Cambridge Mineral Resources is getting a degree in the school of hard rocks. Precious and shiny ones too. Cambridge Mineral explores for gold, silver, copper, zinc, and lead mostly in Peru and Spain. In Spain, its primary project is the Lomero-Poyatos deposit, located in the mining region of the Iberian Pyrite Belt. Cambridge Mineral is also developing projects in Serbia, Bulgaria, and Colombia.

Founded in 1854, Westmoreland Coal Company is a premier U.S. energy company with strong leadership, a solid foundation of tangible assets and a proven strategy for growth. Having transitioned from predominantly eastern underground coal production over the past decade, the Company’s current operations include surface coal mining complexes in three western states and power operations in the east and west. Today, Westmoreland employs over 1,125 people in six states, and is producing approximately 30 million tons of coal and generating 1.6 million megawatt hours of electric power annually. Westmoreland also provides post-retirement benefits to over 2,000 people, mostly former coal miners and their dependents.Westmoreland's emphasis is on mine-mouth operations. This positions the Company as the lowest-cost fuel supplier to some of the cleanest, most economical and highly utilized coal-fired utility-owned power plants in America.Westmoreland has also developed eight independent power projects, and currently owns 100% of two projects. The Company’s two North Carolina plants are coal-fired and deliver base-load power to Dominion North Carolina Power.Westmoreland’s demonstrated accomplishments in the transformation of its business, coupled with its proven strategy for growth, position the Company to seek the creation of additional value.Westmoreland’s streamlined organization, focused leadership, attention to cost management, and niche growth strategy has resulted in the Company’s garnering various energy sector awards, including the Platts/BusinessWeek Global Energy Strategic Merger of the Year award in 2002 and the ColoradoBiz/UMB Bank Energy and Natural Resources Company of the Year award in 2002.Westmoreland is publicly traded on the NYSE Amex under the symbol WLB and has over 10.5 million shares of common stock outstanding.

When the aluminum century rolls around, it'll be ready. Century Aluminum makes primary molten and ingot aluminum at facilities in Kentucky and West Virginia, as well as in Iceland; that last facility is operated by subsidiary Nordural. Century Aluminum also owns just less than 50% of an aluminum production facility in South Carolina (Alcoa owns the rest). Four customers -- aluminum producer Rio Tinto Alcan, diversified metals company BHP Billiton, commodities trader Glencore International, and wire and cable maker Southwire -- account for about three-quarters of Century Aluminum's sales. Glencore is Century Aluminum's former parent, though it still has a 38% stake in the company.

Royal Gold, Inc., a leading precious metals royalty company, owns and manages royalties primarily on precious metals mines, with a focus on gold. Royal Gold, Inc. royalty portfolio provides investors with a unique opportunity to capture value in the precious metals sector without incurring many of the costs and risks associated with mine operations. A royalty is simply a right to receive a percentage of production from a mine. By investing in a royalty, Royal Gold buys a percentage of the metal produced from a given property in exchange for a front end payment, without assuming any responsibility for the actual mining operation. Thus, the Company does not have to contribute to the operating and capital costs at the mines.

In 1996, UNOR Inc. (”UNOR” or the “Company”) was incorporated in Ontario, Canada with its primary focus on uranium exploration in the Hornby Bay Basin in western Nunavut, Canada.The uranium target models pursued by UNOR on its uranium properties include high-grade unconformity deposits; large, lower-grade disseminated deposits in sandstone; basement hosted high-grade, structurally controlled deposits; and vein type deposits.Aggressively and systematically pursuing the discovery of uranium in Nunavut, Canada on its mineral claims and leases covering 154,077 acres; and Evaluating its Canadian properties in Nunavut, Ontario, and British Columbia for all economic mineral deposits including uranium, diamonds, precious metals and copper.

BHP Billiton Plc, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a diversified natural resources company. Billiton engages in exploration, production, development, and marketing of oil and gas properties. It also engages in mining of bauxite, refining of bauxite into alumina, and smelting of alumina into aluminum metal; and mining of copper, silver, lead, zinc, uranium, nickel, molybdenum, gold, diamonds, titanium, manganese, iron ores, metallurgical coal, and thermal or steaming coal. In addition, Billiton produces manganese metal and alloys. It operates in Australia, China, Europe, Japan, North America, South Korea, South America, Africa, other Asian countries, and rest of the world. The company, formerly known as Billiton Plc, was incorporated in 1996 and is based in London, the United Kingdom. BHP Billiton Plc operates as a subsidiary of BHP Billiton Group.

Inter-Citic Minerals Inc. is a federally incorporated Canadian public company listed on the TSX (symbol - ICI). Based in Toronto, Inter-Citic has an exclusive focus on gold exploration and development opportunities in China and is currently exploring its flagship Dachang Gold Project it acquired in 2003. In 2004 and 2005 Inter-Citic undertook major surface exploration at Dachang. 2006 and 2007 have seen progressively larger major drilling programs on the property with a goal of expanding the exisiting gold resource.Inter-Citic is a growing gold exploration and development company unlike any other junior mining company. For almost a decade Inter-Citic has been developing relationships and opportunities in China and is regarded as a valued partner. With a wealth of board, management and advisor talent and experience, Inter-Citic is well-positioned to become a major player in China.In 2003 Inter-Citic signed a 30-year joint venture agreement with the Qinghai Geological Survey Institute (QGSI) which also gives Inter-Citic a formal right of first refusal on subsequent projects, offering a rich opportunity pipeline for future gold and mineral exploration and development.Prior to the current Dachang Gold Project, Inter-Citic already had a wealth of practical mineral experience in China. Previously it acquired an 80% interest in a rare-earths facility in eastern China employing more than 100 people. Inter-Citic has also worked in close partnership with Minmetals International Non-ferrous Metals Trading Company, one of the largest non-ferrous metals suppliers in China and identified by the Chinese government as one of the State Owned Enterprises vital to China's economic security.Projects and partnerships like these over more than a decade in China have allowed Inter-Citic to build relationships and exciting opportunities in the complex and dynamic Chinese economy.

