Exco Technologies manufactures die-casting and aluminum extrusion products and services for the automotive industry. The company's casting and extrusion technology unit manufactures die casting machines, high precision tooling for small die casting and plastic injection molding machines, and single cell die ovens. Its automotive solutions unit (through its Neocon, Polydesign, and Polytech divisions) makes such items as door pockets, restraint systems, and slide-out tables, primarily for passenger cars and light trucks. Exco operates 10 manufacturing facilities in Canada, Mexico, Morocco, and the US. It has engineering offices in France and the US, and a global sales network.

Gold Reserve Inc. has history in mining dating back to 1956 and was formed for the purpose of acquiring, exploring and developing mining properties and placing them into production. Consistent with that strategy, the Company in 1992 acquired and began developing what is now known as the Brisas gold and copper project, located in the historic Km 88 mining district of the State of Bolivar in southeastern Venezuela (the “Brisas Project”). The Brisas deposit, which is one of the largest undeveloped gold/copper deposits in the world, contains ore reserves of 10.2 million ounces of gold and 1.4 billion pounds of copper. From 1992 to 2009, the Company invested close to US $300 million on among other things acquisition, land exploration, development, equipment, and engineering costs, which the Company believed developed the Brisas Project into a world class mining project.

Prospecting in Africa is golden for Red Back Mining. The gold producer operates two gold mines in West Africa -- the Tasiast Gold Mine in Mauritania (100% owned) and the Chirano Gold Mine in Ghana (in which Red Back has a 90% interest, with the government of Ghana holding the rest). Red Back produces about 250,000 ounces annually and has around 3 million ounces of proved and probable reserves. Red Back Mining company also has exploration projects elsewhere in Ghana and Mauritania and holds a minority interest in West African assets held by the Australian Mineral Deposits Limited. Toronto-based Kinross Gold acquired Red Back in 2010 in a $7 billion stock deal.

Hillsborough Resources is in the rocky business of mining lumps of coal. The company mines coal through its principal property, the Quinsam mine on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The underground mine produces thermal coal (used mainly to produce steam for generating electricity) which is then transported from its Middle Point facility to industrial customers (primarily in the cement industry) located in Canada and the US. It has another thermal coal mine in Tennessee under development. Hillsborough Resources is also acquiring holdings in coking coal development projects in other areas of British Columbia. In 2009 a unit of Swiss trading entity Vitol Group acquired Hillsborough.

Service center operator Everglades Steel processes and distributes steel products such as angles, channels, flat bars and strips, pipe fittings, stainless steel, and tubing. It also offers aluminum and various alloy products; services include galvanizing and shearing and sawing. Everglades Steel serves customers in the bridge construction, cement, metal fabrication, mining, and sugar mill industries.

Olympic Steel, Inc. engages in the processing and distribution of processed carbon, coated, aluminum and stainless flat-rolled sheet, and coil and plate steel products in the United States. It offers various processing services, including cutting-to-length, slitting, and shearing; and higher value-added processes of blanking, tempering, plate burning, precision machining, welding, fabricating, and painting of steel parts. The company serves customers in carbon steel consuming industries, including manufacturers and fabricators of transportation and material handling equipment, construction and farm machinery, storage tanks, environmental and energy generation equipment, automobiles, food service and electrical equipment, and military vehicles and equipment, as well as general and plate fabricators, and steel service centers. Olympic Steel, Inc. was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Bedford Heights, Ohio.

Nippon Steel rates as Japan's heavy lifter. Nippon Steel Corporation company, the world's second-largest steelmaker after ArcelorMittal, manufactures pig iron and ingots, steel bars, plates, sheets, pipes, and tubes, as well as specialty, processed, and fabricated steel products. Nippon Steel's annual crude steel output is roughly 31 million tons. The company's operations include engineering, construction, chemicals, nonferrous metals, ceramics, electricity supply, information and communications, and urban development (theme parks and condominiums). Nippon Steel also provides energy, finance, and insurance services.

Burnstone Ventures Inc (formerly Pure Diamonds Exploration Inc.), has been actively involved in diamond exploration throughout Canada for over 12 years. As a pioneer in diamond exploration in Alberta to an early participant in the exploration for diamonds in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Burnstone Ventures (formerly Pure Diamonds) has directly been involved in the discovery of over 50 kimberlites, the majority diamondiferous. The Company intends to build upon this long and proud heritage through a series of Joint Ventures with De Beers, also a pioneer and dominant force in the diamond industry. As a result of the Company's ongoing efforts and recently expanded exploration portfolio it's shareholders can expect many more kimberlite discoveries with the goal of ultimately realizing mine development and diamond production.

Opawica Explorations Inc. (TSX.V: OPW) is a junior exploration company actively engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of mineral resource properties. In addition, the Company controls approximately 36% of Upper Canada Gold Corporation (TSX.V symbol "UCC") which is represented by 11,744,752 Upper Canada Gold shares owned by Opawica. The principal asset of UCC is the Dingman gold-aggregate deposit located in southeastern Ontario.The Company's current exploration and development efforts are concentrated on its 100% owned Atikwa Lake-Maybrun gold and copper project located about 120 kilometres southeast of Kenora, Ontario. The Company commissioned Golder Associates Ltd. (“Golder”) to prepare an NI 43-101 report on the Atikwa Lake property which included modeling of the mineralization associated with the resources at Atikwa Lake, as well as independent resource calculations. This initial report was completed in March 2009. On August 31, 2009, the Company filed a new NI 43-101 report by Robert Laakso, P.Eng, which included new resource estimates on the Atikwa Lake Project.The Atikwa Lake Project is a former 500 tpd producing gold and copper mine that has been on stand-by care and maintenance since 1973. Opawica is currently carrying out a Preliminary Scoping Study that initially will be limited to the existing historic Maybrun Mine footprint and infrastructure.The study will determine if preliminary economic considerations may be applied to at least 1,800,000 tonnes of higher grade open-pit resources that are within the larger overall Maybrun Main Indicated Resource. This preliminary study will use a production rate of up to 500 tpd for a minimum 10 year period.

Medoro Resources Ltd. is a gold exploration, development and mining company with a primary emphasis on Colombia. Medoro owns most of the prolific Marmato gold district and the producing Mineros Nacionales underground gold mine located in Zona Baja at Marmato. The Company is conducting an exploration and infill drilling program at its Marmato Project to expand and upgrade its already substantial gold resources there as the basis for its plan to develop a large open pit gold mine to realize the large potential of the Marmato Project. The Company’s Marmato Project currently hosts measured and indicated gold resources of approximately 7.5 million ounces, and an inferred resource of approximately 2.2 million ounces.In March 2010, Medoro signed a binding agreement to acquire all of the assets of Frontino Gold Mines Limited. Frontino and Marmato are considered to be the two most historically important gold producing districts in Colombia. Frontino has been in production for approximately 155 years, during which time it has produced over 4.5 million ounces of gold. In June 2010, the Company announced that its preliminary due diligence investigations in respect of the asset purchase agreement to acquire the assets of Frontino Gold Mines Ltd. had been positive and that the Company’s Board of Directors had resolved to proceed with the acquisition. The Company also announced that it had amended its agreement with Gran Colombia Gold S.A., its joint venture partner in respect of the proposed Frontino asset acquisition, whereby Medoro will retain a 5% carried interest in Frontino Gold Mines Ltd. (when acquired by Gran Colombia) and a right for one year from the closing of the acquisition to increase its interest in Frontino to 50%. This acquisition is scheduled to close two weeks from the end of July 2010, subject to certain conditions, including legal and technical due diligence and requisite regulatory approvals.

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