NuLegacy Gold Begins 2011 Wood Hills South Exploration Program

RENO, NEVADA--(Marketwire - March 21, 2011) - As reported in the December 20, 2010 NuLegacy Gold (TSX VENTURE:NUG) news release, soil sampling on widely spaced lines detected gold up to 41 ppb gold and associated pathfinder trace elements typically associated with Carlin-type gold systems at the Wood Hills South Prospect.

To further define these anomalies several additional lines will be sampled between, and around, the previous survey. About 30 total line kilometers will be sampled at 45 meter intervals, commencing the week of March 21, 2011. Each sample will be analyzed for gold, mercury soil gas, and a package of 39 trace elements. The results of the survey will be used to define targets that will be drilled later this year.

Soil sample collection will be done by North American Exploration, Inc. of Kaysville, Utah, and analytical work will be performed by American Assay Labs of Sparks, Nevada.

During 2010 NuLegacy completed bedrock mapping, outcrop sampling, soil sampling, and an IP/resistivity survey at the south edge of the Wood Hills and onto the pediment to the south.

The IP/resistivity survey indicated discontinuous blocks of material under the thin pediment gravel cover that are likely limestone and dolomite formations containing breaks as a result of faulting and/or solution movement. These breaks are the potentially favorable sites for gold mineralization.

The coincident (on the same lines as the IP/resistivity survey) soil sampling program, sampled every 150 feet and returned anomalous gold analyses in the soils corresponding to the interpreted breaks in the bedrock formations. 423 of the 783 samples collected contained detectable gold (3 ppb, or greater) to a maximum value of 41 ppb Au; 75 of the samples contained anomalous gold values (10 ppb or more).

"Our interpretation of the geophysics and geochemistry indicate the geology of our Wood Hills South Prospect in Nevada is similar to that of the recently discovered gold deposits of the Pequop Mountains (Long Canyon and West Pequop deposits) located immediately to the east" says Dr. Roger Steininger, COO of NuLegacy Gold. To view a map of the location of the IP/resistivity survey and coincident soil sampling lines click here (http://www.nulegacygold.com/wood_hills_south_prospect/wood_hills_south_nevada_map_lg.html). The proposed operating budget for the Wood Hills Prospect during the next two years will be in excess of $1.5 million.

Pending: A more detailed outline of the 2011 exploration programs for both Wood Hills South and the Red Hill Prospect will be reported shortly.

NuLegacy Gold Corporation is a Nevada focused gold exploration company. The Company has under option:

• the 45 square mile Red Hill Prospect in the well established and prolific Cortez Segment of the Battle Mountain Eureka trend located directly between Barrick Gold's Cortez Hills operation to the north and the US Gold's Tonkin Springs operation to the south, and
• the 35 square mile Wood Hills South Prospect which is contiguous to the West Pequop and Long Canyon discoveries in the emerging Pequop gold trend that Newmont is acquiring for approximately $800 million.

Our objective is to discover significant multi-million ounce gold deposits utilizing highly focused exploration programs employing sophisticated techniques for targeting the follow-up drilling to previous exploration successes.

On Behalf Of The Board Of Directors Of NuLegacy Gold Corporation

Albert J. Matter, Chief Executive Officer

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