Timberline Resources Corporation released highlights from a preliminary in-house economic analysis of its 100-percent owned, royalty-free Butte Highlands Gold Project in southwestern Montana.
Nearly 100,000 feet of past drilling by major and junior mining companies outlined historic mineralization (pre-dating and not compliant with NI 43-101 or SEC Guide 7) exceeding 500,000 ounces of gold. The preliminary [...]

Southwestern Resources Corp. announces that it has filed today a Form 15F with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to voluntarily terminate the registration of its common shares under section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Southwestern expects that this termination of registration will become effective 90 days after its filing with the [...]

Xcel Energy today issued an additional 2,250,000 shares of common stock pursuant to the underwriters’ exercise in full of their over-allotment option. The over-allotment option was exercised in connection with the Company’s recently completed registered public offering of 15,000,000 shares of common stock sold on September 15, 2008. The additional shares were sold to the [...]

GoldSpring, Inc. announced that it will host its first Investor Day at its Comstock property on October 11, 2008 from 10 am to 4 pm pacific time. The Day will consist of a comprehensive tour of its Comstock property, including the Hartford Complex, an overview of its mineral holdings and the property’s geologic setting and [...]

El Capitan Precious Metals, Inc. announced that management of both ECPN and Gold and Minerals Company, Inc. (“G&M”) have agreed to restart the merger process which was put on hold 10 weeks ago. At the time, management of both firms had agreed that available funding would be preferentially directed towards key metallurgical investigations. In light [...]

Zion Oil & Gas, Inc. of Dallas, Texas and Caesarea, Israel announced today that it and Aladdin Middle East have signed a drilling contract. Last week, Zion’s Chief Executive Officer, Richard Rinberg, and the President and Chief Operating Officer of Zion, Glen Perry, visited AME’s offices in Ankara, Turkey, in order to inspect AME’s rig [...]

Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. reported that tracking devices indicate all of the Company’s rigs maintained station during Hurricane Ike, and 10 of 12 units most impacted by the storm appear to have suffered relatively little or no damage according to reports from start-up crews and visual air inspections.
Of the remaining two, visual inspections by air [...]

Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. announced that the board of directors of its managing general partner has approved the opening of a new mine for the immediate development of ARLP’s Tunnel Ridge reserves. The Tunnel Ridge reserve area encompasses approximately 9,400 acres of land located in Ohio County, West Virginia and Washington County, Pennsylvania and includes [...]

On September 10, 2008 Brishlin Resources, Inc. acquired approximately 89% of the outstanding shares of Synergy Resources Corporation in exchange for 8,902,500 shares of its common stock and 1,042,500 Series A warrants.
Following the acquisition of Synergy, Ed Holloway, William E. Scaff, Jr., Benjamin Barton and Rick Wilber were appointed to Brishlin’s Board of Directors. Ed [...]

Joy Global Inc., a worldwide leader in high-productivity mining solutions, today announced that during its regularly scheduled quarterly meeting on September, 9, 2008, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized an increase and extension of its share repurchase program. The Board’s action increases the authorization from $1 billion to $2 billion and extends the expiration for [...]