Northern Star Announces New Gold Discovery

VAL D’OR, QUEBEC–(Marketwire – Feb. 11, 2010) – Northern Star Mining Corp. (TSX VENTURE:NSM)(OTCQX:NSMSF) (Northern Star Mining or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has made a new gold discovery from underground drilling at its wholly owned Malartic-Midway gold project, located 16km from Val-d’Or, Quebec, next to the Canadian Malartic gold discovery of Osisko Mining Corporation.