May 7, 2008:  Northland Resources is pleased to announce drill results from a 38-hole diamond drill program completed at its Kuervitikko Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold (IOCG) project, Finland. Kuervitikko is 4km north of Northland's Hannukainen IOCG project.

 

Management sees potential of adding significant resources from Kuervitikko that would eventually be included in the Hannukainen mine plan.  A full table of results is given at the end of this release. Highlights of the results include:

• 48.5% Fe + 0.41g/t Au + 0.18% Cu over 19.4m from 30m down hole in KUE07020
• 40.6% Fe + 0.33g/t Au + 0.25% Cu over 17m from 47m down hole in KUE07019
• 35.5% Fe + 0.41g/t Au + 0.32% Cu over 17.9m from 59m down hole in KUE07021
• 29.2% Fe + 0.43g/t Au + 0.32% Cu over 22.6m from 43m down hole in KUE07028

 

A drill collar map will be posted on the website shortly at www.northlandresourcesinc.com

 

Kuervitikko consists of at least two, and possibly three, adjacent mineralized lenses hosted along a thrust structure trending from the southwest to the northeast.  The current program covered an area of roughly 900m by 300m, and only tested part of 3 major aeromagnetic anomalies which outline the probable extent of mineralization.  All but one of Northland's holes intersected the IOCG mineralization, underscoring management's belief that a substantial resource of IOCG mineralization may be identified as drilling progresses.

 

The drilling program is outlining a potentially large zone of IOCG mineralization, approximately 25m thick on average, but ranging up to nearly 100m locally.  Mineralization is horizontal or dips moderately to the west-southwest.  The depth of mineralization ranges from 15-20m in the east where it sub-crops beneath the till, to 80-100m down dip in the west.  A strike length of approximately 1,000m has been identified by drilling.  An interpretation of an aerial magnetic survey indicates the potential of a strike length of approximately 2,300m.

 

The general geological setting of Kuervitikko is similar to the Hannukainen deposit.  Mineralization style varies between and within the mineralized lenses from Hannukainen-style semi-massive skarn-hosted magnetite bodies to disseminated IOCG mineralization hosted within breccias.

 

Northland's field crew also re-logged and, where possible, re-sampled archived core from some of the 40 or so drill holes which were drilled by either Rautaruukki or the Finnish Geological Survey (GTK) at Kuervitikko.  Many of the holes have already been re-sampled and insufficient material was left for Northland to carry out a full re-assay program. In many instances, the only core left for re-assay was from the footwall or hanging wall of the mineralized lenses.

 

The Kuervitikko is a high priority drill target for Northland.  Future work will focus on additional geophysics, core drilling and the development of a NI 43-101 complaint resource estimate.

 

The core was cut at Northland's core facility in Kolari, Finland.  A one-half split of the core from Kuervitikko was prepared at ALS Chemex Lab in Pieteå, Sweden and then transported to ALS Chemex Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for analysis. 

 

Copper and Iron were analyzed by Sodium Peroxide Fusion multi-element analysis, with ICP-AES Method ME-ICP81.  Gold was analyzed by Lead Fire Assay Pre-concentration with ICP-AES Method Au-ICP21 Finish.

 

In addition to the ALS Chemex internal sample preparation and assay QC protocol, Northland maintains a rigorous QA/QC program consisting of inserting blanks, duplicates and certified standards to the analytical process.

 

The technical information in this release was prepared under the supervision of Mr. Thomas Lindholm, Senior Mining Engineer - employed by Geovista AB and a consultant to Northland Resources Inc.  He is a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (Member #230476) and a "Qualified Person" in accordance with National Instrument 43-101.

 

 

Northland 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

NORTHLAND RESOURCES INC.

 

 

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Table 1: Northland's drill results from Kuervitikko