Radius Completes $4.55 Million Financing

Jun. 22, 2010 (Canada NewsWire Group) -- Radius Gold Inc. (TSX-V: RDU) is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced non-brokered private placement of $4.55 million by issuing 13 million units at $0.35 per unit. Each unit consists of one common share and one-half of a warrant, each whole warrant entitling the holder to purchase one additional common share at $0.50 exercisable for two years.

The Company also issued 525,766 common shares and 571,071 warrants as finders' fees in connection with the financing. Each finder's fee warrant entitles the holder to purchase one common share at $0.55 exercisable for one year. All of the shares and warrants have a resale restriction until October 18, 2010.

About Radius

Radius has been exploring for gold in Latin America for nearly a decade, and has assembled interests in a portfolio of promising gold projects throughout the region, including carried stakes in two small-scale developing gold projects in Guatemala and Nicaragua. Radius also has two 100% owned exploration plays, the HB property in Guatemala and Sixty Mile property in the Yukon territory - with drilling campaigns for 2010 in the planning stages.

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    ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
    "Simon Ridgway"
    Simon Ridgway, President & CEO

    Investor relations: Ralph Rushton / Erin Ostrom
    Symbol: TSXV-RDU; OTCBB-RDUFF
    Shares Issued: 72.9-million
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