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Starcore Bolsters its Technical Advisory Board 0

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 04/18/12 — Starcore International Mines Ltd. (TSX: SAM) (the "Company") is pleased to welcome Dr. Michael Gunning as a member of its Technical Advisory Board.Dr. Gunning has more than 25 years of diverse and valuable experience in mineral exploration and geological research, and is widely recognized for his expertise in the uranium sector. Most recently, as CEO of Hathor Exploration, a Vancouver-based junior uranium explorer, he execute

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Kent Exploration Reports 43 Meter Graphite Bearing Zone at Alexander River 0

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 04/18/12 — Kent Exploration Inc. (TSX VENTURE: KEX)(PINKSHEETS: KXPLF)(FRANKFURT: 7KX), (the "Company" or "Kent") reports the presence of significant graphitic intervals in drill core at its Alexander River Project in the Reefton goldfield, South Island, New Zealand. ("NZ"). The graphite is of a soft silvery-grey nature and is present as graphitic schist in carbonaceous parts of a greywacke sequence (Greenland Group)

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AuRo Amends Private Placement 0

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 04/18/12 — AuRo Resources Corp. (TSX VENTURE: ARU)(FRANKFURT: NXP3) announces that due to current market conditions, it is amending the terms of its proposed non-brokered private placement announced on April 9, 2012. The proposed financing will now involve the issuance of up to 20,000,000 units (the "Units") priced at $0.05 per Unit, for gross proceeds of up to $1,000,000.Each Unit in the amended private placement will consist of one (1

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Ucore Completes Underground Mine Design for Bokan Project 0

HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA — (Marketwire) — 04/18/12 — Ucore Rare Metals Inc (TSX VENTURE: UCU)(OTCQX: UURAF) ("Ucore" or "the Company") is pleased to announce the receipt of an underground Mine Design ("MD") study of the Bokan Heavy Rare Earth project on Prince of Wales Island in Alaska, USA (the "Project"). The MD was completed by Stantec, of Tempe, AZ.The objective of the study was to recommend the most advantageous mining methodology from a range of alt

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Indigo Extends Length of Gold Trend to 2.5 Kilometres at Lati, Burkina Faso 0

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 04/18/12 — Indigo Exploration Inc. (TSX VENTURE: IXI)(FRANKFURT: INE) announces assays from the remaining 34 holes of the 50 hole Phase I reverse circulation drill program on its Lati gold permit in Burkina Faso, West Africa. The entire drill program was a first pass prospecting effort, with broad spaced drill transects (200m – 1km apart) exploring a collective 7 kilometre long anomalous strikelength. The 1.5 kilometre long mineralized gold trend

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Tembo Commences Drilling on the Nyakagwe East Target at Tembo Project, Tanzania 0

TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 04/18/12 — Tembo Gold Corp. (TSX VENTURE: TEM)(FRANKFURT: T23) ("Tembo" or the "Company) is pleased to announce that two diamond drills and a reverse circulation (RC) drill have recently commenced drilling at Nyakagwe East, one of the Company-s priority Phase 1 drill targets at the Tembo project, Tanzania. The Nyakagwe East target consists of two parallel northwest trending zones of active and historical artisanal mining. The target zones hav

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Greg Lang and Sharon Dowdall Join the Board of Directors of NovaGold 0

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 04/18/12 — NovaGold Resources Inc. (TSX: NG)(NYSE Amex: NG) ("NovaGold" or "the Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Gregory A. Lang and Ms. Sharon Dowdall to NovaGold-s Board of Directors, effective immediately.Mr. Lang is NovaGold-s President and Chief Executive Officer. He has over 30 years of diverse experience in mine operations, project development, and evaluations. Prior to joining NovaGold earlier in

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Black Smoker Acquires B.C. Graphite Project; Contiguous to Eagle Graphite Corp. 0

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 04/18/12 — Black Smoker Ventures Inc. (CNSX: BSM) ("Black Smoker" or the "Company") announces that it has entered into a purchase agreement (the "Purchase Agreement") with Jevin Werbes (the "Vendor") pursuant to which the Company has acquired five contiguous mineral tenures (the "Claims") covering approximately 2,464 hectares located in the Omineca Mining Division in the Province of British Columb

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Medallion Resources Hires Key Personnel to Implement Rare-Earth Production Strategy 0

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 04/18/12 — Medallion Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: MDL)(PINKSHEETS: MLLOF)(FRANKFURT: MRD) ("Medallion" or the "Company") announces that it has strengthened its team by adding two new members to assist in the execution of its monazite-based rare-earth strategy. Mr. Sothi Thillairajah has been appointed General Manager — Middle East, to work on plant-siting, financing and logistic issues, within the Indian Ocean basin, related

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REBgold Extends Terms of Convertible Debentures and Warrants 0

TORONTO, CANADA — (Marketwire) — 04/17/12 — REBgold Corporation ("REBgold" or the "Company")(TSX VENTURE: RBG) announced today that it has extended the expiry date of $410,000 principal amount of the Company-s current outstanding 18% unsecured convertible debentures (the "Debentures") and 4,100,000 of the common share purchase warrants (the "Warrants") originally issued in October 2010. $430,000 principal amount of Debentures and 4,300,000 Warrants we

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