Baosteel Group Corporation (hereinafter as Baosteel) is the most competitive steel complex in China at present. In 2008, Baosteel registered a sales revenue of RMB 246.839 billion yuan, a total profit of RMB 23.813 billion yuan, a total assets of RMB 352.497 billion yuan and a net assets of RMB 219.435 billion yuan; the total employees of Baosteel are 108914 people; Baosteel has been enrolled in Global 500 for 6 years consecutively and ranked 220th this year.On December 23, 1978, the construction of Baosteel started in Shanghai. In November 1998, Baosteel, Shanghai Metallurgical Holding Group and Meishan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. consolidated. In 2006 Baosteel restructured Xinjiang Bayi Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. In 2008 Baosteel restructured Guangzhou Iron & Steel Enterprises Group and Shaoguan Iron & Steel Group to set up Guangdong Iron & Steel Group Corporation to eliminate the outdated capacity and prepare the construction of Zhanjiang Iron & Steel Manufacture Base.In recent years, centering on iron & steel supply chain, technological chain and resource utilization chain, Baosteel increased the consolidation of internal and external resources to enhance competitiveness and raise industrial status, as a result of which the business structure including main steel business and relatively diversified sectors has preliminarily taken shape.The main steel business of Baosteel focuses on the production of hi-tech and high value-added premium steel, with an annual production capacity around 30 million tons. Baosteel's products sell well at home and abroad. Its steel industry covers three major categories: carbon steel, stainless steel and specially-alloyed steel, which are widely applied in the sectors of automobile, home appliance, petrochemical, machinery manufacture, energy & transportation, building & decoration, metal products, aviation and aerospace, nuclear power and electronic instruments, etc. While maintaining its dominance in domestic flat product market, Baosteel's products are also exported to over 40 countries and regions including Japan, South Korea, Europe and America.Baosteel underlines environmental protection, implements clean production, develops circular economy and pursues sustainable development. It is the first enterprise to pass ISO-14001 environmental certification in Chinese metallurgical sector and also the first enterprise to get the title of "National environment-friendly enterprise" in Chinese metallurgical sector and Shanghai Municipality.

AmerAlia, Inc. develops and manages natural sodium bicarbonate resources. AmerAlia, Inc. company, through its interest in Natural Soda Holdings, Inc., produces sodium bicarbonate from its Bureau of Land Management leases in northwest Colorado. It also owns a reservoir and water rights in the Colorado River drainage system. AmerAlia, Inc. company sells its products to the animal feed, human food, pharmaceutical, personal products, and industrial markets. AmerAlia, Inc. markets its products through distributors in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. It was formerly known as Computer Learning Software, Inc. and changed its name to AmerAlia, Inc. in January 1984. AmerAlia, Inc. company was founded in 1982 and is based in Rifle, Colorado.

Western Coal currently produces metallurgical coal (coking and low-vol PCI coals) from mines located in the northeast of British Columbia, both metallurgical and thermal coals from mines in West Virginia, and anthracite coal from a mine in South Wales (UK).The coal properties in British Columbia have over 127 million tonnes of reserves and over 230 million tonnes of resources. The coal properties in West Virginia have over 47 million tons (short) of reserves and 92 million tons (short) of resources.

Sabel Steel processes and distributes steel products through six service centers in Alabama, Georgia, and Lousiana. The company's facilities handle products such as angles, bars, channels, pipe, plate, sheet, structural beams, and tubing. Other Sabel Steel units recycle scrap metal and fabricate reinforcing bar (rebar). The company's Sabel Wholesale Center distributes hardware and plumbing supplies. Sabel Steel, which is owned by the Sabel family, was founded in 1856.

