Northland Announces Adjusted Production Target for 2013

LUXEMBOURG, LUXEMBOURG--(Marketwired - Sep 12, 2013) - Northland Resources S.A. (OSLO:NAUR)(FRANKFURT:NPK)(OMX:NAURo) - together with its subsidiaries "Northland", "NRSA" or the "Company") announces that the expected production target for 2013 is 1 million tonnes - 1.1 million tonnes.

Reference is made to the Company's second quarter results, published on August 8, 2013, where Northland announced that the Company expected to produce 1.2 million dry tonnes of iron ore concentrate during 2013. The new production target for 2013 is 1 - 1.1 million dry tonnes.

The main reasons for the expected production shortfall are further delays of the third Vertimill and lower than planned head grades of the ore to the concentrator.

The third Vertimill is being completed during September and the Company expects the ramp-up phase to be completed in October 2013.

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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