Company Profile List

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A H Marks and Company Limited

When you've been doing it this long, you should be getting top marks, right? In operation since 1877, A H Marks & Company manufactures fine chemicals, performance chemicals, and agrochemicals for use throughout the UK. Its fine and performance chemicals include lithographic chemicals, phenol derivatives (for pharmaceuticals), and chlorinated products (used in perfumes and pharmaceuticals). A H Marks' agrochemicals are primarily phenoxy, propionic, and acetic herbicides sold under the brand names OPTICA, AGROXONE, and MATON. A H Marks maintains a single manufacturing site in West Yorkshire.

AgraQuest, Inc.

AgraQuest sweats the small stuff. The company's proprietary database of more than 20,000 microorganisms is the base for its line of pest control and plant diseasefighting products. AgraQuest's products fight plant pests and diseases with naturally occurring microorganisms that offer environmental advantages over synthetic chemical pesticides and genetically modified crops. The company's initial product offering, Serenade, is a biofungicide that is approved for use on crops such as grapes, apples, pears, and tomatoes. AgraQuest has about 20 other natural pest management products in the pipeline. The company is owned by private investment funds, management, and King Ranch.

Agrium Inc.

It's no bull that Agrium is a top producer and marketer of fertilizers in North America. A leader in the production of nitrogen, the company operates plants in Canada, the US, and Argentina that produce mostly nitrogen (though also potash and phosphate) products. The plants have the capacity to produce more than 8 million tons of the nutrients per year. In addition to supplying wholesalers, Agrium operates more than 200 fertilizer retail outlets in the US in 21 states and more than 30 retail farm centers in South America. The company also owns 50% of Profertil, a joint venture with Spain's Repsol YPF that runs Argentina's largest nitrogen plant.

Contact Info

Address: Wyke Ln. Bradford, West Yorkshire BD12 9EJ, United Kingdom Phone: +44-1274-691-234 Fax: +44-1274-691-176

Address: 1530 Drew Ave. Davis, CA 95616-1272 Phone: 530-750-0150 Fax: 530-750-0153

Financial Highlights

Key People

Fiscal Year End: August Revenue (2004): 101.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 16.40% Employees (2004): 338 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-3.40%)

• Chairman: Robin Lee • Managing Director: Ian J. McClelland • Business Development Manager: Brian Balmforth

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 5.20 M Employees (2005): 70

• Chairman: John M. Pasquesi • CEO and COO: Michael J. (Mike) Miille • President and Director: Pamela G. (Pam) Marrone

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 3294.00 M Address: 13131 Lake Fraser Dr. Revenue Growth (1 yr): SE 16.10% Calgary, Alberta T2J 7E8, Canada Employees (2004): 4,617 Phone: 403-225-7000 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: 403-225-7609 (-1.10%)

• Chairman: Frank W. Proto • President , CEO, and Director: Michael M. (Mike) Wilson • SVP, Finance and CFO: Bruce G. Waterman

Public

Yes

Agrium U.S. Inc.

Agrium U.S., the Denver-based subsidiary of the Canadian company Agrium, is a manufacturer and distributor of fertilizers. The company produces and distributes four major crop nutrients: nitrogen, phospate, potash, and sulfate fertilizers for the wholesale market. Agirum U.S. operates a network of more than 200 retail farm centers in the US, one of the largest independent retailers of fertilizers, seeds, and chemicals in North America. The US provides Agrium with more than two-thirds of its sales. Agrium began orginally as Cominco during the 1930s.

American Soil Technologies, Inc.

American Soil Technologies works to make sure your farmland isn't dirt poor. The company manufactures agricultural chemicals that help retain water in soil, the direct benefit of which is manifold. In addition to minimizing the frequency of irrigation, the chemicals also decrease the likelihood of erosion and reduce other environmental damage. Its Agriblend product is used by agricultural clients and its Nutrimoist product is used for residential and recreational applications. American Soil has been mired in debt, but things are looking up as the company has reached a debt conversion agreement with its largest creditor. The company is majority-controlled by Chairman Louie Visco.

American Vanguard Corporation

American Vanguard Corporation (AMVAC) bugs bugs, roots out weeds, and helps people get personal care. The company makes specialty chemicals designed to protect the health of animals, crops, and people. Products made by its AMVAC Chemical subsidiary include pesticides, plant-growth regulators, herbicides, and soil fumigants. Its GemChem subsidiary distributes the company's chemicals nationally to the cosmetic, nutritional, and pharmaceutical industries. American Vanguard also has marketing subsidiaries in the UK, Switzerland, and Mexico. UAP Holding, Helena Chemical, and Agriliance each account for more than 10% of sales. Co-chairmen Herbert Kraft and Glenn Wintemute together own 28% of American Vanguard.

Address: 4582 S. Ulster St., Ste. 1700 Denver, CO 80237-2636 Phone: 303-804-4400 Fax: 303-804-4482

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 2147.50 M Employees (2005): 2,500

• President and CEO: Michael M. (Mike) Wilson • Director, US Sales: Jay Muse

Address: 12224 Montague St. Pacoima, CA 91331 Phone: 818-899-4686 Fax: 818-899-4670

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 0.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 7.70% Employees (2005): 10 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• Chairman: Louie Visco • President, CEO, CFO, and Director: Carl P. Ranno • VP, Marketing: Johnny Dickinson

Address: 4695 MacArthur Ct. Newport Beach, CA 92660 Phone: 949-260-1200 Fax: 949-260-1201

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 189.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 25.80% Employees (2005): 300 Employee Growth (1 yr): 31.00%

• President, CEO, and Director: Eric G. Wintemute • SVP, CFO, Secretary, and Treasurer: James A. Barry • SVP and Director, Sales, AMVAC: Christopher (Chris) Hildreth

Yes

Yes

Got potash? If not, the Arab Potash Company (APC) would be glad to fix you up. The company mines the Dead Sea for potassium chloride, one of several potassium-based compounds commonly known as potash. The substance is used primarily for fertilizer, but also has industrial applications, for example in the manufacture of glass and ceramic. Canadian industry bigwig Potash Corp. bought more than a quarter of the company in October 2003 and installed some of its own executives in APC management Arab Potash Company roles. Jordan Investment Corp. also owns more than a Limited quarter of APC. 90% of Asia Pacific Potash Corp. (APPC, the Thai government owns 10%), which explores for potash -various potassium salts -- in northern Thailand near the city of Udon Thani. It controls two deposits (Udon South and Udon North) that contain an estimated 1.4 billion metric tons of potash, which is used in fertilizer. The company will supply Far Eastern markets, where demand is strong but few regional sources exist. The Ziff family, through Olympus Capital Holdings Asia, owns about 53% of the company; Canadian Crew Development Corp. owns 7%. The company has agreed to a takeover bid from Thai Asia Pacific Resources group SRMT Holdings, a unit of Italian-Thai Development Ltd. Public Co. BASF Canada is a veritable one-stop chemical shop. The company, a subsidiary of chemical giant BASF's North American unit, has four primary divisions that make nearly every basic chemical under the sun. Its agricultural products and nutrition unit makes pest and plant control products, animal nutrition products, and ingredients for cosmetics, food, and pharmaceuticals. The company's performance products unit produces coatings and pigments, as well as chemicals for paper, textiles, and automobiles. Through its plastics unit, BASF Canada also is a major producer of polyurethanes and styrenics. The company's smallest unit, chemicals, makes BASF Canada petrochemicals, inorganic chemicals, and intermediates.

Address: P.O. Box 1470 Amman 11118, Jordan Phone: +962-6-567-4376 Fax: +962-6-567-4416

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 260.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 19.80% Employees (2004): 2,232 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-3.20%)

• Chairman: Issa Ayyoub • General Manager: Brent Heimann • Finance Deputy General Manager: Dave Stuart

Address: Ste. 2002, Fl. 20, Abdulrahim Place, 990 Rama IV Rd., Silom, Ban Bangkok 10500, Thailand Phone: +66-2-636-1600 Fax: +66-2-636-1599

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 45 Employee Growth (1 yr): 2.30%

• President and CEO: John Bovard • CFO and Corporate Secretary: Robert Scott • VP, Operations: Matthew Blackwell

Address: 345 Carlingview Dr. Toronto, Ontario M9W 6N9, Canada Phone: 416-675-3611 Fax: 416-674-2588

• President: Robin C. Rotenberg • Director, Finance and Logistics: James McEwen • Manager, Communications: Martine Despatie

Yes

If people turn to Bayer for what ails them, why can't plants? Bayer CropScience, a part of German chemicals giant the Bayer Group, is a leading producer of agricultural chemicals. The company's Crop Protection unit makes fungicides, herbicides, and insecticides. Bayer CropScience also has two other divisions, Environmental Science and BioScience, that focus on non-crop chemicals (such as consumer lawn care products) and genetically modified seeds, respectively. The company was formed when Bayer Crop Protection acquired Aventis-Schering joint venture Aventis CropScience; the combined company ranks as the #2 in crop protection firm worldwide, behind Bayer CropScience AG Syngenta.

