Keeping a stiff upper lip is mandatory for Corus Group, one of the world's largest steel companies. Corus makes coated and uncoated strip products, sections and plates, wire rod, engineering steels, and semi-finished carbon steel products. Customers include the automotive, construction, engineering, and household-product manufacturing industries. Corus Group company ranks behind ArcelorMittal among Europe's largest steel concerns, producing about 20 million tons annually. Corus is owned by emerging Indian giant Tata Steel and is responsible for that company's European operations.

Tsodilo Resources Limited is a diamond, base and precious metal exploration company concentrating its exploration efforts on the southern portion of the Angola / Congo craton in northwest Botswana. Tsodilo's prospecting licences are held through its Botswana registered subsidiary companies, Newdico (Pty) Limited ("Newdico') and Gcwihaba Resources (Pty) Limited ("Gcwihaba'). Newdico holds 9 diamond Prospecting Licenses (license map), covering an area of some 3,940 square kilometers, in the northern Ngamiland Project area. Tsodilo has a 95% stake in Newdico, while Trans Hex Group, a South African diamond mining and marketing company, holds the remaining 5%. Exploration in the Newdico Ngamiland project area is at an advanced stage, with completion of kimberlite indicator mineral sampling on a regional scale and ground geophysical surveys focusing on two primary areas within the larger License area. The Nxau Nxau kimberlite field is the principal location, with 40 known and drilled kimberlites, while several further first-order magnetic anomalies await drill investigation. The Guma district is the second location in the east of the license area where 10 first-order magnetic and indicator mineral anomalies await drill investigation. Both the Nxau Nxau and Guma areas have many second-order magnetic anomalies and the dolerite dyke swarm area south of the Nxau Nxau field provides further potential kimberlite drill targets.Gcwihaba holds 9 diamond prospecting licenses (license map) covering an area of some 6,856 square kilometers immediately adjoining and south of the Newdico licenses. In addition to the diamond prospecting licenses, Gcwihaba has also been granted 18 prospecting licenses for metals (base, precious, platinum group, and rare earth) (license map) covering an area of some 13,500 square kilometers.

Atna Resources is a mineral exploration company that purchases, explores, and develops mineral resource properties. Atna Resources concentrates on precious metals and operates in Canada, the United States, and Chile. While it does operate internationally, Atna's focus is developing its properties in the western US. Atna Resources greatest geographic concentration is in Nevada, home to seven gold projects. In 2008 it paid $26 million in stock to buy gold miner Canyon Resources, whose properties were already in production and located in close proximity to Atna's.

Actually, uranium isn't first at First Uranium. First Uranium operates two mining facilities with gold and and uranium deposits in South Africa. Both facilities now produce gold, and First uranium plans to begin producing uranium as well. Its main property is a traditional underground operation while its other facility operates above ground, collecting the residue of previous mining operations. The mines have estimated resources of about 3 million ounces of gold and 7 million pounds of uranium. First Uranium customers include gold commodity firms such as Gold Wheaton. First uranium is a subsidiary of Simmer and Jack Mines.

Calibre Mining is exploring a commanding and strategic, 710 sq kilometre land position in a highly prospective, but underexplored region of the historic "Mining Triangle" in northeast Nicaragua. The Borosi Concessions, named for the three historical producing regions of Bonanza, Rosita and Siuna, are highly prospective for gold and copper mineralization associated with skarn and epithermal deposits. A systematic and disciplined exploration program is being conducted at Borosi and three projects within the concessions advanced to the drill testing stage in early 2010.

Troon Ventures Ltd. (TSX-V:TVN) is a well funded exploration and development company intent on establishing growth through an aggressive acquisition business model. Troon Ventures Company has assembled an experienced group of directors who possess a proven track record of creating shareholder value by successfully completing numerous mergers and acquisitions, raising over $2 billion in capital and bringing several projects to production. Troon is currently focused on acquiring mineral properties with established resources and exploration upside that will create significant shareholder value.

Rubicon Minerals Corporation is a well-funded, leading gold exploration company deriving its strength from a hands-on management team with a track record of discovery. Rubicon's focus is in highly prospective gold producing areas of North America. It owns over 65,000 acres of prime exploration ground in the prolific Red Lake gold camp of Ontario, Canada, which hosts Goldcorp's high-grade, world class Red Lake Mine. At its flagship property, the 100%-controlled Phoenix Gold Project, located in the heart of this producing camp, Rubicon has made a significant high-grade discovery which is aggressively being advanced with an 240,000 meter drill program. Through a transaction completed in May, 2007 with former Goldcorp Inc. Chairman and CEO, Rob McEwen, Rubicon acquired 380,800 acres of prospective exploration ground in Alaska in the area of the 5.6 million ounce Pogo deposit, as well as a 225,000 acre land package in northeast Nevada.

Yorbeau Resources Inc. is a Canadian public company (TSX:YRB.A) involved in gold exploration in Quebec, Canada. Its properties are located in a northwestern area of the province associated with a large number of significant deposits, namely the Cadillac-Larder Lake region on the famed Abitibi Greenstone Belt. Some 200 million ounces of gold have thus far been mined in the area.At the present time, Yorbeau is focusing on its Rouyn Property which has demonstrated the most immediate and substantial prospects for discovery of a major gold deposit and eventual mine development. Representing a consolidation of several contiguous properties strategically located on a famously productive mineralized trend in the Noranda mining camp, the Rouyn Property is divided into seven "Blocks": Augmitto, Cinderella, Durbar, Lake Gamble, Astoria, Wright-Rouyn and Lake Bouzan. Other holdings of the Company include its interest in the Beschefer Property in northwestern Quebec, as well as a net smelter return royalty on the Ellison Property in Bousquet Township of Quebec, a property that Agnico-Eagle Mines purchased from Yorbeau in 2002.

Mexico's Industrias CH has become quite the industrious steel producer. Established in 1938, CH is a leading manufacturer of steel products, ranging from specialty steel and welded pipe to structural steel and rebar. Its primary product, though, is Special Bar Quality (SBQ) steel. The automotive, oil, and construction sectors are among its main customers. The company operates about 15 production and processing facilities throughout North America. Acquisitions -- including of Simec, Grupo Sidenor, and Republic Engineered Products -- have boosted CH's production rate to more than 3 million tons since 2001.

Exeter Resource Corporation, an exploration stage company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition and exploration of mineral properties in Chile. Its principal property is the Caspiche gold-copper property located in northern Chile. Exeter Resource Corporation was formerly known as Golden Glacier Resources Inc. and changed its name to Exeter Resource Corporation in June 2002.

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