Liker excerpts from these two press releases suggest the drills are leased and that includes Johnny and June.

NORONT PROVIDES PROJECT UPDATE

DOUBLE EAGLE (Cu,Ni,PGE) PROJECT, JAMES BAY LOWLANDS, ONTARIO

TORONTO, ONTARIO December 12, 2007 Noront Resources Ltd. (“Noront”)(TSX Venture: NOT……..

This move minimized the downtime due to weather and the helicopter

not being able to service the drill for shift changes, however additional unacceptable problems with drill

equipment were encountered during this recent period, which greatly affected the amount of drilling

completed. To alleviate this problem in the future, two new drills have been contracted from a new drill

service provider (Forage Orbit Garant) from Val D’Or Quebec, that are scheduled to arrive in mid January 2008.

DRILLING AT EAGLE ONE FURTHER DEFINES MINERALIZATION

AND PGE TESTWORK REVEALS PRESENCE OF SIGNIFICANT

RHODIUM AND OTHER ELEMENTS

TORONTO, ONTARIO February 19, 2008 Noront Resources Ltd. (“Noront”) (TSX Venture: NOT) is

pleased to announce the receipt of additional assays on hole NOT-07-20, to NOT-07-25 on its 100%-

owned Eagle One occurrence within Noront’s Double Eagle Project in the McFauld’s Lake Area of

northeastern Ontario. “Recently received platinum group element assay results have confirmed that

Eagle One is enriched with Platinum group elements including; platinum, palladium, rhodium,

osmium, iridium and ruthenium.” states Richard Nemis, President and CEO of Noront. The two new

drills “Johnny and June” under contract with Orbit Drilling have begun testing various anomalies outside

of the Eagle One occurrence. Progress on this exploration work will be provided in a timely manner.