Address: Alfred-Nobel-Str. 50 D-40789 Monheim am Rhein, Germany Phone: +49-21-73-38-0 Fax: +49-21-73-38-3593

• Chairman, Management Board: Friedrich Berschauer Fiscal Year End: • Member, Management December Board, Head of Portfolio Revenue (2004): 8110.30 Management, and: Rüdiger M Scheitza Revenue Growth (1 yr): • Member, Manangement 12.10% Board and Head of Business Employees (2004): 19,000 Planning and: Dirk Suwelack

Address: 2147 Portage Ave. Winnipeg, Manitoba R3J 0L4, Canada Phone: 204-837-1383 Fax: 204-832-7244

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 17.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 6.90% Employees (2004): 60 Employee Growth (1 yr): 100.00%

Border Chemical Company Limited

If you're in need of fertilizer you can make a run for the Border. Border Chemical Company has three product lines: fertilizer, liquid alum, and sulphuric acid. The US accounts for about 25% of sales. Border Chemical's shares have been unlisted since 2000, but its shares are traded through brokers or individuals. The company is putting up half of its shares in an offering, which will allow it to be privatized. John McFadzean and president and CEO Patricia Smerchanski currently control the company. Patricia Smerchanski is daughter of the company's founder.

Bunge Limited

Bunge Limited is everywhere on the food chain. The company is the leading global soybean processor, a leading South American fertilizer maker and provider, and, through subsidiary Bunge North America, a major US food processor. Its joint venture with DuPont (Solae) makes specialty food ingredients. The acquisition of Cereol in 2003 made Bunge the world's largest oilseed producer. Founded in 1818 as a grain trading company in Address: 2 Church St. Amsterdam, Bunge was held mostly by families descended Hamilton HM 11, Bermuda from founder Johann Bunge until it went public in 2001. Its Phone: 001 4412951422 products are available in more than 90 countries.

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 24275.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-3.50%) Employees (2005): 23,495 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-4.60%)

• President and Director: Patricia B. Smerchanski

• Chairman and CEO: Alberto Weisser • CFO: William M. (Bill) Wells • Managing Director, New Business Development: Andrew J. (Drew) Burke

Yes

Central Garden & Pet Company

Central Garden & Pet is happy to help with both pets and pests. The company is a leading US manufacturer and distributor of lawn, garden, and pet supplies, providing its products to pet supplies retailers, home improvement centers, nurseries, and mass merchandisers from approximately 30 manufacturing plants and 30 distribution centers located throughout the US; it also has sales offices in the UK. Central Garden & Pet's proprietary brand lines include AMDRO fire ant bait, Four Paws animal products, Kaytee bird seed, Nylabone dog chews, Norcal pottery, Pennington grass seed and bird seed products, and TFH pet books. Chairman William Brown controls approximately 45% of the company's voting rights.

Though CF Industries wants to give you some DAP, it's not handing out praise. The company is an interregional agricultural firm that manufactures and markets nitrogenous and phosphatic fertilizers (including diammonium phosphate, or DAP). It operates a network of manufacturing and distribution facilities, primarily in the Midwest, through which it offers products worldwide. The company changed its structure from a cooperative to a holding company when it began to trade publicly in 2005. It CF Industries Holdings, had been owned by eight regional agricultural co-ops, Inc. including Land O'Lakes, GROWMARK, and CHS. Glassy Wing Sharp Shooters and Citrus Thrips beware! Cleary wants turf to be tip top at tee-time. Cleary Chemical Corporation makes fungicides, insecticides, nutrients, and colorants used by golf courses, nurseries, and greenhouses. The company also keeps the roaches running with the Roach Terminal, a chemical trap used to Cleary Chemical control the pests. It also owns and maintains a golf course, Corporation Tara Greens.

Address: 1340 Treat Blvd., Ste. 600 Walnut Creek, CA 94597 Phone: 925-948-4000 Fax: 925-287-0601

Fiscal Year End: September Revenue (2005): 1380.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 9.00% Employees (2004): 4,400 Employee Growth (1 yr): 10.00%

• Chairman: William E. Brown • President, CEO, and Director: Glenn W. Novotny • VP, CFO, and Secretary: Stuart W. Booth

Address: 1 Salem Lake Dr. Long Grove, IL 60047 Phone: 847-438-9500 Fax: 847-438-0211

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 1908.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 15.60%

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Stephen R. Wilson • SVP and CFO: Ernest (Ernie) Thomas • SVP, Operations: David J. Pruett

Address: 178 Ridge Rd. Dayton, NJ 08810 Phone: 732-329-8399 Fax: 732-274-0894

• President: Margaret A. Cleary • Treasurer and Controller: Dave Misiura • VP: Barbara Cleary Harris

Yes

Yes

Dow AgroSciences, a subsidiary of Dow Chemical, doesn't want its customers to be bugged. The subsidiary makes insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides for agricultural applications, as well as for residential pest control. It also develops genetically modified (GM) seeds under the Mycogen and Phytogen names. Dow AgroSciences splits its operations into five product lines: plant gentics and biotechnology (in addition to seeds the unit has developed food products like Natreon canola oil), weed management, disease management, pest management, and urban pest management. It has operations in more than 50 countries Dow AgroSciences LLC around the world. DuPont Agriculture & Nutrition is into seed, weed, and feed. Among the larger of DuPont's six business units, DuPont Agriculture & Nutrition contains a number of units, subsidiaries, and joint ventures devoted to plant growth and protection. The division encompasses DuPont Crop Protection (herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides), joint venture (with Bunge) Solae (soy-based ingredients), and Qualicon (microbial testing). Most of the division's sales occur in the first half of the calendar year. The company has joint ventures based in the UK, Mexico, and Russia. DuPont Agriculture & The unit also includes Pioneer Hi-Bred, a producer of Nutrition genetically modified seeds.

Eden Bioscience Corporation

Pests, diseases, or chemicals in the Garden of Eden? I think not. Eden Bioscience's crop protection products help crops protect themselves. The company's Harp-N-Tek Messenger products utilize naturally occurring proteins called harpins that trigger a plant's natural defense system against pests and disease while activating growth processes such as photosynthesis and nutrient intake. The products can be used on a variety of crops including citrus, cotton, tomato, wheat, and roses. Messenger has been marketed to farmers, but Eden is branching out into the home and garden market. The company's products are sold in the US and in Spain.

Address: 9330 Zionsville Rd. Indianapolis, IN 46268 Phone: 317-337-3000 Fax: 317-337-4096

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 3364.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-0.10%) Employees (2005): 5,500 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

Address: DuPont Bldg., 1007 Market St. Wilmington, DE 19898 Phone: 302-774-1000

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 6247.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 14.20%

Address: 11816 North Creek Pkwy. N. Bothell, WA 98011-8201 Phone: 425-806-7300 Fax: 425-806-7400

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 3.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 280.00% Employees (2005): 25 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-10.70%)

Key People • President and CEO: Jerome A. Peribere • VP, Finance: Rogelio Lara • Leader, Global Public Affairs: Robyn Heine

• Group VP, DuPont Agriculture & Nutrition: J. Erik Fyrwald • CEO, Solae: Tony L. Arnold • VP, Strategic Planning and New Business Development: Jane D. Brooks

• President, CEO, and Director: Rhett R. Atkins • VP, Finance, CFO, and Secretary: Bradley S. (Brad) Powell • Manager, Business Development, Southern Europe: Felix Martinez

Yes

El Dorado Chemical Company

Bet Coronado never thought to look in Arkansas. LSB Industries did, though, and found its own El Dorado there. El Dorado Chemical is part of the chemical manufacturing division of LSB. It makes agricultural products and industrial chemicals, including nitrogen-based fertilizers, nitric acid, sulfuric acid, and industrial-grade ammonium nitrate for the mining industry. The company operates a manufacturing facility in El Dorado, Arkansas and has marketing and distribution operations in the south-central US. It ships products to wholesale customers by truck or railcar; it also serves retail customers.

Florikan E.S.A. Corporation

Ask a horiculturist who can, and the answer just may be, "Florikan." The company, founded as Florikan E.S.A. (Environmentally Sustainable Agriculture) Corporation, provides professional horticultural products that range from biological pest control products and soil amendments to greenhouse coverings and nursery containers. It is also a distributor of Nutricote controlled release fertilizers and products made by ITML Horticultural Products Inc. (Canada). Florikan serves the southeastern US from its offices in Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana. Ed and Betty Rosenthal, respectively serving as the company's president and CEO and its CFO, founded Florikan in 1982.

Global Bio-chem Technology Group Company Limited

Global Bio-chem Technology believes in the power of the corn kernel. The company manufactures corn-refined and corn-based bio-chemical products, including crude corn oil, corn starch, corn germ cake, corn gluten meal, corn sweeteners, modified starch, and amino acids. Global Biochem is the largest producer of lysine (100,000 metric tons annually) -- a widely used amino acid -- as well as the largest corn refiner and leading corn sweetener manufacturer in China. Its products are primarily used in food and beverages, pharmaceutical products, cosmetics, textiles, and paper.

Address: 4500 North West Ave. El Dorado, AR 71730 Phone: 870-863-1400 Fax: 870-863-1426

• President: Paul Rydlund

Address: 1523 Edgar Place Sarasota, FL 34240 Phone: 941-377-8666 Fax: 941-377-3633

• President and CEO: Ed Rosenthal • COO: Doug Cabe • CFO: Betty Rosenthal

Address: Admiralty Centre, Tower 1, Unit 1104, 18 Harcourt Rd. Hong Kong Phone: +852-2838-8155 Fax: +852-2838-8433

• Co-chairman: Xiaoming Liu • Co-chairman: Zhouwen Xu • Executive Director, Management, Finance, and Accounting: Zhanpeng Kong

Helena Chemical Company

Kind of like cops for crops, Helena Chemical's mission is to protect and serve. The agricultural products division of Japanese business group Marubeni's US trading arm, the company's product line is divided into two units: Crop Protection and Crop Production. It also produces agricultural chemicals, seeds, and fertilizers. Helena Chemical has four manufacturing sites -- in Arkansas, California, Georgia, and Iowa -- and sales, marketing, and distribution locations throughout the US. Ancillary product lines and services include forestry, aquatic, and vegetation management.

