North American Gold (fka NAU)

[Ed Monton]

North American Gold Announces More Assay Results From
Barsele-Central Zone Confirming Gold Mineralization

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(CCNMatthews - Sept. 9, 2004) -
North American Gold Inc. (TSX-V: NAU) is pleased to provide the
latest assay results from an on-going diamond drilling program at
the Barsele project in northern Sweden. A total of 10 holes have
been completed to date at the Central Zone, with results of the
first four holes reported on 25 August, 2004.

The latest holes continue to return gold intercepts confirming
that mineralization remains open to extension in all directions,
and that the Central Zone has an excellent configuration for
potential open pit mining.

 
  
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 Hole No.        From (m)        To (m)      Interval (m)        Au g/t 
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 DDH 04-05(i)         25           120                95            1.0 
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 Includes             25            33                 8            1.8 
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 and                  35            38                 3            1.7 
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 and                  53            55                 2            3.7 
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 and                  64            67                 3            3.6 
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 and                  88            94                 6            2.5 
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 and                 102         104.4               2.4            3.1 
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 and                 116           120                 4            1.5 
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 DDH 04-05           165           200                35            1.0 
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 Includes            186           191                 5            2.3 
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 and                 197           200                 3            1.3 
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 DDH 04-06          19.9          31.4              11.5            7.4 
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 Includes           24.9          29.1               4.2           11.6 
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                    55.5          60.5                 5            2.2 
 Pending            60.5         147.8                 -              - 
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 (i) Assays for interval 25-120 m in DDH 04-05 reported  
 on 25 August, 2004.  
  
 

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Commenting on the assay results from holes DDH 04-05 and 04-06,
Buck Morrow, President, said, "I am pleased that our wide spaced
drilling program at the Central Zone continues to give us
encouraging results. Gold mineralization remains open at depth as
demonstrated by the results at the bottom of hole DDH 04-005 and
other previously drilled holes. It also appears we have
identified higher-grade gold mineralization to the northwest. We
have a lot more work to do, including more drilling, before we
can fully assess the potential of the Central Zone."

The remaining assay results from holes 04-07 through 04-10 at the
Central Zone are pending, and will be reported when available and
confirmed. Additional exploration is continuing at the gold-rich
Norra VMS target, following up on previous drill hole BSL 03-005
with 8m averaging 11.02 g/t Au, 91.0 g/t Ag, 3% Copper, and 3.7%
zinc, as reported in news release dated January 26, 2004. North
American Gold has completed 10 holes at the Norra VMS target and
continues to drill.

NI 43-101 Compliance

The 2004 drilling program is being supervised by Harmen Keyser,
P.Geol., a qualified person under NI 43-101, who has verified the
data disclosed in this release. It is not possible to make a
conclusive statement relating sample widths to true widths, as
the structural controls on mineralization remain poorly
understood. The true width of the interval 19.9 to 31.4m in hole
04-006 will be less than the apparent width. Assays have been
performed by Omac Laboratories (ISO 9001:2001) of Loughrea,
Ireland using standard fire assay procedures.

Background

North American has an option to acquire a 60% interest in the
Norra and Barsele properties from Minmet plc by incurring a total
of US $ 3.5 million in exploration expenditures and issuing
400,000 shares to Minmet by November 3, 2006 (see news release
November 3, 2003). For more information, please refer to North
American's website www.northamgold.com or call Kareen McKinnon
toll free at 1 888 627 9378.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

Buck Morrow, President

NORTH AMERICAN GOLD INC.



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