US$59 Million Work Program to Prepare Pebble Project for Permitting

Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. (TSX: NDM; NYSE AMEX: NAK) announces that the Pebble Limited Partnership ("PLP" or the "Pebble Partnership") Board of Directors has approved a US $59 million budget and work plan for 2009, with the potential for supplemental spending up to a total of US $70 million, to be spent towards completing a Prefeasibility Study and preparing the Pebble Project for permitting in 2010.

Pending the outcome of engineering trade-off studies currently underway, the PLP Board is expected to meet in August 2009 to finalize the Prefeasibility Study schedule and authorize additional program expenditures this year.

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New Discovery at Matagami: 2.20% Copper, 8.8 g/t Silver, 0.25 g/t Gold Over 3.95 Metres in Massive Sulphides

Mr. Harvey Keats, Chief Executive Officer of Donner Metals Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: DON)(FRANKFURT: D4M), reports that diamond drilling has discovered massive sulphide mineralization in the Daniel-1 area during testing of regional geophysical anomalies 16 kilometres northwest of Xstrata's operating Perseverance Mine and 26 kilometres northwest of the Matagami Mill. Diamond drill hole DAN-09-10 intersected 3.95 metres of massive sulphides grading 2.20% copper, 0.09% zinc, 8.8 g/t silver and 0.25 g/t gold from 345.13 to 349.08 metres. Mineralization is at 320 metres vertical depth from surface and is hosted within felsic and mafic volcanic/volcanoclastic rocks. The mineralization encountered by drilling at Daniel-1 is outside of the three Matagami mineralized belts (North Flank, South Flank and West Camp) and further demonstrates the potential for new discoveries in this well established camp.

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Mongolian Parliament's Ongoing Review of Draft Oyu Tolgoi Investment Agreement to Continue as a Priority in April Spring Session

Statement by John Macken, President and Chief Executive Officer, Ivanhoe Mines

Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN)(NYSE: IVN)(NASDAQ: IVN) welcomes the assurance given today by Mongolia's national Parliament, the State Great Khural, that completion of an Investment Agreement for the development of the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mining complex will continue to be a principal priority for Mongolia's coalition government when the Parliament reconvenes during the first week of April in its 2009 spring session.

A statement issued today by the State Great Khural press office confirmed that the discussion of the draft Oyu Tolgoi agreement that began this week would resume when Parliament returns for the spring session.

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North American Tungsten Continues to Intersect High Grade Mineralization at Cantung Mine

Highlights: Continued expansion of the new mineralized zone to the east and west. - The mineralized zone has expanded above the 3700 Level to the west. - Exploration drift on 3700 Level is approximately 100 ft east of western most intersection. - New mineralization is west of any underground workings and is open in three directions. - Hole U-1655 intersects 62.3 feet at 2.45% WO3, including 33.4 feet at 4.02% WO3.

North American Tungsten Corporation Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: NTC.V) ("the Company") is pleased to announce that the Q1-09 Cantung Mine exploration and delineation drill program continues to intersect high grade tungsten mineralization.

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Golden Chalice Announces New Nickel Discovery on Langmuir

Golden Chalice Resources (TSX-V: GCR) (PINKSHEETS: GCRIF) (the "Company") is pleased to announce the discovery of new nickel mineralization at its wholly owned Langmuir Property located approximately 35 km southeast of Timmins, Ontario. (See Figure 1.)

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The first hole of the 2009 drilling program has intersected a massive sulphide zone with high-grade nickel about 1.5 km east of the Langmuir Discovery Zone where initial drilling in May of 2007 had intersected 1.14% nickel over 72.5 meters. (See Figure 2.)

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