Resource Finance & Investment Ltd. (RFI) is engaged in the business of acquiring, exploring and developing natural resource properties. RFI primarily invests in controlled natural resource exploration entities that have the potential to add significant value with the expenditure of early to mid stage capital. The company's focus is on industrial or value-added specialty minerals and selective base metal projects. Resource Finance & Investment Ltd.Company is domiciled in Bermuda. The Company's registered office is in Hamilton Bermuda with administration offices located in Geneva Switzerland and Portland, Oregon. RFI has substantial ownership interests in two entities, one of which is Industrial Minerals Corporation Ltd quoted on the Australian Securities Exchange (IDM.ASX) and a 100% ownership of Dynamex Corporation Inc.

Topy Industries rolls along as one of Japan's largest manufacturers of steel and aluminum wheels. It also makes parts used in the undercarriages of bulldozers and other construction equipment. Topy's steel products unit makes rolled and milled steel in angles, flat and bar form; downstream products include industrial fasteners. Other operations include bridge and other steel structure construction, financial services, logistics, real-estate leasing, recreation and sports-facilities management, and electric power generation (though subsidiary Akemi Electric Power). Originally formed in 1921, the company has production facilities in throughout Asia as well as in Europe and the US.

Silverado Gold Mines Ltd is a publicly traded, international company focused on gold exploration. It has committed nearly four decades of work toward the exploration, development, and test mining of gold properties throughout North America. In the mid-1980’s, Silverado Gold Mines company decided to focus all its efforts in Alaska. Since then it has sold more than US$20 Million of gold and silver bars and gold nuggets derived from test mining on its property holdings.Though Silverado Gold Mines Company has gold properties located throughout Alaska, the property commanding 100 percent of its present time and attention is the Nolan Creek property.

Kinross Gold Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the gold mining and related activities. Kinross Gold Corporation also involves in the exploration and acquisition of gold-bearing properties, the extraction and processing of gold-containing ores, and reclamation of gold mining properties. Its gold production and exploration activities are carried out principally in the United States, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and the Russian Federation. As of December 31, 2009, its proven and probable mineral reserves were 51.0 million ounces of gold, 102.9 million ounces of silver, and 2.9 billion pounds of copper.

Strateco Resources is hoping its strategy will help it find uranium ore in the Great White North. Strateco Resources company is exploring for uranium at seven properties in northern Quebec. (Canada is the world's top producer of uranium.) Strateco Resources' most promising site, Matoush, has indicated resources of almost 4,000 pounds and inferred (total possible) resources of 13,000 lbs. One other site, Quenonisca, is being explored for zinc, lead, silver, and copper. Quenonisca is a joint venture with the Quebecois government-owned SOQUEM. None of Strateco Resources' properties are in production.

The Essar Group is as strong as steel, as slick as oil, and on the go over sea and the airwaves. One of the largest corporations in India, the conglomerate's holdings include the country's first independent power plant and its first private steel plant. Other operations include construction, oil and gas production, and telecommunications. Controlled by the Ruia family, which has been in business since the 1800s, the Essar Group was founded by Nand Kishore Ruia and passed to his sons Shashi and Ravi after his death in 1969. Essar Group company is the Indian ownership interest in Vodafone Essar (formerly Hutchison Essar), a wireless joint venture with UK wireless company Vodafone.

Firestone Diamonds plc is an international diamond mining and exploration company with operations in Botswana and South Africa, which are the world's largest and fourth largest producers of diamonds, respectively, and the lowest cost producers among major diamond producing countries.Firestone has extensive interests in Botswana, which produces over 34 million carats per annum, worth over $3.5 billion. Botswana is considered to be one of the top countries in the world to explore for kimberlite - the primary source rock for diamonds.Firestone is the largest holder of exploration rights around the Orapa Mine, including the BK11 and BK16 evaluation projects, and around the Jwaneng mine. The company also holds exploration rights over the entire Tsabong kimberlite field in south-west Botswana, which is one of the largest diamondiferous kimberlite fields in the world and is viewed as the leading project for the Company. Exploration carried out to date has identified 81 kimberlites, of which 17 have been proven to be diamondiferous. Tsabong is noted for the exceptionally large size of many of its kimberlites, in particular the 180 hectare MK1 kimberlite, which is one of the largest known diamondiferous kimberlites.Firestone has a highly qualified management team with extensive experience in the exploration, evaluation and development of diamond projects. Firestone is quoted on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange and trades under the symbol FDI.L.

Gold Summit is actively looking at existing small discoveries in addition to adding shareholder value through exploration, prior to pre-development. The company’s preferred targets are high grade gold/silver deposits that would eventually be mined by underground methods. To maximize chances of exploration success, acquisition of whole districts with multiple targets is preferred. Within those districts, high quality geological mapping, rock and soil sampling as well as evaluation of work by previous explorers define drilling targets. Careful selection of these for testing is the key to success.Gold Summit explores in several favorable gold geological environments in the United States. The company’s main emphasis is Nevada, the third largest gold producing area in the world. It is a mining friendly state with a manageable regulatory framework, excellent infrastructure and year round access. Gold Summit’s geologists have worked there for the past 30 years.

Avocet is a gold mining company that was originally admitted to the Official List of the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and moved its listing to the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) - part of the London Stock Exchange, in July 2002. Following the takeover of Oslo-listed Wega Mining ASA in June 2009, a significant proportion of the Company’s shareholders are now based in Scandinavia. As a result, the Company has now listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange (ticker: AVM), and began trading in June 2010. Avocet is committed to becoming a leading gold mining and exploration company. The Company aims to be at least a 300,000 ounce per annum gold producer, with a portfolio of operations, which include long life mines and a broadly sustainable reserve base, all underpinned by a strong financial base and world class practices with regard to health and safety, people, community, the environment and operational performance criteria.In late June 2009, Avocet completed the acquisition of Wega Mining ASA - an Oslo-listed gold development and exploration company. The acquisition of Wega brings Avocet majority ownership of the Inata gold project in northern Burkina Faso, West Africa. As of April 2010 commenced commercial production, at an annualised rate of over 120,000 ounces per annum, following first gold pour on 20 December 2009. In the Wega-takeover, Avocet also acquired over 20 exploration licences in Burkina Faso, Guinea and Mali, including the Tri-K gold exploration project in Guinea, which has a NI 43-101 compliant gold Indicated Mineral Resource of 666,500 ounces. Avocet believes local knowledge and experience, technical expertise, well established relationships with the respective governments and local communities, combined with a pro-active approach to environmental issues, are vital to ongoing success.

ATAC Resources Ltd. (ATC:TSX-V) is a closely held junior exploration company aggressively exploring for gold in Yukon, Northwest Territories and British Columbia. The Company's corporate philosophy is to maximize shareholder value by identifying and acquiring grassroots and early-stage gold prospects. The company's management team and board of directors include geologists and engineers with over 160 years of collective exploration experience in western Canada. Archer, Cathro & Associates (1981) Limited is ATAC's exploration consultant. Over the past 40 years, Archer Cathro has earned a reputation as one of the most highly regarded exploration organizations in western Canada. ATAC has full access to the Archer Cathro exploration database, which when married with the experience of its management team, will facilitate the development of a portfolio of gold projects that are attractive for option or joint venture by junior and senior mining and development companies. In this manner, the Company can take advantage of leveraging third party exploration expenditures to the full benefit of the Company's shareholders.

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