Helena Chemical Company Western Business Unit

A small branch on a big tree, Helena Chemical Company Western Business Unit is the western US division of the agricultural products unit of the US arm of a large Japanese trading concern. The company manufactures fertilizers and pesticides and provides agricultural services and supplies. The unit maintains locations in eight western US states: Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, and Washington. The Western Business Unit manufactures fertilizers for suppliers and also provides formulation services for private label products.

HELM Aktiengesellschaft

Humatech, Inc.

HELM is in control of its own ship. A manufacturer and distributor of chemicals, the company's products include fertilizers, insecticides, additives, pharmaceuticals, animal and human nutrients, and plastics. Based in Germany -with more than 60% of its sales coming from Europe -HELM has operations in 32 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. Humatech turns organic matter into food for plants and animals. Humatech claims that its line of organic, humatebased fertilizers, feed additives, and plant nutrients are safer for the environment and channel nutrients to the plants more efficiently. The company markets its products to commercial growers, independent garden consumers, and animal feeders throughout the US; it also has a 20% stake in its UK distributor, Humatech, Ltd. Chairman and CEO David Williams and his family, though its ownership of Willow Capital, controls 31% of Humatech, and fellow officer and director J. D. Rottweiler owns 15%.

Address: 225 Schilling Blvd., Ste. 300 Collierville, TN 38017-6937 Phone: 901-761-0050 Fax: 901-761-5754

Address: 7576 N. Ingram Ave., Ste. 101 Fresno, CA 93711 Phone: 559-261-9030 Fax: 559-261-9250

• President: Mike McCarty Fiscal Year End: March • CFO: Troy D. Traxler Jr. Revenue (2005): 817.10 M • VP, Sales and Marketing: Employees (2005): 2,900 Charles Adams

Address: Nordkanalstrasse 28 D-20097 Hamburg, Germany Phone: +49-40-2375-0 Fax: +49-40-2375-1845

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 5584.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 134.10% Employees (2004): 1,186 Employee Growth (1 yr): 7.70%

Address: 1959 S. Val Vista Dr., Ste. 130 Mesa, AZ 85204 Phone: 480-813-8484 Fax: 480-813-8485

Fiscal Year End: April Revenue (2004): 0.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 14.50% Employees (2004): 6 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-33.30%)

• VP: Steve Alexander • Financial and Administrative Manager: Robert Pate • Program Administrator: Jackie Cornell • Chairman, Supervisory Board: Ulf Gänger • Chairman, Executive Board: Dieter Schnabel • Member, Executive Board; Head of Finance, Controlling, and L: Rainer Detering

• Chairman, President, and CEO: David G. Williams • CFO, Secretary, and Director: John D. (J. D.) Rottweiler • Director, National Retail Sales: Terry Williams

Yes

Indo Gulf Fertilisers Limited

Indo Gulf Fertilizers wants farmers to embrace its strong man. The company produces and sells urea, a nitrogenous fertilizer, under the Birla Shaktiman brand (Shakti means strength in Sanskrit). Its manufacturing plant, located in India's agriculturally intensive Indo-Gangetic plain, produces about 900,000 tons of urea per year. Indo Gulf Fertilizers provides a number of free services to farmers including agricultural education and training, crop demonstrations, soil testing, soil fertility maps, microwatershed development, fruit tree planting, and programs to better village health and sanitation. Indo Gulf also sponsors Shaktiman Farmers Clubs. Indo Gulf is a subsidiary of Aditya Birla.

Itronics Inc.

Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? Silver (recycled) from X-rays and photowaste turns plants green all in a row. Itronics operates its two business segments through subsidiaries. Itronics Metallurgical recycles photochemicals and turns the results into its GOLD'n GRO animal repellent and liquid fertilizer. GOLD'n GRO products are sold primarily in the western US. Another subsidiary, Whitney & Whitney, provides mineral planning and technical services (mineral economics, geologic studies, and project management services) to the mining industry. President John Whitney owns 17% of the company.

Salt has preserved K+S (for Kali und Salz) for more than a century. Founded in 1889 to mine salt, K+S gets more than 40% of its sales from potash, which is extracted from salt and used in fertilizers. The company also produces salt used for industrial purposes (such as making glass), as well as for deicing roads and cooking. K+S is Germany's top salt producer and supplies about 12% of the world's potash. In addition, the company runs facilities that recycle waste materials and provide underground waste disposal services. K+S has acquired COMPO (sport lawn and special crop fertilizers) from BASF AG and is handling the marketing of BASF's nitrogen fertilizer K+S Aktiengesellschaft (fertiva). BASF owns about 10% of K+S.

Address: Jagdishpur Industrial Area Dist Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh 227 817, India Phone: +91-5361-270-032

Address: 6490 S. McCarran Blvd., Bldg. C, Ste. 23 Reno, NV 89509 Phone: 775-689-7696 Fax: 775-689-7691

• Chairman: Kumar M. Birla • Managing Director: Rakesh Jain • Executive President: S. N. Jajoo

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 1.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-20.90%)

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 3521.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): Address: Bertha-von-Suttner-Str. 7 22.60% 34131 Kassel, Germany Employees (2004): 10,988 Phone: +49-561-9301-0 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: +49-561-9301-2160 3.40%

• President, Treasurer, and Director; President, Itronics Meta: John W. Whitney • Controller: Michael C. Horsley

• Chairman, Supervisory Board: Gerhard R. Wolf • Chairman, Board of Executive Directors: Ralf Bethke • Member of the Board of Executive Directors: Norbert Steiner

Yes

Landec Ag, Inc.

GrowHow. The Finnish industrial chemical company spun off its agrochemical unit to shareholders. GrowHow's own know-how lies in its various product lines for crop cultivation and animal nutrition: fertilizers (nitrogen-, phosphate-, and potassium-based), phosphates (for animal feed, feed acidifiers, and phosphoric acid), and industrial chemicals (primarily by-products and intermediates left over from the company's fertilizer manufacturing processes). GrowHow has production facilities in seven countries. The Finnish government owns about 30% of the company. Landec Ag's products provide something of a wake-up call for crop seeds. The subsidiary of Landec Corporation produces temperature-activated seed coatings that allow for earlier planting. The coatings, marketed under the brand name Intellicoat, protect seeds planted in cold weather and control germination time, thereby increasing crop yields and extending the time period during which farmers can plant seeds. The coatings are applied to corn and soybean seeds. It also sells seed corn through its subsidiary Fielder's Choice (and has acquired seed corn producer Heartland Hybrids). Landec Ag sells directly to 15,000 farmers in more than 40 states.

LESCO, Inc.

When LESCO sees a golf course or a lawn, it sees green. The company sells fertilizer, grass seed, and turfprotection products used on golf courses and lawns in the US, primarily under the LESCO name, but also under brands such as NOVEX (a longer-acting turf fertilizer). Major customers include landscapers, municipalities, and country clubs. Consumable goods (fertilizer, grass seed, herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides) account for most of LESCO's sales, but the company also sells hard goods such as rotary mowers, spreaders, and sprayers. Lesco sells its products through more than 270 service centers, a fleet of roughly 70 tractor-trailer-based stores, and through sales representatives.

Kemira GrowHow Oyj

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 1576.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 11.10% Employees (2004): 2,901 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-9.00%)

• Chairman: Ossi Virolainen • President and CEO: Heikki Sirviö • CFO and Deputy CEO: Kaj Friman

Address: 306 N. Main St. Monticello, IN 47960-2133 Phone: 574-583-2741 Fax: 574-583-2947

Fiscal Year End: May Revenue (2005): 23.00 M Employees (2005): 70

• President and CEO: Thomas F. (Tom) Crowley • CFO, CIO, and VP of Human Resources: Mike Godlove • VP, Marketing and New Business Development: Bill Gass

Address: 1301 E. 9th St., Ste. 1300 Cleveland, OH 44114-1849 Phone: 216-706-9250 Fax: 216-706-5240

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 575.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 2.60% Employees (2004): 1,341 Employee Growth (1 yr): 2.90%

• President and CEO: Jeffrey L. Rutherford • VP, CFO, and Treasurer: Michael A. Weisbarth • VP, Real Estate and Store Planning: Michael L. Poole

Address: Mechelininkatu 1a 00181 Helsinki, Finland Phone: +358-10-215-111 Fax: +358-10-215-2126

Yes

Makhteshim-Agan Industries Ltd.

Monsanto Company

Nu-Gro Canada Corp.

Makhteshim-Agan Industries (MAI) manufactures generic forms of crop protection chemicals. Its products include herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides. Its first proprietray crop protection product was Rimon, which is not toxic for humans. Formed by the 1998 Koor Industries' acquisition of two separate public companies, the agrochemicals company has operations worldwide. Koor has been selling part of its shares in the company and plans to reduce its voting capital to 34%. To help it expand its distribution for crop protection chemicals, MAI has agreed to buy a 49% stake in Dutch chemicals company Mabeno. Through subsidiaries MAI is also involved in food and nutraceuticals.

