Northern Star Mining Corp. Joins OTCQX

NEW YORK, Oct. 27  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pink OTC Markets Inc. (Pink Sheets: PINK), the leading electronic inter-dealer quotation system, trading technology and financial information provider for over-the-counter (OTC) securities, today announced that Northern Star Mining Corp. (OTCQX: NSMSF, TSX.V: NSM), a Canadian mineral exploration company, is now trading on OTCQX®.

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Northern Star Mining Corp. began trading today on the OTC market's elite tier, OTCQX International. Investors can find current financial disclosure and real-time Level 2 quotes for the company on http://www.otcqx.com/ and http://www.pinksheets.com/.

"OTCQX provides Northern Star Mining with a visible market tier to increase U.S. investor awareness, and distinguish themselves from the thousands of other companies traded over-the-counter," said R. Cromwell Coulson, President and CEO of Pink OTC Markets. "We are pleased to welcome Northern Star Mining to OTCQX."

Berns & Berns, Counsellors at Law, will serve as Northern Star Mining's Principal American Liaison ("PAL") on OTCQX, responsible for providing guidance on listing requirements.

About Northern Star Mining Corp.

(OTCQX: NSMSF, TSX.V: NSM) Northern Star Mining Corp. will trade in the United States on OTCQX under the symbol "NSMSF". Northern Star Mining's shares are also listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, under the symbol NSM. Northern Star Mining is an aggressive exploration company based in Val-d'Or, Quebec, Canada. Northern Star Mining's seasoned management team, together with its key consultants, has been involved with several successful mineral discoveries throughout the world. For more about Northern Star Mining, visit: http://www.nsmgold.com/.

About OTCQX

The OTCQX marketplace is the premier tier of the U.S. over-the-counter market.  Investor-focused companies use the quality controlled OTCQX listing platform to offer investors transparent trading, superior information, and easy access through their regulated U.S. broker-dealers. The innovative OTCQX platform offers companies and their shareholders a level of marketplace services formerly available only on a U.S. exchange.  For more about OTCQX, visit http://www.otcqx.com/.

About Pink OTC Markets Inc.

Pink OTC Markets is a financial information and technology services company that operates the leading electronic quotation and trading system in the over-the-counter, or OTC, securities market. The OTCQX and Pink Sheets® marketplaces that we operate constitute, by dollar volume, the third largest U.S. liquidity pool for trading public company shares, after The NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc. and The New York Stock Exchange. Our technology platform provides a comprehensive suite of information products and trading services for OTC market participants. Our products and services promote market transparency, facilitate regulatory compliance, and increase the quality of issuer disclosure, to the benefit of all OTC market participants. To learn more about how Pink OTC Markets' products and services make OTC markets more transparent, informed, and efficient, please visit our websites at http://www.pinkotc.com/, http://www.pinksheets.com/ and http://www.otcqx.com/ or contact us at .

Pink OTC Markets is headquartered in New York City.

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