Northern Shield Resources Inc. announced that the diamond drilling program at the Root & Cellar Gold Project, located on the Burin Peninsula in southeastern Newfoundland, has been completed, with visible gold noted in three of the eight drill holes. The Company can earn a 100% interest in the Project, which is being explored for epithermal gold-silver and porphyry-copper type mineralization, both with associated tellurium (Te).Eight drill holes (23RC-15 to 22), totalling 615 metres, were completed with 200 drill core samples taken for analysis. The drilling program tested shallow IP geophysical anomalies in the vicinity of surface mineralization in the Conquest Zone.

Seven of the eight drill holes intersected quartz/silica-pyrite +/- clay breccias and associated argillic to propylitic alteration consistent with a low-sulphidation, epithermal, gold system. Five occurrences of visible gold were noted in drill holes 23RC-16, 18 and 21. Mineralized zones show multiple phases and styles of brecciation and replacement textures with common, abundant pyrite (and/or marcasite) in silica and locally clay rich matrixes.

What are interpreted to be hydrothermal mill breccias, (including the "Oatmeal Breccia") are a common phase in the Conquest Zone, and host two of the visible gold occurrences in drill core. Much of the mineralization intersected is hosted in andesitic lapilli tuffs and adjacent rhyolite spires, and associated carapace breccias. It appears that the porosity of the tuffs and voids in breccia units acted as a sponge for the initial hydrothermal fluids prior to repeated brecciation events, each event bringing in more clay minerals, silica and pyrite.

The mineralization in drill core, along with the corresponding IP chargeability anomalies, fall on the edge of, or within, a zone of low resistivity. Clay minerals, ubiquitous in epithermal systems as alteration products, along with the observed stringer pyrite, could create these resistivity lows which, with the IP chargeability anomalies that coincide with its margin, provide an extensive target area.