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NORTHERN DYNASTY: ISABEL SATRA JOINS BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Isabel Satra has joined Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd.'s board of directors.

Ms. Satra has spent over 20 years in investment management, most recently as a principal and chief financial officer of Kopernik Global Investors, where she is a co-portfolio manager, equity analyst and oversees management of the firm's finances as well as serving on its board of directors and investment oversight committee. Ms. Satra has also held analyst and portfolio manager positions at several investment firms, including Vinik Asset Management and Tradewinds Global Investors, after transitioning from engineering positions at Boeing North America and Rockwell International. Ms. Satra has an MBA from the University of California, Irvine, and a bachelor of science in engineering from Rutgers University.

"On behalf of the board of directors, I am excited to welcome Isabel to the team," said Bob Dickinson, chairman of Northern Dynasty. "Isabel is a very accomplished executive that brings extensive institutional investor and public markets experience to the board, and, along with the recently announced appointment of Siri Genik, has increased the diversity on the board and made it even stronger. Kopernik is a significant shareholder of Northern Dynasty, and we appreciate their support of NDM and the Pebble project by endorsing her appointment to our board."

"I am honoured to join the Northern Dynasty Minerals board of directors and look forward to working on this project, which is of such importance to a wide variety of stakeholders," said Ms. Satra, director of Northern Dynasty.

About Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd.

Northern Dynasty is a mineral exploration and development company based in Vancouver, Canada. Northern Dynasty's principal asset, owned through its wholly owned Alaska-based U.S. subsidiary, Pebble LP, is a 100-per-cent interest in a contiguous block of 1,840 mineral claims in southwest Alaska, including the Pebble deposit, located 200 miles from Anchorage and 125 miles from Bristol Bay. The Pebble partnership is the proponent of the Pebble project, an initiative to develop one of the world's most important mineral resources.

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