Lake Shore Gold is a rapidly growing mining company with a goal to become a North American mid-tier gold producer through the successful exploration, development and operation of three wholly owned mines in Timmins, Ontario: Timmins Mine, Thunder Creek and Bell Creek Complex. Lake Shore Gold Company is currently carrying out an underground advanced exploration program at the Timmins Mine project, where it has both a shaft and a ramp, and is drifting from Timmins Mine to the adjacent Thunder Creek property. Progress is also being made with an underground advanced exploration program at its Bell Creek Complex, located on the east side of Timmins. The Bell Creek Mill has been refurbished to a capacity of 1,500 tonnes per day with plans in place to expand the Mill incrementally to 3,000 tonnes per day. Lake Shore Gold Company continues to invest aggressively in exploration primarily in Timmins and in select other areas of Northern Ontario and Quebec, and owns a large land position in Mexico. The Company’s common shares trade on the TSX under the symbol LSG.

Prize Mining Corporation is a Calgary, Alberta based, junior resource company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange and the Frankfurt Exchange. The company's strategic focus is on developing near-term, low cost, gold production in Canada. The experienced management team is continuously working towards the goal highlighted in their mission statement: To become a gold producer through the development of Atlin and the strategic acquisition of other small high grade gold deposits that can share resources with the object to mining on a low cost, high recovery basis.Prize Mining's properties have been strategically selected in politically stable areas, easily accessible to exploration and production support. Prize Mining Corporation company has begun a 10,000 tonne bulk sampling program on its current focus, the Atlin Gold Property, located in northwestern British Columbia. The properties are located within a known placer gold producing area; more than one million ounces of placer gold (estimated) have been recovered during the last century from the Atlin area.

International Ferro Metals (IFM) is an integrated ferrochrome producer listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE:IFL).IFM produces ferrochrome (an essential ingredient in stainless steel production) from chromite ore located in the Bushveld Igneous Complex, one of the world’s richest mineral repositories and largest ferrochrome producing regions in the world. IFM’s Lesedi chromite mine and integrated beneficiation and smelting operations are situated at Buffelsfontein, 100km north-west of Johannesburg, South Africa. IFM’s nameplate capacity is 267,000 tonnes of ferrochrome per annum. IFM’s integrated chromite production facilities use the latest technology ensuring that its product is of international quality and Ferro Metals Company aims to be a low cost producer. IFM moved from the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) to the Main Board of the London Stock Exchange on 31 August 2007. The Directors believe that IFM is well positioned to take advantage of Ferro Metals Company’s position and commercial relationships in the ferroalloys industry. These opportunities may include expansion beyond the ferrochrome market.

Penn Virginia Resource Partners, L.P. (NYSE: PVR) is a publicly traded limited partnership which owns and manages coal and natural resource properties and related assets, and owns and operates midstream natural gas gathering and processing businesses. We own more than 800 million tons of proven coal reserves in Northern and Central Appalachia, and the Illinois and San Juan Basins; our midstream natural gas assets are located principally in Texas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania and include more than 4,100 miles of natural gas gathering pipelines and 6 processing systems with approximately 400 million cubic feet per day of capacity.

Trade Winds Ventures Inc. is a Canadian based gold exploration company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, trading under the symbol TWD. The Company’s primary focus is the advancement of its Detour Lake Block A and Gowest properties, located in the Abitibi Greenstone belt in Northeastern Ontario, a prolific gold mining region which has produced over 65% of Canada’s gold.Since 2004, Trade Winds has completed extensive diamond drilling programs of over 140,000 metres on the Block A and Gowest properties. An aggressive in-fill drill program is underway with the aim to increase the resource base and advance the project toward development of a stand alone open pit mine and mill operation.Recently, Trade Winds as operator, completed a NI 43-101 updated resource calculation on the 50/50 Block A Joint Venture with Detour Gold Corporation at Detour Lake. The global resource calculation included an in-pit gold resource of 1.2 million ounces in the indicated category and 277,000 ounces in the inferred category. The total global resource on the Company's Block A and Gowest properties is in excess of four million ounces gold at a cutoff grade of 0.5 g/t.In addition, Trade Winds owns a 100% interest in the Dardanelle gold and Treasure Mountain copper properties in British Columbia.

