Colorado Goldfields Inc. Spotlights Director of Operations John Ferguson -- "To Be the First..."

Market Wire, October, 2008

Colorado Goldfields Inc. (OTCBB: CGFI) puts the spotlight on Director of Operations John Ferguson direct from the Company's properties in Silverton, Colorado. In an open impromptu video interview by Chief Financial Officer C. Stephen Guyer, Mr. Ferguson talks about what it's like to be a diamond driller, his life, and the special personal reason he does this work.

Mr. Ferguson has over 50 years of mining and milling experience. He studied Geology at Ft. Lewis College in Durango, and Mining Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. He has extensive mining experience in the San Juan Mountains, and previously managed the Pride of the West Mill.

With its distinctively personal perspective, Colorado Goldfields is pleased to share Mr. Ferguson's comments directly from the mine sites in Silverton, Colorado.

To view the spotlight, visit:

http://www.cologold.com/stephen/Silverton_Project_Ferguson.WMV

In other recent events, on Friday, October 17, 2008, the Company's Board of Directors authorized a 30% (thirty percent) dividend of the Company's Common Stock for its Stockholders of Record as of Thursday, November 6, 2008. The Stock Dividend Pay Date to stockholders will be on Wednesday, November 26, 2008.

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 .

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