Northern Superior to Initiate Up to 10,000 Meter Phase 2 Core Drill Program at Lac Surprise in Early February & Announces Additional Phase 1 Program Assays

Sudbury, Ontario (January 21, 2021) Northern Superior Resources (“Northern Superior” or the “Company”)(TSXV: SUP; OCTQB: NSUPF) is pleased to announce that it intends to advance its Lac Surprise drill program in early February, with an up to 24 hole, 10,000 meter (“m”) (C$2M) Phase 2 core drill program on its 100% owned Lac Surprise property, Québec. All logistics to support this program are in place with hole spotting and drill pad clearing anticipated to be completed by the third week of January (Figure 1). The decision to initiate the Phase 2 program, soon after completing the Phase 1 program was driven by the significant increase in our understanding of the Lac Surprise Project, its multiple high priority targets defined and the newly discovered “Falcon Gold Zone”, associated with Target Area 1 which recorded 1.55g/t gold equivalent(1) (“AuEq”) over 44.9m, including 3.82g/t AuEq over 15m from LCS19-005ext (see Northern Superior press release December 22, 2020) and 1.07 g/t AuEq over 35.5m with a high-grade interval of 8.22 g/t AuEq over 2.6m from LCS20-13 (see Northern Superior press release November 5, 2020). The Falcon Gold Zone is located 2.4 kilometers (“kms”) west of IAMGOLD / Vanstar Nelligan project which hosts an inferred gold resource of  3.2MM at 1.02 g/t Au*.

 

The Phase 2 program also plans to test its highly prospective “Target 3” which lies 5.6km on strike with the Falcon Gold Zone and 7km on strike from the Nelligan gold deposit. Follow up drilling in its Target 1b and 2 areas along with other significant regional targets on the company’s large land (15,178.5 hectares) package are also contemplated in this Phase 2 drill program. Identified initially during target delineation work, pre-Phase 1 drilling, Target 3 has similar attributes to Target 1 which yielded the Falcon Gold Zone discovered during the Phase 1 drill program, Target 3 has a compelling geophysical signature and is similar in size to the neighboring IAMGold / Vanstar JV’s Nelligan gold deposit (Figure 2). 

 

Northern Superior is also pleased to announce five of six of the final six assays reported for the Phase 1 drill program. These five holes were drilled outside the “Falcon Gold Zone” and were within Target Area 1 (2 holes), 1b (2 holes) and 2 (1 hole). All holes intersected gold mineralization, providing important information on the geology, mineralization controls and vectoring for our Phase 2 drill program. The highest-grade intersection was 3.0m of 2.9 g/t Au and 16.6 g/t Ag or 3.14 g/t AuEq from hole LCS20-19 in Target 1 (Figures 1 and 3). Significant thicknesses of mineralized intersections were recorded in hole LCS20-21, 18.0m at 0.33g/t AuEq from surface, associated with a geomagnetic unconformity with a strike length of 285m (Figure 4) and in hole LCS20-17 recording 21.0m at 0.16 g/t AuEq in Target 1, north of the Falcon Gold Zone (Figures 1 and 3).

 

Dr. T.F. Morris, President and CEO states: “We are very pleased with the results of our Phase 1 program at Lac Surprise, most notably with our major new discovery of the “Falcon Gold Zone” where we feel we are just scratching the surface of its potential. This new discovery coupled with the highly prospective Target 3 and the strong indications from our other regional targets such as the “Northern Trend” which extends from Target 1 to Target 2, shows potential for a very exciting Phase 2 program. With approximately C$3.5M in QC flow through funds available to spend in 2021 this C$2M dollar 10,000m Phase 2 program will be over twice the size of our Phase 1 program and could be expanded significantly beyond 10,000m with additional success.”

 

Phase 2 Drill Program Overview

 

This Phase 2 core drill program is designed to expand our understanding of the following: 

 

1) Define the lateral and vertical extensions of the “Falcon Gold Zone” (Figure 1)

 

 

The Falcon Gold Zone will initially receive the majority of drilling in this Phase 2 of the program, and will be the first target tested, as we strive to rapidly expand our knowledge of the dimensions of this important discovery, by testing its’ strike, width and depth.

 

Aside from the obvious focus associated with Target 1, there are other highly prospective opportunities currently being considered. These include, in order of priority:

 

2) Target Area 3 (Figure 2):

 

 

As such, Target Area 3 represents an important exploration target and a revised drill program involving several more holes than originally planned is currently being devised.

 

3) The “North Trend”, Target Area 1 to Target Area 2, Roi Gold Showing (Figure 3).

 

 

4) Target Area 1b (Figure 4)

 

 

About Northern Superior Resources Inc. 

 

The Lac Surprise gold property is one of three key mineral properties 100% owned by Northern Superior Resources. The other two properties (TPK and Croteau Est) also represent regional scale exploration opportunities (see Northern Superior Corporate Presentation, www.nsuperior.com).

 

 

Figure 1. Location of proposed drill holes (red traces and collars) for Northern Superior’s Phase 2 drill program.

 

 

Figure 2. Target Area 3, surface expression. Note the three deep blue areas representing the large areas of potential alteration zones in addition to the large intrusive complex (potential heat source) and structural environment.

 

 

Figure 3. Relationship between Target Areas 1, 1b and 2. Numbered collars Target Area 1 and 2 relate to 2020 drill holes LCS20-15, 20-19, 20-21 and 20-22.

 

 

Figure 4. LCS20-21 collared in material with gold assay 0.33g/t AuEq over 18.0m, making the contact between the magnetically high area to the southeast and magnetically low area associated with Target Area 1b a highly prospective exploration zone, representing a strike length of 285m.