Northern Dynasty Reports Annual General Meeting Results

VANCOUVER, June 26, 2017 /CNW/ - 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.

Trevor Thomas
Secretary

SOURCE Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd.

on Northern Dynasty and the Pebble Project, please visit the Company's website at www.northerndynasty.com or contact Investor services at [phone] 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