Starfield Provides Exploration Update

Jul. 20, 2011 (Canada NewsWire Group) --

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TORONTO, July 20, 2011 /CNW/ - Starfield Resources Inc. (TSX: SRU) ("Starfield", "the Company") today announced it has commenced the previously announced drilling of the West Zone extension at Ferguson Lake, Nunavut and expects to continue this work until early September 2011.

The Company also announced that, due to weather conditions, it has not been able to commence drilling at its Stillwater, Montana property. The plan is to focus the initial drilling on the volatile enriched zone (VEZ) PGE target, and as a second priority the PGE target referred to as the Crescent Creek dunite pipe, which is located south of the Janet 50 area of the VEZ. Drilling is expected to begin next week.

Roscoe Postle Associates ("RPA") continues to work on an update to the 2008 Ferguson Lake Scoping Study. At this time, it is uncertain when the work will be completed and the full report made available.

"We are excited to finally be drilling our Stillwater PGM property and to be able to drill for the west extension of the Ferguson Lake massive sulphides," said Andre Douchane, President and CEO.

SGS Canada Inc. continues to make excellent progress toward pilot plant testing of Starfield's hydromet process on massive sulphides from Ferguson Lake. Starfield will begin shipping a 9,000 pound sample to the SGS testing facility at Lakefield, Ontario this month for this purpose.

DRA Americas Inc. has commenced work to update the 43-101 study on Starfield's chrome assets in Montana. This work is expected to be completed in the fall.

About Starfield
Starfield Resources Inc. is an advanced exploration and development stage company.  The Company's primary asset is its Ferguson Lake nickel-copper-cobalt-platinum-palladium property in Nunavut, Canada.  Additional assets include a nickel-copper-cobalt-PGE-chrome project in the Stillwater district of Montana with historic copper, nickel, chromite resources (non 43-101 and not to be relied on); the Moonlight copper project in California with significant NI 43-101 copper resources; and two gold properties currently leased/joint ventured in Nevada.

Starfield has also funded the development of a novel, environmentally friendly and energy efficient hydrometallurgical flow sheet to recover metals from massive sulphides.

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