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Viking Gold commences summer exploration program

    TORONTO, July 30 /CNW/ - Viking Gold Exploration Inc. (TSX-V: VCG) is
pleased to announce that as a result of the successful completion of its June
2009 financing, it has now mobilized a drilling, surface mapping and sampling
program on its Morris Lake - Narrow Lake property. This property is situated
in the northern portion of the Yellowknife volcanic belt.
    A Viking Gold work party of five persons arrived on the property on July
6 followed by diamond drillers a week later. A two-hole drill section was
completed on the eastern side of Narrow Lake on July 22, providing 310 metres
of core which has been flown by helicopter to the Viking Gold summer camp. The
Company is leasing facilities at Tyhee Development Corp's nearby property for
this summer program because land use restrictions prevent practical access to
the regular Viking Gold camp situated 10 kilometers to the south of the
current work site.
    The drill is now located 600 metres west of the first drill site, and
drilling is proceeding in an easterly direction beneath Narrow Lake to explore
a geophysical anomaly identified by the Company in its 2006 airborne survey.
This magnetic anomaly is bounded by two lake sediment samples having some of
the highest gold assay values, obtained by the Company in its 2007 lake
sampling survey. The combination of holes from these two Viking Gold drill
sites will provide the first significant drill testing of the Ormsby gold zone
south of the Tyhee property.
    Tyhee has recently established a substantial gold resource through its
work, in recent years, on a mineralized trend extending northerly for a
distance of 3,000 metres to the high-grade past producer Discovery Yellowknife
Gold Mine. The third drill hole in Viking's current program is at a depth of
110 metres and is beneath the western shore of Narrow Lake. The zone of
particular interest will be tested by the next 200 metres of coring. Please
refer to the websites of both Tyhee (www.tyhee.com) and Viking Gold (see
below) for additional information on the setting of this work.
    The claims being tested by this drill program have been optioned from
Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. If Viking Gold completes $1 million of cumulative
exploration work on this mineral property by September 9, 2011, it will earn a
60% joint venture interest, with Peregrine owning the other 40%.
    Robert M. Ginn, Ph. D., P.Eng, President of Viking Gold, is the Qualified
Person responsible for the Morris Lake project and has verified the
information reported above.