Viking Gold Exploration Shareholders Re-elect Board at Annual Meeting

TORONTO, June 20 /CNW/ - At Viking Gold Exploration Inc's. (VGC: TSX-V) annual general meeting held on June 10, 2008 the Board of Directors, consisting of John A. Hansuld, Robert M Ginn, Robert F. Whittall, Garfield Mitchell and Lawrence D. Smith was re-elected for another year.

There were 6,613,966 shares represented at the meeting and all items of business were approved as proposed. Shareholders appointed the firm of McGovern, Hurley, Cunningham LLP, Chartered Accountants as Auditors of the Corporation and approved the Corporation's stock option plan.

The stock option plan is presented in the Management Information Circular dated May 9, 2008, and may be viewed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.

Following the formal part of the annual meeting, Robert Ginn, President and CEO of Viking, reviewed the progress of the company since it began exploration on the Morris Lake project in 2004. The original property consisted of 327.4 ha optioned from Viking Yellowknife Gold Mines Ltd. increasing to the current land holding of 7,119 ha with the acquisition of ground from Aur Resources, Peregrine Diamonds Inc. and the staking of ground on its own behalf. Significant exploration work carried out during this time included three drill programs on the original Viking Yellowknife Gold Mines option, a regional lake sediment geochemical survey and a regional airborne geophysical survey.

At a subsequent board meeting held on June 17, the board of directors re-appointed Robert Ginn as President and Chief Executive Officer, James McVicar as Corporate Secretary, George Supol as Chief Financial Officer and George Werniuk as Vice President of the Corporation.

Management is currently in the process of preparing a summer program for the Morris Lake project.

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Contacts

George Werniuk
Vice President at (416) 364-6244 ext 251 or visit our website at: www.vikinggold.ca