Horsehead Holding Corp., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the production and sale of zinc and zinc-based products in North America. The company's products include PW zinc metal, which is used to provide a protective coating to various fabricated products, including pipe and guard rails, heat exchangers, and telecommunications towers, as well as for the production of brass; and SSHG zinc metal that is used as feed for the manufacture of high-purity zinc powder and zinc alloys. It also offers zinc oxide for the production of tire and rubber products, chemicals, ceramics, plastics, paints, lubricating oils, and pharmaceuticals. In addition, the company recycles electric arc furnace dust, a hazardous waste generated by steel mini-mills. Further, it provides special zinc powders, which are used in general chemical and metallurgical applications, as well as in friction applications, such as brake linings for automobiles; battery grade zinc powders that are used in alkaline, mercuric oxide, silver oxide, and zinc-air batteries; and copper-based powders, including brass, bronze, and nickel-silver powders, which are used in various applications comprising brazing, infiltrating, and powdered metallurgical hardware, such as lock bodies, valves, and gears. Additionally, the company offers short-line railroad service for the movement of materials. It primarily serves galvanizers and brass producers; alkaline battery industries; and manufacturers of tire and rubber products, lubricating oils, chemicals, paints, ceramics, plastics, and pharmaceuticals. The company was incorporated in 2003 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Rubicon Minerals Corporation is a well-funded, leading gold exploration company deriving its strength from a hands-on management team with a track record of discovery. Rubicon's focus is in highly prospective gold producing areas of North America. It owns over 65,000 acres of prime exploration ground in the prolific Red Lake gold camp of Ontario, Canada, which hosts Goldcorp's high-grade, world class Red Lake Mine. At its flagship property, the 100%-controlled Phoenix Gold Project, located in the heart of this producing camp, Rubicon has made a significant high-grade discovery which is aggressively being advanced with an 240,000 meter drill program. Through a transaction completed in May, 2007 with former Goldcorp Inc. Chairman and CEO, Rob McEwen, Rubicon acquired 380,800 acres of prospective exploration ground in Alaska in the area of the 5.6 million ounce Pogo deposit, as well as a 225,000 acre land package in northeast Nevada.

Reading Alloys Inc has earned a global reputation for its leadership in design, development and production of master alloys and specialty powder products. For nearly half a century, the Company's innovation and technology have advanced the boundaries of alloy metallurgy. Reading Alloys is known as technically advanced, low-cost producers offering sophisticated manufacturing, MIS and process control systems that assure high quality products. Reading Alloys produces the industry's most extensive line of ferrous and non-ferrous master alloys and specifically engineered alloys. More than 50 standard alloy formulations in a wide range of sizes from chunks to metal powders are produced. In addition, hundreds of alloy formulations are tailored to individual customer requirements.

ATH Resources is an AIM-listed operator of surface coal mines and has mines in production in East Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway and Fife. The Company is one of the largest producers of coal in the UK producing 2 million tonnes per annum. Coal was used to generate 36 per cent of the UKs electricity in 2008 and the Company holds coal supply contracts with three of the UK's main electricity generating companies. The Group commenced operations in 1998 when it acquired the rights to operate (and subsequently acquire) the Skares Road mine. The Garleffan mine was acquired in November 2003 and ATH Resources became a public company in June 2004 when it listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM). In June 2005 the Group funded two new surface sites, Grievehill and Glenmuckloch in Scotland for 18 million by way of an Open Offer to shareholders. The acquisition increased the Group's coal reserve base by 160% and provided greater diversity to the business. In May 2006 the Group acquired Doncaster-based A Ogden & Sons Limited a successful coal recovery, land remediation and regeneration business with a particular focus on colliery spoil heap reclamation projects. In July 2010, the Group sold the assets of ATH Regeneration Ltd, the proceeds of which could total some £17m over a seven year period comprising £6.5m in cash on completion plus royalties. The assets were sold to RecyCoal Ltd, a newly formed company that is funded by a substantial investment fund and its partners and has amongst its shareholders Tom Allchurch and Steven Beaumont, who at that time were the Group's Chief Executive and Finance Director respectively. In October 2006, following a successful planning application the Group commenced work on its new Laigh Glenmuir surface mine in East Ayrshire and obtained further consent to extract 800kt from an extension into Duncanziemere land in June 2010. Planning permission was also granted to extract up to 4 million tonnes of coal from the company's Netherton site near Cumnock, East Ayrshire in June 2010. This site is located close to the company's Skares Mine and work is due to start in the Autumn and will ultimately employ up to 110 personnel directly. In addition to its operating mines, the Group also has a number of other coal mining projects in Scotland and two through its French subsidiary, SRMMC including a series of six existing coal concessions in south-central France, covering an area of 36km, 2 with an estimated resource of approximately 4.5 million tonnes of recoverable coal.

Gem Diamonds is a global diamond company that has been pursuing a long term growth strategy through targeted acquisitions and the development of existing assets. Under current market conditions, the Group is focused on the development of its cash generative assets and has curtailed all non-essential capital and development expenditure.The Group’s portfolio comprises producing kimberlite and lamproite mines, development projects and exploration assets, as well as diamond beneficiation capabilities. Operations and projects are situated in Angola, Australia, Botswana, the Central African Republic, Dubai, Lesotho, Mauritius and Indonesia.With Letšeng’s production of the world’s most remarkable white diamonds and Ellendale’s production of rare fancy yellow diamonds, Gem Diamonds is focused towards higher value diamonds. This segment of the market is expected to deliver attractive long term returns.Gem Diamonds’ strategic intent remains to be one of the world’s leading diamond companies with a specific focus towards higher value gem quality diamonds. Principally through Letšeng and Ellendale, the Group has moved a long way to implementing that strategy in the rough diamond market.Over the medium to long term, this strategy will be pursued in the polished diamond market with the development of the Group’s cutting and polishing business to beneficiate only high end quality diamonds.Due to the market conditions at the end of 2008, the Group decided in early 2009 to delay the roll out of these cutting and polishing facilities. However, the Group may further develop these facilities in the future as and when market conditions allow.

