Northern Shield Resources Inc. announced that grab rock sample assays from 2.0 g/t to 26.0 g/t Au have been received from its trenching program in the Conquest Zone at Root & Cellar ("Root & Cellar" or the "Project"). Root & Cellar is located on the Burin Peninsula in southeastern Newfoundland. Northern Shield can earn up to a 100% interest in the Project, which is being explored for epithermal gold-silver and porphyry-copper type mineralization, both associated with tellurium (Te).

Fourteen of 28 grab and composite rock samples collected from a trenching and sampling program at the Conquest Zone in August, assayed between 2.0 and 26. 0 g/t Au, including a grab rock sample from 30 metres to the west of the trench, which assayed 7.3 g/t Au. This sample lies on the western side of a 73 metre wide, north-trending, structural corridor in which the above-mentioned trench is also located and is underlain by a distinct north-trending IP chargeability anomaly.

The textures and mineralogy suggest that the outcropping mineralization may represent the top of the boiling zone of a low-sulphidation, epithermal, gold-tellurium-silver system. Grab rock sampling of the Creston Copper Zone returned three samples returning concentrations between 0.9 and 1.75% Cu with another containing 0.5% Mo (molybdenum) and 185 ppm Te, suggesting the presence of a porphyry-type system. Results from the grab rock sampling at the Conquest and Creston zones are shown in Table 1. A 500 metre diamond drilling program has commenced which is largely focussed on testing IP geophysical anomalies in the Conquest Zone and the gold-bearing trench at depth, targeting the presumed boiling zone where higher gold grades are expected.