Northland to Host an Audio Cast to Comment on Latest Development

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Luxembourg, May 29, 2013 – Northland Resources S.A. (OSE: NAUR, Frankfurt: NPK, Nasdaq OMX/First North: NAURo – together with its subsidiaries “Northland”, or the “Company”) announced earlier today that the previously cancelled bond offering (the “Offering”) is expected to be completed, following a significant new commitment of USD 108 million from a new consortium. Northland will comment on the latest development in an audio cast at 08.30 AM CET on May 30.

Call-in details:

UK:                                        +44 203 364 5374
Sweden:                            +46 8 505 564 74
Norway:                               +47 235 00 210

The audio cast is also accessible through the Company’s web site: http://northland.eu/en-us/investor-relations

Please call in 5 to 10 minutes before the conference starts and stay on the line (an operator will be available to assist you).

Karl-Axel Waplan
President & CEO, Northland Resources S.A.

For more information, please contact:

Karl-Axel Waplan, President and CEO: +46 705 104 239
Eva Kaijser, CFO, +46 709 320 901
Petter Brunnberg, Investor Relations: +46 727 244 109

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 expects to produce high-grade, high-quality magnetite iron concentrate in Kaunisvaara, Sweden, where the Company expects to 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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results of operations, financial condition, liquidity, prospects, growth, strategies and the industry in which it operates,

projected capital and operating expenditures, production and price forecasts, assumed exchange rates and the

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forward-looking information involve risks and uncertainties because they relate to events and depend on circumstances

that may or may not occur in the future. Such factors include, among others, those factors discussed in the section

entitled “Risk Factors” in the Company’s annual information form dated March 28, 2013, and the Company’s management

discussion and analysis of results of operations and financial condition (“MD&A”) for the year ended December 31, 2012

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and liquidity, and the development of the industry in which it operates may differ materially from those made in or

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even if Northland’s results of operations, financial condition and liquidity, and the development of the industry in which

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The Offering will only be available in the United Kingdom to persons who are both (a) qualified investors within the

meaning of Article 2(1)(e) of the Prospectus Directive (Directive 2003/71/EC) and (b) persons who have professional

experience in matters relating to investments falling within Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000

(Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (the Order). The Offering is only available to relevant persons or will be engaged in only

with relevant persons.

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States.

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