Australian energy company, Blackham Resources Limited (Blackham) (ASX:BLK) is pleased to announce a significant increase in the coal resource at its Scaddan Energy Project in Western Australia. Scaddan and Zanthus combined resources now contains over 10,000 petajoules (PJ) of energy and has the potential to produce approximately 860 million barrels of oil equivalent, consisting mainly of a clean diesel product.

Bounty Oil & Gas NL (ASX:BUY) (PINK:BYOGF) is pleased to announce that the Nyuni 2 well in the Nyuni Block, Tanzania was expected to spud around mid day today East Australia Time.

Mongolian-focused coking coal explorer Aspire Mining Limited (ASX:AKM) (PINK:ASPXF) is pleased to announce the appointments of Mr Andrew Edwards and Mr Mark Read as Non- Executive Directors of the Company, effective 1 July, 2011. Mr Edwards is a recently retired senior partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers ("PwC"). Mr Edwards had a distinguished career with PwC spanning 35 years in Perth, Auckland and Sydney.

Iron Road Limited (ASX:IRD) is pleased to announce the results of a Prefeasibility Study (PFS) conducted over the Murphy South and Boo-Loo deposits at the flagship Central Eyre Iron Project (CEIP) in South Australia. Prefeasibility Study underpins strong project fundamentals and development potential - 12.4 million tonne per annum iron concentrate operation based on the current Mineral Resource (Stage 1 'base case').

Eagle Eye Metals Limited (ASX:EYE) is pleased to announce that it has commenced its inaugural drilling program at the Kourouba Prospect, located within the Company's Dankassa Gold Project, in southern Mali.

Australian gold-copper resources company, Mutiny Gold Ltd (ASX:MYG) ("Mutiny" or the "Company"), is pleased to announce that its initial RC drilling program of drilling on the Deflector extension zones in the South Murchison Region of Western Australia has been successfully completed. This program, which totaled 40 RC holes for approximately 3609 metres, added a further southern extension of 60m to the Deflector deposit to increase the total strike length to at least 800m.