Fronteer Gold (TSX: FRG)(NYSE Amex: FRG) announces today that core drilling continues to define a second high-grade, gold-silver zone and that site preparation for the decline portal has commenced at its wholly owned Northumberland project in Nevada.

Holes NUG05 and FNU38 are located 75 metres north and 105 metres south-west, respectively, of previously reported FNU035 (see August 3, 2010, press release). Both new holes returned high-grade gold and silver values. Mineralization now extends for an average strike length of 260 metres within the currently outlined second high-grade zone.

Keegan Resources Inc. (TSX: KGN)(Amex: KGN) ("Keegan") is pleased to announce new assay results from its Esaase Project drilling program in southwest Ghana. Keegan received assays from 12 drill holes, revealing a new near surface zone 200 m NW from the existing Esaase resources. Intercepts include 9 meters at 5.65 g/t Au, 18 meters of 1.16 g/t Au, and 6 meters of 3.3 g/t Au. The zone is open in both strike directions and at depth. Please see a drillhole location map at www.keeganresources.com.

Table 1: Recent results from step out drilling from Keegan's Esaase Project. Only intercepts with grade-widths of greater than 10 g/t meter Au are shown. Intercepts with grade-widths of approximately 20 g/t meter Au or higher are show in bold text. Widths are given as measured down hole and grades are reported in g/t Au. All holes are drilled at an azimuth of approximately 110 degrees at a dip of 45 degrees so depth from surface is approximately 70% of drill hole depths.

Ventana Gold Corp. (TSX: VEN) ("Ventana" or the "Company") is pleased to announce drill results from 19 additional holes at the La Bodega gold project in Colombia. Results from 15 of these holes are reported here and a complete listing of drill intercepts is available on the Company's website at www.ventanagold.com.

Five of the new holes reported here (254, 262, 268, 274 and 280) are infill holes in the La Mascota zone; three of the new holes (259, 267, 276) are southwest infill holes on the El Cuatro mineral tenement; six holes (263, 264, 266, 271, 277 and 279) are extensions of the La Bodega zone toward the La Mascota zone; and one hole (283) is located on the newly discovered Aserradero zone southeast of La Mascota. Refer to the attached map and cross sections for details: http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/ven97c.pdf

Goldgroup Mining Inc. ("Goldgroup" or the "Company"), in coordination with DynaResource, Inc. ("DynaUSA" - "DYNR-OTCBB"), is pleased to announce that drilling from its 15,600 meter Phase II diamond drilling program at the San José de Gracia project in Sinaloa, Mexico ("San José de Gracia") continues to encounter significant mineralization yielding 22.19 g/t Au over 7.8 meters and 21.89 g/t Au over 1.75 meters. Significant assay results from the next nine holes in the program (SJG-10-148 to SJG-10-156), all drilled in the Tres Amigos vein, are presented in the table below:

Red Back Mining Inc. (the "Company" or "Red Back") (TSX: RBI) is pleased to report continued Resource growth at its 100% owned Tasiast Gold Mine ("Tasiast") in Mauritania.

Since the previous December 2009 Mineral Resource estimation (February 1, 2010 release) the Measured and Indicated Resource at Tasiast has increased by 2.74Moz to 9.25Moz (a 42% increase) and the Inferred Resource has increased by 0.63Moz to 1.93Moz (a 48% increase) (at cut off grades of 0.2g/t for oxide and 0.5g/t for fresh material).

Golden Predator Corp. (TSX: GPD) (the "Company") is pleased to announce initial results from its diamond and reverse circulation drilling programs on its Clear Creek Project.

Clear Creek To date the Company has drilled 4 HQ oriented core diamond drill holes totaling 1,054 m and 38 RC drill holes totaling 2,589 m on four separate target areas at its Clear Creek Property. Results for 1 diamond drill hole and 7 of the RC drill holes on the Bear Paw Breccia zone have now been received and analyzed. A detailed plan map and drill hole results table is available for viewing at the Company's website http://www.goldenpredator.com/i/pdf/GP-NR10-28-ClearCreekResults-Sept7-2010-LONG.pdf

Stillwater to Acquire Marathon PGM's Platinum Group Assets; Marathon PGM to Spin Out Gold Assets Acquisition of Complementary Assets Solidifies Stillwater's Position as Leading North American PGM Mining Company; Anticipated to Increase Stillwater's Platinum and Palladium Production by Approximately 40% Within Three Years Transaction Expected to Be Immediately Accretive to Stillwater on a Net Asset Value per Share and Reserve per Share Basis; Expected to Be Highly Accretive to Stillwater Cash Flow Within Three Years

Stillwater Mining Company (NYSE: SWC) ("Stillwater") and Marathon PGM Corporation (TSX: MAR) ("Marathon PGM") today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement (the "Agreement") pursuant to which Stillwater, by way of a plan of arrangement, will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Marathon PGM.

