HudBay Minerals looks below the surface to find profits. The company focuses on the exploration and production of zinc and copper, primarily in Canada's Manitoba province. HudBay operates several mines, production plants, and refineries located in Manitoba, Ontario, and Michigan. In addition to zinc and copper, it also produces silver and gold. HudBay attempted to expand through an $800 million combination with Canadian mining company Lundin Mining in 2008. The combined company would have been among the top three Canadian base minerals companies, but the two companies called off the deal early in 2009.

Buenaventura is Peru's largest publicly-traded precious metals company and a major holder of mining rights in Peru. Compania de Minas Buenaventura SA is engaged in the mining, processing, development and exploration of gold, silver and other metals via wholly-owned mines, as well as through its participation in joint exploration projects. Buenaventura currently operates seven mines in Peru (Orcopampa, Uchucchacua, Antapite, Julcani, Recuperada, Shila-Paula and Ishihuinca), has controlling interests in one mining company (El Brocal) and minority interests in other mining companies in Peru.Buenaventura currently operates seven mines in Peru (Orcopampa, Uchucchacua, Antapite, Julcani, Recuperada, Shila-Paula and Ishihuinca), has controlling interests in one mining company (El Brocal) and minority interests in other mining companies in Peru.

Golden Star is a mid-tier gold mining company over a quarter-century in age and total historical production of over two million ounces of gold. Golden Star Resources, Ltd. has two operating mines situated along the prolific Ashanti Gold Belt in Ghana, West Africa. Production in 2009 totaled 409,902 ounces of gold from these two mines. Our growth strategy is the result of our exploration and expansion activities at both Bogoso/Prestea and Wassa/HBB. Our Bogoso sulfide and oxide processing plants are working in tandem to enable us to achieve our 2010 operating guidance. The CIL plant at Wassa is processing ore from the Wassa pits in addition to high grade ore from the HBB satellite mines. In addition to operational growth, the Company has consistently grown through exploration and corporate development activities. Lastly, Golden Star has a long-term commitment to sustainability with particular emphasis on health, education and the environment.

Horsehead Holding Corp., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the production and sale of zinc and zinc-based products in North America. The company's products include PW zinc metal, which is used to provide a protective coating to various fabricated products, including pipe and guard rails, heat exchangers, and telecommunications towers, as well as for the production of brass; and SSHG zinc metal that is used as feed for the manufacture of high-purity zinc powder and zinc alloys. It also offers zinc oxide for the production of tire and rubber products, chemicals, ceramics, plastics, paints, lubricating oils, and pharmaceuticals. In addition, the company recycles electric arc furnace dust, a hazardous waste generated by steel mini-mills. Further, it provides special zinc powders, which are used in general chemical and metallurgical applications, as well as in friction applications, such as brake linings for automobiles; battery grade zinc powders that are used in alkaline, mercuric oxide, silver oxide, and zinc-air batteries; and copper-based powders, including brass, bronze, and nickel-silver powders, which are used in various applications comprising brazing, infiltrating, and powdered metallurgical hardware, such as lock bodies, valves, and gears. Additionally, the company offers short-line railroad service for the movement of materials. It primarily serves galvanizers and brass producers; alkaline battery industries; and manufacturers of tire and rubber products, lubricating oils, chemicals, paints, ceramics, plastics, and pharmaceuticals. The company was incorporated in 2003 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Centamin Egypt Limited is a mineral exploration development and mining company dual listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange (LSE:CEY) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX:CEE). We are a rapidly growing gold producer with our flagship project, the Sukari Gold Mine, located in the Eastern Desert of Egypt some 25km from the Red Sea coast. Gold production at Sukari commenced in June 2009 making Sukari the first modern mine in Egypt, a country which in ancient times was a prolific producer of the yellow metal. In 2010 the mine is scheduled to produce 200,000 ounces of gold at lower quartile cash costs per ounce. With a resource of 10.99 million ounces Measured and Indicated, and 3.5 million ounces Inferred, and a 7.1 million ounce reserve base, the Company is implementing a rapid expansion program to increase production to circa 500,000 oz per year over the next three years. As the first and only significant developer of a modern mine in the country, the Company remains well positioned to realize further opportunities in other areas within its concession and expand into other prospective mineralized zones. The Company’s unhedged and debt free position, coupled with a growing resource and reserve base in a relatively unexplored region, positions it to grow and deliver superior results to its shareholders as well as its stakeholders.

UC Resources (TSX-V: UC) is a Canadian exploration, development and production company which has an opportunity-driven acquisition strategy. Its main focus is on production and exploration opportunities in Mexico. However, it will also be active in Canada on a very select basis on exploration projects, which have the potential to add significant shareholder value. The Company’s Canadian exploration program is at the McFauld’s Lake volcanic-hosted massive sulphide (“VMS”) project in the James Bay Lowlands of Ontario. This areas has recently received significant interest by the investment community due to some significant results by Noront Resources (TSXV:NOT). To date, in excess of $9 million has been expended on the project, of which 47 drill holes, totaling nearly 15,000 meters have been drilled on the McFauld’s #1 and #3 occurrences. Some of the highlights of this drill program in past years includes: McF-04-57 18.8 meters of 8.02% Copper and Mc-03-18 discovery hole intersected multiple zones, enriched in Zinc, averaged 4.83% Zn over 25.75 meters (also 0.51% Cu). UC Resources Company currently has an option to earn-in up to 55% undivided interest in the McFauld’s Lake Project.The current exploration program by UC has returned some significant results, including an intersection of 4.35% Zn, 2.69% Cu, 0.35 g/t Au and 6.63 g/t Ag over 19 metres.

TVI Pacific Inc. is a copper producer focused on the development, exploration and acquisition of precious and base metal mining projects in the Philippines. TVI plans to fast-track extension/expansion opportunities in proximity to the Canatuan Mine, accelerate development at the Balabag gold property and expedite exploration at the Tamarok copper-gold prospect. TVI also plans to continue exploration activities on its 1,240 km2 tenement package on the Zamboanga Peninsula that has the potential to host significant porphyry copper-gold, massive sulphide and epithermal gold deposits. In addition, TVI Pacific Company is evaluating value-enhancing joint venture or acquisition opportunities that will provide additional revenue streams.

Anglesey is anxious to get its hands on some gold, silver, or any other minerals, for that matter. Anglesey Mining owns zinc, copper, lead, gold, and silver properties at Parys Mountain, which is located north of the island of Anglesey in northern Wales. It also owns about half of publicly traded Labrador Iron Mines Ltd, which operates an iron mining project in Schefferville, Canada. Anglesey was created in 1984 to develop copper, zinc, and lead deposits at Parys Mountain, home to the largest known base metal deposits in the UK.

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.

Coastport Capital hopes to hit the mother lode in its new line of business. The capital pool company acquired an interest in a Nicaraguan mining exploration project in 2004. Still in its early stages of development, the San Ramon project will additionally involve operating as a joint venture with Radius Gold Inc. It is believed to contain several major gold quartz veins.

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