In 2010 Norsk Hydro agreed to buy the Brazilian aluminum operations of Vale SA in a $5 billion deal. You may find the oil business fascinating, but Norsk Hydro no longer has any interest in the industry. Until 2007 its operations were divided more or less equally between aluminum and energy products. Norsk Hydro is now focused almost exclusively on its aluminum operations, which are strong throughout Asia, Europe, and North and South America, and rank among the world's top five, along with the likes of Rio Tinto Alcan, RUSAL, and Alcoa. In 2006 it combined its energy operations with Norwegian state-owned Statoil, though it still owns a small energy business with 17 hydroelectric power stations in Norway.

Queenston Mining is searching for Pandora's box, and hoping there is gold to be found within. Queenston Mining company owns, wholly and through joint ventures, about 20 gold properties in Canada. Its Wood-Pandora project includes 45 mineral claims in Quebec's top gold producing area. The Kirkland Lake project comprises 855 claims in one of Ontario's top gold producing camps. Queenston has joint venture agreements with Kirkland Lake Gold and with Globex Mining Enterprises. In 2010 Queenston Mining company agreed to buy Vault Minerals, which also owns properties in the Kirkland Lake region.

Inter-Citic Minerals Inc. is a federally incorporated Canadian public company listed on the TSX (symbol - ICI). Based in Toronto, Inter-Citic has an exclusive focus on gold exploration and development opportunities in China and is currently exploring its flagship Dachang Gold Project it acquired in 2003. In 2004 and 2005 Inter-Citic undertook major surface exploration at Dachang. 2006 and 2007 have seen progressively larger major drilling programs on the property with a goal of expanding the exisiting gold resource.Inter-Citic is a growing gold exploration and development company unlike any other junior mining company. For almost a decade Inter-Citic has been developing relationships and opportunities in China and is regarded as a valued partner. With a wealth of board, management and advisor talent and experience, Inter-Citic is well-positioned to become a major player in China.In 2003 Inter-Citic signed a 30-year joint venture agreement with the Qinghai Geological Survey Institute (QGSI) which also gives Inter-Citic a formal right of first refusal on subsequent projects, offering a rich opportunity pipeline for future gold and mineral exploration and development.Prior to the current Dachang Gold Project, Inter-Citic already had a wealth of practical mineral experience in China. Previously it acquired an 80% interest in a rare-earths facility in eastern China employing more than 100 people. Inter-Citic has also worked in close partnership with Minmetals International Non-ferrous Metals Trading Company, one of the largest non-ferrous metals suppliers in China and identified by the Chinese government as one of the State Owned Enterprises vital to China's economic security.Projects and partnerships like these over more than a decade in China have allowed Inter-Citic to build relationships and exciting opportunities in the complex and dynamic Chinese economy.

Excelling in the production and distribution of the finest quality copper and brass products is the foundation upon which Mueller Industries operates. Since its inception in 1917 as Mueller Metals Company and later Mueller Brass Company in Port Huron, Michigan, the company has been a leader in the development of new products and innovative manufacturing processes. Mueller Industries, Inc., is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (MLI), and has annual worldwide sales in excess of one billion dollars. The company provides the broadest tube and fitting product line available from a single source in the United States for plumbing and refrigeration applications. Today, more than ever before, wholesalers, original equipment manufacturers, and retail distribution chains have more to focus on than just Mueller copper tube and fittings. It has all come about through an aggressive investment in manufacturing and distribution facility expansion, modernization and acquisitions. During the 1990's Mueller invested approximately $300 million for capital improvements. Mueller is committed to reinvesting in its manufacturing operations to ensure its competitive position. No other company in our industry can match this level of commitment to customers. Mueller's acquisitions are just as significant as the capital improvements. Over the same period, Mueller completed several acquisitions that have strengthened and expanded its core business offering. These acquisitions have enabled Mueller to broaden its product line with complementary products. Offering the widest selection of products and the most production capability is just the beginning of Mueller's commitment to customers. What pulls it all together is the dedication to superior customer service. It starts with a seasoned sales force of factory sales representatives and agents that receive extensive training in Mueller's own university type facility. An integrated customer service facility allows the same service representative to support the customer from order entry through order fulfillment. Strategically located distribution facilities ensure products take the most direct route from manufacturing to customer delivery.

Excellon Resources Inc. (TSX: EXN),a mineral resource company operating in Durango and Zacatecas States, Mexico, is committed to building value through production, expansion and discovery. Excellon Resources is producing silver, lead and zinc from high-grade manto deposits on its Platosa Property, strategically located in the middle of the Mexican silver belt. In fiscal 2010, Excellon's focus remains on increasing its Mineral Resources at Platosa through an aggressive $12.7-million exploration program, and expanding its operating capacity to maximize the value of the recently acquired Miguel Auza mill. The Platosa Property, not fully explored, has several geological indicators of a large carbonate replacement deposit (CRD) mineralized system, the tracking of which Excellon believes will lead to the discovery of a world class deposit. At Miguel Auza, located in the northern portion of the Zacatecas-Fresnillo silver belt, an initial exploration program to evaluate the potential of this largely underexplored property, the site of considerable historic and recent production from epithermal precious and base metal veins began in the fall of 2009.

