Avocet is a gold mining company that was originally admitted to the Official List of the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and moved its listing to the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) - part of the London Stock Exchange, in July 2002. Following the takeover of Oslo-listed Wega Mining ASA in June 2009, a significant proportion of the Company’s shareholders are now based in Scandinavia. As a result, the Company has now listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange (ticker: AVM), and began trading in June 2010. Avocet is committed to becoming a leading gold mining and exploration company. The Company aims to be at least a 300,000 ounce per annum gold producer, with a portfolio of operations, which include long life mines and a broadly sustainable reserve base, all underpinned by a strong financial base and world class practices with regard to health and safety, people, community, the environment and operational performance criteria.In late June 2009, Avocet completed the acquisition of Wega Mining ASA - an Oslo-listed gold development and exploration company. The acquisition of Wega brings Avocet majority ownership of the Inata gold project in northern Burkina Faso, West Africa. As of April 2010 commenced commercial production, at an annualised rate of over 120,000 ounces per annum, following first gold pour on 20 December 2009. In the Wega-takeover, Avocet also acquired over 20 exploration licences in Burkina Faso, Guinea and Mali, including the Tri-K gold exploration project in Guinea, which has a NI 43-101 compliant gold Indicated Mineral Resource of 666,500 ounces. Avocet believes local knowledge and experience, technical expertise, well established relationships with the respective governments and local communities, combined with a pro-active approach to environmental issues, are vital to ongoing success.

Canadian Mining Company Inc. (TSX.V- CNG) is a well-diversified company with stable management and an excellent potential for growth. Canadian Mining engages in the exploration and development of precious and base metals in the Alamos Mining District in Sonora, Mexico, gold and silver in the Bullard Mining District in Arizona, USA and in the exploration, development and production of industrial minerals in British Columbia, Canada.Canadian Mining has an investment philosophy based on sourcing mineral assets that are low risk, high reward in areas of anomalous geology with limited geo-political risks. Our dedicated Board of Directors, management and advisors have successfully steered the Company towards the acquisition of highly prospective projects in North America. Acquisitions and strategic partnerships relating to our business will be a part of our ongoing growth and development.

King’s Bay Gold Corporation (TSX.V: KBG) is an active mineral resource company, which is engaged in the acquisition of interests in, and the exploration of, mineral resource properties in North West Ontario. The Corporation’s mandate is to acquire, evaluate and bring significant gold and other precious metal properties to the development stage. During the last eleven years, the Corporation has been assembling a portfolio of precious metal exploration prospects most notably in the Red Lake gold camp, the majority of which are located in close proximity of present and past producing mines. Certain of these properties exhibit high-grade gold values, rare earths, rare metals and other industrially useful minerals and metals.The Corporation is unique in the industry in that it owns, and therefore controls for itself, most of the equipment required to carry out the various phases of exploration. Key pieces of this equipment include diamond drill rigs, bulldozers and skidders. Other equipment includes rod sloops, thousands of feet of BQ and NQ drill rods, water heaters for winter drilling, high pressure water pumps and nozzles for outcrop stripping, a fleet of trucks, all terrain vehicles and a shop full of spare parts and tools.The Corporation’s goal will always be growth. Strengthening the Corporation’s management team and Board of Directors, and by acquiring significantly advanced exploration projects may provide shareholders with an opportunity to increase the value of their investments over the long term.The Corporation’s shorter-term goals are to advance its projects to the feasibility stage, with the intent of becoming a small to medium tier minerals producer. The quality of the Corporation’s projects, an aggressive acquisitions strategy based on acquiring properties near present and past producers, and the proven background of the management team will allow the Corporation to become an emerging leader in the Canadian mining industry.King’s Bay Gold Corporation is a Winnipeg-based company that was incorporated pursuant to the Canada Business Corporations Act (“CBCA”) on March 20th, 1998. The Corporation became a publicly traded entity on the TSX Venture Exchange in April 2002 (TSX.V symbol: KBG). Since then, the Corporation has completed several prospective offerings and private placement offerings with the net capital raised being used to complete the exploration and development programs for the properties where it has land option and joint venture agreements.

