Patriot Coal Corporation engages in the production and sale of thermal coal in the United States. It has operations and coal reserves in Appalachia and the Illinois basin. The company provides its thermal coal to electric utilities, as well as metallurgical coal to steel mills and independent coke producers. It has 14 company-operated mines, contractor-operated mines, and coal preparation facilities that are located in West Virginia and Kentucky. As of December 31, 2009, Patriot Coal Corporation company controlled approximately 1.8 billion tons of proven and probable coal reserves. Patriot Coal Corporation, through its subsidiary, Magnum Coal Company, operates 8 mining complexes with production from surface and underground mines located in Appalachia, as well as controls approximately 600 million tons of proven and probable coal reserves. Patriot Coal Corporation company is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

Conroy Diamonds and Gold doesn't mind what it finds, as long as its either diamonds or gold. Conroy Diamonds is primarily exploring the Longford-Down Massif in the Armagh-Monaghan gold belt, which straddles Ireland's County Monaghan and Northern Ireland's County Armagh. It has also found gold at the Tullybuck-Lisglassan gold deposit in County Monaghan. Conroy Diamonds and Gold holds exploration licenses on a total of 1,500 square kilometers in Ireland as well as a number of claims in Finland. Chairman Richard Conroy formed the company in 1995.

I. Schumann & Co. is a fourth generation family-owned and operated ingot maker located in the southeastern Cleveland suburb of Bedford, Ohio. Operating in its fourth location since 1917, this secondary non-ferrous scrap recycler manufactures ingots to the highest quality using ISO certified procedures. Through continuous improvement, I. Schumann and Co. maintains a state-of-the-art facility with respect to its manufacturing and environmental awareness. The company manufactures and stocks proprietary, CDA and ASTM specification alloys.

Ferragon processes flat-rolled steel using techniques such as decambering, pickling, leveling, and slitting. Ferragon company is a toll processor, meaning that it processes customers' material for a fee rather than buying material, processing it, and reselling it. Ferragon operates primarily in Ohio and Michigan, but subsidiary FerrouSouth is based in Mississippi. The company's Ferrous Metal Transfer division transports processed steel. Other group companies include Ferrolux Metals, Metalux, and Ferrous Metal Processing. Ferragon president Eduardo Gonzalez founded Ferragon company in 1983.

Sprott Resource Corp. invests and operates through its subsidiaries in the natural resource sector. We currently have investments and operations in oil and gas, agriculture and agricultural nutrients as well as a large position in physical gold bullion. We take an active involvement in the companies in which we invest. We are dedicated to generating consistently superior returns on capital for our shareholders, while focusing on risk management and real wealth preservation. We seek to accomplish these objectives by acquiring or starting attractive businesses at the right time, growing the value organically or through accretive acquisitions and by maintaining financial flexibility to be responsive to the needs of our businesses and to capitalize on new opportunities.Our management services agreement with Sprott Consulting Limited Partnership, of which Sprott Inc. is the sole limited partner, and our location in Toronto, a global centre for resource investing, gives us access to exceptional investment opportunities and a vast network of contacts and potential strategic partners. We leverage these relationships to grow and add value to our investments.

BCS Industries, LLC was founded in 1996 by Joseph A. Higdon through the acquisition of a plant formerly operated by Laclede Steel. By 1998 BCS acquired another idled Laclede plant and provided the expansion needed for the Memphis, TN facility to grow. During the period from 2000-2004 BCS acquired the former Metal Processing facility in Maple Heights, OH and the former Cuyahoga Steel & Wire processing plant in Solon, OH growing to over 170 employees with sales surpassing $100 million dollars.The strategic need for a centralized wire distribution facility was identified and in August 2007 this was solidified. BCS acquired the Ugitech carbon steel warehouse in Batavia, IL. This important expansion has provided the BCS ‘Chicago Wire Division’ with an exceptionally strong position supplying Just In Time material to the Midwest Fastener Industry.BCS Industries experienced workforce and management team has extensive knowledge of the industry. We have many state of the art processes and also utilize successful ‘old school’ methods that simply can’t be beat. We utilize both science and experience (art) in our steel processing.Sulfuric acid cleaning, state of the art atmosphere annealing furnaces, precise sizing through wire drawing and customer specific finished coating all add up to what we determine as ‘Fitness For Use’ for the Cold Heading Industry.BCS Industries’ Quality Management System supports many Key Performance Indicators including; Customer Service, 5S, Safety, Lean Manufacturing and Vendor Assessments which contribute to our success.

Prize Mining Corporation is a Calgary, Alberta based, junior resource company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange and the Frankfurt Exchange. The company's strategic focus is on developing near-term, low cost, gold production in Canada. The experienced management team is continuously working towards the goal highlighted in their mission statement: To become a gold producer through the development of Atlin and the strategic acquisition of other small high grade gold deposits that can share resources with the object to mining on a low cost, high recovery basis.Prize Mining's properties have been strategically selected in politically stable areas, easily accessible to exploration and production support. Prize Mining Corporation company has begun a 10,000 tonne bulk sampling program on its current focus, the Atlin Gold Property, located in northwestern British Columbia. The properties are located within a known placer gold producing area; more than one million ounces of placer gold (estimated) have been recovered during the last century from the Atlin area.

High River is a gold company with interests in producing mines and advanced exploration projects in Burkina Faso and Russia. Two producing mines, Zun-Holba and Irokinda, are situated in the Lake Baikal region of Russia and produce approximately 125,000 ounces of gold per annum to High River. Two new open pit gold mines, Taparko-Bouroum in Burkina Faso, and Berezitovy in Russia, have been constructed and are currently being put into full production. Finally, High River has two advanced exploration projects with NI 43-101 compliant resource estimates, the Bissa gold project in Burkina Faso and the Prognoz silver project in Russia. All current and future gold and silver production remains unhedged. High River Gold Mines Ltd. is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol HRG.

Fronteer Gold intends to become a significant gold producer. Fronteer Gold business model to get us there is simple: We discover and advance big deposits with strong production potential. Long Canyon, Sandman and Northumberland comprise Fronteer Gold's future production platform based in Nevada, one of the friendliest gold mining districts in the world. We aim to build regional production by advancing these projects sequentially over the near-term, funding the company's growth with low risk of dilution.

Lapham-Hickey Steel is committed to meeting or exceeding customer expectations and increasing customer satisfaction through continual improvement of our Products, Services and our Quality Management Systems.At Lapham-Hickey Steel, quality is dictated by strict adherence to the ISO 9001 quality system. These standards are maintained and managed by our Quality Department and reviewed regularly by the Corporate Executive Committee.One of our main goals here at Lapham-Hickey Steel is to insure total customer satisfaction. Customer feedback is the best tool we have to determine if we are meeting all expectations. You are invited to participate in our Customer Satisfaction Survey, your feedback will be used as a tool in our venture for continuous improvements.

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