Corn the size of a Trident missile? Not quite, but Monsanto is all about bioengineered crops. Monsanto helps farmers grow more crops by applying biotechnology, genomics, and molecular breeding technology to herbicides and seeds. Its flagship product, Roundup, is the world's #1 herbicide. Monsanto also produces genetically altered seeds (cotton, corn, soybean, and canola) that tolerate Roundup and resist bugs; it estimates that more than 70% of the world's insect- and herbicide-resistant crops bears its stamp. It also produces Asgrow, Hartz, and DEKALB seeds. In this decade Monsanto has been re-making itself as a seed and biotech company, as opposed to one focused on agricultural chemicals. Nu-Gro Canada (formerly The Nu-Gro Corporation) is engaged in making and distributing packaged consumer lawn and garden prdoucts. It makes high-quality fertilizers, pet care products, and pest-control and horticultural products for consumer and commercial use. The company's consumer brands include Green Earth, Pickseed, Plant-Prod, Spectrum, and Vigoro. It also makes IB Nitrogen, Nitroform, Nutralene, and Orgaiform for the professional and golf industries. In 2004 the company was acquired by United Industries, which was subsequently acquired by Spectrum Brands (formerly Rayovac Corporation).

Address: 1 Azrieli Centre Tel Aviv 67012, Israel Phone: +972-3-694-7977 Fax: +972-3-609-5012

Address: 800 N. Lindbergh Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63167 Phone: 314-694-1000 Fax: 314-694-8394

Address: 10 Craig St. Brantford, Ontario N3R 7J1, Canada Phone: 519-757-0077 Fax: 519-757-0080

• Chairman: Danny Biran • President and CEO: Shlomo Yanai • VP and CFO: Eli Assraf

Fiscal Year End: August Revenue (2005): 6294.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 15.30% Employees (2004): 12,600 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-4.50%)

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Hugh Grant • EVP and CFO: Terrell K. (Terry) Crews • EVP, International Commercial: Brett D. Begemann

• President and CEO: John D. Hill • CFO: Kelly Clinton • VP, Operations and General Manager, Professional Products: Sheldon O. Witte

Yes

Nufarm Limited

Nufarm UK Limited

OCI Chemical Corporation

Even if you've got an old farm, Nufarm would like to help you kill some weeds. Nufarm's Crop Protection division manufactures herbicides and pesticides, and its Industrial, Fine, and Performance Chemicals unit makes chloralkalies, surfactants, and coatings for pharmaceutical, automotive, and consumer companies. In 2002 Nufarm took control of the Australian and New Zealand marketing rights to Monsanto's Roundup brand of herbicides, and in 2004 it bought some of BASF's herbicide product lines, adding strength to Nufarm's European business. The company has been divesting noncore operations, including US-based Nufarm Specialty Products, to focus on its core crop protection business. Nufarm UK, a subsidiary of Australia-based crop protection manufacturer Nufarm Limited, specializes in producing herbicides. In addition to a broad array of phenoxyacetic and phenoxy propionic herbicides, Nufarm UK makes other crop protection and related agricultural chemicals, including fungicides, pesticides, adjuvant oils, and growth regulators. Products include Lentipur, an herbicide used on certain varieties of winter wheat, winter barley, triticale, and durum wheat grasses, and Nu-shot, an herbicide that controls common nettle, ragwort, brambles, and other difficult weeds in grasslands. OCI Chemical primarily produces soda ash from its mining and manufacturing operations in Wyoming and Alabama. The company also makes sodium percarbonate, widely used in detergents and personal care products. Established as Stauffer Chemical in 1962, the company mines primarily in the Green River Basin of southwestern Wyoming to recover the trona from which its soda ash is produced. OCI Chemical became a subsidiary of South Korea-based DC Chemical Co and was subsequently renamed in 1996 when DC Chemical acquired RhonePoulenc's US soda ash operations.

Address: 103-105 Pipe Rd. Laverton North, Victoria 3026, Australia Phone: +61-3-9282-1000 Fax: +61-3-9282-1001

Fiscal Year End: July Revenue (2004): 1106.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 16.20% Employees (2004): 2,613 Employee Growth (1 yr): 1.80%

• Chairman: Kerry Hoggard • Managing Director, CEO, and Board Member: Doug Rathbone • CFO: Kevin Martin

Address: Crabtree Manorway North Belvedere, Kent DA17 6BQ, England Phone: +44-208-319-7222 Fax: +44-208-319-7200

Fiscal Year End: July Revenue (2004): 314.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 15.60% Employees (2004): 940 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-7.80%)

• Country Manager: Graham K. Dickinson • Marketing Manager: Jonathan (Jon) Staton • Technical Manager: Tudor Dawkins

Address: 2 Corporate Dr. Shelton, CT 06484 Phone: 203-225-3100 Fax: 203-225-3198

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 75.70 M Employees (2005): 506

• President and CEO: Christopher T. Fraser • CFO: Paul Francese • National Sales Manager: Kevin Golankiewicz

PCS Nitrogen, Inc.

PCS Phosphate Company, Inc.

Phibro Animal Health Corporation

Prince Agri Products, Inc.

One of the largest nitrogen producers worldwide, PCS Nitrogen is a unit of Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan. PCS Nitrogen produces its parent company's nitrogen fertilizers and feed ingredients from four manufacturing facilities in the US and one in Trinidad. However, the company has indefinitely shut down its plant at Memphis. It produces ammonia, urea, nitric acid, ammonium nitrate, and nitrogen solutions. The parent company acquires its ammonia at market rates through PCS Nitrogen. In addition to marketing its products to fertilizer customers, PCS Nitrogen also serves such industries as pharmaceuticals and plastics. Natural gas is the primary raw material of its products. Plants, cows, and chickens have got to eat too, you know. The products of PCS Phosphate Company are used as ingredients for fertilizers (both liquid and solid), livestock and poultry feed, and industrial applications. Its operations form part of the phosphate business line of global agrochemical giant PotashCorp. The company also mines phosphates and potash. PCS Phosphate has eight manufacturing facilities in the US Southeast and Midwest and in Brazil. The unit is also a member company of Phosphate Chemicals Export Association Inc. (PhosChem), which was established to promote US Exports of phosphates. Andre the Giant), Phibro Animal Health has changed its name to better reflect its core business. Rather than spinning spooky discs or being large, the former Philipp Brothers Chemicals manufactures specialty chemicals for agricultural and industrial uses. Its largest segment by far, Animal Health and Nutrition, produces feed additives, including trace minerals, vitamins, and antibiotics. Its antibacterials protect against salmonellosis and fowl cholera. Phibro's Industrial Chemicals unit produces pigments, as well as minerals such as iron and manganese, which are used as colorants and in brick, masonry, and glass. Chairman Jack Bendheim owns the company. and swine. The company, a subsidiary of Phibro Animal Health (formerly called Philipp Brothers Chemicals), refines trace minerals such as cobalt, copper, iodine, iron, manganese, molybdenum, and zinc, as well as additives to be used as premixes for animal feed. Its CHROMAX (chromium tripicolinate) is a nutritional supplement fed to over 3 million sows every day. Prince Agri also makes feed flavoring additives such as the raspberry-flavored PIGORTEK for piglets. The company was founded in 1980.

Address: 122 1st Ave. South, Ste. 500 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7K 7G3, Canada Phone: 306-933-8500

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 424.10 M Employees (2005): 1,350

Address: 122 1st Ave. South, Ste. 500 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7K 7G3, Canada Phone: 306-933-8500

• Chairman: William J. (Bill) Doyle Fiscal Year End: • President and Director: December Thomas J. (Tom) Regan Jr. Revenue (2005): 373.30 M • VP Technical Services: Employees (2005): 1,600 Clark H. Huff

Address: 65 Challenger Rd., 3rd Fl. RidgeField Park, NJ 07660 Phone: 201-329-7300 Fax: 201-329-7399

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2005): 364.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 1.70% Employees (2005): 992 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-5.60%)

• Chairman and President: Jack C. Bendheim • CEO: Gerald K. Carlson • CFO: Richard G. Johnson

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 23.20 M Employees (2005): 91

• President: Marvin S. Sussman • VP, Finance and Administration: Clayton Lamkin • VP, Operations: Greg McLean

Address: 1 Prince Plaza Quincy, IL 62306 Phone: 217-222-8854 Fax: 217-222-5098

• EVP: James F. (Jim) Dietz

Sinochem Hong Kong Holdings Limited

Spur Ventures Inc.

