RENO, NEVADA-- - Gryphon Gold Corporation announced that the Company has taken steps to significantly reduce costs and future commitments. The reductions were made to ensure business presence is maintained while planning continues to put the Borealis property in Nevada's Walker Lane gold belt into production.

BROOMFIELD, Colo.----MWH, a global provider of environmental engineering, construction and strategic consulting services, and El Paso Corporation have been credited for environmental excellence in reclamation work on the Comstock Mill Site project in Storey County, Nev.

Allied Nevada Gold Corp.(NYSE ALTERNEXT US: ANV) announced its first production from its run-of-mine, heap leach property, the Hycroft Mine. Total production for December 2008 was approximately 1,000 ounces of gold and 3,000 ounces of silver which was a combination of dore and carbon.

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LOS ANGELES & HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam----PHI Mining Group, Inc. , a company focused on mining opportunities in Southeast Asia, today announced that the company has acquired all the issued and outstanding stock of Indochina Mining Corporation, a Nevada corporation, in exchange for 11.2 million shares of newly issued common stock of PHIG.

CARSON CITY -- Veteran Nevada state Archivist Guy Rocha plans to retire before the state's budget crunch forces him to preside over cuts that might gut the agency he has been dedicated to for 28 years.

TORONTO, Jan. 5, 2009 -- Sierra Gold Corporation today announced that gold production has finally begun after an unusually long rainy season. The first two weeks of production during the month of December have yielded over 11/2 kilos of gold.

With gold near record-high prices, the financial woes of the rest of the country are a distant concern in the mining town of Battle Mountain.

BATTLE MOUNTAIN, Nev., Jan. 2 (UPI) -- The economic slowdown hasn't dodged the small gold-mining town of Battle Mountain, Nev. -- it's done something else: It's helped, town residents said.

The global economic meltdown has been a boon to the 4,000 residents of Battle Mountain, in Nevada, the world's fourth leading producer of gold, which is selling at a near-record $892 an ounce.