Uranerz Energy Corporation is a pure-play uranium company listed on the NYSE Amex Exchange (Symbol URZ), Toronto Stock Exchange (Symbol URZ), and Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Symbol U9E).Uranerz Energy Corporation is engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of properties in the uranium sector. The Company's goal is to become a producer of uranium which will be utilized as fuel in the world's nuclear power plants.Uranerz Energy Corporation has an experienced team of mining personnel, many of whom are former officers, senior management and employees of the original Uranerz Exploration and Mining Limited and related companies (the "Uranerz Group"). The Uranerz Group was the third-largest primary uranium producer in the world when it was acquired in 1998 by Cameco, the world's largest primary uranium producer at that time. There are nine persons with Uranerz Energy Corporation that are from the original "Uranerz Group" of companies.Uranerz Energy Corporation has expertise in the in-situ recovery ("ISR") mining method. Our management team has direct experience in licensing, designing, constructing and/or operating seven separate in-situ recovery uranium mines located in Wyoming, Texas, Nebraska, and Kazakhstan.The Company's Powder River Basin, Wyoming uranium properties are advanced, and the Company has submitted (in December 2007) license and permit applications to the Federal and State regulatory agencies for the development of two of these projects into commercial ISR uranium mines. Uranerz has over 25 uranium projects in various stages of activity (development, exploration) in the Powder River Basin.Uranerz has signed long-term contracts for the sale of uranium to two of the United States' largest nuclear operators, including Exelon (which operates the largest nuclear fleet in U.S. and the third largest in the world).ISR mining comprised 36% of global uranium production in 2009 according to the World Nuclear Association. Wyoming ISR advantages include low capital costs, low operating costs, and low environmental impact. Wyoming is the largest uranium producer in the United States with a long ISR history and has the largest known uranium resource base in the USA. Uranerz management has a record of licensing and operating commercial ISR projects.

GWR Resources Inc. is a Canadian junior exploration company focused on exploration for gold and other valuable mineral deposits in Canada. The Company was incorporated in British Columbia and trades on the TSX Venture Exchange (Symbol: GWQ). GWR's experienced management and technical teams are committed to establishing the existence of mineable gold, copper, magnetite and possibly other metals within these highly prospective areas. GWR has two very prospective properties, both having excellent infrastructure, located near townsites with a skilled workforce, rail, road and power capacity.Our flagship project is the Lac La Hache gold-copper porphyry property located within the Quesnel Trough in British Columbia, the largest porphyry trend in Canada. The Lac La Hache project covers approximately 50 km2 and contains numerous drilled prospects including two mineralized zones with (non-43-101 compliant) estimated reserves. The property is situated between producing mines at Imperial Metals' Mt. Polley Copper-Gold Mine and New Gold Inc.'s New Afton Copper-Gold project (Teck-Cominco's legendary Afton mine). Drilling is ongoing for the purposes of expanding existing mineralized zones and discovering new zones.In July, 2010, the Company signed an option agreement to acquire 100% interest in the Sainte Sabine project, a high-potential gold property located within the Bellechasse Mineral Belt in southeastern Quebec. Sainte Sabine is both a gold and gold-polymetallic (Au-Ag-Zn-Cu) property and is located approximately 100 km southeast of Quebec City, within the Beauce region. The property lies immediately along and across strike of several known zones currently being tested by Golden Hope Mines on their Bellechasse Project. New airborne geophysical and ground geochemical surveys will be completed by GWR to improve exploration vectoring on this exciting project.

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.

Nucor Corporation and Yamato Kogyo produces structural-steel shapes, such as wide-flange beams, H-piling, sheet piling, and standard I-beams. Produced at the largest structural steel mill in the Western Hemisphere, the company's products are sold throughout the US and exported worldwide. Annual production capacity at the mill is 2.5 million tons of steel. Founded in 1987, Nucor-Yamato Steel serves steel-service centers and companies in the fabrication, construction, and manufacturing industries.

Mercator Minerals Ltd. (Mercator) is a diversified natural resource company engaged in the exploration, development and mining of base and precious metals deposits. Mercator embarked on a two-phase expansion of its Mineral Park operations to a 50,000 ton per day copper and molybdenum milling operation which is expected to increase total Mineral Park average annual production over the first ten years of a 25-year mine life to 56 million pounds of copper, 10 million pounds of molybdenum and .6 million ounces of silver. Mercators Mineral Park Mine expansion is one of the largest, furthest advanced copper-molybdenum expansion projects in North America. The first phase of the expansion to a 25,000 ton per day milling operation was completed and achieved commercial production in the second quarter of 2009. Mercator is currently producing copper, molybdenum and silver in concentrates and copper by SX/EX leach extraction at its wholly-owned Mineral Park Mine located near Kingman, Arizona (Mineral Park). Mercator provides investors with exposure to current profitable copper production from a fully permitted, operating mine located in one of the world's most favorable, stable mining jurisdictions as well as near-term exposure at the same mine to one of the largest molybdenum/copper milling expansion projects in North America and longer term exposure to further reserve and production expansions.

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