Luxembourg,  April  12, 2012 -  Northland  Resources  S.A. (TSX: NAU, OSE: NAUR,
Frankfurt:  NPK - "Northland" or the "Company")  is pleased to announce that Pon
Equipment  will be responsible for the  maintenance of the Caterpillar equipment
to be used at Northland's Kaunisvaara project.

Press conference
Northland  will  hold  a  press  conference  at Näringslivets hus, in Stockholm,
Sweden,  at  13.00 CET,  April  12, 2012. Karl-Axel  Waplan,  President & CEO of
Northland,  together with Thomas Smith, Chairman  Pon Equipment AB, will present
the maintenance agreement. To participate, please register by emailing to Petter
Brunnberg,  Investor  Relations  (pbrunnberg@northland.eu).  Sandwiches  will be
served from 12.30.


The  agreement with Pon Equipment comprises  maintenance, repairs and service on
the  23 machines that  will be  delivered from  the second quarter of 2012 until
fourth  quarter 2014. The fleet  consists of haul  trucks, mining shovels, track
dozers, wheel loaders and motor graders.

"Reliable  mine mobile  equipment is  key to  a productive  operation.  With the
purchase  agreement signed in March 2011, we  expect full support and commitment
from  Pon Equipment," said Peter Pernlöf, COO and VP - Procurement and Energy at
Northland.  "Pon  Equipment  has  the  experience  and  service  capability that
Northland  needs for this project. We are pleased that the agreement is in place
as production is scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2012."

The contract will be in effect for five years from Northland's acceptance of the
first equipment.

"We  are  pleased  to  be  partner  with  Northland in supplying and taking full
responsibility  for  maintaining  their  entire  fleet  of  loading, hauling and
support  equipment", said Mr Thomas Smith, VP  of Pon Mining and Chairman of Pon
Equipment AB. "With this long term agreement and our recently announced SEK 100
million investment in a Component Rebuild Center in Boden, we are confident that
we  have the right resources to  secure Northlands requirements for an optimized
loading and hauling operation".


"Karl-Axel Waplan"
President & CEO, Northland Resources S.A.


For more information, please contact:
Karl-Axel Waplan, President and CEO: +46 705 104 239
Peter Pernlöf, COO and VP - Procurement and Energy: +46 70 220 27 00
Peder Zetterberg, Acting CFO, +46 708 652 120
Anders Antonsson, Vice President - Investor Relations: +46 709 994 970
Marguerite Manshreck-Head, Investors Relations, Canada: +1 647 224 7882

Or visit our website: www.northland.eu


Northland  is a  development-stage mining  company with  a portfolio of iron ore
projects  in northern Sweden and Finland. The Company's Kaunisvaara Project will
exploit  two magnetite iron ore  deposits in Sweden. The  process is expected to
yield a high-grade, high-quality magnetite iron concentrate. The construction of
the  Kaunisvaara project is well underway and  production is planned to start in
the  fourth  quarter  of  2012. Northland  has  entered into industrial off-take
contracts  for  the  entire  production  from  Kaunisvaara.  The Company is also
preparing  a Definitive Feasibility Study for  its Hannukainen Iron Oxide Copper
Gold Project in Kolari, northern Finland.

Pon  Mining Division is  part of the  Pon Equipment group  that is the exclusive
distributor  of Caterpillar mining and construction equipment in Sweden, Norway,
Denmark   and   the   Netherlands  and  covers  everything  in  the  building  &
construction,  industrial and  mining activities.  For further  information, see
www.pon-cat.com.

This information is subject of the disclosure requirements pursuant to section
5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.


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