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InvestSource Inc.: InvestSource: "Earth Search Science Subsidiary to Merge with Petro Probe" will include Earth Search Science: ESSE, ALTI, ARLP, BHP, CCJ
Apr 20, 2005 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) --
Stocks in the News: Earth Search Science Corporation (OTCBB: ESSE), Altair Nanotechnologies Incorporated (NASDAQ: ALTI), Alliance Resource Partners Corporation (NASDAQ: ARLP), Cleveland-Cliffs Incorporated (NYSE: CLF) , Cameco Corporation (NYSE: CCJ).

Earth Search Science Corporation (OTCBB: ESSE) provided additional information regarding the assets involved in the proposed merger between its subsidiary company Petro Probe, Inc. (PPI) and General Petroleum Inc., (GPI) a privately held company.

Petro Probe, Inc. has producing equity, development equity and exploration project equity in a number of conventional oil and gas properties. Much of this equity is located in or near major proven producing areas in Louisiana, Wyoming, Utah and Texas.

Altair Nanotechnologies Incorporated (NASDAQ: ALTI) shares saw a 11.52% increase bringing them to a close at $3.00. Altair announced yesterday the initial shipment of battery electrode nanomaterials to Advanced Battery Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: ABAT) that will be used in the manufacture and testing of prototype polymer lithium batteries. Advanced Battery designs and markets Polymer-Lithium-Ion (PLI) batteries that are manufactured in its subsidiary, based in Harbin, China. Altair previously announced a partnering agreement with ABAT on April 4, 2005.

Alliance Resource Partners Corporation (NASDAQ: ARLP) recently announced that officials from the Mine Safety and Health Administration visited its wholly-owned MC Mining, LLC subsidiary to recognize the safe and successful recovery of the Excel No. 3 mine from an underground mine fire that occurred on December 25, 2004. Through the implementation of an innovative mine recovery plan jointly developed by MC Mining and emergency response teams from the U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration ("MSHA") and the Kentucky Office of Mine Safety and Licensing ("OMSL"), the Excel No. 3 mine returned to production on February 21, 2005. (See ARLP Press Release, dated February 21, 2005.)

Cleveland-Cliffs Incorporated (NYSE: CLF) shares went up $3.44 today bringing it to $64.88 by the close of the market. Cleveland Cliffs said last Monday that it would not extend its offer to buy the shares in Australia's Portman Ltd. (PMM.AX) beyond a deadline of April 19. Cleveland-Cliffs said in a statement it was now entitled to 80 percent of Portman's shares at a price of A$3.85 each.

Cameco Corporation (NYSE: CCJ) confirmed Sunday that unit 6 at the Bruce B generating station was safely shut down at 7:45 p.m. on April 15 following a brief transformer fire outside the nuclear generating station.

No one was injured by the incident and Bruce Power is investigating the cause of the fire which was quickly extinguished by an automatic sprinkler system. The incident caused the release of mineral oil which is used as an insulator in the transformer. Efforts continue to recover the mineral oil which is biodegradable and contains no PCBs or radioactive material.

Tuesday: The bulls returned, as eased inflation fears, strong quarterly earnings and low bond yields sparked a broad-based rally that lifted all 10 economic sectors... Kicking things off on a positive note were better than expected first quarter earnings and encouraging second quarter guidance from Texas Instruments (TXN 24.14 +1.22), which helped mitigate worries about slowing profit growth and improved sentiment throughout technology. While investors continued to sift through more earnings reports, they were awarded with a better than expected March PPI report.

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