January 18, 2011 - Vancouver, Canada (Marketwire) - Urastar Gold Corp

("Urastar") (TSXV: URS) is pleased to announce that it is

starting a drill program to test its two gold properties located in

the Mulatos Gold Belt in Sonora State, Mexico. A total of 1500 m of

reverse circulation drilling is planned for the Jabali and Juliana

gold properties

El Jabali is a 70 hectare property located only 6 km from the Mulatos

gold mine of Alamos Gold Inc. (see location map at

www.Urastargold.com). This property covers the historic La Dura gold

mine where gold mineralization of similar character to that at the

Mulatos mine was previously mined on a small scale. An area of

historic workings, geochemical anomalies and gold showings 1 kilometer

in strike length has been defined. The initial holes will be drilled

to test for extensions of the La Dura mine and other outcrops of gold

mineralization in vuggy silica altered and brecciated rhyodacite.

The second property to be tested is Juliana, a 700 hectare property

located near to Jabali and only 7 km west of the Mulatos gold mine of

Alamos Gold Inc. (TSX:AGI) The La Juliana property covers silicified

vein breccias, with native gold filling late stage veinlets, within an

area of anomalies and gold showings that is 2 kilometers in strike

length. Juliana is currently being worked for free gold by local

miners. The first holes will test for extensions of the gold

mineralization currently being mined from shallow pits.

Dr. Matt Ball, Ph.D, P.Geo., is a the Qualified Person pursuant to

National Instrument 43-101 who prepared the technical information

contained in this news release.

About Urastar Gold Corp

Urastar Gold Corp is a mining exploration and development company

focusing on gold exploration in Sonora, Mexico and Nevada, USA

targeting areas containing former producing properties. For more

information, please visit www.Urastargold.com

Contacts:

Tom Kennedy, President

Phone: 604-682-2928

Matt Harrington, Investor Relations

ir@urastarenergy.com

Phone: 613-882-7467

THIS NEWS RELEASE WAS PREPARED BY MANAGEMENT WHO TAKES FULL

RESPONSIBILITY FOR ITS CONTENTS. THE TSX-VENTURE EXCHANGE does not

accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

This news release includes certain statements that express

management's expectation or estimates of future performance and may be

deemed "forward-looking statements". These forward-looking

statements include plans, estimates, forecasts and statements as to

management's expectations regarding exploration. These forward-looking

statements involve assumptions, risks and uncertainties and actual

results may vary materially. For these reasons shareholders should

not place undue reliance on such forward-looking information.

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States Securities and Exchange Commission disclosure rules and may be

materially different from what the Company is permitted to disclose in

the United States and therefore United States residents should not

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