Eldorado Completes Acquisition of Xiaoshiren in Jilin Province, China

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 09/16/10 -- Paul N. Wright, President and Chief Executive Officer of Eldorado Gold Corporation ('Eldorado' the 'Company' or 'we') (TSX: ELD)(NYSE: EGO)(ASX: EAU) is pleased to announce completion of the acquisition of the Xiaoshiren Central exploration license (EL), located 20 km southeast of our White Mountain gold mine in Jilin Province, China. The Xiaoshiren Central EL acquired from Fushun Hanking Mining Ltd is now 100% owned by the White Mountain Joint Venture, of which Eldorado holds a 95% share.

'The acquisition is consistent with Eldorado's China growth strategy where we leverage the advantage of local knowledge and infrastructure to acquire high quality prospect opportunities,' commented Paul Wright, President and CEO of Eldorado Gold. 'Our team continues to review other opportunities and we are confident we will continue to grow and add to our exploration portfolio.'

The Xiaoshiren Central EL encompasses 4.06 km2, and is contiguous with the Xiaoshiren SW (14.67 km2) and Xiaoshiren NE (23.49 km2) exploration licenses, also held 100% by the White Mountain Joint Venture (Fig. 1). The three licenses are underlain by a Proterozoic dolomite and sandstone sequence equivalent to that hosting the White Mounta in deposit, intruded by granitic porphyry. Exposure is sparse on the Xiaoshiren Central EL, but the southern part of the property contains numerous locally-derived, strongly-mineralized boulders (Fig. 2). These boulders consist of hematitic silicified breccia overprinting dolomite, are lithologically and texturally similar to breccias associated with the high-grade ore at White Mountain, and individually measure up to 3 metres in length. Preliminary interpretations based on limited outcrop control, float distribution, and topographic analysis imply that the boulders are derived from two subparallel northeast-striking mineralized zones, parallel to regional and local structural trends. In the two outcrops where the mineralized breccias occur in-situ, they lie within a moderately southeast dipping, planar, fault-controlled zone. Of 342 grab samples collected from the float boulders (257 samples) and in-situ outcrop (85 samples), 96 produced grades of 1 gm/t to 10 gm/t gold, 25 produced grades of 10 gm/t to 50 gm/t gold, and 7produced grades above 50 gm/t gold, with a maximum value of 111.5 gm/t gold. There has been no drilling in the area of the mineralized boulders.

In addition, in the northern part of the exploration license, small-scale gold mining activity produced historically from high-grade mineralized breccias along the intrusive contact between the granitic porphyry intrusion and dolomite country rock.

We are presently completing trenching and soil geochemistry programs over the southern prospect, in anticipation of drilling later in 2010. We are also conducting mapping and soil geochemistry surveys at the recently acquired Dongdapo EL, located along strike from and 5 km northeast of White Mountain (Fig. 1), where we plan to drill multiple targets in 2011.

Dr. Peter Lewis P.Geo., V.P. Exploration for Eldorado is the qualified person for the technical disclosure in this press release. All assay results reported in this release were rock chip samples prepared at Eldorado's sample preparation facility at White Mountain and assayed at the ALS laboratory in Guangzhou, China. Gold analysis was done using Fire Assay method with AAS finish. Certified standard reference materials and field duplicate samples were inserted in a ratio of 1: 10-15 prior to shipment from the preparation site at White Mountain to monitor and control the quality of the assay data.

Eldorado is a gold producing, exploration and development company actively growing businesses in Turkey, China, Greece, Brazil and surrounding areas. With our international expertise in mining, finance and project development, together with highly skilled and dedicated staff, we believe that our company is well positioned to grow in value as we create and pursue new opportunities.

ELDORADO GOLD CORPORATION

Paul N. Wright, President & Chief Executive Officer

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