SLAM Exploration Ltd. is a mineral resource company based in Miramichi, New Brunswick and is focused on mineral properties with demonstrated ore grades in mineral belts that have proven potential for mining. SLAM Exploration Ltd. Company has well developed expertise for gold and base metal exploration and has an extensive digital database on the Bathurst Mining Camp. This combination has proven effective and allows SLAM to advance its known deposits and at the same time come up with new discoveries with huge blue-sky potential. SLAM Exploration Ltd. Company has an active portfolio of gold properties in Ontario and silver-copper-lead-zinc properties in New Brunswick.SLAM Exploration Ltd. Company recently announced drilling results from its Silverjack silver-copper-lead-zinc property located adjacent to the Nash Creek property and 12 km from the Belledune smelter and seaport in the Bathurst mining area of New Brunswick. From its initial 20-hole program, the Company reported grades ranging up to 653 g/t silver (19.05 oz/ton), 2.69% copper, 14.60% zinc and 12.8% lead.SLAM's wholly owned Nash Creek zinc-lead deposit contains a 43-101 compliant resource estimate published in February 2009 by Wardrop Engineering Inc. SLAM also owns the Costigan, Nepisiguit and Nash Creek zinc-lead-silver deposits in the Bathurst mining area.SLAM recently completed a 2000m drilling program to follow up significant gold intercepts reported from its 2008 drilling programs in the gold producing Uchi Sub-province of northwest Ontario and is eagerly awaiting assay results on several geologically promising holes, 4 of which had reported visible gold!SLAM Exploration Ltd. Company is seeking partners with both technical expertise and financial resources to continue with its strategies for project development. SLAM's long-term success depends on making discoveries, and the development of deposits into mines. While the company's current portfolio has excellent potential, SLAM continually searches for new properties and potential acquisitions. SLAM's future may rest on the ability of management to select promising properties and to finance exploration on these properties.

Shagang Group is a key enterprise group in Jiangsu Province, a superking-sized National Industrial Enterprise, the Largest Private Steel Enterprise in China, and is headquartered in Zhangjiagang City, Jiangsu Province.Shagang Group currently possesses total assets of RMB132 billion and more than 35,000 employees. Its annual production capacity is 29 million tons of iron, 35 million tons of steel and 33 million tons of rolled products. Shagang has been awarded the honors of the titles such as “Nationwide Customer Satisfaction Enterprise”, “Grade AAA Enterprise for Quality, Service and Reputation”, “China’s Enterprise Brand of Quality and Sincerity”, “ National Innovation-oriented Enterprise”, “Model Unit for Environmental Protection in China”, “New High-Tech Enterprise of Jiangsu Province”, “Circular Economy Construction Model Unit of Jiangsu Province”, and so on.Its leading products of wide heavy plate, hot rolled strip coil, hot and cold rolled stainless steel sheet, high speed wire rod, large bundle of wire rod, ribbed steel bar, special steel round bar have formed 60 series and more than 700 varieties with nearly 2000 specifications, among which high speed wire rod and ribbed steel bar products etc. have been awarded the titles of “Gold Cup Award of Internationally Advanced Physical Product Quality”, “National Customers’ Satisfactory Products” and so on. Ribbed steel bar product has obtained certification of CARES; high quality wire rod won “Chinese Famous Brand” products and “Inspection-free Export” commodity and other titles. The total annual production volumes and exportation of prime wire rods have both ranked the first in China for consecutive years; hot rolled strip coil has passed the CE Certification by the European Union; shipbuilding steel plate has passed through the classification society authentication of 9 countries. The trademark “Shagang” has won “the Well-known Trademark of China”. In 2009, Shagang Group was the 35th on the list of the Top 500 Chinese enterprises; the 11th in the Top 500 China Manufacturing Enterprises, ranked the first in National Private Enterprises and became the unique private enterprise from Mainland China entered into the Fortune Top 500 of the World.In 2009, Shagang Group took full use of its comprehensive advantages of its process equipment, product mix/structure, company branding strategy, modern logistics etc. to optimize its product structure, promote its technological innovation, pay close attention to reducing cost and improving efficiency, innovate its marketing mechanism, expand the markets with its great efforts, actively respond to the challenges and tests, so that the Company’s production operation has remained a good momentum of development. For the Year 2009, Shagang Group has fulfilled producing 22.14 million tons iron, 26.39 million tons of steel (which ranked the 7th in the world’s steel counterparts; the 5th in China’s steel counterparts), 23.28 million tons of rolled products, and RMB146.3 billion of sales income, RMB7.3 billion of profit and tax.Shagang Group will conscientiously implement the State policy concerning the steel industry development. With the guidance of Scientific Outlook on Development, Shagang would pursue the sustainable development strategy, take a new road to industrialization, speed up transformation and upgrading, vigorously promote the readjustment of product structure, further extend its industrial chain, pay an adequate attention to supporting enterprises, build modern logistics, implement capital operation, constantly improve its overall competitiveness in order to further make Shagang perfect, strong and excellent and try our best to build Shagang as a famous brand of “Hundred-year Old Factory”. Also Shagang people will make new contributions to building harmonious Jiangsu and making China become a powerful steel country.

