Prospecting in Africa is golden for Red Back Mining. The gold producer operates two gold mines in West Africa -- the Tasiast Gold Mine in Mauritania (100% owned) and the Chirano Gold Mine in Ghana (in which Red Back has a 90% interest, with the government of Ghana holding the rest). Red Back produces about 250,000 ounces annually and has around 3 million ounces of proved and probable reserves. Red Back Mining company also has exploration projects elsewhere in Ghana and Mauritania and holds a minority interest in West African assets held by the Australian Mineral Deposits Limited. Toronto-based Kinross Gold acquired Red Back in 2010 in a $7 billion stock deal.

Boart Longyear is the company to call if you need to dig yourself out of a big hole - literally. Boart Longyear manufactures drilling machinery and provides services to mining, energy, and infrastructure companies worldwide. Although the majority of Boart Longyear's business is geared toward mining activities, Boart Longyear also caters to industrial businesses that utilize its hardmetal and diamond technologies. Boart Longyear, which was founded in 1936 to develop new ways to make use of Anglo American's excess boart (lowgrade natural diamond), now operates worldwide.

Opawica Explorations Inc. (TSX.V: OPW) is a junior exploration company actively engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of mineral resource properties. In addition, the Company controls approximately 36% of Upper Canada Gold Corporation (TSX.V symbol "UCC") which is represented by 11,744,752 Upper Canada Gold shares owned by Opawica. The principal asset of UCC is the Dingman gold-aggregate deposit located in southeastern Ontario.The Company's current exploration and development efforts are concentrated on its 100% owned Atikwa Lake-Maybrun gold and copper project located about 120 kilometres southeast of Kenora, Ontario. The Company commissioned Golder Associates Ltd. (“Golder”) to prepare an NI 43-101 report on the Atikwa Lake property which included modeling of the mineralization associated with the resources at Atikwa Lake, as well as independent resource calculations. This initial report was completed in March 2009. On August 31, 2009, the Company filed a new NI 43-101 report by Robert Laakso, P.Eng, which included new resource estimates on the Atikwa Lake Project.The Atikwa Lake Project is a former 500 tpd producing gold and copper mine that has been on stand-by care and maintenance since 1973. Opawica is currently carrying out a Preliminary Scoping Study that initially will be limited to the existing historic Maybrun Mine footprint and infrastructure.The study will determine if preliminary economic considerations may be applied to at least 1,800,000 tonnes of higher grade open-pit resources that are within the larger overall Maybrun Main Indicated Resource. This preliminary study will use a production rate of up to 500 tpd for a minimum 10 year period.

Metalor Technologies International smelts and refines precious metals for a wide range of uses. Its refining division recycles precious metals -- gold, silver, platinum, etc. -- and converts them into powders, grains, or ingots. From there, the metals are turned into technical coatings, components for the watch and jewelry industries, and silver contacts for the electrical industry and electrotechnics. The company has subsidiaries in 15 countries.

U.S. Energy Corp. engages in the acquisition, exploration, holding, sale, and/or development of mineral properties. It primarily explores for molybdenum, and other base and precious metals. U.S. Energy company holds interests in Mount Emmons property that covers approximately 9,311 acres located in Gunnison County, Colorado. It also holds interests in oil and gas properties located in Williston Basin North Dakota and Gulf Coast region. In addition, the company holds interests in geothermal properties. Further, it develops multifamily apartment project in Gillette, Wyoming. As of December 31, 2009, its estimated proved reserves were approximately 1,086,203 BOE. The company was founded in 1966 and is based in Riverton, Wyoming.

Monument Mining Limited (“Monument”) is a Canadian gold mining production and exploration company operating in Malaysia. The company's two 100% owned principal properties- Selinsing Gold Mine Project ("Selinsing") and Damar Buffalo Reef Prospect ("Buffalo Reef") - are located in Pahang State in the Central Gold Belt District in Malaysia, which is in the same district as the operating Penjom Mine and Raub Gold Mine.At the Selinsing Gold Mine Project Monument has developed an open-pit gold mine and 400,000 tons per annum capacity gold treatment plant. Currently the gravity circuit is in pre-commercial production pouring over 18,000 ounces of gold since October 2009, while the CIL circuit is in the final stages of commissioning. The annual production from the initially targeted 40,000 ounces is planned to be ramped up by twinning the mill to allow targeted annual gold production of between 75,000 and 80,000 ounces. Damar Buffalo Reef Prospect is an exploration project adjacent to the Selinsing land with a present estimated gold resource. The company completed two drill programs for 11,871 metres of reverse circulation drilling ("RC drilling"). The assay results announced show a positive outlook and confirm historic drill results. The company plans to extend the mine life at Selinsing through an ongoing exploration and drilling program at Damar Buffalo Reef. The property is a 3.2 kilometre adjacent extension to Selinsing that is mineralized over most of its length, based on drill results to date.The company will also be strategically advancing it's land position in Malaysia to significantly grow its shareholder's value.

