Mr. Ronald Thiessen reports

NORTHERN DYNASTY REPORTS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING RESULTS AND ARMY CORPS EXTENSION OF DEADLINE TO COMMENT ON PLANS TO JULY 28, 2023

Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. has released the voting results from its 2023 annual general meeting held on June 30, 2023, in Vancouver, B.C.

At the meeting, a total of 206,154,294 common shares were voted, representing 39 per cent of the votes attached to all outstanding common shares as of the record date. All eight nominees were elected to the company's board of directors. The voting results are set out herein.

              VOTING RESULTS FOR ELECTION OF DIRECTORS

Director                     % of votes for       % of votes withheld

Christian Milau                       95.40                      4.60
Desmond M. Balakrishnan               57.54                     42.46
Isabel Satra                          94.68                      5.32
Kenneth W. Pickering                  95.40                      4.60
Robert A. Dickinson                   95.67                      4.33
Ronald W. Thiessen                    95.73                      4.27
Siri C. Genik                         94.44                      5.56
Wayne Kirk                            94.19                      5.81

Shareholders also reappointed Deloitte LLP, chartered professional accountants, as the company's auditor for the ensuing year.

Detailed voting results for the meeting are available on SEDAR.

The company also reports that its 100-per-cent-owned United States-based subsidiary Pebble Limited Partnership has been informed that the Alaska district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers requested a third extension of the deadline to communicate the plan on how the district plans to move forward with its reconsideration of the administrative record after remand. The USACE division engineer approved the request for extension, and the new deadline is July 28, 2023.

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 Limited Partnership, 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.