LOUNOR EXPLORATION INC. reports additional results from its Harker gold property. Lounor Exploration Inc. is providing four (4) additional drill results from its Harker gold project, located in Harker Twp in Timmins/Kirkland Lake area (Ontario).

Freegold Ventures Limited (TSX: ITF, OTCBB: FGOVF, Frankfurt: FR4) is pleased to announce that it has received board and lender approval for a US $2 million financing which is expected to close shortly. Freegold is also in the process of securing an additional US$2 million funding commitment, which would bring total proceeds to US$4 million. In connection with the above, Freegold is terminating its engagement for the longer-term debt financing that was announced on July 18, 2008.

Beeston Enterprises Ltd. (OTC-BB: BESE) announces that it completed drilling on its Bluff Lake property that it holds under option from Candorado Operating Company Ltd.. The property is located on the northern border of G W R Resources Inc.'s property where drilling continues to delineate significant alkalic copper-gold deposits.

Ruby Red Resources Inc. is pleased to announce visual results on the first of three scheduled drill holes on their 100% owned Zeus property located 35 kilometres west of Cranbrook, British Columbia.

Evolving Gold Corp. (TSX-V:EVG) (OTCBB:EVOGF) is pleased to announce the commencement of the Phase One drill program on its 100% owned Rattlesnake Hills Diatreme Complex Project in Wyoming, designed to expand the gold mineralization indicated by previous drilling. Evolving has two diamond drilling core rigs on site to undertake the 7,000 m (23,000 ft) drill program.

Tamm Oil and Gas Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: TAMO) recently announced the recent purchase of 14 sections of P&NG leases at an Alberta Crown land sale. These are adjacent to Tamm's existing 21 sections of oil sands leases in the Peace River region of northern Alberta.

Last week, Kootenay Gold (TSX.V:KTN) released the initial results from the Phase 2 drill program now underway at the company’s 100% owned Promintorio project.

Minera Andes Inc. (TSX: MAI; US OTC: MNEAF) is pleased to report assay results from several core holes drilled as part of the 2007-2008 field season at the Los Azules porphyry copper project. The best intercept is from hole AZ-08-33 which encountered 132 meters of 1.11 % copper within a larger zone of 250 meters of 0.92 % copper.

Belvedere Resources Ltd. BEL:TSX-V is pleased to announce that it has started a 5,000 metre diamond drilling programme on its 100% owned Hirsikangas Gold Property, Finland.

Claude Resources Inc. (CRJ.TSX : CGR.AMEX) today announced screen metallic assay results from the Fork Zone at the Company's 100% controlled Madsen Project at Red Lake, Ontario.

Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp. (Amex: KOG), an oil and gas exploration and production company with assets in the Green River Basin of southwest Wyoming and the Williston Basin of North Dakota and Montana, today announced that it has received a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) and the necessary approval of the environmental assessment (EA) with respect to the Tall Bear #16-15H well on the Fort Berthold Reservation in Dunn County, N.D.

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