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TORONTO, ONTARIO - (April 10, 2008) - George A. Brown, President & CEO of MacMillan Gold Corp. (TSX VENTURE: MMG) announces that the board of directors of the Company appointed the following officers for the Company at a meeting subsequent to the AGM which was held on March 31, 2008.

George A. Brown - President & Chief Executive Officer

David C. Hammond - Chief Financial Officer

Carmen Yuen - Treasurer

Kenneth N. Shonk, P. Geo. - Vice President of Mexico Exploration

Cary Pothorin, P. Geo. - Vice President of Peru Exploration

David A. Bending, P. Geo. - Vice President of Project Development

William S. Hamilton, P. Geo. - Manager of Mexico Exploration

Mr. Shonk, Mr. Pothorin, Mr. Bending, and Mr. Hamilton are all Qualified Persons under the meaning of National Instrument 43-101 and will be responsible for technical information contained in news releases.

Mr. Pothorin, P. Geo. is also the President of Minera Aguila de Oro SAC (March 7, 2008 Joint News Release), the Peruvian company owned 50% by MacMillan Gold and 50% by Duran Ventures Inc. (TSX VENTURE: DRV)

Mr. Shonk, P. Geo. is a registered professional geologist with exploration experience totaling 21 years in a wide variety of geologic environments in the western U.S., northern and central Mexico, and Chile exploring for a variety of metallic mineral deposits including volcanic and sediment-hosted Au-Ag, porphyry Cu, polymetallic replacement deposits, Iron-Oxide-Copper-Gold, Colorado Plateau uranium deposits. Mr. Shonk has a Masters Degree in Geology from the Colorado School of Mines and a Bachelor of Science degree from Purdue University. His responsibilities have included submittal solicitations and evaluations, exploration project management, supervising drilling programs, and planning and executing primary exploration programs. His professional interests include tectonics and metallogenesis, magma composition-mineral deposit chemistry relationships, geochemistry, and application of remote sensing techniques. His accomplishments include recognition of El Sauzal as an acid sulfate gold system; managing a drill program that doubled the resource of the Tepalcatepec Cu-Au porphyry, Michoacan, MX; increasing the gold resource in the Mizpah deposit, Drum Mountains, Utah by 1.1 MM tons @ 0.045 opt Au; and development of a depositional model in the Gunnison Greenstone Belt applicable to the felsic gneiss/amphibolite terrain of Colorado with implications for massive sulfide exploration. Mr. Shonk has been employed by his own consulting firm since 2002. He has worked for such companies as Teck Resources, Barrick Gold, and TexasGulf Minerals in his accumulation of related experiences.

Investors are invited to visit the MacMillan Gold Hub at www.agoracom.com/IR/MacMillan where they can post questions and receive answers or review existing questions and answers. Investors may also email questions or request to be added to the investor email list at MMG@agoracom.com

MacMillan Gold Corp. is a Canadian resource company listed on the TSX Venture Exchanges: Symbol "MMG".

The TSX Venture Exchange has not reviewed nor accepted responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of the contents of this news release.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

MacMillan Gold Corp.
George A. Brown
President and CEO
(416) 867-1101
Fax: (416) 867-1222
Email: macmillangold@ca.inter.net
Website: www.macmillangold.com