Zaruma Resources believes that a mine is a terrible thing to waste. The public Canadian company operates mines for the exploration and development of gold in Mexico and Venezuela; the Mexico operation also explores for copper at its Luz del Cobre copper deposit. Its San Antonio property (in the Sonora State of Mexico) is estimated to hold approximately 300,000 ounces of gold, and its El Foco property (in Venezuela) contains nearly 100,000 ounces of gold.

Barrick Gold Corporation is the gold industry leader, with interests in 26 operating mines and a pipeline of projects located across five continents, in addition to large land positions on some of the most prolific mineral districts. Barrick Gold Corporation conduct our business around the world, we have always been guided by our commitment to responsible behavior. In practice, this translates into bringing long-term benefits to the communities where we operate, and fostering a culture of excellence and collaboration among our employees. By upholding the Barrick Core Values in everything we do, we open up opportunities to earn the trust of our stakeholders and to create shared value.

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.

Silverado Gold Mines Ltd is a publicly traded, international company focused on gold exploration. It has committed nearly four decades of work toward the exploration, development, and test mining of gold properties throughout North America. In the mid-1980’s, Silverado Gold Mines company decided to focus all its efforts in Alaska. Since then it has sold more than US$20 Million of gold and silver bars and gold nuggets derived from test mining on its property holdings.Though Silverado Gold Mines Company has gold properties located throughout Alaska, the property commanding 100 percent of its present time and attention is the Nolan Creek property.

Statesman’s objectives are to develop productive assets that have sensible economics and high upside potential, then to build on their value. The Company is currently planning several development wells that could significantly extend the Reichel Gas Field in Rush County, Kansas. Under the terms of its Kansas agreements, successful testing will allow the Company to book reserves and to time the development of its interests in approximately 26,000 acres to coincide with favorable natural gas prices.Having established production and asset value, Statesman will pursue growth by finding other, similarly situated development opportunities, as well as by drilling quality prospects with high upside potential under strategic farm-in arrangements. Statesman intends to continue its focus on under-explored California where it has a farm-in agreement with Salinas Energy Ltd. covering numerous oil leads and prospects in the San Joaquin Basin. In addition, Statesman is currently reviewing other opportunities in Kansas, Louisiana, Texas, and elsewhere that meet the Company’s objectives of sensible economics and high upside potential for oil and gas production.

KazakhGold Group Limited is one of the largest gold mining company in Kazakhstan with three principal operating mines, Aksu, Bestobe and Zholymbet located in northern part of Kazakhstan. In addition KazakhGold owns a number of assets in East Kazakhstan, Romania and Kyrgyzstan. Its primary objective is to become the leading low-cost gold producer in central Asia. KazakhGold is listed on the Main Board of the London Stock Exchange (symbol KZG).

Sunrise Resources plc was formed to acquire the diamond exploration interests of Tertiary Minerals plc in 2005. Since then Sunrise Resources Company has made a number of new kimberlite discoveries in Finland and expanded its portfolio of diamond exploration interests in Finland. Sunrise has also joined forces with BHP Billiton to exploit the BHP Billiton diamond exploration database for Finland. Exploration is continuing and drilling of certain targets is planned for 2010.In 2009 Sunrise Resources Company made a strategic decision to expand its geographical focus as well as its commodity interests and in October 2009 Sunrise Resources Company announced an application for an exploration licence in Western Australia prospective for both diamonds and Ni-Cu-PGM (the Cue Project). Exploration for this project is scheduled to start after the grant of the licence which is expected mid-2010.In September 2009 the Company was awarded an exploration licence in south-west Ireland for the industrial mineral barite (the Derryginagh Project). Past mining of high value filler grade barite and more recent drilling has indicated the potential for a modest scale mining operating that could, in time, produce a valuable cash flow for the Company. Most recently Sunrise Resources Company announced promising results from initial metallurgical testwork and product testing and further work is planned.Most recently Sunrise Resources Company secured an option agreement for the Long Lake Gold-Nickel-Copper-PGM project20km south-west of the City of Sudbury, Ontario (Canada). The Long Lake Gold Mine produced 57,000 ounces of gold from over 200,000 tonnes of ore mined in the periods 1910-1916 and 1932-1939 and has considerable untested gold potential. The claims also cover potential extensions to the currently producing Copper Cliff dyke system at the heart of the World’s most productive nickel-copper mining complex.The acquisition of the Long lake project completes an important stage in the strategic development of the Company’s project portfolio.

Synalloy Corporation, through its subsidiaries, primarily manufactures and sells pipes and piping systems in the United States and internationally. It operates in two segments, Metals and Specialty Chemicals. The Metals segment manufactures pipe and piping systems from stainless steel and other alloys for the chemical, petrochemical, pulp and paper, mining, power generation, waste water treatment, liquid natural gas, brewery, food processing, petroleum, pharmaceutical, and other industries. The Specialty Chemicals segment produces specialty chemicals, and pigments and dyes for the carpet, chemical, paper, metals, mining, agricultural, fiber, paint, textile, automotive, petroleum, cosmetics, mattress, furniture, janitorial, and other industries. Synalloy Corporation sells its metal products through outside sales employees, manufacturers’ representatives, and authorized stocking distributors, as well as markets directly to engineering firms, construction companies, and project owners. It markets its specialty chemicals directly to various industries through outside sales employees and manufacturers' representatives. Synalloy Corporation company was formerly known as Blackman Uhler Industries, Inc. and changed its name to Synalloy Corporation in July 1967. Synalloy Corporation was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Greystar Resources Ltd. is a Canadian mining company dedicated to the exploration, development and, in time, the exploitation of precious metal resources. At the present time, its main project is the Angostura gold and silver deposit in the northeastern region of Colombia.

Altius is a natural resource project generation and royalty business based in the province of Newfoundland & Labrador. Altius is focused on the mining and resources sector through prospect generation, the creation and acquisition of royalties and investments. The Corporation has a strong financial position with approximately $194 million in cash and liquid investments and no debt. Altius owns an effective 0.3% net smelter return in the producing Voisey’s Bay nickel-copper-cobalt mine located in Labrador, Canada and has numerous active mineral exploration agreements principally in eastern Canada targeting a variety of mineral commodities. In addition, the Corporation holds investments in junior exploration and development stage companies. The Company prefers to generate partnerships or corporate structures related to the opportunities it generates, which results in the Corporation carrying minority and non-operating project or equity interests and/or royalty interests. Since inception in 1997, our business model and operating philosophy have consistently delivered increased value for shareholders of Altius through cyclical market conditions. The company has built a solid reputation around its percentage of successful mineral project generation initiatives that it intends to further build upon. While the market sentiment for the natural resources sector was somewhat turbulent in 2009 our Company is well prepared to embrace the opportunities of market volatility and/or a down-cycle. Going forward Altius intends to grow its business through its; 1) organic mineral exploration business focused in eastern Canada, 2) exportation of its proven prospect generator business model to other choice jurisdictions, and 3) to prudently deploy its capital in royalty-like investment opportunities throughout the minerals sector. Altius prospered through the last bear cycle because its business plan inherently preserves capital structure and manages risk, thus there are many reasons to be optimistic about the future of Altius and its expanding business strategy.

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