Goldbelt, Incorporated and Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation (NYSE:CDE) (TSX:CDM) (ASX:CXC) jointly announced today that Goldbelt and Coeur Alaska have entered into a new Memorandum of Understanding designed to address the Kensington Gold Mine's transportation needs.

Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation (NYSE:CDE) (TSX:CDM) reported that Bruce Botelho, Mayor of Juneau, Alaska, has announced that the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, Lynn Canal Conservation, the Juneau Group of the Sierra Club, and Coeur Alaska all stated they will ask the U.S.

By Tim Bradner, Alaska Journal of Commerce, Anchorage Apr. 15--Coeur Alaska Inc.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The federal Clean Water Act cannot be used to destroy an Alaskan lake, a federal appeals court said today, in a ruling that may set precedent about how the Act is interpreted nationwide.

By Douglas Fischer SAN FRANCISCO -- What's the price of gold? To a mining company and the federal government, it's a small alpine lake in Southeast Alaska.