Since its incorporation in 1981, Vancouver-based Eureka Resources, Inc. (TSX-V: EUK) has focused on the exploration and development of natural resource properties in order to create wealth for investors. Under the leadership of chairman and president John J. (Jack) O'Neill, Eureka has remained committed to the highest and best levels of corporate responsibility---environmental responsibility in the field, legal responsibility in meetings its statutory obligations to securities regulators, and financial responsibility in its relationship with investors. Trading on the respected Toronto Stock Exchange's Venture Exchange, Eureka is a member of Canada's pre-eminent public venture-equity market. The TSX Venture Exchange provides access to capital for companies, such as Eureka, at the early stages of their growth, while offering investors a well-regulated market for making venture investments. Eureka is fully compliant with all provincial and national corporate and securities rules and regulations. Prospective and current investors can view a complete list of all Eureka's public disclosures, including press releases and interim and annual reports, at the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR) filing system of the Canadian Securities Administrators. Conducting business in British Columbia, Eureka is part of a burgeoning, $9-billion-a-year industry that saw its annual expenditures on mineral exploration increase 20 percent to a record $344 million in 2006.

Yukon Zinc Corporation (YZC) is a privately owned mine development and exploration company based in Vancouver, Canada. YZC has mining reserves and resources in the Yukon Finlayson and Rancheria Districts.The core focus for YZC is to advance the underground zinc-silver Wolverine Mine into production. All of the development and operations permits have been issued and there is an established working relationship with the Kaska First Nation. Current work at Wolverine includes final installation of infrastructure and commissioning at the Industrial Complex. Mine operation is scheduled for 2010.

Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. is a Canadian precious metals exploration Company with a portfolio of several different properties in Canada at different stages of development. The Company's flagship projects are currently located in Nunavut, in the Canadian North. These Nunavut assets, which are geographically proximal to each other, consist of the very large Hackett River Silver-zinc project, the George and Goose Lake Gold deposits which also contain the Wishbone claims, a 3,000 square km greenstone belt that includes Hackett River as well as many other base and precious metals targets.This portfolio of Arctic assets gives the Company a district size precious metals presence in one of the world's safest mining jurisdictions.The Company is well financed with no debt. These financial resources in conjunction with a management team that has demonstrated proven success in exploring, developing, and operating large projects in difficult environments, provide the platform for Sabina to become a leading Canadian investment opportunity.

Duferco was established in 1979 by Bruno Bolfo, Chairman of the Board, and a group of other steel professionals to exploit the advantages of "emerging markets" steel production. At its inception, Duferco was based in New York, NY, and Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Company, through its relationship with local steel producers, quickly became the leading independent exporter of Brazilian steel throughout the world. Duferco's growth and profitability was based upon close relationships with key Brazilian producers (Cosipa/CSN/CST/Acominas and Usiminas) and the establishment of a small sales network, predominately in the US and in the Far East (Duferco's first office in the Far East was in Thailand, which opened in 1980).In the early 1980's, using its success in Brazil as a springboard, Duferco began to source steel products from other countries. First, Duferco concentrated on other South American countries, with its largest success in Argentina, Venezuela and Mexico. Leveraging on that success, Duferco began to develop purchasing operations in North America and Europe, with its first European office opening in London in 1981. Duferco then proceeded to open a chain of offices in the Pacific Rim that came on line in the late 1980's. After Thailand, the Company opened offices in Taiwan, the Philippines, Singapore, Hong Kong, China and South Korea.In the mid 1990's, the Company opened a large number of offices in Eastern Europe, putting in place an infrastructure in anticipation of the growth of the area as an export market. Duferco also launched ancillary trading operations in the field of raw materials primarily related to the steel industry, such as coke, coal, iron ore, scrap, pig iron, D.R.I., and related products, maximizing its contacts with steel producers throughout the world.In the mid 1990's, two occurrences in Europe presented an opportunity to Duferco. The first was the beginning of a consolidation in European steel, which caused severe financial hardship for smaller European mills. This presented opportunities for Duferco in Italy (Duferdofin), Belgique and Eastern Europe. The second was the restructuring of the Italian steel industry, which caused many steel professionals to enter pre-pension at an early age (50). This permitted Duferco to create an experienced industrial team to manage its properties.Duferco's acquisition of all assets from Ferdofin Siderurgica in receivership (now Duferdofin) was the first step in 1996, followed by many other opportunistic participations/acquisitions, such as Duferco Clabecq (1997), Makstil Skopje (1998), Duferco Farrell Corp. (1999), Duferco La Louvière (1999) and various distribution centers in Europe.

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