Syngenta AG

Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc.

agricultural products. It also is the largest importer of fertilizer products in China. Sinochem Corporation, one of the biggest state-owned corporations in China, controls about three quarters of the company. Sinochem Hong Kong acquired the Sinochem fertilizer business in 2005; previously it was managed Sinochem's property investments and investment holdings. Sinochem Hong Kong was founded in 1994, in order to trade on the Hong Kong stock exchange. PotashCorp acquired a 10% stake in the company in 2005 and raised its holdings to 20% early the next year; the total investment is about $225 million. Spur Ventures is involved in phosphate mining and phosphate fertilizer manufacturing in a joint venture with Yichang Phosphorous Chemicals Co. in China. The Canadian company, which holds a majority interest in the venture, plans to produce up to 1 million tons annually of NPK fertilizer (a compound containing nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium) in China's central province of Hubei. Spur Ventures has completed construction of a phosphoric acid plant in Yichang, which has the capacity to produce 60,000 tons of phosphoric acid per year. The product will be used to supply the joint venture's fertilizer plant, which has the capacity to produce 100,000 tons per year of NPK fertilizer. Syngenta helps to feed the world. The company is neck and neck with Bayer CropScienceto be recognized as the world's largest agrochemical company (each well ahead of Monsanto and DuPont). The company produces crop protection products (insecticides, herbicides, fungicides), field crop seeds (soybeans), vegetable seeds (corn, beans, tomatoes), and flowers. Syngenta and Myriad Genetics have mapped the rice genome, which could make rice crops more resistant to disease and lead to the genetic mapping of other cereals like wheat and corn. Drug giants Novartis and AstraZeneca created Syngenta when they joined their seeds and agrochemical businesses as an independent company in 2000. Plagues of locusts, weevils, or any other kind of cropdestroying bugs are no match for Syngenta Crop Protection. The subsidiary of Syngenta AG, manufactures more than 130 products (herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, and seed treatments) used by farmers and pest control operators to control insects, crop diseases, and weeds. The company operates manufacturing and development facilities in the US. Its agrochemical products are used to protect all manner of crops from corn and soybeans to cotton and peanuts. Syngenta's brands include Callisto, Omega, Actara, Helix, and SecureChoice.

Address: 1 Harbour Road Wanchai, Hong Kong Phone: +852-2850-7689 Fax: +852-2850-7229

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2005): 1.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-90.00%)

Address: 1055 Dunsmuir St., Four Bentall Centre, Ste. 2684 Vancouver, British Columbia V7X 1L3, Canada Phone: 604-689-5564 Fax: 604-609-9836

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 4.00 M Employees (2004): 136 Employee Growth (1 yr): 1842.90%

Address: Schwarzwaldallee 215 4058 Basel, Switzerland Phone: +41-61-323-11-11 Fax: +41-61-323-12-12

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 8104.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 11.50% Employees (2004): 19,500 • Chairman: J. Martin Taylor Employee Growth (1 yr): • CEO: Michael P. Pragnell (-9.10%) • CFO: Domenico Scala

Address: 410 Swing Rd. Greensboro, NC 27409 Phone: 336-632-6000 Fax: 336-632-7353

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 186.10 M Employees (2005): 1,456

• CEO and Director: Du Ke Ping

• Chairman: Steven G. (Steve) Dean • CEO: Robert J. Rennie • President: Y.B. Ian He

• President: Valdemar Fischer • COO: John C. Atkin • VP, Finance: Braydon Winch

Yes

Yes

Terra Nitrogen Company, L.P.

Tetra Micronutrients

The Mosaic Company

There's a lot of dirt out there on Terra Nitrogen, which produces nitrogen fertilizer products. The company operates a plant in Oklahoma that produces ammonia and urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) solution. Farmers use the company's products to improve crop yield and quality of crops. Terra Nitrogen sells its products wholesale to dealers, distributors, and national farm retail chain outlets, primarily in the central and southern Plains and Corn Belt regions of the US. Agrochemical company Terra Industries is Terra Nitrogen's general partner and owns 75% of its shares. Turns out that not all dirt is created equal. Tetra Micronutrients produces mineral additives that make bad dirt better. Its zinc and manganese micronutrients are completely water-soluble, which is important in actually getting the micronutrients to the plants where they improve plant nutrition and the health of animals that eat the plants. The company is based in Texas, has its manufacturing facility in Nebraska, and its sales force is spread throughout the US and into Mexico and Canada. Lots of little pieces have joined together to form The Mosaic Company's big picture. The company was pieced together from the merger of IMC Global and Cargill's former crop nutrition unit in late 2004, creating one of the world's largest makers of phosphate and potash crop nutrients. Mosaic combined IMC's largely domestic business with the global reach provided by Cargill's businesses; in fact, Mosaic does more than two-thirds of its business outside the US. Cargill owns two-thirds of Mosaic, marking the first public ownership of any part of Cargill, the largest private company in the US.

(SMG, formerly The Scotts Company), the world's largest maker and marketer of horticultural and turf products. Its garden and indoor plant care items include grass seeds, fertilizers, herbicides, potting soils, and related tools. Brand names include Ortho, Miracle-Gro, Hyponex, and Turf Builder. Scotts markets Monsanto's Roundup herbicide products for the consumer market and has a lawn and shrub care service. It owns upscale garden retailer Smith & Hawken. Siblings James Hagedorn (chairman and CEO) and Katherine Littlefield (a director) own a third of SMG. Hagedorn and Littlefield are the The Scotts Miracle-Gro children of Horace Hagedorn, the creator of Miracle-Gro plant food. Company

Fiscal Year End: December Address: Terra Centre, 600 4th St. Revenue (2005): 454.80 M Sioux City, IA 51102-6000 Revenue Growth (1 yr): Phone: 712-277-1340 8.50% Fax: 712-233-3648 Employees (2005): 0

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Michael L. (Mike) Bennett • SVP, CFO, and Director: Francis G. (Frank) Meyer • Manager, Communications: Kim Mathers

Address: 230 Spring Hill Dr., Ste. 310 The Woodlands, TX 77386 Phone: 281-419-9430 Fax: 281-292-9562

• President: Michael Deiker • Director, Sales and Marketing: Kipp Smallwood Revenue (2005): 376.50 M • Manager, Administration: Employees (2005): 1,200 Peggy Rivas

Address: 3033 Campus Dr., Ste. E490 Plymouth, MN 55441 Phone: 763-577-2700 Fax: 763-559-2860

Fiscal Year End: May Revenue (2005): 4396.70 M

• Chairman: Robert L. Lumpkins • President, CEO, and Director: Fredric W. (Fritz) Corrigan • EVP and CFO: Lawrence W. (Larry) Stranghoener

Address: 14111 Scottslawn Rd. Marysville, OH 43041 Phone: 937-644-0011 Fax: 937-644-7614

Fiscal Year End: September Revenue (2005): 2369.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 16.30% Employees (2004): 4,985 Employee Growth (1 yr): 24.50%

• President and COO: Robert F. Bernstock • EVP and CFO: Christopher L. (Chris) Nagel • Chairman and CEO: James (Jim) Hagedorn

Yes

Yes

Yes

Better gardening through chemicals. Trans-Resources, Inc. (TRI) makes specialty plant nutrients as well as industrial and organic chemicals for businesses worldwide. Through Haifa Chemicals, TRI is the world's largest producer of potassium nitrate, a specialized growth nutrient for produce and tobacco; it controls about half of the world market for potassium nitrate. Haifa Chemicals also produces other fertilizers and food additives. The unit's products are marketed under the Multi-K and Multicote brands. Other TRI subsidiaries make watersoluble and liquid-starter fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, horticulture supplies, and irrigation equipment. Trans-Resources, Inc. Chairman Arie Genger and family own the company. healthy plants, UAP Holding minds the crops. Through its United Agri Products subsidiary, the company distributes crop production supplies, including seeds, fertilizers, and pest and weed killers, to regional dealers and growers throughout the US and Canada. Its suppliers include BASF, Dow AgroSciences, and Monsanto; it also markets its own manufactured products under brands including ACA, Salvo, Savage, Shotgun, and Dyna-Gro. The company provides crop and inventory management, biotechnology advising, and custom blending services. UAP Holding became a publicly traded entity in 2004; investment firm Apollo Management owns a 34% stake in UAP Holding Corp. the company. Yara International tries to make the world green -- and, in the process, make a little green of its own. The manufacturer of fertilizers and industrial gases is among the world's largest plant nutrient companies and ammonia producers and marketers, selling more than 20 million metric tons of fertilizer per year. It is also a top supplier of CO2 and nitrogen chemicals to industrial markets and of nitrates to the explosives industry. Environmental operations include manufacturing products to improve the taste of drinking water and reduce nitric oxide pollution. Formerly known as Hydro Agri, the company was spun off in early 2004 by Norwegian alumnium maker Norsk Hydro. Yara International ASA Yara markets its products worldwide. Yara America's theme is Man against Nature as it strives to develop environmentally friendly applications for its fertilizers. Yara America is the North American subsidiary of Norwegian fertilizer company Yara International. The company produces both nitrogenous and phosphatic fertilizers to the agricultural and horticultural industry from Yara's network of about nearly 50 terminals in the US and Canada. Yara also produces nearly a quarter of the world's total market share of ammonia. Yara's North American unit was formerly called Hydro Agri North America before its Yara North America, parent company was spun off from industrial giant Norsk Inc. Hydro ASA in early 2004.