Everton Resources is a well funded junior exploration company with properties in the Dominican Republic, in Ontario and in Quebec. The Company provides investors with an exceptional portfolio of active projects in three separate and distinct emerging gold and base metals districts.Everton recently acquired Hays Lake Gold Inc., a private mining exploration company with various options to acquire a consolidated land package located in the Shoal Lake area, near Kenora, Ontario. The 38 km² Shoal Lake Gold Project is comprised of two significant high grade gold deposits: Duport and Cedar Island.Everton is actively exploring in the Dominican Republic, with land claims totalling 382 km², adjacent to where the world’s largest gold mining company, Barrick Gold is partnering with Goldcorp to develop the Pueblo Viejo deposit, at an estimated cost of $2.7 billion. The deposit contains 29.6 million ounces of gold, 4.8 billion pounds of zinc, 621.7 million pounds of copper and 173.6 million ounces of silver (December 2008). Everton also holds an impressive land package adjacent to Xstrata’s Falcondo nickel mine in the Dominican Republic. Everton is also exploring in the Opinaca region of James Bay, Quebec where Everton has amassed a large land claim adjacent to Goldcorp’s Eleonore gold deposit, acquired from Virginia Mines for approximately $500 million, where Goldcorp announced a gold resource estimate of 5.31 million ounces of gold in December 2008 (total resource, all categories).

Nelsen Steel & Wire manufactures cold-finished carbon and alloy steel bars from its facility in Illinois. Standard products include hexagons, rounds, and squares, though Nelsen Steel company also can meet special requests from customers. Nelsen Steel also offers thermal treatment services including normalizing, spheroidizing, and lamellar pearlitic annealing. Its tempering services include quench and tempering before cold drawing and stress-relieving after cold drawing. Established in 1939, Nelsen Steel is owned by the Nelsen family, including company president and CEO Davis Nelsen.

South American Silver Corp. is a growth focused mineral exploration company creating value through the exploration and development of the Malku Khota Silver-Indium project in Bolivia, one of the world's largest undeveloped Silver and Indium deposits, and the large-scale Escalones Copper-Gold project in Chile.The Company's approach to business combines the team's track record of world-class discoveries and successful project development and integrates a focus on strong community relations and corporate social responsibility. Management has over 100 years of combined experience in the global exploration and mining industry with much of that focused in Bolivia, Chile, Peru and Argentina. South American Silver Corp. Company trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol SAC and on the US OTC market as SOHAF.

Freegold Ventures Limited is a North American gold exploration company. Current projects include Golden Summit, Rob and Vinasale. On the Golden Summit Project in Alaska, exploration discovered new high-grade veins and bulk tonnage shear zones. At Freegold's Rob project drilling insected high-grade gold mineralization. Exploration was also undertaken on the Vinasale Gold deposit in an effort to expand the known 920,000 historical gold resource (not 43-101 compliant).

SEMAFO is a Canadian-based mining company with gold production and exploration activities in West Africa. The Company currently operates three gold mines: the Mana Mine in Burkina Faso, the Samira Hill Mine in Niger and the Kiniero Mine in Guinea. SEMAFO is committed to evolve in a conscientious manner to become a major player in its geographical area of interest. SEMAFO's strategic focus is to maximize shareholder value by effectively managing its existing assets as well as pursuing organic and strategic growth opportunities in West Africa.

Niagara LaSalle is America's largest independent cold-finished steel bar manufacturer, and operates four production facilities spread throughout the continental United States. Niagara LaSalle offers a complete family of steel bar products, cut and drawn to a broad range of sizes and shapes. In addition, Niagara LaSalle gives you the advantages of national coverage, multiple sources of supply, and a vast reservoir of experience.

Planet Exploration explores many parts of the planet. The junior mineral exploration company has active gold projects in Canada (Red Lake Mining), Mongolia (Argalant Project - gold/copper projects), and Mexico (Copalquin gold/silver projects). In 2005 Planet Exploration company wroteoff its Wulonbulang Gold Project in China. Fellow Canadian gold mining company Goldcorp owns nearly 20% of Planet Exploration and is involved as a partner in the Red Lake Mining project.

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