Nortec Minerals Corp. is pleased to announce the excellent results from rock chip samples taken from the Seinajoki Gold Project in December last year.

High grade gold mineralisation was encountered in two lines of rock chip samples taken from outcropping bedrock on the Sikakangas prospect. A 0.5m chip line returned 69.8g/t gold hosted in quartz veins within altered metavolcanic rocks (mica gneiss). A second sample taken 25m to the south, returned 21.1g/t gold also hosted in quartz veins within altered mica gneiss.

Ian F. Laurent, Nortec's Executive VP commented, "We are very excited at these results. We are looking forward to drill testing these targets. We have always believed that Seinajoki has the potential to become a multi-million ounce gold district."

Nortec conducted a reconnaissance surface sampling programme over several prospects identified within the 10,000 hectare claim reservation covering the Seinajoki Gold Project. A total of 29 rock chip samples were collected from the Sikakangas, Marttalanniemi, Kalliosalo and Kaatiala prospects during a field visit by Nortec. The samples collected were representative of the several styles of mineralisation already identified within the Seinajoki Project, including:

1. Native GOLD in dacitic to rhyodacitic metavolcanic rocks and graphitic schists, associated with native antimony, minor arsenopyrite and pyrrhotite;
2. Disseminated stratabound antimony-gold mineralization associated with shear zones in metasediments;
3. Native GOLD in quartz-tourmaline veins in metavolcanic rocks;
4. Antimony mineralization in pegmatites and metavolcanic rocks; and,
5. Tin, tungsten, lithium, tantalum, beryllium, niobium and other REE mineralization in pegmatite dykes.

Anomalous gold mineralisation (>0.2g/t) was also returned from rock chip samples at the Marttalanniemi and Kalliosalo prospects. Both prospects lie along a 5km long, northwest trending "Shear Zone". One rock chip sample from the pegmatite dyke at Kalliosalo returned lithium mineralisation (1.47% Li) and another rock chip sample from the southern part of Marttalanniemi returned elevated values (0.04%) in rare earth elements ("REE").

The Company has already begun staking claims in the Seinajoki district and will complete staking the most prospective areas before the end of February. The Company has begun discussions with drill contractors in Finland with the aim of commissioning an initial small exploration drill programme targeting these high grade gold zones identified on surface.