HudBay Minerals Inc.: OSC Sets Aside TSX Decision

HudBay Minerals Inc. ("HudBay") (TSX: HBM) today announced the Ontario Securities Commission (the "OSC") has set aside the Toronto Stock Exchange's (the "TSX") December 10, 2008 decision granting conditional approval for the listing of the HudBay shares to be issued as consideration in connection with the acquisition by HudBay of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Lundin Mining Corporation (TSX: LUN)(OMX: LUMI)(NYSE: LMC) ("Lundin") pursuant to an arrangement under the Canada Business Corporations Act.

Canadian Royalties/Nunavik Nickel Project Puimajuq Update: Drilling Intersects High-Grade Nickel, Copper and PGE Mineralization

Canadian Royalties Inc. (TSX:CZZ) (the "Company") reports composite assay results from seventeen (17) new drillholes from the 2008 delineation drill program at its recently discovered and 100% owned Puimajuq deposit. Significant widths of high-grade mineralization were returned from nine (9) near-surface holes including NF-08-10, which returned mineralization over 39.80 metres grading 1.51% Nickel, 4.72% Copper, 11.81 g/t Platinum and 25.79 g/t Palladium. This interval includes 8.35 metres of high-grade massive sulphides that graded 3.63% Nickel, 4.57% Copper, 1.47 g/t Platinum and 2.57 g/t Palladium plus an additional 8.60 metre interval of spectacular high-grade massive sulphide mineralization that ran 1.94% Nickel, 14.63% Copper, 52.05 g/t Platinum and 108.83 g/t Palladium.

Anvil Reaches Agreement with Gécamines and the DRC Government for the Kinsevere and the Dikulushi Properties

All amounts are expressed in US dollars, unless otherwise stated.

Anvil Mining Limited (TSX, ASX: AVM), ("Anvil" or the "Company"), today announced that it had reached agreement with La Générale des Carrières et des Mines ("Gécamines") and the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo ("DRC") on the terms of its Kinsevere "Contrat d'Amodiation" (Lease Agreement) and the Dikulushi Mining Convention.

The Company is in possession of an amendment agreement for the Kinsevere Lease Agreement, which has been signed by Anvil and Gécamines. In addition, the Company has been formally notified by Gécamines and the DRC Government that the Dikulushi Mining Convention (the "Convention") remains unchanged.

Nevada Copper-Intersects 90 Meters (294 Feet) of 1.03% Copper in the Open Pittable South Deposit

Nevada Copper Corp. (TSX: NCU) ("Nevada Copper") continues to report very positive drilling results from its recently completed 2008 drilling program at its Pumpkin Hollow Copper Development Property located in Western Nevada.

In 2008, 73 holes were drilled for a total of 26,600 meters (87,300 feet). To date assay results from 43 holes have been reported with further drilling results being released as they become available throughout the remainder of the first quarter of 2009.