Northern Abitibi Mining Corp. announced that a large uncontrolled wild fire in central British Columbia has indefinitely delayed the planned exploration program at the Ches property in Central British Columbia. The Chelaslie River fire in central British Columbia is currently over 113,000 hectares in size and has burned the entire area covered by the company's Ches claims. Northern Abitibi has no equipment or assets on the property so nothing of value to the company has been lost in the fire.

The British Columbia Wildfire Management Branch currently has 321 firefighters, 18 helicopter, and 20 pieces of heavy equipment trying to bring the Chelaslie River fire under control. An Evacuation Order is currently in effect for the area covering the Ches Property. The timing of when the fire might be extinguished and the Evacuation Order lifted is unknown at this time, but could be several weeks or even months.

Northern Abitibi intends to conduct its roughly $67,000 surface exploration program at Ches as soon as access to the area is permitted and weather conditions allow. The first pass exploration program will include mapping, soil and rock channel sampling, and excavator trenching to evaluate and expand known zones of mineralization previously exposed in logging road cuts.