Kumba Iron Ore Limited, a member of the Anglo American plc group, is a leading value-adding supplier of the highest quality iron ore to the global steel industry. The South African based company is the fourth largest supplier of seaborne iron ore in the world, exporting more than 34 million tonnes per annum to steelmakers in Europe, the Middle-East, and Asia. Kumba has reserves of more than a billion tons of high quality haematite.Kumba Iron Ore Limited company operates two opencast mines in South Africa – Sishen Mine and Thabazimbi Mine. Together they produce more than 40Mt of iron ore per annum (Mtpa), which accounts for 81% of South Africa’s total production and around 4% of the global seaborne trade. The combined reserves of these mines exceed one billion tons of high quality iron ore.An expansion project named Kolomela, which uses jig technology, is ramping up to reach a capacity of 13Mtpa in 2010. A new greenfields project will supply an additional 9Mtpa by 2013.Thabazimbi Mine’s product is sold exclusively to ArcelorMittal South Africa.In 2008 Kumba received a new order mining right to proceed with the Kolomela project and converted old order mining rights for the existing Sishen and Thabazimbi mines. Receiving these rights enabled the company to focus on the extraction of the resources and significantly strengthened business security.Kumba has been exporting iron ore to Europe and Japan since 1976 and has established enduring relations with the most significant steel mills in these countries. These customers regard Kumba as a strategic supplier of superior iron ore that enhances their furnaces’ efficiencies. The company was also a “first mover” into China by investing in the port of Qingdao in the early 1990s. This enabled Kumba to secure its customer base in Northern China and to take full advantage of the remarkable growth in the Chinese steel industry when production quadrupled during the commodities boom of 2000 – 2008.

Plymouth Tube manufactures alloy, carbon, and stainless steel tubing at its network of metalworking mills. The company's Plymouth Extruded Shapes unit makes near-net extruded shapes in alloy, carbon, and stainless steel, as well as in nickel-based alloy and titanium. It acquired Trent Tube from Crucible Materials in 2007; the new subsidiary has two facilities in the US. Plymouth Tube operates from facilities throughout US. It was founded in 1924

ThyssenKrupp Materials NA takes that copper and steel and processes it into something more usable. The North American materials management division of German industrial behemoth ThyssenKrupp operates through a number of subsidiary companies. Copper and Brass Sales is a non-ferrous metals service center, while Ken-Mac Metals processes flat-roll aluminum. Other business units include AIN Plastics (an engineered plastics distributor), TMX Aerospace (supply chain management services for aerospace programs), and TKX Logistics (a transportation logistics provider).

China Minmetals Corporation, founded in 1950, is a large sized group dealing worldwide in development, production, trading and operation for metals and minerals. It is also engaged in finance, real estate and logistics. In 1999, China Minmetals was listed among the 39 "key enterprises" with a great bearing on national security and economic lifeline under the direct jurisdiction of the Central Government. In 2007, Minmetals was ranked Class A when the SASAC evaluated the performance of state-owned enterprises under the jurisdiction of the Central Government. In 2008, the Group was ranked No. 331 among the Fortune Global 500. In 2009, China Minmetals achieved a total business volume of US$26.8 billion dollar with operating revenue of RMB 173 billion yuan by responded the international financial crisis actively. The products and raw materials the Group handles have been widely used in different areas of national economic construction and people's livelihood. Minmetals has made remarkable contributions to the national economic development and modernization program. In recent years, has implemented a new development strategy to intensify operations in ferrous metals, non-ferrous metals, finance, real estate and logistics. To forge an industrial chain, Minmetals has promoted its strategic transformation for securing more resources. The Group has been transformed from a traditional state-owned enterprise with strong characteristics of the planned economy in the past to a modern, competitive and independent enterprise under the socialist market economy. And it has changed from a pure import and export company into a global integrated enterprise backed up with resources from both downstream and upstream industries. The Group has also changed from a company purely involved in operations of products into a group engaged in the operation of both products and assets and capital. As one of the Fortune 500 global companies, China Minmetals has strengthened strategic cooperation with both large domestic and overseas companies to seek mutual development. Minmetals plays a major role in promoting exchanges and cooperation between enterprises from China and other countries as the Group holds the post of chairman representing China in the Sino-Brazil Business Council and Sino-Chile Business Council. "To value the limited resources and pursue boundless development," the Group is committed to the strategy of "going out" and develops mineral resources overseas to satisfy the ever increasing demand for resources in the development of the national economy.

Tyhee Development Corp. ("TDC") is a publicly-traded mining company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (Venture). Tyhee Development Corp. Company is engaged in the exploration and development of mineral properties in Canada and internationally.We endeavor to become a leading exploration and development company in search of world class deposits in countries that possess favorable investment climates, to accomplish this by optimizing the use of leading exploration technologies and to continue to apply a sense of corporate, social and environmental consciousness in reaching these objectives.

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.

KazakhGold Group Limited is one of the largest gold mining company in Kazakhstan with three principal operating mines, Aksu, Bestobe and Zholymbet located in northern part of Kazakhstan. In addition KazakhGold owns a number of assets in East Kazakhstan, Romania and Kyrgyzstan. Its primary objective is to become the leading low-cost gold producer in central Asia. KazakhGold is listed on the Main Board of the London Stock Exchange (symbol KZG).

Petaquilla Minerals Ltd. (the"Company") is a mining company presently commissioning a surface gold-processing plant at its 100% owned Molejon Gold Project. Commercial production began on January 8, 2010. Anticipated throughput for the project for the first year of production will be 2,200 tonnes per day and the plant will utilize three ball mills and a carbon-in-pulp processing facility.Plans are in place to increase production to 5,000 tonnes per day with the addition of a SAG mill as the supply of mill feed permits.

Liberty Mines Inc. is a producer of nickel and is focused on the exploration, development and production of nickel, copper, cobalt and platinum group metals from its properties in Ontario, Canada. It owns and operates the Redstone nickel concentrator near Timmins Ontario.The Redstone and McWatters nickel mines near Timmins are in commercial production. The Hart nickel project is currently in the permitting stage as Liberty's third nickel mine which is slated for pre-production in the last half of 2010.All of the company's nickel ore will be processed at the Redstone nickel concentrator which is located at the Redstone mine site. The mill is uniqely designed to process up to 2000 tonnes of altered komatiite ore per day.The Groves nickel-copper-PGM (Platinum Group Metals) project near Gogama has a known historical resource. A group of 6400 ha of contiguous mining claims has been assembled around the historical deposit. An airborne VTEM survey is complete and a drill program is planned for the summer of 2010. The McAra Lake property near Shining Tree, about 150 km south of Timmins, hosts a system averaging approximately 1.1% cobalt. The property has been minorly explored and will the subject of an intense drill program to prove up tonnage of this highly prospective cobalt resource (cobalt normally occurs in deposits as a 0.02% by-product of nickel ores or as a deposit associated with copper ores with a 0.4% cobalt grade).

South American Silver Corp. is a growth focused mineral exploration company creating value through the exploration and development of the Malku Khota Silver-Indium project in Bolivia, one of the world's largest undeveloped Silver and Indium deposits, and the large-scale Escalones Copper-Gold project in Chile.The Company's approach to business combines the team's track record of world-class discoveries and successful project development and integrates a focus on strong community relations and corporate social responsibility. Management has over 100 years of combined experience in the global exploration and mining industry with much of that focused in Bolivia, Chile, Peru and Argentina. South American Silver Corp. Company trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol SAC and on the US OTC market as SOHAF.

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