Northern Dynasty Reports Annual General Meeting Results

Northern Dynasty Reports Annual General Meeting Results

June 26, 2017, Vancouver, BC – Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. (TSX: NDM; NYSE MKT: NAK) (“Northern

Dynasty” or the “Company”) announces the voting results from its 2017 Annual General Meeting held on June 23,

2017 in Vancouver, British Columbia (the “Meeting”).

At the Meeting, a total of 191,479,785 common shares were voted, representing 63.73% of the votes attached to all

outstanding common shares of record. Shareholders voted in favour of all items of business before the Meeting,

which included the election of the following directors:

DIRECTOR % of Votes in Favour

Desmond Balakrishnan 94.72%

Steven Decker 98.97%

Robert A. Dickinson 99.04%

Gordon Keep 98.94%

David Laing 96.56%

Christian Milau 99.07%

Kenneth Pickering 99.02%

Ronald W. Thiessen 99.04%

Detailed voting results for the Meeting are available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com

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 US subsidiary Pebble Limited Partnership

and other wholly-owned subsidiaries, is a 100% interest in a contiguous block of 2,402 mineral claims in southwest

Alaska, including the Pebble deposit. The Pebble Partnership is the proponent of the Pebble Project, an initiative to

develop one of the world's most important mineral resources.

For further details on Northern Dynasty and the Pebble Project, please visit the Company's website at

www.northerndynasty.com or contact Investor services at (604) 684-6365 or within North America at 1 -800-667-

2114. Review Canadian public filings at www.sedar.com and U.S. public filings at www.sec.gov.

Trevor Thomas

Secretary