Mountain Lake Resources (CVE:MOA)(OTC:MLKRF) Tuesday announced high-grade gold mineralization from the initial results of a spring/summer drilling program at the joint venture Valentine Lake project in central Newfoundland.

Mountain Lake Resources (CVE:MOA) (OTC:MLKRF) Thursday said it will be acquired by Marathon Gold (TSE:MOZ) in a  $15.1 million deal that will see Marathon assume 100 per cent control of the two companies' Valentine Lake joint venture in Newfoundland.

Mountain Lake Resources (CVE:MOA)(OTC:MLKRF) Tuesday reported the completion of an initial NI 43-101 resource estimate for the Lunch Pond area of its 100 percent-owned Glover Island gold property in Newfoundland.

Mountain Lake Resources (CVE:MOA, PINK:MLKRF) is concentrating its exploration efforts within Newfoundland, where it is actively exploring three  projects with large scale potential at Glover Island, Little River and Valentine Lake. 

A 25,000 metre drilling campaign is planned for the Valentine Lake Project this year.  The first drill rig began resource expansion drilling last week on the Leprechaun Deposit and the first 3 drill holes intersecting multiple quartz veins

Canadian shares declined for a second day, led by miners, as gold fell for the third time in four days. The commodity-heavy Standard & Poor’s/TSX Composite Index (TSE:OSPTX) slid 0.2 percent to 12,633.81 at 12:38 p.m. in Toronto on Friday. The 237-member gauge has gained 1.6 percent this month. The materials subindex, which includes mining shares, fell 0.7 percent. The energy subindex slipped 0.4 percent as oil dropped for a fourth day, while financials, the most heavily-weighted group, slid 0.2 percent.

BRP plans to sell 12.2 million shares for C$21.50 each, the Valcourt, Quebec-based company said in a statement on Wednesday. Based on that price, the company’s market capitalization will be about C$2.5-billion. The IPO is Canada's largest since Hudson's Bay Co. (TSE:HBC), the country's oldest company, raised $365 million in November. 

Treasury Metals (TSE:TML) has unveiled additional drill results from its Goliath gold project in northwestern Ontario, with results showing near-surface intersections as high as 4.18 grams per tonne (g/t) gold. 

Largo Resources (CVE:LGO) is on path to becoming the lowest cost producer of vanadium in the world from a primary source, according to CEO Mark Brennan, with the company's Maracás project in Brazil on pace for commissioning in the fourth quarter.