Macarthur Minerals Limited (TSX VENTURE:MMS)(OTCQX:MMSDF) ("the Company") is pleased to advise of a 46% increase in the Hematite Goethite Mineral Resource estimate for its Snark & Drabble Downs potential DSO ("potential direct shipping ore") Mineral Resource located at its Macarthur Iron Ore project in Western Australia. The Company is undertaking a comprehensive "drillout" of the Snark, Drabble Downs and Snark North areas. Of the 414 RC holes assayed to date, 294 holes have intercepted mineralisation and have been incorporated into this interim Mineral Resource statement. An additional 248 drilled RC holes are awaiting assay results and are not included in this interim Mineral Resource statement.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sept. 21, 2011) - Rogue Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:RRS) (the "Company") is pleased to announce assay results from diamond drilling conducted on its W4 Langmuir Nickel Deposit earlier this year. The Langmuir property is located 35 km south of the city of Timmins, Ontario. The company drilled 13 diamond drill holes totaling 2,282 meters. Six HQ sized holes were drilled for the purposes of metallurgical testing on the A zone and seven NQ sized holes were drilled to test for extensions on the east side of the W4 deposit. Drilling intersected significant mineralization in both the metallurgical and exploration drill holes (see complete results tabulated below).

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sept. 21, 2011) - Fjordland Exploration Inc. (TSX VENTURE:FEX) is pleased to announce that Xstrata Copper Canada, a business unit of Xstrata Canada Corporation, has entered into an option agreement to explore a number of Fjordland's QUEST JV properties, currently held with Serengeti Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:SIR) in a 63.3% SIR/36.7% FEX joint venture. The agreement provides Xstrata the right to earn an initial 51% interest in the properties by funding $5 million in exploration expenditures and making firm and optional cash payments totaling $325,000 to the joint venture over four years. Xstrata has the right to earn an additional 14% interest for an aggregate 65% interest in the properties by completing a feasibility study or incurring no less than an additional $25 million in expenditures on the properties.

LAKEWOOD, CO--(Marketwire - Sep 21, 2011) - Colorado Goldfields Inc. (OTCQB: CGFIA) (PINKSHEETS: CGFIA) announced today that the Company has launched an aggressive exploration project to determine the potential value of its 63 uranium claims.

Rapid Extraction Using Alkaline Leaching Could Benefit the Economics of Project

Avanti Mining Inc. CA:AVT -2.86% (pinksheets:AVNMF) ("Avanti" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has received assays from the next 14 holes of its 2011 drill program at the Kitsault Mine molybdenum project located in northwest British Colombia.

SPARKS, NV--(Marketwire - Sep 20, 2011) - Golden Phoenix Minerals, Inc. (the "Company") (OTCBB: GPXM) is pleased to announce it has engaged SRK Consulting (U.S.) Inc. ("SRK") to prepare a resource estimate and a NI-43-101 Technical Report for the Santa Rosa gold mine ("Mina Santa Rosa"), Panama. SRK recently returned from a site visit at Mina Santa Rosa and has begun the process of reviewing all historical project data. SRK will develop a geological model and prepare an independent resource estimate based on the historical data available. The initial resource estimate will be presented in a NI-43-101 compliant technical report.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sept. 20, 2011) - Corazon Gold Corp. ("Corazon" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:CGW)(OTCBB:RMZFF) is pleased to present further encouraging results from the remaining 16 holes of its 29 hole, 4644 metre, Phase One drill program, at the Santo Domingo gold property in Central Nicaragua. The 6.5km2 Santo Domingo concession is situated wholly within B2Gold's La Libertad property, containing the La Libertad mine, and the new Jabali vein discovery, which lies immediately to the south of Corazon's concession.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sept. 20, 2011) - Pacific Potash Corporation (TSX VENTURE:PP) ("Pacific Potash" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has signed a letter of intent ("LOI") with Grizzly Discoveries Inc. ("Grizzly") to commence a multiple drill hole exploration program on the Pacific Potash - Grizzly 50:50 owned Property surrounding Pacific's 100%-owned Provost Property. Pacific Potash and Grizzly have engaged Barlon Engineering and Taylor Land Services, both of Calgary, Alberta, to coordinate the required well licensing and site preparations for three well-site locations. The LOI indicates that a minimum of one well will be drilled and that the costs will be shared equally by Pacific Potash and Grizzly. Depending upon results, up to three wells may be drilled on the 50:50 Property. Drilling on the 50% Property is expected to commence in October.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sept. 20, 2011) - Quantum Rare Earth Developments Corp. (TSX VENTURE:QRE)(OTCQX:QREDF)(FRANKFURT:BR3) ("Quantum", the "Company") is pleased to announce Rare Earth Element ("REE") results for the remaining two holes of the spring/summer exploration program at the Elk Creek Niobium – REE Project, located in southeastern Nebraska, USA. REE results have been finalized for drill holes NEC11-004, located approximately 2.5 kilometres east of the Niobium Deposit; and NEC11-005, located approximately 1 kilometre ENE of the Niobium Deposit.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sept. 20, 2011) - Empire Mining Corporation (TSX VENTURE:EPC) ("Empire") is pleased to report the final assay results for the remaining drill holes from Phase I drilling at the Demirtepe copper-gold-silver-molybdenum project located in western Turkey, where drilling in the Main Zone has consistently intercepted significant shallow mineralization in every hole completed. The most recent assays include the following significant copper-gold-silver and molybdenum intersections

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sept. 20, 2011) - Cream Minerals Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:CMA)(OTCBB:CRMXF)(FRANKFURT:DFL) ("Cream" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the successful completion of 20,200 metres of diamond drilling at the Nuevo Milenio silver-gold project located in Nayarit State, Mexico. The Nuevo Milenio is a low sulphidation, epithermal precious metal prospect containing silver-gold mineralization in quartz vein - quartz stock work zones hosted within a collapsed caldera. Nuevo Milenio contains a NI 43-101 compliant Inferred Mineral Resource of 54.6 million ounces silver equivalent contained within 5.09 million tonnes. The average silver grade is 251 g/t and the average gold grade is 1.66 g/t (see page 3). Metal prices employed were USD $10.28 per ounce silver and USD $816.09 per ounce gold. A cut-off grade of USD $45.00 per tonne or 131 g/t silver equivalent was used.