THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 01/18/12 — Rare Earth Metals Inc. ("Rare Earth Metals", "RA" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: RA)(OTCQX: RAREF)(PINKSHEETS: RAREF) announces that, subject to regulatory approval, it has granted 2,825,000 stock options to directors, officers, employees and consultants of the Company. These options will be exercisable at $0.17 for a period of five (5) years from the date of granting.About Rare Earth Metals Inc.Rare Earth Metal
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 01/18/12 — HELLIX VENTURES INC. (TSX VENTURE: HEL)(OTCBB: HLLXF) -Frank Underhill, President, is pleased to announce that drilling has begun on its Margarita gold project in southern Arizona.The program will entail approximately 1200 feet of diamond drilling to assess near surface gold mineralization in our four main target areas. It is anticipated that the program will take one month to complete.HELLIX VENTURES (TSX VENTURE: HEL)(OTCBB: HLLXF) i
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 01/18/12 — Guerrero Exploration Inc. ("Guerrero" or the "Corporation") (TSX VENTURE: GEX)(FRANKFURT: 2GU) announces that it has, subject to regulatory approval, agreed to issue the following shares from treasury at a deemed issue price of $0.15 per share:The Corporation will issue 1,000,000 shares to Riverside Resources Inc., the operator of the Corporation-s Mexican properties, to settle debts of $150,000 arising from the jus
LAS VEGAS, NV — (Marketwire) — 01/18/12 — Golden Phoenix Minerals, Inc. ("Golden Phoenix") (OTCBB: GPXM) joint venture partner Scorpio Gold announces the intersection of 12.20 meters grading 3.99 g/t gold followed by 7.62 meters grading 3.71 g/t Gold on the Mary Zone at the Mineral Ridge Gold Project in Nevada.Golden Phoenix currently maintains a thirty percent (30%) interest in the Mineral Ridge Gold Project via its membership interest in Mineral Ridge Gold LLC, the joint venture
TUCSON, ARIZONA — (Marketwire) — 01/18/12 — Zoro Mining Corp. ("Zoro" the "Company") (OTCBB: ZORM) is pleased to announce it has completed a non-brokered private placement (the "Offering") of 7,866,666 (the "units") at $0.15 per Unit, for total gross proceeds of $1,180,000. Each Unit consist of one common share in the capital of the Company (each, a "Common Share") and one half common share purchase warrant (each, a "Warrant") enti
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 01/18/12 — Rye Patch Gold Corp. (TSX VENTURE: RPM)(OTCQX: RPMGF) ("Rye Patch Gold" or the "Company") announces that the Company has granted stock options to its directors, officers, employees and consultants to purchase up to an aggregate of 2,230,000 common shares of the Company. The stock options are exercisable for a term of ten years at an exercise price of $0.60 per common share.Rye Patch Gold is a Tier 1, Nevada-focused
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 01/18/12 — Don Lindsay, Teck Resources Limited-s (TSX: TCK.A and TCK.B, NYSE: TCK) ("Teck") President and CEO, will be presenting at the 15th Annual Whistler Institutional Investor conference on Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 11:35 a.m. Eastern/8:35 a.m. Pacific time. The investor presentation will include information on company strategy, financial performance, and outlook for the company-s business units.The presentation will be audioca
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 01/18/12 — (TSX VENTURE: BCG)(PINKSHEETS: BCGOF) – BCGold Corp. (or the "Company") is pleased to announce the vesting of an additional 15% interest in the Engineer Gold Mine property (the "Property") to the Company, bringing its ownership in the Property to 75%. As per the terms of an amended option agreement (see January 14, 2010 news release) to acquire the Property from Engineer Mining Corp. ("EMC"), the Company h
– Widespread gold mineralization up to 17.85 g/t gold in a grab sample discovered during the 2011 Prospecting and sampling program(i) – Over 2.0 km long geophysical IP anomaly correlating with anomalous surface gold mineralization – Burchell West Grid is located 6.0 km west of the Osmani Gold Deposit (763,276 ounces gold Inferred and 96,400 ounces of gold Indicated) on the Coldstream property
MONTREAL, QUEBEC — (Marketwire) — 01/18/12 — Uragold Bay Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: UBR), Uragold is pleased to announce the final results of its regional till sampling campaign on its 100% own MacDonald property located in southern Quebec-s Appalachian belt. Preliminary analysis of final laboratory results reveal concentration of gold in till anomalies as high as 12.2 g/t Au, 2.05 g/t Au, 1.51 g/t Au and 1.41 g/t Au.Uragold has received the complete results for the 2011 McDonald property