Upcoming Management Change at Northland

Luxembourg, 18 July 2013 – Northland Resources S.A. (OSE: NAUR, Frankfurt: NPK, Nasdaq OMX/First North: NAURo – together with its subsidiaries “Northland” or “the Company”) announces that CFO Eva Kaijser is leaving the Company at year-end 2013.

As a consequence of the closure of its Stockholm office, Northland will recruit a new CFO located in Luleå. Eva Kaijser will continue as CFO until the end of 2013/beginning of 2014.

"We regret that Eva has chosen to leave, but we are grateful for both the contributions she has made to the Company and for those she will continue to make during the time she remains working with us. It is beneficial to Northland that we without urgency are able to recruit a replacement," says Acting CEO Peter Pernlöf.

For additional information:

Jonas Lundström, Senior Vice President: +46 705 493 338

Web site at: 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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