AngloGold Ashanti’s primary stock exchange listing is on the JSE in South Africa. AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. ordinary shares are also listed on exchanges in London, Paris and Ghana, as well as being quoted in Brussels, in the form of International Depositary Receipts (IDRs), in New York in the form of American Depositary Shares (ADSs), in Australia in the form of CHESS (Clearing House Electronic Sub-register System) Depositary Interests (CDIs) and in Ghana, in the form of Ghanaian Depository Shares (GhDSs). Each IDR and ADS represent one ordinary share, each CDI represents one-fifth of an ordinary share and 100 GhDSs represent one ordinary share. As at 31 December 2009, AngloGold Ashanti had 362,240,669 ordinary shares in issue and a market capitalisation of $14.6bn (31 December 2008: $9.8bn). the company had proved and probable ore reserves of 74.9 million ounces of gold. AngloGold Ashanti also offers various by-products recovered as a result of the processing of gold ores, which include uranium, copper, sulphur, and silver. It has a strategic alliance with Thani Dubai Mining Limited to explore, develop, and operate mines in the Middle East and parts of north Africa.the company had proved and probable ore reserves of 74.9 million ounces of gold. AngloGold Ashanti also offers various by-products recovered as a result of the processing of gold ores, which include uranium, copper, sulphur, and silver. It has a strategic alliance with Thani Dubai Mining Limited to explore, develop, and operate mines in the Middle East and parts of north Africa.

Anglo Pacific Group PLC is a global natural resources royalties company. The strategy of the Group is to expand its mineral royalty interests in low-cost, long-life mining assets. The Group achieves this through both direct acquisition and investment in projects at the development and production stage. It is a continuing policy of the Group to pay a substantial proportion of these royalties to shareholders as dividends. The Group is focused on projects in areas with low political risk that have defined resources and near-term production. The Group has both corporate finance and real-world mining experience and takes an active approach to each project to achieve better returns at reduced risk.

Volta Resources Inc. (TSX: VTR) is the result of a merger of two experienced West African explorers, Birim Goldfields Inc. and Goldcrest Resources Ltd. Volta Resources company is geared to leverage off its accumulated experience to become a leader in identification, acquisition and exploration of gold-rich properties in West Africa. Volta Resources already has an enviable portfolio of 26 properties in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Mali; all three being mining-friendly countries that have proven world-class gold deposits.Volta Resources company is currently focussed on completing a NI 43-101 compliant resource at its Kiaka Gold Project in order to fast-track the project toward commencing a pre-feasibilty study in H2 2010. At its Gaoua Copper-Gold Project, Volta has defined a maiden NI43-101 compliant resource which includes over 1 million ounces of gold and 720 million pounds of copper on two of potentially several porphyry deposits located on 35km of strike of a porphyry corridor held by the company.Volta Resources has the financial strength and flexibility to take advantage of consolidation and acquisition opportunities in West Africa. It has an exceptional team of dedicated professionals operating in the field as well as a highly experienced and respected Management and Board of Directors at the corporate level. Volta Resources Inc. is Canadian-based with its head office in Toronto, Ontario and its operations offices in Accra, Ghana and in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Volta Resources Company trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol VTR.

China Oriental produces steel billet and strips for Chinese steel manufacturers, who then process the billet and strips into downstream products such as angles, rebar, wire rods, and pipe. China Oriental's production facilities are located in Hebei Province, the country's largest iron ore producing region. Its steel production facilities consist of an iron smelter and steel making and rolling plants. The company's annual production capacity exceeds 7 million tons, making China Oriental one of the largest suppliers in China. The company's founders own 43% of China Oriental; ArcelorMittal also owns 30% after a series of transactions in 2007 and 2008. The two companies also have a technology-sharing agreement.

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