Northern Minerals Limited announced that it has returned encouraging assay results across several targets from the first phase of its latest exploration drilling program at the Browns Range Project. Northern Minerals completed 8,500 metres of reverse circulation (RC) drilling at Browns Range in late 2020, following the Company's announcement on the 2 November that it had commenced a $5 million exploration program that would include up to 16,500 metres of drilling before the end of June 2021. The first batch of assay results have been received from 45 drill holes at Dazzler Northwest (7 holes), Dazzler North/Ripcord (16 holes), Dazzler (6 holes), Gambit West (7 holes), Wolverine West (4 holes) and a new prospect named Toad (5 holes). The assay results from the remaining 71 drill holes in the 2020 program are expected to be returned over the course of the next few weeks. Encouraging drill results were received from first-pass drilling at the Toad and Dazzler North prospects, in particular. Best results from Toad were 9m @ 0.54% TREO from 53m in BRR0541 and 11m @ 0.37% from 52m, while at Dazzler North an intercept of 3m @ 0.74% TREO from 8m was returned. Northern Minerals will follow-up these initial results in the second phase of drilling being planned at Browns Range in 2021, following the end of the wet season in the Kimberley region. Eight RC holes for 580m were completed at the Toad prospect, of which the first five holes (BRR0537 ­ 0541) have returned assay results. The target, which is located approximately 250m southeast of the Banshee South prospect, was identified as an area of anomalous surface portable XRF yttrium readings and a uranium radiometric anomaly. The target is adjacent to a north-south trending quartz vein/breccia and an interpreted northwest-southeast trending regional structure. The initial drilling comprised five drill holes on two fences, drilled at an inclination of 60 degrees towards the northeast. A further three holes were drilled to follow-up on the anomalous portable XRF readings in the first five holes, for which the assay results are currently still pending. At the Dazzler North/Northwest and Ripcord prospects multiple targets were drill tested. At Dazzler Northwest a small program was completed to follow up on mineralisation intersected during 2019 in hole BRDR0093 located 350m along trend to the northwest from the main Dazzler deposit. Seven holes (BRDR0100-0106) for 700m were drilled, with drill holes 20m apart and drilled at an inclination of 60 degrees towards the northeast. Two drill holes returned significant intercepts with a best result of 3m @ 0.31% TREO from 24m in BRDR0103, which was drilled 20m behind BRDR0093. A total of 12 holes (BRDR0110­0121) for 634m were drilled in an area between the Ripcord and Dazzler North prospects targeting a conceptual regional structure. All holes were spaced between 20-40m along two fences 100m apart. No significant results were returned for any of these holes. An additional four holes (BRDR0107-0109, 0122) for 366m were drilled at the Dazzler North Prospect as a first pass program targeting portable XRF yttrium and uranium radiometric surface anomalies, as well as outcropping narrow mineralised east-west trending structures. All holes were drilled at a spacing of 25m towards the south.