Radius Acquires Gold Target Near Dawson City, Yukon

Radius Acquires Gold Target Near Dawson City, Yukon

Monday, August 24th 2009

Mr. Simon Ridgway, the President of Radius Gold Inc. announce that the Company has acquired a large gold target at the head of Ten Mile Creek, roughly 70km south of Dawson City in the Yukon Territory.

Ten Mile Creek is an active placer gold producing creek with significant historic production. The head waters of Ten Mile drain an area underlain by an intrusive complex of probable Cretaceous age. Work by previous operators in the area identified anomalous gold values in stream sediment, soil and rock samples. The area has never been drill tested.

In 1998, Teck Resources Limited (“Teck”) staked over 200 claims in the area and in the following three seasons carried out a reconnaissance program of geological mapping, soil and rock sampling and a minor trenching program on the property. This work outlined 5 gold-mineralized zones hosted in and adjacent to two Mesozoic quartz monzonite intrusive bodies. Their final report summarizes the gold zones as follows:

1. Jual Vein System: Numerous northwesterly trending, flat to moderately dipping quartz veins, stockworks and fault zones occur, with many (gold) values in the 8-16 g/t Au range. Strong northwest trending gold in soil anomalies (values from less than 5 to 670 ppb Au) cover a 1.4 x 0.6 km area on the Val / Jual grid. Trenching of lower order gold-in-soil anomalies peripheral to the above, yielded results of 1.6 g/t Au over 25m (including 11.1 g/t Au over 3m), and 1.0 g/t Au over 19m (including 8.5 g/t over 1.5m).

2. Cupid Zone: this zone, similar to the Jual, lies 3km to the west and contains mineralized float to 3.5g/t Au. Quartz and altered intrusive boulders, with disseminated sulfide, were uncovered over a 600m by 500m area near Twenty Mile Creek. Galena is the most common sulfide with minor pyrite. The Jual Vein system and the Cupid zone may be connected on the basis of gold anomalous streams and reconnaissance soils with values up to 70ppb Au.

3. Ten Grid: an open ended, 1.6km long gold/arsenic soil anomaly, with values up to 255 ppb Au and 1280 ppm As, occurs 4.5 km to the southeast of the Cupid Zone. The anomaly covers the contact between a metasedimentary unit and an intrusion. The strong correlation between gold and arsenic on the anomaly suggests that the style of mineralization here is distinct from that exposed in the Jual Vein System.

4. Ten West: Quartz vein float with values up to 3.76g/t Au and reconnaissance soil anomalies to 150ppb Au and 220ppm As occur 2km to the southwest of the Ten Grid. The gold/arsenic signature and presence of arsenopyrite suggests a similarity and possible continuity between the Ten Grid and Ten West zones.

5. Galena Creek-Five Mile: At the south end of the property, sheeted quartz veins with values up to 3.98g/t Au, quartz stringers carrying 5.36g/t Au, anomalous reconnaissance soils and local stream sediments exceeding 1g/t Au occur along trend of anomalies.

Much of the Property has not been tested by soil or rock sampling. After completion of a follow-up ground program (to commence shortly), Radius intends to test the above gold targets by drilling.

The property was acquired in part by staking and in part under an option agreement with Bernie Kreft, a Yukon resident and renowned prospector. The option agreement calls for cash and share payments to Mr. Kreft, and an initial sampling program. As well, a 1.0% NSR is payable to Mr. Kreft and a 1.5% NSR is payable to Teck. Radius has the right to reduce the Kreft NSR to 0.25% for $1.0 million.

The historic results reported in this release were outlined in Teck’s January 2001 assessment report “2000 Geological and Geochemical report on the Ten Mile Creek Property” filed with the Mining recorders Office, Dawson, Y.T in January 2001. The reader is cautioned that Radius has not yet completed sufficient work to verify Teck’s results. However, Teck’s exploration work is believed to be of high quality. Samples were prepared and assayed at Eco-Tech Labs, Kamloops. Gold was assayed by Fire Assay/AAS finish, and multi-element geochemistry by ICP Aqua Regia.

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