Pilot Gold Reports 193 g/t Gold Over 12.0 Metres at TV Tower, Turkey

Third set of assay results confirm and expand continuity of high-grade target

Pilot Gold Inc. (TSX:PLG) ("Pilot Gold" or the "Company") is very pleased to report that assay results from eight new diamond drill holes from the 2012 program at the TV Tower project in Turkey continue to return long intervals of gold, silver and copper mineralization with areas of exceptionally high grades.

Drill hole KCD-50 highlights the third consecutive set of strong assay results at the Kucukdag (KCD) target, returning 193 g/t gold, 9.8 g/t silver and 0.46% copper over 12.0 metres. Visible gold (see photo: http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/plg123_VG.jpg) was confirmed in several veins within this interval, which is located at a vertical depth of 100 metres from surface.

Meadow Bay Gold First Hole in 2012 Drill Program Returns 2.25 g/t Gold Over 67 Meters at Its Atlanta Gold Mine Project in Nevada Meadow Bay Gold Corporation ("Meadow Bay Gold" or the "Company") (TSX:MAY)(OTCQX:MAYGF)(FRANKFURT:20M)(WKN A1C3DN) is pleased to report it has received the first assays from drilling currently underway at its Atlanta Gold Mine Project, Lincoln County, Nevada.

Hole DHRC-12-MRC01 is the first in a series of holes intended to confirm and offset specific results from the 2011 drill program. Drilling to the northwest of the historic Atlanta pit in 2011 encountered unusually thick widths in the Atlanta shear zone. Assay results received from ALS Minerals confirmed the width of the shear zone though it should be emphasized that hole MRC01 was terminated in mineralization and remains open at depth.

Stratton Resources Provides Exploration Update on Summer Field Programs

Stratton Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:SI) ("Stratton" or the "Company") is pleased to provide an exploration update on summer field programs conducted at its MAC, Lunar and Natlan projects, located in British Columbia, Canada.

MAC

The MAC Project is an advanced-stage molybdenum-copper project with newly recognized nickel-iron-chromium potential (see news release dated October 5, 2012) located approximately 80 kilometres northwest of the town of Fort St. James, in Central British Columbia.

NovaCopper Releases Remaining Drill Results from 2012 Exploration Program on the South Reef Zone of the Bornite Deposit-All Three Holes Hit High-Grade Copper Mineralization

RC12-216 Intersects Three High-Grade Mineralized Intervals Totaling 77.3 Meters at 4.3% Copper

NovaCopper Inc. (NCQ.TO)(NYSE MKT:NCQ) ("NovaCopper" or "the Company") is pleased to announce the remaining results from exploration diamond drilling on the South Reef Zone of the Bornite Property, one of its Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects ("UKMP") located in the Ambler mining district of Northwest Alaska.

Corvus Gold Continues to Hit High-Grade Gold-Silver Vein System in Yellow Jacket Step-out Drilling, North Bullfrog, Nevada Highlights include: NB-12-183: 49 metres of 1.9 g/t gold with 43 g/t Silver including 1.7 metres of 13.1 g/t gold with 549 g/t Silver

Inmet Declines Proposal from First Quantum

Inmet Mining Corporation (TSX:IMN) announced today that on November 25, 2012, it received an unsolicited non-binding, highly conditional proposal from First Quantum Minerals Ltd. for First Quantum to acquire by way of plan of arrangement all of the shares of Inmet. The proposal contemplates consideration of C$70.00 per Inmet share, subject to a maximum aggregate cash consideration of C$2.461 billion and a maximum number of First Quantum shares to be issued of approximately 112.679 million, resulting in an overall consideration mix of 50 percent cash and 50 percent First Quantum shares. After reviewing the proposal with its financial and legal advisors, Inmet's Board of Directors has today notified First Quantum that it has declined to pursue the proposal as it is not in the best interests of Inmet shareholders.

SilverCrest Reports Additional La Joya High Grade Intercepts 45.0m of 135.5 gpt Ag, 0.11 gpt Au, 1.14% Cu (240 gpt Ag Eq(i))

SilverCrest Mines Inc. (TSX VENTURE:SVL)(FRANKFURT:CW5)(NYSE Amex:SVLC)(NYSE MKT:SVLC) (the "Company") is pleased to announce the results of an additional 15 holes (LJ DD12-75 to LJ DD12-89) of the Phase II drill program nearing completion at its La Joya Property in Durango, Mexico. Phase II drilling reported to date has extended the Main Mineralized Trend ("Trend") beyond the area containing the current Inferred Resource of 101.9 million ounces Ag Eq.*(see News releases dated March 20 and May 7, 2012 and attached Figure: http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/silvercrestmap1.pdf). Drilling and surface sampling has extended the Trend to approximately 2.5 kilometres with an average width of approximately 700 metres. Please reference our website at www.silvercrestmines.com for more information, photos and figures on La Joya.

