The North American Coal Corporation is engaged in the surface mining of lignite as fuel for power generation by electric utilities, with current operations in North Dakota, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. The North American Coal Corporation company also provides dragline mining services for independently owned limerock quarries in Florida through its North American Mining division.Mining approximately 35 million tons per year, North American Coal ranks as the nation’s largest lignite coal producer and among the top 10 coal producers in the U.S. As a result of the company’s high standards on environmental awareness and conservation, low-cost production and customer service, and its commitment to employee safety and support, North American Coal is recognized throughout the mining industry for leadership and excellence.

Shore Gold Inc. is a Canadian-based mineral exploration and development company with its head office in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The Company's mineral property portfolio consists of diamond properties, the most advanced being the Star Kimberlite deposit ("Star") and the Fort à la Corne Joint Venture ("FALC-JV").Shore Gold Inc. Company continues to focus the majority of its financial and technical resources on Star and the FALC-JV. The Star Kimberlite is 100 percent held by Shore. Shore holds a 63 percent ownership position in the FALC-JV and Newmont Mining Corporation of Canada Limited holds 37 percent. Both properties are situated in a burned portion of the Fort à la Corne forest, approximately 60 kilometres east of the city of Prince Albert.Shore Gold Inc. Company holds a 28.5 percent interest in the Buffalo Hills Project in Alberta.The common shares of Shore trade on the TSX under the trading symbol "SGF".

Santa Fe Gold hopes it has the Midas touch. In 2006 the company, previously called AZCO Mining, bought Lordsburg Mining Company from Imagin Minerals; the deal brought Santa Fe Gold company the Summit silver-gold mining project in New Mexico. Santa Fe Gold immediately began to develop further the Summit property as well as the Ortiz gold property, also located in New Mexico. With an increased emphasis on those two projects, Santa Fe Gold transformed itself into a precious metals miner. Its focus had been on the Black Canyon mica project in Arizona, though those operations had been idle since 2002. The shift in company focus preceded the company's 2007 name change and relocation of its headquarters to New Mexico.

Hillsborough Resources is in the rocky business of mining lumps of coal. The company mines coal through its principal property, the Quinsam mine on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The underground mine produces thermal coal (used mainly to produce steam for generating electricity) which is then transported from its Middle Point facility to industrial customers (primarily in the cement industry) located in Canada and the US. It has another thermal coal mine in Tennessee under development. Hillsborough Resources is also acquiring holdings in coking coal development projects in other areas of British Columbia. In 2009 a unit of Swiss trading entity Vitol Group acquired Hillsborough.

Gippsland Limited is an Australian based international resource company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange where it trades under the codes "GIP" (Shares) and "GIPO" (Options). Gippsland is managed by Directors who provide a complimentary blend of technical and commercial skills, and having a long history in the successful running of technically complex private and ASX listed companies.Because of the Directors' international experience, Gippsland focuses on world-scale projects which have been over-looked by major resource groups. Projects which have undergone detailed exploration and which have the potential to be brought into production quickly are a prime target for the Company. Gippsland's success in this area is due in part to the Company's philosophy of entering into equitable joint venture arrangements with overseas nationals.The Company's prime assets are the 40 million tonne Abu Dabbab and the 98 million tonne Nuweibi tantalum-tin projects located in the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt, adjacent to the western shore of the Red Sea.An Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) completed to World Bank standards has been approved by the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency. A Bankable Feasibility Study undertaken by Lycopodium Engineering Ltd determined that the Abu Dabbab project has the potential to become a major tantalum supplier to the steadily expanding global tantalum industry. The Lycopodium BFS indicated that the project will produce in excess of 650,000 pounds of tantalum pentoxide per year over a likely mine-life of 20 years. Gippsland Limited has executed an offtake agreement with the tantalum major HC Starck GmbH of Germany for the sale of 600,000 pounds of tantalum pentoxide per year for a 10 year period.Gippsland Limited is presently negotiating with the German government owned KfW Bankengruppe for project finance which is anticipated will be arranged on a most favourable 80% debt and 20% equity basis.Tantalum metal powder is an indispensable intermediate for the production of capacitors without which modern cell phones, laptops or flat screens would not be possible. HC Starck in particular is a specialist for high capacitance tantalum powders which are above all indispensable for the latest generation of modern electronic appliances. Tantalum metal is also an essential metal in the production of high temperature applications such as jet engine turbine blades. Tantalum has a high level of bio-acceptability which makes it the preferred metal of medical implants (orthopaedics). Due to its extreme resistance to acid corrosion it is used in chemical plant and equipment.

