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Duncastle Gold Corp. (TSX VENTURE:DUN)(FRANKFURT:5D3) reported today that it has
mobilized a diamond drill rig and field crew to its flagship Yankee-Dundee
property located three kilometres northeast of Ymir, in southeastern British
Columbia.


Duncastle said it plans to drill up to 1,640m in a second phase program to
follow-up on the successful five-hole program drilled in July and August 2009
that identified high-grade extensions of the historic Yankee Girl mine. Results
are pending for two holes that tested the Goodenough vein system, located on a
separate mineralized structure about three kilometres north of the Yankee-Dundee
mine.


As reported August 26, 2009, three holes successfully targeted precious-metal
enriched lenses ('shoots') to the west of the Yankee Girl mine identified by
three dimensional modelling of historical data compiled with results from
Duncastle's two years of work on the property. Drill hole YD09-39 successfully
tested the east margin of the Yukon shoot and extended the known mineralized
zone at the "800" level to 90 metres in strike-length (not completely
delineated) with 2.8 metres grading 5.2g/t Au, 122.3g/t Ag, 4.5% Pb and 13.8% Zn
contained within a 17.2 metre interval grading 1.2g/t Au, 21.9g/t Ag and 2.4%
Zn. Results from 2007 and 2008 drill programs indicate that the Yukon shoot
(thickest and most continuous portion of the vein) persists to a depth of some
280 metres and contains higher grade intervals up to 14.14g/t Au, 281g/t Ag,
11.13% Pb and 12.58% Zn over an estimated true thickness of 3.23 metres within
the core of the shoot. The Yukon shoot is open at depth and to the east and
west.


The July/August program was also successful in identifying the 400 shoot, a
previously un-drilled extension of the Yankee Girl structure 65 metres to the
west of the Yukon shoot, which returned from hole YD09-40 a broad mineralized
zone in the Yankee Girl structure extending down hole from 197 metres to 210
metres comprised of an upper gold-enriched 1.1 metre interval grading 12.9g/t Au
and 13.1g/t Ag and a silver and base-metal-enriched lower interval grading
63.8g/t Ag and 4.1% Zn over 1.1 metres. The hole also identified in a hanging
wall vein to the main Yankee Girl structure 0.9 metres grading 12.2g/t Au,
71.6g/t Ag, 2.8% Pb and 3.1% Zn contained within a 3.2 metre interval, grading
4.2g/t Au, 21.9g/t Ag, 0.9% Pb and 1.1% Zn. Continuity of the Yankee Girl
structure has now been demonstrated for over 240 metres to the west of the
historical mine workings. All intervals are reported as estimated true
thickness.


Additional results including a long section of the Yankee Girl structure and
sections of drill holes YD09-39 and YD09-40 are available, for download from the
company's website at http://www.duncastlegoldcorp.com.


The six-hole late summer program will further test the Yukon shoot and will also
target a potential new mineralized zone located between the 400 and Yukon
shoots, as well as targeting the 790 shoot to the west of both the Yankee Girl
mine and the 400 shoot. Additional holes are planned for the McDowell shoot, at
the east end of the historic Yankee Girl mine, and for the former Goodenough
Mine, located about 3km north of the Yankee-Dundee mine.


Once completed, Duncastle will have drilled over 7,700m in 48 holes since its
acquisition of the property in 2007 at an aggregate cost of over $2.6 million.
Duncastle has been systematically adding value to the historic project by
targeting extensions of the past producing Yankee Girl, Dundee (together
Yankee-Dundee) and Goodenough mines.


Upcoming Exploration Plans

Duncastle continues to follow through on recommendations from the 2008 Summary
Report on Exploration reported earlier this year which contains numerous targets
identified during 3D modelling of historic mine records combined with
Duncastle's recent results. As well as surface drilling now underway, the report
recommends up to 2,300 metres of drilling on numerous targets from underground
via the Wildhorse Adit, a 1,417 metre exploration adit built during the period
1928 to 1954 that intersects the Bonus vein and meets the Yankee Girl vein 110
metres below the old mine workings. The adit was inspected by Duncastle
personnel in 2006 and appears to be in excellent shape structurally.
Rehabilitation work consisting of minimal timber and drainage work is planned
for spring 2010. Underground drilling below the known mineralized zones is
planned along with drilling to expand the Bonus vein, a vein parallel to the
Yankee Girl vein.


Additional drilling from surface is also planned for 2010.

About Duncastle Gold

Duncastle Gold Corp. is a mineral exploration company based in British Columbia,
Canada with projects in both central and southeastern BC. The Yankee-Dundee
project comprises 26 crown grants under a 100% option agreement and 95 tenured
mineral claims totaling approximately 5,987 hectares in the Nelson Mining
District, located three kilometres northeast of the town of Ymir in southeastern
British Columbia. Gold mineralization was first reported near Ymir in the late
1800s, with much of the mining taking place at the Yankee Girl, Dundee and Ymir
mines during the period 1907 to 1951. Historical records indicate that a total
of 375,000 tonnes grading 9.9g/t Au and 57g/t Ag were mined from the Yankee Girl
vein during this time. Exploration by the company is targeting high-grade
Au-quartz veins throughout the Ymir district which historically, together with
the adjacent Sheep Creek district is reported to have produced more than one
million ounces of gold(1). The Ymir camp was the largest silver producer in the
British Commonwealth in the 1930s (BC MEMPR Bulliten 109, 2001). In central B.C.
the company has the 8,641 hectare Porphyry Creek property in the Rocher Deboule
Mountains near Smithers, with a porphyry or IOCG copper-gold target. Duncastle
Gold Corp is a Manex Resource Group company.


Rob Macdonald, (P.Geo.), is the Qualified Person responsible for reviewing the
technical results in this release.


On behalf of the Board of Directors,

Lawrence Page, Q.C., President, Director, Duncastle Gold Corp.

(1) Production data was obtained from historical government records and has not
been independently verified by the current operators of the project.


This News Release may contain forward-looking statements including but not
limited to comments regarding the timing and content of upcoming work programs,
geological interpretations, receipt of property titles, potential mineral
recovery processes, etc. Forward-looking statements address future events and
conditions and therefore involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Actual
results may differ materially from those currently anticipated in such
statements. Duncastle Gold Corp. relies upon litigation protection for forward
looking statements.

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