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Scout Prospect Description & History

The Scout prospect is situated approximately 1.25 km northeast of the Hangar Flats deposit and has been traced approximately 825m along strike in widely spaced drill holes along a north-south fault system that hosts widespread gold-silver-antimony mineralization. The fault system, all of which may not be mineralized, can be inferred to extend for several km to the north-northwest of the currently drilled area and at least several hundreds of metres to the south-southeast, based on Midas Gold's 2010 IP-Resistivity Surveys, 2011 airborne magnetics and EM surveys and 2012 CSAMT ground geophysical surveys. This fault system lies approximately 1km to the east of, and parallel to, the Meadow Creek fault system (which controls the Hangar Flats and Yellow Pine gold-silver-antimony-tungsten deposits).

The Scout prospect was first discovered in the 1940s and, between 1948 and 1990, three companies explored the Scout area with 20 short drill holes, totaling approximately 2,435m. Six east-west IP geophysical lines (by past operators and Midas Gold) have been run across the Scout Prospect area and delineate a large resistivity low and IP chargeability anomaly that could be indicative of a larger sulphide mineralized system. In 2012, Midas Gold completed a series of CSAMT survey lines across the prospect outlining an anomaly that suggests the structural zone hosting mineralization may extend further to the south-southeast.

Midas Gold completed 829m in 3 RC holes in the late winter of 2011 testing geophysical anomalies west of and peripheral to the main Scout prospect, with only marginal results. However, in late 2012 (as previously reported in news release 2012-10), 2 RC holes (totalling 485m) testing geophysical anomalies discovered significant gold-silver-antimony mineralization in a covered area in the main Scout prospect area. During 2012, 12 widely spaced core holes (totalling 3,273m) were completed following up on the initial intercepts, with typical drill step-outs along strike approximately 75-100m apart. Mineralization occurs as a series of stacked, tabular lenses of north-striking and west dipping, and east-northeast-striking and north-northwest-dipping shears, sheeted fracture zones and stockwork veins that host gold-silver-antimony mineralization. Combined with results from the historic drilling, the Midas Gold drilling indicates the mineralized zone varies from an average aggregate true width ranging from 8m at the margins to over 75m in the centre and the mineralized area can be traced along strike at least 825m and down dip at least 200m. Mineralization is open to the north, south, down-dip and (to a limited extent) up-dip. Several of the holes drilled by Midas ended in mineralization.

Illustrations

To view the locations of current drill holes, please click here: http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/max117_F1-3.pdf.

Sampling Procedures and Quality Assurance

The technical information in this news release has been prepared in accordance with Canadian regulatory requirements set out in National Instrument 43-101 ("NI 43-101") and reviewed and approved by Stephen P. Quin, P. Geo., President and CEO of Midas Gold Corp., and a Qualified Person. The exploration activities at Golden Meadows were carried out under the supervision of Richard Moses, C.P.G., Qualified Person and Site Operations Manager for the Golden Meadows Project.