Alberta Star Appoints Dr. Hamid Mumin as Senior Consulting Geologist for the Wholly Owned Contact Lake Iron Oxide Copper, Gold, Silver, and Uranium Project in the Northwest Territories.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Tim Coupland, President and CEO of Alberta Star Development Corp. (TSX VENTURE:ASX)(OTCBB:ASXSF), listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (ASX) and on the OTCBB (ASXSF), is pleased to announce that Hamid Mumin Ph.D., P.Eng., Professor of Geology at Brandon University has been appointed senior consulting geologist for Alberta Star on the Contact Lake Iron oxide, copper, gold, silver, and uranium project located in Canada's Northwest Territories. Dr. Mumin will act as senior consulting geologist for the Company, and will provide additional strategic expertise, in planning this summers ground exploration, mapping, sampling, geophysics and locating high priority targets for drilling on the Company's Contact Lake iron oxide copper-gold, silver and uranium property.

Dr. Hamid Mumin graduated from Geo-Engineering at the University of Toronto, specializing in mineral exploration. He completed an M.A.Sc. in Economic Geology studying VMS deposits at Sturgeon Lake, Ontario. He completed his Doctorate and Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Western Ontario, examining gold deposits along the Ashanti Gold Belt, Ghana, and conducting studies on the origin and distribution of gold in lode deposits at Carlin. Dr. Mumin has worked as a mine, exploration and research geologist for Noranda at Sturgeon Lake, Ontario. Dr. Mumim was the Chief Geologist and site manager during the exploration and feasibility stages of the successful Bogosu Gold mine in the Ashanti Gold Belt in Ghana. Hamid joined Brandon University in 1995 and teaches mineral deposits, exploration and mining geology, mineralogy, geochemistry, tectonics and field geolgy. Dr. Mumin has participated in the discovery of Iron oxide, copper, gold and polymetallic deposits in the Northwest Territories. Dr. Mumin is a professional engineer, Manitoba Director to the Canadian Council of Professional Geoscientists, member of the Manitoba exploration Liaison committee, and a member of several Canadian and International professional Societies.

CONTACT LAKE "IRON OXIDE COPPER/GOLD/SILVER URANIUM PROJECT"

The Contact Lake claim block now consists of eleven contiguous claims located 5 km southeast of Port Radium on the east side of Great Bear Lake Northwest Territories and 423 miles north of the city of Yellowknife, and consists of 5835.59 hectares (14,420.82 acres). The Contact Lake project is located 5 kilometers from two past producing silver and uranium mines, the Echo Bay Mine (produced 23,779,178 ounces of silver) and the Port Radium, Eldorado Mine, (produced 15 million pounds of uranium, and 8 million ounces of silver). The Contact Lake Mine situated on the Company's property is a former past producer of silver and high grade uranium. The Contact Lake claim block and surrounding area covers extensive alteration zones including large mineralized gossans that can be traced for over 1 kilometer in length and over 200 meters in width. This area has been under-explored and has lacked advanced exploration geophysics. The Contact Lake Mineral Belt is approximately 15 kilometers long. This is the northern extension of the same mineral belt that hosts Fortune Minerals NICO Gold-Cobalt-Bismuth deposit. These large scale deposits are of a class that includes the 2 Billion Tonne Olympic Dam iron oxide, copper, gold, silver, REE and uranium (IOCG) deposit. The continuing search for iron oxide copper, gold, silver and uranium (IOCG) deposits has gained momentum in Canadian mineral exploration due to their large size potential and polymetallic grades of mineralization, including sizeable amounts of uranium.

ALBERTA STAR DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

Alberta Star is a Canadian mineral exploration company that identifies, acquires, finances advanced stage exploration projects in Canada. Alberta Star is focused in the discovery of base and precious metals and uranium.

ALLAN FELDMAN-INVESTOR RELATIONS

Investors are welcomed to contact Mr. Allan Feldman, Alberta Star's in-house Investor Relations and Corporate Communications Specialist, for all corporate updates at [phone].

ALBERTA STAR DEVELOPMENT CORP.

Tim Coupland, President & CEO

Dr. Hamid Mumim Ph.D., P.Eng. is the qualified person for the Contact Lake project.

This News Release includes certain "forward looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Without limitation, statements regarding potential mineralization and resources, exploration results, and future plans and objectives of the Company are forward looking statements that involve that involve various degrees of risk. The following are important factors that could cause Alberta Star's actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward looking statements: changes in the world wide price of mineral commodities, general market conditions, risks inherent in mineral exploration, risks associated with development, construction and mining operations, the uncertainty of future profitability and the uncertainty of access to additional capital.

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