Minerali Industriali is based in Novara, Italy, and has been established in 1984. Minerali Industriali was set up following the merger of two historic Italian groups in the mining sector: Maffei, founded in the early 1900s and Gruppo Minerali operating since the ‘70s and involved in the mining, processing & trading of industrial mineral products.

Goldcorp is a leading gold producer engaged in gold mining and related activities including exploration, extraction, processing and reclamation. Goldcorp Inc. operating assets include the Red Lake, Porcupine and Musselwhite gold mines in Canada, Peñasquito, Los Filos, El Sauzal, and San Dimas gold/silver mines in Mexico, the Marlin mine in Guatemala, the Marigold mine (67% interest) and Wharf mine in the United States and the Alumbrera mine (37.5%) in Argentina. Over 72% of Goldcorp’s reserves are in low political risk NAFTA countries. Goldcorp has a solid pipeline of projects including the Eleonore gold project in Quebec, Canada, the Pueblo Viejo project (40% interest) in the Dominican Republic and the El Morro project in Chile. These valuable assets, along with several others, will allow for growth in production for years to come.

Uranium Energy Corp (NYSE-AMEX: UEC) is a U.S.-based exploration and development company with the objective of near-term uranium production in the U.S. using advanced, low-cost in-situ recovery (ISR) methods.The Company’s operations are managed by professionals with a recognized profile for excellence in their industry, a profile based on many decades of hands-on experience in the key facets of uranium exploration, development and mining.Uranium Energy Corp Company controls one of the largest databases of historic uranium exploration and development in the country. Using this knowledge base, the Company has acquired and is advancing exploration properties of merit throughout the southwestern U.S.The Company’s fully licensed and permitted Hobson processing facility is central to all of its projects in South Texas, including the Palangana in-situ recovery project, which is fully permitted, and the Goliad in-situ recovery project, which is in the final stages of mine permitting for production.Uranium Energy Corp Company is well financed to aggressively pursue its key development targets.

Oxus Gold plc (‘Oxus’) is a producing gold mining company with primary operations inside the Republic of Uzbekistan. Founded in 1996, Oxus listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in 2001 and is currently producing significant quantities of both gold and silver from its 50% stake in the Amantaytau Goldfields JV (AGF) which is located in the Kyzylkum region of Uzbekistan, To date AGF has produced approximately 500,000 ounces of gold and silver (expressed as gold equivalent ounces) from its two operations and a third mine, the Asaukak Heap Leach, is due to be built by the end of 2008 which will process one million tonnes per annum of ore.Total AGF ‘Proven and Probable’ reserves were 2,839,000 ozs of gold and 6,739,000 ozs of silver (of which half are attributable to Oxus), under JORC classification.AGF is situated on one of the world’s largest areas of gold endowment, the Tien Shan belt, second only in size to that of the Witwatersrand basin. AGF also enjoys the benefit of being positioned just 40 kms south of the world’s largest single open pit gold mine at Muruntau.

Sumitomo Metals is at the forefront of the Japanese seamless pipe industry. In 1998, despite a sluggish oil industry activity, as well as a trend of strategic restructures among tubular manufacturers, Sumitomo Metals concentrated all of its proprietary technology in the construction of a state-of-the-art medium size seamless pipe making plant This plant besides being extensively automated, inaugurated numerous innovative technologies developed in house represented by the High-Toe-Angle Piercer, dinamically adjustable sizer, inline heat treatment and so on.In 1999, the new steel making plant, which is another embodiment of SMI technology, was constructed next to the medium size pipe making plant and directly connected to it, to become the world's first in line pipe making process.Thanks to these best-in-class facilities, Wakayama Steel Works boasted quality and productivity, and consolidated Sumitomo Metals' position as the leading pipe technology company.Besides Wakayama Steel Works where Carbon steel, low alloy steel, and martensitic stainless steel grades are produced, Sumitomo Metals operates another seamless pipe manufacturing plant, Amagasaki Tube Works which has been fulfilling the majority of CRA OCTG worldwide demand of such as Duplex stainless steel and Nickel based alloy.Sumitomo Metals has historically been the leading pioneer in developing high performances OCTG and a number of Major Oil and Gas companies have selected Sumitomo Metals as a long term partner.The Company's large diameter welded pipes produced in Kashima Steel Works have been deployed all over the world in oil and natural gas pipelines. In the domestic boiler tube market, Sumitomo Metals fulfills approximately 80% of the demand for the main tubes of thermal power generation plants and for boiler tubes used in large-scale industrial projects. Our electric-resistance welded pipe sector has been integrated into Sumitomo Pipe&Tube Co., Ltd. operations in 1999.Sumitomo Metals Pipe and Tube company together with Sumitomo group sister companies have built a world-wide reputation of quality and innovation as a manufacturer of critical application tubular used across a number of industries.

