Midas Gold to Present at BMO Global Metals and Mining Conference and PDAC 2013

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/25/13 -- Midas Gold Corp. (TSX: MAX) is pleased to announce that it is participating in the BMO Global Metals and Mining Conference this week, one of the leading industry events of the year. Stephen Quin, President and CEO of the Company will be presenting at the conference at 12:00PM ET on Wednesday, February 27th, providing an update of Midas Gold's activities at its world class Golden Meadows gold-antimony project in Idaho.

A webcast of the presentation will be available by clicking here and a copy of the presentation as well as a link to the webcast will be available on our website.

Midas Gold will also be attending Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada convention in Toronto during the week of March 2nd, 2013. The PDAC convention is the world's primary mineral exploration conference. The Company will have a booth (#2624) at the conference on Tuesday, March 5th and Wednesday, March 6th. Stephen Quin will be presenting on Monday, March 4th at 3:00PM ET at the "Gold in the Americas" session in Room 801A of the Convention Centre.

About Midas Gold and the Golden Meadows Project

Midas Gold Corp., through its wholly owned subsidiaries Midas Gold Inc. and Idaho Gold Resources, LLC, is focused on the exploration and, if warranted, development of the Golden Meadows Project in the Stibnite-Yellow Pine district of central Idaho. The principal gold deposits identified to date within the Golden Meadows Project are the Hangar Flats, West End and Yellow Pine deposits, all of which are associated with important structural corridors. Independent mineral resource estimates were reported for all three deposits in a news release dated June 27, 2012 and are detailed in a consolidated technical report entitled "Preliminary Economic Assessment Technical Report for the Golden Meadows Project, Idaho" dated August 15, 2012, (the "Technical Report") is available on Midas Gold's website at www.midasgoldcorp.com or under Midas Gold's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. This Preliminary Economic Assessment outlines a concept for the development of a large scale, long life, low cost open pit gold mining operation producing gold and by-product antimony based on the estimated mineral resource, as well as outlining a number of opportunities for potential enhancement of the conceptual project.

Contacts:

Midas Gold Corp.

Liz Caridi

Manager, Investor Relations

604.568.4580
info@midasgoldinc.com
www.midasgoldcorp.com