Noront Resources Limited is pleased to announce assay results from the final 30 diamond drill holes recently completed on its Blackbird chromite deposits.

A total of 92 holes were drilled at during the most recent drill program and drill operations were completed in June 2009. The primary goal of this drilling campaign was to define a National Instrument 43-101 compliant resource for the Blackbird chromite deposits. The preparation of the resource estimate is currently being undertaken by Micon International Limited and is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of this year.

The intervals sampled and reported by Noront include both massive chromite and zones of intercalated beds of chromitite and heavily disseminated chromite hosted by talc-altered and/or serpentinized dunite and peridotite. In some cases, lower grade intervals in the table below are comprised of numerous, higher quality chromite bands measuring several centimeters to meters in length. These intercalated intervals are readily upgradeable to the same quality as the massive chromite units with minimal mechanical processing.

Mr Wes Hanson president & CEO of Noront Resources Limited said that "Receipt of these remaining results will allow Micon to begin estimating the overall chromite resource at Blackbird, the first step in understanding the economic value of the chromite resource. We have directed a significant amount of exploration capital towards understanding the Blackbird chromite deposit, completing 154 drill holes to define Canada's initial chromite resource. While we believe the current drilling is adequate to define a sufficient sized resource to evaluate project economics, the impressive aspect to the Blackbird deposit is that it remains open to depth, offering significant resource potential for the future."