Crosshair Exploration & Mining Corp. (TSX:CXX)(NYSE Amex:CXZ) announces additional results from the ongoing drill program on the Juniper Ridge Uranium Project in southwest Wyoming. A total of 224 holes (42,032 feet) have been drilled to date.

Nortec Minerals Corp. (TSX VENTURE:NVT)(PINK SHEETS:NMNZF)(FRANKFURT:WMQ) has signed a binding Letter of Intent with Otterburn Ventures Inc. (CSNX:OTB). The LOI gives Otterburn the option to earn up to an 80% interest in Nortec's Läntinen Koillismaa project, a 100% owned palladium-platinum–gold–copper-nickel property in north central Finland.

As global coal demand continues to increase, Patriot Coal Corporation (NYSE:PCX) (St. Louis, Missouri) is continuing construction and preparations to increase production at the company's mines. At a conference call yesterday discussing the company's second fiscal quarter, Patriot President and CEO Richard Whiting spoke about the company's expansion of its metallurgical coal mines, known as the "Met Build-Out" project.

Geopulse Exploration Inc. (OTCQB: GPLS) (OTCBB: GPLS) has submitted a sealed offer to acquire a large parcel Potash Property Lease in the State ofUtah. The potash lease is located in a mining friendly jurisdiction with easy access. It is considered a highly significant asset for Geopulse Exploration.

Allana Potash Corp. (TSX VENTURE:AAA) said the mineral exploration licences for the three mineral concessions in Ethiopia's northeastern Danakil Depression, totaling approximately 150 square kilometers, have been transferred to Allana effective July 22, 2011.

Great Western Minerals Group ("GWMG") (TSX VENTURE:GWG)(OTCQX:GWMGF) has negotiated a Heads of Terms with Ganzhou Qiandong Rare Earth Group Ltd. ("GQD") of China to build a rare earth separation plant in South Africa, located in proximity to GWMG's Steenkampskraal operation.

Ditem Explorations (TSX VENTURE:DIT) is pleased to announce that the summer exploration program on the Lalande property is now underway.

BE Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:BER) is re-releasing rare earth assay results to correct the figures disseminated on Friday, July 22, 2011. The assay […]

Eagle Star Minerals Corp., (TSX VENTURE:EGE)(PINK SHEETS:ELGSF)(FRANKFURT:E6R) ("Eagle Star") has applied for the addition of 18 new mineral claims in the state of Piaui in Northeastern Brazil to the west and north of the company's Ruth Phosphate Project.

Victory Nickel Inc. CA:NI today announced further results from drilling conducted on the North Limb nickel-mineralized domain at its 100% owned Minago Nickel Project located on the Thompson Nickel Belt approximately 485 kilometres north of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Nautilus Minerals' (TSX:NUS)(AIM:NUS) Tongan subsidiary, Tonga Offshore Mining Ltd. ("TOML"), has become one of the first private sector organizations to be granted exploration licences in the highly prospective Clarion Clipperton Zone ("CCZ") of the Eastern Pacific. As a result of exploration conducted in the 1980s, the CCZ is known to host significant deposits of polymetallic nodules, which are golf ball sized nuggets, rich in copper, nickel, manganese and cobalt, lying on the seafloor in water depths starting at 4500 metres.

Salazar Resources Ltd. CA:SRL +2.38% (frankfurt:CCG) - Mr. Fredy Salazar, President and CEO, is pleased to provide an update on the progress of a precious metals mineralogical study of the El Domo volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit being carried out by Surface Science Western (SSW) in London, Ontario under the supervision of Kevin Scott, P. Eng., of Roscoe Postle Associates Inc. (RPA).