Stillwater Mining Company is engaged in the development, extraction, processing, smelting, refining, and marketing of palladium, platinum and associated metals from a geological formation in southern Montana known as the J-M Reef. This is the only know significant source of platinum group metals in the United States and one of the significant resources outside Russia and South Africa. Stillwater Mining Company’s corporate office is located in Columbus, Montana.Stillwater Mining Company conducts mining operations at the Stillwater Mine near Nye, Montana and the East Boulder Mine South of McLeod, Montana. Both mines are located on the J-M Reef. Concentrating plants are operated at both mines to upgrade ore to a concentrate. The company also operates a smelter, refinery and laboratory at Columbus, Montana to further upgrade the concentrate to a platinum group metal rich filter cake. Spent catalyst material is also recycled at the smelter and refinery to recover platinum group metals. Platinum group metals are rare precious metals that are used in diverse applications for auto catalysts, fuel cells, hydrogen purification, electronics, jewelry, dentistry, medicine, water treatment, coinage and other uses.

Sandvik Materials Technology, a subsidiary of Swedish industrial giant Sandvik, manufactures stainless steel and alloy tube, strip, wire, and bar that are used mainly by the engineering and processing industries. The company's Kanthal unit makes silicon carbide heating elements, which are able to withstand a wide range of high temperature applications. The Sandvik Process Systems unit produces steel belts and press plates and installs steel belt systems for chemical and food processing facilities. The strip steel unit specializes in thin precision strip steel. The tubular products unit manufactures seamless stainless steel tubes. Sandvik Materials company also has a medical products business.

Alro Steel provides processing services such as aluminum circle cutting, CNC flame cutting, forming, and machining. Alro Steel Corporation company carries an extensive inventory of steel products, along with industrial tools and supplies. It offers plastic sheet, rod, tube, and film through its Alro Plastics division. Alro Steel Corporation company also distributes industrial tools and materials through subsidiary Alro Industrial Supplies. Alro Steel operates from more than 50 locations in 12 states, though about half of them are in Michigan. The company was founded in 1948.

Denison Mines Corp. (TSX: DML) (NYSE AMEX: DNN) is a diversified, growth-oriented, intermediate uranium producer with three active mines in the United States. Denison’s assets include an interest in two uranium mills in North America, with its 100% ownership of the White Mesa mill in Utah and its 22.5% ownership of the McClean Lake mill in Saskatchewan. Both mills are fully permitted. Denison also has other mines and projects on stand-by in Canada and the U.S. Denison’s 2009 production from its two mills was 1.4 million pounds U3O8 and 0.5 million pounds of vanadium. 2010 production is estimated to be 1.6 million pounds U3O8 and 2.8 million pounds of vanadium.Denison enjoys a global portfolio of world-class exploration projects in close proximity to the company’s mill in the Athabasca Basin in Saskatchewan, including the Wheeler River project where Denison announced the new Phoenix discovery in 2008. Denison also has exploration and development properties in Mongolia and Zambia which will provide future production in two to three years.Denison is the manager of Uranium Participation Corporation (TSX:U), a publicly traded company which invests in uranium in concentrates and uranium hexafluoride. Denison is also engaged in mine decommissioning and environmental services through its Denison Environmental Services (DES) division.

Vancouver-based Augusta Resource Corporation is a base metals company focused on advancing the Rosemont copper-moly deposit near Tucson, Arizona. Rosemont currently hosts a large copper/molybdenum reserve that may account for about 10% of US copper output once in production in 2012. The exceptional experience and strength of Augusta’s management team, combined with the developed infrastructure and robust economics of the Rosemont project, will propel Augusta to become a solid mid-tier copper producer within the next three years. Augusta is traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the NYSE Alternext under the symbol AZC, and on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the symbol A5R.

Moydow Mines is an international exploration company with primary interests in precious and industrial minerals and diamonds. Exploration activities are focused principally in Africa. In 2004, Moydow sold its interest in the Ntotoroso Property for US$40 million to Newmont Mining Corporation. Moydow retains a 2% royalty on any production in excess of 1.2 million ounces of gold from the Ntotoroso Poperty, which now forms part of the Ahafo Mine of Newmont Ghana Gold Limited.In October 2004 Moydow signed an option agreement with Gondwana Investments Limited to allow Moydow to earn an interest in the Port Loko Bauxite concession in Sierra Leone. Moydow now hold a 50% interest in the project and a full engineering and processing review is currently underway.The Dala Diamond Project located in the Lunda Sul province of north-eastern Angola, a JV between Endiama, Cimader and Moydow, is at an advanced stage with drilling scheduled to commence in early 2008. The licence is bordered both to the west and east by the BHP/Petra Diamonds' Alto Cuilo and Muriege diamond properties, respectively, and is 40 kilometres south of the Catoca Mine, the world's fourth largest producing kimberlite diamond mine. These latter opportunities, are in line with Company strategy to capitalise on its long experience in Africa to grow shareholder value.The Company's outstanding Common Shares are listed on The Toronto Stock Exchange [TSE] and the Alternative Investment Market [AIM] of The London Stock Exchange under the symbol "MOY".

There is more to Dumont Nickel than its name might suggest. Dumont Nickel holds gold, copper, silver, diamond, and uranium mineral properties in Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and Ontario, Canada. Its focus these days is on the acquisition and development of advanced stage North American projects with a focus on gold. After a period of dormancy during most of the 1990s, Dumont Nickel resumed exploration and mining activities in 1998, focusing on base metals and platinum group metals in the Raglan Area, Quebec, as well as the Attawapiskat diamond property in the James Bay area of Ontario. Dumont Nickel was originally incorporated in 1954.

Murgor Resources is on the move in Canada. It is exploring gold properties, and to a lesser extent, copper and nickel deposits, throughout New Brunswick, Ontario, and Quebec. Murgor Resources has about 10 properties in various stages of exploration. Founded in 1969, the company's strategy is to initiate the exploration of promising properties and then find a joint venture partner to further develop the project.

Canadian registered Caledonia is a mining, and exploration company with assets in Southern Africa. The Company's current focus is its producing Blanket gold mine in Zimbabwe, the Rooipoort and Mapochsgronde platinum-nickel exploration projects in South Africa and the Nama cobalt-copper exploration project in Zambia. The Blanket gold mine re-started production in April 2009 after a temporary suspension of activities in October 2008 due to the lack of foreign exchange in Zimbabwe. Blanket is currently ramping- up production to its current capacity of 24,000 ounces of gold per annum and is also completing an expansion project to increase annual production to 40,000 ounces of gold per annum.The Rooipoort platinum-nickel exploration project is located on the northern limb of the Bushveld complex, about 300kms north of Johannesburg. The Mapochsgronde platinum group metal exploration project is located on the eastern limb of the Bushveld complex, about 175km north-east of Johannesburg. The Nama Project is an advanced cobalt-copper exploration project in north-west Zambia. Caledonia has 4 mining licences covering approximately 860 square km. Exploration continues with a view to identifying an oxide resource of sufficient size and grade to support the large scale production of cobalt hydroxide. Caledonia has a strong, experienced management team and Board of Directors with diverse expertise in gold production, exploration, mine development, finance and marketing.

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.

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