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Redstar Hires Contact Financial

08:09 EST Thursday, January 07, 2010

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Jan. 7, 2010) - Redstar Gold Corp. (TSX VENTURE:RGC) has engaged Contact Financial to develop and execute a comprehensive marketing and investor communications plan called the "Fast Focus" program to help raise awareness of the company over a 3-month renewable term, subject to TSX Venture Exchange approval.

Contact Financial is a Vancouver-based strategic marketing and communication firm that will increase Redstar Gold Corp.'s exposure to industry stakeholders and investors. Contact Financial will be responsible for providing advice to the company with respect to corporate development, producing and distributing effective marketing communication tools, and increasing investor awareness. For more information please visit www.contactfinancial.com.

Redstar Gold Corp. is an exploration company with active projects in Red Lake and Nevada that advances its projects through partnerships with aggressive exploration companies. Its most advanced project is the Newman Todd project in Red Lake, Ontario where the company has recently completed an initial 4 drill holes of a planned 5,000 metre program. Previous drilling by Redstar has returned values up to 61.2 g/t gold over 1.0 metre within a larger interval of 14.23 g/t gold over 5.0 metres. The gold occurs within a structure that can be traced for 2.0 kilometres and is associated with quartz veining and silica, sulphide and magnetite replacement of intensely iron carbonate altered breccias zones.

Redstar has 12 projects in Nevada; a drill program has recently been completed by Fronteer Developments Ltd on the Richmond Summit project on the Carlin Trend. Over the past number of years Redstar has been able to acquire high priority projects in Nevada largely based on a geological database purchased from AngloGold Ashanti. The database is an extensive treasure chest of proprietary data including drill data, soil and rock geochemical data and geophysics. Redstar is actively seeking additional partners for its Nevada projects.

Under the renewable agreement, Contact Financial will receive a fee of $25,000 for an initial term of three months and $6,000 per month, on a month-to-month basis, following. Contact Financial will further receive 200,000 incentive stock options good for two years from date of signing to purchase common shares of the company at $0.30 that will vest over a period of 12 months. Contact Financial is at arm's length to Redstar Gold Corp.

On Behalf of the Board,

Redstar Gold Corp.

Scott Weekes, President

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:

Redstar Gold Corp. - Corporate Inquiries
Tim Mikula
Investor Relations
604.488.0051
604.488.0053 (FAX)
tmikula@redstargold.com
www.redstargold.com

Contact Financial
Chris Gordon

604.689.7422

cgordon@contactfinancial.com

Renmark Financial Communications Inc. - Corporate Inquiries
Barbara Komorowski

514.939.3989 or 416.644.2020

bkomorowski@renmarkfinanical.com

Renmark Financial Communications Inc. - Corporate Inquiries
Dan Symons

514.939.3989 or 416.644.2020

dsymons@renmarkfinancial.com
www.renmarkfinancial.com