Founded in 1854, Westmoreland Coal Company is a premier U.S. energy company with strong leadership, a solid foundation of tangible assets and a proven strategy for growth. Having transitioned from predominantly eastern underground coal production over the past decade, the Company’s current operations include surface coal mining complexes in three western states and power operations in the east and west. Today, Westmoreland employs over 1,125 people in six states, and is producing approximately 30 million tons of coal and generating 1.6 million megawatt hours of electric power annually. Westmoreland also provides post-retirement benefits to over 2,000 people, mostly former coal miners and their dependents.Westmoreland's emphasis is on mine-mouth operations. This positions the Company as the lowest-cost fuel supplier to some of the cleanest, most economical and highly utilized coal-fired utility-owned power plants in America.Westmoreland has also developed eight independent power projects, and currently owns 100% of two projects. The Company’s two North Carolina plants are coal-fired and deliver base-load power to Dominion North Carolina Power.Westmoreland’s demonstrated accomplishments in the transformation of its business, coupled with its proven strategy for growth, position the Company to seek the creation of additional value.Westmoreland’s streamlined organization, focused leadership, attention to cost management, and niche growth strategy has resulted in the Company’s garnering various energy sector awards, including the Platts/BusinessWeek Global Energy Strategic Merger of the Year award in 2002 and the ColoradoBiz/UMB Bank Energy and Natural Resources Company of the Year award in 2002.Westmoreland is publicly traded on the NYSE Amex under the symbol WLB and has over 10.5 million shares of common stock outstanding.

Kazakhmys PLC is an international natural resources company, listed in the UK, with its principal operations in Kazakhstan and the surrounding region. The core business is the production and sale of copper. Kazakhmys is fully integrated from mining ore through to the production of finished metal. The copper division also produces significant volumes of other metals as by-products, including zinc, silver and gold. Kazakhmys is the largest copper producer in Kazakhstan and in the top ten worldwide. The copper division has operating sites across Kazakhstan with 15 open pit and underground mines, 10 concentrators and two smelting and refining complexes. The Copper division owns coal mines and power plants, which supply sufficient energy for its operations and markets excess capacity commercially. Fully integrated production and good by products, make Kazakhmys one of the lowest cost copper producers in the world. These advantages, combined with a large reserve base give the Group a strong platform for future growth and development. The Group has two major growth projects, Bozshakol and Aktogay. They should start production in 2014 and 2015. Kazakhmys owns 50% of Ekibastuz GRES-1, the largest power station in Kazakhstan. Together with the captive power plants, the Group manages over 20% of Kazakhstan power supply.

Azure Resources explores and develops mineral properties in Pakistan and Botswana. It owns 90% of a copper/gold exploration project located near Pakistan's border with China. Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto jointly owns the Kang-Kokong diamond mine in Botswana and operates the project through subsidiary Tinto Botswana. In 2008 Azure Resources company changed its name from Trivalence Mining.

Unigold Inc. is a Canadian headquartered public company whose principal activity is to explore, discover, and develop gold deposits. Its main focus to date has been on its 100% owned 226 square kilometers property in the Dominican Republic. Unigold’s strategy is to target bulk tonnage, open pittable, oxide gold deposits with a goal to finding a deposit equivalent in size to the world class Pueblo Viejo Gold Mine in the Dominican Republic.The Pueblo Viejo Gold Mine has produced over 5 million ounces from oxide ore between 1975 and 1993 and contains an additional geological inventory of 20.4million ounces of gold in sulphide ore. (proven and probable). The mine is currently being developed by partners Barrick Gold Corporation and Goldcorp Inc.Unigold’s strategy is to target bulk tonnage, open-pittable, oxide gold deposits with a goal to finding a deposit equivalent in size to the world class Pueblo Viejo Gold Mine in the Dominican Republic.The next round of drilling on Los Candelones is designed to outline higher grade zones, confirm the mineralization continuity on the sulphide zones as shown by the IP and to define the easily accessible 15-30m thick oxide cap 15-35m above and surrounding the sulphide mineralization.Unigold will also drill test several of the new showings discovered on the Neita property.Unigold will continue to expand the reach of the field exploration program on its extensive Dominican properties. Exploration upside remains very strong with certain remote regions remaining largely untouched.With Unigold’s reconnaissance license in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the company is actively pursuing opportunities in the Middle East and is committed to developing a strong asset base and/or partnership in the region.

