EGO - Frontier

Eldorado Increases Stake in Frontier to Over 95%
6:22 p.m. 07/16/2008 Provided By Market Wire


VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Jul 16, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Paul N. Wright, President and Chief Executive Officer of Eldorado Gold Corporation (EGO) ("Eldorado" or "we") announced today that Eldorado has taken up and accepted for payment an additional 4.9 million common shares of Frontier Pacific Mining Corporation ("Frontier") that were tendered since July 2, 2008 to its offer to purchase all of the outstanding common shares of Frontier (the "Offer"). The Offer expired as of 5:00 pm (Toronto time) on July 15, 2008.

Together with the 162.2 million common shares of Frontier taken up by Eldorado on July 3, 2008 and the 4,871,300 held by Eldorado prior to its making the Offer, Eldorado will own approximately 167.2 million common shares of Frontier, representing over 95% of Frontier's outstanding common shares.

Since the Offer has been accepted by holders of more than 90% of the Frontier common shares, Eldorado intends to exercise its right to acquire the remaining approximately 8.8 million outstanding common shares of Frontier (the "Remaining Shares") pursuant to a compulsory acquisition under the British Columbia Business Corporations Act (the "Business Corporations Act"), as described in the Offer. Pursuant to Section 300 of the Business Corporations Act, Eldorado has mailed to the holders of the Remaining Shares, and has filed with applicable securities regulatory authorities, a Notice of Compulsory Acquisition dated July 15, 2008. Eldorado expects to complete the compulsory acquisition within the next 90 days.

Eldorado's financial adviser is Macquarie Capital Markets Canada Ltd. Its legal advisors are Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Canada and Dorsey & Whitney LLP in the United States.

Eldorado has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") a Registration Statement, which includes the offer and take-over bid circular, notice of variation and extension, notice of change in information, a previous notice of variation and extension and a notice of compulsory acquisition relating to its offer to Frontier shareholders. ELDORADO URGES INVESTORS AND SECURITY HOLDERS TO READ THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT, THE OFFER AND TAKE OVER BID CIRCULAR AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS TO BE FILED WITH THE SEC AND CANADIAN SECURITIES REGULATORY AUTHORITIES, BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Investors may obtain a free copy of the offer and take-over bid circular and other documents filed by Eldorado with the Canadian securities regulators at www.sedar.com and with the SEC at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov . The offer and take-over bid circular and other documents may also be obtained for free, from Eldorado's website or by directing a request to Eldorado's investor relations department by telephone at 1-888-353-8166, fax 604-687-4026 or e-mail info@eldoradogold.com or by contacting the Information Agent, Kingsdale Shareholder Services Inc., toll free at 1-866-581-1513.

About Eldorado

Eldorado is a gold producing, exploration and development company actively growing businesses in Brazil, Turkey, China, Greece and the surrounding regions. With our international expertise in mining, finance and project development, together with highly skilled and dedicated staff, we believe that Eldorado is well positioned to grow in value as we create and pursue new opportunities.

ON BEHALF OF ELDORADO GOLD CORPORATION

Paul N. Wright, President and Chief Executive Officer