Midway Reports 361 Meters of 1.47 gpt Gold by Barrick at Spring Valley, Nevada

Midway Reports 361 Meters of 1.47 gpt Gold by Barrick at Spring Valley, Nevada

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Midway Gold Corp. ("Midway" or the "Company") (MDW:TSX-V; MDW:NYSE-MKT) provides an update on progress at the Spring Valley Project, Pershing County, Nevada. Development drilling, designed to upgrade the quality of the resource, continues to produce excellent intercepts. Barrick Gold Exploration Inc. ("Barrick") is earning into the project and their 2013 budget for Spring Valley includes $10 million for exploration and development.

Ken Brunk, Midway's President and CEO said, "Barrick continues an accelerated pace to earn-in at our Spring Valley project. Based on their 2013 budget, we expect Barrick to earn a 70% interest in the fall of this year. We were very pleased to receive yet another set of positive results from their current exploration work and we anticipate this year will bring additional good news as the project advances through scoping and into pre-feasibility."

Development Drilling

Development drilling in the resource area is designed to expand the resource within the estimated pit perimeter and to upgrade the quality of those resources for future engineered reserve calculations. Additional expansion potential remains at depth and to the north of the deposit.

Recent drilling highlights include:

• SV13-621

  • 361 meters of 1.47 grams per tonne (gpt) gold starting at 35 meters depth. The interval included 21 meters of 7.54 gpt gold and 23 meters of 3.02 gpt gold

• SV13-620

  • 120 meters of 0.75 gpt gold including 18 meters of 2.43 gpt gold

  • 35 meters of 0.79 gpt gold including 1.5 meters of 4.08 gpt gold and

  • 21 meters of 1.20 gpt gold including 1.5 meters of 5.59 gpt gold

During the first quarter, Barrick completed 4,552 meters of reverse circulation (RC) and 3,148 meters of core drilling. This drilling included nine core holes and six reverse circulation holes. An additional five holes were in progress at the end of the first quarter. Assays remain pending for most of the 2013 drill holes. Table 1 lists Spring Valley's available drill results for the first quarter as calculated by Midway from Barrick's data, and a map in Figure 1 shows the locations for drill holes listed in Table 1.

Barrick has reported the internal scoping study is still in progress by the project's evaluation group. This will advance into a prefeasibility study if approved by management after a peer review. Work underway includes:

• Resource modeling

• Metallurgical testing

• Hydrologic data for dewatering studies

• Core drilling for waste rock and ore geochemical characterization

• Design and evaluation of initial mine layout alternatives

• Initial pit slope stability studies

• Initial base line surveys

Earn-In Update

In April, Barrick reported that they had exceeded the cumulative expenditure requirement of $30M to earn a 60% interest in the property. They also exercised their option to spend an additional $8 million to earn a 70% interest.

The Barrick budget for Spring Valley in 2013 includes $8.0 million for exploration, primarily drilling, and $2 million for development work. Development work includes completing the scoping study and initiating a prefeasibility study if supported by the scoping study results. Midway anticipates by the end of 2013 Barrick will complete cumulative expenditures of $38 million to earn a 70% interest in the project, which would be a full year ahead of the contractual requirements.

Reverse circulation drilling was conducted by Hard Rock Drilling of Elko, Nevada. Core drilling was conducted by TonaTec Exploration of Mapleton, Utah. Drill hole numbers ending with a "C" indicate core holes. Samples were assayed by ALS-Chemex Labs, in Sparks, Nevada using 30 gram fire assay methods (FA) and by metallic screen assay methods (MS). Results reported represent thickness along the trace of the drill hole and do not necessarily represent true thickness. Intervals may not match to the neare