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.

Belgonucleaire fuels the nuclear world. Belgonucleaire company produces mixed oxide (MOX), a combination of depleted uranium oxide and plutonium oxide that is used as fuel in nuclear power plants. Belgonucleaire also has a nuclear engineering branch, which researches nuclear fuels, builds equipment for MOX production factories, and develops systems to dispose of nuclear waste safely. The engineering branch also works with other nuclear firms to neutralize plutonium left over from dismantled nuclear weapons. The Belgian national government owns 50% of Belgonucleaire company, which was founded in 1957.

African Diamonds explores and develops diamonds from operations in Botswana and Congo. Its focus is the AK6 diamond project jointly owned with De Beers, though Canadian company Lucara Diamond agreed in 2009 to buy out the industry giant. African Diamonds owns 28% of the AK6 project, which will reach the development stage in 2010 and is projected to commence production the following year. (African company also has an option to increase that stake to 40%.) Additionally, the company owns stakes in projects elsewhere in Botswana and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It has previously investigated opportunities in Angola, Lesotho, and Sierra Leone.

Yamana Gold Inc. is a Canadian-based gold producer with significant gold production, gold development stage properties, exploration properties, and land positions in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Colombia. Yamana plans to continue to build on this base through existing operating mine expansions, throughput increases, development of new mines, the advancement of its exploration properties and by targeting other gold consolidation opportunities in the Americas.

Say "C-U later" Bell Resources and "Give me a ring" to Bell Copper. Formed in 2008 by the acquisition of Grandcru Resources and Rogue River Resources by Bell Resources, Bell Copper Corporation is focused on the development of copper mines in the Americas. The company's primary projects consist of the La Balsa copper mine in Michoacan, Mexico and the Granduc copper mine in British Columbia, Canada (neither of which is yet in production). The company's portfolio of development and exploration projects also includes other properties in British Columbia and Mexico as well as properties in the southwestern US and in Chile.

Do you know about DOWA? Through its operating subsidiaries the company processes and sells copper, gold, silver, and other metals, supplying its smelters with ore from its mining ventures in Mexico. DOWA also produces electronics materials, including metal powders used in data storage tapes, gallium arsenide wafers for integrated circuits, and zinc powder for alkaline batteries. The company offers heat-treatment services and makes industrial furnaces, mainly for the automotive industry, at plants in Asia and North America. Other DOWA units are involved in real estate, recycling, and the provision of construction and engineering services.

Nippon Yakin was founded in 1925. Ten years later, we began providing industry with SUS 304 stainless steel, then known as 18-8. Dedication to our research and production led to a complete line of products from nickel ore to high-grade stainless steel and super alloys. Supported by long tradition and outstanding technology, Nippon Yakin has created a state-of-the-art production system backed by a precision quality control system to ensure our reputation is deserved in every product.Nippon Yakin has developed as a first-rate manufacturer in Japan's stainless steel industry. Today, we are evolving from a stainless steel manufacturer with a prominent history into a manufacturer of specialized stainless steels providing conventional products alongside high-functional new materials to meet the needs of today's world.

Since its incorporation in 1981, Vancouver-based Eureka Resources, Inc. (TSX-V: EUK) has focused on the exploration and development of natural resource properties in order to create wealth for investors. Under the leadership of chairman and president John J. (Jack) O'Neill, Eureka has remained committed to the highest and best levels of corporate responsibility---environmental responsibility in the field, legal responsibility in meetings its statutory obligations to securities regulators, and financial responsibility in its relationship with investors. Trading on the respected Toronto Stock Exchange's Venture Exchange, Eureka is a member of Canada's pre-eminent public venture-equity market. The TSX Venture Exchange provides access to capital for companies, such as Eureka, at the early stages of their growth, while offering investors a well-regulated market for making venture investments. Eureka is fully compliant with all provincial and national corporate and securities rules and regulations. Prospective and current investors can view a complete list of all Eureka's public disclosures, including press releases and interim and annual reports, at the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR) filing system of the Canadian Securities Administrators. Conducting business in British Columbia, Eureka is part of a burgeoning, $9-billion-a-year industry that saw its annual expenditures on mineral exploration increase 20 percent to a record $344 million in 2006.

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.

Talvivaara Mining Company Plc. is an internationally significant base metals producer with its primary focus on nickel and zinc. Talvivaara´s main asset is the Talvivaara nickel mine in Sotkamo, Finland. The Talvivaara polymetallic deposits, Kuusilampi and Kolmisoppi, comprise one of the largest known sulphide nickel resources in Europe with 642 million tonnes of ore in measured and indicated categories, sufficient to support an anticipated production for at 46 years. Production at the mine started in October 2008 with the precipitation of the first metal sulphides. The planned annual nickel production of 50,000 tonnes is anticipated to be reached in 2012. As by-products the mine will also produce aprox. 90,000 tpa of zinc, aprox.15,000 tpa of copper and c.1,800 tpa of cobalt. The Group supplies metal intermediaries to companies with metal refining operations and has entered into a 10-year off-take agreement with Norilsk Nickel Harjavalta Oy for the entire output of the mine's nickel and cobalt production at market prices.On the 25th of January 2010 Talvivaara entered into a long-term Zinc in concentrate streaming agreement with Nyrstar NV. Talvivaara will deliver all of its Zinc in concentrate production to Nyrstar until 1,250,000 metric tonnes has been delivered. Click here to read the Stock Exchange Release. Talvivaara applies bioheapleaching to extract the metals from ore. The Group demonstrated the viability of this technology first on large on-site pilot trials using the Talvivaara ore and subsequently, since July 2008, in production scale heaps. The leaching process has been shown to be heat generating and therefore suitable for the sub-arctic climatic conditions of Eastern Finland.The Talvivaara ore body is well-suited for open pit mining due to thin overburden, favourable resource geometry and a low waste to ore ratio. The ore is relatively low grade, but well-suited to bioleaching due to its high sulphide content.

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