Harris Steel Group is a leading North American steel fabricator and processor. Through over 80 strategically located facilities in Canada and the United States, we sell value-added products and services to a diverse customer base within the construction, automotive, industrial and mining markets.Harris Steel Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nucor Corporation. Headquartered in Charlotte, NC, Nucor makes more steel in America than any other company. Nucor and affiliates are manufacturers of steel products, with operating facilities primarily in the U.S. and Canada. Products produced include: carbon and alloy steel - in bars, beams, sheet and plate; steel joists and joist girders; steel deck; fabricated concrete reinforcing steel; cold finished steel; steel fasteners; metal building systems; light gauge steel framing; steel grating and expanded metal; and wire and wire mesh. Nucor, through The David J. Joseph Company, one of the leading scrap companies in the U.S., also brokers ferrous and non-ferrous metals, pig iron and HBI/DRI; supplies ferro-alloys; and processes ferrous and non-ferrous scrap. Nucor is North America's largest recycler.

Luvata smelts and refines copper mainly for markets in Europe and the US. Products include copper rods, bars, sheets, plates, strips, wire, and tubes. Its operations include Rolled Products; Air Conditioning/Refrigeration Tubes; and Luvata Heat Transfer Solutions, which makes HVAC components like heat exchangers, air conditioning units, and food storage refrigeration products. Private equity firm Nordic Capital owns Luvata, having bought the company from Outokumpu in 2005. The following year it changed its name to Luvata, which is a Finnish word meaning to promise.

Kaiser Aluminum went on a diet, slimmed down considerably, and now operates just 12 fabricated products manufacturing plants in the US and Canada. Kaiser's main customers are in the aerospace, engineering, and transportation markets. The company manufactures more than 500 million pounds of fabricated aluminum products annually. Diversified metal services center Reliance Steel & Aluminum is the company's largest customer, representing almost 20% of sales. It had also participated in a joint venture with Rio Tinto plc called Anglesey Aluminum, which operated a UK aluminum smelting facility. (Kaiser got 49% of Anglesey's production.) The smelter was converted to a secondary remelt and casting operation in 2009.

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.

Laramide Resources Ltd. (“Laramide” or the “Company”) is a Toronto-based resource company specializing in the acquisition, discovery and development of uranium projects. Laramide has acquired known uranium assets with drilled out resources. Currently Laramide has approximately 62 million pounds of U3O8 (uranium oxide) located in NI 43-101 compliant resources in Australia and the U.S. One U.S. asset is in the permit comment period with a second US asset to be developed when title transfer is finalized.The Company’s main focus is the advancement of its flagship asset, the Westmoreland Uranium Project in Queensland, Australia. In 2009, Mining Associates of Australia completed a technical report that showed Westmoreland has an indicated resource of 36.0 M lbs @ 0.089% U3O8 and an inferred resource of 15.9 M lbs @ 0.083% U3O8 which ranks it as one of the ten largest uranium deposits in Australia and only one of a handful not under the control of a major mining company.GRD Minproc completed a scoping study on Westmoreland in early 2007 which indicates that the project is economically robust. The study estimates annual production of around 3.0 million pounds of U3O8 at production costs of approximately US$20 per pound. The initial mine life of 11 years could be increased to more than 15 years with further drilling. The direct and indirect capital cost for the project is estimated at US$214 million. Using long term contract prices, payback would occur in approximately 2 years. The proposed mining method is conventional open pit and would take place using the acid leach method. Both are conventional mining methods which are not considered technically challenging.In addition, Laramide participates in two joint ventures on projects adjacent to the Westmoreland Project, located within the Northern Territory. Laramide now holds in excess of 680,000 hectares of highly prospective tenements located in the Northern Territory and Queensland.