• Chairman and CEO: Arie Genger • President and COO: William Dowd • Controller: Caron Peters

Address: 200 W. 57th St. New York, NY 10019 Phone: 212-515-4100 Fax: 212-515-4111

Address: 7251 W. 4th St. Greeley, CO 80634 Phone: 970-356-4400 Fax: 970-347-1560

Fiscal Year End: February Revenue (2005): 2506.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 1000.40% Employees (2005): 3,440 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-5.00%)

• President, CEO, and Director: L. Kenneth (Kenny) Cordell • EVP, Products Company: Kevin Howard • President, Distribution: Bryan S. Wilson

Address: Bygdøy allé 2 N-0202 Oslo, Norway Phone: +47-24-15-70-00 Fax: +47-24-15-72-67

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 5456.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-4.50%) Employees (2004): 7,067 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-6.20%)

• Chairman: Øivind Lund • President and CEO: Thorleif Enger • EVP and COO: Daniel Clauw

Address: 100 N. Tampa, Ste. 3200 Tampa, FL 33602 Phone: 813-222-5700 Fax: 813-875-5735

• President: Jack Gale • VP, Finance and Administration: Leesa Burns • Marketing Manager: Peter Valesares

Yes

Company Name

Description The many-armed Aditya Birla rivals even Shiva's many incarnations. With nearly 70 manufacturing units, service operations, and subsidiaries the Indian conglomerate produces fabrics, industrial gases, aluminum and copper, cement, palm oil, branded apparel, carbon black, chemicals, fertilizers, sponge iron, and insulators. Aditya Birla is the #1 producer of rayon fiber in the world as well as Asia's largest aluminum producer. Its subsidiaries also provide business, financial, and IT services. This rising sun (Aditya is the Sanskrit word for sun) has come a long way from its roots in Aditya Birla the tiny Rajasthani village of Pilani, where Seth Shiva Management Narayan Birla started trading cotton in 1857. Corporation Ltd Its Alcan-do attitude has helped make Alcan one of the world's largest aluminum producers, behind the US's Alcoa. The company controls 13% of the world's aluminum production capacity. It mines bauxite (aluminum ore) and makes and recycles aluminum sheet, foil, wire and cable, and extrusions (doors, windows, auto parts). Alcan also generates hydroelectric power and makes aluminum-related specialty chemicals and packaging products. This decade has proved busy for Alcan. It bought Algroup in 2000, Pechiney in 2003, and spun off its aluminum rolled products unit into a public Alcan Inc. company called Novelis in early 2005. makes for the automotive and other industries. The company makes rolling mill and extrusion products, composite materials, components, and aluminum systems. An indirect subsidiary of US-based Alcan Inc., it is known for its lightweight automotive structures, offiering an array of components for crash systems and body structures. The Volkswagen Beetle was one of the first autos to use its products. The company's aluminum crossmembers on front bumpers are designed to give way upon impact to prevent further damage to the body structure. Alcan Singen also makes aluminum modules designed to reduce the weight of Alcan Singen GmbH the front section. You'll never have reason to pay a bunch of guys in white coveralls to climb around your house with an electric paint sprayer. That's the pitch over at Alcoa Home Exteriors. The company, a subsidiary of global aluminum giant Alcoa, manufactures aluminum trim, siding, injection-molded shutters, and accessories for the light construction and residential industries. Alcoa Home Exteriors also makes rain removal and ventilation systems. Its brand names include Mastic (siding sold under the lines Cedar Discovery, QUEST, Alcoa Home and Brentwood) and Alcoa-branded siding (lines including Exteriors, Inc. Grand Sierra, Liberty Elite, and Board & Batten).

Contact Info

Financial Highlights

Address: S.K. Ahire Marg, Worli Mumbai 400 025, India Phone: +91-5652-5000 Fax: +91-5652-5750

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 20320.00 M Address: 1188 Sherbrooke St. West Revenue Growth (1 yr): Montreal, Quebec H3A 3G2, (-18.30%) Canada Employees (2005): 65,000 Phone: 514-848-8000 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: 514-848-8115 (-21.20%)

Key People

Public

• Chairman: Kumar M. Birla • Director, Human Resources and CTO: Santrupt Misra • Director, Corporate Strategy and Business Development,: Bharat K. Singh

• Chairman: L. Yves Fortier • President, CEO, and Director: Richard B. (Dick) Evans • EVP and CFO: Michael Hanley

Address: Alusingen-Platz 1 G-78224 Singen, Germany Phone: +49-7731-80-0 Fax: +49-7731-80-2222

• Managing Director/Site Manager: Peter Hutsch • Managing Director/Labor Director: Thomas Sigi • CFO: Joachim Blatter

Address: 1590 Omega Dr. Pittsburgh, PA 15205 Phone: 412-249-6000 Fax: 412-249-6059

• President and CEO: Gary Acinapura • VP, Finance: Antonio Pugas • VP, Operations: Greg Boatright

Yes

Alcoa is one of the world's top producers of alumina (aluminum's principal ingredient, processed from bauxite) and aluminum. Its vertically integrated operations include bauxite mining, alumina refining, and aluminum smelting; primary products include alumina and its chemicals, automotive components, and sheet aluminum for beverage cans. The company's non-aluminum products include consumer products, fiber-optic cables, food service and flexible packaging products, and plastic closures. Major markets include the aerospace, automotive, construction, and packaging industries. Alcoa has gained presence in China's aluminum market by forming a strategic alliance with Alcoa Inc. Aluminum Corporation of China (Chalco). Alexandra Extrusion makes precision aluminum extruded products such as custom front panels and heat sinks. The company's services include assembly, CNC (computerized numerical control) machining, finishing, stretch forming, and welding. Alexandria Extrusion markets its products to companies in a variety of industries, such as electronics, medical equipment, power tools, telecommunications, and Alexandria transportation. President Tom Schabel owns the company, Extrusion Company which was founded in 1966. to zinc. The company smelts aluminum and refines zinc to produce a variety of alloys; it also provides metal analysis services. The company's main customers are in the appliance, automotive, electronics, housewares, and toy industries. Allied Metal operates from facilities in Chicago and Allied Metal in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The company was founded in Company 1953. industry. Formed and operating through a spinoff of WMC Resources' 40% stake in Alcoa's subsidiary, Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals (AWAC), the company manufactures bauxite, alumina, alumina-based chemicals, and aluminum. AWAC is considered the largest producer of alumina (a refined product of bauxite ore used in making aluminum) and a major producer of alumina-based chemicals. The alumina produced by AWAC is sold mainly to Alcoa's smelting facilities. Overseas customers in Canada, Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, and the US purchase the rest of the alumina. Alumina Limited "aluminating"): Aluminium of Greece mines bauxite and produces hydrated and calcined alumina, as well as aluminum created through electrolysis. The company's finished aluminum is marketed to automobile manufacturers and manufacturers of building materials and packaging. Aluminium of Greece's Delphes & Distomon subsidiary operates underground mines to extract bauxite used by its Aluminium of parent for aluminum production. In March 2005 Alcan sold its Greece Industrial 60%-plus interest in Aluminium of Greece to Mytilineos and Commercial Holdings. Alcan had gained that interest through its 2004 S.A. acquisition of Pechiney.

Address: 390 Park Ave. New York, NY 10022-4608 Phone: 412-553-4545

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 26159.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 11.40% Employees (2004): 119,000 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-0.80%)

Address: 401 County Rd. 22 NW Alexandria, MN 56308 Phone: 320-763-6537 Fax: 320-763-9250

• President: Tom Schabel • VP Sales and Marketing: Brian Bloedorn Fiscal Year End: December • VP Administration and Revenue (2005): 43.50 M Treasurer: Tim Froemming Employees (2005): 310

Address: 2059 S. Canal St. Chicago, IL 60616-1515 Phone: 312-225-2800 Fax: 312-225-1161

Fiscal Year End: July Revenue (2005): 28.40 M Employees (2005): 120

Address: IBM Tower, 60 City Rd., Level 12 Southbank, Victoria 3006, Australia Phone: +61-3-8699-2600 Fax: +61-3-8699-2699

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 2.90 M Employees (2004): 7,500 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-6.30%)

Address: 1, Sekeri St. 106 71 Athens, Greece Phone: +30-210-36-93-000 Fax: +30-210-36-93-615

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 487.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 22.60% Employees (2004): 1,166 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-12.70%)

• Chairman and CEO: Alain J. P. Belda • EVP and CFO: Joseph C. (Joe) Muscari • EVP, Corporate Development: Barbara S. Jeremiah

• VP, Sales: Michael Gilford

• Chairman: Donald M. Morley • CEO and Director: John Marlay • CFO: Ken A. Dean

• Chairman: Jason Stratos • Managing Director: Jacques Gani • CFO: John Dimou

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Aluminum Corporation of China Limited (Chalco) has masterminded its way into mixing alumina and aluminum. Chalco is the only maker of alumina -- which is refined from bauxite and a key material in producing aluminum -- in China. The company produces over 6 million tons of alumina products (including alumina, alumina hydrate and alumina chemicals), which makes it the second-largest maker of Aluminum alumina in the world. Chalco also produces just under 8 Corporation of million tons of primary aluminum annually. Chinalco, a stateChina Limited owned enterprise, owns more than 40% of the company. Through its Logan Aluminum unit, ARCO Aluminum manufactures aluminum sheet, which is used mainly by the beverage and automotive industries. Logan Alumnium's offerings include automotive sheet, building products, distributor sheet, food can stock, and rigid container sheet. Logan Aluminum is a joint venture of ARCO Aluminum and Novelis, a spinoff of Alcan. ARCO Aluminum is owned by oil ARCO Aluminum, giant BP, which acquired the company as part of its purchase Inc. of Atlantic Richfield Company (known as ARCO) in 2000. What is scrap to some is a precious metal to Audubon Metals. The company recycles shredded automobiles and smelts the aluminum for use by diecasters throughout the Midwest. Once it receives the shredded automobile, Audubon Metals processes, dries, melts, alloys, and delivers the new aluminum alloy castings to the customer. By-products such as brass and copper are also recovered from the automobile Audubon Metals, scrap. The company first began operating in 1996. LLC Behr Aluminum, formerly known as Behr Metals, wrestles with aluminum everyday. The company, a subsidiary of Joseph Behr and Sons, uses recycled aluminum to produce ingots and other products for companies such as General Motors. Joseph Behr and Sons also operates a trucking company, a construction firm, a scrap iron and steel supplier, and a specialty metals processor. The company was founded in Behr Aluminum, Inc. 1906 by Russian immigrant Joseph Behr. CAP Aluminium Systems fabricates and installs aluminum and terracotta cladding to architectural support systems. The company also provides services such as curtain walling, roof glazing, and rain screen cladding. CAP Aluminium Systems has assisted in projects such as the Broadway Plaza (Birmingham), Evelina Children's Hospital (London), The New Pentland Centre (Finchley), and the University of Surrey (Guildford). Founded in 1983, the company is Kawneer's CAP Aluminium largest dealer of Pilkington Planar structural glazing and Systems Ltd. Wright Style steel fire rated glazing systems.

