Typhoon Exploration is a Canadian mining exploration company incorporated in 2003. Its shares are listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol TYP.Typhoon holds a diversified portfolio of properties such as the Fayolle and Faille 1 gold projects which are located in Rouyn-Noranda's mining camp, one of the best-known in the world for gold. The company also owns the Monexco-McCorkill project located in Chibougamau, whose mining camp is reputed for its gold and base metals reserves. The infrastructures of all of these camps are developed in such a way that they are accessible by the existing road network all year round.The Fayolle Deposit's geographic proximity to the Val d'Or, Malartic and Rouyn-Noranda gold camps allows for far more cost-effective exploitation when that phase of operations is reached.Typhoon Exploration company strives to increase the value of its shares by building its gold resources, all while employing the latest mining technologies and minimizing its environmental impact.

Anglesey is anxious to get its hands on some gold, silver, or any other minerals, for that matter. Anglesey Mining owns zinc, copper, lead, gold, and silver properties at Parys Mountain, which is located north of the island of Anglesey in northern Wales. It also owns about half of publicly traded Labrador Iron Mines Ltd, which operates an iron mining project in Schefferville, Canada. Anglesey was created in 1984 to develop copper, zinc, and lead deposits at Parys Mountain, home to the largest known base metal deposits in the UK.

Steel Dynamics, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells steel products in the United States. It operates in three segments: Steel Operations, Metals Recycling and Ferrous Resources Operations, and Steel Fabrication Operations. The Steel Operations segment offers hot rolled, cold rolled, and coated steel products, including light gauge hot-rolled, galvanized, and painted products; structural steel beams and pilings; rail products; special bar quality and merchant bar quality rounds, and round-cornered squares; billets and merchant steel products, such as angles, plain rounds, flats, and channels; and specialty structural steel sections. This segment serves cold finishers, forgers, intermediate processors, original equipment manufacturers, steel service centers, distributors, and fabricators. The Steel Fabrication Operations segment engages in fabricating trusses, girders, steel joists, and steel decking used within the nonresidential construction industry. The Metals Recycling and Ferrous Resources Operations segment offers heavy melting steel, busheling, bundled scrap, shredded scrap, and other scrap metal products, such as steel turnings and cast iron used in foundry and steel mill applications. Steel Dynamics company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Canaf Group is a diversified mineral resource company with offices in Canada, United Kingdom and South Africa. Canaf Group was originally formed in 1996, with exploration assets in British Columbia and Uganda. Recently re-organized, Canaf Metals and Mining re-branded, befitting its new strategy as a resource company with a portfolio of diverse mineral assets and related businesses. This strategy will be substantiated through a series of acquisitions. Currently, the company is exploring a number of options with a focus on mineral assets and mining ventures within Africa.

Sage Gold, formerly Sahelian Goldfields, hopes to be wise in the ways of finding gold and other precious metals. The mining exploration and development company owns numerous properties in Ontario and Quebec, as well as in Nevada and Arizona. The company made a significant move into Nevada in 2004 when it acquired the Pony Spur and Dike mining properties (in the south end of the Carlin-Rain Trend, Nevada), as well as the Corridors and Sugarloaf properties (located in the Midas Trend, Nevada). By 2007 Sage Gold's major focus was on properties in the Beardmore-Geraldton gold camp in North Eastern Ontario. Two years later it bought Puma Minerals.

US Gold is a United States based company engaged in the exploration of gold primarily in Nevada and Mexico. US Gold Corporation common shares are listed on the NYSE Alternext (NYSE.A) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) under the symbol "UXG". US Gold Corporation has large land positions, good share liquidity and the potential upside of a junior exploration company. Rob McEwen is Chairman and CEO of US Gold. Since July 2005, when McEwen became the Company's largest shareholder, US Gold's land position within Nevada's Cortez Trend has grown from 36 to 170 square miles. Previously, McEwen was the founder and former Chairman and CEO of Goldcorp Inc., where its Red Lake Mine in northwestern Ontario, Canada is still considered to be the richest gold mine in the world.

Hydro Aluminum North America conducts its parent company's aluminum production throughout North America. The company divides its business into two units: Aluminum Products and Aluminum Metal. The former handles the company's extrusion operations, while the Aluminum Metal division produces aluminum billet. Its primary operations include aluminum extruded products, precision tubing, and products for the automotive industry. Norwegian metals giant Norsk Hydro is among the world's top five aluminum producers, and North America makes up a significant part of that business. The US is Norsk Hydro's largest market outside Europe, though it accounts for only about 10% of sales.

Polymetal is a leading precious metals mining company. Polymetal Company is the third global primary silver producer, the largest silver and fifth gold producer in Russia.In 2007 Polymetal held an initial public offering. 24.8% of Polymetal Company was placed in the form of GDRs on the London Stock Exchange and in ordinary shares on the RTS and MICEX exchanges. Polymetal owns gold and silver mines and carries out exploration activities in four regions of Russia (the Magadan Region, the Khabarovsk Territory, the Sverdlovsk Region and the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug) and in Kazakhstan.Its portfolio of projects contains 42 licenses covering a territory of over 8,500 sq. km.Polymetal’s most promising deposit is Albazino located in the Khabarovsk Territory, which contains JORC mineral resources estimated at approximately 3 Moz of gold. Polymetal Company plans to continue active exploration work at Albazino and expects that its resource base will grow to 5-6 Moz by the time the operation begins production. Construction of a processing plant at Albazino is scheduled to begin in 2009, and it should produce its first gold in 2011.In 2008, Polymetal acquired the Kubaka and Degtyarskoye gold deposits and the Goltsovoye silver deposit, in 2009, Sopka Kvartsevaya gold deposit in Magadan Region and Maiskoe gold deposit in Chukotka were acquired by the Company. These new deposits are expected to be brought on-line in 2010-2011. In 2009, Polymetal also acquired the Varvarinskoye gold-copper deposit in Kazakhstan.In 2009 gold production grew by 9%, to 311 Koz. Silver production grew by 1%, to 17.3 Moz.In 2010 Polymetal targets to produce 350-370 Koz of gold and 19-20 Moz of silver. These numbers do not include any production from Varvarinskoye mine in Kazakhstan.

True North Gems Inc.company is currently exploring and developing about a dozen properties, primarily Tsa da Glisza (emeralds) in the Yukon Territory, Beluga (sapphires) on Baffin Island, and Fiskenaesset (rubies) in Greenland. It also has rights to acquire interests in other emerald, sapphire, and ruby deposits in Canada. The company's one non-gemstone property is the Bandito nickel project in the Yukon. True North Gems was incorporated in 2001.

Rio Tinto is on the lookout for pay dirt. Rio Tinto Limited, one of the world's largest mining operations (along with BHP Billiton and Vale), is the Australian half of dual-listed sister companies, with Rio Tinto plc taking up residence in London. Although each company trades separately, the two Rio Tintos operate as one business. Rio Tinto mines iron, copper, uranium, industrial minerals (borax, salt, talc), gold, and diamonds. It also produces aluminum products through Rio Tinto Alcan. The company sells globally, but the majority of its operations are located in Australia and North America.

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