2012

NORTH COUNTRY DRILLS HIGH GRADES, 200M BELOW PREVIOUS HOLES AT THREE BLUFFS

Hole 12TB134 intersects multiple zones including 6.74g/t Au over 17.4m

April 26, 2012, Edmonton, Alberta – North Country Gold Corp. (NCG: TSX-V) (NCG or the “Company”) today announces initial results from the 2012 spring drilling program, at its 100% owned Three Bluffs Gold Project in the Committee Bay Greenstone Belt located northeast of Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada. Deep drilling at the eastern end of the deposit has extended the depth of gold mineralization by a further 200 metres. Hole 12TB134 intersected multiple zones, including 6.74 g/t Au over 17.4 metres, indicating significant expansion potential below current resources. Last month, the Company announced a NI43-101 compliant resource of 4.30 Mt at 4.90 g/t gold for 678,000 ounces gold (indicated) and 4.53Mt at 5.69 g/t gold for 829,600 ounces gold (inferred) at the project.

“The initial results of our 2012 spring drill program have yielded positive indications that high grade gold mineralization persists to at least 500 metres depth from surface and remains strong and open”, stated John Williamson, President and CEO of North Country Gold, “Our 2012 drill program will continue to explore the deeper potential at Three Bluffs with a goal of rapidly expanding the updated resources we announced last month.”

Drill hole 12TB134 tested an area 200m below drill hole 05TB038 which returned 36.25 g/t Au over 4.71m and prior to this program was one of the deepest drill holes at Three Bluffs. The following intersections represent down -hole intervals only. Additional drilling (see figure) is underway to better define the orientation and true thickness of mineralization at these depths.

Table 1. Results 12TB134

The current released drill hole is part of the 2012 spring drill program at Three Bluffs which is exploring the potential beneath the recently updated resource. Wide spaced drilling is targeting high grade gold mineralization over a strike length of 1200 metres and a vertical extent between 300 and 600 metres below surface.

Three Bluffs Gold Deposit

The Three Bluffs Gold Project is a structurally controlled lode gold system hosted within oxide facies iron formation and greywackes. The deposit currently hosts a NI43-101 compliant resource of 4.30 Mt at 4.90 g/t gold for 678,000 ounces gold (indicated) and 4.53Mt at 5.69 g/t gold for 829,600 ounces gold (inferred). Gold mineralization has been drill tested at shallow levels along a strike length of 4.1 kilometres. The deposit has been most extensively drilled over the eastern 1.3 kilometres of the trend where pre-2012 drilling  reached depths of 300 metres below surface with mineralization remaining strong and open to depth. The deepest holes on the deposit have all returned significant high grade intercepts. Geological modeling of the Three Bluffs gold system has identified several controls on high-grade mineralization including steep east plunging shoots and shallow east plunging fold hinges within iron formation. In 2010 NCG completed a Quantec Titan 24 geophysical survey over the Three Bluffs project which indicated that known gold zones at shallow to intermediate depths displays an excellent correlation with DC-resistivity lows. These resistivity lows extend to least 500 metres depth over much of the surveyed area, further supporting the potential to extend significant gold mineralization to depths beyond those drilled to date.

About North Country Gold Corp.

North Country Gold Corp. controls one of the largest under-explored greenstone belts in Canada with numerous drill-ready high-grade gold targets. The gold-rich Committee Bay Greenstone Belt is located 180km northeast of the of Agnico Eagle’s Meadowbank gold mine. The Three Bluffs deposit is geologically comparable, with similar grades, type of mineralization and age as Meadowbank and Meliadine Gold Deposits. The Company holds 100% interest in 530,630 acres along the 300km long belt and has identified 5 distinct mineral development centers, focusing in on the Three Bluffs deposit.  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 NI43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.  A detailed description of North Country Gold Corp.’s QA/QC program is provided on the Company’s website at www.northcountrygold.com.

On behalf of the Board

North Country Gold.
/s/"John Williamson"

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

Brian Budd
Corporate Secretary and Vice President of Corporate Development
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 604-697-2861

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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 forward-looking statements. For more information on the Company, investors should review the Company's continuous disclosure filings that are available at www.sedar.com

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