Starfield Resources Announces 2011 Programs

TORONTO, March 7 2011 /CNW/ --
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TORONTO, March 7 2011 /CNW/ - Starfield Resources Inc. (TSX: SRU) (OTCBB: SRFDF) ('Starfield', 'the Company') today announced
the Company's operating plans for 2011.

The Board of Directors has approved expenditures for Starfield's
Stillwater and Ferguson Lake projects, and for continued development of
the Company's hydrometallurgical process.

Exploration drilling at the Stillwater project is scheduled to begin in
June. The plan is to focus the initial drilling on the VEZ PGE target,
and as a second priority the PGE target referred to as the Crescent
Creek dunite pipe, which is located south of the Janet 50 area of the
VEZ. Planned drilling will be accomplished with helicopter support due
to access, as well as snow cover, which will last until June. 

The Company is reviewing historical data relating to its Stillwater
Chrome assets and is currently requesting price quotes to update the
1988 feasibility study to NI 43-101 standards.

'After a minor permitting delay, we are now ready to commence drilling
at Stillwater,' said Ray Irwin, Vice President of Exploration. 'We
believe the property holds considerable potential and we are looking
forward to this season's work.'

At the Ferguson Lake project, plans call for three deep core holes to be
drilled. The holes will be stepped out from the current western
boundary of the main deposit, where there are indications that the
mineral occurrence continues to the west and at depth. This season's
drill program will test those geological assumptions.

The Company has also contracted Roscoe Postle Associates, Inc. of
Toronto to update its 2008 scoping study on the Ferguson Lake project.
Since the original 2008 scoping study, the Company has undertaken
development activities and certain market conditions have changed. The
results of this scoping study update are expected to be available by
late spring 2011.

Testing of Starfield's hydrometallurgical process using massive
sulphides from Ferguson Lake is ongoing at SGS Canada Inc. in
Lakefield, Ontario.  Results to date confirm that the oxidation and
hydrolysis circuits work very well with actual Ferguson Lake massive
sulfides. The results also lead the Company to believe that the process
can work well with refractory gold deposits. Definitive testing toward
using the hydromet circuit in the processing of refractory gold will
begin in due course. The schedule provides for the current test work to
be completed in June 2011. Once completed, the Company intends to
advance testing to the final pilot plant stage in the second half of
2011, provided funding can be arranged. 

At the recent Chloride 2011 Conference in San Diego, Dr. Mike Dry,
President of Arithmetek Inc., a process modeling firm in Peterborough,
Ontario, presented an update of advancements to the oxidation and
hydrolysis circuits of the hydrometallurgical process. Dr. Dry has been
a key consultant to the development of Starfield's hydromet process for
the past five years, and integral to advancement of the project as test
work transitioned from a small private laboratory to a world class
metallurgical testing facility. Dr. Dry's presentation is posted on
Starfield's web site.

About Starfield


Starfield Resources Inc. is an advanced exploration and development
stage company. The Company's primary asset is its Ferguson Lake
nickel-copper-cobalt-platinum-palladium property in Nunavut, Canada.
Additional assets include a nickel-copper-cobalt-PGE-chrome project in
the Stillwater district of Montana with historic copper, nickel,
chromite resources (non NI 43-101 and not to be relied on); the
Moonlight copper project in California; and two gold properties
currently leased/joint ventured in Nevada.

Starfield has also funded the development of a novel, environmentally
friendly and energy efficient hydrometallurgical flow sheet to recover
metals from massive sulphides. 

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forward-looking statements. These factors include the inherent risks
involved in the exploration and development of mineral properties, the
uncertainties involved in interpreting drilling results and other
geological data, fluctuating metal prices and other factors described
above and in the Company's most recent annual information form under
the heading 'Risk Factors' which has been filed electronically by means
of the Canadian Securities Administrators' website located at www.sedar.com. The Company disclaims any obligation to update or revise any
forward-looking statements if circumstances or management's estimates
or opinions should change. The reader is cautioned not to place undue
reliance on forward-looking statements.

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