HGLC Hunt Gold Corporation (CE)

Hunt Gold Corporation (PINKSHEETS: HGLC) announces that Mr. Patrick F. O'Hara has been appointed as the Company's Senior Geochemist effective immediately.

Pat O'Hara has a Ph. D in Geology from Arizona State University. He also has an M.A. and B.A. in Geology from Queens College of the City University of New York.

Pat O'Hara has 30 years of mineral exploration experience throughout the United States and Latin America. He is the author or co-author of over 70 scholarly geologic and geochemical articles and maps. Pat serves on the Board of Governors of the Arizona Department of Mines and Mineral Resources, he a position that he has held since 2005.

Pat O'Hara resides in Prescott, Arizona. His initial work for the Company will focus on the Company's gold deposits in Central Arizona, including the Ambassador, Gladstone Lookout, Starlight and Venezia gold and silver deposits. He will work with the Company's Senior Geologist, Jack Light, on the Company's "Gladstone Lookout" Gold property. He will also be consulting to Hunt Gold Corporation's Senior Management, its Advisory Committee and its exploration partners in the exploration and development of the Company's Gold Mining Properties.

Pat's full resume will be available on the Company's Corporate website which is scheduled for completion very shortly.

Hunt Gold Corporation's CEO, Mike Saner, stated, "We are very excited to have Pat O'Hara on board. He is one of the foremost authorities on the Precambrian ore deposits of Central Arizona. Hunt Gold Corporation is committed to the exploration of all of its properties, and in particular, the potential gold and silver resource of our Central Arizona properties, including "Ambassador" and "Gladstone Lookout," which are no less promising than either our "Mockingbird" and "Golden Eagle" detachment fault gold properties."

ABOUT HUNT GOLD CORPORATION

Hunt Gold Corporation is a Gold Mining & Exploration Company focused on the development and exploration of its Gold properties, namely "Mockingbird," "Ambassador," "Golden Eagle," "Gladstone Lookout," "Lady Alde," "Williamson," "Blue Copper Mine," "Starlight," "American Flag," "Venezia," "Stormcloud," "Cherry," "Buffalo Limecap," "Red Cloud" and "Federal." The Company has completed the sale of its "American Molygold" interests and will be distributing the entire sale proceeds through a Stock Dividend to its stockholders, this to be announced in January of 2009. The Company has entered into an Agreement to dispose of its of its "Lookout Silver" Mining Interests on February 2, 2009..

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For further information contact: Mr. Michael G. Saner Hunt Gold Corporation E Mail: Email Contact Telephone: (954) 840-6956