Founded in 1854, Westmoreland Coal Company is a premier U.S. energy company with strong leadership, a solid foundation of tangible assets and a proven strategy for growth. Having transitioned from predominantly eastern underground coal production over the past decade, the Company’s current operations include surface coal mining complexes in three western states and power operations in the east and west. Today, Westmoreland employs over 1,125 people in six states, and is producing approximately 30 million tons of coal and generating 1.6 million megawatt hours of electric power annually. Westmoreland also provides post-retirement benefits to over 2,000 people, mostly former coal miners and their dependents.Westmoreland's emphasis is on mine-mouth operations. This positions the Company as the lowest-cost fuel supplier to some of the cleanest, most economical and highly utilized coal-fired utility-owned power plants in America.Westmoreland has also developed eight independent power projects, and currently owns 100% of two projects. The Company’s two North Carolina plants are coal-fired and deliver base-load power to Dominion North Carolina Power.Westmoreland’s demonstrated accomplishments in the transformation of its business, coupled with its proven strategy for growth, position the Company to seek the creation of additional value.Westmoreland’s streamlined organization, focused leadership, attention to cost management, and niche growth strategy has resulted in the Company’s garnering various energy sector awards, including the Platts/BusinessWeek Global Energy Strategic Merger of the Year award in 2002 and the ColoradoBiz/UMB Bank Energy and Natural Resources Company of the Year award in 2002.Westmoreland is publicly traded on the NYSE Amex under the symbol WLB and has over 10.5 million shares of common stock outstanding.

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.

Outokumpu is a global leader in stainless steel with the vision to be the undisputed number one. Customers in a wide range of industries worldwide use our stainless steel and services. Being fully recyclable, maintenancefree, as well as very strong and durable material, stainless steel is one of the key building blocks for sustainable future.Outokumpu employs some 7 600 people in more than 30 countries. The Group’s head office is located in Espoo, Finland. Outokumpu has been listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki since 1988.Stainless steel is the fastest growing metal market across the world. In this market we are well positioned: one of the world’s six largest producers, and also widely recognised as world leaders in technical support, research and development.Our plants in Finland, Sweden, the UK and the US produce a wide range of stainless steel products including hot and cold rolled, precision strip, tubular and long products together with a comprehensive range of fittings, flanges and welding consumables. They are available in various grades, dimensions and surface finishes. We also produce raw material using our own chrome mine and ferrochrome facility.The excellent qualities of stainless steel make it an ideal choice for various demanding applications from cutlery to food and chemical processing plants and oil platforms.

Kirkland Lake Gold Inc is an operating and exploration gold mining company located in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada. Kirkland Lake Gold Company has over 425 employees and 13,110 acres of four contiguous formerly producing gold mining properties, which historically produced 24 million ounces of gold. (See accompanying figures). The current focus is on advancing and expanding gold production from the Main/'04 Break and the new discovery, the high-grade South Mine Complex (SMC).Discovered in 2005, the SMC alone currently contains 639,000 probable ounces, 82,000 proven ounces, 3,000 measured ounces, 489,000 indicated ounces, and 677,000 inferred ounces. (Please see accompanying reserve charts detailing just the SMC reserves and mine-wide reserve growth). The SMC is hosted in a new geologic setting, with gold associated with pyrite compared to the historic quartz-vein hosted systems in the gold camp. The SMC remains open in all directions and is the focus for the Company's 2010 exploration programs. Kirkland Lake's corporate goal is to expand its gold reserves and resources to five million ounces or beyond, and to increase its yearly production to a rate of 200,000 ounces per year which will reduce its unit operating costs. The Company's common shares trade on the TSX (Toronto Stock Exchange) and the AIM (Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange).Work is progressing on-track and on-time with component parts of the Phase II plan commencing ahead of schedule, though mill capacity is nominally 1,450 tons per day a modernization of the mill's control systems will be undertaken in the summer of 2010 along with other surface capital projects.The focus of Kirkland Lake Gold Company is on sustainability and future growth and directors and management are intent that the Company will build a successful mining operation in Kirkland Lake.

Triple Plate Junction plc is a gold and mineral exploration company which listed on the Alternative Investment Market on the 19th of January 2004 at which time it completed a fundraising of £4.2 million.On Listing Triple Plate Junction acquired Larchland Limited, which has interests in Mineral Exploration Licence Applications in Vietnam. During the first half of 2004 Triple Plate Junction extended its focus it Papua New Guinea signing a number of Joint Ventures and securing three licences with five applications pending. Triple Plate Junction has secured higly prospective exploration areas which have the potential to host world class gold and copper-gold deposits.

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