While Highveld Steel and Vanadium was once one of the world's leading producers of vanadium, now that it's a part of Russian steel producer Evraz, it's concentrating more on its steel assets. Highveld Steel mines its own ore for its steelworks, which produces plate, coil, billets and slabs. Those products go to the construction, shipbuilding, and rail industries, among others. Until the 2008 disposal of most of its vanadium operations, Highveld had gotten about a third of sales from that unit. But since 2006, Highveld Steel company has sold most of its ferro-alloy businesses as well as its 50% stake in South Africa Japan Vanadium and wholly owned subsidiary Vanchem.

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.

Ivanhoe Mines Ltd., through its subsidiaries, operates as a mineral exploration and development company. The company's principal mineral resource property is the Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine development project located in southern Mongolia. It also holds interests in the Ovoot Tolgoi Coal project located in Mongolia; the Cloncurry project in Queensland, Australia for the exploration and development of molybdenum, rhenium, copper, gold, and uranium; and the Kyzyl gold project located in Kazakhstan. The company was formerly known as Indochina Goldfields Ltd. and changed its name to Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. in June 1999. Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Zimplats Holdings (formerly Zimbabwe Platinum Mines) mines platinum and platinum group metals (PGM), like rhodium and palladium, as well as nickel from resources and reserves on the Great Dyke in Zimbabwe. Its PGM mining activities include operating the Ngezi mine, the Selous Metallurgical complex, and the Hartley Ore mine. Zimplats Holdings company produces almost 200,000 ounces of PGM annually. Zimplats operates from offices in Australia, the UK, and Zimbabwe. South African platinum giant Impala Platinum Holdings (Implats) holds more than 85% of Zimplats Holdings company.

Amarillo Gold Corp. is a company focused on the acquisition, definition and discovery of gold resources in Brazil. Its principal projects are the Mara Rosa project in the state of Goiás and the Lavras do Sul project in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The Posse Deposit at Mara Rosa was found by an independent 43-101 compliant preliminary economic assessment study carried out by CCIC to contain 643,000 ounces indicated from 13.5MTonnes @ 1.48 g/t Au, 538,000 ounces inferred from 13.0MTonnes @ 1.26 g/t Au at a 0.5g/t cut-off grade and the project is in the economic evaluation stage. The Posse deposit is located in an area of excellent infrastructure located some 35 km NE of Yamana’s Chapada open pit Cu-Au operation, 105 km NE of Serra Grande’s underground Au mine, 105 km NNW of Anglo American’s nickel laterite project (in construction), 95 km NW of Votarintim’s Niquelandia nickel laterite mine and approximately 60 kms NE of Yamana’s Pilar Au project (in feasibility). Grid power to the site was established during the previous open pit mining operation and the Serra da Mesa hydro-electric dam lies 35 km to the east.

HudBay Minerals looks below the surface to find profits. The company focuses on the exploration and production of zinc and copper, primarily in Canada's Manitoba province. HudBay operates several mines, production plants, and refineries located in Manitoba, Ontario, and Michigan. In addition to zinc and copper, it also produces silver and gold. HudBay attempted to expand through an $800 million combination with Canadian mining company Lundin Mining in 2008. The combined company would have been among the top three Canadian base minerals companies, but the two companies called off the deal early in 2009.

Freegold Ventures Limited is a North American gold exploration company. Current projects include Golden Summit, Rob and Vinasale. On the Golden Summit Project in Alaska, exploration discovered new high-grade veins and bulk tonnage shear zones. At Freegold's Rob project drilling insected high-grade gold mineralization. Exploration was also undertaken on the Vinasale Gold deposit in an effort to expand the known 920,000 historical gold resource (not 43-101 compliant).

Cloud Peak Energy Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in coal mining operations in the Powder River Basin of the United States. It produces sub-bituminous steam coal with low sulfur content for electric utilities and industrial customers. Cloud Peak operates two surface coal mines in Wyoming and one surface coal mine in Montana. It also owns a 50% interest in a surface coal mine in Montana. As of December 31, 2009, it had approximately 1.0 billion tons of proven and probable coal reserves. In addition, Cloud Peak holds a 50% joint venture interest in the Decker Coal Company. Cloud Peak Energy, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is based in Gillette, Wyoming.

NovaGold Resources Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the exploration and development of mineral resource properties in Alaska and British Columbia. It primarily explores for gold, silver, copper, zinc, and lead ores. NovaGold Resources Inc. was formerly known as NovaCan Mining Resources (1985) Limited and changed its name to NovaGold Resources Inc. in March 1987.

Dorato Resources Inc. ("Dorato") is a mineral exploration company focused on the highly prospective Cordillera del Condor Gold District in northern Peru and adjacent to the border with Ecuador -- one of the most important gold-bearing districts in the region since pre-Incan times. Modern exploration on the Ecuadorian side of the border has successfully delineated a number of world-class gold and copper deposits including Kinross Gold's Fruta del Norte gold deposit with inferred resources of 13.6 million contained ounces of gold averaging 7.23 g/t gold. The Peruvian portion of the Cordillera, while sharing key geological features and stratigraphy, has remained almost entirely unexplored...until now. Dorato, through a series of option agreements, has the right to wholly acquire an extensive land package of approximately 1,050 square kilometres -- providing the Company a highly strategic position in this emergent gold district. Dorato is well funded and possesses experienced management with a proven track record.

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