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PHOENIX, AZ (MARKET WIRE) Tombstone Exploration Corporation (OTCBB: TMBXF) announced today a surprise mass discovery of an estimated 205 million pounds of manganese from the preliminary results of the Summer drill program.

CHICAGO, IL (MARKET WIRE) Environmentally conscious people often wear buttons or display bumper stickers to show their green pride. A new website gives these people an innovative way to declare their support for the environment. SeeImGreen.com allows eco-enthusiasts to put a marker over their house on a map of the world.

BLAINE, WA (MARKET WIRE) Purio (OTCBB: PURO) is pleased to report that the recent presentation of its technology to the Minister of Presidential Affairs of a leading West African country has resulted in a verbal invitation from the Minister to Purio to visit his country. The Minister's office will assist in fast-tracking the formal correspondence preceding the company's visit to that country in early 2009.

TORONTO and PHOENIX, AZ (MARKET WIRE) Frontera Copper Corporation (TSX: FCC) (TSX: FCC.NT) (TSX: FCC.NT.A) today announced that RBC Capital Markets has been retained as the Company's exclusive financial advisor to assist in the examination and consideration of various corporate strategic alternatives, including the evaluation of any formal purchase offers that may be received from one or more potential acquirers.

LOS ANGELES, CA (MARKET WIRE) To help reduce air pollution at the busiest container seaports in the United States, Southern California Gas Co. (The Gas Company) -- joined by officials from the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles and the South Coast Air Quality management District (AQMD) -- today launched a 12-month demonstration of the nation's first clean-burning compressed natural gas (CNG)-fueled drayage trucks to transport containers off-loaded from ships.

Capitol Corridor rail service saw a 16.8 percent increase in ridership and a 24 percent increase in revenue in fiscal 2008 — record-breaking results for the year ending Sept. 30.

American Electric Power Company Inc. said Tuesday it is considering a multibillion-dollar project aimed at harnessing wind energy through a “transmission superhighway.” (AEP)