Penn Virginia Resource Partners, L.P. (NYSE: PVR) is a publicly traded limited partnership which owns and manages coal and natural resource properties and related assets, and owns and operates midstream natural gas gathering and processing businesses. We own more than 800 million tons of proven coal reserves in Northern and Central Appalachia, and the Illinois and San Juan Basins; our midstream natural gas assets are located principally in Texas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania and include more than 4,100 miles of natural gas gathering pipelines and 6 processing systems with approximately 400 million cubic feet per day of capacity.

Intrepid Potash, Inc. has become the largest producer of potash (potassium chloride) in the United States. In addition, it produces three valuable byproducts: Solar Salt, Magnesium Chloride brine and Sulfate of Potash Magnesia.Potash is a critical fertilizer, providing one of eight essential nutrients and is vital to the creation of protein. It is necessary and widely used to grow corn, wheat, soybeans, potatoes, hay and numerous other crops. The United States currently imports almost 85% of its potash needs.Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Intrepid Potash, Inc. has two production facilities in Utah and three in New Mexico. These subsidiaries are named: Intrepid Potash - Moab, LLC, Intrepid Potash - Wendover, LLC and Intrepid Potash - New Mexico, LLC. These companies collectively employ approximately 745 people.Intrepid's top priorities are safety and long-term protection of the environment. We know this can work in concert with sustainable, low cost production. Each facility has extensive ore reserves. Intrepid Potash, Inc. is on the leading edge of solution mining technology, having successfully designed, drilled and placed into production the first horizontal potash caverns in the world at its Moab, Utah facility. This technology will soon be implemented at our Carlsbad complex, producing several hundred thousand low cost, solution mining tons. We have studied and implemented technologies from a variety of industries, oil & gas, hard rock mining, metals processing and more. We have extensive growth opportunities at every Intrepid facility. Our five year plan focuses on these internal opportunities, increasing production while decreasing costs and upgrading all facilities for our future.

Lihua is one of the first vertically integrated companies in China to develop, design, manufacture, market and distribute lower cost, high quality, alternatives to pure copper magnet wire. Lihua’s products include copper-clad aluminum wire (“CCA”) and recycled scrap copper wire. Primarily because of its high electrical conductivity, pure copper magnet wire is one of the fundamental building blocks in many components in a wide variety of motorized and electrical appliances such as dishwashers, microwaves and automobiles. Lihua CCA and recycled scrap copper wire are typically a low-cost substitute for pure copper wire, which allows our customers to realize significant cost savings with no loss of efficiency. We sell our products in China either directly to manufacturers or through distributors in the wire and cable industries and manufacturers in the consumer electronics, white goods, automotive, utility, telecommunications and specialty cable industries. Lihua’s corporate and manufacturing headquarters are located in the heart of China’s copper industry in Danyang, Jiangsu Province. To serve its diverse base of approximately 300 customers, Lihua has representatives in cities throughout China.

Noble Biomaterials, Inc. is a global leader in bacterial management solutions. Noble develops, manufactures, sells and markets advanced antimicrobial technologies designed to manage all forms of bacterial contamination. Noble has more than 200 global licensees for products in the medical, defense, industrial and consumer markets. Noble's headquarters and manufacturing facility are located in Scranton, PA, with global offices in Europe, Asia and South America.

McWane is a friend to both firefighters and dogs. Orchestrated through five product groups, McWane's subsidiaries make a line of water distribution solutions including fire hydrants, cast-iron water and sewer pipes, fittings, and compressed air tanks. Its Amerex subsidiary is one of the world's largest makers of fire extinguishers. Subsidiary Manchester Tank makes pressure vessels, from huge propane cylinders to handheld torches. M&H Valve Co., a maker of industrial valves for wastewater equipment and fire hydrants, has operated since 1854. Established in 1921, McWane continues as a closely held corporation, led by its founder's fourth generation, chairman C. Phillip McWane.

Viking Gold Exploration has set off in search of gold in North America. Viking Gold company explores for gold in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Its nearly 30 active claims are in the Yellowknife region, which is known for its productive gold belt that has yielded more than 13 million ounces of gold. Viking Gold's properties include Morris Lake, Max Lake, Ginn Extension, and Peregrine. It has option agreements with Aur Resources and Peregrine Diamonds.

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