The transaction will encompass certain exploitation concessions by CMCA on the Carmen de Andacollo copper-gold mine, any mining concessions acquired within a 1.5 kilometer area of interest, and certain other mining concessions that CMCA may acquire.

The Agreement terminates Royal Gold’s royalty equivalent to 75% of the gold produced from the sulfide portion of the Carmen de Andacollo mine until 910,000 payable ounces have been produced, and 50% of the gold produced thereafter.

The firm announced it is successfully commissioning its Coalview Centralia fine coal recovery (FCR) plant.

The company is in various stages of development of recovery projects in Canada, Alabama, Illinois, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

Results from the Canadian owned Black Fox Complex continue to return high-grade gold assays.

Based on initial ranges, Graystone is estimating that the amount of gold on their site could be in excess of $100,000,000.

Expansions are planned for Stellar Diamonds and Koidu Holdings, after evaluations found that "the Lion-5 Kimberlite prove that the body is of both high grade and high diamond quality."

"Let’s be clear – by choosing to offer Shell a $1.7 billion dollar tax break while proposing to cut nearly $900 million to public education, the governor is choosing winners and losers," says George Jugovic Jr., president and CEO of PennFuture.

U.S. Silver Corporation announced results from the previously announced exploration diamond drill program carried out to date in 2012.

Brigus Gold Corp. (“Brigus” or the “Company”) (NYSE Amex: BRD; TSX: BRD) reports that power has been restored at its Black Fox Mill and operations have resumed.

Brigus Gold Corp. (“Brigus” or the “Company”) (NYSE Amex: BRD; TSX: BRD) Brigus announces that severe forest fires have caused a power outage at the Company’s Black Fox Mill, located approximately 30 kilometres east of Timmins.

Sunridge Gold Corp. (SGC:TSX.V/SGCNF:OTCQX) has today filed a National Instrument 43-101 compliant technical report regarding the new resource estimate for the Gupo Gold deposit, the fourth deposit that forms the basis of the Asmara North Pre-feasibility Study.