…  Western Minerals Group Ltd. announce that it has entered into an option agreement with a …  in a Rare Earth Elements property in the Province of New Brunswick, approximately 53 km east-northeast of the city of Bathurst. The agreement is subject to regulatory …

…  Mountain Resources Inc. announced that Wallbridge Mining Company Ltd. has fulfilled …  option commitment at Pele’s Sudbury Nickel Project through 2008 by spending an additional $300,000 on qualifying exploration expenditures in 2008 and by recently issuing an additional 400,000 of its common shares to Pele. Wallbridge is expected to complete its earn-in of …

…  EXPLORATION INC. announce the closing of a private placement of $547,000, consisting of …  5,600,000 units representing $420,000. Each unit at a price of $0.075 per unit consists of one flow-through share and one warrant …

…  Capital Corp. announces that it has filed motion material in its action in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice Commercial List (Court File No. 07-CL-7224) against International …

…  Texas has commenced production from two intervals. As of January 4, 2009, the well was flowing at a daily rate of more than 6.1 million cubic feet of gas and 100 barrels of oil plus approximately 300 barrels of water through an 18/64-inch …

…  Coal Inc., a leading producer and consolidator of thermal coal reserves in the …  County, Kentucky, effective immediately. During December 2008, Phoenix obtained a permit required under Section 401 of the Clean Water …

…  Desert Gold Corporation announced the results of its substantial issuer bid to purchase for cancellation a maximum of 36,000,000 common shares of the Company at a price of Cdn.$0.27 per HDG Share. The Offer expired at 9:00 p.m. (Toronto time) …  payment, therefore, will be made as soon as practicable in accordance with the Offer. The HDG Shares to be purchased for …

…  Corp. reports it has been advised that NovaGold Resources Inc. has reduced its shareholding in Alexco from approximately 16% to less than 2%. This reduction was accomplished by way of private sale transactions, with the shares acquired by multiple unrelated …

…  a NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Saskatchewan Tobin Lake 18 Meter Coal property. The report, dated January 6, 2009, is authored by Marvin A. Mitchell, P. Eng of Mitchell Geological Services Inc. and will be filed on SEDAR shortly. The …

…  delivered to The Company additional coal permits encompassing 8 full or partial townships. To date, Cloudbreak Resources Ltd. has a total of 18.5 full or partial townships, or approximately 410,000 acres of coal permits in Saskatchewan and approximately 350,000 acres for the rights …