Eldorado Gold Corporation (TSX: ELD)(NYSE: EGO)(ASX: EAU) ("Eldorado" the "Company" or "we") today confirmed it has approached the Board of Directors of Andean Resources Limited ("Andean") with a proposal to combine the two companies, thus creating the world's fastest growing and lowest cost gold producer.

Andean is a dual listed company (TSX: AND)(ASX: AND) whose main asset is the Cerro Negro Gold Project ("Cerro Negro") in the southern province of Santa Cruz in Argentina. Cerro Negro is an epithermal gold deposit at feasibility study stage that currently contains 2.1 million oz of gold and 20.6 million oz of silver in Probable Reserves.

Oncolytics Biotech Inc. ("Oncolytics") (TSX:ONC, NASDAQ:ONCY) announced today that the Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) intends to conduct a randomized Phase II trial of weekly paclitaxel versus weekly paclitaxel with REOLYSIN(R) in patients with persistent or recurrent, ovarian, fallopian tube or primary peritoneal cancer (GOG186H). The study has been approved and will be sponsored by the Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI), which is part of the National Institutes of Health, under its Clinical Trials Agreement with Oncolytics. Oncolytics will provide clinical supplies of REOLYSIN for this study. The Study Chair will be Dr. David E. Cohn of The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute.

Tethys Petroleum Limited ("Tethys" or the "Company") (TSX: TPL) today gave a brief update on its operations in Kazakhstan focused on its oil exploration and appraisal program.

The AKD03 (Dione) exploration well is currently at a depth of 2,823 metres (in what is interpreted to be the middle Jurassic sequence) and casing has been run. Hydrocarbons have been indicated from drilling and log data in three zones and a testing programme is planned for the near future. Once this testing programme has been carried out the well will be drilled deeper into the Triassic sequence.

The G6RE (Dodone) well has now been drilled to a depth of 2,835 metres in order to test a deeper potential oil bearing zone identified from the wireline logs in the original G6 hole. The hole is currently being prepared to run casing but differential sticking in the bottom section probably caused by higher formation pressures and permeable zones has slowed down the process. Once casing has been run, preparations for testing can commence.

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.

Endeavour currently owns and operates two high-grade, underground, silver-gold mines in Mexico, the Guanacevi Mines in Durango State and the Guanajuato Mines in Guanajuato State. The Guanacevi Mines produced 622,385 oz silver and 1,602 oz gold (726,515 oz silver equivalents, based on a 65:1 silver:gold ratio) in the 2nd Quarter, 2010, up 40% from Q2, 2009.

Resource Extension Drilling Opens Up Potential to the North and West and Step-Out Drilling Identifies More Gold to the Southeast

Lydian International Ltd. (TSX:LYD) ("Lydian" or "the Company"), a gold-focused mineral exploration and development company, today announced further results from resource upgrade and extension drilling at its Amulsar gold discovery in Armenia. Amulsar is a high-sulfidation style gold project which currently hosts a CIM compliant Inferred Category Resource of 1.4 million ounces at 0.9g/t gold.

Reverse circulation drill-hole RCA-233 has intersected 95 meters at 1.7g/t gold from the Erato area. RCA-233 is located 40m to the south of DDA-30 (which returned 229m at 1.0g/t gold in last year's drilling; see press release November 11, 2009) and is approximately 900m to the north of the resource envelope at Tigranes and Artavasdes.

Veta Sur BUSY-79, intersected 14.3 metres at 446g/t gold and 166g/t silver including 3.0 metres at 2106.1g/t gold and 738.7g/t silver Other significant new Veta Sur intercepts include BUSY-66: 8.50 metres at 23.67g/t gold and 149g/t silver and BUSY-68: 4.70 metres at 85.44g/t gold and 71g/t silver

Continental Gold Ltd. ("Continental" or the "Company") (TSX: CNL) is pleased to announce the first results of the 2010 drilling campaign in the Veta Sur and Yaragua vein systems plus a new discovery on the Company's 100%-owned Buritica Gold Project, Antioquia Province, Colombia.

Lundin Mining Corporation ("Lundin" or the "Company") (TSX:LUN)(OMX:LUMI) today reported its mineral reserve and resource estimates as at June 30, 2010, six months after the last release as at December 31, 2009. As advised when releasing the December estimates, Lundin has changed the timing of its mineral reserve and resource estimate to align the timing of updates with its annual planning process. Updates will occur annually hereafter.

Continued investment in mine exploration has resulted in the replacement of depletion at both Neves-Corvo and Zinkgruvan and a further increase in the copper mineral resources and reserves at Neves Corvo.

