HIDEFIELD GOLD PLC                               
                                                                            

             Announcement from International Tower Hill Mines Ltd.             

                                                                           

Hidefield Gold Plc ("Hidefield"), notes the following announcement released
today from International Tower Hill Mines Ltd., Hidefield's joint venture
partner on the South Estelle project in Alaska:

"ITH Further Defines Mineralization at South Estelle
Values up to 238 g/t Gold from 700 metre long Shoeshine vein system

Vancouver, B.C.

International Tower Hill Mines Ltd. ("ITH" or the "Company") - (TSXV: ITH,
AMEX: THM, Frankfurt: IW9) is pleased to announce results from its preliminary
exploration program on the South Estelle Project, Alaska held under option from
Hidefield Gold plc.  Fieldwork at South Estelle has identified outcropping
high-grade gold mineralization at the Shoeshine, Train and Portage Prospects. 
The Shoeshine vein system has a currently defined strike length in excess of
700 metres containing numerous high-grade chip samples, including one
characterization sample which returned 238 g/t gold and a 0.3 metre wide
channel sample with 126 g/t gold (Table 1).  The Company believes that the
Shoeshine and Train vein systems represent attractive high-grade gold vein
systems with potential to host significant high-grade gold mineralization
similar to those being defined on the Terra project, located 40 kilometres to
the west.

        Table 1: Highest grade samples from Shoeshine and Train Targets       

                   Gold  Silver Copper Lead  Zinc 
Sample # Prospect  (ppm) (ppm)  (ppm)  (ppm) (ppm)
                                                  
RK803251 Shoeshine  238   389    0.6    2.0   0.0 
                                                  
RK803261 Shoeshine  126   422    1.0    1.8   0.1 
                                                  
RK803252 Shoeshine  63     14    0.3    0.0   0.0 
                                                  
RK210577   Train    57    212    3.6    0.3   0.3 
                                                  
                                                   

Background

The target at the South Estelle Project is the high-grade quartz-sulphide
veins, which are generally hosted in the 65Ma Mount Estelle monzonite
batholith.  The property borders the large Kennecott Exploration Whistler
project currently being explored for copper-gold deposits by Geoinfomatics.  In
2006, fieldwork at South Estelle by the London-listed Hidefield Gold plc and
Mines Trust Company of Anchorage identified a number of mineralized areas and
the subsequent 2007 ITH program focussed on understanding the structural
controls on vein development and, in addition, expanding these exciting new
discoveries.  Results show that, with the exception of the Train Prospect, all
the vein systems have very similar orientations, trending north-northwest with
steep dips to either the northeast or southwest.  These are the same as the
vein orientations found in the Company's high-grade Terra Project 40 kilometres
to the west.  Furthermore, the high-grade veins at Terra are developed in an
intrusive of similar age to that at South Estelle.  At Terra, these high-grade
gold veins are best developed near the margins of the intrusive and can have
exceptional continuity (see NR [DEL::DEL]07-24 and the Company's website at 
www.ithmines.com for details).


Preliminary Exploration Program Results

The Shoeshine and Train Prospects have produced the most interesting results to
date (Table 2).  The high-grade gold veins discovered to date at the Shoeshine
prospect are narrow, but have a consistent north-northwest trend over an
extensive strike length and could be an indication of a large high-grade system
at depth.  In at least one example, a fault hosts high-grade gold
mineralization.  Experience gained from work on the Company's Terra project
suggests that these fault-hosted veins can develop significant lateral and
vertical continuity.  The Company is currently planning the 2008 exploration
program for the Shoeshine and Train targets.


Table 2: Summary of rock sample results from the Train and Shoeshine Prospects 
                                                                            

  Gold   Number  Average Average  Average Average Average
 Grade     of     Gold    Silver  Copper   Lead   Zinc   
 Range   samples    g/t     g/t      %        %       %  
                                                         
>30 g/t     4     120.9   212.0     1.1     1.0     0.1  
                                                         
10-30g/t   11     16.6     25.3     1.1     0.1     0.1  
                                                         
5-10g/t     9      7.7     3.5      0.6     0.1     0.3  
                                                         
 1-5g/t    24      2.4     6.9      0.4     0.1     0.1
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