Kinross Gold Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the gold mining and related activities. Kinross Gold Corporation also involves in the exploration and acquisition of gold-bearing properties, the extraction and processing of gold-containing ores, and reclamation of gold mining properties. Its gold production and exploration activities are carried out principally in the United States, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and the Russian Federation. As of December 31, 2009, its proven and probable mineral reserves were 51.0 million ounces of gold, 102.9 million ounces of silver, and 2.9 billion pounds of copper.

Arch Coal, Inc. engages in the production and sale of steam and metallurgical coal from surface and underground mines to power plants, steel mills, and industrial facilities in the United States. As of December 31, 2009, the company operated 19 active mines; and owned or controlled approximately 3.9 billion tons of estimated proven and probable recoverable reserves. It owned or controlled primarily through long-term leases, approximately 100,100 acres of coal land in West Virginia; 107,800 acres of coal land in Wyoming; 98,900 acres of coal land in Illinois; 72,100 acres of coal land in Utah; 46,200 acres of coal land in Kentucky; 21,800 acres of coal land in New Mexico; and 18,500 acres of coal land in Colorado. The company, formerly known as Arch Mineral Corporation, was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

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.

Snowfield Development surely wouldn't mind a little ice across its path. Snowfield Development company explores and develops diamond properties in Quebec and the Northwest Territories. Its Ticho project in the Northwest Territories is the company's most advanced property. Snowfield Development is also exploring for gold at the Snow property in British Columbia and agreed to buy a Finnish silver project in 2009.

RUSAL is controlled by Board member Oleg Deripaska, who had owned the company completely prior to the merger.Look out, Aluminum Industry, the Russians are coming! The Russians are coming! RUSAL is among the world's top aluminum producers, along with Rio Tinto Alcan and Alcoa. Formed in 2000 from various parts of the old Soviet state apparatus, RUSAL produces about 4 million tons of aluminum, 8 million tons of alumina, and 20 million tons of bauxite. Its aluminum business include packaging and foil operations in addition to a network of smelters. Those Soviet spare parts were significantly augmented in 2007 when the company merged with fellow Russian aluminum producer Sual and Glencore's alumina unit.

Rod, wire, and tubing are the specialties of Ansonia Copper & Brass. The company casts, extrudes, and draws copper and copper alloys. The result is semi-finished products that undergo additional modification by the company's customers. It manufactures and tests more than 70 high quality alloys, including specialized, customer defined specifications in rod, bar, wire, flat-wire, extruded and large diameter seamless tube shapes. End users include the aerospace, automotive, consumer appliance, and telecom industries. Ansonia Copper & Brass operates one plant in Connecticut.

Metaline Contact Mines is one of the oldest royalty-based mineral resources companies in the country.Organized in 1928, under the laws of the State of Washington, to acquire, lease, explore, and develop mineral resource properties, Metaline Contact Mines has been in continual existence for over 76 years.From 1928 - 1946, the Company acquired zinc- lead mining claims and other mineral rights in the Metaline District in northeastern Washington State. In a designed reorganization in 1960, Metaline Contact Mines acquired the entire mineral holdings in the Metaline District owned by the Bunker Hill Company and Day Mines Inc. This acquisition expanded the Company's mineral rights in the district to a vast 8,200 acres.Throughout its long history, Metaline Contact Mines has "farmed out" its mineral holdings to quality operating companies, in exchange for royalty interests. Past industry partners have included such historic mining companies as The Bunker Hill Company, Day Mines Inc. (now a part of Hecla Mining Company), Metaline Mining & Leasing Company, and Newmont Mining Corporation. The Company's current mineral holdings are under long- term lease, or similar royalty-based agreements, to Teck Cominco American Incorporated and New Jersey Mining Company.With its portfolio of precious metals (gold) and base metals (zinc & lead) properties, all of which are located in historically productive regions, and its sliding- scale royalty structures, Metaline Contact Mines provides its shareholders, and potential shareholders, with valuable leverage to improving mineral prices, while providing fixed floors to reduce downside risk, in projects of unusual merit.Metaline Contact Mines' shares are traded on NASDAQ's Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board, under the trading symbol "MTLI." Its officers and directors own approximately 57 % of the outstanding stock.

Randgold Resources is an African focused gold mining and exploration company with primary listings on the London Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. Major discoveries to date include the 7.5 million ounce Morila deposit in southern Mali, the 7 million ounce Yalea deposit and the 3 million ounce Gounkoto deposit, both in western Mali, the 4 million ounce Tongon deposit in the Côte d’Ivoire and the 3 million ounce Massawa deposit in eastern Senegal.Randgold Resources (‘Randgold’) financed and built the Morila mine which since October 2000 has produced more than 5.5 million ounces of gold and distributed more than US$1.5 billion to stakeholders. It also financed and built the Loulo operation which started as two open pit mines in November 2005. Since then, an underground mine has been developed at the Yalea deposit and construction of a second underground operation is underway at the Gara deposit. First gold production from the company’s new mine being developed at Tongon is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2010.Randgold’s current major projects are Gounkoto on the Loulo permit in Mali, Massawa in Senegal and Kibali in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In 2009 the company acquired a 45% interest in the Kibali project, which now stands at 9.2 million ounces of reserves and is one of the largest undeveloped gold deposits in Africa. Randgold also has an extensive portfolio of organic growth prospects, which is constantly replenished by intensive exploration programmes in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, DRC, Mali and Senegal.

Craig Yarde founded Yarde Metals Inc. in 1976 when he established a small office in the basement of his home in Bristol, CT and began brokering metal over the phone with $1000 from the sale of his motorcycle! The phones seldom rang and were usually answered by his wife or his three year old daughter. Metal orders were picked up and delivered by family members in his station wagon. Craig partnered with his brother, Bruce Yarde, the following year and moved into a small rented factory on South Street in Bristol, CT. In 1986, Yarde Metals moved to an 85,000 square foot facility to accommodate the growing product line, services and sales. The company quickly outgrew this space and moved to a completely renovated state of the art 500,000 square foot facility in Southington, CT in June of 2003. Our corporate headquarters is more like a museum than a distribution warehouse and its unique style supports Craig's out-of-the-box business philosophy that has facilitated his success. Yarde Metals now has nine service centers in addition to its corporate headquarters. They are located in: Albany, New York; Happauge, New York; Syracuse, New York; Pelham, New Hampshire; High Point, North Carolina; Streetsboro, Ohio; Limerick, Pennsylvania; Mendon, Massachusetts;. Yarde Metals has expanded internationally throughout Europe and Asia and processes the majority of international business through our Happauge, New York facility as well as our corporate headquarters. We have representatives in Korea and China to help support our international sales business.

New Jersey Mining Company (NJMC:OTCBB) is exploring for and developing gold, silver and base metal ore resources in the Coeur d’Alene Mining District of northern Idaho and western Montana. New Jersey Mining Co. has a gold exploration joint venture with Newmont North American Exploration Limited at the Toboggan Project near Murray, Idaho. New Jersey Mining Co. portfolio of mineral properties also includes: the Niagara copper-silver deposit, the Golden Chest mine, the New Jersey mine, the Silver Strand mine and several exploration prospects. New Jersey Mining Co. strategy is to explore for gold, silver and base metal deposits in the Coeur d’Alene Mining District, a world class mining district, while concurrently mining and processing higher grade resources at its New Jersey mill facility near Kellogg, Idaho.

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