Aurizon Mines Ltd. (TSX: ARZ; NYSE Amex: AZK) is pleased to report further results from the current drilling along the exploration drift on the 810 metre level at its Casa Berardi Mine in north-western Quebec.

Part of the current exploration program is focused along the 123 Zone, which is located approximately 1.0 kilometre east of the West Mine shaft. As at December 31, 2009 the 123 Zone contained inferred mineral resources of 714,000 tonnes at 9.4 grams of gold per tonne for 216,000 ounces using a cut-off grade of 4 grams of gold per tonne. Since February 2010, a total of twenty four (24) holes have been drilled from the 810 and 280 metre levels at an average spacing of 50 to 75 metres with the objective of extending the known mineralization.

Fronteer Gold Inc. ("Fronteer Gold") (TSX: FRG)(NYSE Amex: FRG) and AuEx Ventures, Inc. ("AuEx") (TSX: XAU) announced today they have entered into an arrangement agreement under which Fronteer Gold will acquire 100% of the outstanding common shares of AuEx by way of a plan of arrangement.

Under the plan of arrangement, AuEx shareholders will receive 0.645 of a Fronteer Gold share, $0.66 in cash and 0.5 of a share in a new exploration company ("SpinCo") for each AuEx share. Excluding the SpinCo shares, the offer represents a premium of approximately 50.9% based on the volume-weighted average prices of AuEx and Fronteer Gold shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX") for the 20 trading days ended on August 26, 2010, resulting in a fully diluted equity value for the transaction of $280.8 million.

Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. (TSX: FVI/Lima Stock Exchange: FVI) is pleased to announce the results of initial drilling completed in the Don Luis II vein at the Caylloma Mine located in southern Peru. The Don Luis II vein is located in the western portion of the Caylloma District where no prior development or mining has taken place. The vein outcrops over a strike length of approximately 400 meters and ranges from approximately 1 to 3 meters in width at the surface (see Fortuna news release dated May 12th, 2010). Twelve diamond drill holes totalling 2,283 meters have been completed to test the vein from near surface to approximately 200 meter depth.

Highlights of the drilling include:

<< DLUS000110 816 g/t Ag and 0.27 g/t Au over 3.05m from 148.75m DLUS000410 864 g/t Ag and 0.07 g/t Au over 0.50m from 93.30m DLUS000910 639 g/t Ag and 0.18 g/t Au over 3.40m from 232.90m DLUS001010 621 g/t Ag and 1.41 g/t Au over 1.00m from 140.00m >>

Well flows up to 1,077 BOPD from two zones independently without pumps, 850 BOPD comingled; no oil-water contacts identified

Gran Tierra Energy Inc. ("Gran Tierra Energy") (AMEX: GTE; TSX: GTE), a company focused on oil and gas exploration and production in South America, today announced that it had completed initial testing of the Moqueta-2 delineation well in the Moqueta new field discovery on the Chaza Block in the Putumayo Basin, Colombia. Gran Tierra Energy has a 100% working interest and is the Operator of the Chaza Block.

"We are very pleased with the testing result at Moqueta-2, where oil flowed naturally at higher rates without pumps than Moqueta-1. Compared to Moqueta-1, the oil column is thicker and the oil bearing zones are more productive," said Dana Coffield, President and Chief Executive Officer of Gran Tierra Energy.

Moneta Porcupine Mines Inc. (TSX: ME / OTC: MPUCF / XETRA: MOP) ("Moneta") is pleased to announce results from the ongoing 2010 deep exploration drill program on the Southwest Zone, within the 100% owned Golden Highway Project ("GHP") located approximately 100km east of Timmins, Ontario. Three deep drill holes have been completed during the 2010 summer drill program and significant results are now available for two of the drill holes.  This important discovery of two new gold-bearing zones including the widest gold-bearing vein zone identified on the GHP validates Moneta's structural interpretation of the geometry of the large mineralized gold envelope that is emerging.

Fronteer Gold (TSX: FRG)(NYSE Amex: FRG) announces that a new drill hole has returned the longest interval of continuous copper-gold mineralization ever intersected at the early-stage Halilaga porphyry project in northwestern Turkey.

Assay highlights from HD-54, drilled within Halilaga's Central Zone, are as follows:

-- 0.26 g/t gold and 0.33% copper over 646.50 metres starting from surface and including: -- 0.65 g/t gold and 0.89% copper over 106.80 metres, including 0.63 g/t gold and 1.50% copper over 33.0 metres; and, -- a deeper zone averaging 0.23 g/t gold and 0.24% copper over 143.70 metres.

Based on the success of this significant hole, the drill plan has been modified and an additional rig has been added to the program, for a total of four rigs.