Coeur d’Alene Mines Corporation (NYSE:CDE)(TSX:CDM) announced today that full production has resumed at its Palmarejo Mine after the small group of employees who had been blocking access to the mine agreed to return to work.

Diamond's extensive mining experience of Diamond V Associates, could make the company a strong ally in GTSO's mission to bring new sources of tungsten online.

Ormet announces a $1.1 million net loss for the first quarter of 2012. This compares to a net income of $5.5 million for the same period of 2011.

According to a new report from Pike Research, worldwide investment by the mining industry on renewable energy and energy conservation will reach approximately $8.4 billion by 2016 and nearly $20 billion by 2020.

“We’re glad the Obama campaign finally included clean coal in its ‘all of the above’ energy strategy, but the President’s commitment to coal needs to be more than just a talking point."

“Based on what we’ve seen from recent drilling, expectations are high that this major expansion in drilling activity at Buckreef will not only significantly boost our resource base but the overall grade tenor in the Buckreef deposit as well.”

The latest assay results from the ongoing drill program at Tanzanian Royalty’s Buckreef Gold Project in northern Tanzania lend additional support to the emergence of a high grade gold discovery at depth across above-average widths.

Mountain Lake Resources Inc. (TSX-V: MOA.V - News)(Pink Sheets: MLKRF)(“Mountain Lake” or the “Company”) is pleased to report the completion of the initial National Instrument (NI) 43-101 resource estimate by P&E Mining Consultants Inc. (“P&E”) of Brampton, Ontario for the Lunch Pond (“LP” or the “Lunch Pond Deposit”) area of its 100% owned Glover Island Gold Property (the “Property”) in western Newfoundland.

Alcoa (NYSE: AA) announced today that the Company will reduce its annual alumina production capacity by approximately 390,000 metric tons to align production with smelter curtailments Alcoa announced earlier this year and to reflect prevailing market conditions.

Santa Fe Gold Corporation SFEG +5.70% is pleased to report it has declared the beginning of commercial production at its Summit silver-gold mine in southwest New Mexico.

BayFront Capital Partners and its wholly-owned subsidiary Roman Copper Corp. today released further details of their plan for Cupru Min and its world-class Rosia Poieni copper mine, acquired as part of the Romanian government’s privatization program.

The Graystone Company (OTC Bulletin Board: GYST) announced that its 100% owned subsidiary Grupo Minero Inca (a Peruvian Corporation) has claimed an additional mining concession in Peru. The new concession has been named Graystone III and is 700 hectares (or 1,729.7 acres) or approximately 7,000,000 square meters (or 2.7 square miles)