Resource Finance & Investment Ltd. (RFI) is engaged in the business of acquiring, exploring and developing natural resource properties. RFI primarily invests in controlled natural resource exploration entities that have the potential to add significant value with the expenditure of early to mid stage capital. The company's focus is on industrial or value-added specialty minerals and selective base metal projects. Resource Finance & Investment Ltd.Company is domiciled in Bermuda. The Company's registered office is in Hamilton Bermuda with administration offices located in Geneva Switzerland and Portland, Oregon. RFI has substantial ownership interests in two entities, one of which is Industrial Minerals Corporation Ltd quoted on the Australian Securities Exchange (IDM.ASX) and a 100% ownership of Dynamex Corporation Inc.

African Aura's strategy is to be a 'first mover' within highly prospective and under explored geological provinces, in pursuit of the next generation of gold and iron ore mines in emerging sub-Saharan Africa. It is the significant experience of working in Africa and the ability to identify and assess the non-geological risks inherent with investing in emerging countries that distinguishes the Company as a pioneer. Once opportunities have been identified the Company employs satellite borne and geological remote sensing datasets in order to select the highest priority areas to explore. This strategy allows our teams to have the highest chance of discovering those deposits which crop-out at surface. Historically these deposits are discovered fastest, for the lowest exploration cost and are the first to become mines. In addition to our flagship New Liberty Gold and Putu Iron Ore projects, African Aura has assembled a significant portfolio of projects in Liberia and Cameroon with over 20 deposits discovered by our exploration teams to date. These discoveries create a pipeline of opportunities for the Company; being at varying stages of exploration from reconnaissance sampling through to resource definition drilling.

Inlet Resources hopes to find copper at the end of the rainbow. The company is active in copper and nickel mining development in Canada. Inlet Resources owns mineral properties including a nickel and copper project in Quebec and a zinc property in British Columbia. The company, which is exploring its properties for mineral deposits, also believes platinum group metals are in the area. Inlet Resources abandoned its Red Lake gold project in Ontario during 2006 when it determined that the property would never yield sufficient returns.

Umicore is a materials technology group. Its activities are centred on four business areas: Advanced Materials, Precious Metals Products and Catalysts, Precious Metals Services and Zinc Specialties. Each business area is divided into market-focused business units, be it in products that are essential to everyday life or those at the cutting edge of new technological developments.Umicore focuses on application areas where it knows its expertise in materials science, chemistry and metallurgy can make a real difference. Umicore generates approximately 50% of its revenues and spends approximately 80% of its R&D budget in the area of clean technology, such as emission control catalysts, materials for rechargeable batteries and photovoltaics, fuel cells, and precious metals recycling. Umicore’s overriding goal of sustainable value creation is based on this ambition to develop, produce and recycle materials in a way that fulfils its mission: materials for a better life.The Umicore Group has industrial operations on all continents and serves a global customer base; it generated a turnover of € 6.9 billion (€ 1.7 billion excluding metal) in 2009 and currently employs some 13,700 people.

Consolidated Spire Ventures Ltd. is a junior Canadian exploration company dedicated to the pursuit and exploration of gold, silver and other mineral deposits in Canada and North America, such as the recent acquisition of the 100% mineral interest in 164,072 contiguous acres in an area prospective for lithium, located about 30kms south-southeast of Fox Creek, Alberta within the Devonian Leduc Formation.The phase I drill program will consist of approximately 1,500 metres in 12 to 14 diamond drill holes. Several new areas in the South Discovery Zone will be tested, following up on results of the November and December 2009 infill soil grid. The results were very encouraging with individual values up to 1.2 g/t Au within a gold-in-soil anomaly up to 400m wide and spanning a northeast-southwest strike length of approximately 700m. The South Discovery Zone is part of a gold-in-soil anomaly extending nearly 2km in total strike length.Other phase 1 drilling is designed to test the continuity of gold mineralization intersected in South Discovery, in 2006 and 2007. Those programs included drill intercepts such as 50.6 metres of 1.36 grams per tonne gold in DDH 2006-21, 66.8 m of 0.90 g/t gold in DDH 2007-02, 96.5 m of 0.74 g/t gold in DDH 2007-0545.6m of 0.94g/t gold in DDH 2007-03. Diamond drilling during 2006 and 2007 in a small portion of the South Discovery Zone anomaly yielded some of the widest intervals of gold mineralization on the property. Should sufficient continuity exist, the results will be used to estimate an initial, NI 43-101-compliant resource for the South Discovery zone.Spire Ventures announced in October 2009, that the TSX Venture Exchange had given final approval for the Option Agreement dated July 20, 2009 with Altair Ventures Incorporated (“Altair”) (TSX-V: AVX) of Vancouver, British Columbia. The Agreement with Altair has a two-phase option to earn an initial 70% interest in the Prospect Valley Gold Property, near Merritt BC, by spending a total of $6 million in exploration and issue 7 million shares over four years to Spire. Altair can then earn an additional 20% interest upon: (a) delivering a Bankable Feasibility Study with respect to the Property; and (b) making such additional cash and share payments in such amounts as may be negotiated and settled by the parties in writing at a later date, for a total 90% interest in the Prospect Valley Gold Property.