Tribute Minerals wouldn't mind gold as an expression of gratitude for its hard work. Tribute Minerals company explores for gold and base minerals in Canada, primarily in Ontario. Its main project is the Confederation Lake property, but it has several other exploration projects nearby, as well as in the Red Lake district. There are indications of copper, nickel, and zinc that are also being looked at. None of Tribute's properties is in production.

Franklin Mining, Inc., an exploration stage company, holds mining and energy interests in the United States and Bolivia. It has a joint venture agreement with Planet Resource Recovery Inc. to develop and operate the San Antonio de Turiri antimony mine in Bolivia. Franklin Mining, formerly known was WCM Capital, Inc., was founded in 1864 and is based in San Antonio, Texas.

Caparo is a fast growing global association of businesses with over a 1bn Euro turnover. With interests predominantly in the design, manufacture and marketing of steel, automotive and general engineering products, Caparo’s wider activities encompass also new product development, materials testing services, hotels, media, furniture and interior design, financial services, energy, medical products and private equity investment.The Group was founded in 1968 by Indian born British Industrialist, the Rt. Hon. Lord Paul of Marylebone, who remains Chairman. Today, Caparo and its associates employ more than 9,000 people in their worldwide operations across Europe, North America, Asia, the Middle and the Far East.

Robex is a junior Canadian mining exploration & development company with nine permits located in Mali, western Africa. Mali is currently Africa’s third most important gold producing country. Three of Robex’s permit are situated in southern Mali (Mininko, Kamasso and N’Golopene) while the six others are located in the western area of the country (Diangounte, Sanoula, Kolomba, Moussala, Wili-Wili and Wili-Wili west). Robex is presently working towards developing its permits which indicate favourable geology with ore potential.The priority permits for Robex are Wili-Wili, Wili-Wili west, as well as Mininko. The latter is host to a potential of an inferred resource of 760,000 ounces of gold with an average grade of 1.0 g/t in accordance with the Canadian standard 43-101 ( see rapport ). Robex is presently completing the Nampala prefeasibility study with the intent of installing a gravimetric mill with a daily capacity of 2,000 tons of ore mineral within the Saprolite.This past October, the engineering-consulting firm GENIVAR, of Québec, reviewed and consequently assessed the three-dimensional resource block-model on the mineralisation of the Nampala deposit. Initially, the three-dimensional resource block-model was completed in the framework of the gold resource estimate (NI 43-101 compliant) completed by the Australian consultant firm RSG Global (now Coffey Mining) completed in 2007. The plan and section review completed by Genivar provided a better understanding of the anticipated gold distribution within the Nampala deposit. With the information available to date, the 200 and 300 lenses situated in the central and western portion of the site indicate that inferred resources are estimated to be at 15,000 ounces of gold for Lens 200 and 71,000 ounces of gold for the Lens 300. The concentration and distribution within these two bodies represents, at present, a marginal economical potential which will be further investigated at a later stage. However, according to the block-model, Lens 100 developed along the eastern flank of the Nampala zone is host to an inferred resource of 675,000 ounces of gold contained within 14,130 Mt of ore at an average grade of 0.93 g/t Au. These resources are located between the surface and the explored depth of 150 meters. In accordance with NI 43-101 standards, the above findings are based on insufficient exploration to define a mineral resource, and as such, it is uncertain if further exploration will result in discovery of a mineral resource.

US Gold is a United States based company engaged in the exploration of gold primarily in Nevada and Mexico. US Gold Corporation common shares are listed on the NYSE Alternext (NYSE.A) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) under the symbol "UXG". US Gold Corporation has large land positions, good share liquidity and the potential upside of a junior exploration company. Rob McEwen is Chairman and CEO of US Gold. Since July 2005, when McEwen became the Company's largest shareholder, US Gold's land position within Nevada's Cortez Trend has grown from 36 to 170 square miles. Previously, McEwen was the founder and former Chairman and CEO of Goldcorp Inc., where its Red Lake Mine in northwestern Ontario, Canada is still considered to be the richest gold mine in the world.

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