Sunridge Gold Announces Drill Results from Gupo Gold Deposit, Asmara Project, Eritrea

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - June 6, 2011) - Sunridge Gold Corp. (TSX VENTURE:SGC) announces it has received encouraging gold assays for the first 27 of 51 reverse-circulation drill holes from the recent program at the Gupo Gold deposit on the Company's 100% owned Asmara Project, Eritrea. The approximately 4,500 meter drilling program was designed to expand and upgrade the current Inferred resource at Gupo to the Measured and Indicated categories as part of the ongoing prefeasibility study on the Asmara North Deposits which include the Emba Derho, Adi Nefas, and Gupo Gold deposits.

Gold mineralization at Gupo extends over a strike length of 1.6 kilometers and is associated with stockwork quartz veins and a sericite alteration halo controlled by a shear zone. Current resources contain 189,000 ounces of gold at an average grade of 2.99 g/t (see details of resources at the end of this news release) The resource is at surface and extends down to 80 meters vertical depth and remains open. As can be seen in the attached map the results of these first 27 holes extend over only about a 600 metres strike length in the northern part of the deposit.

To view a map of the Gupo Gold 2011 Drill Program please visit the following link: http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/gupoMAP.pdf

Highlights

--  Drill hole GG-028-R intersected 37 meters averaging 1.51 g/t gold
--  Drill hole GG-030-R intersected 9 meters averaging 9.26 g/t gold
--  Drill hole GG-036-R intersected 47 meters averaging 2.13 g/t gold
--  Drill hole GG-039-R intersected 29 meters averaging 2.05 g/t gold
--  Drill hole GG-047-R intersected 64 meters averaging 1.25 g/t gold

"We are very pleased with the gold results in the first 27 holes," commented Michael Hopley, President and CEO of Sunridge Gold. "The results appear to support the previous resources and we hope that when we have received all the results the resource at Gupo will be both extended and upgraded and become part of proposed early mining operations at Asmara North." A summary of significant results are as follows:

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                                                 Interval
      Drill Hole      From Metres   To Metres      Meters    Gold g/t
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      GG-027-R              28.00       31.00        3.00        0.66
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      GG-028-R              11.00       94.00       83.00        0.78
      including             38.00       75.00       37.00        1.51
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      GG-029-R               9.00       17.00        8.00        0.96
      and                   58.00       69.00       11.00        0.72
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      GG-030-R               0.00        9.00        9.00        9.26
      and                   96.00       99.00        3.00        1.06
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      GG-031-R               2.00        7.00        5.00        1.68
      and                   53.00       57.00        4.00        0.92
      and                   84.00       93.00        9.00        0.82
      and including         86.00       91.00        5.00        1.35
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      GG-032-R              12.00       29.00       17.00        1.31
      and                   63.00       70.00        7.00        1.09
      and                   76.00       78.00        2.00        0.66
      and                   85.00       88.00        3.00        0.57
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      GG-033-R               7.00       28.00       21.00        0.97
      including             12.00       26.00       14.00        1.38
      and                   44.00       49.00        5.00        0.58
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      GG-034-R              52.00       54.00        2.00        0.95
      and                   84.00      100.00       16.00        0.51
      including             92.00       98.00        6.00        1.04
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      GG-035-R              58.00       66.00        8.00        0.65
      and                   74.00       78.00        4.00        0.85
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      GG-036-R              17.00       64.00       47.00        2.13
      including             17.00       47.00       30.00        3.28
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      GG-037-R               5.00       26.00       21.00        1.11
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      GG-038-R              75.00       87.00       12.00        1.40
      including             81.00       87.00        6.00        2.59
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      GG-039-R               5.00       91.00       86.00        0.83
      including              7.00       36.00       29.00        2.05
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      GG-040-R                   no significant results
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      GG-041-R              33.00       35.00        2.00        0.55
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      GG-042-R              23.00       25.00        2.00        1.22
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      GG-043-R               0.00       17.00       17.00        1.10
      including              8.00       17.00        9.00        1.45
      and                   96.00       99.00        3.00        0.77
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      GG-044-R               8.00       46.00       36.00        0.77
      including              9.00       17.00        8.00        1.41
      and                   74.00       80.00        6.00        1.67
      and                   92.00       96.00        4.00        0.98
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      GG-045-R               0.00       37.00       37.00        0.75
      including              0.00       21.00       21.00        0.95
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      GG-046-R              52.00       92.00       40.00        0.53
      including             59.00       74.00       15.00        1.05
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      GG-047-R              10.00       74.00       64.00        1.25
      including             10.00       25.00       12.00        3.04
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      GG-048-R               0.00       18.00       18.00        1.03
      and                   52.00       55.00        3.00        0.64
      and                   72.00       76.00        4.00        0.54
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      GG-049-R                   no significant results
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      GG-050-R              22.00       33.00       11.00        0.98
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      GG-051-R              28.00       31.00        3.00        0.51
      and                   75.00       81.00        6.00        0.74
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      GG-052-R              49.00       52.00        3.00        1.34
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Notes:

1. All drill holes reported are reverse-circulation drill holes.

2. Drill intercept lengths only are reported in the tabulations; it is estimated that true width will be approximately 80% of the reported drill intercept length.

3. A Quality Assurance/Quality Control program is part of the drilling program on the Asmara Project. This program includes chain of custody protocol as well as systematic submittals of standards, duplicates and blank samples into the flow of samples produced by the drilling.

4. A description of the geology, sampling procedures, and the Company's laboratory Quality Assurance / Quality Control procedures are as described in each of the Company's most recent National Instrument 43-101 Technical Reports filed and dated March 15, 2007. These reports are available on the Company's profile at www.sedar.com.

5. Samples are prepared at African Horn Testing Services (Eritrea) and analyzed at Genalysis Laboratories (a NATA registered laboratory) in Perth Western Australia.

6. The Qualified Person responsible for the release of this exploration information is Michael Hopley, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sunridge Gold Corp.

Gupo Gold Resources Inferred resource estimates for Gupo (then referred to as Adi Nefas Doop) from report titled "Independent Consulting Geologists Technical Report - Asmara Project" prepared by Blackburn, G. and Chisholm, R., dated April 2004 (which may be viewed under Sunridge's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com) are summarized as follows: