North Country Further Extends High Grade Zones at Three Bluffs and Antler

North Country Gold Corp. (TSX VENTURE:NGC) (NCG or the "Company") today
announces the fourth tranche of results from the 2011 drill program at the Three
Bluffs Gold Project in the Committee Bay Greenstone Belt located northeast of
Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada. The latest results from six holes at Three Bluffs
and four holes at Antler continue to delineate and extend high grade gold zones
within the Walker Lake gold trend.


"These latest results from the Three Bluffs and Antler zones continue to
demonstrate the continuous nature of the high grade gold zones along the Walker
Lake Trend," said John Williamson, President and CEO of North Country Gold Corp.
"We are particularly encouraged by the results from the Three Bluffs -Three
Bluffs West area where our 2011 drilling has identified a new 600 metre long
high grade trend at the western end of the system starting at 100 m below
surface and remaining open to depth. NCG has also determined that the Three
Bluffs and Three Bluffs West zones are one continuous zone of mineralization
which extends for at least 1500 metres along strike," added Mr. Williamson. 


Three Bluffs Drilling

Highlights from the six diamond drill holes completed at Three Bluffs include
9.59 g Au/t over 18.00 metres (30.73 g/t Au over 5.00 metres) (11TB122), and
6.65 g/t Au over 4.00 m (11TB124). These drillholes are located within the new
high grade trend located at the western end of the Three Bluffs zone (including
Three Bluffs West zone) which has now been delineated for at least 600 metres
along strike and for approximately 100 metres down-dip and remains open to
depth. These new results are complementary to previous results from 11TW015 of
43.02 g/t Au over 4.00 metres, 11TB104 of 7.34 g/t Au over 25.00 metres, 11TW016
of 15.00 g/t Au over 11.25 metres and 11TB107B of 15.00 g/t Au over 12.00 metres
(see press release's dated July 16 and August 2011). Results for additional
diamond drill holes completed within the high grade trend are pending, however
geologic similarities to the completed drillholes, including the presence of
intense sericite alteration and common visible gold suggest results will be
favorable.


Antler Drilling

Highlights from the four holes completed at Antler include 4.99 g/t Au over
13.00 metres (11AN041) and 3.06 g/t Au over 13.00 metres (11AN025B).
Mineralization at Antler has been delineated over a strike length of 1000 metres
and the zone has been tested to a nominal down-dip depth of 100 to 150 metres.
High grade mineralization at Antler appears to be controlled by a series of
steep east plunging grade shoots which vary in width from 50 to 100 metres. The
high grade shoots delineated to date all remain open to depth. 


Titan 24 Drilling

During 2010 North Country completed a Quantec Titan 24 survey over the Three
Bluffs project area (see press release dated October 28th, 2010). Results of
this survey indicated that gold mineralization at Three Bluffs and Antler
correlate directly with areas of low resistivity, and that additional untested
resistivity anomalies occur at depth (250 m below surface) between Three Bluffs
and Antler. During the 2011 program, a single drillhole, 11AN042, was targeted
at a resistivity low anomaly at the east end of Antler at a vertical depth of
300 metres. Previous shallow drilling in this area above the geophysical anomaly
returned only modest results, over narrow widths. The results of 4.35 g/t over
10.00 metres validates the geophysical model and significantly increases the
potential to develop resources to depth in the Three Bluffs-Antler gap area
where deep, low resistivity anomalies covering at least 1000 metres of strike
remain to be tested. 


High grade shoots remain open beneath Antler and Three Bluffs where the three
deepest drillholes on the project to date, returned high grade intercepts of
36.25 g/t Au over 4.81 metres and 9.03 g/t Au over 3.74 metres (05TB 038), 9.59
g/t Au over 18.00 metres (11TB122) and 4.35 g/t Au over 10.00 metres (11AN042)
from three separate areas over at least 3,300 metres of strike along the Walker
Lake Trend. Based on drilling results to date and untested but validated
geophysical anomalies, North Country Gold believes that the Three Bluffs Project
has excellent potential to develop significant high grade underground resources
to depth. 




