Alberta Star Development Corp. (the “Company”) (CDNX:ASX.V - News)(OTC BB:ASXSF.OB - News) is pleased to announce the results of its preliminary metal recovery tests from samples of uranium, silver, copper, nickel and cobalt tailings from the former Eldorado Uranium & Echo Bay mining operations. The Company has received a report (the “SGS Report”) from SGS Lakefield Research Ltd. (”SGS”), which conducted the mineral processing and metallurgical testing of tailings collected by the Company during the summer of 2006 from the Eldorado & Echo Bay silver and uranium mines. The purpose of the SGS Report was to determine the nature and mode of occurrence of uranium-bearing minerals and base metal bearing sulphides. The SGS report includes an investigation of the mineralogical properties, physical characterization, tailings composite, and an assessment of the leachability of the tailings to determine the potential recovery of uranium, silver, cobalt, nickel and copper. The Eldorado tailings samples have yielded up to a 93% uranium recovery in gravity separation and up to a 98% uranium recovery using carbonate POX after grinding to 100 microns. The testing also yielded up to a 91% Copper recovery and up to a 87% silver recovery from flotation using collectors only. Flotation using collectors only recovered up to 60% of uranium, cobalt, nickel, zinc and gold. The Company intends to commission additional metallurgical studies to determine the recoverability of metals from these tailings as the Company’s Eldorado & Contact Lake programs advance.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE PRELIMINARY SGS LAKEFIELD TEST WORK INCLUDE:

- Up to 93% of uranium recovered in gravity separation using heavy liquids.

- Up to 98% of uranium recovered using Carbonate POX after grinding to -100 microns.

- Up to 91% of copper recovered from flotation using collectors only.

- Up to 87% of silver recovered from flotation using collectors only.

- Up to 60% of uranium, cobalt, nickel, zinc and gold recovered from flotation using collectors only.

The average grade of tailings previously reported by the Company and taken from 83 sample sites is 154 g/t silver (Ag), 0.079% U3O8, 0.27% copper (Cu), 0.073% cobalt (Co) and 0.050% nickel (Ni).

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