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.
For further information please contact:
Northern Gold Mining Inc.
Martin R. Shefsky
Jeffery P. Boykin
President and CEO
VP Investor
Relations/Regulatory Affairs
Tel: (416) 366 -
7300
Cell: (647) 269 - 7300
Fax: (416) 366 -
7301
Tel: (416) 366 - 7300