Ottawa, Ontario (July 18, 2025) - Northern Shield Resources Inc. ("Northern Shield" or the "Company") [TSX-V: NRN] is pleased to announce that the Company has completed a 15 hole, 3,000 m, diamond drill program at the Conquest Zone of the Root & Cellar Property (“Root & Cellar” or the “Property”), on the Burin Peninsula in southeastern Newfoundland. The Property, being explored for epithermal gold mineralization and associated porphyry copper systems, includes 5 gold mineralized zones over a 6 km strike-length. Tellurium (Te), a critical metal, is associated with four of the showings and also with the copper mineralization.