Aleris International wants you to use that blue plastic recycling bin so that it can turn its world green. The company's rolled and extruded products unit makes alloy aluminum sheet from recycled metal, as well as extruded profiles for the construction and engineering markets. Aleris' recycling unit processes recycled aluminum and metal alloys. It operates more than 40 facilities in China, the Americas, and throughout Europe. Aleris emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2010 as a privately held company. The company, now owned by funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, closed on a $609 million rights offering as part of its reorganization.

The Petropavlovsk group is seeking to build a natural resources champion in the Russian Far East with an exceptional portfolio of assets using its wealth of knowledge, experience and expertise.Petropavlovsk PLC is listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and with a market capitalisation of c.£2.2 billion*.The Group's consistent and focused strategy since inception in 1994 has been based around developing low-cost mining assets, progressing from greenfield sites to producing operations, utilising its experienced management team and innovative in-house capabilities.The Group's major iron-ore and gold operations are located in the mineral-rich Amur Region and Jewish Autonomous Region (known as the "EAO") in the Russian Far East, close to the Chinese border. The Group is also active in a number of other regions across Russia.Total attributable gold production for 2009 was 486,800oz. The Group's 2009 total cash costs of US$309/oz position it as one of the lowest-cost gold producers in the world.The processing plant at the Kuranakh titanomagnetite and ilmenite project was comissioned in May 2010.

Shenhua Group Corporation Limited (Shenhua Group in abbreviation) is a state-owed enterprise, founded in October 1995 with the approval of the State Council, pursuant to Corporate Laws. Shenhua Group is a diversified energy enterprise with major businesses concentrating on coal production, sales, electricity & thermal generation, coal liquefaction & coal chemicals, railway and port transportation.Shenhua Group is the most competitive unified energy company in China. Pursuing a multi-faceted strategy, we have integrated segments of coal, railway, power and ports, and have integrated our coal production, transportation and sales. We own 54 coal mines with a total capacity of 200 million tons, 1369 kilometers of dedicated railways with a total transportation capacity of 128 million tons/kilometer, power plants with a total installed capacity of 16080 MW. The CTL and coal chemicals project are progressing on schedule.Shenhua Group opens up a new era of China’s coal industry. Now we are the largest coal provider in the world. We have been awarded “China Grand Award of Industry”, which is the highest honor in China. Many world records have been achieved by Shenhua Group in coal production and coal production of a single team working at a single face.In 2006，under the guideline of scientific development philosophy and our objective of “to expand, restructure, grow and prosper”, Shenhua Group actively pushed forward the building an enterprise featuring safety performance, quality & efficiency, technology & innovation, resource preservation and harmonious development, enhanced management & innovation, therefore we achieved greater profitability, and took the lead China’s work safety. China Shenhua’s share price went up steadily. Shenhua Group substantially increased its total installed capacity, completed stage objective of DCL project, greatly improved transportation capacity of our railways and ports, and attained significant results in self-innovation. These achievements have laid a solid foundation for our development in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan. Shenhua Group carried out reform to assure a creative development. We acquired Ningxia Coal Industry (Group) Corporation Ltd, and restructured our non-listed technological entities. China Shenhua was among the few companies with the best financial performance in the international capital market in 2006. Shenhua Group also achieved good results in separation of auxiliary businesses from major businesses, inrestructuring of auxiliary businesses and in separation of social function from the corporate entity. As at 31stDec. 2006, we had 150,447 thousand employees with registered capital of RMB 246.4 billion.

Nisshin Steel is a heavyweight in Japan's steel-making industry. Nisshin Steel company manufactures coated, cold- and hot-rolled, stainless, and specialty steel. Processing roofing and siding products are also a small part of its operations. Nisshin Steel has a presence overseas through joint ventures elsewhere in Asia as well as in Africa and Europe. In the US Nisshin Steel operates through subsidiary Wheeling-Nisshin and a supply agreement with North American Stainless. Domestic customers account for more than three-quarters of sales. Nisshin Steel was formed in 1959 with the consolidation of Nichia Steel and Nihon Teppan.

Founded in Fort Wayne, Indiana, more than 65 years ago, OmniSource Corporation has grown to become one of North America's largest processors and distributors of scrap and secondary metals. We collect, process, and resell a wide variety of scrap metal. OmniSource company in 2008 shipped 5.6 million tons of recycled steel and 912 million pounds of nonferrous scrap.Our primary collection and processing facilities are in the Midwest, the Southeast, and the mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. But our reach stretches across North America, utilizing a wide-ranging fleet of trucks and containers, railcars, and barges to collect and haul metals. We expect to continue to expand OmniSource's footprint, deploying our processing assets to cover new geographical territories, opening new feeder yards, and making targeted acquisitions. Supplementing our company-operated scrap collection sites, we also acquire metals from industrial scrap generators with which we have established strategic partnerships. We have designed and installed customized metals-recycling programs, some of which we manage and operate, for manufacturing companies nationwide.Our national brokerage and trading operations serve both metals buyers and sellers, providing the market intelligence and insights needed to optimize transaction value.OmniSource was acquired in 2007 by Steel Dynamics, Inc., and operates independently as a wholly owned subsidiary.

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