Ottawa, Ontario (January 14, 2026) - Northern Shield Resources Inc. (“Northern Shield” or the “Company”) [TSX-V: NRN] is pleased to announce that a large area of mineralization has been exposed at the Creston Copper target, on the Company’s 100% owned Root & Cellar Property (“Root & Cellar” or the “Property”), Burin Peninsula, southeastern Newfoundland. The Property hosts 5 epithermal gold-silver-(tellurium) zones over a 6-kilometre strike-length, and a large, associated polymetallic porphyry copper-molybdenite-silver-tellurium-gold system.