Crosshair Exploration & Mining Corp. Announces Name Change to Crosshair Energy Corp.

VANCOUVER -- (Marketwire) -- 11/01/11 -- Crosshair Exploration & Mining Corp. (TSX: CXX) (NYSE Amex: CXZ) ('Crosshair') is pleased to announce that its name has changed to Crosshair Energy Corporation. Crosshair has renamed itself to reflect its focus on the exploration and development of its uranium projects in North America.

Crosshair's trading symbols: CXX on the Toronto Stock Exchange and CXZ on the NYSE Amex will remain unchanged. It is anticipated that the Company's common shares will commence trading on the NYSE Amex under the new name on November 1, 2011, and on the Toronto Stock Exchange on November 2, 2011. Crosshair's new website address is www.crosshairenergy.com.


About Crosshair

Crosshair is a prominent player in the exploration and development of uranium, vanadium and gold in the US and Canada. Its flagship projects, Bootheel and Juniper Ridge, are both located in uranium mining friendly Wyoming. Bootheel, with its in-situ mining potential, is designed for near term production. The CMB Uranium/Vanadium Project is located in Labrador, Canada and has four currently defined resources. The Crosshair team is comprised of knowledgeable and experienced professionals with both exploration and mining backgrounds.

For more information on Crosshair and its properties, please visit the website at www.crosshairenergy.com.


ON BEHALF OF THE CROSSHAIR BOARD

Mark J. Morabito
Executive Chairman



Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information

Information set forth in this news release may involve forward-looking statements under applicable securities laws. Forward-looking statements are statements that relate to future, not past, events. In this context, forward-looking statements often address expected future business and financial performance, and often contain words such as 'anticipate', 'believe', 'plan', 'estimate', 'expect', and 'intend', statements that an action or event 'may', 'might', 'could', 'should', or 'will' be taken or occur, or other similar expressions. Forward-looking statements or information relate to, among other things: the exploration potential of the Company's properties and the production potential of Bootheel. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements, or other future events, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among others, the following risks: the risks associated with outstanding litigation, if any; risks associated with project development; the need for additional financing; operational risks associated with mining and mineral processing; fluctuations in uranium, gold and other commodity prices; title matters; environmental liability claims and insurance; reliance on key personnel; the potential for conflicts of interest among certain officers, directors or promoters with certain other projects; the absence of dividends; competition; dilution; the volatility of our common share price and volume; tax consequences to U.S. shareholders and other risks and uncertainties, including those described in the Risk Factors section in the Company's Annual Report on Form 20-F for the financial year ended March 31, 2011 filed with the Canadian Securities Administrators and available at www.sedar.com. Forward-looking statements are made based on management's beliefs, estimates and opinions on the date that statements are made and the Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements if these beliefs, estimates and opinions or other circumstances should change, except as required by law. Investors are cautioned against attributing undue certainty to forward-looking statements.



Contacts:

Crosshair Exploration & Mining Corp.
Bevo Beaven
Investor Relations
720-932-8300

Crosshair Exploration & Mining Corp.
Vancouver Office
604-681-8030
604-681-8039 (FAX)

Crosshair Exploration & Mining Corp.
Denver Office
720-932-8300
720-932-8100 (FAX)
info@cxxcorp.com
www.crosshairenergy.com