Address: No. 12B Fuxing Rd., Haidian District Beijing 100814, China Phone: +86-10-6397-1767 Fax: +86-10-6397-1690

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 4598.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 17.80% Employees (2004): 68,620 Employee Growth (1 yr): 1.80%

Address: 9960 Corporate Campus Dr. Ste. 3000 Louisville, KY 40223-4048 Phone: 502-566-5700 Fax: 502-566-5740

Key People • President and Business Unit Leader: Patrick Franc • VP Operations: David Fiscal Year End: December Brown Revenue (2005): 600.00 M • VP Finance: David Employees (2005): 32 Sourwine

Address: 3055 Ohio Dr. Henderson, KY 42420-4394 Phone: 270-830-6622 Fax: 270-830-9987

• President and General Manager: Jim Butkus • Treasurer: Keith Fiscal Year End: December Schultheis Revenue (2005): 38.00 M • VP, Sales: Marty Employees (2005): 160 Wohadlo

Address: 1100 Seminary St. Rockford, IL 61104 Phone: 815-987-2750 Fax: 815-987-9876

Address: Systems House, Spon Lane West Bromwich, West Midlands B70 6AA, United Kingdom Phone: +44-1215-251-000 Fax: +44-1215-255-010

• Chairman and CEO: Xiao Yaqing • President and Director: Xiong Weiping • VP, CFO, and Director: Chen Jihua

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 7.80 M • President: Frank Employees (2005): 66 Weissert Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 41.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 4.90% Employees (2004): 177 Employee Growth (1 yr): 1.10%

• Managing Director: Tim Robinson • Commercial Director: Graham Kendrick • Finance Director: Gerry Morley

Yes

When the aluminum century rolls around, this company will be ready. Century Aluminum makes primary molten and ingot aluminum at facilities in Hawesville, Kentucky; Ravenswood, West Virginia; and Grundartangi, Iceland. (The Iceland facility is operated by subsidiary Nordural.) Century Aluminum also owns a 49.67% stake in an aluminum production facility in Mount Holly, South Carolina. Together, aluminum producer Pechiney (part of Alcan) and wire and cable maker Southwire account for a little more than half of Century Aluminum's sales. Former parent Glencore International, a major Century Aluminum customer as well as a supplier to Century Aluminum, still has Company about a 30% stake in the company. room table than a shiny stack of aluminum ingots from Columbia Falls Aluminum. Their primary ingots (sheet and tbar are also available) are the hostess' choice when entertaining. Columbia Falls Aluminum, a subsidiary of Glencore International AG, manufactures primary aluminum Columbia Falls at its reduction plant in Montana. The company, like all US Aluminum aluminum producers, is being challenged by increases in Company, LLC energy costs. company just doesn't have as much bounce in its step. The company has sold its hose and compound rubber manufacturing interests in order to concentrate on aluminum rolled products (foils and metal plastic yarns), consumer products (food packaging and cleaning products), and cords and cables (bare copper, enameled, and insulated). Comital Saiag has about 20 production facilities in Italy and elsewhere. In 2003 Saiag was taken over by the Italian company Cortiplast, which is controlled by the family of Comital Saiag's chairman Cornelio Valetto, and the next year Comital Saiag Saiag and its subsidiary Comital merged to form, what else, S.p.A. Comital Saiag. Cymat has made foam-forming a business. The company designs, develops, and manufactures 3D aluminum foam castings which are primarily used to make automobiles lighter and safer. The company's primary product is SmartMetal, a stabilized aluminum foam (SAF). The aluminum foam is molded by sending gas through molten aluminum that can be formed into flat sheets and other shapes. Cymat's biggest partners include Georg Fischer and Brembo. The company Cymat Corp. was first formed in the 1990's to produce aluminum packaging for the pharmaceuticals and telecommunications industries. When it comes to aluminum, Empire Resources is especially resourceful. The company distributes semifinished aluminum products, including sheet, foil, wire, cast products, and aluminum powder and paste. Products are sold primarily to manufacturers of appliances, automobiles, packaging, and housing materials. Empire Resources provides a variety of related services, including sourcing of aluminum products, storage and delivery, and handling foreign exchange transactions. Company president and CEO Nathan Kahn and Empire Resources, CFO Sandra Kahn, who are husband and wife, own 54% of Inc. Empire Resources.

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 1132.40 M Address: 2511 Garden Rd., Bldg. A, Revenue Growth (1 yr): Ste. 200 6.80% Monterey, CA 93940 Employees (2004): 1,420 Phone: 831-642-9300 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: 831-642-9399 (-2.10%)

• President, CEO, and Director: Logan W. Kruger • EVP and COO: E. Jack Gates • EVP and CFO: Michael A. Bless

Address: 2000 Alluminum Dr. Columbia Falls, MT 59912 Phone: 406-892-8400 Fax: 406-892-8201

• VP and General Manager: Steve Knight • Financial Controller: Rob Vixie

Address: Strada Brandizzo, 130 10088 Volpiano, Torino, Italy Phone: +39-011-982-2111

• Chairman: Cornelio Valetto • Managing Director: Maurizio Piglione

Address: 6320-2 Danville Rd. Mississauga, Ontario L5T 2L7, Canada Phone: 905-696-9900 Fax: 905-696-9300

Fiscal Year End: April Revenue (2004): 0.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 44.80% Employees (2004): 31 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-26.20%)

Key People • Chairman: Terence J. Smith • President, CEO, and Director: Paul A. Tichauer • CFO and Secretary: Richard P. Rogers

Address: 1 Parker Plaza Fort Lee, NJ 07024 Phone: 201-944-2200 Fax: 201-944-2226

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 358.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 68.60% Employees (2004): 30 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• Non-Executive Chairman: William Spier • President, CEO, and Director: Nathan Kahn • VP, CFO, and Director: Sandra R. Kahn

Yes

Yes

Exco Technologies manufactures die-casting and aluminum extrusion products and services to the automotive industry. The company's casting and extrusion technology unit manufactures die casting machines, high precision tooling for small die casting and plastic injection molding machines, and single cell die ovens. Its automotive solutions unit (through its Neocon and Polytech divisions) makes such items as door pockets, restrain systems, and slide-out tables, primarily for Exco Technologies passenger cars and light trucks. Exco operates more than a Limited dozen facilities in Canada, Mexico, Morocco, and the US. Hindalco thinks copper, and aluminum, is nifty. The company is India's largest aluminum producer and operates the country's largest copper smelting and refining plant, located in Gujarat. Hindalco also owns the Mount Gordon and Nifty copper mines in Australia. The company's aluminum products include wire rods, ingots, billets, aluminum alloy wheels, aluminum packaging and foils (blister, cigarette, lidding, light gauge, and foil laminates). Its copper products include cast copper rods for power and communication cables, strips for power and distribution transformers, magnet wire, and copper Hindalco Industries cathodes. Hindalco is a subsidiary of Indian conglomerate Aditya Birla. It was founded in 1958. Limited Hydro Aluminium's products can be turned into everything from soda cans to car bodies. The company forms Norsk Hydro's aluminum business and accounts for than half of the Norwegian industrial corporation's annual sales. Hydro Aluminium ranks among the world's top three aluminum producers with Alcan and Alcoa. Norsk Hydro acquired Germany's VAW aluminium in 2002, and the combined businesses possess strength in the automotive, packaging, construction, and printing industries. While based in Europe, Hydro Aluminium Hydro Aluminium conducts business worldwide and is AS particularly strong in North America and Asia. Jupiter Aluminum aims to shine in the galaxy of aluminum producers. The company manufactures aluminum coil that is primarily used to make building and construction products such as drip edge, gutters and downspouts, screen frames, trim and soffits, and vents and louvers. The company's coil products also are used by manufacturers of cookware, irrigation equipment, license plates, and sign blanks. Jupiter Aluminum provides both mill-finish and painted coils. The company makes its products from recycled aluminum. It purchases scrap such as aluminum wire and cable, painted aluminum, used beverage cans, and segregated aluminum Jupiter Aluminum alloy clippings and solids. Jupiter Aluminum was founded in Corporation 1992.

