Midway Reports Significant Gold Resource Increase at Gold Rock, Nevada

Midway Gold Corp. ('Midway' or the 'Company') (MDW:TSX-V; MDW:NYSE-AMEX)
announces a new Indicated resource of 310,000 ounces (oz) of gold and
Inferred resource of 331,000 oz of gold at the Company′s Gold Rock
project, White Pine County, Nevada. The gold resource, which appears to
be open in all directions, represents a significant increase above the
previously reported 344,700 oz historic estimate. ?The Indicated resource
is contained in 12,968,000 tonnes at a grade of 0.74 grams per tonne
(gpt) gold. The Inferred resource is contained in 17,894,000 tonnes at a
grade of 0.58 gpt gold. The new resource includes results from 466
verified historic drill holes and 31 Midway verification holes that were
drilled in 2011. Gold Rock lies 8 km southeast of Midway′s Pan project.

The resource extends for 2,500 meters north and south from the historic
Easy Junior open pit gold mine. The significantly higher grade of the
Indicated resource reflects the difference between the use of fire assay
results in estimation of the Indicated resource and inclusion of cyanide
solution assays in estimating the Inferred resource. These solution
assays, in historic drill holes by previous owners, appear to
significantly understate the gold grade as compared to fire assay
results. A set of 1,956 samples having both solution assays and fire
assays averaged 25% difference between the assay types. Solution assays
comprise about 35% of the gold values in the total resource. The
Indicated resource was calculated using only samples with verified fire
assays; samples with cyanide solution assays were restricted to the
Inferred resource category.

Ken Brunk, President and Chief Operating Officer of Midway said, 'Our
first resource estimate at Gold Rock shows the deposit is comparable in
size to our nearby Pan gold deposit. We are confident we can
significantly grow this resource through both in-fill and step-out
drilling. We have an aggressive 2012 program planned for Gold Rock that
includes drilling for resource expansion, metallurgical testing, initial
environmental baseline studies, and conceptual mine engineering. Our
goal is to move this project rapidly toward mine development.

'Gold Rock is now at the same stage as the Pan project was back in
mid-2010 before our Preliminary Economic Assessment. Eighteen months
later, following aggressive drill programs, we announced over a million
ounce resource at Pan. This was followed by a Feasibility Study with
robust economics and the initiation of the mine permitting process. Our
goal is to move Gold Rock forward at a pace similar to the Pan project.?

A rigorous two-stage verification program was critical to validate the
previous drill hole database before calculating a new resource estimate
at Gold Rock. The first stage required independent validation of the
historic drill results by engineers at Gustavson Associates, LLC. This
review resulted in validation of drill results from 52,000 meters of
previous drilling in 466 holes. The second stage was a 2011 Midway
drilling program to independently confirm gold grades, geology, and rock
alteration reported from the earlier drill holes. Midway drilled 8,000
meters in 31 holes, including six core holes.

Note: The tonnage and total ounces of gold were determined from the
statistical block model. Average grades were calculated from the tonnage
and total ounces and then rounded to the significant digits shown.
Calculations based on this table may differ due to the effect of
rounding.

Map of Drill Hole Locations

Gold Rock Project, Nevada

To view the Map of Drill Hole Locations, Gold Rock Project, Nevada,
please click on the following link: http://www.usetdas.com/pr/midway02292012005.jpg.

A 1988 historic report of the resource around the Easy Junior open pit
mine estimated the presence of 344,770 oz gold in 13.5 million tonnes
averaging 0.8 gpt gold (NI 43-101 Technical Report dated March 28,
2011). The Easy Junior gold deposit was mined by open pit methods
between 1989 and 1994. Midway, through its acquisition of Pan-Nevada
Gold Corporation, gained control of the Easy Junior?Gold Rock project in
2007. Geologically, the Gold Rock Project is a Carlin-style,
open-pittable, sediment-hosted gold deposit hosted in silicified
limestone near the crest of an anticlinal fold.

The Indicated and Inferred resource estimates include all data available
through February, 2012, and were prepared by Gustavson Associates, LLC
of Lakewood, Colorado, under the direction of Donald E. Hulse and Donald
J. Baker, independent Qualified Persons. All estimates were prepared
utilizing standard industry software and resource estimation
methodology. Further details will be available in a new NI 43-101
technical report, which will be posted on SEDAR (www.sedar.com),
no later than 45 days from the date of this release.

