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TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 10, 2010) - Augen Gold Corp. ("Augen Gold" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:GLD) announces that it will drill several deep holes in early January within that portion of the eastern part of its South Swayze Property located near the Cote Lake Gold Deposit. Total number of holes planned is now 18, adding another 2,750 metres to the drilling schedule for a planned total of 5,750 metres.


Augen Gold will test for the northerly extension of the Cote Lake Gold Deposit, with five vertical drill holes positioned near Augen Gold's mutual claim boundary with Trelawney, and approximately 275 to 350 metres northwesterly to northerly of a series of gold-bearing drill holes completed by Trelawney this year, including hole ER-33 with 520.3 metres of 1.44 g/t Au.


The deep drill holes will be positioned approximately one hundred metres apart, each with a planned depth of up to 500 metres. These holes will compliment Augen Gold's ongoing thirteen-hole, 3,000 metre drilling program that is targetting Soil Gas Hydrocarbon (SGH) gold soil anomalies, I. P. chargeabilty anomalies and sulphide-bearing zones exposed by mechanical stripping of outcrop several hundred metres to the west, northwest and northeast.


Readers are encouraged to refer to the map titled "WCote with Planned Drill Holes" posted on Augen Gold's website,


The information contained in this news release has been prepared by Augen Gold's Project Geologist, Gordon McRoberts, P.Geo., who is a Qualified Person for the Company's Jerome Project under the definitions established by National Instrument 43-101. The potential quantities and grades disclosed herein are conceptual in nature and there has been insufficient exploration to define a mineral resource. It is uncertain if further exploration will result in the target being delineated as a mineral resource.


For more information on the South Swayze Project, please refer to the Company's NI 43-101 compliant technical report "Amended and Restated Technical Report on the Augen Gold Corp. Claims, Porcupine Mining Division, District of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada" (effective April 8, 2008 available on the Company's profile at http://www.sedar.com/">www.sedar.com).