TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 08/19/11 — Excellon Resources Inc. (TSX: EXN) (the "Company" or "Excellon") is pleased to announce the resumption of full production at its La Platosa mine. Discussions among Company officials, the Mexican authorities and the demonstrators has ended the previously announced demonstration and access to the project has been restored.About ExcellonExcellon, a mineral resource company operating in Durango and Zacatecas States, Mexico, is com
TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 08/19/11 — Viper Gold Ltd. ("Viper Gold" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: VPR) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a mineral property option agreement dated August 15, 2011 (the "Option Agreement") with a local prospector (the "Vendor"), whereby Viper Gold can acquire an undivided 100% interest in and to certain unpatented mining claims known as the Campbell Lake property (the "Campbell Lake Property&q
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 08/19/11 — Dawson Gold Corp. (TSX VENTURE: DYU) has completed a 33.6 line kilometer surveyed and cut grid in advance of a Quantec Geophysics Titan-24 deep penetrating Induced Polarization ("I.P.") ground-based geophysical survey slated to commence on August 18, 2011. In connection with the work program, Dawson has expanded the Toro exploration camp to accommodate a crew of up to 20 people. The geophysical program is designed to test the
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 08/19/11 — Western Copper Corporation ("Western Copper" or the "Company") (TSX: WRN)(NYSE Amex: WRN) is pleased to announce that, further to its news release dated June 23, 2011, the Company has entered into an arrangement agreement dated August 18, 2011 (the "Agreement") with certain of its wholly-owned subsidiaries including Copper North Mining Corp. ("SpinCo. A") and NorthIsle Copper and Gold Inc. ("
TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 08/19/11 — Caledonia Mining Corporation ("Caledonia") (TSX: CAL)(OTCBB: CALVF)(AIM: CMCL) provides the following update regarding indigenisation at the Blanket Gold Mine ("Blanket"), in Zimbabwe.Caledonia submitted a comprehensive indigenisation proposal (the "proposal") to the Minister for Indigenisation on May 9, 2011. Since then, neither Blanket nor Caledonia have received any formal notification that the proposal is deficie
FORT WORTH, TX — (Marketwire) — 08/19/11 — , a trading brand of (LSE: ECM), recently received the Distribution Recognition Award by Carlo Gavazzi Automation Components, a manufacturer of products for industrial automation, energy and building automation. Allied received the award for achieving significant growth for FY11."During our 2010-2011 fiscal year, Allied Electronics increased business by 38 percent over the previous year," says Wayne Shaffer, vice president of sales at Car
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 08/18/11 — East Asia Minerals Corporation (TSX VENTURE: EAS) announces the resignation of Mr. John Wright as a Director of the Company.The Company thanks Mr. Wright for his services since joining East Asia Minerals. Mr Wright has 35 years of mining experience in engineering, construction and operations of both open pit and underground mines in North and South America. Mr. Wright brought timely mining experience to the Company, and his contributio
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 08/18/11 — Foran Mining Corporation (TSX VENTURE: FOM) ("Foran" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that all resolutions were approved by shareholders of the Company at its August 18, 2011 Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders. This included the election of directors, appointment of auditors, and approval of an updated stock option plan. The information circular with respect to the meeting is available at .The shareh
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 08/18/11 — Alphamin Resources Corp. (TSX VENTURE: AFM) ("Alphamin" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that, further to its news release of March 31, 2011, it has closed its acquisition of a 70% interest in the Bisie Tin Project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in consideration for the issuance of 14,000,000 shares to the shareholders of Kivu Resources Ltd. ("Kivu"). An additional 10,000,000 shares will b
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 08/18/11 — Andean American Gold Corp. ("Andean" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: AAG)(FRANKFURT: AQN) announces that it has reached a debt settlement arrangement with Sinchao Metals Corp. ("Sinchao") in relation to certain outstanding debt owed by Sinchao to the Company.The Company has agreed to accept 8,888,889 common shares at a deemed price of $0.09 per share in settlement of $800,000 of indebtedness owing by Sinch
