Drill Program At Fondaway Canyon Gold Project Completed

TORONTO - Getchell Gold Corp. reported that the drill program has been completed at the Fondaway Canyon Gold project located in Churchill County, Nevada. The drill program at Fondaway Canyon has concluded with 6 holes drilled for a total 1,996 meters (6,550 feet). Five of the six drill holes were collared within the Central Target Area, a 1,000 x 700 meter highly mineralized NE-SW extensional zone within the central portion of the 3.5 km long E-W trending Fondaway Canyon gold mineralized corridor. The Central Target Area is a nexus for the gold mineralizing system observed at the Project with the five drill holes focusing on two of the NE-SW (the Half Moon - South Pit and the Colorado - Pack Rat) mineralized zones.

The drill program in the Central Target Area was designed to address two primary objectives: Extend the known mineralization; and Characterize the known mineralization to assist with geological and resource modeling.

As planned, one hole was collared to test the Pediment Target Area, the westernmost extent of known gold mineralization along the 3.5 km long E-W trending Fondaway Canyon gold mineralized corridor where two vertical drill holes completed in 2002 intersected broad intervals of gold mineralization.

The vast majority of the drill core was sampled in its entirety and all the drill core has been delivered to the analytical lab for cutting and assaying. Due to the sample backlog experienced by the analytical lab the Company does not anticipate receiving results until well into December.