Northern Shield increases land holdings at Wabassi, 7,700 line kilometers of VTEM to be flown
Ottawa (June 6, 2011) – Northern Shield Resources Inc. (“Northern Shield”) (TSX-V: NRN) and its partner Discovery Harbour Resources Corp. (“Discovery Harbour”) are pleased to provide an update on exploration activities on the Wabassi Property, south of the Ring of Fire in northwestern Ontario.
The outstanding assay results from the spring drill program on Anomaly E are nearly complete. Drill-hole 11WA-20 deflected off course but still intersected the very edge of the conductor on line 200S at Anomaly E, including 6.4% zinc over 3.4 meters and 0.5% copper and 37.7 g/t silver over 4 meters. Drill-hole 11WA-19 appears to have undercut and drilled parallel the conductor. The first two drill-holes completed on Anomaly E by Northern Shield (see press release April 14th 2011) intersected 1.1% Cu, 2.3% Zn, 54 g/t Ag and 0.14 g/t Au over 20.05 meters in drill-hole 11WA-16 and 1.4% Cu, 2.1% Zn, 34 g/t Ag and 0.1 g/t Au over 30.24 meters in drill-hole11WA-17, which included a higher grade section of 2.7% Cu, 4.9% Zn, 68 g/t Ag and 0.2 g/t Au over 12.7 meters. Grades of up to 9.1% copper, 25.5% zinc and 217 g/t silver were also intersected in this drill-hole. Modeling of the ground EM survey completed earlier this year shows Anomaly E to have a strike length of 600 meters and to plunge to depths of over 800 meters. Considerably more drilling is planned for Anomaly E.