Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited

Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited (TSX: AEM, NYSE: AEM) is a Toronto based gold mining company, with current gold production located at the LaRonde and Goldex mines in Quebec. The company has further projects located in Canada, Kittilä in Finland and Pinos Altos in Mexico. They have a policy of remaining unhedged.

Barrick Gold

Barrick Gold Corporation (TSX: ABX, NYSE: ABX) is the largest pure gold mining company in the world, with its headquarters in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and four regional business units (RBU's) located in Australia, Africa, North America and South America. Barrick is currently undertaking mining and exploration projects in Papua New Guinea, the United States, Canada, Australia, Peru, Chile, Russia, South Africa, Pakistan, Argentina and Tanzania. For 2006, it produced 8.64 million troy ounces of gold at a cash cost of US $282/ounce. As of December 31, 2004 its proven and probable gold mineral reserves stand at 123 million troy ounces.

Cameco

Cameco Corporation (TSX: CCO, NYSE: CCJ) is the world's largest publicly traded uranium company, based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. It is the world's largest uranium producer, accounting for 20% of world production.

Canico Resource

Canico Resource Corp. is a Vancouver, British Columbia based junior resource company focused on the development of the Onça-Puma nickel laterite project located in Para State, Brazil. This is a large high grade, open- pittable deposit which is one of the world's best undeveloped nickel projects.

Centerra Gold

Centerra Gold Inc. (TSX: CG) is a gold mining company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The company was formed and went public in 2004 when Saskatoon, Saskatchewan-based Cameco Corporation span off its gold mining assets previously held by its 100%-owned subsidiary, Cameco Gold; Cameco still owns 53% of Centerra's shares.

Crystallex International Corporation

Crystallex International Corporation (TSX: KRY, AMEX: KRY) is a Canadian corporation engaged in gold mining and exploration. It operates open-pit mines and exploration sites in Venezuela. Its current level of output characterizes it as a junior gold producer.

Denison Mines

Denison Mines Corp. (TSX: DML) is a Canadian uranium exploration, development, and production company.

Founded by Stephen B. Roman, and best known for its uranium mining in Elliot Lake, Ontario, it later diversified into coal, potash, and other projects.

Currently, Denison's principal assets are its northern Saskatchewan interests in the McClean Lake mine and the Midwest Uranium Project.

Eldorado Gold

Eldorado Gold Corporation (TSX: ELD) is a Vancouver, British Columbia based company involved in the mining, exploration and development of gold properties in Brazil and Turkey.

Eldorado gold is also the first North American company to successfully construct and operate a gold mine in China. Production from the mine in Western China commenced in 2006.

Endeavour Silver Corp.

Endeavour Silver Corp. (Endeavor Silver Corporation in the United States), is a Canadian publicly traded company headquartered in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. Endeavour is a mining company engaged in the exploration for and production of the precious metal silver. Canada is home to several other silver mining companies including ECU Silver Mining, Great Panther Resources and First Majestic Silver. The Company was incorporated in 2003. Endeavour’s shares trade on three stock exchanges: under the symbol EDR on the TSX Stock Exchange; EJD on the DBFrankfurt Stock Exchange; EXK on the AMEX Stock Exchange. Hundreds of other mining companies (gold, silver, uranium, zinc...) trade on the TSX Exchange as well. The company is considered a small-cap miner as a result of its market capitalization. A small-cap company is one that has a market capitalization of $1 Billion or lower.

Etruscan Resources

Etruscan Resources Incorporated (TSX: EET) is a mining company based in Nova Scotia, in Canada, that operates gold and diamond mines in Africa.

Etruscan mines gold and diamonds in the West African countries of Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali and Niger. The company is active in the South African diamond industry.

European Minerals

European Minerals Corporation, formerly Kazakhstan Minerals Corporation, is involved in natural resource exploration and development. The company's primary project is the development of a (2.34 million oz gold, 269 million pounds of copper) mine in Kazakhstan named Varvarinskoye. European Minerals is listed in both Canadian (TSX: EPM) and British (LSE: EUM) stock exchanges.