Table 1 Results Three Bluffs                                                
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Hole ID   Type                     From (m)     To (m) Length (m)   Au (g/t)
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11TB0110  DD                         85.00      95.00      10.00       2.84 
                    including        85.00      88.19       3.19       4.82 
                    and              90.00      91.00       1.00       5.69 
                    and              94.00      95.00       1.00       5.26 
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11TB116   DD                        130.02     159.00      28.98       0.97 
                    including       133.00     138.00       5.00       3.09 
                                    188.00     212.00      24.00       1.08 
                    including       199.00     201.00       2.00       4.18 
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11TB119   DD                        129.00     155.80      26.80       0.80 
                    including       129.00     131.75       2.75       1.89 
                    and             147.00     149.00       2.00       1.69 
                                    180.94     192.00      11.06       2.74 
                    including       186.00     190.00       4.00       4.40 
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11TB120   DD                        115.00     116.00       1.00       8.04 
                    including       124.90     134.00       9.10       1.21 
                                    176.00     187.00      11.00       2.22 
                    including       185.00     187.00       2.00       6.49 
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11TB122                             225.00     243.00      18.00       9.59 
                    including       226.00     231.00       5.00      30.73 
                                    264.00     272.00       8.00       2.79 
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11TB124                             222.00     226.00       4.00       6.65 
                                    255.50     257.00       1.50       1.49 
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Table 2 Results-Antler                                                      
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Hole ID   Type                     From (m)     To (m) Length (m)   Au (g/t)
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11AN025B  DD                        154.00     156.00       2.00       1.49 
                                    160.00     173.00      13.00       3.06 
                    including       162.00     166.00       4.00       6.48 
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11AN034   DD                        149.00     151.00       2.00       1.37 
                                    155.00     168.36      13.36       2.71 
                    including       158.00     161.00       3.00       6.83 
                    and             166.41     168.36       1.95       4.99 
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11AN041   DD                         37.00      50.00      13.00       4.99 
                    including        38.00      41.00       3.00       9.52 
                    and              44.79      50.00       5.21       6.12 
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11AN042   DD                        308.00     318.00      10.00       4.35 
                    including       312.00     315.00       3.00       8.42 
                    or              312.00     317.00       5.00       6.00 
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To see a plan and long section of the Walker Lake Trend, please visit the
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About North Country Gold Corp. 

The Three Bluffs deposit currently hosts an indicated resource of 508,000 ounces
(2,700,000 tones at 5.85 g/t Au) and an additional inferred resource of 244,000
ounces (1,270,000 tones at 5.98 g/t Au). The Three Bluffs deposit occurs at the
eastern end of a package of auriferous iron formation bearing supracrustral
rocks (Walker Lake Trend) along which North Country Gold Corp. is focusing
exploration and has conducted drilling in three key areas over a 4.1 kilometer
segment of the trend during 2010: Three Bluffs, Antler, and Hayes.


NCG believes that significant potential exists along the Walker Lake Trend and
has developed a strategy to identify 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 the Three Bluffs
deposit. 


North Country Gold Corp. controls one of the largest under explored greenstone
belts within Canada, and has numerous drill ready high grade gold targets, in
addition to those at Three Bluffs. The gold-rich Committee Bay Greenstone Belt
is located approximately 300 kilometres north of Baker Lake within Nunavut
Territory, Canada. North Country Gold Corp. is currently the 100% beneficial
owner of the mineral rights to approximately 557,323 acres (225,569 hectares) of
land comprising 216 active mineral claims and 14 mineral leases. 


North Country Gold Corp. maintains an extensive quality control program in the
preparation, shipping and checking of all samples from the property. The program
is supervised by Peter Kleespies, M.Sc., P.Geol. who is the Qualified Person as
defined by NI 43-101. A detailed description of North Country Gold Corp.'s QA/QC
program is provided on the Company's website at www.northcountrygold.com.


North Country Gold Corp. is a member of the Discovery Group of companies, for
more information on the group visit www.discoveryexp.com.


On behalf of the Board

North Country Gold. 

John Williamson

For more information on North Country Gold, please visit the company's website:
www.northcountrygold.com.


This release includes certain statements that may be deemed "forward-looking
statements". All statements in this release, other than statements of historical
facts, that address exploration drilling, exploitation activities and events or
developments that the company expects are forward-looking statements. Although
the company believes the expectations expressed in such forward-looking
statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not
guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ
materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could
cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking
statements include market prices, exploitation and exploration successes,
continuity of mineralization, uncertainties related to the ability to obtain
necessary permits, licenses and title and delays due to third party opposition,
changes in government policies regarding mining and natural resource exploration
and exploitation, and continued availability of capital and financing, and
general economic, market or business conditions. Investors are cautioned that
any such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results
or developments may differ materially from those projected in the
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