LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) - A Vancouver, British Columbia, company plans to drill this month near Mount St. Helens to determine if there are enough valuable minerals to mine a site 12 miles from the volcano. Ascot Resources Chief Financial Officer Robert Evans told The Daily News of Longview the drilling aims to confirm tests in the 1970s that showed high levels of copper, silver and gold. He says ...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sept. 1, 2010) - Endeavour Silver Corp. (TSX:EDR)(NYSE Amex:EXK)(DBFrankfurt:EJD) announces that it has identified three new silver veins and acquired three new mining properties ( click here to see maps ) in the San Pedro area of the Guanacevi silver district in Durango State, Mexico.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA-- (Marketwire - Aug. 31, 2010) - Sutter Gold Mining Inc. ("Sutter" or "SGM" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:SGM) is pleased to announce the agreement of an increase to the Company's existing secured loan facility ("the Facility") in the amount of US $3.65 million with RMB Australia Holdings Limited. The amount available under the amended Facility now totals US $7.90 ...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Aug. 31, 2010) - United Mining Group, Inc. (the "Company" or "UMG"), (CNSX:UMG)(MUN:UM8) is pleased to announce that the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) has conditionally approved the Company's common shares for listing on the TSX. The TSX has reserved the stock trading symbol "UMG" in anticipation of the commencement of trading of the Company's shares.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA-- (Marketwire - Aug. 31, 2010) - New Pacific Metals Corp. (TSX VENTURE:NUX) ("New Pacific"), announces that at the August 30, 2010 hearing of the B.C. Securities Commission ("BCSC") the BCSC has dismissed YS Mining Company Inc.'s application for a cease trade order in connection with the take-over bid by New Pacific for all of the outstanding common shares and the ...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Aug. 31, 2010) - Sandstorm Resources Ltd. ("Sandstorm" or the "Corporation") (TSX VENTURE:SSL) is pleased to announce that it has accepted the feasibility study of Rambler Metals and Mining PLC ("Rambler") (TSX VENTURE:RAB)(AIM:RMM) on its copper-gold Ming Mine (the "Ming Mine"), located on the Baie Verte Peninsula in Newfoundland, Canada. In accordance ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia----Yale Resources Ltd. is pleased to announce that a recently completed geophysics program at the wholly owned Guadalupe Property, on behalf of our partner Gold American Mining Inc., has identified multiple potentially significant geophysical anomalies.

Canadian Mining announces it has granted an extension on the Option to Purchase to Heemskirk Canada Limited on the Company's Bromley Creek zeolite mine. The maturity date of the Agreement is June 30, 2015.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Aug. 30, 2010) - Gold Canyon Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:GCU)(PINK SHEETS:GDCRF) ("Gold Canyon" or "the Company") is pleased to announce results for holes SP10-009 and SP10-011 of its Summer 2010 Diamond Drill Program at its 100% controlled Springpole Gold Project, located in the Red Lake Mining District of Ontario, Canada. Results include 94.0 meters ...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Aug. 30, 2010) - Sandstorm Resources Ltd. ("Sandstorm") (TSX VENTURE:SSL) is pleased to announce the first gold sales from its gold streaming transaction with Luna Gold Corp. ("Luna"). Luna has begun extracting gold from both the gravity circuit and the cyanide leach system of its Aurizona mine in Brazil, of which Sandstorm is entitled to purchase 17 ...