Probe Mines Sells Its Goldex Royalty Interest to Agnico-Eagles Mines for $18 Million   Probe Mines Limited (TSX VENTURE:PRB) ("Probe" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has sold its 5% Net Smelter Royalty (the "Royalty") on a portion of the Goldex Mine to Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited ("Agnico-Eagle") for total consideration of $18.0 million.

Under the terms of the Purchase Agreement (the "Agreement"), Agnico-Eagle will provide Probe with the following consideration for the acquisition of the Royalty:

Roxgold Confirms Continuation of 55 Zone Down Plunge With Deepest High Grade Intercept to Date-18.2 Gpt Au Over 6.6 Meters, 500 Meters Below Surface

Roxgold Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ROG) ("Roxgold" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the initial results from the current step out drilling program at its 100% owned Yaramoko Concession in Burkina Faso. Today's results confirm the presence of high grade gold mineralization outside of the existing mineralized envelope and represents a significant step out from known mineralization down plunge within the 55 Zone.

Columbus Gold Drills 53 Metres of 4.37 gpt Gold at Paul Isnard, French Guiana; Completes Phase I Drill Program

Columbus Gold Corporation (TSX VENTURE:CGT) ("Columbus Gold") is pleased to announce completion of its Phase I drill program and results of an additional thirty one diamond core holes, MO 12-74 to 98 and 100 to 105 totaling 10,873.65 metres, at its Paul Isnard gold project in French Guiana. The holes were laid-out to confirm and expand, internally, along strike and at depth, the Montagne d'Or gold deposit within which earlier widely spaced holes had outlined a 43-101 compliant inferred resource of 1.9 million ounces gold within 36 million tonnes grading 1.6 gpt gold.

Monument Intercepts 3.84 g/t Gold over 51 metres in Selinsing Drilling

Monument Mining Limited (TSX-V: MMY and FSE: D7Q1) "Monument" or the "Company" is pleased to report additional drill assay results from its ongoing drilling program at the producing Selinsing open pit gold mine in Pahang, Malaysia.

ASSAY HIGHLIGHTS

MSMDD035 intersected 51.0m at 3.84 g/t gold; MSMDD025 intersected  65.0m at 3.09 g/t gold; and MSMCD017 intersected 64.58m at 2.91 g/t gold (uncut) and 2.22 g/t gold (cut to 34.286 g/t gold).

Keegan Resources Announces Land Swap for Small Scale Mining Reserve at Its Esaase Gold Project

Keegan Resources Inc. (TSX:KGN)(NYSE MKT:KGN)(NYSE Amex:KGN) -

Highlights:

Acquired 10.3 square kilometres of high priority exploration ground immediately on strike to the southwest of the Esaase main zone. Company set to initiate extensive exploration plans for 2013 at Esaase.

Keegan Resources Inc. ("Keegan" or "Company") is pleased to announce that it has completed the acquisition of the Small Scale Mining Reserve located immediately on strike to the southwest of the Esaase main zone.

Santacruz Silver Intersects 2549 g/t Ag eq. Over 2.75 m at Gavilanes

Santacruz Silver Mining Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:SCZ) ("Santacruz" or the "Company") is pleased to report results from the first 7 holes of an ongoing 6,000 meter diamond drill program at its 100% owned Gavilanes Silver project in Durango, Mexico. This first drill program is designed to test three of seven known silver-bearing veins and a stockwork area within the 7,347 hectare property (see attached map which is also posted on the company's website).

Drill results reported herein are from the Guadelupe-Soledad-Aranzazú (GSA) and San Nicholas veins. Both can be can be traced for approximately 1000 m and 900 m respectively along strike and vary between 0.5 - 10.0 m in width. Additionally, two holes intersected a high grade stockwork area (El Hundido).

SEMAFO Confirms Continuity of the High Grade Siou Zone: Including Values of Up to 19.22 g/t Au (23.05 g/t Au Uncut) Over 4 Meters   SEMAFO (TSX:SMF)(OMX:SMF) today announced follow-up drilling results from its high-grade Siou zone located approximately 15 kilometers east of the Mana mill. The central 700 meters of the zone demonstrate ongoing good continuity of the high-grade quartz vein zone with local swelling ranging up to 10 meters wide (e.g. hole MRC12-2161: 5.58 g/t Au across 10 meters). In addition, other associated structures not presented in the table below have returned grades higher than previously obtained similar to the main Siou zone. For example, hole MRC12-2376 returned 10.85 g/t Au across 3 meters (11.88 g/t Au uncut) at a depth of 137 meters.

