Prospect Capital announced today that Prospect has made a senior secured debt investment of $26.5 million to support the acquisition of ST Products, LLC ("STP") by Quilvest Private Equity and Malakand Capital. Headquartered in Duncansville, Pennsylvania, STP is the leading North American producer of precision redrawn, small diameter, thin wall copper, and specialty alloy tubes. STP is the technical and service leader in its industry, with leading market share in its end markets and a reputation for exceptional technical capabilities, product quality, and delivery reliability.

Athabasca Minerals Inc. ("Athabasca" or the "Corporation") (TSX VENTURE:ABM) is pleased to announce it has entered into a long term land use agreement (the "Land Use Agreement") with a large camp provider (the "Camp Provider") to transfer a 42 acre parcel of developed land out of the depleted portion of Athabasca's current miscellaneous lease at Poplar Creek to the Camp Provider.

Empire Mining Corporation (TSX VENTURE:EPC) ("Empire") is pleased to announce additional assay results for drill holes DTH-009, DTH-010, and DTH-018 at the Demirtepe target area of the Bursa copper-gold-silver-molybdenum project located in Turkey. All three holes intersected significant shallow copper-gold-silver skarn mineralization and holes DTH-9 and DTH-18 also intersected significant molybdenum grades. The drilling has extended the mineralization to the south and to the west, thereby confirming the continuity of the mineralization in the Main Zone along a corridor 270 meters long and up to 100 meters wide.

Denison Mines announced that its Offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of White Canyon Uranium announced in February 2011, closed on June 17, 2011 with Denison receiving acceptances of 96.98% under the Offer. Denison now intends to proceed with the compulsory acquisition of the remaining shares of White Canyon and the delisting of White Canyon's shares from both the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Australian Securities Exchange.

Bearing Resources announced that the Company has entered into an option agreement with Eastfield Resources Ltd. ("Eastfield") to earn up to a 65% interest in the 12,113 hectare Zymo copper-gold project ("Zymo"), located 45 kilometres west of the town of Smithers, British Columbia. Exploration work carried out to date at Zymo, including surface sampling, geophysical testing and core drilling has identified a large copper-gold porphyry system. Four distinct porphyry targets have been identified over an open ended nine kilometre by three kilometre area defined by a coincident copper in soil and induced polarization ("IP") chargeability anomaly.

Allana Potash announced that it has received an updated National Instrument 43-101 ("NI 43-101") compliant Mineral Resource Estimate from ERCOSPLAN Ingenieurgesellschaft Geotechnik und Bergau ("ERCOSPLAN") on its Danakhil Potash Project in Ethiopia. The updated mineral resource estimate includes all four potash bearing beds (sylvinite, upper and lower carnallite and kainitite) in the project and is comprised of Measured and Indicated Mineral Resources totaling 673 Million tonnes with an average grade 18.65% KCl (composite of all four potash beds) and Inferred Mineral Resources totaling 596 Million tonnes with an average grade of 19.96% KCl (composite of all four potash beds).

Further to the announcement issued by North American Energy Partners on Wednesday May 18th, the Company has now been notified by its customer, Canadian Natural Resources Limited ("Canadian Natural"), to suspend overburden removal activities at the Horizon Oil Sands project near Fort McMurray, Alberta. The suspension is being taken while Canadian Natural undertakes repairs to its primary upgrading facility, which was damaged in a fire in January 2011. The suspension of work notice was issued on May 18, 2011 at 2 pm and is effective until January 2, 2012.

Lake Shore Gold Corp. (TSX:LSG) today announced the results of 39 additional holes (5,335 m) from drilling at the company's Vogel property, including several wide, high-grade intersections near surface, as well as the filing of a NI 43-101 report supporting the initial resource estimate for Vogel, first disclosed in a press release dated May 2, 2011. The Vogel property is included within the company's Bell Creek Complex, a large land position covering approximately 32 square kilometres east of Timmins, which also includes the Bell Creek property, Marlhill, Schumacher, Wetmore and other prospective properties. Vogel is located approximately 2 kilometres east of the Bell Creek Mine and Mill.

HudBay Minerals Inc. ("HudBay", the "company") (TSX:HBM)(NYSE:HBM) today announced exploration results from the Pampacancha zone at the company's Constancia project in Peru. Hole PO-11-072 intersected two main intervals of mineralization, including 121.45 meters of 1.62% copper, 13.62 g/t silver and 1.02 g/t gold (2.4% copper equivalent1) and 87.50 meters of 0.46% copper, 2.30 g/t silver and 0.22 g/t gold (0.65% copper equivalent).

Lumina Copper and Lumina Royalty announced that they have closed their previously announced arrangement. Under the terms of a statutory plan of arrangement which received shareholder approval on June 7, 2011 (the "Plan of Arrangement"), the shareholders of Lumina Copper (the "Shareholders") each received, as a distribution in respect of a reduction of capital, one common share of Lumina Royalty for each common share of Lumina Copper

Royal Coal announces that it has agreed to a term sheet for a private placement financing (the "Offering") of CAD 10,000,000 of secured convertible debentures. Under the terms of the Offering, Royal Coal will issue to Mercuria Energy Group Limited or a designated affiliate ("Mercuria") CAD 10,000,000 of secured convertible debentures, which will bear interest at a rate of 9% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears and will be due on or about July 1, 2013. The Offering is expected to close on or about July 1, 2011, unless otherwise agreed by the parties.

Global Earth Energy, Inc. (OTCBB: GLER) (OTCQB:GLER) announced, along with its joint venture partner Modern Coal, LLC, a Texas major contract mining company, […]