Bellamel Mining announced the discovery of a high grade gold mineralised system beneath the Centurion Deposit at the Kalgoorlie West Gold Project. The company has named this new prospect the Gladiator Prospect. Significant intersections include: 42m @ 2.06g/t Au including 10m @ 4.71g/t Au and 4m @ 3.34g/t Au.
Original Announcement: New Discovery at Kalgoorlie Gold [...]

The securities of Sino Gold Mining will be placed in pre-open from the commencement of trading on Tuesday, 20 May 2008 at the request of the company until the earlier of the commencement of normal trading on Monday, 26 May 2008 or when the announcement is released to the market.
Original Announcement: Trading Halt

Piedmont Mining Company, Inc. announced the signing of a Letter of Intent with Nevada Eagle Resources LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gryphon Gold Corporation (TSX: GGN), to enter into an ‘exploration agreement with option to form joint venture’ on a gold discovery by Duval International in 1985 at Morgan Pass, approximately 12 miles [...]

AUGYVA MINING RESOURCES INC. is pleased to announce the signing of an option and joint venture agreement (the “Agreement”) with Canadian Century Iron Ore Corporation (”Century”) defining the terms to allow Century to earn up to a 65% interest in the Company’s Duncan Lake Iron Property (”Duncan” or the “Property” or the “Project”) by funding [...]

Shares of gold-mining companies gained Tuesday after an analyst said the precious metal appeared set for benefit from tight supply and growing demand.
Goldman Sachs analyst Oscar Cabrera said in a client note that “policy-driven investment constraints and geopolitical concerns impeding the free flow of capital across the commodity complex together with strong demand from (Brazil, [...]

Wall Street tumbled Tuesday after oil prices spiked to a new record above $129 a barrel and a government report raised investors’ concerns about the impact of inflation on consumer spending. The Dow Jones industrials fell nearly 200 points.
Crude jumped after OPEC’s president was quoted as saying his organization won’t raise its output before its [...]

Oilfield services company Halliburton Inc. is expected to decide this week if it will launch a $3.5 billion counteroffer for its U.K. rival Expro International Group PLC, according to the Daily Telegraph. Halliburton has been conducting due diligence on the company since Expro agreed to accept a $28-per-share takeover offer from a consortium made up [...]

Swedish-Canadian mining and exploration firm Lundin Mining has sold its 90 percent stake in the Norrliden project to Canada’s Gold-Ore Resources , IGE Nordic AB said on Friday.
IGE Nordic said in a statement its own 10 percent stake in the zinc-copper project remained unchanged.

Sino Gold Mining Ltd says its operations and workforce in China have not been directly impacted by the earthquake in Sichuan Province.
Sino Gold will donate approximately $100,000 in essential equipment to the earthquake relief effort, the company said on Monday.
The equipment includes 70 portable gas power generators, 200 sets of hand torches and 70 megaphones, [...]

GEO MINERALS LTD. is pleased to announce that it has submitted coal permit applications in east-central Saskatchewan encompassing approximately 91,054 acres in proximity to the recent Goldsource Mines Inc. discovery.
The recent coal discovery by Goldsource of bituminous coal in two drill holes 1,600 metres apart suggests the potential for a much larger coal system. Goldsource [...]