TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 12/20/12 — Rio Novo Gold Inc. (TSX: RN)(TSX: RN.WT) ("Rio Novo" or the "Company") announced today that there will be a delay in filing the NI 43-101 Technical Report ("Technical Report") related to the Feasibility Study ("FS") for its 100%-owned Almas Gold Project ("Almas"), located in Tocantins State, Brazil. Pursuant to National Instrument 43-101 "Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects", th
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 12/20/12 — Energold Drilling Corp. (TSX VENTURE: EGD) ("Energold" or "the Company" or "Energold Group"), a leading worldwide operator and manufacturer of mineral exploration and energy drilling rigs, has entered into an agreement with a third party whereby Energold has agreed to option out some of the Company-s legacy, non-core land package in the Dominican Republic. The option agreement includes a multi-phased work
TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 12/20/12 — Lundin Mining Corporation (TSX: LUN)(OMX: LUMI) ("Lundin Mining") is pleased to announce that it has executed an amendment to its revolving credit agreement (the "Amended Credit Agreement") that increases the amount of its revolving credit facility (the "Facility") to US$350 million from US$300 million, reduces the costs of borrowing and extends the term of the Facility to December 2015.Two new banks were added to th
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 12/20/12 — American Bonanza Gold Corp. (TSX: BZA)(OTCQX: ABGFF) ("Bonanza" or "Company") is pleased to announce that the 100% owned Copperstone gold mine in Arizona continued to make significant progress during November. During November Copperstone has increased ore output from the underground mine and accelerated the development mining. The Company is encouraged with the recent progress as it continues towards its goal of ach
VAL-D-OR, CANADA — (Marketwire) — 12/20/12 — Cartier Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: ECR) ("Cartier") is pleased to announce the closing of a flow-through shares private placement with six investors without intermediate agent for a total amount of $400,400.In the aggregate, the following securities were issued by Cartier:The securities issued under flow-through shares private placement are subject to a four (4) month and one (1) day statutory hold period.The proceeds of the offering
TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 12/20/12 — Noront Resources Ltd. ("Noront" or the "Optionor") (TSX VENTURE: NOT) clarifies position on Windfall Lake.On December 17, 2012, Eagle Hill Exploration Corporation ("Eagle Hill" or the "Optionee") issued a press release announcing that Stantec Consulting Ltd. ("Stantec") had been awarded a contract to produce a pre-feasibility study ("PFS") on the Windfall Lake Property ("Windfall La
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 12/20/12 — Expedition Mining Inc. (TSX VENTURE: EXU) (the "Company") wishes to provide this update and summary of results on the 2012 exploration programs carried out on the Company-s Nevada and Yukon projects.In September and October a program of mapping and rock chip sampling was carried out on the recently acquired Black Hills, Jenny Hill and the Slate Mountain projects in Nevada. Grab samples collected during the initial prospecting
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 12/20/12 — Alabama Graphite Corp. (the "Company") (CNSX: ALP)(FRANKFURT: 1AG) (ISIN# CA0102931080) (WKN A1J35M) is pleased to report that it has completed the drill program at its Coosa Graphite Project, Alabama.Major Drilling completed a total of 66 core holes since operations commenced on September 26th. Twelve of these were in two fences designed to gain an understanding of the local stratigraphy. The remainder of the holes were in d
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 12/20/12 — Excelsior Mining Corp. (TSX VENTURE: MIN)(OTCQX: EXMGF)(FRANKFURT: 3XS) ("Excelsior" or "the Company") announces that it has amended the terms of the option agreement to acquire the Gunnison Copper Project (the "Amended Option Agreement"). Previously Excelsior was required to exercise the option on or before January 1, 2013 by making a payment of US$350,000 to the vendor of the Gunnison Copper Project. Und
TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 12/20/12 — NXA INC. ("NXA" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: NXI) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a non-binding letter of intent (the "LOI"), dated December 20, 2012, with Delavaco Real Estate Opportunities Corp. ("Delavaco"), pursuant to which the Company has agreed to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares in the capital of Delavaco (the "Proposed Transaction") from the share