Shagang Group is a key enterprise group in Jiangsu Province, a superking-sized National Industrial Enterprise, the Largest Private Steel Enterprise in China, and is headquartered in Zhangjiagang City, Jiangsu Province.Shagang Group currently possesses total assets of RMB132 billion and more than 35,000 employees. Its annual production capacity is 29 million tons of iron, 35 million tons of steel and 33 million tons of rolled products. Shagang has been awarded the honors of the titles such as “Nationwide Customer Satisfaction Enterprise”, “Grade AAA Enterprise for Quality, Service and Reputation”, “China’s Enterprise Brand of Quality and Sincerity”, “ National Innovation-oriented Enterprise”, “Model Unit for Environmental Protection in China”, “New High-Tech Enterprise of Jiangsu Province”, “Circular Economy Construction Model Unit of Jiangsu Province”, and so on.Its leading products of wide heavy plate, hot rolled strip coil, hot and cold rolled stainless steel sheet, high speed wire rod, large bundle of wire rod, ribbed steel bar, special steel round bar have formed 60 series and more than 700 varieties with nearly 2000 specifications, among which high speed wire rod and ribbed steel bar products etc. have been awarded the titles of “Gold Cup Award of Internationally Advanced Physical Product Quality”, “National Customers’ Satisfactory Products” and so on. Ribbed steel bar product has obtained certification of CARES; high quality wire rod won “Chinese Famous Brand” products and “Inspection-free Export” commodity and other titles. The total annual production volumes and exportation of prime wire rods have both ranked the first in China for consecutive years; hot rolled strip coil has passed the CE Certification by the European Union; shipbuilding steel plate has passed through the classification society authentication of 9 countries. The trademark “Shagang” has won “the Well-known Trademark of China”. In 2009, Shagang Group was the 35th on the list of the Top 500 Chinese enterprises; the 11th in the Top 500 China Manufacturing Enterprises, ranked the first in National Private Enterprises and became the unique private enterprise from Mainland China entered into the Fortune Top 500 of the World.In 2009, Shagang Group took full use of its comprehensive advantages of its process equipment, product mix/structure, company branding strategy, modern logistics etc. to optimize its product structure, promote its technological innovation, pay close attention to reducing cost and improving efficiency, innovate its marketing mechanism, expand the markets with its great efforts, actively respond to the challenges and tests, so that the Company’s production operation has remained a good momentum of development. For the Year 2009, Shagang Group has fulfilled producing 22.14 million tons iron, 26.39 million tons of steel (which ranked the 7th in the world’s steel counterparts; the 5th in China’s steel counterparts), 23.28 million tons of rolled products, and RMB146.3 billion of sales income, RMB7.3 billion of profit and tax.Shagang Group will conscientiously implement the State policy concerning the steel industry development. With the guidance of Scientific Outlook on Development, Shagang would pursue the sustainable development strategy, take a new road to industrialization, speed up transformation and upgrading, vigorously promote the readjustment of product structure, further extend its industrial chain, pay an adequate attention to supporting enterprises, build modern logistics, implement capital operation, constantly improve its overall competitiveness in order to further make Shagang perfect, strong and excellent and try our best to build Shagang as a famous brand of “Hundred-year Old Factory”. Also Shagang people will make new contributions to building harmonious Jiangsu and making China become a powerful steel country.

Anglo Pacific Group PLC is a global natural resources royalties company. The strategy of the Group is to expand its mineral royalty interests in low-cost, long-life mining assets. The Group achieves this through both direct acquisition and investment in projects at the development and production stage. It is a continuing policy of the Group to pay a substantial proportion of these royalties to shareholders as dividends. The Group is focused on projects in areas with low political risk that have defined resources and near-term production. The Group has both corporate finance and real-world mining experience and takes an active approach to each project to achieve better returns at reduced risk.

Titanium Metals Corporation produces and sells titanium sponge, melted products, and various mill products for commercial aerospace, military, industrial, and other applications. It manufactures titanium sponge, which is the basic form of titanium metal used in titanium products; and melted products, such as ingots, electrodes, and slabs, which are the result of melting titanium sponge and titanium scrap; mill products that are forged and rolled from ingot or slab products, including billets, bars, plates, sheets and strips, and pipes; and fabrications, which include spools, pipe fittings, manifolds, and vessels that are cut, formed, welded, and assembled from titanium mill products. The company sells its products through its sales force in the United States and Europe, as well as through independent agents and distributors internationally. It serves commercial aerospace and military, chemical process, oil and gas, consumer, sporting goods, healthcare, automotive, and power generation sectors. Titanium Metals Corporation was founded in 1950 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

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