Silver Quest Resources' holy grail isn't gold, it's silver. Silver Quest Resources company explores mostly silver, and some gold, properties in Western Canada, the US, and Mexico. It has about a dozen projects in British Columbia (the majority), the Yukon, the US (Nevada), and Mexico (Sonora). Silver Quest is looking for joint venture partners for the exploration of some of its properties. Some of the companies Mexican mines are in production; several properties are worked by Silver Quest Resources company but owned by Grupo Mexico.

Canadian-based mineral exploration company, Guyana Goldfields Inc., is focused primarily on the exploration and development of gold deposits in the Guiana Shield of South America. The Guiana Shield is in the northern part of the Amazon Craton and covers parts of Guyana, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guyana and northern Brazil. The Company holds advanced exploration projects in various stages of development and has been operating in Guyana continuously since 1996. The Company’s focus is on maintaining its interest in the Aurora Property there by continually conducting exploration and development work. Effective January 28, 2009, Guyana Goldfields acquired Aranka (formerly TSX.V: ARK). This arrangement consolidates the property interests of both companies in Guyana. The Aranka property consists 19 contiguous prospecting licenses covering over 307,589 acres, located 19 miles north east of the Aurora Base Camp. The company has designated several new zones of interest in this area for further exploration.

European Nickel is a UK registered company listed on the AIM, PLUS and ASX exchanges under the ticker symbol ENK. European Nickel is an emerging mid-tier nickel laterite producer focused on growth. The Çaldag project in Turkey is the Company's flagship asset with near term production and will be the world's first commercial scale nickel laterite heap leach operation. In addition, it will be one of the largest foreign direct investments in Turkey’s mining industry.The Company’s key competitive advantage over its peers is its proven and simple heap leaching process which produces a mixed hydroxide product at lower capital and operating costs than conventional forms of nickel laterite processing technologies.The Company's current projects are located in Turkey, the Philippines and Albania.In July 2010, European Nickel entered into a strategic partnership with Constantia Resources, a member of the Hunter Dickinson group through a two tranche, non-brokered private placement which will result in Constantia holding an interest of just under 30%. The first tranche will raise £3.36 million (approximately US$5 million). The second tranche, which is expected to take place within 30 days of the completion of the Çaldag project finance facility, will raise a further £36.7 million (approximately US$55 million). Hunter Dickinson has an exceptional track record in advancing mining projects through development and construction and on to operations. Their expertise will complement European Nickel’s management team and technological know-how to assist the successfully delivery of the Çaldag project.European Nickel also recently merged with Rusina to consolidate a global development pipeline that comprises of more than 1.3 million tonnes of nickel in reserves and resources. Following this merger, European Nickel were admitted to trading on the ASX in June 2010.

Mitsui Mining and Smelting (known as Mitsui Kinzoku), a member of the Mitsui "keiretsu," supplies nonferrous metals for industrial uses. Formed in 1950, Mitsui Mining company smelts, refines, and fabricates copper, zinc, and other nonferrous metals from ores produced at its own mines or purchased from outside sources. Mitsui Mining company is Japan's top producer of zinc, popularly used as a protective coating for steel. It makes die-cast parts from zinc, aluminum, and magnesium primarily for the automotive industry; it also makes copper foil, ceramics, and packaging tapes for the electronics industry. Mitsui Kinzoku's services groups are involved in environmental engineering, and metals recycling.

Drummond Company, Inc. is principally engaged in the business of mining, purchasing, processing and selling of coal and coal derivatives. Drummond controls reserves totaling over 2 billion tons and shipped approximately 27 million tons of coal in 2009. Drummond primarily produces low sulfur or compliance coal, meeting Phase II requirements of the 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act. The Company's U.S. mining operations are located in Alabama. The international mining operations are located in Colombia, serving customers in both the U.S. and Europe.Drummond is the largest merchant coke producer in the U.S. and is well known in the foundry industry for its superior product and reliability of supply. ABC Coke has 132 ovens with an annual capacity of approximately 750,000 tons of saleable coke, which is used in the automotive and construction pipe industries and sold to both domestic and international customers.

