Nyrstar is a Belgian publicly-listed company, created on 31 August, 2007 by combining the zinc smelting and alloying operations of Zinifex (an Australian mining company) and Umicore (a Belgian materials technology company). We listed on the Euronext Brussels Stock Exchange on 29 October 2007.Our name, Nyrstar, is a combination of ‘nyr’, an old Norse word meaning new, and ‘star’ a leading light. For us, Nyrstar means a bright new star, brilliant and fresh.Our vision is to be the partner of choice in essential resources for the development of a changing world. Our strategic direction is to focus on the pursuit of value creation for our stakeholders through initiatives that improve and expand our existing assets whilst selectively pursuing opportunities in mining.The zinc we produce is most commonly used to protect steel from corrosion. It is used in a wide range of industries, the largest consumers being the construction and transport sectors.Nyrstar also produces significant quantities of lead. Lead and zinc are very much sister metals, tending to occur together geologically. Lead is mainly used to produce lead-acid batteries, used primarily in motor vehicles.Given the mineral nature of zinc and lead concentrates, when they are processed they produce a number of valuable by-products such as copper, gold, indium and silver. Sulphuric acid is another valuable by-product of the zinc smelting process.Nyrstar's plants are located close to its key customers and adjacent to major transport hubs to allow easy delivery of raw materials and distribution of finished products.

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.

Centamin Egypt Limited is a mineral exploration development and mining company dual listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange (LSE:CEY) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX:CEE). We are a rapidly growing gold producer with our flagship project, the Sukari Gold Mine, located in the Eastern Desert of Egypt some 25km from the Red Sea coast. Gold production at Sukari commenced in June 2009 making Sukari the first modern mine in Egypt, a country which in ancient times was a prolific producer of the yellow metal. In 2010 the mine is scheduled to produce 200,000 ounces of gold at lower quartile cash costs per ounce. With a resource of 10.99 million ounces Measured and Indicated, and 3.5 million ounces Inferred, and a 7.1 million ounce reserve base, the Company is implementing a rapid expansion program to increase production to circa 500,000 oz per year over the next three years. As the first and only significant developer of a modern mine in the country, the Company remains well positioned to realize further opportunities in other areas within its concession and expand into other prospective mineralized zones. The Company’s unhedged and debt free position, coupled with a growing resource and reserve base in a relatively unexplored region, positions it to grow and deliver superior results to its shareholders as well as its stakeholders.

Terra Nova Minerals is looking for a bit of earth to explore. Terra Nova Minerals company does not yet own any producing minerals properties, but it reached an agreement in 2008 to buy into the Pegma Lake gold project in Quebec. It had previously owned exploration prospects in Mexico and elsewhere in Canada but divested them when they proved unprofitable. Terra Nova Minerals company changed its name from Terra Nova Gold in 2008. The next year it agreed to buy Australian American Energy, which owns rights to coal properties in Montana.

Umicore is a materials technology group. Its activities are centred on four business areas: Advanced Materials, Precious Metals Products and Catalysts, Precious Metals Services and Zinc Specialties. Each business area is divided into market-focused business units, be it in products that are essential to everyday life or those at the cutting edge of new technological developments.Umicore focuses on application areas where it knows its expertise in materials science, chemistry and metallurgy can make a real difference. Umicore generates approximately 50% of its revenues and spends approximately 80% of its R&D budget in the area of clean technology, such as emission control catalysts, materials for rechargeable batteries and photovoltaics, fuel cells, and precious metals recycling. Umicore’s overriding goal of sustainable value creation is based on this ambition to develop, produce and recycle materials in a way that fulfils its mission: materials for a better life.The Umicore Group has industrial operations on all continents and serves a global customer base; it generated a turnover of € 6.9 billion (€ 1.7 billion excluding metal) in 2009 and currently employs some 13,700 people.

Actually, uranium isn't first at First Uranium. First Uranium operates two mining facilities with gold and and uranium deposits in South Africa. Both facilities now produce gold, and First uranium plans to begin producing uranium as well. Its main property is a traditional underground operation while its other facility operates above ground, collecting the residue of previous mining operations. The mines have estimated resources of about 3 million ounces of gold and 7 million pounds of uranium. First Uranium customers include gold commodity firms such as Gold Wheaton. First uranium is a subsidiary of Simmer and Jack Mines.

Gitennes has been traded publicly in Canada since 1993. Gitennes listed on The Toronto Stock Exchange January 22, 1998 and moved to the TSX Venture Exchange October 19, 2009.Gitennes will undertake technically sound, early-stage exploration in "greenfield" environments right through to late-stage resource definition drilling and pre-feasibility work on select properties. Gitennes intends to maintain this course of finding and exploring promising mineral deposits. In the future, when results indicate that a property may become a potential producer that yields a high rate-of-return at a relatively low level of capital investment, Gitennes may then pursue the "development option".A Canadian corporation, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, ownership of Gitennes is broad-based, through shares listed on The TSX Venture Stock Exchange.

United Scrap Metal recycles and recovers scrap metal using such methods as baling, boring, granulating, and incinerating. Besides steel, materials handled by the company include aluminum, brass, copper, nickel alloys, precious metals (gold, silver, palladium, platinum, and others), and stainless steel. United Scrap Metal processes metal left over from manufacturing processes and material received from the public at its Chicago-area facility. Recovered scrap is then sold to mills, foundries, and other users. President and CEO Marsha Serlin founded United Scrap Metal in 1978.

Companhia Brasileira de Aluminio (CBA) has more than enough energy for its aluminum business. In fact, the company distributes excess electricity to homes across Brazil. Its operations span the aluminum production process, from mining bauxite to producing primary aluminum to processing coils, ingots, billet, and bars as well as such fabricated products as cables and roof tiles. Clients include such industries as transportation, packaging, electric utilities, constructions, and consumer products. The intensive electrical requirements for aluminum processing led the company to to invest in hydroelectric power generation. It now operates nearly 20 power plants and supplies more than half of its own electricity.

Mustang Minerals Corp. ( TSXV:MUM, Frankfurt:NJF) is focused on development of the Maskwa Nickel Project in Manitoba Canada and is an active exploration company. At Maskwa, in May 2008 ,the Company received positive results from its prefeasibility study at their open pit nickel project.Micon Engineering concluded:"the Maskwa Project contains an economic mineral reserve and warrants continued development to the full feasibility stage". Mustang announced an update to the Makwa Project Economics in March 2010. In February 2010 a revised Mineral Reserve was announced. The Probable Reserve (diluted ) estimate was 9.855Mt grading 0.54% Ni, 0.11% Cu, 0.02% Co and 0.434/t (Pt plus Pd). ( Micon International ) The reserve was updated with revised metal prices including Nickel (USD 9.00/lb), Copper (USD 3.00/lb), Cobalt (20.00/lb), Platinum (1500.00/oz), Palladium (375.00/oz). A dollar exchange rate of 0.90US equaling 1.00CDN was used. The nickel price and exchange rate were within the sensitivity range examined in the Prefeasibility Study of May 2008.

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