Information in this release has been reviewed and approved by Mr. Donald
E. Hulse (P.E.), Vice President, Mining and Latin American Development,
Gustavson Associates, a 'qualified person' as that term is defined in NI
43-101. This release has also been reviewed and approved for Midway by
Mr. William S. Neal (M.Sc. and CPG), Midway′s Vice President of
Geological Services and a 'qualified person' as that term is defined in
NI 43-101.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

'Kenneth A. Brunk?

Kenneth A.
Brunk, President, COO and Director

About Midway Gold Corp.

Midway Gold Corp. is a precious metals company with a vision to explore,
design, build, and operate gold mines in a manner accountable to all
stakeholders while producing an acceptable return to its shareholders.
For more information about Midway, please visit our website at www.midwaygold.com
or contact R.J. Smith, Vice President of Administration, at (877)
475-3642 (toll-free).

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider
(as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange)
accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

This press release contains forward-looking statements about the
Company and its business. Forward looking statements are statements that
are not historical facts and include, but are not limited to, statements
about the Company's intended work plans for the projects and resource
estimates. The forward-looking statements in this press release are
subject to various risks, uncertainties and other factors that could
cause the Company's actual results or achievements to differ materially
from those expressed in or implied by forward looking statements. These
risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation,
risks related to the timing and completion of the Company's intended
work plans for the projects, risks related to fluctuations in gold
prices; uncertainties related to raising sufficient financing to fund
the planned work in a timely manner and on acceptable terms; changes in
planned work resulting from weather, logistical, technical or other
factors; the possibility that results of work will not fulfill
expectations and realize the perceived potential of the Company's
properties; uncertainties involved in the interpretation of drilling
results and other tests and the estimation of gold resources and
reserves; the possibility that required permits may not be obtained on a
timely manner or at all; the possibility that capital and operating
costs may be higher than currently estimated and may preclude commercial
development or render operations uneconomic; the possibility that the
estimated recovery rates may not be achieved; risk of accidents,
equipment breakdowns and labor disputes or other unanticipated
difficulties or interruptions; the possibility of cost overruns or
unanticipated expenses in the work program; and other factors identified
in the Company's SEC filings and its filings with Canadian securities
regulatory authorities. Forward-looking statements are based on the
beliefs, opinions and expectations of the Company's management at the
time they are made, and other than as required by applicable securities
laws, the Company does not assume any obligation to update its
forward-looking statements if those beliefs, opinions or expectations,
or other circumstances, should change.

Cautionary note to U.S. investors concerning estimates of reserves
and resources: This press release and the technical report referred to
in this press release use the terms 'resource', 'reserve', 'measured
resources', 'indicated resources' and 'inferred resources', which are
terms defined under Canadian National Instrument 43-101 and the Canadian
Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Classification system. Estimates of
mineral resources in this press release and in the technical report
referred to in this press release have been prepared in accordance with
NI 43-101 and such definitions differ from the definitions in U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission ('SEC') Industry Guide 7. Under SEC
Industry Guide 7 standards, a 'final' or 'bankable' feasibility study is
required to report reserves, the three-year historical average price is
used in any reserve or cash flow analysis to designate reserves and the
primary environmental analysis or report must be filed with the
appropriate governmental authority. Mineral resources are not mineral
reserves and do not have demonstrated economic viability. We advise
investors that while those terms are recognized and required by Canadian
regulations, the SEC does not recognize them. U.S. investors are
cautioned not to assume that any part or all of mineral deposits in
these categories will ever be converted into reserves as defined in the
SEC's Guide 7. In addition, 'inferred resources' have a great amount of
uncertainty as to their existence, and great uncertainty as to their
economic and legal feasibility. It cannot be assumed that all or any
part of an inferred mineral resource will ever be upgraded to a higher
category. Under Canadian rules, estimates of inferred mineral resources
may not form the basis of feasibility or pre-feasibility studies, except
in rare cases. U.S. investors are cautioned not to assume that part or
all of an inferred resource exists, or is economically or legally
minable. The SEC normally only permits issuers to report mineralization
that does not constitute SEC Industry Guide 7 compliant 'reserves' as
in-place tonnage and grade without reference to unit measures. It cannot
be assumed that all or any part of mineral deposits in any of the above
categories will ever be upgraded to Guide 7 compliant reserves.
Accordingly, disclosure in this press release and in the technical
reports referred to in this press release may not be comparable to
information from U.S. companies subject to the reporting and disclosure
requirements of the SEC.

Midway Gold Corp.

R.J. Smith, 877-475-3642 (toll-free)

Vice
President of Administration