Northern Minerals Limited announced high grade copper assays following a selective rock chip sampling program at the Company's 100%-owned John Galt Project, located 200km south of Kununurra in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. In October 2019, the Company undertook a selective rock chip sampling program over an area of 2.0km x 0.5km at John Galt. While the project already contains a heavy rare earth prospect, this program was targeted in an area 3-4km to the south of the John Galt Heavy Rare Earth Prospect and was focused on previously identified copper occurrences. Of the 24 samples collected and analysed, 12 returned assays of greater than 1.0% Cu. The higher grade copper samples mostly occurred in a cluster over 500m of strike length. Anomalous gold and silver assays were also observed for some of the anomalous copper samples. While the Company has a primary focus on rare earth elements, the discovery of copper mineralisation provides significant potential for commodity diversification, particularly for a company focussed on electric vehicles and sustainable power generation. Copper mineralisation was observed associated with quartz veins and breccias, primarily within sandstone and siltstone units of the Red Rock Formation, or along the contacts between the two lithologies. The quartz veins are believed to represent dilational features related to northwest and northeast trending faults. Mafic volcanics occur a few hundred metres to the east and south of the mineralised veins and breccias. The samples are point samples and therefore have a high potential of bias and should not be considered as being representative of the overall mineralised structure or rock type. Historical copper exploration was carried out to the south of John Galt in the early 2000s, with one notable prospect located 15km away. Explorers were targeting stratabound hydrothermal copper mineralisation and specifically the Keweenan-style copper orebodies of Michigan, USA.