TNGL Tonogold Resources Inc (PK)

Tonogold Resources, Inc. (Pink Sheets:TNGL) announces the 4th quarter exploration update for the Tonopah Divide Gold Project, located five miles south of the town of Tonopah, Esmeralda County, Nevada. 

Centerra (U.S.), Inc., a subsidiary of Centerra Gold Inc. (TSX:CG), is managing the exploration program under an Exploration and Option Agreement with Tonogold Resources, Inc.

Tonogold has received Centerra's report for the quarter ending December 31, 2009. Key points of interest are as follows:

• The 2009 phase II drill program totaling 12,905 ft in 14 angle drill holes (TD09-030 through -043) was completed in October and early November.

• Results include intercepts at a cutoff grade of 0.3 g/t Au equivalent of:

• 20 ft at 0.402 g/t Au and 68.46 g/t Ag (1.315 g/t Au equivalent) in drill hole TD09-030 at the Victory Divide target.

• 80 ft at 0.320 g/t Au and 10.93 g/t Ag (0.466 g/t Au equivalent) and 60 ft  at 0.173 g/t Au and 22.18 g/t Ag (0.469 g/t Au equivalent) in drill hole TD09-032 at North Monte Cristo. The mineralization in this hole correlates with the deeper but higher grade mineralization in phase I drill hole TD09-025 (395 ft of 0.74 g/t Au).

• 20 ft at 0.780 g/t Au and 8.74 g/t Ag (0.897 g/t Au equivalent) in drill hole TD09-041 at Divide East.

• Drill holes TD09-030 and TD09-032 both passed through very thick intervals of low-grade material (+0.1 g/t Au equivalent) including 90 ft at 0.479 g/t Au equivalent in drill hole TD09-030 and 570 ft at 0.254 g/t Au equivalent in drill hole TD09-032.

Donald G. Strachan, Tonogold's Vice President of Exploration, commented: "As the drilling season progressed in 2009, successive drilling campaigns encountered increasingly wide, low-grade gold intercepts in the right rocks and in the center of the Project.  These unexpectedly thick disseminations are in Tertiary tuff.  They speak well for the ultimate size of Tonopah Divide's gold endowment."

A geologic and drill hole cross section, one that includes the above-mentioned drill intercepts in the center of the Tonopah Divide Project, is available on our website at http://www.tonogold.com/s/TonopahDivide.asp.

Tonogold Resources, Inc. is a minerals exploration company based in La Jolla, California. For more information on the Company visit their website www.tonogold.com.

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CONTACT:  Tonogold Resources, Inc.

          Jeff Janda

            jeff@tonogold.com

          Jerry Samaras

          858-456-1273

          www.tonogold.com