Memry Corporation played a critical role in the early developments of this technology. For over twenty-five years Memry has leveraged the dynamic capabilities of Nitinol as an enabling technology for some of the world’s most widely used therapeutic and implantable medical devices. Our tradition as a thought-leader in providing shape memory solutions enables Memry to develop and manufacture, in quantity, a large array of Nitinol devices for medical OEM's.Today, Memry is the only fully integrated company in the shape memory industry able to, not only process all of its own starting materials (wire, strip, seamless tubing and sheet), but to also add significant value to each of these platforms resulting in a highly engineered medical device component or assembly. With the integration of SAES Smart Materials, Memry is able to offer deep technical expertise relative to Nitinol science and development. Our continuous investment in state of the art manufacturing equipment, combined with our ISO:13485 certification, affirms Memry's leading position as the supplier of choice for medical devices requiring the enabling properties of Nitinol.With access to some of the world's most innovative, advanced material research and development resources, Memry is the technical partner of choice during all phases of Nitinol based product development.Memry is committed to maintaining our leadership as a supplier of semi-finished Nitinol products and medical device components.

Conquest Resources Limited is a Toronto, Canada based public company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSX-V) under the symbol "CQR". The Company's primary focus is to enhance shareholder value by identifying, exploring and developing world class gold or other mineral projects in Canada and North America. Conquest holds several advanced stage gold properties in the Province of Ontario, including the strategically important Alexander Project, located in the heart of northwestern Ontario's Red Lake gold mining district. The Alexander Property is situated immediately to the east of Goldcorp's high grade Red Lake mine at Balmertown and has been independently called "the best located exploration property in the Red Lake Gold Camp." Conquest has two projects located in the Detour Lake gold mining district of the Northern Abitibi Greenstone Belt, referred to as the Aurora Gold and Sunday Lake Projects. The properties are immediately adjacent to the development project of Detour Gold Inc. who are planning a "Super Open Pit" to access a reported 13.2 million ounce gold resource. Conquest's King Bay Property located at Sturgeon Lake, Ontario was partially tested by winter drilling in 2006, 2007 and 2008. Visible gold together with significant gold assays were encountered leading to the conclusion that a source of the high grade gold present in three well defined boulder trains has been located within an altered quartz-porphyry body under King Bay. Conquest's Smith Lake Property, is located immediately north of the former Renabie gold mine in Leeson Twp.Conquest is also reviewing opportunities for advanced precious metal projects in the Americas. Conquest is managed by a team of experienced mining professionals, each with over 30 years experience in the resource industry covering exploration, development, operations, company and project financing.

While Highveld Steel and Vanadium was once one of the world's leading producers of vanadium, now that it's a part of Russian steel producer Evraz, it's concentrating more on its steel assets. Highveld Steel mines its own ore for its steelworks, which produces plate, coil, billets and slabs. Those products go to the construction, shipbuilding, and rail industries, among others. Until the 2008 disposal of most of its vanadium operations, Highveld had gotten about a third of sales from that unit. But since 2006, Highveld Steel company has sold most of its ferro-alloy businesses as well as its 50% stake in South Africa Japan Vanadium and wholly owned subsidiary Vanchem.

Jaguar Mining Inc. ("Jaguar") is one of the fastest growing gold producers in the world. Jaguar's plan is to significantly expand gold production from 70,000 ounces produced in 2007 to between 620,000 and 700,000 ounces by 2014 through its wholly-owned operations in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Jaguar operates in a prolific greenstone belt with a rich history of gold mining. Jaguar is actively exploring and developing additional mineral resources at its 65,500 acre land base in Minas Gerais and on an additional concession base totaling 186,600 acres in the state of Ceará in the northeast of Brazil through a joint venture. Jaguar is committed to increasing shareholder value through its aggressive expansion program, sizeable exploration effort and commitment to a best practices program where health, safety and environmental considerations receive the highest priority. Jaguar is a relatively low-cost gold producer and has no gold hedges in place thereby providing the leverage to gold prices directly to its investors.

Canarc Resource Corp. (CCM: TSX, CRCUF: OTC-BB, CAN: DBF) is a growth-oriented gold exploration and mining company focused on the acquisition, discovery and development of strategic gold deposits in North, Central and South America. By seeking a partner to develop its principal asset, the high-grade New Polaris gold mine project in BC, towards feasibility and production and by exploring the attractive new Tay-LP gold project in the Yukon, Canarc aims to deliver resource growth and enhance shareholder value.

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