Colorado Goldfields, Inc. Expands Board of Directors

Business Wire, Sept 30, 2008

LAKEWOOD, Colo. -- Colorado Goldfields Inc. (OTCBB:CGFI) announces that Norman J. Singer has joined the Colorado Goldfields as a director.

Since 2006 Mr. Singer has been an independent investor in the oil and gas sector, having previously served as a senior consultant to a publicly traded oil company assisting the firm with their Turkish drilling program and assembling a U.S. based acreage position. From 1978 to 2004, Mr. Singer was with the Usaha Tegas Group of Companies, a $5 billion diversified multi-national enterprise. While with the Usaha Tegas Group, Mr. Singer opened two new energy related subsidiaries in Houston, Texas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was later Chairman of the Group's U.S. energy activities and its diversified acquisitions program. Mr. Singer was Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Director for Oceanic Exploration Company in Denver, Colorado. Additionally, he served as legal and economic advisor to the Ministry of Finance, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Singer holds a BA in Economics from Colgate University, an MA in International Affairs and Economics from Tufts University in conjunction with Harvard University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and an LL.B. from Columbia University. Additionally, Mr. Singer has completed post graduate studies at the London School of Economics.

Mr. Singer received 500,000 shares of common stock as compensation and is participating in the same lockup as all other officers and directors. The lock-up agreement provides that they will not directly or indirectly trade, sell, or otherwise transact their shares of Colorado Goldfields Inc. for a period of 24 months.

The Company is also pleased to learn that several market makers have begun making a market in CGFI common shares including: Oppenheimer & Co., Inc., LaBranche Financial Services, and UBS Securities LLC.

About Colorado Goldfields, Inc.

Colorado Goldfields Inc. (OTCBB:CGFI), http://www.cologold.com, is a Denver-based junior exploration and mining company primarily exploring for gold and silver. Our seasoned management team targets historic gold camps with strong potential for multiple deposit discovery. Currently, our business model in Colorado provides an outstanding combination of former producing properties with excellent exploration and production potential and a currently inactive, modern up to 700 ton per day capacity mill facility to allow for an attractive short-term production time frame. We expect that this strategic plan will allow Colorado Goldfields to reach its goal of profitability, potentially within the next 18 months.

The Company has made available a current CGFI Fact Sheet in PDF format at http://www.cologold.com/s/pdfs/CGFIFactSheet.pdf. An audio presentation of the CGFI 2009 business plan is available on the web at http://www.cologold.com/s/multimedia/audiopresentation.wmv. The most recent live investor conference (of September 4, 2008), is available at http://www.cologold.com/s/audio/CGFI_Live_Investor_CC.wma.> Notice regarding forward-looking statements

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