VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sept. 2, 2008) - Mantra Mining Inc. (TSX VENTURE:MAN) ("Mantra" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has entered into two separate agreements dated August 27, 2008 with affiliates of Rio Tinto PLC ("Rio Tinto") and NovaGold Resources Inc.

Millrock Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: MRO) is pleased to announce that it has signed an Exploration Agreement with Golden Glacier Inc., a subsidiary of the Bering Straits Native Corporation (BSNC).

Phylogeographic analyses of arctic organisms provide spatial and temporal frameworks for interpreting the role of climate change on biotic diversity in high-latitude ecosystems. Phylogenetic analyses based on 673 base pairs of the mitochondrial control region from 95 arctic hares (Lepus arcticus, L.