Union Gold Inc., CUSIP number 90669H204, announces that pursuant to the Company’s Rolling Stock Option Plan (approved by the Shareholders on June 6th, 2008) the following options have been granted to the President and Director, Jeffrey J. Becker 400,000, to Maureen L. Friesen, Director 100,000, Grant V. Ohman, Director, 100,000, William R. Troup, Consultant, 108,000, [...]

San Gold Corporation announce that it has closed its private placement offering (the “Offering”) of 13,350,000 common shares of the Company issued as “flow-through shares” within the meaning of the Income Tax Act (Canada) (the “Flow-Through Shares”) at a price of $1.50 per Flow-Through Share for total gross proceeds to the Company of $20,025,000. Dundee [...]

George A. Brown, President and CEO of MacMillan Gold Corp. announce that MacMillan has received an additional 100,000 common shares of West Timmins Mining Inc. of Vancouver. These were issued as due, on or by September 30, 2008, as per the terms of the Property Option Letter Agreement dated November 7, 2007 as news released [...]

Avion Resources Corp. announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell 50% of its interest in the Segala gold project located in Mali, West Africa to Dynamite Resources Inc. (the “Transaction”). Avion Resources will retain a 40% interest in the Segala Gold Project, with the remaining 20% interest held by the Government of [...]

PERSHIMCO RESOURCES INC. report that the Corporation has initiated surface work to extract a minimum 2,500 tons bulk sample from the Thibodeau Intrusive Complex (the “TIC”) on its wholly owned Courville Gold Project, in the Val-d’Or-Malartic Mining Camp.
The excavation work follows one of the recommendations made by Scott Wilson RPA Inc. (”Scott Wilson RPA”) in [...]

Tournigan Energy Ltd. has arranged to sell its wholly-owned subsidiaries Dalradian Gold Limited (”Dalradian”) and Tournigan USA Inc. (”TVC-USA”). Tournigan has signed a letter agreement with C3 Resources Inc. (”C3″) whereby C3 will acquire Dalradian for C$13 million (the “Dalradian Transaction”). Tournigan has also signed a letter agreement with Fischer-Watt Gold Company, Inc. (”Fischer-Watt”) [...]

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. declares the following quarterly cash dividends payable on November 1, 2008 to holders of record as of October 15, 2008:
* $0.50 per share of FCX’s Common Stock (NYSE: FCX).
* $1.6875 per share of FCX’s 6¾% Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock (NYSE: FCXprM).
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Maximus Ventures Ltd. and NFX Gold Inc. announce that the acquisition by NFX of all of the issued shares of Maximus by way of plan of arrangement was approved by the Supreme Court of British Columbia on September 15, 2008 and closed today, with an effective date of September 16, 2008. As part of [...]

Moss Lake Gold Mines Ltd. is pleased to announce its intention to issue approximately 1,226,826 common shares to Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd. pursuant to a shares for debt transaction. The issuance of the Shares will extinguish approximately $306,706.50 of debt which was previously announced in a press release dated April 24, 2006. All of [...]

Jaguar Financial Corporation (”Jaguar”) (TSX: JFC) announced its acquisition of an additional 811,300 common shares of Virtek Vision International Inc. (”Virtek”; TSX: VRK) representing approximately 2.4% of the total issued common shares of Virtek. The Virtek shares were acquired on the Toronto Stock Exchange for investment purposes at an average price of $1.037 per share. [...]