Avrupa Minerals Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:AVU) is pleased to announce that drilling has started at the Grbes target on the Kamenica license in eastern Kosovo, as part of a 900-meter first-pass exploratory drill program.

YELLOWKNIFE, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES--(Marketwire - Aug. 29, 2011) - Canadian Zinc Corporation (TSX:CZN)(OTCQB:CZICF) ("the Company" or "Canadian Zinc") is pleased to report that Human Resource and Skills Development Canada ("HRSDC"), a fede...

Benton Resources Corp. (TSX VENTURE:BTC) ("Benton" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that the Company has commenced diamond drilling on its 100% owned RIM copper nickel project located 100km south of the world class Voisey's Bay nickel deposit. The program will consist of 6-7 diamond drill holes totaling approximately 3000 metres testing a series of east-west trending conductive anomalies located within the mapped outline of the main Suture Zone. The Company believes that the conductors may represent magmatic sulphide along an east-west trending structural conduit cutting through the Suture Zone similar to the emplacement of the Voisey's Bay deposit. Results of the drilling will be released after they been completed and compiled by Company personnel.

North Country Gold Corp. (TSX VENTURE:NCG) (NCG or the "Company") announces the third tranche of results from the 2011 drill program at the Three Bluffs Gold Project in the Committee Bay Greenstone Belt located northeast of Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada. Drilling has intersected high grade gold to depth and along strike, west of the current resource area at the Three Bluffs and Three Bluffs West zones, increasing the strike length of the core Three Bluffs zones to over 1300 metres. Drilling has also confirmed the presence of mineralization over an additional 700 metres of strike between the Three Bluffs West and Antler zones.

Athabasca Minerals Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ABM) (the "Corporation" or "Athabasca") announces that it has obtained regulatory approval to proceed with a normal course issuer bid (the "Bid") whereby Athabasca may purchase up to a total of 1,353,375 common shares representing approximately 5% of the common shares of Athabasca currently issued and outstanding (27,067,499 common shares were outstanding as at August 1, 2011).

Baja Mining Corp. on Thursday provided a project update for its 70% owned Boleo copper-cobalt-zinc project, located near Santa Rosalia, Baja California Sur, Mexico. The Company has started to receive underground mining equipment in line with September's scheduled start of underground mining.

Jayden Resources Inc., ("Jayden" or "the Company") (TSX:JDN) is pleased to announce assay results from the first 17 holes received from its planned 100 hole - 15,000 meter drilling program at Silver Coin. The drilling program is composed of approximately 80% infill and close offset holes, and 20% exploration holes outside of the current resource. The primary goal of the program is to upgrade the existing inferred resource to the measured and indicated categories. Drilling began in mid-May at the south end of the resource area and has been progressing to the north.

Spanish Mountain Gold Ltd. ("the Company") (TSX VENTURE:SPA) is pleased to announce that it has closed its private placement offering (the "Offering"), previously announced on June 30, 2011. Pursuant to the Offering, 33,333,328 units (the "Units") have been placed at a price of $0.60 per unit for total gross proceeds of approximately CAD$20,000,000.