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Coeur d'Alene Mines Receives Approval for Extending Silver, Gold Mining Operations at Rochester Mine

Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation (NYSE:CDE) (TSX:CDM) (ASX:CXC) announced today that the Bureau of Land Management has issued a positive Decision Record for Coeur's Rochester Mine in Nevada to extend silver and gold mining operations by several years with new production ounces expected to begin being recovered in the fourth quarter of 2011.

From Coeur Mining, Inc. 27 Oct 2010

Ivanhoe Mines Starts Counter-Claim in Arbitration Proceeding with Rio Tinto

Robert Friedland, Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN)(NYSE:IVN)(NASDAQ:IVN), announced today that Ivanhoe Mines has delivered a statement of defence and initiated a counter-claim as part of an ongoing arbitration proceeding launched by Rio Tinto on July 9, 2010.

From Ivanhoe Mines Ltd 27 Oct 2010

Redstar Gold Buys Larus Project in Nevada

Redstar Gold Corp. (TSX VENTURE:RGC) has announced it has acquired a new 100%-owned property along the prolific Cortez gold belt in central Nevada.

From Heliostar 27 Oct 2010

Western Uranium Starts New Company to Explore Copper-Gold in South America

Western Uranium Corporation (TSX VENTURE:WUC) has announced that it has established a new corporate entity to conduct exploration activities in South America.

27 Oct 2010

Rockland Minerals Announces Airborne Geophysical Survey on Retty Lake Property

Rockland Minerals Corp. (TSX VENTURE:RL) reports that the helicopter-borne Time-Domain Electromagnetic and Magnetic survey on its 100% optioned Retty Lake Cu-Ni-PGE property near Schefferville, Quebec has provided new, high-resolution geophysical data, which will greatly assist in defining exploration targets.

27 Oct 2010

Global Strategic Business Report on Germanium

The economic recession across global markets during the years 2008 and 2009 derailed various end-use applications of germanium and dented the prospects of the market.

26 Oct 2010

Hunter Dickinson to Acquire 70% Interest in Geodex Minerals' Tungsten-Molybdenum Project

Geodex Minerals Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:GXM)(FRANKFURT:G2W) has announced that Northcliff Exploration Ltd. of the Hunter Dickinson group has signed the Sisson Brook Joint Venture Agreement to acquire a 70% interest in the Company's Sisson Brook tungsten-molybdenum project in New Brunswick, Canada.

26 Oct 2010

Mirabela Nickel Announces 2,405 Tonnes of Nickel Production for Third Quarter

Mirabela Nickel Limited has announced its unaudited third quarter results for the period ended 30 September 2010.

26 Oct 2010

Puda Coal to Purchase Two Coal Mines in Shanxi Province

Puda Coal, Inc. (NYSE Amex: PUDA), a supplier of high grade metallurgical coking coal used to produce coke for steel manufacturing in China and a consolidator of twelve coal mines in Shanxi Province, today announced that Shanxi Puda Coal Group Co. Ltd., a 90% subsidiary of Puda Coal, entered into separate mining rights and mining assets transfer agreements with two coal mines located in Pinglu County, Shanxi Province, on October 20, 2010, Pinglu County Sanmenzhen Xuhutuo Coal Mine Ltd. and Pinglu County Daqi Coal Mine Ltd.

26 Oct 2010

African Queen Mines Reports Airbourne Survey and Exploration Completion at Rongo Gold Field Project

AFRICAN QUEEN MINES LTD., has announced that it has now completed a detailed airbourne geophysical survey together with the first phase of ground exploration on its Rongo Gold Field Project, which covers an area of approximately 112 sq. km in the Kanango gold mining area of the Migori District of Nyanza Province in Southwest Kenya near Lake Victoria.

26 Oct 2010