The story of the great Canadian gold coin heist

Lake Shore Gold Corp.(TSX:LSG)(NYSE MKT:LSG) ("Lake Shore Gold" or the "Company") today announced that the Company has commenced safety, ventilation and maintenance checks at its Timmins West Mineas of 7:00 pm on Sunday, May 27, 2012, with full production at the mine to resume tomorrow morning (Monday, May 28, 2012) at 7:00 am.

It raises questions about demand for such assets, just as peer Rio Tinto starts work on a potential sale of its diamond division.

Lake Shore Gold Corp. (TSX:LSG)(NYSE MKT:LSG)(NYSE Amex:LSG) ("Lake Shore Gold" or the "Company") today announced that as a result of high winds and smoke from a forest fire approximately 15 kilometres southwest of the Timmins West Mine, operations at the mine have been temporarily suspended.

A new fuel-quality directive, passed yesterday by the European Union, will create a separate label for Canadian oil produced from oilsands.

White Tiger Gold Ltd. ("White Tiger") (TSX:WTG) announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Century Mining Corporation ("Century"), has received a notice from Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch ("Deutsche Bank"), advising that Deutsche Bank has elected to terminate its Forward Gold Purchase Agreement (the "Forward Agreement") with Century as a result of the occurrence and continuation of an event of default (the "Default").

The prelimary economic assessment for the Ashram rare earth deposit in Quebec shows "robust economics," says Canadian explorer Commerce Resources (TSX-V:CCE).

Prophecy Platinum added 2.5% on Friday on double usual trading volumes, after announcing results of a full spectrum analysis of PGMs on the first batch of samples from its PGM-Ni-Cu wholly-owned Wellgreen project, in the Yukon, Canada.

Zimbabwe's central bank threatened to freeze Impala Platinum's local account and ordered local banks to halt managing any of the company’s exports because it has “failed to comply with an order to bank locally,” state-controlled newspaper The Herald reports.

Balmoral Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:BAR)(OTCQX:BALMF) ("Balmoral" or the "Company") today reported a new discovery of nickel-copper-platinum group metal mineralization on the Company's wholly owned Grasset Property.