Northstar Gold Corp. announced results from the company's Phase IIB surface exploration program on its 100%-owned Miller Gold Property, situated 18 km southwest of Kirkland Lake, Ontario. A total of 529 channel and 46 grab samples were collected from 8 stripped areas (A, B, C1, C2, D1, D2, D3, E) on the Miller and Searles Properties between July and October 2021.

The best overall results were obtained in Areas C1 and C2, which extend the Allied Syenite Gold Zone 130 metres to the east and southeast. The Allied Syenite Gold Zone has now been defined by drilling and surface sampling to encompass an area measuring 350 metres X 200 metres and remains open along strike to the northwest and southeast. Previous drilling in the Allied Syenite intersected 6.6 g/t Au over 117.0 metres, 1.4 g/t Au over 118.5 metres, and 1.2 g/t Au over 107.3 metres.

Phase IIB Diamond Drill Hole Results Pending: Between October 1 and November 27, 2021, Northstar diamond drilled a total of 2,495 metres in 14 holes, with 6 holes testing Allied Syenite Gold Zone extensions, 2 holes testing the recently discovered E Zone and 6 holes designed to upgrade a historic resource estimate on the recently acquired Searles Property. Drilling intersected visible gold, tellurides and chalcopyrite over appreciable widths in drill holes MG21-63, MG21-64 and MG21-65 along a possible 180 metre northwestern extension of the near-surface Allied Syenite Bulk Tonnage Gold Zone. Check assay work is well under way and results will be reported in the very near term.

Allied Syenite Gold Zone Expansion Surface channel cutting intersected visible gold tellurides and heavy disseminated pyrite mineralization within shallow dipping 2cm to 10cm thick quartz veins and gossan over appreciable widths in stripped Areas C1 and C2 east and southeast of the Allied Syenite. The nature of the mineralization observed on surface is almost identical to what was observed in drilling within adjacent drill holes MG14-07 (1.04 g/t Au over 97 metres), MG14-12 (1.00 g/t Au over 102 metres) and MG20-49 (1.43 g/t Au over 118.5 metres) and likely represents a parallel surficial vein system to Veins 1 to 4 within the Allied Syenite Gold Zone, extending a minimum of 130 metres to the southeast of the main body of the Allied Syenite along a zone of feldspar porphyry diking. Anomalous gold values were obtained in channel and grab sampling in the mafic volcanics as much 30 metres away from the porphyry contact suggesting the potential for a broad zone of near surface gold mineralization surrounding the porphyry intrusives.

The Phase IIB surface sampling program demonstrates that while the Allied Syenite Gold Zone is primarily associated with the Allied Syenite, it is not limited to the Allied Syenite and can extend into surrounding lithologies. The Allied Syenite Gold Zone remains open along strike and at depth. Confirmation of the Vein 1 Zone on the Searles Property: The Phase IIB surface exploration program successfully exposed the Vein 1 Zone in 3 stripped Areas (D1, D2 and D3) 160 metres east of the Searles Property boundary, where it remains open along strike to the east.

Visible gold and gold tellurides were observed in all stripped areas with the best gold values in channel sampling being obtained in D1 and D3. Surface grab samples containing visible gold and gold tellurides assaying 57.3 g/t Au and 103 g/t Au from areas D1 and D2 respectively were also collected from the Vein 1 zone during the surface exploration program. The new trenching samples represent a 170 metre step out to the south from the historic intersections on the Searles Property (1987) that span a 330 metre strike length and include 96 g/t Au over 3 metres and 13.4 g/t Au over 2.3 metres at the west end, and 11.2 g/t Au over 2.4 metres at the east end.

These results compliment subsequent 2014 and 2020 Northstar No. 1 Vein drill results on the adjoining Miller Gold Property that include 86.60 g/t Au over 0.5 metres, 18.06 g/t Au over 3.9 metres and 15.45 g/t Au over 2.0 metres to the west. New Discovery of Vertical Porphyry Zone: Stripping in Area B south of the Allied Syenite uncovered a persistent shear hosted zone of quartz veining and heavy disseminated sulphide mineralization along a vertical feldspar porphyry dike contact.

Assay intervals of 3.56 g/t Au over 1.4 metres and 5.87 g/t Au over 1 metre were obtained in channel sampling. These anomalous gold assays indicate that the sheared dike contact is gold bearing and is open along strike, possibly for hundreds of meters as the 30 metre wide porphyry dike spans the length of the Miller Property. The intercept of semi-massive sulphides including chalcopyrite over 3.6 metre between 259.2 metres and 263 metres proximal to the same porphyry dike 330 metres to the northwest in DDH MG21-65 could represent the on-strike extension of the zone observed on surface in Area B.