VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire – Jan. 15, 2010) - Terra Ventures Inc. (“Terra”) (TSX VENTURE:TAS). (“Terra” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce surface sampling results carried out in partnership with Novus Gold Corp. (TSX VENTURE:NOV.H) on Novus’s REN gold property in the Northwest Territories. This sampling program traced gold mineralization and iron formation over a length of 7 kilometres. 

Just prior to freeze-up, a limited prospecting program was completed on the REN property. A total of 83 samples were collected and submitted for gold analysis. The samples were collected along the more than seven kilometre long iron formation within the REN property that includes the Main occurrence where a recent drill program was carried out. Most of the samples came from known occurrences other than the Main occurrence, however, five samples collected 400 metres northwest of the most northerly

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire – Jan. 15, 2010) – Novus Gold Corp. (TSX VENTURE:NOV.H) (“Novus” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce surface sampling results from its REN gold property in the Northwest Territories carried out in partnership with Terra Ventures Inc. (“Terra”) (TSX VENTURE:TAS). This sampling program traced gold mineralization and iron formation over a length of 7 kilometres. 

Just prior to freeze-up, a limited prospecting program was completed on the REN property. A total of 83 samples were collected and submitted for gold analysis. The samples were collected along the more than seven kilometre long iron formation within the REN property that includes the Main occurrence where a recent drill program was carried out. Most of the samples came from known occurrences other than the Main occurrence, however, five samples collected 400 metres northwest of the most northerly gold occurrence, Gri

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- Wide Spaced Reconnaissance Drilling Completed at Dome North

- Significant Radioactivity over 2.2 m in Calcrete

- Planned 20 holes expanded to 37 holes

Pitchstone Exploration Ltd. (“Pitchstone”) is pleased to provide an update on a reverse circulation (RC) drilling program on the Dome property in Namibia. The program was completed in early September with a total of 734 meters drilled in 37 holes. The project is a uranium exploration joint venture between Pitchstone (58%) and private company Manica Minerals Ltd. (42%) through Manica’s wholly-owned subsidiary Cheetah Minerals Exploration Ltd. The property location relative to the Roessing and Langer Heinrich uranium mines, and other uranium occurrences in the western Namibian uranium district, is illustrated on a map on the company website at www.pitchstone.net.

The Company is now preparing to do an initial ground program commencing within the next 10 days which will consist of a first-pass assessment of the property including geologic mapping and reconnaissance sampling.