True North Gems Options Yukon Rare Earth Discovery to Great Western Minerals

True North Gems Inc. and Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. are pleased to announce that TGX has granted GWMG an option to acquire up to a 65% working interest in TGX’s True Blue property in the Yukon in exchange for carrying TGX through to completion of a bankable feasibility study. The True Blue property is located 55 kilometres south of Ross River, Yukon and is accessible via all-weather road... 

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Buckingham Exploration Inc. options new property and completes disposal of Colorado subsidiaries

Buckingham Exploration Inc. announce that it has optioned the Lady Ermalina Chemainus Claims on Vancouver Island. The option calls for an immediate payment of cash and shares and staged payments in future years. Specifically, Buckingham agreed to issue an aggregate of 600,000 shares of common stock of the company and to pay an aggregate of $5,000 in cash in consideration for the grant of the sole and... 

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Franconia Signs Land Agreement for Maturi Copper-Nickel-Platinum Group Metals Property

Franconia Minerals Corporation announces that it has reached an agreement with the South Kawishiwi Association LLC, a group of nearby cabin owners who are exchanging surface lands with the US Forest Service for surface rights over a portion of Franconia’s Maturi mineral deposit. Under the terms of the agreement, Franconia reinforces its right to access the Maturi Cu-Ni-PGM deposit – via... 

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Chesapeake Energy Corporation Announces $2.25 Billion Barnett Shale Joint Venture with Total E&P USA, Inc.

Chesapeake Energy Corporation announced the execution of an agreement for a $2.25 billion joint venture with Total E&P USA, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Total S.A. (NYSE:TOT, FP:FP) (“Total”), whereby Total will acquire a 25% interest in Chesapeake’s upstream Barnett Shale assets. Total will pay $800 million in cash at closing and will pay an additional $1.45 billion by funding 60%... 

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Alto Group Holdings Inc. Amends Letter of Intent on Ashanti Gold Project

Alto Group Holdings, Inc., has announced that the Company has amended the previously announced Letter of Intent (L.O.I.) in regards to certain mining rights in Ghana, West Africa. Alto plans to form a joint venture with the mineral rights owners, Castle Peak Mining Ltd. and will formulate a definitive Joint Venture Agreement by the end of 2009. Under the terms of the amended L.O.I. the Company shall... 

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Apollo Gold Announces Entry into Letter of Intent to Sell Montana Tunnels Mining, Inc.

Apollo Gold Corporation announce that it has entered into a letter of intent with Elkhorn Goldfields LLC (“Elkhorn”) pursuant to which Elkhorn has agreed to purchase all the outstanding capital stock in Montana Tunnels Mining, Inc., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Apollo (“Montana Tunnels”), which includes the 50% interest held by Montana Tunnels in the joint venture agreement with Elkhorn... 

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Touchdown Capital Options BC Gold Property

Touchdown Capital Inc. announce that it has entered into an Agreement of Purchase and Sale (the “Agreement”) with an Arm’s Length Party (the “Arm’s Length Party”) to purchase a 100% interest, subject to a 2% NSR Royalty, on 15 mineral claims totalling 5916.3362 hectares located in the Caribou Mining Division in the Province of British Columbia (the “Property”). The... 

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Prize Mining & Eagle Plains Pour Gold at Yellowjacket Project, Atlin, BC

Prize Mining Corp. and its Joint Venture Partner, Eagle Plains Resources Ltd., have completed mining and milling activity for the 2009 season and have commenced seasonal clean-up and maintenance. The first gold bar was recently poured from concentrate materials milled on-site and weighs 2.284 kg. The project is operated through the Yellowjacket Joint-Venture (“YJV”), jointly owned by Eagle... 

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Royal Roads & Benton award drilling contract to drill new copper sulphide zone on Long Range Joint Venture, Newfoundland

Royal Roads Corp. and Benton Resources Corp. announce awarding a drill contract to commence diamond drilling of the recently discovered copper sulphide zone on the Long Range Joint Venture property in central Newfoundland. The contract has been awarded to Logan Drilling of Stewiacke, Nova Scotia and is expected to commence the week of October 12, 2009. The program is expected to include two drill holes... 

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Tiger Resources Limited – Resolution of Potential Contract Dispute at Kipoi Project

Tiger Resources Limited to advise the potential dispute in respect of the contractual arrangements governing the Kipoi project has been resolved. Managing Director David Young said: “With what appears to be the start of another period of relatively high copper prices the board of directors took view that it was in the Company’s best interests to find a settlement rather than postponing... 

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