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Corporate Updates

Nickel North Exploration Corp.

NNX

| TSX Venture Exchange

www.nickelnorthexploration.com

[email protected]

Suite

890

,

580 Hornby

Street, Vancouver,

British Columbia, V

7C

2E7

, Canada

Telephone: 604.609.6182 | Facsimile: 604.

899.1240

AC/7787973.1

NEWS RELEASE

Nickel North Announces

New Loan

For Immediate Release

February 12, 2021

Nickel North Exploration Corp.

(TSX Venture: NNX) (the “

Company

” or “

Nickel North

”)

wishes to

announce that

t

he

Company has entered into a loan

agreement (the “

Loan Agreement

”) with SinoTech

(Hong Kong) Corporation Limited (the “

Lender

”) for a loan to the Company in the principal amount of

$

10

0,000 (the “

Principal A

mount

”) for a term of one (1) year

.

The Principal Amount will

bear interest at

a

fixed rate of

10

% per annum.

The Lender is a wholly

-

owned subsidiary of Sinotech Minerals Exploration Co., Ltd. ("

Sinotech Minerals

Exploration

"). Sinotech Minerals Exploration is a majority owner of Beijing

Donia Resources Co., Ltd.,

which wholly

-

owns Goldrock Resources Corporation Limited ("

Goldrock

"). Goldrock and the Lender

together, own

approximately

62.8%

o

f the issued and outstanding common shares of the Company.

The

Loan Agreement

is considered a “related party transaction” under Multilateral Instrument 61

-

101

Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Tran

sactions

(“

MI 61

-

101

”).

The

Loan Agreement

is

exempt from the requirements to obtain a formal valuation pursuant to the exemption in section 5.5(b)

of MI 61

-

101, as the Company is not listed on a specified market, and is exempt from minority

shareholder approval pursuant to section 5.7

(1)

(f) of MI

61

-

101, as the

Loan Agreement

does not have

an equity or voting component and is on reasonable commercial terms that are not less advantageous

to the Company than if the

Loan Agreement

were obtained from an arm's length party

.

About Nickel North Explorati

on Corp.

Nickel North Exploration is a Canadian based explorer focused on defining a Ni

-

Cu

-

PGE resource at our

Hawk Ridge

Project

in Northern Quebec. The board of directors, advisor committee and management

team are experienced, successful mine finders. The property consists of a 50 km long belt of magmatic

Ni

-

Cu

-

PGE occurrences covering over 30,658 hectares. The project is located

near tidewater. Quebec is

a mining friendly jurisdiction. Nickel North Exploration is a conscientious corporate citizen, maintains

good relations with Communities and Aboriginal people, and is committed to sustainable development.

For more information on t

he company, please visit

www.nickelnorthexploration.com

.

On behalf of Nickel North Exploration Corp.

“SIGNED”

Yingting (Tony) Guo, President and CEO

Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in

policies

of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.