Aquarius Platinum wants platinum lovers to pour it on. The company mines for platinum and other platinum group metals (PGMs) in South Africa's highly productive Bushveld Complex and in Zimbabwe through its 50% stake in Mimosa Investments. PGMs, including palladium and rhodium, are used in electronics, catalytic converters, and jewelry. Aquarius Platinum focuses on small deposits and a capital-intensive (mechanized) rather than a labor-intensive mining model. Founded in 1996, the company produces just about half a million ounces of PGM annually, mostly at its 50%-owned Kroondal mine (a partnership with Anglo Platinum).

UEX Corporation is a Canadian uranium exploration and development company formed under agreement between Cameco Corporation and Pioneer Metals Corporation. UEX began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange in July 2002 and is an active explorer in the Athabasca Basin in northern Saskatchewan, which is the most important uranium-producing district in the world, accounting for approximately 20% of global primary uranium production in 2009. UEX has a total of 19 projects either 100% owned, joint ventured or under option totaling 338,972 hectares (837,618 acres) located in the eastern, western and northern perimeters of the Athabasca Basin.UEX operates its 100%-owned Hidden Bay Uranium Project, Riou Lake Uranium Project, and Northern Athabasca Projects. UEX also operates the Black Lake Uranium Project, which is a joint venture with AREVA Resources Canada Inc. ("AREVA"), 89.96% UEX - 10.04% AREVA as of December 31, 2009. The ten Western Athabasca Projects, including the Shea Creek Project, are joint ventures where UEX holds a 49% interest and AREVA holds a 51% interest, which are operated by AREVA along with the Beatty River Project which is under option from the Japan-Canada Uranium Company, Limited.UEX is currently developing several uranium deposits in the Athabasca Basin which include the Kianna, Anne and Colette Deposits at its Shea Creek Project, a joint venture with AREVA in the western Athabasca Basin, and the Horseshoe, Raven and West Bear Deposits at its 100%-owned Hidden Bay Project in the eastern Athabasca Basin.

RAG is no ragtag operation. RAG company is Germany's largest coal producer, its mining operations managed through coal and coke company Deutsche Steinkohle. RAG operates seven coal mines and a coking facility, all in Germany. After several years of restructuring, RAG company has pared down significantly to just the coal operations. It is now controlled by the state-run RAG Foundation. In 2007 the German government announced that conditions in the country -- both economic and environmental -- made continuation of coal mining infeasible. And so the German coal industry will cease operations by 2018.

Mexico's largest mining company, Grupo Mexico is the world's #3 copper producer, behind Chile's Codelco and Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold of the US. The company's mining segment (more than 75% of sales) has operations in Mexico (Minera Mexico), the US (ASARCO), and Peru (75%-owned Southern Copper). The segment mines and refines copper, silver, zinc, molybdenum, lead, and other metals, as well as coal. It also produces intermediate copper products (cathodes and rods) and sulfuric acid. The company's Ferroviario Mexicano (Ferromex) rail transport division operates Mexico's largest rail fleet (15,000 railcars) and has 6,000 miles of track. The company was founded as a construction company in 1942.

The story of Alliance begins in 1971 when MAPCO Inc., then a Fortune 500 diversified energy company, entered the coal-production business, acquiring the Dotiki mine. This underground operation in Webster County, Kentucky, soon became, and remains to this day, one of the most productive coal mines in the country. By the time the company reached its silver anniversary, MAPCO Coal owned five mining complexes in three states — Kentucky, Illinois, and Maryland. It also owned the Mt. Vernon Facility, a rail-to-barge loading terminal on the Ohio River. Located in Indiana, the Mt. Vernon facility is capable of handling 8 million tons of coal per year. In 1996, management formed Alliance Coal Corporation and led a buyout of MAPCO Inc.'s coal operations with the financial support of The Beacon Group. Within two years, Alliance acquired Hopkins County Coal, a surface/underground operation in Hopkins County, Kentucky, and opened MC Mining, an underground mine in Pike County, Kentucky. In 1998, Alliance sold 15.1 million tons of coal and was recognized as the sixth-largest coal producer in the eastern United States. During 1999, Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. was formed, and after completion of its initial public offering as a publicly-traded master limited partnership, acquired the coal operations of Alliance Coal Corporation. The new company soon broke ground for a new underground mining complex in Gibson County, Indiana. Production began at Gibson County Coal the following year. ARLP began a $30 million extension of its Pattiki mine in southern Illinois during 2000. Construction of a new mine shaft and ancillary facilities began in 2001 at the Dotiki mining complex. Both of these projects were completed during the second quarter of 2003 and positioned Alliance Coal to meet increasing demand for its coal. In 2002, management purchased all of The Beacon Group's interest in ARLP. The acquisition was not funded or secured with any of Alliance's assets.

X-CAL has a significant NI-43-101 gold and silver resource at its Sleeper Gold Property in Nevada. The Company’s gold properties include: The Sleeper Gold Property, located in Humboldt County, The Mill Creek and Reese River Properties located in the Cortez Area and the WR Property located in the Spring Valley Area. All properties are 100% owned by X-CAL and are located in Nevada.

Terraco is a junior exploration company with current exploration properties in Nevada and Arizona. The ‘MOONLIGHT’ property is located in Pershing County, Nevada and is located 21 miles northeast of Lovelock, Pershing County, Nevada and about four miles north of the Coeur Rochester silver-gold mine. The Rochester mine has produced over 107 million ounces of silver and well over one million ounces of gold in its 17 year history. The Moonlight property also adjoins Midway Gold Corp.’s (TSX Venture: MDW) Spring Valley Project to the south (between Terraco and Coeur Rochester). The ‘MIDDLEGATE’ property is located in Churchill County, Nevada approximately 5 miles southwest of the town of Middlegate in a region that has historic success and includes notable mines such as the Wonder, Fairview, Paradise Peak and Rawhide. The 'SILVERTHORNE' property located in Mineral County Nevada was acquired May 8th 2008. The property is in the Walker Lane trend 20 miles north of Hawthorne Nevada. A region that has had tremendous historic success. Deposits include Round Mountain, The Comstock, Tonopah & Goldfeild.

Crew is a junior mining and exploration company with a strategic focus on gold and precious metals as well as on projects with existing or near-term cash flow potential. Crew is owned by institutional and private investors mainly in Norway, Canada, Australia, Great Britain, USA, Denmark and Germany. Nalunaq, our gold mine in South Greenland, is at the forefront of our operations. It is the first gold mine ever to be developed in Greenland, and the first mine to be developed in 25 years. Gold production from Nalunaq is expected to be approximately 130,000 oz/yr, from 2004 onwards. Crew has a balanced portfolio of exploration and development projects, but is focused on projects that can provide positive cash flow within 24 months.

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.

Pacesetter Steel Service processes and distributes coated steel products. It operates through its own service centers in Atlanta, Chicago, and Houston as well as partnerships with centers in Philadelphia and St. Louis. Products include aluminized, bonderized, cold-rolled, and galvalume steel. The company processes steel using such techniques as leveling, notching, punching, and slitting. Customers include manufacturers of HVAC systems and appliances, as well as OEMs in the automotive, agricultural equipment, and metal building industries. Pacesetter Steel Service was founded in 1977 by president and CEO Steve Leebow.

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