VENTANA DRILLS 1.9 METRES OF 541.8 GRAMS PER TONNE GOLD AND 1,089 GRAMS PER TONNE SILVER AT LA BODEGA AND ANNOUNCES RESOURCE STATEMENT AND SCOPING STUDY TO BE RELEASED Q4 2010

Vancouver, B.C., June 23, 2010 – Ventana Gold Corp. (TSX: VEN) ("Ventana” or the "Company”) is pleased to announce drill results from six additional holes on the La Bodega zone, part of the La Bodega gold project in Colombia.

The Company also reports that a National Instrument 43-101 Resource Statement and Scoping Study will be completed by the fourth quarter of this year. The study is being compiled by Samuel Engineering, Inc. based on geotechnical work from Wylie and Norrish, resource calculation from Rob Sim of Sim Geological Inc. and Bruce Davis of BD Resource Consulting Inc., environmental baseline studies from Vector Engineering, mine design from Mine Design Associates, mineralogy from Giovanni Di Prisco and metallurgy from Mike Ounpuu and SGS Lakefield.

The La Bodega zone is where Ventana's initial high-grade discovery was made in 2006. The zone has been defined along a strike length of 350 metres, to a depth of 250 metres and remains open to the southwest and at depth.

Of note among the new drill results is hole 215, which intercepted 1.9 metres grading 541.8 grams per tonne gold with a section of 17 metres grading 61.36 grams per tonne gold. Hole 215 is located 65 metres northeast of the previously announced hole 203, which returned 4.8 metres grading 443.8 grams per tonne gold within 151 metres grading 16.8 grams per tonne gold (see Ventana's news release dated May 19, 2010, available on the Company's website at http://www.ventanagold.com/). Hole 203 contained the highest grade intercepts encountered to date anywhere within the La Bodega project.

Ventana President and CEO Steve Orr said: "These results indicate the presence of a very high-grade pocket of mineralization in the far southwest area of the La Bodega zone, and support our theory that high grade mineralization exists at depth in this area., This will continue to be one of the key target areas in our 2010 drilling program as we work to understand whether the depth extensions at the La Bodega zone connect with La Mascota.”

Select drill hole intercepts are reported below:

Drill intercepts are based on a 0.5 gram/tonne gold cut-off with no upper cut. Drill intercept lengths are down-hole lengths of mineralization with true widths ranging between 20% -90% of the reported down-hole lengths depending on hole angle.

The cross sections are attached and a complete listing of drill intercepts reported to date is available at http://www.ventanagold.com/.

Review by Qualified Person, Quality Control and Reports

The results of Ventana's drilling program have been reviewed, verified and compiled by Jon Lehmann, L.P.G., a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 (NI 43-101). Mr. Lehmann has over 25 years of mineral exploration experience, is a Licensed Professional Geologist in the State of Washington and a member in good standing of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.

To ensure reliable sample results Ventana has a rigorous QA/QC program in place that monitors the chain-of-custody of samples and includes the insertion of blanks, duplicates, and certified reference standards in each batch of samples. Core is photographed and sawed in half with one half retained in a secured facility for verification purposes. Sample preparation (crushing and pulverizing) is performed at an independent local laboratory established by a joint effort between the regional environmental permitting agency and the German Geological Survey, and at the Colombian preparation laboratory of ALS Chemex Laboratories. Prepared samples are direct-shipped to ALS Chemex Laboratories in Lima, Peru, an ISO 9001:2000 certified laboratory, for analysis.

Independent NI 43-101 technical reports have been prepared by EurGeol Miller O'Prey, P.Geo., for the La Bodega project and the nearby California-Vetas project to provide an updated review of the exploration activities that have occurred on the projects. These reports, dated June 14, 2008, are posted on Ventana's website at http://www.ventanagold.com/.

About Ventana

Ventana is a Vancouver-based mineral exploration and development company with mineral rights to 4,573 hectares of exploration property in northeastern Colombia. The Company's flagship La Bodega gold-silver project is located in northeastern Columbia immediately adjacent to the Angostura gold-silver project. The La Bodega project contains multiple high-grade zones of gold, silver and copper mineralization occurring in north-northwest dipping parallel-sheeted vein zones, breccias and mineralized faults within a broad, northeast trending regional fault zone.

Ventana recently announced an agreement to acquire the La Baja land and mineral rights, which are strategically located immediately to the southwest of the La Bodega tenements, consolidating Ventana's ownership along 2.1 kilometres within this prolific gold district.

The La Bodega project has excellent road access and is close to existing infrastructure including power and water. The Company is conducting an aggressive exploration program and progressing engineering studies to develop the deposit. Ventana's shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol VEN.

For additional information please visit http://www.ventanagold.com/or contact:

Meghan Brown, Investor Relations Manager

tel (604) 638 2002

email mbrown@ventanagold.com

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