Silver Bull Intersects 13.93% Zinc Over 40.40 Meters Including 21.93% Zinc Over 11.5 Meters on the Sierra Mojada Project, Coahuila, Mexico

 Silver Bull Resources, Inc. (TSX:SVB)(NYSE MKT:SVBL) ("Silver Bull") is pleased to announce the drill results for the first batch of drill holes from the underground drill program twinning a series of "long holes" in the high grade zinc zone situated below and adjacent to the high grade silver zone, located at the eastern end of the Shallow Silver Zone on the Sierra Mojada Project in Coahuila, Northern Mexico.

High grade zinc highlights from the first batch of 15 drill holes include:

Hole T12116: 40.40 meters @ 13.93% Zn (including 11.5m @ 21.93% Zn, 10.4m @ 35.74g/t Ag, and 0.6m @ 125g/t Ag)

Atico Drills 88.7 Meters of 5.4% Cu and 2.5 g/t Au at El Roble Mine, Colombia

Atico Mining Corporation (TSX VENTURE:ATY) is pleased to announce additional results from its ongoing underground drilling program at the El Roble mine.

The company reports results of 10 new diamond drill core holes, including 4 production holes drilled by Minera El Roble, current operator of the El Roble mine, and independently sampled and assayed by Atico. Reported drill holes extend the limits of massive sulfide bodies previously intercepted below the 2000 meter level.

Fire River Drills 7.6 Metres Grading 50.26 g/t Gold at Nixon Fork

Fire River Gold Corp. (TSXV: FAU), (OTCQX: FVGCF), (FSE: FWR) (the "Company", "Fire River") is pleased to announce results from its 2012 surface diamond drilling program (Figure 1) at its wholly owned Nixon Fork Gold Project in Alaska.  Fire River completed 38 surface diamond drill holes totalling 2976 metres targeting resource expansion at the Mystery Mine. Twenty of 38 drill holes intercepted significant gold, silver and copper mineralization, a very high success ratio.

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Clifton Star Announces New Drill Results From the Duparquet Project Including 3.51 g/t Au Over 18.9 m and 4.77 g/t Au Over 14.1m   Clifton Star Resources Inc. ("CFO" or "Clifton")(TSX VENTURE:CFO)(FRANKFURT:C3T) is pleased to announce the results from an additional 14 drill holes from its 2012 drill program at the Duparquet Project of Quebec's Abitibi region.

Clifton Star continues to obtain significant assay results from both delineation holes within the limits of the current pit shell and exploration holes outside of the pit shell. The positive results within the pit limits demonstrate that the zones show good grades and continuity, while the exploration holes show the potential to increase the limits of the current pit shell. All of the drill holes listed in this press release were completed after the PEA closing date, and therefore will not be included in the new resource estimate, on which the upcoming PEA will be based.

Vena Samples 1,147.00 g/t Ag, 1.40% Cu, 28.05% Pb and 16.67% Zn across 3.30 metres at the Esquilache Silver Project

Vena Resources Inc. (the "Company" or "Vena") (TSX: VEM, Peru: VEM, Germany: V1RA, USA: VNARF) announces that early results of the program to evaluate near term resources on its 100% owned Esquilache project located in southern Peru are very promising. 

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.

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

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.

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).

Bengal Energy Confirms Caracal-1 as a New Oil Discovery on the Tookoonooka Block, Cooper Basin, Australia

Bengal Energy (TSX: BNG) ("Bengal", or "the Company") reports that the first exploration well in the Tookoonooka drilling campaign, Caracal-1, is a new oil discovery.  This new discovery has established light oil on a new and unexplored trend with the Caracal-1 well being the first well to be drilled on the very large 654,335 acre Authority to Prospect ("ATP") 732 (the "Tookoonooka Block") in the last 15 years. Seismic mapping defines a large structure, with the Caracal-1 closure alone estimated to cover an area of 5.5 square miles (approximately 3,500 acres).

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.

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