Coalspur Mines Limited ("Coalspur" or "Company") (ASX: CPL, TSX: CPT) is pleased to announce an initial Coal Resource estimate on the recently acquired11 Vista Extension, comprising 173.7 million tonnes ("Mt") in the Measured and Indicated Mineral Resource categories and 969.3Mt in the Inferred Mineral Resource category.

Northern Shield Resources Inc. ("Northern Shield") (TSXV: NRN) is pleased to announce results from the five hole drill program completed to date at Northern Shield's 100% owned Tempest property, in northern Ontario, which include two gold mineralized zones intersected in drill-hole TP12-07.

NSX Silver Inc. is a mineral exploration company actively exploring for silver and associated metals in Mexico.

Mountain Province Diamonds Inc. ("Mountain Province", the "Company") (TSX: MPV) (NYSE-AMEX: MDM) is pleased to announce that its shareholders have voted 99.5% in favour of the proposed spin-out of Kennady Diamonds Inc. ("Kennady Diamonds") at a special meeting of shareholders held yesterday, April 25, 2012.

Uravan Minerals and Cameco have signed an agreement whereby Uravan granted Cameco the exclusive option ("Option") to earn an aggregate 70% interest in Uravan's 100% owned Halliday and Stewardson uranium projects (the "Mineral Properties"), Athabasca Basin1, Northern Saskatchewan [map link] by Cameco funding a cumulative twenty-two million dollars ($22,000,000) in exploration expenditures.

VANCOUVER, April 24, 2012 /CNW/ - Freegold Ventures Limited (TSX: FVL, Frankfurt: FR4N) ("Freegold") is pleased to report the results from its ongoing drill program on

MBAC Fertilizer Corp. ("MBAC" or the "Company") (TSX:MBC) (OTCQX:MBCFF) is very pleased to announce the results of the Prefeasibility Study ("PFS") for the Company's 100% owned Santana Phosphate Project ("Santana" or the "Project") located in the southeast of Para State, Brazil.

Nanika Resources Inc. (TSXV-NKA and FSE-C7X) announces that it will not be proceeding with the agreement to acquire, by option, the Polaris Gold Property, which is located five kilometres northeast of Aiken Lake, approximately 250 kilometres north of Fort St. James in British Columbia.

Marathon Gold Corporation ("Marathon" or the "Company") (TSX: MOZ)today announced it has filed its Technical Report with the first NI 43-101 compliant Resource Estimate on the Golden Chest Mine in north eastern Idaho, USA and it can be found on the SEDAR website.

Thompson Creek Metals Company Inc. (the "Company" or "Thompson Creek"), a growing, diversified, North American mining company, today announced the completion of the mill expansion project at the Endako mine.

Highlights of the 2011 prospecting program include Azimut's discovery of two new gold prospects (16.7 g/t Au from an outcrop and 26.1 g/t Au from a near-source boulder).

Encanto Potash Corp. ("Encanto" or the "Company") (TSXV: EPO) (OTCQX: ENCTF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Novopro Project Inc. ("Novopro") to provide engineering services for its pre-feasibility study ("PFS") on the Muskowekwan Potash Property in Saskatchewan.