FNX Mining

FNX Mining Company Inc. (TSX: FNX) is a Toronto, Ontario based company that produces and explores for nickel, copper, platinum, palladium, gold and cobalt in the Sudbury Basin, Ontario, Canada.

First Quantum Minerals

First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (TSX: FM) is a Vancouver, British Columbia based mining and metals company whose principal activities include mineral exploration, development and mining.

First Quantum's common shares are listed for trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange in Canada (symbol "FM"), the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market (symbol "FQM") in the United Kingdom.

Frontenac Ventures Corporation

Frontenac Ventures Corporation is a privately owned uranium mining and exploration company. Frontenac is currently working to open a new mine in North Frontenac, Ontario.

Harry Winston Diamond Corporation

Harry Winston Diamond Corporation (TSX: HW, NYSE: HWD) is a Toronto, Canada specialist diamond mining and retail company.

The company holds a 40% stake in the Diavik Diamonds Project. Production at the Diavik Diamond Mine, Canada's second diamond mine, is operated by Harry Winston's joint venture partner, Diavik Diamond Mines Inc., a subsidiary of Rio Tinto Group. The mine began producing diamonds in November 2002.

Hillsborough Resources Limited

Hillsborough Resources Limited (TSX: HLB) is a coal mining company that operates the Quinsam underground thermal coal mine near Campbell River, British Columbia serving the local and west-coast U.S. cement industry, and the Crossville underground coal mine in Tennessee, U.S. serving the regional power utility and industrial markets. It also is developing substantial metallurgical coal properties near Tumbler Ridge in the Northeast of British Columbia. In addition, Hillsborough owns and operates the Middle Point Barge Loading Facility located on Vancouver Island, Canada.

Its headquarters are in Vancouver, Canada.

IAMGOLD

IAMGOLD Corporation is a Toronto based international gold producer. The company is engaged in the exploration, development and production of mineral resource properties throughout the world.

Iron Ore Company of Canada

Iron Ore Company of Canada (often abbreviated to IOC) is a Canadian-based producer of iron ore. The company was founded in 1949 from a partnership of Canadian and American M.A. Hanna Company. It is now owned by a new consortium, including the Mitsubishi and Rio Tinto corporations.

Based in Montreal, Quebec, IOC currently has mining and concentrater operations in Labrador City, Labrador, and operates the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway to ship ore concentrate from the mines to the port of Sept-Îles, Quebec.

Kinross Gold

Kinross Gold Corporation (TSX: K, NYSE: KGC) is a Canadian-based gold mining company with eight mines in the United States, Brazil, Russia and Chile, employing approximately 5,000 people worldwide. It is the third-largest gold mining company in North America by reserves and seventh in the world in production.

Lexam

Lexam Explorations is a North America oil and gas exploration Company. The Company's most significant property is the Baca project located in a frontier basin in southern Colorado. Lexam is proposing to drill two exploratory wells on the property to test the natural gas targets that have been identified.

Lundin Mining

Lundin Mining (TSX: LUN) is a multinational minerals company with operations in Sweden, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Russia. Lundin Mining is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia and trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange as part of the S&P/TSX 60 index. The company is currently developing the Tenke Fungurume Copper and Cobalt deposit in the Democratic Republic of Congo in which it owns at 24.75 percent stake (as Tenke Mining Corp.).

NovaGold Resources

NovaGold Resources Inc. (TSX: NG, AMEX: NG) is a mineral exploration, development, and mining company. Nova has 50% ownership of two of the world’s largest known undeveloped gold and copper deposits. These projects are; the 28.5 million ounce Donlin Creek gold deposit (50:50 Nova and Barrick) in Alaska, and the Galore Creek (50:50 Nova and Teck Cominco) copper-gold-silver deposit (14 million oz of gold, 156 million oz of silver and 12 billion lb of copper) in Northwestern British Columbia. Nova also owns and operates the Rock Creek Mine in the Nome mining district near Nome, Alaska. Rock Creek is expected to begin producing gold in late 2008 at a rate of 100,000 ounces a year. The company also owns drill-tested and productive placer gold ground around Nome for a total resource of 3.3 million troy ounce gold in the Nome Gold deposits. The Company is developing its projects in cooperation with the Alaska Native Regional Corporations and Canadian First Nations groups in the regions that the Company operates. The Company generates $2-3 million in revenue per year from its Nome gold, gravel, and real-estate operations.

