Northern Shield to Drill Highbank Lake
Ottawa (June 2, 2011) – Northern Shield Resources Inc. (“Northern Shield”) (TSX-V: NRN) is pleased to announce a 1600-metre drill program at Highbank is scheduled to commence in July of this year. In 2007, drill-holes 01 and 05 intersected rock-types that are equivalent to those seen at the very top of the Critical Zone in the Bushveld Complex in South Africa. The “Critical Zone” marks the transition from mafic to ultramafic rocks. In the Bushveld, the two main PGE-bearing reefs are located just below this transition. Northern Shield will test the southwestern and western portion of the layered intrusion with four or five holes along strike from the two holes drilled in 2007, where interpretations suggest that the “Critical Zone” comes closer to surface. Previous work by Northern Shield has identified grains of sperrylite (platinum sulphide) and pentlandite (nickel sulphide) along with chromite grains and boulders in stream sediment samples immediately down-ice from this target area. The drill program will also test the continuation of the vanadium-titanium- iron-ore reef that was discovered in the initial drill program at Highbank in 2006. On completion of the drill program at Highbank it is planned to move the drill to Wabassi to join the one already there. Updates of exploration activity at Wabassi, including outstanding assays from the spring drill program, should be available very shortly.