High Desert Gold Corporation Announces Termination of Option Agreement on the Markham Wash Copper Property

Fri May 30, 5:30 PM

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - May 30, 2008) - High Desert Gold Corporation ("HDG" or the "Company") (TSX: HDG.TO)(TSX: HDG-WT.TO), today announced that it has received notice from Teck Cominco American Incorporated ("TCAI"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Teck Cominco Limited, that TCAI is terminating its option agreement on the Markham Wash copper property located in central Arizona. TCAI completed a program that included geological mapping, sampling, a geophysical survey and drilled two holes on the property. HDG will review the Markham Wash information when it is received from TCAI.

The Company is a mineral exploration company that acquires and explores mineral properties, primarily gold, copper and silver, in North America. The three major properties held by HDG are the flagship Canasta Dorada gold property in Sonora, Mexico, the Gold Lake porphyry copper-gold-molybdenum property in New Mexico and the Monitor copper-silver property in Arizona.

Contacts

Richard Doran
High Desert Gold Corporation
Executive Vice President, Investor Relations
(303) 584-0606
(303) 758-2063 (FAX)
Email: rdoran@highdesertgoldcorp.com