Ottawa, Ontario (September 20) – Northern Shield Resources Inc. ("Northern Shield" or the "Company") [TSX-V: NRN] is pleased to announce that, through wholly owned subsidiary Seabourne Resources, it has signed an Option Agreement with prospectors Jeffery Brushett and Lloyd Pike (“Prospectors”) that gives the Company the right to acquire a 100% interest in the Zuleika Gold Project (the “Property” or the “Project”) located near the town of Clarenville in east-central Newfoundland. The Property is primarily being explored for sediment-hosted orogenic gold and epithermal-type gold mineralization.