Arch Coal, Inc. engages in the production and sale of steam and metallurgical coal from surface and underground mines to power plants, steel mills, and industrial facilities in the United States. As of December 31, 2009, the company operated 19 active mines; and owned or controlled approximately 3.9 billion tons of estimated proven and probable recoverable reserves. It owned or controlled primarily through long-term leases, approximately 100,100 acres of coal land in West Virginia; 107,800 acres of coal land in Wyoming; 98,900 acres of coal land in Illinois; 72,100 acres of coal land in Utah; 46,200 acres of coal land in Kentucky; 21,800 acres of coal land in New Mexico; and 18,500 acres of coal land in Colorado. The company, formerly known as Arch Mineral Corporation, was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

Archipelago Resources Plc (Archipelago) is a UK incorporated company formed in 2002 to acquire, explore, develop and mine gold and other metal deposits in south east Asia. Archipelago was listed on AIM in September 2003 and as a result of a number of capital raisings has 493,019,334 shares in issue. Archipelago’s registered office is in London but the Company is managed from Perth, Western Australia and all project development personnel are located at the Company’s principal project at Toka Tindung in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.

The American Industrial Revolution was well underway. The year was 1895. And in the quiet northwestern New Jersey town of Asbury, an important American enterprise was born. Harry M. Riddle founded what is today Asbury Carbons, Inc. He became a hard worker at an early age, doing chores on the family farm, and then walking some five miles to work at a general store. By the time he was 24, he was part owner of two general stores, one in Asbury, New Jersey, and another located in the nearby village of Hampton. He was also Asbury's postmaster. However, he had much greater ambitions, and when a friend told him about the wide applications of graphite and its untapped industrial potential he was determined to become involved in the business. In 1895, Riddle leased an Asbury flour mill that was owned by a relative and powered by the swiftly flowing Musconetcong River. The mill had been built in 1865 to replace one constructed in the late 1700s. Riddle then hired a miller and transformed the operation so that instead of grist it now milled refined graphite, produced from raw material, some of which he bought from a small Rhode Island mine. Most raw graphite, however, was imported from Korea and Ceylon by New York City brokers. The barrels of raw graphite came by rail to a nearby New Jersey train station and transported the final miles to the mill by horse and wagon. Riddle called his new company Asbury Graphite Mills. To market his product, Riddle, not surprisingly, relied on the U.S. mail. He wrote letters to potential customers�foundries and manufacturers of such goods as paint and stove polish�and enclosed a sample. It proved an effective technique, as sales grew rapidly, from 36 tons of material to 144 tons during the first three years. Business was so strong that in 1903 Riddle paid $2,000 to buy the mill, and five years later bought another mill across the river. Known as "Plant No. 2," this facility would be continually upgraded and become the hub of Asbury's operation. The original plant, on the other hand, was used only intermittently and was finally closed in the 1970s.

Have you had your zinc today? Well, Asturiana de Zinc sure has. The company's core business is the refining and production of zinc metal. Its primary mining operation is the Reocín mine in Spain. Along with your run-of-the-mill ingots and wire, the company also produces zinc-based alloys, sulphuric acid, germanium dioxide, and good old zinc oxide. Asturiana de Zinc operates globally, with production units in Australia, North America, and South America in addition to its European operations. Its parent company, the Swiss metals giant Xstrata plc, has rolled its other zinc operations into Asturiana.

ATAC Resources Ltd. (ATC:TSX-V) is a closely held junior exploration company aggressively exploring for gold in Yukon, Northwest Territories and British Columbia. The Company's corporate philosophy is to maximize shareholder value by identifying and acquiring grassroots and early-stage gold prospects. The company's management team and board of directors include geologists and engineers with over 160 years of collective exploration experience in western Canada. Archer, Cathro & Associates (1981) Limited is ATAC's exploration consultant. Over the past 40 years, Archer Cathro has earned a reputation as one of the most highly regarded exploration organizations in western Canada. ATAC has full access to the Archer Cathro exploration database, which when married with the experience of its management team, will facilitate the development of a portfolio of gold projects that are attractive for option or joint venture by junior and senior mining and development companies. In this manner, the Company can take advantage of leveraging third party exploration expenditures to the full benefit of the Company's shareholders.

