Paul N. Wright, President and Chief Executive Officer of Eldorado Gold Corporation (TSX:ELD)(NYSE:EGO)(ASX:EAU) ("Eldorado" the "Company" or "we") is pleased to announce that Eldorado, through its 100% owned subsidiary Tuprag Metal Madencilik Sanayi ve Ticaret ("Tuprag"), has received its Trial Operating Permit ("Permit") at the Efemcukuru Gold Project in Izmir and the supplementary Environmental Impact Assessment Positive Certificate ("EIA") at Kisladag Gold Mine in Usak.

iverstone Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:RVS)(OTCQX:RVREF)(FRANKFURT:3RV) is pleased to report further results from the drill program on the company's Karma Project in Burkina Faso, West Africa (see map on website: http://www.riverstoneresources.com/i/maps/110608-100504_GG1_2_Cartoon.jpg). The holes are part of an ongoing RC drill program on the Goulagou I zone of the Karma Project. The program is designed to both fill-in and expand the known mineralization at Goulagou I, which remains open in all directions, especially to the west and at depth. Map of the Karma Project by Riverstone Resources Inc.

Migao Corporation (TSX:MGO), a China-based leading specialty potash fertilizer producer, this week reported financial results for the year ended March 31, 2011. Migao reported net income of $34.5 million or $0.66 per basic share from record revenues of $317.0 million (RMB 2.1 billion) for the 12-months ended March 31, 2011 as compared to net income of $38.3 million or $0.80 per basic share from revenues of $269.1 million (RMB 1.7 billion) for the year ended March 31, 2010. EBITDA for the year was $34.5 million as compared to $38.3 million in the prior year.

As a result of weak financial market conditions, Nautilus Minerals (TSX:NUS)(AIM:NUS) has decided to withdraw its proposed capital raising. Despite a positive response from investors during marketing of the proposed transaction over the past two weeks, adverse market conditions had meant that it was not in the interests of shareholders for the transaction to proceed.

Barrick Gold announced today that an additional 36,221,770 common shares of Equinox Minerals representing approximately 4% of the outstanding Equinox Shares on a fully diluted basis have now been taken up under the offer (the "Offer") by the Offeror to acquire all of the Equinox Shares at a price of C$8.15 per Equinox Share.

Robert Friedland, Chief Executive Officer of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (TSX:IVN)(NYSE:IVN)(NASDAQ:IVN), issued an operations update today that reports on progress being achieved on the development of principal projects in the portfolios of the parent company and its subsidiaries and associated interests. Key developments: Full-scale construction at Ivanhoe Mines' flagship Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold-silver mining complex is continuing toward a projected peak level of activity that is expected to be reached during the third quarter of this year. The total number of workers engaged at the Oyu Tolgoi construction site has more than doubled since March 1, 2011, as part of the build up to the peak of construction and currently stands at 12,497.

Corvus Gold Inc. (TSX:KOR)(OTCQX:CORVF) announces results from the 2011 winter drilling program at the LMS project near Delta Junction, Alaska. The company's joint venture partner, First Star Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:FS) today advised that it completed 640 metres of drilling at the project and that the results include drill hole LM-11-40 which intercepted 21.2 metres grading 5.8 g/t gold and 12.6 g/t silver in the gold-bearing graphitic quartzite breccia, including 5.2 m grading 21.4 g/t gold and 33.5 g/t silver.

The German government is facing a major legal battle over its planned early exit from nuclear power as energy giants E.ON AG (PINK:EONGY) (Dusseldorf, Germany) and RWE AG (PINK:RWEOY) (Essen, Germany) want billions of euros in compensation. E.ON made its intentions clear this week when it outlined plans to take legal action against the government's decision to continue demanding its controversial nuclear tax, despite shutting down the oldest nuclear plants. In March, RWE announced that it would take legal action against the government's closure o those seven nuclear plants.

Dalradian Resources continues to extend the known mineralization at its Curraghinalt Deposit in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Results from 6 step out holes and 1 infill hole are reported for a total of 15 intercepts greater than 5 gram metres.

United Coal Company (Blountville, Tennessee), a subsidiary of Ukrainian integrated mining and steel holding company Metinvest Holding LLC (Donetsk, Ukraine), is developing $350 million in coal mine projects in the eastern U.S. United Coal plans to add at least 4 million tons per year of coal mining capacity for use at U.S. locations and for export to Metinvest's steel mills in Europe and Ukraine.

Capella Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:KPS)(PINK SHEETS:CPSJF) is pleased to announce that it has discovered two new mineralization zones at its Lajitas gold-copper project in northern Chile as a result of the recently completed airborne hyperspectral imaging survey by SpecTIR LLC of Reno, Nevada.

Alderon Resource announced that its summer/fall 2011 drill program has commenced at the 100% owned Kamistiatusset Iron Ore Project in western Labrador. The CDN $11 million program will consist of 26,000 metres (m) of drilling and is designed to upgrade the current resource as well as expand the known zones of mineralization and target new areas.