Bell Copper Corporation is pleased to announce a brokered private placement by D&D Securities Inc. to raise up to $2,000,000 on a best efforts basis. Pursuant to the Financing, the Company will offer for sale through the Agent up to 25 million units at a price of $0.08 per Unit, with each Unit consisting of one common share and one-half of one common share purchase warrant. Each Warrant will entitle the holder thereof to acquire one common share of the Company at a price of $0.12 for a period of 18 months from the closing date of the Financing.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Feb 09, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Santa Fe Gold Corporation is pleased to announce the financial results for its 2012 fiscal first half ending December 31, 2011.

First Point Minerals Corp. is pleased to announce that it has received conditional approval for its common shares to be listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange subject to customary deliverables. First Point’s common shares will commence trading on the TSX, once final approval is received, under the symbol “FPX”.

Corex Gold Corp. is pleased to announce a non-brokered private placement of up to 8,333,333 units at a price of $0.18 per unit, for aggregate gross proceeds of up to CDN $1,500,000. Each Unit will consist of one common share and one non-transferable share purchase warrant. Each warrant will be exercisable by the holder to acquire one additional common share at a price of $0.30 for 24 months from Closing. The Warrants are subject to an accelerated expiry which comes into effect once the shares trade above a weighted average price of $0.50 for any twenty consecutive trading-day period, subsequent to four months from Closing. In the event of an accelerated expiry, the expiry date will be the earlier of the regular 24 month expiry date and 30 days from the date the Company advises the placees of the accelerated expiry.

Levon Resources Ltd. is pleased to announce that its common shares have been approved for listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange where they will continue to trade under the symbol “LVN”.

On January 26, 2012, three dissident directors of Argonaut Exploration Inc. (“the Company” or “Argonaut”; ‘AGA’ TSX-Venture exchange) delivered to shareholders an information circular, accompanied by a cover letter dated January 24, 2012 (“the Dissident Materials”), representing the views of the Dissident Directors, being Ray Cook, Brad Bakuska and Tell Stephen.

Capstone Mining Corp. today announced the result of an updated National Instrument 43-101 compliant mineral resource estimate for the Mala Noche Footwall Zone at its Cozamin Mine in Zacatecas, Mexico. Follow-up drilling in the MNFWZ in the second half of 2011 has added an additional 28 million pounds of copper resource in the measured and indicated categories. At a US$35 NSR copper cut-off grade, total measured and indicated mineral resources at the Cozamin Mine at the end of 2011 was 419 million pounds of copper. A tabulation of total mineral resource by classification is appended at the end of this news release.

Cortez Gold Corp announces that it has arranged a non-brokered private placement of up to 4,500,000 units at a price of $0.10 per Unit, for gross proceeds of up to $450,000.