Kiska Secures 100% Control of Whistler Project 

VANCOUVER, BC - Kiska Metals Corporation reported that Kennecott Exploration Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto, has informed the Company that Kennecott will not exercise its rights to back in on the Whistler Project, located 160 kilometres northwest of Anchorage, Alaska. As a result, Kiska now controls a 100% interest in the Whistler Project with Kennecott retaining a 2% Net Smelter Royalty on the property.

"Kennecott has been an excellent partner, providing valuable expertise and insight into the project. We appreciate their input and the prompt decision regarding their right to back in," stated Jason Weber, President and CEO of Kiska Metals Corporation. "In securing a 100% ownership interest, we look forward to growing the resource at the Whistler Deposit, developing new porphyry discoveries and substantiating Whistler as North America's next gold camp."

Exploration at the Whistler Project is on-going with two drills currently operating. One rig is advancing the Island Mountain Breccia discovery, where drilling in 2009 intersected two zones of gold mineralization. An upper gold-copper zone averages 0.72 g/t gold, 2.4 g/t silver and 0.16% copper over 150 metres and a lower gold intersection averages 1.22 g/t gold over 107 metres. Island Mountain is hosted within a 4.5 by 3.0 kilometre area of anomalous gold-copper soil and rock geochemistry and is located 23 kilometres south of the Whistler Deposit.

A second rig is now operating on the Whistler Deposit, which hosts a NI43-101 compliant indicated resource of 1.31 million ounces gold-equivalent and an inferred resource of 4.44 million ounces gold-equivalent. Five holes are expected to be completed at the Whistler Deposit by the end of this season. Results of these holes, together with eight holes completed after the current resource estimate was completed in early 2008, will be incorporated into an updated NI43-101 compliant resource estimate for the Whistler Deposit. Completion of the estimate is expected in early November.

The company's address is 575-510 Burrard St., Vancouver, BC V6C 3A8, (604) 669-6660, fax: (604) 669-0898, email: [email protected].