Stillwater Mining Company is engaged in the development, extraction, processing, smelting, refining, and marketing of palladium, platinum and associated metals from a geological formation in southern Montana known as the J-M Reef. This is the only know significant source of platinum group metals in the United States and one of the significant resources outside Russia and South Africa. Stillwater Mining Company’s corporate office is located in Columbus, Montana.Stillwater Mining Company conducts mining operations at the Stillwater Mine near Nye, Montana and the East Boulder Mine South of McLeod, Montana. Both mines are located on the J-M Reef. Concentrating plants are operated at both mines to upgrade ore to a concentrate. The company also operates a smelter, refinery and laboratory at Columbus, Montana to further upgrade the concentrate to a platinum group metal rich filter cake. Spent catalyst material is also recycled at the smelter and refinery to recover platinum group metals. Platinum group metals are rare precious metals that are used in diverse applications for auto catalysts, fuel cells, hydrogen purification, electronics, jewelry, dentistry, medicine, water treatment, coinage and other uses.

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.

Minco Gold Corporation is a pioneer among western mining companies in China. Minco Gold Corporation has engaged a dynamic, proven management team and has cultivated strong relationships with key Chinese mining organizations. Minco has acquired an impressive asset portfolio and works directly with strategically select joint venture partners whose expertise adds significant value to Minco's operations. We have established joint ventures in the provinces of Hunan, Guangdong and Inner Mongolia. Minco Mining (China) Corporation, incorporated in China for the purposes of managing the Company's projects in China, enhancing the Company's management team in China, and expanding upon certain mining activities (such as staking) in China.

Lakeside is a diversified steel pipe and tubing manufacturer. Lakeside’s list of customers includes large oil and gas, mining, automotive and commercial and industrial supply companies. In addition to supplying its products in these industries, Lakeside manufactures pipe and mechanical tubing for the resale market, which is sold to distributors in Eastern Canada and the Northeastern United States. Lakeside manufactures a variety of products for these industries including oil well tubing and casing, mechanical tubing, pressure tubing, automotive tubing, hollows for redraw, line pipe, heating and plumbing pipe, drill rod and specialty tubing. Lakeside serves customers worldwide supplying products, either directly or indirectly, in Canada, China, Australia and the United States.Located in Welland, Ontario, Lakeside is well positioned to serve the domestic as well as international markets. Its close proximity to the United States border allows direct shipping access to the United States and has access to inland waterways which could accommodate shipping through major ports in Canada and the United States for service to international markets in the future.

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.

Searchgold is dedicated to creating wealth by discovering and mining the earth's resources in an efficient and environmentally responsible manner. Searchgold's entire management team and board have significant experience with gold and diamond exploration and production. Most analysts predict a long period of rising and higher gold and diamond prices, due to the weakening US dollar, global economic and political uncertainty, shortages of supply, and increasing demand for gold and diamonds.

Shore Gold Inc. is a Canadian-based mineral exploration and development company with its head office in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The Company's mineral property portfolio consists of diamond properties, the most advanced being the Star Kimberlite deposit ("Star") and the Fort à la Corne Joint Venture ("FALC-JV").Shore Gold Inc. Company continues to focus the majority of its financial and technical resources on Star and the FALC-JV. The Star Kimberlite is 100 percent held by Shore. Shore holds a 63 percent ownership position in the FALC-JV and Newmont Mining Corporation of Canada Limited holds 37 percent. Both properties are situated in a burned portion of the Fort à la Corne forest, approximately 60 kilometres east of the city of Prince Albert.Shore Gold Inc. Company holds a 28.5 percent interest in the Buffalo Hills Project in Alberta.The common shares of Shore trade on the TSX under the trading symbol "SGF".

Aleris International wants you to use that blue plastic recycling bin so that it can turn its world green. The company's rolled and extruded products unit makes alloy aluminum sheet from recycled metal, as well as extruded profiles for the construction and engineering markets. Aleris' recycling unit processes recycled aluminum and metal alloys. It operates more than 40 facilities in China, the Americas, and throughout Europe. Aleris emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2010 as a privately held company. The company, now owned by funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, closed on a $609 million rights offering as part of its reorganization.

Cambridge-Lee Industries entered the copper tube industry in 1955 as a small distributor serving the U.S. plumbing market. Over the years, the company has evolved into one of the world's largest distributors of copper with sales offices in every corner of the globe. During 1993, Industrias Unidas S.A. de C.V. (IUSA), one of Mexico's largest conglomerates, acquired Cambridge-Lee. IUSA has a modern, state-of-art copper refinery and tube mill in Pasteje Mexico. In 1996, Cambridge-Lee purchased Reading Tube Corporation, a major U.S. producer of copper tube. As a result of the merger and acquisition, Cambridge-Lee has become one of the world's leaders in the manufacture and distribution of copper tube for water supply, air conditioning, refrigeration and a variety of commercial applications.Cambridge-Lee has grown to be a world leader because we understand that customer satisfaction requires not only quality products but also a high level of service. Our employees take pride in ensuring we meet our customer needs and requirements: from on-time deliveries, to well-trained sales and service departments, to utmost product quality.

African Diamonds explores and develops diamonds from operations in Botswana and Congo. Its focus is the AK6 diamond project jointly owned with De Beers, though Canadian company Lucara Diamond agreed in 2009 to buy out the industry giant. African Diamonds owns 28% of the AK6 project, which will reach the development stage in 2010 and is projected to commence production the following year. (African company also has an option to increase that stake to 40%.) Additionally, the company owns stakes in projects elsewhere in Botswana and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It has previously investigated opportunities in Angola, Lesotho, and Sierra Leone.

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