Almaden Completes Drilling for Maiden Resource, Hits 18.00 Meters of 6.6 g/t AuEq (6.36 g/t Au, 14.0 g/t Ag) on Northeast Extension

 Almaden Minerals Ltd. ("Almaden" or "the Company") (TSX:AMM)(NYSE Amex:AAU)(NYSE MKT:AAU) is pleased to announce final drill results to be included in the Company's maiden resource estimate. With the results today 225 holes accounting for 81,971.03 meters of drilling, all drilled since the discovery was made in 2010, will form the basis of the resource estimate. The exploration drilling program at Ixtaca is on-going. The results reported today demonstrate the continuity of the known mineralisation as well as the presence of high grades locally. Highlights from the holes released today include the following intercepts (a more complete list of intercepts is shown in the table below):

Redtail Intersects 8.25m of 8.49% Zn, 3.94% Pb, 34.7 g/t Ag in Massive Sulphide at the R15 Project, Yukon

Redtail Metals Corp. (TSX-V:RTZ.V - News) (the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has successfully completed the fall 2012 drill program on the R15 Property, Yukon Territory. Five diamond drill holes were completed for a total of 686m.  All 5 holes intersected significant massive sulphide mineralization.

Significant results include:

R12-11 which intersected 8.25m of 8.49% Zn, 3.94% Pb, 0.24% Cu, 34.7g/t Ag, and 0.061 g/t Au; and R12-09, which intersected 6.99m of 7.68% Zn, 3.05% Pb, 0.28% Cu, 30.21g/t Ag, 0.059g/t Au.

Nemaska Lithium Drills 1.53% Li2O Over 32.2 m Including 2.56% Li2O Over 6 m at Sirmac Project

Nemaska Lithium Inc. ("Nemaska" or the "Corporation") (TSX VENTURE:NMX)(OTCQX:NMKEF) announces results of diamond drill campaign completed on September 28, 2012 on its Sirmac lithium project (642.3 hectares) located in the James Bay region, Quebec, approximately 125 km south of the Whabouchi deposit.

Nemaska completed a diamond drill campaign of 72 drill holes (3,414.5 m) from August 16, 2012 to September 28, 2012. A total of 1,394 samples, including 153 quality control samples (12%), were sent to the lab for assay. The objective of this exploration campaign was to test the possible extensions of the known Dyke #5 and locate new dykes elsewhere on the property.

Harry Winston Diamond Corporation Announces Agreement to Purchase Ekati Diamond Mine

Harry Winston Diamond Corporation (TSX:HW, NYSE:HWD) ("Harry Winston" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has entered into share purchase agreements with BHP Billiton Canada Inc., and various affiliates to purchase all of BHP Billiton's diamond assets, including its controlling interest in the Ekati Diamond Mine as well as the associated diamond sorting and sales facilities in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and Antwerp, Belgium. The Ekati Diamond Mine consists of the Core Zone, which includes the current operating mine and other permitted kimberlite pipes, as well as the Buffer Zone, an adjacent area hosting kimberlite pipes having both development and exploration potential. The agreed purchase price, payable in cash, is US$400 million for the Core Zone interest and US$100 million for the Buffer Zone interest, subject to adjustments in accordance with the terms of the share purchase agreements.

Reliance Resources Ltd. - Drilling update: 24.9 metres at 2.8 g/t Au intersected at Tanoyan Gold Project, Sulawesi, Indonesia Significant intersection in drill hole TND105: North Sondana Vein 24.9 metres at 2.8 g/t Au from 95 metres Including 3.4 metres at 7.0 g/t Au from 104.3 metres Continues to confirm consistency of higher-grade zone Additional Phase 2 drilling of 9 holes and 1,271 metres completed Phase 2, 10,000 metre drilling program designed to increase the 208,000 ounce gold 43-101 mineral resource estimate continues with 2 diamond drills Feasibility, Social and Environmental Impact Studies commenced

Two More Drill Holes Cut High Radioactivity and Uranium Mineralization at PLS, Saskatchewan

Alpha Minerals Inc. (TSX-V:AMW.V), (the "Company" or "Alpha"), and its Joint Venture partner Fission Energy Corp (TSX-V:FIS.V) are pleased to release additional results from the current core drill program. Since the announcement of the discovery hole PLS12-022 (see news release Nov. 5, 2012), two more vertical holes have been completed, PLS12-023 located 10 meters grid north of Hole PLS12-022 and Hole PLS12-024 located 10 meters grid west of PLS12-022.

PLS12-023 intersected approximately 13 meters (42.9 feet) of strongly anomalous radioactivity over the core interval between 63.0-76.0 meters downhole with visible uranium mineralization and extensive alteration.