Ottawa, Ontario (October 10, 2013) - Northern Shield Resources Inc. ("Northern Shield") [TSXV: NRN] is pleased to announce the results of the first drill program completed this fall on the Idefix PGE property in northern Quebec as well as surface sampling. Fourteen drill-holes totaling 1,501 meters were completed along with surface sampling (129 sawn channel samples and 90 grab samples). A total of 951 samples of drill-core from the program were submitted for analysis.