Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. (PotashCorp) announced today that its Board of Directors has approved an increase of the company's quarterly cash dividend (from $0.07 per share to$0.14 per share), and declared a quarterly cash dividend of US $0.14 per common share payable May 3, 2012 to shareholders of record on April 12, 2012.

Golden Hope Mines Limited (TSX VENTURE: GNH, PINK SHEETS: GOLHF)is pleased to announce excellent gold recovery from preliminary metallurgical testwork at its Bellechasse-Timmins gold project in southeastern Quebec, Canada. Gold recovery using gravity separation ranged from 54% to an outstanding 92%, while total gold recovery ranged from 97% to more than 99%. The test work was completed on five (5) composite samples composited from drill core in its recent drill program.

Solid Gold Resources Corp. ("Solid Gold") (TSXV: SLD) reports that it has served notice of motion for leave to appeal the decision of the Superior Court of Ontario rendered January 3, 2012.

Namibia Rare Earths (TSX: NRE) is pleased to announce that a 6,000 meter diamond drilling program has started with two drill rigs focused on the delineation of a first mineral resource from Area 4 on the Lofdal Rare Earth Project in northwestern Namibia. Concurrent with the drilling program, an induced polarization geophysical survey will be undertaken over prospective extensions of the favourable heavy rare earth-enriched structure emanating from Area 4. The drilling program is scheduled to be completed by the end of April with delivery of the NI 43-101 compliant mineral resource report in the third quarter of 2012.

Reliance Resources Limited (TSX: RI) (the company) is pleased to announce a summary of its recently completed Phase 1 drilling program on the Tanoyan Gold Project, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. The Tanoyan Gold Project consists of five principal vein systems, Sondana, Ramai, Talong, Modupola and Lingkobungon, which are predominantly orientated northeast to southwest and dip steeply to the northwest or southeast. Drilling to date has primarily focused on the Sondana and Modupola veins.

TORONTO, Jan. 16, 2012 /CNW/ - Uranium One Inc. today announced record production of 10.7 million pounds and record sales of 9.9 million pounds for the full year 2011.

AuRico Gold Inc. (TSX:AUQ) (NYSE:AUQ), ("AuRico", "AuRico Gold" or "the Company") announces preliminary results for the fourth quarter. During the fourth quarter the Company completed the acquisition of Northgate Minerals Corporation ("Northgate"), which included the exciting Young-Davidson mine located in the prolific Abitibi gold belt in Northern Ontario. Young-Davidson remains on schedule to begin production at the end of March 2012 and is currently designed to ramp up to over 200,000 ounces of annual production by 2015. The Company is also well positioned for production growth from its mines in Mexico.

Mountain Province Diamonds Inc. ("Mountain Province", the "Company") (TSX: MPV, NYSE-AMEX: MDM) is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors has approved a proposal to spin-out the Company's 100 percent-controlled Kennady North diamond project into a newly incorporated company, Kennady Diamonds Inc.

Guyana Goldfields Inc. (TSX: GUY) ("GGI" or the Company") is pleased to provide an update on the definitive Feasibility Study ("FS") work for the Aurora Gold Project.

Jaguar Mining Inc. ("Jaguar" or the "Company") (JAG: TSX/NYSE) is pleased to provide the following update regarding the previously announced strategic review process, which was initiated by the Board of Directors on November 16, 2011.

Verde Potash Plc (TSX-V:NPK) ("Verde" or the "Company") is pleased to announce an expansion as a result of further drilling, to the resource estimate for the Cerrado Verde Potash Project located in Minas Gerais State, Brazil ("Cerrado Verde"). The estimate comprises an indicated resource of 74 million tonnes with an average grade of 9.22% K2O and an inferred resource of 2.68 billion tonnes with an average grade of 8.88% K2O (applying a 7.5% K2O cut-off).

Helio Resource Corp. (TSX-V: HRC) is pleased to report the first results from the 2011 RC drill programme at the Tumbili Target, SMP Gold Project in Tanzania.