VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 05/09/12 — Orex Minerals Inc. (TSX VENTURE: REX) ("Orex") is pleased to announce the results from diamond drill Hole 5 and Hole 6 within the Central Zone of our Barsele Project. The Barsele Gold Project is located approx. 600 km due north of Stockholm, and 40 kms southeast of Storuman, a small town situated in Vasterbottens Lan, which is a regional district of Northern Sweden.President of Orex, Gary Cope, says, "We are pleased with
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 05/09/12 — First Graphite Corp. (TSX VENTURE: FGR) (the "Company" or "First Graphite") is pleased to announce that Geotech Ltd. has completed the Versatile Time-Domain Electromagnetic (VTEM) geophysical survey over the Company-s Henry Graphite Project (the "Property"). The VTEM survey over the property covered 1452 line kilometres, at 200-metre line spacing. The purpose of the survey, which was completed on May 6, 20
Upper Canada Gold Corporation
TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 05/09/12 — NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UNITED STATES NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION OR DISSEMINATION DIRECTLY, OR INDIRECTLY, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES.Royal Coal Corp. ("Royal Coal" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: RDA) (FRANKFURT: RLC) announces that it has received the resignations of the following directors: Scott Hand, John Ellis, James Ladner, Michael Rousseau, Dino Titaro and Elia Cre
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 05/09/12 — Zenyatta Ventures Ltd. ("Zenyatta" or "Company") (TSX VENTURE: ZEN) is pleased to announce the following significant graphite results from the first two (2) holes of the current drill campaign on the Albany Graphite Deposit.Drill hole #3 (Z12-4F3), was collared 200 metres (-m-) north of the original discovery drill hole (Z11-4F1) and drilled in a southerly direction. Significantly, upon passing through the overburden/limes
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 05/09/12 — Mesa Exploration Corp. (TSX VENTURE: MSA)(PINKSHEETS: MSAJF) ("Mesa") announces an update on progress at the 100% owned Bounty Potash Project in the Great Salt Lake Desert of western Utah. Dr. Wallace Gwynn, a saline brine expert recently retired from the Utah Geological Survey, has provide to Mesa a summary report on various aspects of the Bounty Potash Project. Dr. Gwynn has an intimate knowledge of the potash production fr
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 05/09/12 — First Quantum Minerals Ltd. ("First Quantum" or the "Company") (TSX: FM)(LSE: FQM) today announced that it has received a written confirmation of an offer from Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation Limited ("Zesco"), for the connection and supply of power to the proposed Sentinel copper project in Zambia at a mutually-agreeable electricity tariff level. The Company-s Board of Directors has accepted these c
MONTREAL, QUEBEC — (Marketwire) — 05/09/12 — Golden Share Mining Corporation ("Golden Share" or the "Company")(TSX VENTURE: GSH) is pleased to announce that it has appointed VSA Capital Limited ("VSA") as its European Corporate Broker.VSA (LSE: VSA) is quoted on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange and provides corporate finance and corporate brokering services to companies operating in the natural resources sector. VSA works with natural resource compan
OTTAWA, CANADA — (Marketwire) — 05/09/12 — Mindesta Inc. ("Mindesta" or the "Company") (OTCBB: MDST) wishes to announce that it now has an option to earn an interest in a third exploration permit in the Republic of Somaliland. Mindesta is already earning up to an 80 per cent interest in, and can ultimately acquire 100% of, the first two mineral exploration permits issued by the Republic of Somaliland under an existing Option Agreement with Nubian Gold Corporation ("
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 05/09/12 — Pretium Resources Inc. (TSX: PVG)(NYSE: PVG) ("Pretivm" or the "Company") announces today that the previously announced offering of common shares (the "Offering") has completed and included the exercise in full of the over-allotment option granted to the syndicate of underwriters. The Offering consisted of an aggregate of 5,554,500 shares at a price of $14.50 per share for gross proceeds of $80,540,250.The
