Ottawa, Ontario - November 9, 2009 – Northern Shield Resources Inc. ("Northern Shield") (TSX-V: NRN) is pleased to announce that it has commenced a deep overburden sampling program at its 100% owned Faint Hope gold prospect located north of Cochrane, Ontario which is being explored for Homestake-style gold mineralization. The property, which consists of 6 contiguous claims, covers what is interpreted from airborne geophysics to be a heavily faulted diorite intrusion and iron-formation sitting in the middle of prominent, east-west regional-scale structural zone. The property is surrounded to the east and west by claims staked by Lakeshore Gold Inc.