AGC Amarillo Gold Corporation

Amarillo Gold Corp. (TSX VENTURE:AGC) ("Amarillo" or the "Company") is pleased
to announce that Mr. Todd Bruce has joined the Board of Directors of Amarillo
Gold. Mr. Bruce is well known in the mining and financial communities and the
Board of Amarillo looks forward to benefiting from his guidance and knowledge.
Mr. Bruce has held senior management and Board positions with Anglo Platinum,
IAMGOLD Corporation and Crystallex. He brings extensive operational and
development experience, and will strengthen and broaden Amarillo's collective
board expertise.


From September 2003 to January 2007, Mr. Bruce served as CEO, President and
Director of Crystallex International Corporation, Highlights of his tenure
included completion of a bankable feasibility study on, and securing an EPCM
contract with SNC Lavalin for the Las Cristinas project, financings that raised
nearly C$250 million and two drill programs that increased gold reserves at Las
Cristinas from approximately 10 million ounces to 17 million ounces.


From February 1996 to January 2003, Mr. Bruce served as President and Chief
Operating Officer of IAMGOLD Corporation, whose principal assets during his
tenure comprised the Sadiola and Yatala gold mines in Mali. Mr. Bruce played a
leadership role in the growth of IAMGOLD from its initial non-producer status to
attributable gold production of almost 300,000 ounces in 2002, financings that
raised C$113 million, the implementation of IAMGOLD's innovative "Gold Money"
policy and in the merger of Repadre and IAMGOLD in January, 2003. 


From 1980 through January 1996, Mr. Bruce served in a number of senior
management positions with the South African company Johannesburg Consolidated
Investment Co. and its successor company, the Anglo American Platinum
Corporation. Immediately prior to joining IAMGOLD, Mr. Bruce served as Executive
Director in charge of Marketing, Business Development and Strategic Planning for
Anglo American Platinum Corporation. Mr. Bruce holds a B.Sc. in Geology from the
University of Rhodesia and a Graduate Diploma in Engineering (Mineral Economics)
from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. 


With Mr. Bruce's addition to the board, Mr. Waldemar Opalka elected to step down
as director to maintain the number of Board members at six. Mr. Opalka will
remain the Chief Financial Officer of the company. We welcome Mr. Bruce as
Independent Director and thank Mr. Opalka for his contribution as a director,
and for his continued service as CFO. 


Mr. Buddy Doyle CEO, President of Amarillo said, "We welcome Todd Bruce to the
Board of Amarillo Gold Corp. and look forward to drawing on his extensive
knowledge and experience of the mining industry and capital markets. His
presence will be especially helpful to Amarillo as we advance the Mara Rosa
project towards a production decision and press forward with our exploration
efforts at Lavras do Sul."


ABOUT AMARILLO:-

Amarillo Gold Corp. is a company focused on the acquisition, definition and
discovery of gold resources in Brazil. Its principal projects are the Mara Rosa
project in the state of Goias and the Lavras do Sul project in the state of Rio
Grande do Sul. The Posse Deposit at Mara Rosa was found by an independent 43-101
compliant preliminary economic assessment study carried out by CCIC) to possess
643,000 ounces of indicated resources contained in 13.5MTonnes @ 1.48 g/t Au and
538,000 ounces of inferred resources contained in 13.0MTonnes @ 1.26 g/t Au at a
0.5g/t cut-off grade and the project is in the economic evaluation stage. The
Posse deposit is located in an area of excellent infrastructure located some 35
km NE of Yamana's Chapada open pit Cu-Au operation, 105 km NE of Serra Grande's
underground Au mine, 105 km NNW of Anglo American's nickel laterite project (in
construction), 95 km NW of Votarintim's Niquelandia nickel laterite mine and
approximately 60 kms NE of Yamana's Pilar Au project (in feasibility). Grid
power to the site was established during the previous open pit mining operation
and the Serra da Mesa hydro-electric dam lies 35 km to the east. 


The Lavras do Sul project is in the advanced exploration stage with over 16,000m
of drilling with encouraging gold mineralization being discovered and defined,
also in an area of excellent infrastructure. The Company also has a portfolio of
earlier stage projects. All properties under Amarillo's management are located
in areas of good infrastructure and robust community support. 


ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

AMARILLO GOLD CORP.

Buddy Doyle, President

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