Columbia Falls Aluminum's smelting operations produces about 170,000 tons of aluminum annually. Its ingot, sheet, and bar products are sold to aluminum rolling mills and extrusion plants; its customers are located primarily in the US. Swiss natural resources conglomerate Glencore has owned Columbia Falls Aluminum since 1999. Among Glencore's other aluminum operations are Sherwin Alumina and Century Aluminum Company.

Galantas Gold Corporation is a Canadian public company that trades on the TSX-Venture Exchange and the London Stock Exchange AIM market, both under the symbol GAL. The Company's mission is to create shareholder value by bringing Ireland's first gold mine into production and add value to the production by utilizing the rare Irish gold to fashion an exclusive line of high quality 18-carat gold jewellery.Galantas Gold Corporation's assets include a 100 percent interest in the Irish subsidiary Omagh Minerals Limited, which has sole rights to a 653 square-kilometre prospecting license and associated mining leases in County Tyrone, Ireland. The Company also owns 100 percent interest of Galantas Irish Gold Ltd., a jewellery design, manufacturing and marketing business that will utilize part of the gold produced from the Omagh Mine.The management of Galantas Gold Corporation is comprised of seasoned mineral exploration, mining, jewelry and marketing professionals---all sharing a vision of bringing Ireland's first gold mine into production and adding value by creating an exclusive line of certified, 18-carat Irish Gold jewellery.

Zinc is so indispensable in our daily lives that it is used in many ways - from razors, blinds, computers, and cellular phones to vehicles, construction materials, and satellites.Korea Zinc was founded in 1974 and has made its presence as the world manufacturer of non-ferrous metals. Korea Zinc and its overseas subsidiaries are together producing 8% of the global zinc production. In particular, we have consistently improved product quality and technologies in order to take the upper hand in the global market where fierce competition is unavoidable.Separately, Korea Zinc has developed environmentally-friendly technologies. For instance, TSL technology, which is one of the most competitive technologies that the company owns, is the most environmentally friendly and sets a good model of what a future plant ought to be. In addition, the technology was certified as 'KT mark' and 'ET mark' by Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Environment, respectively, for its contribution to productivity and environment.Korea Zinc is making a lot of efforts to enhance its corporate image as a transparent and trustworthy company with accurate accounting and timely information release. By doing so, we will continue to keep our promise with customers and live up to social responsibility.

Cypress Development Corp. is a Canadian gold, silver and base metals exploration company developing projects in Red Lake, Ontario, Canada, and in Nevada, U.S.A. Cypress holds a 100% interest in the approximately 1140 acre Gunman Zinc- Silver Project located in White Pine County, northeast of Eureka, Nevada. Three RC drill programs totaling approx. 38,000 feet have been completed by Cypress on the Gunman project with significant grades between 5% to 33% per ton zinc and 0.5 to 15.0 oz per ton silver over considerable widths encountered. Zinc could represent the next big base metal play due to ongoing demand growth and the closures of 3 major mines in Canada, Australia and Ireland and not enough supply coming on stream from new projects. Sentiment could shift towards zinc, with prices potentially rallying in anticipation of tightening supplies. Cypress holds a 100% interest in The McKenzie Island property located west and adjacent toGoldcorp's Cochenour / Bruce Channel Deposit . The project is also on strike with the currently producing Goldcorp (TSX: G) Red Lake and Campbell gold mines 7 kilometres to the east.

Mediterranean Resources Ltd (TSX -- MNR) is developing four projects located along the 12 kilometre Yusufeli Property in northeastern Turkey. Current NI 43-101 compliant resource estimates for the Tac and Corak projects, 8 km apart, total 1.58 million ounces gold Indicated and 0.29 million ounces Inferred. These estimates, completed in April 2009 by SRK Consulting are constrained within Whittle pit shells, providing a materially enhanced level of confidence in the economic potential of the Yusufeli Property. The new resource estimates demonstrate that both Corak and Tac are amenable to open-pit mining with a reasonable assumption of economic viability.To date, less than 20% of the 100 square kilometre Yusufeli Property has received drill exploration, and several targets remain to be addressed. In December 2008 MNR announced initial drilling results from the Celtik project area, located at the eastern end of the Yusufeli Trend. Assays from three holes confirmed a significant new discovery at Celtik, with multiple intercepts from surface to 314 metres. An intercept of 18.4 metres assayed 6.51 g/t gold and 0.9% copper.MNR acquired the Corak and Tac properties from Teck in 2005, and currently controls these core areas under a mining license. Acquisition of contiguous areas has been conducted by obtaining new exploration licenses. The properties are well serviced by roads, water and access to power, providing for highly cost-effective exploration. To date, exploration costs have averaged less than $8 per ounce. As well, Turkey's modernized mining code and permitting process provide attractive incentives to exploration ventures, including rebates on expenditures.MNR's plans for 2009 include 6,000 metres of diamond core drilling to an average depth of 300 metres at Corak and Tac to upgrade and expand resources within the new pit shell modeling, and a drill program to follow up on the significant new discovery at Celtik.

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