Northern Shield Resources Inc. announced that the grab rock samples collected from several target areas at Root & Cellar have returned anomalous to significant gold, silver, copper and tellurium grades. 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).

  The three main target areas sampled were Braxton Bradley, Conquest and Creston Copper. A grab sample collected from sub crop at Braxton Bradley assayed 1.04 % Cu, 0.38 g/t Au, 42.6 g/t Ag and 20 g/t Te. Previous samples collected from Braxton Bradley were never assayed for tellurium.

This result confirms the widespread nature of tellurium at Root & Cellar. A sample from a trenching program conducted in February in the Conquest Zone and containing visible gold assayed 6.0 g/t Au and 10 g/t Te. Other gold anomalous grab samples up to 1.2 g/t Au were collected from two other trenches excavated 50 metres west and 100 metres east of the above noted sample.

In addition, two samples collected from blasted material from two different quarries in the Creston Copper Zone assayed 8.5% Cu, 60 g/t Ag and 60 g/t Te (and 100 ppm Se) and 0.76% Cu, 3.4 g/t Ag, and 20 g/t Te.