Northgate Minerals Announces Positive Preliminary Assessment for its Kemess Underground Project

Northgate Minerals Corporation NXG announces positive results from the NI 43-101 Preliminary Assessment Report for its 100% owned Kemess Underground Project located in north-central British Columbia, approximately five kilometres from the Kemess South mine. The results from the Preliminary Assessment outline the development of an underground block/panel cave operation with average annual production of 95,000 ounces of gold at a below-industry cash cost of $115 per ounce over a mine-life of approximately 12 years.