Inca Pacific is a mineral exploration company focused on the development of the Magistral copper and molybdenum deposit in Peru. Peru hosts some of the world's most profitable mines and remains one of the mining industry's first choices for exploration and development of mineral deposits with robust economics. The Company's directors and officers have extensive experience in all aspects of the mining industry, from exploration and mine development to mine management and finance. Inca's head office is in Vancouver, BC, Canada and exploration headquarters are in Lima, Peru. Inca Pacific's common shares are listed on the TSX Venture Exchange and the Lima Exchange under the symbol "IPR".

Formerly focused on advertising, China Natural Resources has shifted its business plan from working on minds to working in mines. China Natural Resources operates through its Wuhu Feishang Mining Development unit, a producer of zinc, copper, gold, silver, and iron. Smelter operator Huludao Zinc Industry Co. is Wuhu's primary customer. Chairman and CEO Li Feilie owns a controlling stake in China Natural Resources, which he gained in the company's 2006 reverse acquisition of his Feishang Mining Holdings, after which it sold its iSense subsidiary (provided advertising, promotion, and PR services to clients in China and Hong Kong). China Natural Resources has since acquired a number of other mining projects, all located in China.

Horsehead Holding Corp., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the production and sale of zinc and zinc-based products in North America. The company's products include PW zinc metal, which is used to provide a protective coating to various fabricated products, including pipe and guard rails, heat exchangers, and telecommunications towers, as well as for the production of brass; and SSHG zinc metal that is used as feed for the manufacture of high-purity zinc powder and zinc alloys. It also offers zinc oxide for the production of tire and rubber products, chemicals, ceramics, plastics, paints, lubricating oils, and pharmaceuticals. In addition, the company recycles electric arc furnace dust, a hazardous waste generated by steel mini-mills. Further, it provides special zinc powders, which are used in general chemical and metallurgical applications, as well as in friction applications, such as brake linings for automobiles; battery grade zinc powders that are used in alkaline, mercuric oxide, silver oxide, and zinc-air batteries; and copper-based powders, including brass, bronze, and nickel-silver powders, which are used in various applications comprising brazing, infiltrating, and powdered metallurgical hardware, such as lock bodies, valves, and gears. Additionally, the company offers short-line railroad service for the movement of materials. It primarily serves galvanizers and brass producers; alkaline battery industries; and manufacturers of tire and rubber products, lubricating oils, chemicals, paints, ceramics, plastics, and pharmaceuticals. The company was incorporated in 2003 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Nordural, also known as Nordic Aluminum, operates the Nordural primary aluminum reduction facility located in Grundartangi, Iceland. The primary aluminum metal manufacturer has a production capacity of about 260,000 tons per year, having expanded the facility from less than 100,000 tons annually in the last half decade. Customers include metals giants BHP Billiton and Glencore. US aluminum producer Century Aluminum owns Nordural.

General Nice Hong Kong Group founded in 1992, headquarter of Group is set up in Hong Kong and mainland business operation headquarter is set up in Tianjin China. General Nice Group is principally engaged in resources development and production, logistics and trading. It is the international investment holding enterprise group. After many years of development, General Nice Group has formed two main business chains: one is based on coal mining, coal selecting & washing, coking, coke export, gangue electricity generating facility, chemical by product and railway transportation; another chain is based on iron ore mining, iron ore import. In 2008, the total asset of the group has reached 7 billion HK dollars and revenue is more than 8.8 billion HK dollars. Subsidiaries of Group i.e. Abterra Ltd. (code 199903007C) listed in Singapore andLoudong General Nice Resources (China) Holdings Limited (code 0988) listed in Hong Kong; those are the group’s important oversea financing platforms.At present, General Nice Group has become one of the major international Groups in the field of China’s metallurgical coke and iron ore business; it has adequate financial resources, advanced technology, sophisticated equipment, experienced staff and efficient management. In recent years, the Group has identified long term development strategies for itself and its subsidiaries companies such as General Nice Resources (Hong Kong) Ltd., Suns Group Ltd, Abterra Ltd. and Shanxi Loudong- General Nice Coking and Gas Company Ltd.

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