Vancouver, August 29, 2007: Northland Resources Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Tuomo Mäkelä to the Company's Board of Directors.  He has over 20 years' experience directing exploration and development operations on base and precious metal properties located in Latin America, Canada, Spain and Finland.

 

Mr. Mäkelä is President of Outokumpu Mining Oy, a Finland-based unit of the Outokumpu Group, an international stainless steel organization with annual sales of six billion euros.  He also acts as advisor to a Finnish investment company involved in venture capital funding and private equity finance. 

 

Buck Morrow, the President of Northland, said: "We are very pleased to add Tuomo to the Board of Northland.  His operational and senior management experience relating to the planning, construction, and commissioning of both mining and processing facilities will be important to the development of our iron projects both in Finland and Sweden.  In addition his expertise in natural resource finance in the areas of equity and project finance will also be valued."

 

 Background

 

Northland Resources Inc. is a well-structured, debt free junior exploration company with a portfolio of high quality iron, gold, and base metal exploration projects in Sweden and Finland.

 

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

 

"Buck Morrow"

NORTHLAND RESOURCES INC.

 

The TSX Venture Exchange has not reviewed and does not take responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

 

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