New drilling by Fronteer Development Group at its Long Canyon property in Nevada has intersected high-grade gold mineralisation. Diamond drill hole LC063C has hit a significant zone of near-surface mineralization similar to famous Carlin-style gold deposits. The hole returned 30.10 g/t Au over a true thickness of 7 m, within a broader zone that returned 13.4 g/t over a true thickness of 22.9 m.   "Long Canyon defines a totally new gold trend in Nevada and ranks as one of the most significant greenfield discoveries made in the state in the last several years," says Fronteer President and CEO Mark O'Dea. "This emerging deposit shows encouraging grade and tonnage potential and remains open for expansion in all directions."

The Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology and the Nevada Division of Minerals recently selected Fronteer's Long Canyon property as one of Nevada's top 10 exploration projects in a presentation to the Northwest Mining Association.

LC063C is a 65-m, step-out hole from RC hole LC041 (3.88 g/t over 15.2 m) and is 150 m beyond the northeastern limits of a 1,000-m long, gold soil anomaly (>100ppb), indicating that mineralisation not only continues in this direction but has higher grades.

Gold mineralisation, which occurs within 35 m of surface, is sediment hosted, stratabound and strongly oxidised. Mineralisation occurs within highly sheared iron-altered calcareous sediments.   Also of significance, LC062C - a second diamond drill hole located 750 m to the southwest of LC063C and in the heart of the gold soil anomaly - returned 2.03 g/t over 8.2 m.   These two holes are part of Long Canyon's recently completed Phase 2 core drilling program, which was designed to extend and infill mineralisation. Assay results from four additional Phase 2 drill holes are pending.

Long Canyon is one of 19 new projects obtained through Fronteer's recent acquisition of NewWest Gold. Three of these projects - Northumberland, Sandman and Zaca - have NI 43-101 gold resources. Of the remaining 16 projects, nine have drill-indicated gold mineralisation. Sandman and Northumberland were also ranked in the top 10 exploration projects by the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology and the Nevada Division of Minerals.

Long Canyon is under option from AuEx Ventures. Under the terms of the option, Fronteer is the operator and may earn a majority interest (51%) by investing $5 million over a five-year period. Fronteer may earn an additional 14% by advancing Long Canyon through feasibility.