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Arcus Development Group Inc. (ADG: TSX-V) announces that it has completed its analysis of the results from 2009 work at the Dan Man property located 100 kilometres south of Dawson City, Yukon. The Dan Man property covers an area of approximately 77 square kilometres and is one of four separate claim blocks held by Arcus under option from ATAC Resources Ltd. (ATC: TSX-V).

The 2009 work program consisted of deep auger soil sampling, prospecting and geological mapping. Two in-soil gold anomalies were identified on the Dan Man property and will be the focus of mechanical trenching and in-fill deep auger soil sampling programs in the spring of 2010. Maps showing the location of the property and the anomalies described below can be viewed on the Arcus website (www.arcusdevelopmentgroup.com).

The Dan Man property lies immediately north of and is adjacent to Kaminak Gold Corporation's Coffee claims. A total of 617 deep auger soil samples and 46 rock samples were collected on the Dan Man claims during the 2009 program. For the most part, only low density soil sampling was completed; however, two more tightly spaced soil grids were sampled over areas where results from a Niton portable XRF analyzer indicated elevated arsenic values. Both grids yielded anomalous gold-in-soil results.

The Kambaa Anomaly is the larger and stronger of the two soil anomalies and consists of a 600 m long by a 200 m wide zone of anomalous gold, arsenic and antimony-in-soil response. Gold values range from 20 to 132 ppb. The Kwazulu Anomaly is a 400 m by 100 m, northeast-trending zone with coincident gold and arsenic-in-soil values and weakly anomalous antimony-in-soil values. Gold values range from 20 to 74 ppb and the anomaly is open to the east.

The most anomalous rock sample from the Dan Man property was an altered quartz-mica schist with limonitic pits and relict pyrite mineralization that assayed 1.69 g/t gold. This sample was collected from a large, locally weathering talus slope roughly half way between the Kwazulu and Kambaa anomalies. The bedrock source of this sample has not yet been identified.

Initial 2010 work on the Dan Man, Green Gulch and Touleary properties will commence as early in the spring as field conditions in the Yukon permit. Mechanical trenching and in-fill deep auger soil sampling programs will be carried out on all three properties. Results from 2009 work on the Green Gulch and Touleary properties were previously announced (see December 9, 2009 news release). Contingent upon the results from the initial 2010 trenching and in-fill auger sampling programs, Arcus intends to drill test potential targets as the second phase of the 2010 work program.

The technical information in this news release has been reviewed by William A. Wengzynowski, P.Eng., a qualified person for the purpose of National Instrument 43-101.

Multi-element determinations for soil and rock samples were carried out at ALS Chemex in North Vancouver, B.C. Soil samples were dried and sieved to -80 mesh. The fine fraction was then analyzed for gold using fire assay followed by atomic absorption (AA) finish and for 34 other elements using a nitric acid-aqua regia digestion and ICP analysis. Rock samples were dried, fine crushed to better than 70% passing -2 mm and then a 250 g split was pulverized to better that 85% passing 75 micron. The fine fraction was analyzed for gold and 34 other elements using the same procedures as were used for the soil samples.

About Arcus:

The Arcus business model is to acquire interests in quality mineral prospects by way of joint venture or other collaborative arrangement with exploration groups recognized in the industry as superior project generators. Current Arcus projects include gold prospects in Yukon and Mexico. Arcus is a well structured, Vancouver based mineral exploration company operated by experienced management.