Coalcorp hopes Santa fills its stocking with many lumps. The coal miner's focus is its La Francia coal mine in Colombia, though it also owns other coal projects in the South American country. Coalcorp produces about 2 million tons each year. The company also holds an interest in Ferrocarriles del Norte de Colombia, which runs a railroad from the Cesar region to Santa Marta, Colombia and a majority interest in another Colombian mining project. Coalcorp, which intends to grow through acquisitions, plans to increase its production to 6 million tons by 2010. In 2008 Pala Investments took a nearly 45% stake in Coalcorp.

Minco Silver sees China as its silver lining. The company's primary property is the Fuwan Silver project (estimated to hold more than 150 million ounces of silver) located in Guangdong Province, of which it controls 90%. It also has exploration licenses to explore other areas in Guangdong Province. Canadian mining company Minco Gold, which spun off Minco Silver in 2005, still owns 40% of Minco Silver company. In 2009 it offered about $12 million to buy Sterling Mining, which had just entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Brookmount Explorations Inc., an exploration stage company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral properties in Peru. The company explores for gold, silver, zinc, and lead deposits. It holds a 100% interest in the Mercedes 100 Property, which consists of 7 mineral claims covering an area of 2,611 hectares and is located in Central Peru. Brookmount Explorations Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in Ferndale, Washington.

Liquidmetal® Technologies, a publicly traded company (OTC:LQMT), is a leading force in the research, development and commercialization of amorphous metals. Our revolutionary class of patented alloys and coatings form the basis of high performance material utilized in a range of military, consumer and industrial products manufactured by Liquidmetal Technologies.Discovered by researchers at California Institute of Technology, the home of 27 Nobel Prize winners, and with its unique atomic structure providing applications that were not possible before, Liquidmetal® alloys and composites present new opportunities for the current and future designs of metallic based products. Our revolutionary class of patented alloys and coatings will change the performance and cost paradigms for materials science.As Liquidmetal Technologies controls the intellectual property rights with more than 20 patents on the composition, processing and usage of technology, our high performance material and products are revolutionizing the materials world.

Berg Steel Pipe Corporation (BSPC) was founded in 1979 by two companies of the Bergrohr family, a group of German large-diameter pipe companies. In 1992, EUROPIPE GmbH became 100% owner of BSPC. EUROPIPE is headquartered in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany and is a joint venture between AG der Dillinger Hüttenwerke and Salzgitter Mannesmann GmbH. EUROPIPE owns large-diameter pipe facilities in Mülheim an der Ruhr (Germany), Dunkerque (France) and Serra (Brazil).The EUROPIPE North American pipe manufacturing operations are represented by BSPC in Panama City, Florida and Berg Spiral Pipe Corp. (BSPM) in Mobile, Alabama.In 1995, eb Pipe Coating, Inc.(ebPC) was was set up and began operations adjacent to BSPC's mill in Panama City, Florida.In addition to the manufacturing operations, BERG EUROPIPE Corp. (BEC) in Houston, Texas, founded in 2007, is tasked with all North American sales and marketing acitivity.

Trade Winds Ventures Inc. is a Canadian based gold exploration company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, trading under the symbol TWD. The Company’s primary focus is the advancement of its Detour Lake Block A and Gowest properties, located in the Abitibi Greenstone belt in Northeastern Ontario, a prolific gold mining region which has produced over 65% of Canada’s gold.Since 2004, Trade Winds has completed extensive diamond drilling programs of over 140,000 metres on the Block A and Gowest properties. An aggressive in-fill drill program is underway with the aim to increase the resource base and advance the project toward development of a stand alone open pit mine and mill operation.Recently, Trade Winds as operator, completed a NI 43-101 updated resource calculation on the 50/50 Block A Joint Venture with Detour Gold Corporation at Detour Lake. The global resource calculation included an in-pit gold resource of 1.2 million ounces in the indicated category and 277,000 ounces in the inferred category. The total global resource on the Company's Block A and Gowest properties is in excess of four million ounces gold at a cutoff grade of 0.5 g/t.In addition, Trade Winds owns a 100% interest in the Dardanelle gold and Treasure Mountain copper properties in British Columbia.

A subsidiary of Walter Energy, Walter Coke (formerly Sloss Industries) makes foundry coke, furnace coke, and slag fiber, and specialty chemicals. Foundry coke is sold to ductile iron pipe plants and to foundries that produce castings, such as for the automotive and agricultural equipment industries. Furnace coke is sold mainly to steelmakers. Walter Coke sells more than 400,000 tons of coke annually. The slag fiber made by Walter Coke is used by makers of acoustical ceiling tile and as insulation in asphalt products. The company's specialty chemical products include nutraceutical components, pharmaceutical raw materials, plastics additives, and rubber additives.

Allegheny Technologies Incorporated produces and sells specialty metals worldwide. Allegheny Technologies High Performance Metals segment offers a range of high performance alloys, including nickel-and cobalt-based alloys and superalloys; titanium and titanium-based alloys; exotic metals, such as zirconium, hafnium, niobium, nickel-titanium, and their related alloys; and other specialty alloys primarily in long product forms, including ingots, billets, bars, shapes and rectangles, rods, wires, seamless tubes, and castings. This segment markets its products directly to end-use customers in the aerospace and defense, oil and gas, chemical process, electrical energy, and medical industries. Allegheny Technologies Flat-Rolled Products segment provides stainless steel, nickel-based alloys and superalloys, titanium and titanium-based alloys, and specialty alloys in various product forms, including plate, sheet, engineered strip, and precision rolled strip products, as well as grain-oriented electrical steel sheet. This segment serves the oil and gas, chemical process, electrical energy, automotive, food equipment and appliances, machine and cutting tools, construction and mining, aerospace and defense, electronics, communication equipment, and computer industries. Allegheny Technologies Engineered Products segment provides tungsten powders, tungsten heavy alloys, tungsten carbide materials, and tungsten carbide cutting tools. It also produces carbon alloy steel impression die forgings, and grey and ductile iron castings, as well as provides precision metals processing services, such as grinding, polishing, blasting, cutting, flattening, and ultrasonic testing. This segment serves various industrial markets, including automotive, oil and gas, chemical process, machine and cutting tools, aerospace, construction and mining, and other markets requiring tools with hardness. Allegheny Technologies was founded in 1960 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Anvil Mining plans to be the copper king of central Africa. The company primarily focuses on producing copper -- and some silver too -- in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Anvil Mining owns three mining operations (Kinsevere, Mutoshi, and Dikulushi) in the southern region of Congo. The firm partners with other exploration companies to find base and precious metals. In 2007 Anvil Mining produced more than half of its copper from Dikulushi. The company established its first mining operation in 2002. CDS & CO, which provides custodial services for Canadian and international securities, owns more than three-quarters of the company.

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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