Toronto, Ontario -- January 22, 2014, Noble Mineral Exploration Inc. (the "Company", "Noble" or "NOB") (TSX-V:NOB, FRANKFURT:NB7, OTC.PK:NLPXF) announces that it has agreed to extend the deadline by which due diligence must be completed by the US private equity firm (the "Purchaser") with which Noble has signed an agreement for the sale of the surface rights and timber rights to Block A of the Company's Project 81 (approximately 145,000 acres, or 58,000 hectares), located in the Timmins area of northern Ontario.