Midas Gold Corp. announced that, effective January 1, 2013 the company's board of directors has made several key management appointments related to its Golden Meadows Project in Idaho: Bob Barnes to the position of Chief Operating Officer, John Meyer to the position of Vice-President, Development and Rocky Chase to the position of Manager of Regulatory Affairs. These appointments reflect the changing roles of Mr. Barnes, Mr. Meyer and Mr. Chase as the Golden Meadows Project advances from resource definition through design optimization, technical studies and, if supported by those studies, into the potential permitting of a mining operation.

Prior to joining Midas Gold as the Company's VP Development in September 2011 Mr. Barnes was Vice President, Operations with Capstone Mining Corp. John Meyer was appointed Development Manager of the Golden Meadows Project in January 2012 and has been managing the design and field operations teams associated with the Golden Meadows Project. Going forward, Mr. Meyer will be focused on the design and engineering aspects of the Golden Meadows Project, and will work closely with the team preparing the plan of operations.

Prior to joining Midas Gold, Mr. Meyer was Project Manager of the Kinross Gold Corporation. Rocky Chase was appointed Manager of Regulatory Affairs for the Golden Meadows Project in January 2013 and manages the environmental, permitting, and regulatory aspects of the Golden Meadows Project. Previously, Mr. Chase was the Manager of Engineering for the Golden Meadows project and joined Midas Gold in September, 2012.

Prior to joining Midas Gold, Mr. Chase was the North American Manager of Closure Properties for Barrick Gold of North America.