Freegold Options Vinasale Gold Deposit, Alaska

Freegold Ventures Limited ("Freegold")
announces that it has entered into a Mining Exploration Agreement with Option
to Lease with Doyon Limited, an Alaskan Native Regional Corporation, to option
Doyon's 100% interest in the Vinasale Gold Property. The Vinasale project is
located 16 miles south of McGrath in central Alaska and covers an area of
approximately 128,000 acres. Vinasale is located in a northeast trending belt
of igneous intrusion-related deposits that include the 33 million oz Donlin
Creek deposit and the operating Nixon Fork gold mine.
Significant gold mineralization was first discovered at Vinasale by
Central Alaska Gold Company (CAGC) in 1990. Subsequent drilling by CAGC and
then joint venture partner Placer Dome established an initial gold resource of
614,000 oz (10.4 million tons @ 0.057 oz/ton). While the gold mineralization
was found to be refractory, metallurgical testing showed that 95% of the gold
reported to the flotation concentrate, thereby considerably reducing the
volume of material that would need to be processed in order to recover the
gold. The property was subsequently optioned by ASA-Montague in 1994 and
additional soil sampling, followed by limited in-fill and expansion drilling
was successful in further increasing the gold resource to 920,000 oz (18.04
million tons @ 0.051 opt) based on the 36 holes that had been drilled into the
Central Zone. (Note that these resource figures are historical in nature and
are provided for informational purposes only. They are not 43-101 compliant,
and as such should not be relied upon.) Previous wide-spaced drilling
northeast and south of the known deposit indicates these areas may have
potential for resource expansion while previous limited reconnaissance work
has indicated that additional gold mineralization exists on the property
outside the area known to contain resources.
The main objective of Freegold's program will be to expand the current
resources and test other areas on the property that may have the potential to
host additional resources. Initial programs will include geological mapping,
sampling and geophysical surveys. Freegold will also be collecting new samples
for further metallurgical testing. This test work will be conducted under the
supervision of Freegold's new VP of Project Development, Jeff Woods, who has
considerable experience in the metallurgical testing of refractory deposits
and in the design, construction and operation of numerous refractory
processing plants.

Exploration/Lease Agreement with Doyon Limited.

Under the Exploration Agreement, Freegold must make cash payments of
US $320,000 (US$50,000 first year) over five years, make annual scholarship
donations of US$10,000, and make exploration expenditures totaling
US $4,750,000 (US$300,000 first year). Freegold may at its option enter into a
one year extension by making an additional cash payment of US$100,000 and
incurring an additional US $1,500,000 in exploration expenditures. In the
event the property is reduced by 50% or more the additional exploration
expenditures shall be reduced to US $1,000,000.
Freegold may enter into one or more Mining Leases with Doyon on lands on
which it has expended at least US$600,000, carried out at least 10,000 feet of
core drilling, and submitted a pre-feasibility study. Freegold will be
required to make advance royalty payments and continue to conduct minimum
exploration expenditures on leased lands until such time as a Board approved
positive feasibility study has been delivered. Advance royalty payments shall
be US $100,000 per year during the initial five-year period, increasing to
US$250,000 per year thereafter. The minimum mandatory exploration expenditures
shall be equal to the greater of US$25/acre or US$250,000 for each of the
first five years, and US$50/acre or US$500,000 in subsequent years. Upon
submission of a Board approved feasibility study Doyon will have the right,
for a period of 180 days, to acquire a minimum 5%, and a maximum 10%
participating interest in Freegold's interest. Within 60 days of Doyon
electing to participate, Doyon shall contribute to a joint venture an amount
equal to 2.25 times Doyon's proportionate share of Freegold's cumulative
expenditures on the leased area after the Effective Date of the Lease.
Following the expenditure of such funds, each party will be required to
contribute its pro rata share of further expenditures.
Upon commencement of commercial production, Freegold must pay Doyon a
royalty on the production of precious metals equal to the greater of a 2% net
smelter return (NSR) or a 10% net profits interest (NPI). Once payback has
been achieved the royalty shall increase to the greater of a 4% NSR or a 20%
NPI. Royalties on base metals production shall be the greater of a 1% NSR or a
10% NPI pre-payback and the greater of a 3% NSR or a 20% NPI post-payback. For
each lease agreement, Freegold will make ongoing scholarship payments of
US $25,000 per year, which shall increase to US$50,000 per year upon the
commencement of commercial production.
The Qualified Person for this release is Michael P. Gross, M.S., P. Geo.,
VP Exploration, Freegold Ventures Limited.

About Freegold Ventures Limited

Freegold Ventures Limited is a North American exploration company with a
new management team experienced in mine development and production that is
actively exploring advanced-stage gold projects in Idaho (Almaden) and Alaska
(Golden Summit). Freegold holds a 100% lease interest in the Almaden gold
project in Idaho. This large tonnage, disseminated, epithermal gold deposit
was the subject of a feasibility study in 1997 calling for the development of
a 95,000 oz/year open pit, heap leach mine. Freegold is currently in the midst
of a 34,000-foot drilling program aimed at further expanding the size of the
resource prior to updating the feasibility study in 2007. Freegold has also
discovered new high-grade veins in surface trenching at its Golden Summit
project outside Fairbanks. A 10,000 ton bulk sample has recently been
collected that will be processed in the spring of 2007, and a 25,000-foot
drill program to further delineate gold mineralization within the current
1,000 foot wide by 3,500 foot long vein swarm commenced in December. In excess
of 7 million ounces of gold has historically been recovered from the Golden
Summit property, which is located less than 5 miles from the Fort Knox mine,
Alaska's largest gold mine.

Source : www.cnw.ca/fr