Eaglecrest Explorations Ltd. (EEL-TSX.V; EAT-Frankfurt) is a gold exploration company which has an option on the 210 square kilometre Fredonia project area in the prolific Central Cordillera gold belt in northwest Colombia. Eaglecrest also owns 100% of 120.5 square kilometres of mineral title at the San Simon Gold Project in northeastern Bolivia. Eaglecrest will begin exploration work in Colombia in the second quarter of 2010, but has identified three areas at San Simon with open-pit and underground gold resource potential.

Metalor Technologies International smelts and refines precious metals for a wide range of uses. Its refining division recycles precious metals -- gold, silver, platinum, etc. -- and converts them into powders, grains, or ingots. From there, the metals are turned into technical coatings, components for the watch and jewelry industries, and silver contacts for the electrical industry and electrotechnics. The company has subsidiaries in 15 countries.

SiPi Metals Corp. was founded in 1905 and has been in business continuously for over a century. We are a refiner of precious metals and manufacturer of copper alloys.Our interest is in the refining of precious metal scrap generated in the electronics, chemical, photographic, and aerospace industries. We also refine a great deal of scrap for the defense industry and military. The use of gold, silver and the platinum group metals is quite extensive in military applications. SiPi specializes in the treatment of large quantities of precious metal content scrap which are heavily contaminated with fiberglass, plastic, etc. We employ 150 people and generate annual sales of approximately $200,000,000. SiPi Metals Corp. is largely owned by its employees through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan. We have extensive lines of credit at JP Morgan Chase Bank and other international banking institutions. We achieved ISO 9000 certification in 1999 and have been recertified to the current ISO 9001:2000.SiPi has the capacity to treat 3,000 tons of scrap material per month and can return the gold, silver, etc. in your scrap to the location of your choice or we can pay for the metals at world market prices. We offer global service to our customers with processing locations in Scotland, Brazil, Columbia, Mexico and the Far East. We also provide logistics services virtually anywhere in the world.

Nyrstar is a Belgian publicly-listed company, created on 31 August, 2007 by combining the zinc smelting and alloying operations of Zinifex (an Australian mining company) and Umicore (a Belgian materials technology company). We listed on the Euronext Brussels Stock Exchange on 29 October 2007.Our name, Nyrstar, is a combination of ‘nyr’, an old Norse word meaning new, and ‘star’ a leading light. For us, Nyrstar means a bright new star, brilliant and fresh.Our vision is to be the partner of choice in essential resources for the development of a changing world. Our strategic direction is to focus on the pursuit of value creation for our stakeholders through initiatives that improve and expand our existing assets whilst selectively pursuing opportunities in mining.The zinc we produce is most commonly used to protect steel from corrosion. It is used in a wide range of industries, the largest consumers being the construction and transport sectors.Nyrstar also produces significant quantities of lead. Lead and zinc are very much sister metals, tending to occur together geologically. Lead is mainly used to produce lead-acid batteries, used primarily in motor vehicles.Given the mineral nature of zinc and lead concentrates, when they are processed they produce a number of valuable by-products such as copper, gold, indium and silver. Sulphuric acid is another valuable by-product of the zinc smelting process.Nyrstar's plants are located close to its key customers and adjacent to major transport hubs to allow easy delivery of raw materials and distribution of finished products.

Orvana is a gold producer with significant growth opportunities and a strong balance sheet. Orvana owns and operates the Don Mario Mine in Eastern Bolivia and is developing two promising assets: the recently acquired El Valle-Boinás/Carlés gold-copper project in Northern Spain and the Copperwood copper project in Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States.With a growing pipeline of promising mineral assets and an experienced management team, Orvana is poised to become a mid-tier, multi-mine gold and copper producer. Orvana is focused on building long-term value for its shareholders through production growth and strategic acquisitions.

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