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AngloGold Ashanti Credit Rating Upgraded by Moody’s on Improved Fundamentals

AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE: AU) is pleased to acknowledge that Moody's Investors Service today upgraded the issuer rating of AngloGold Ashanti Limited to Baa2 from Baa3, together with upgrading the senior unsecured debt obligations of the company's guaranteed subsidiary to Baa2, in recognition of significant improvements in the company's balance sheet position and operational performance.

Santa Fe Metals options Cuyoaco gold/copper property

Santa Fe Metals Corp. has signed a letter of intent to option up to 100% of the Cuyoaco Gold and Base Metal Property in the State of Puebla, Mexico. The Cuyoaco property currently hosts 3 separate prospective zones of high-grade mineralization. Previous sampling has returned up to 6% Cu and 31 grams/ton Au with previous drill intercepts grading as high as 28 metres of 1.3g/t Au.

Bear Lake Gold: NI 43-101 shows 683,000 oz gold at Bear Lake Zone

Bear Lake Gold Ltd. (the "Company") is pleased to announce the results of an initial mineral resource estimate and an update on the drilling program at the Bear Lake zone of its Larder Lake Project located on the prolific Cadillac-Larder Lake Break in the mining district of North-Eastern Ontario.

North Country Gold Corp. expands gold mineralization at Antler

North Country Gold Corp. announced initial results from the Antler target at the Three Bluffs Gold Project in the Committee Bay Greenstone Belt, northeast of Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada. These preliminary results are part of the $25 million exploration program targeting at least 30,000 metres of drilling in 2011.

Peregrine discovers three more Kimberlites at Chidliak

Peregrine Diamonds reported the discovery by drilling of three new kimberlites, CH-56, CH-57 and CH-58, on the Chidliak project ("Chidliak" or "the Project"). Chidliak is located on southern Baffin Island approximately 100 kilometres northeast of Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, Canada.