Northern Gold Hits 56.1 Metres of 2.14 g/t Gold Including 3.4 Metres of 16.9 g/t and 1.2 Metres of 36.6 g/t on the Garrison Property east of Timmins

<!--[if !supportLists]-->. GAR-09-01: 22.0 m grading 4.21 g/t Au including 11.2 m grading 7.03
   g/t Au
. GAR-09-02: 56.1 m grading 2.14 g/t Au including 3.4 m grading 16.9   
   g/t Au and 1.2 m grading 36.6 g/t Au
. GAR-09-02: 29.4 m grading 1.05 g/t Au

Toronto, Ontario (December 9, 2009): Northern Gold Mining Inc. ("Northern Gold" or "the Company") (TSX-V: NGM) announces preliminary drill results for the first two holes of its diamond drilling program on the Garrison gold property. The Company is in the first year of an option agreement under which it is earning its interest in the Garrison gold property from ValGold Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: VAL).  For more information on this option agreement, please see the Company's news release dated September 14, 2009.

Drilling, which commenced on October 26, 2009, has been focused on confirming gold mineralization at the Garrcon Zone, within the subcomponents of the overall Garrcon Zone, namely the North, Shaft and South zones as defined in the Company's NI 43-101 report filed on SEDAR on 21 October 2009. To date 2,046 metres have been drilled in 10 holes. The NI 43-101 technical report recommended that a study of the Garrcon Zone be completed to formulate a program and budget to test the potential for bulk tonnage, open-pit mining.  The report suggested that the Garrcon Zone has the potential to host a bulk tonnage target of up to 30 million tonnes ranging in grade from 1 to 3 grams per tonne gold. The potential quantity and grade is conceptual in nature and as a result it is uncertain if further exploration will result in the discovery of a mineral resource.

Analyses have only been received for the first two holes, but multiple occurrences of visible gold have been observed as fine dissemination in each of the first five holes logged to date and visible gold was also observed in 18 separate intervals in hole GAR-09-02, 15 of which were from the Shaft zone.  GAR-09-01 was designed to test the North zone and GAR-09-02 was drilled 125 metres south of GAR-09-01 and targeted the Shaft and North zones.  The following table highlights the various high grade intersections in both holes:

HOLE ID	FROM	TO	WIDTH	ZONE	GRADE
GAR-09-01	127.1	149.1	22.0m	North DZ+A	4.21g/t *VG
including	127.1	128.8	1.7m	North A	3.88g/t *VG
and	137.9	149.1	11.2m	North DZ	7.03g/t
including	144.5	145.3	0.9m		52.3g/t
GAR-09-02	21.3	77.4	56.1m	Shaft C1-A1	2.14g/t
including	21.3	22.3	1.0m	Shaft C1	11.0g/t *VG
and	30.4	32.4	2.0m	Shaft B2	9.44g/t *VG
and	72.8	76.2	3.4m	Shaft A2	16.9g/t *VG
including	75.0	76.2	1.2m		36.6g/t *VG
GAR-09-02	199.8	229.2	29.4m	North Deep A	1.05g/t *VG
including	217.0	218.0	1.0m		4.84g/t
and	228.8	229.2	0.4m		6.54g/t *VG

Note: All widths are downhole thickness; *VG-visible gold observed in sample interval

        Northern Gold President and CEO Martin Shefsky states, "these results have confirmed our belief that there is a great opportunity to generate a large new resource conducive to bulk tonnage mining as discussed in our NI 43-101 report." Mr. Shefsky added that "the potential for the Garrcon Zone to host a bulk tonnage resource is in addition to the existing NI 43-101 resource on the Jonpol, a resource which appears to be open at depth and which Northern Gold will focus on in the near future." 

Northern Gold expects to have completed the current diamond drill program in the second week of December with the remainder of the assays and interpretation from the drill program to be available over the next one to two months.

 Northern Gold Mining Inc. has implemented a quality assurance and control (QA/QC) program to ensure sampling and analysis of all exploration work is conducted in accordance with the best possible practices. The rock samples collected were sent to Swastika Laboratories in Swastika, Ontario, and analyzed using the appropriate gold fire assaying technique. Sample standards and blanks are inserted into the sample stream at regular intervals to ensure at least 1 standard or blank is included in each analytical run at the lab in order to ensure lab integrity. Approximately 5% of sample rejects and/or pulps will be sent to a different lab from the lab which ran the original assay for check assaying.

This Press release has been reviewed and approved by Brad Leonard P.Geo., exploration manager for Northern Gold Mining Inc., who is the "Qualified Person" as defined by NI 43-101 for this project.

           Northern Gold Mining Inc. is a Toronto based junior resource company dedicated to gold exploration in the Kirkland Lake mining camp of Northern Ontario.

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Northern Gold Mining Inc.

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