Arcturus Ventures Inc (“Arcturus”) is pleased to announce that the Company has acquired by staking 276 quartz claims (56 square kilometres, 5600 ha) in the Yukon. These “Mer” claims are located in the Yukon Tanana Terrane, have anomalous gold and arsenic values in stream sediment samples and show geology consistent with recent discoveries south of Dawson on both Kinross’ (KGC:NYSE) White Gold property and Kaminak’s (KAM:TSX-V) Coffee property.

The Mer claims are located in the Finlayson Lake region which has been offset from the Dawson Range Gold Belt by the Tintina Fault. As many of the intrusion-related gold deposits in the Dawson Range Gold Belt were formed before the Tintina Fault displaced the Finlayson Lake region it is reasonable to expect that the Gold Belt should continue into this area. The claims are underlain by the same tectonic and plutonic assemblages as the discoveries in the Dawson Range Gold Belt. The plutonic suites include: metamorphic granitic rocks of Mississippian Age; Jurrassic Aged horblende biotite granite; and the genetically important Cretaceous biotite muscovite granite. Ultramafic rocks of gabbro related to the overthrust Slide Mountain Terrane also occur on the property.

Stream sediment samples taken from drainages on the property show anomalous gold and arsenic with five such samples having gold values in the 95th percentile or greater. The area covered by these anomalous samples is over 11km long and drains both Yukon Tanana and Slide Mountain Terrane rocks. Arcturus intends to follow up on these anomalous values with further investigation as the field season begins in Spring 2011 in addition to investigating and potentially acquiring further land in the Yukon which shows significant gold potential.

All of Arcturus’ work and disclosures on the company’s properties in Yukon are supervised and reviewed by Robert Stroshein, P.Eng, who is a qualified person under the definition of National Instrument 43-101.