Fiscal Year End: September Revenue (2005): 183.90 M Address: 130 Spy Ct., 2nd Fl. Revenue Growth (1 yr): Markham, Ontario L3R 5H6, Canada 8.10% Employees (2005): 1,950 Phone: 905-477-3065 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: 905-477-2449 0.00%

• Chairman: Helmut Hofmann • President and CEO: Brian A. Robbins • EVP: Bonnie M. Cartwright

Address: Century Bhavan, 3rd Fl., Dr. Annie Besant Rd., Worli Mumbai 400 025, India Phone: +91-22-5662-6666 Fax: +91-22-2436-2516

• Chairman: Kumar M. Birla • Managing Director: Debu Bhattacharya • Group Executive President and CFO: R. K. Kasliwal

Address: N-0240 Oslo, Norway Phone: +47-22-53-8100 Fax: +47-22-53-7930

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 13162.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 27.70% Employees (2004): 25,967 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-2.80%)

Address: 1745 E 165th St. Hammond, IN 46320 Phone: 219-932-3322 Fax: 219-933-2728

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2005): 100.00 M Employees (2005): 200

• EVP and Head of Aluminum: Torstein Dale (Dale) Sjøtveit • CFO: Peik Norenberg

• CEO: Dietrich Gross

has slimmed down considerably and now operates 11 fabricated products manufacturing plants in the US and Canada and one minority-owned aluminum smelting facility in the UK. Following on a 2002 filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the company has sold its bauxite and alumina mining businesses and closed up shop in its commodities marketing unit. The company's main customers are in the aerospace, industrial, and transportation markets. MAXXAM has a 62% stake in the company. The bankruptcy filing came as a result of the economic slowdown of the first part of the Kaiser Aluminum decade, weakened aluminum prices, and mounting asbestos Corporation litigation. Those folks who like to crush beer cans against their foreheads owe a lot to Logan Aluminum. Formed in 1985, Logan manufactures aluminum sheet that is used primarily by the beverage industry. A joint-venture of ARCO Aluminum and Novelis Logan Aluminum consists of one production facility that also manufactures products for makers of building products and rigid containers as well as for the automotive industry. Its technology includes ingot casting, hot and cold rolling, and finishing. It had been partly owned by Alcan until Logan Aluminum, the early 2005 spin-off of Novelis. Inc. Aluminum and plastics products maker Loxcreen does its part to keep the outside out and the inside in. The company specializes in custom aluminum and vinyl extrusions; it also produces and supplies a full line of screen doors, storm doors, windows, roofing products (flashing and edging), and ventilation products (foundation vents, ridge vents, and soffit Loxcreen Company vents). Loxcreen also offers floor trim and weather stripping. Inc. The company was founded in 1947. With a reputation for taking it to the max, corporate raider Charles Hurwitz operates MAXXAM, an eclectic mix of businesses ranging from aluminum and timber products to real estate and horse racing. MAXXAM's top revenue source is Kaiser Aluminum, which has been in Chapter 11 bankruptcy since 2002. MAXXAM's timber subsidiary, Pacific Lumber, owns about 205,000 acres of old-growth redwood and Douglas fir timberlands in Humboldt County, California. MAXXAM's real estate interests include commercial and residential properties in Arizona, California, Texas, and Puerto Rico. The company also owns the Sam Houston Race Park, a horseracing track near Houston. Chairman and CEO MAXXAM Inc. Charles Hurwitz controls 77% of MAXXAM. gratitude to the Metal Container Corporation (MCC). The subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch's packaging segment makes cans and lids for Anheuser-Busch Companies and also supplies the US soft-drink container market. MCC makes more than 25 billion cans and 28 billion lids annually and supplies nearly 65% of Anheuser-Busch's cans and threequarters of its lids. The company operates eight can and three lid manufacturing facilities in California, Colorado, Florida, Metal Container Georgia, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Corporation Wisconsin.

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 942.40 M Address: 27422 Portola Pkwy., Ste. Revenue Growth (1 yr): 350 (-31.00%) Foothill Ranch, CA 92610-2831 Employees (2004): 2,260 Phone: 949-614-1740 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: 949-614-1930 (-49.80%)

• Chairman: George T. Haymaker Jr. • President, CEO, and Director: Jack A. Hockema • VP and Controller: Daniel D. Maddox

Address: 6920 Lewisburg Rd. Russellville, KY 42276-9309 Phone: 270-755-6000 Fax: 270-755-6617

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 118.20 M Employees (2005): 930

Address: 1630 Old Dunbar Rd. West Columbia, SC 29171 Phone: 803-822-8200 Fax: 803-822-8547

• President: John W. Fiscal Year End: December Parrish Jr. Revenue (2005): 124.60 M • CFO: Charles C. Rone Employees (2005): 711 Jr.

Yes

• President: Mike Harris

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 406.40 M Address: 1330 Post Oak Blvd., Ste. Revenue Growth (1 yr): 2000 16.90% Houston, TX 77056 Employees (2004): 1,775 Phone: 713-975-7600 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: 713-267-3701 0.30%

• Chairman and CEO: Charles E. Hurwitz • EVP and CFO: John H. Karnes

Address: 3636 S. Geyer Rd. St. Louis, MO 63127-1237 Phone: 314-957-9500

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Joseph P. Sellinger • EVP and COO: Ranjive (Tony) Bhalla • VP and CFO; AnheuserBusch Packaging Group, Inc. and Metal C: Gary A. Bybee

Yes

Nippon Light Metal Company (NLM) is heavily into aluminum. The company's operations span the process from turning bauxite ore into alumina, to smelting aluminum, to fabricating finished aluminum products. It makes aluminum ingot, aluminum sheets and extrusions, chemicals (aluminum hydroxide, caustic soda, fluorine), fabricated products, and building materials. Fabricated products (bridges, fuel tanks, ladders) make up about 40% of NLM's sales; building materials (scaffolds, fences and railings, soundproof walls) contribute about a third of sales. Founded in 1939, the Nippon Light Metal company has aluminum processing facilities throughout Asia Company, Ltd. and in North America. Noranda Aluminum, a unit of Canada-based mining giant Falconbridge (formerly known as Noranda), manufactures aluminum extrusion billets, aluminum redrawn rods, highstrength aluminum alloys, and other primary aluminum products. Noranda Aluminum was founded in 1968, and the company's first plant began operations the next year. A Noranda Aluminum, separate Falconbridge unit, Norandal USA, operates Inc. aluminum rolling mills. Norandal USA is responsible for keeping leftovers fresh. The company operates four aluminum rolling mills where it makes household foil, converter foil, fin stock, and transformer windings for the consumer packaging, power distribution, refrigeration, and automotive industries. Its plants are located in Franklin and Huntingdon, Tennessee; Salisbury, North Carolina; and Newport, Arkansas and cumulatively produce more than 200,000 metric tons annually. Norandal USA is a subsidiary of Falconbridge, formerly known as Noranda prior Norandal USA, Inc to its 2005 merger with the former Falconbridge Limited. Nordural, also known as Nordic Aluminum, operates the Nordural primary aluminum reduction facility located in Grundartangi, Iceland. The primary aluminum metal manufacturer has a production capacity of about 90,000 metric tons per year, but Nordural is currently expanding the facility, which will increase production to more than 220,000 metric tons by late 2006. In 2004 US-based aluminum producer Century Aluminum acquired the company from investment firm Columbia Ventures Corporation. Columbia Nordural ehf. Ventures built the Nordural aluminum smelting facility in 1998. Drilling for oil and gas in the waters off of New Foundland and manufacturing aluminum in Argentina, Norsk Hydro Americas has just about all of the western hemisphere covered through its varied operations. A subsidiary of Norwegian metals and energy giant Norsk Hydro, the unit is active in its parent's two primary industries: aluminum production and oil and energy exploration. Norsk Hydro is the world's third largest aluminum producer, and North America makes up a significant part of Norsk Hydro that business. This American unit accounts for more than Americas, Inc. 10% of its parent's total sales.

Address: NYK Tennoz Building, 220, Higashi-Shinagawa, 2-chome, Shinagaw Tokyo 140-6828, Japan Phone: +81-3-5461-9333 Fax: +81-3-5461-9344

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 5037.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 17.50% Employees (2004): 12,598 Employee Growth (1 yr): 2.20% • President, CEO, and Director: Shigesato Sato

Address: 801 Crescent Centre Dr Franklin, TN 37067-6224 Phone: 615-771-5700 Fax: 615-771-5701

• President, Primary Fiscal Year End: December Products: Keith Gregston Revenue (2005): 1068.90 M • Technical Manager: Employees (2005): 4,300 David (Dave) Hart

Address: 801 Crescent Centre Dr., Ste. 600 Franklin, TN 37067 Phone: 615-778-2000 Fax: 615-778-8843

Fiscal Year End: December • President: Scott Croft Revenue (2005): 468.80 M • VP and Controller: Ed Employees (2005): 820 Darnell

Address: Grundartanga 301 Akranes, Iceland Phone: +354-430-1000

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 150.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 48.50%

• Managing Director: Richard A Starkweather • CFO, Public Relations, and Administration: Ragnar Guðmundsson

• President: Odd S. Gullberg Address: 15995 N. Barkers Landing • VP, Treasury: Randy Rd. Haynes Houston, TX 77079-2467 Fiscal Year End: December • VP, Corporate Phone: 281-504-1100 Revenue (2005): 817.10 M Communications: Anne Fax: 281-504-1101 Employees (2005): 2,900 Ekern

Northwest Aluminum Specialties, Inc.

Novelis Inc.

Ohio Valley Aluminum Company, LLC

Ormet Corporation

Scepter, Inc.

Northwest Aluminum Specialties produces aluminum billet in a variety of alloys. The company's log-shaped cast billet products, which range in diameter from 2.4 inches to 11 inches, can be used by customers in hot extrusion and hot or cold impact extrusion and as hot or cold forging stock. End products made from the company's billet include air bag canisters, automotive wheels and wheel covers, bicycle frames, and missile housings. