten, platinum, diamond, and uranium projects throughout Canada, the United States, Russia and Central Asia. As a post-doctoral fellow in the Mineral Deposit Research Unit at the University of British Columbia, he studied gold mineralization in the Eskay Creek deposit in the Iskut River area of northwestern British Columbia. As a mining analyst for two Canadian brokerage firms, Dr. Ettlinger performed due diligence site visits on over 100 mineral projects throughout the world. Dr. Ettlinger was formerly President and CEO of Dunsmuir Ventures Ltd., a diamond exploration company exploring in the Canadian Arctic, Chief Geologist at Energy Metals Corporation, and most recently President of True North Mining, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Golden Predator Mines Inc.. Dr. Ettlinger has a B.S. in geological engineering, and a M.S. in mining engineering from Michigan Technological University and a Ph.D. in geology from Washington State University.

About Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd.

The Company has been developing its Cariboo Gold Project in Barkerville, B.C., which encompasses (from northwest to southeast) the former producing Hardscrabble Tungsten Mine, Mosquito Creek Gold Mine (now on care and maintenance), Aurum Mine, Island Mountain Mine, Cariboo Gold Quartz Mine, Bonanza Ledge (proposed mine), the Cariboo Thompson Gold & Silver Mine and the Cariboo Hudson Mine. The Company commenced operations in the Cariboo District in 1994 and since that time has focused on the exploration and development of its gold properties. Mineral tenures in the Historic Cariboo Goldfields encompass approximately 111,000 hectares (275,000 acres) over a 60 km long by 20 km wide belt. In the Barkerville Gold Camp, 101 creeks have reported placer gold production. Recorded gold production from the area totals more than 3.8 million ounces, including an estimated 2.64 million ounces from placer mining and 1.23 million ounces from lode mining. The Company does not have any of its future gold production hedged.

The technical information in this News Release on Barkerville Mountain has been reviewed and approved by Chief Geologist Jim Yin, PhD, P.Geo, a qualified person as defined in National Instrument 43-101. The technical information in this News Release on the underground and surface portions of the QR project, respectively has been reviewed and approved by Arnie Pollmer, P.Geo., and Art Ettlinger, Ph.D., P.Geo., both are qualified persons as defined by National Instrument 43-101.

On Behalf of the Board of Directors

J. Frank Callaghan, President

This news release contains forward-looking statements regarding the timing and content of upcoming programs. Actual results may differ materially from those currently anticipated in such statements.

The TSX Venture Exchange has neither approved nor disapproved of the information contained herein.