In 2012 Statoil increased oil sands production by more than 60% and reduced CO2 intensity by almost 24%. These results are published in the Statoil 2012 Oil Sands Report recently.

Serengeti Resources Inc. reports the appointment of a new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective April 1, 2013. Ms. Sheri Rempel, currently Serengeti's Controller, will replace Alec Peck, who has tendered his resignation as CFO. The Company wishes to thank Mr. Peck for his service to the Company.

In 2012 Statoil increased oil sands production by more than 60% and reduced CO2 intensity by almost 24%. These results are published in the Statoil 2012 Oil Sands Report today.

Selwyn Resources Ltd. announced the appointment of Mr. Carlos Gonzalez as Manager of Investor Communications.

CiDRA Oilsands announced an agreement with Expro Meters that will allow the Companies to partner in the sales of both passive and active sonar flow systems and services. The agreement will cover all of Western Canada, and focus on the oil sands and heavy oil industries, where the combined technologies, known for their reliability and performance, will help support customer’s enhanced production and cost reduction initiatives.

Kinross Gold Corporation announced the appointments of Mr. John Macken, Ms. Una Power, and Ms. Ruth Woods to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Mr. Macken, Ms. Power, and Ms. Woods will be nominated as Directors for election by shareholders at the Kinross Annual General Meeting on May 8, 2013. The appointments bring membership on the Kinross Board of Directors to 12, following the retirement of Mr. George Michals in 2012.

Veris Gold Corp. is pleased to announce Veris Gold USA Ltd. has entered into a toll milling agreement with Atna Resources Inc., a subsidiary of Atna Resources Ltd., to process ore from the Pinson Mine at the Jerritt Canyon Mill located in Elko County, Nevada. The Jerritt Canyon Mill is operated by Veris Gold USA Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Veris Gold Corp.

The Mining Association of Canada (MAC) concludes federal budget 2013 is a mixed bag when it comes to its impacts to the Canadian mining industry.

The declining rate of new gold discoveries and grades across the global market during the last decade has accelerated over the last 4 years.

First Quantum Minerals Ltd. and its wholly-owned subsidiary FQM (Akubra) Inc. today announced that, as at 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time) on March 21, 2013, a total of 60,120,405 common shares of Inmet Mining Corporation ("Inmet", TSX Symbol "IMN"), representing 85.5% of the outstanding Inmet shares (on a fully diluted basis), had been validly tendered to the Offeror's offer (the "Offer") to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Inmet. The Offeror has taken up and accepted for payment all such shares and will pay for such shares on or before March 27, 2013.

Sandstorm Metals & Energy Ltd. (TSX-V: SND) announced the completion of a business combination between Anterra Energy Inc. and Terrex Energy Inc. Effective March 14, 2013, Anterra acquired 100% of the issued and outstanding common shares in the capital of Terrex, in exchange for Class A common shares in the capital of Anterra.

Banro Corporation provides a brief personnel update on its Twangiza gold mine and Namoya development project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

"We are very pleased to report that operations at Twangiza and development at Namoya are both progressing smoothly under the supervision of experienced professionals who have demonstrated their commitment and dedication to these projects over the past months and years," commented Interim CEO, Dr. John Clarke, who has just returned from his meeting with the operations teams in the DRC.

"Dan Bansah, VP Exploration, will assume increased responsibilities with the departure of Colin Belshaw, overseeing all in-country operations to ensure adherence to the strategic plan across all operations," continued Dr. Clarke. "We are confident that we can continue to draw upon the strengths of our management team members, including Mr. Desire Sangara, VP Government Relations, many of whom have been with the Company for years and whose skills, expertise and leadership have proven to be invaluable."

At Twangiza, production and plant modifications will continue as planned under the supervision of Frans Gonsalves and Chris Bawah with completion of all optimization initiatives anticipated for ramping up to full nameplate capacity during the fourth quarter of this year.

Thinus Vorster, VP Development and Engineering, along with his development team, will continue to drive the construction at Namoya as the project heads into the dry season.

Banro will continue to provide both corporate and operational updates as the Company progresses toward completion of Namoya development and Twangiza enhancement.

High-Grade Results Include 9.3 g/t Au with 1.7% Cu over 18.1 Metres

Osisko Mining Corporation (OSK: TSX, EWX: Deutsche Boerse) announce that new drilling at the Upper Beaver gold project located in Kirkland Lake, Ontario has led to the discovery of two new gold-copper zones.

Rocmec Mining Inc. is providing this default status report in accordance with Policy Statement 12 203 respecting Cease Trade Orders for Continuous Disclosure Defaults (“Policy Statement 12 203”).

IAMGOLD Corporation announced that to reinforce an already strong financial position and improve its return on capital, the Company has initiated a program to reduce annualized spending by $100 million.   This will be achieved through cost-cutting initiatives aimed at reducing mine operating costs, exploration expenditures and mine site and corporate general and administrative costs. The Company ended 2012 with over $1 billion in cash and gold bullion.

MagIndustries Corp. (MAA – TSX) announced that it has received notice from Evergreen Resources Holdings (BVI) Ltd. of its intention to convert its outstanding loan to the Company into 295,770,211 common shares (being a deemed conversion price of approximately $0.1713 per share).

Serengeti Resources Inc. (SIR: TSX-V; 34S: FSE) announces a technical report outlining the results of a Preliminary Economic Assessment ("PEA") on its 100% owned Kwanika project located in North Central British Columbia, Canada. The results of the PEA, previously released on February 6th, 2013 (NR: 2013-01) demonstrate the potential technical and economic viability of establishing a new copper-gold mine/mill complex on the property.