VANCOUVER, April 19 /CNW/ – Notification of Annual and Special General Meeting event:

Northgate Minerals Corporation
Annual and Special General Meeting
May 4, 2007, 10:00 AM PT (1:00 PM ET)

This event will also include an overview of Northgate’s 2007 first quarter financial results, which are scheduled for release on the evening of May 3, 2007.

To listen to this event, please enter www.northgateminerals.com or http://www.newswire.ca/en/webcast/viewEvent.cgi?eventID=1799380 in your web browser or call 416-644-3415 or toll free in North America at 1-800-732-9307.

A replay of this event will be available beginning on May 4 at 3:30 P.M. ET until May 19 at 2:59 AM ET.

Replay Access No. 416-640-1917 Passcode: 21226480 followed by the number sign.
Replay Access No. 877-289-8525 Passcode: 21226480 followed by the number sign.

Northgate Minerals Corporation is a gold and copper mining company focused on operations and opportunities in the Americas. The Corporation's principal assets are the Kemess South mine in northcentral British Columbia, the adjacent Kemess North deposit, which contains a proven and probable reserve of 4.1 million ounces of gold and the Young-Davidson property in northern Ontario with a total resource base of 2.1 million ounces of gold. Northgate is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol NGX and on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol NXG.

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