Northern Gold Stepout Drilling Increases the Strike Length of Mineralization by 25% at its Garrcon Deposit

TORONTO, January 26th, 2012- NORTHERN GOLD MINING INC. (TSX-V:NGM) ("Northern Gold" or "the Company") today announced assay results for six additional diamond drill holes, totalling 2,368 meters of drilling, from its 2011 exploration program at the Garrcon Deposit which is located on the 100% owned Garrison Gold Property, 100 Km east of Timmins, ON.

Highlights reported here from the 2011 program:

from infill holes within the resource footprint:

· 1.0 meters of 84.3 g/tonne

· 1.0 meters of 64.5 g/tonne

· 150.6 meters of 1.24 g/tonne

from stepout holes east of the resource footprint:

· 54.0 meters of 1.18 g/tonne

· 13.3 meters of 4.36 g/tonne

· 0.7 meters of 35.96 g/tonne

As part of the 2011 exploration drill program on the Garrcon Deposit, assay results have been received from three more vertical drill holes (GAR-11-113, GAR-11-114 and GAR-11-115) located in the southern half of the resource footprint established in the NI 43-101 Technical Report by A.C.A. Howe International Limited ("Howe Report") and filed on SEDAR August 8, 2011. These holes were drilled along section line 10+50 W, once again identifying long, up to 421 meters, downhole lengths of gold mineralization above the Howe Report's cutoff grade of 0.3 g/tonne.

Assay results received from the three stepout holes, GAR-11-130, GAR-11-140, and GAR-11-141, east of the Howe Report's resource footprint, extend the known strike length of the Garrcon mineralized deposit another 200 meters eastwards, increasing the length of known mineralization to 1 km. The best intersection in these three holes is 54 meters of 1.16 g/tonne Au. In addition, higher grades were intersected over shorter lengths of downhole mineralization in all three stepout holes.

"Early results from the stepout drilling east of the Howe resource footprint are very exciting to us as they appear to be in similar mineralization to that seen within the NI 43-101 resource" said Martin Shefsky, President and CEO of Northern Gold Mining Inc. "The mineralization reported within the resource and that seen in the stepout drill holes continue to support the potential of the Garrcon geologic model as a large, bulk mineable, open pit deposit."

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