TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Feb. 3, 2010) - Strait Gold Corporation (TSX VENTURE:SRD) is pleased to report that a Phase 1 exploration program is continuing at its Alicia project in Peru despite recent heavy rainfall that has caused severe flooding in parts of the country and neighbouring Bolivia.

A state of emergency was declared in Cusco Department where the Company's Alicia project is located, but the site of the project itself has not been unduly affected.

"The rainfall has slowed us down, but our program is progressing and we expect to be in a position to begin drilling in the second quarter of the year," said Strait Gold President Jim Borland. "We have continued with community engagement efforts, and this week our exploration team is resuming check sampling of historical trenching as well as mapping and sampling of previously untested areas."

The Company is conducting a two-phase exploration program at Alicia. Phase 1 consists of community engagement, surface mapping, sampling and an induced-polarization (IP) geophysical survey to identify drill targets. The second phase will consist of drilling to test for mineralization at depth. Baseline studies and preparation of an inventory of old mine workings in the area will also be conducted as required for issuance of a drilling permit.

Previous work at Alicia by Minera Anaconda Peru S.A. in 2000, identified nine skarn zones situated at the contact between a porphyry intrusive and surrounding limestone. The initial focus of the Company's exploration efforts are directed primarily on these skarn zones where trenching returned high copper values and moderate gold and silver values over significant widths including:

- 56.0 metres grading 1.9% copper, 0.18 grams per tonne (g/t) gold, 12.7
  g/t silver and 0.003% molybdenum;
- 32.2 metres grading 2.0 % copper, 0.10 g/t gold, 7.2 g/t silver and
  0.012 % molybdenum; and
- 20.0 metres grading 4.9% copper, 0.42 g/t gold, 29.2 g/t silver and
  0.009% molybdenum.

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