Atacama Minerals Corp. is a publicly traded industrial minerals company based in Vancouver, Canada. The Company holds a 100% interest in the Aguas Blancas iodine/sulphate/nitrate mine located in northern Chile. Iodine production commenced from Aguas Blancas in 2001 and Atacama product is now shipped worldwide. A phased development plan is underway to further develop the mine's iodine and nitrate resources. The Company trades on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "AAM". The Company has also acquired a new potash exploration project on the northeastern coast of Brazil. The "Salvador Potash Project", located along the Atlantic coast within the highly prospective on-shore portion of the Reconcavo Basin, covers an area of approximately 1,700 square kilometers. The project is located 45 kilometers west of the port city of Salvador, Bahia with excellent infrastructure.

ATH Resources is an AIM-listed operator of surface coal mines and has mines in production in East Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway and Fife. The Company is one of the largest producers of coal in the UK producing 2 million tonnes per annum. Coal was used to generate 36 per cent of the UKs electricity in 2008 and the Company holds coal supply contracts with three of the UK's main electricity generating companies. The Group commenced operations in 1998 when it acquired the rights to operate (and subsequently acquire) the Skares Road mine. The Garleffan mine was acquired in November 2003 and ATH Resources became a public company in June 2004 when it listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM). In June 2005 the Group funded two new surface sites, Grievehill and Glenmuckloch in Scotland for 18 million by way of an Open Offer to shareholders. The acquisition increased the Group's coal reserve base by 160% and provided greater diversity to the business. In May 2006 the Group acquired Doncaster-based A Ogden & Sons Limited a successful coal recovery, land remediation and regeneration business with a particular focus on colliery spoil heap reclamation projects. In July 2010, the Group sold the assets of ATH Regeneration Ltd, the proceeds of which could total some £17m over a seven year period comprising £6.5m in cash on completion plus royalties. The assets were sold to RecyCoal Ltd, a newly formed company that is funded by a substantial investment fund and its partners and has amongst its shareholders Tom Allchurch and Steven Beaumont, who at that time were the Group's Chief Executive and Finance Director respectively. In October 2006, following a successful planning application the Group commenced work on its new Laigh Glenmuir surface mine in East Ayrshire and obtained further consent to extract 800kt from an extension into Duncanziemere land in June 2010. Planning permission was also granted to extract up to 4 million tonnes of coal from the company's Netherton site near Cumnock, East Ayrshire in June 2010. This site is located close to the company's Skares Mine and work is due to start in the Autumn and will ultimately employ up to 110 personnel directly. In addition to its operating mines, the Group also has a number of other coal mining projects in Scotland and two through its French subsidiary, SRMMC including a series of six existing coal concessions in south-central France, covering an area of 36km, 2 with an estimated resource of approximately 4.5 million tonnes of recoverable coal.

Set up in 1945 as a monopoly in the French coal industry, ATIC Services now operates as a global services provider for other coal producers. The company offers assistance in three main facets of the coal import business: marketing, logistics, and quality control. It operates through subsidiary companies such as bulk handling and transportation facilities, shipping agencies, and laboratories. ATIC Services is a joint venture owned primarily by industrial giants ArcelorMittal (42%), Electricite de France (33%), and TOTAL (19%). The company owns and operates offices in Australia, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, and the US.

Atlanta Gold isn't even close to Georgia. The former Twin Mining explores for diamonds in eastern Canada and gold in Canada and Idaho. Its primary project is the Atlanta Gold Mine in Idaho, which is still in the exploration stage. Atlanta Gold was originally founded in 1985 under the name Atlanta Gold Corporation. In 1999 when gold prices were low, Atlanta Gold turned to diamond mining and changed its name soon after to Twin Mining. In early 2007, with gold prices way up and production expected to begin shortly, The company took on the name Atlanta Gold Inc.

Atna Resources is a mineral exploration company that purchases, explores, and develops mineral resource properties. Atna Resources concentrates on precious metals and operates in Canada, the United States, and Chile. While it does operate internationally, Atna's focus is developing its properties in the western US. Atna Resources greatest geographic concentration is in Nevada, home to seven gold projects. In 2008 it paid $26 million in stock to buy gold miner Canyon Resources, whose properties were already in production and located in close proximity to Atna's.

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