“The discovery of high-grade gold at Hayes attests to the outstanding potential of the Three Bluffs area to become a significant gold resource,” said North Country Gold President and CEO John Williamson. “North Country Gold has now demonstrated that the target stratigraphy of the Walker Lake Trend is mineralized over at least five kilometers of strike and remains open to the west.”

Four holes were drilled at the Hayes target on the Walker Lake Trend during the summer 2010 program. The Hayes target, located about 3.5 kilometers from the western extent of the Three Bluffs Resource area, was tested by a pair of two-hole fences spaced 120 meters along strike. Holes 10HA003 and 10HA004 intersected mineralized iron formation and returned 6.30 grams per metric ton gold over 2.00 meters and 28.08 g/t gold over 3.70 meters respectively (16.48 g/t gold over 3.7 meters with individual assays capped at 100 g/t). The target horizon intersected by the initial two holes 10HA001 and 10HA002 was largely stoped out by localized late pegmatite dykes, which appear to be crossing the trend at a shallow angle. Ground and airborne magnetics have demonstrated that the prospective stratigraphy (Walker Lake trend) continues at least 12 kilometers west of the Hayes high-grade gold intersection. Previous surface sampling has identified anomalous gold results up to 5 kilometers west of the Hayes occurrence, which indicates a potential to identify additional gold zones further to the west along the 15-kilometer or so long Walker Lake trend. The Three Bluffs Gold Project currently hosts an indicated resource of 508,000 ounces (2.7 million metric tons at 5.85 g/t gold) and an additional inferred resource of 244,000 ounces (1.27Mt at 5.98 g/t gold) at the Three Bluffs Deposit, which remains open to the west and to depth. The deposit occurs at the eastern end of a package of auriferous iron-formation-bearing supracrustral rocks (Walker Lake trend) that has been traced at least 5 kilometers west, which the 2010 drilling indicates may be continuously mineralized. North Country Gold Corp. believes that significant potential exists along the Walker Lake trend and has developed a strategy to indentify additional near-surface open-pittable gold resources along the strike length of the trend, which will incrementally add to the existing high-grade resource inventory underpinned by Three Bluffs Deposit.