Northern Shield Resources Inc. announced that it has received all exploration permits for which applications were made regarding the next phases of exploration at Root & Cellar. Root & Cellar is located on the Burin Peninsula in southeastern Newfoundland. Northern Shield can earn up to a 100% interest in the Project, which is being explored for epithermal gold-silver and porphyry-copper type mineralization.  The permits cover trenching, ground and airborne geophysics and diamond drilling.

Notwithstanding any short-term inclement weather, trenching will commence on some of the targets by mid-February, shortly followed by an Induced Polarization geophysical survey. This IP survey will be run in an east-west direction with the objective of better defining the feeder structures which trend north-south and appear to carry the high-grade gold. This will likely be followed by additional trenching and a diamond drilling program.