North American Tungsten Corporation Ltd. announced a series of temporary layoffs of employees at the company's Cantung mine over a six week period of time. The company has implemented cost savings measures including the temporary layoff of approximately 80 employees, primarily in mining related activities. Given the standard rotational schedule, each employee will miss one work rotation of three weeks.

The Company believes that it has sufficient accessible tungsten ore and ore stockpiles available to continue to operate the mill and ship product to its customers throughout the layoff period.