Changes in Northland Resources Corporate Management

Luxembourg, 10 June 2013 – Northland Resources S.A. (OSE: NAUR, Frankfurt: NPK, First North/Nasdaq: NAURo, together with its subsidiaries, “Northland” or “the Company”) announces the resignation of CEO Karl-Axel Waplan. The board of directors has appointed Peter Pernlöf as Acting CEO.

Following discussions with Northland’s current board and representatives of the proposed board, presented in a press release issued on May 31st, CEO Karl-Axel Waplan tendered his resignation today. Peter Pernlöf will serve as Acting CEO pending the board’s appointment of a new MD. Mr Pernlöf, who has been with the company since 2010, is currently Northland’s COO.

– The loyalty and confidence in the future that has been demonstrated by everyone at Northland during the past few months has been absolutely fantastic. Tremendous efforts have been made, and we would never have succeeded without them. During the intensive, complex rescue work, full focus has naturally been on securing long-term financing and ensuring the company’s survival. Now, when our future is assured, I can express my deep regret that Northland ended up in such a pressed situation and, in hindsight, there are certainly things we could have done differently. But I am very confident that the company’s future is now assured and that we have found investors who can develop Northland in the ideal way, said Karl-Axel Waplan, outgoing President and CEO of Northland Resources.

– Northland Resources has been in an extremely tough situation for a long time. In making its assessment, the board of directors agrees with Mr Waplan that the company needs a calm environment to focus on the next phase – the completion of the Kaunisvaara project – with a new CEO. We would like to emphasize that we value Karl-Axel’s great importance to the company. He took the Kaunisvaara mine from exploration to production in record time and in accordance with established schedules, an effort that in itself deserves notice, said Matti Kinnunen, chairman of the board of Northland Resources.

“Matti Kinnunen”
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Northland Resources S.A.

For additional information, please contact:

Matti Kinnunen, Chairman, Northland Resources SA, tel: +46 70 876 85 92
Olav Fjell, Chairman, Northland Sweden AB and Northland Resources AB, tel: +47 975 79 305

Web site: www.northland.eu

Northland is a producer of iron ore concentrate, with a portfolio of production, development and exploration mines and projects in northern Sweden and Finland. The first construction phase of the Kaunisvaara project is complete and production ramp-up started in November 2012. The Company produces high-grade, high-quality magnetite iron concentrate in Kaunisvaara, Sweden, where the Company will exploit two magnetite iron ore deposits, Tapuli and Sahavaara. Northland has entered into off-take contracts with three partners for the entire production from the Kaunisvaara project over the next seven to ten years. The Company is also preparing a Definitive Feasibility Study (“DFS”) for its Hannukainen Iron Oxide Copper Gold (“IOCG”) project in Kolari, northern Finland and for the Pellivuoma deposit, which is located 15 km from the Kaunisvaara processing plant.

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