Great West Gold, Inc. -- Appointment of President

Company Confirms Appointment of New President of Board


NEW YORK, Dec. 4, 2006 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Great West Gold, Inc. (Pink Sheets:GWGO) announces the appointment of Peter J. Bezzano as the new President of Great West Gold, Inc. with immediate effect. Mr. Peter J. Bezzano will be replacing Mr. Richard M. Axtell, who has resigned from the Board of Great West Gold, Inc. due to his numerous outside commitments.

Mr. Peter J. Bezzano is a Solicitor (Attorney) in the United Kingdom and is the Chief Counsel to the St. James Capital Holdings, Inc. Group. Great West Gold, Inc. is indebted to St. James Capital Group Holdings, Inc. in respect of Convertible Loan Notes exceeding US$80 million.

Mr. Peter Bezzano will be issuing an Announcement tomorrow wherein he will deal with all outstanding issues including his commitment to the immediate appointment of an Auditor and to bring the Company's filings up to date.

About Great West Gold, Inc.

Great West Gold, Inc., www.greatwestgold.com, a gold mining exploration stage company, engaged in the acquisition and exploration of mining properties in the United States. The Company has Gold assets through its holdings in "Bouse," "Mockingbird," "Ambassador," "Yaba," "Golden Eagle," "Bonanza," "Storm Cloud," "Starlight," "Venezia," "Federal," "Buffalo Lime Cap," "Red Cloud," "South Copperstone" and "Gladstone Lookout" Gold Mining Projects. The Company's Copper assets are "Copper Mountain," "Swansea," "Tip Top" and "Mineral Mountain." The Company holds five of these Mining Assets through its 51% holding in Bouse Mining Holdings plc, Copperstone Mining Holdings plc, Ambassador Gold Holdings plc, Golden Eagle Mining Holdings plc and in Sentinel Resource Holdings plc. The other Mining Exploration Projects are 100% controlled by the Company.

This release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. "Forward-looking statements" describe future expectations, plans, results, or strategies and are generally preceded by words such as "may," "future," "plan" or "planned," "will" or "should," "expected," "anticipates," "draft," "eventually" or "projected." You are cautioned that such statements are subject to a multitude of risks and uncertainties that could cause future circumstances, events, or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements, including the risks that actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, and other risks identified in a companies' annual report on Form 10-K or 10-KSB and other filings made by such company with the SEC.



            

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