Pan American Silver Corporation

Pan American Silver Corporation (TSX: PAA, NASDAQ:PAAS) is a mining company in Canada. The company has mines and other projects in the USA, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina.

Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan

The Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. (TSX: POT, NYSE: POT), today generally referred to as PotashCorp, is a Canadian corporation based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The company is the world's largest potash producer and the second and third largest producer of nitrogen and phosphate, three primary crop nutrients used to produce fertilizer. At the end of 2007, the company controlled 22% of the world's potash production capacity, 2% of nitrogen production capacity and 6% of phosphate supply.

Sherritt International

Sherritt International (TSX: S) is a Canadian energy company, based in Toronto, Ontario. It is involved in nickel and cobalt mining, thermal coal production, oil and gas exploration and production, and electricity generation. Sherritt is one of the largest foreign investors in Cuba, and the Canadian company with the largest business interests there.

Societe Semafo

Societe Semafo (TSX: SMF) is a mining company active in West Africa. Semafo operates active gold mines in Guinea, at Kiniero; and in Niger, at Samira Hill. The company is currently exploring the Mana gold field in Burkina Faso.

In addition to corporate facilities in Africa, Semafo has headquarters in Canada, in Saint Laurent, Quebec. The company is affiliated with Etruscan Resources, another Canadian-African mining company.

Star Uranium

Star Uranium is a Canadian resource company with it's head office in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The company is focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of uranium, diamond and other precious metal properties.

Stingray Resources

Stingray Resources Inc. (TSX: SRY), is a mineral exploration company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The company has its exploration activities focused on base and precious metal projects in Mexico.

Teck Cominco

Teck Cominco Limited (TSX: TCK, NYSE: TCK) is a Canadian mining company. It was formed from the amalgamation of Teck and Cominco in 2001.

Cominco started in 1906 as The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada, formed by the amalgamation of several units controlled by the Canadian Pacific Railway. CM&S, or "Smelters" as it was often called by investors, changed its name to Cominco in 1966. Cominco's core Sullivan Mine in Kimberley, British Columbia which began production in 1909, would operate for more than 90 years until its ore reserves exhausted in 2001.

United Uranium

United Uranium (formerly known as United Carina Resource) is a Canadian resource company with it's head office in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The company is focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of natural resources as uranium, diamond, copper and other precious metals.

Uranium One

Uranium One (TSX: UUU, JSE: UUU) (also known as sxr Uranium One) is a Canadian based uranium mining company with operations in Australia, Canada, Kazakhstan, South Africa and the United States.

Vale Inco

Vale Inco (formerly CVRD Inco) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Brazilian mining company Vale. It is Vale's nickel mining and metals division and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It produces nickel, copper, cobalt, platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium, gold, and silver. Prior to being purchased by CVRD (now Vale) in 2006, Inco was the world's second largest producer of nickel, and the third largest mining company outside South Africa and Russia of platinum-group metals. It was also a charter member of the 30-stock Dow Jones Industrial Average formed on October 1, 1928.

Wesdome Gold Mines

Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd. (TSX: WDO) is a mining, exploration and development company based in Toronto, Ontario, focused primarily on gold.

It was created by the merger of River Gold Mines Ltd. and Western Quebec Mines Inc.

Yamana Gold

Yamana Gold Inc. (TSX: YRI, NYSE: AUY) is a Toronto, Canada based producer of gold at various sites in South and Central America. The company began in 1980 as Yamana Resources Inc., changing to its present name in 2003.

Yamana added several mining properties with the purchase of other gold companies in 2006, namely Desert Sun and RNC Gold. Further exploration and development is planned, including a goal of including significant levels of copper mining activity in 2007.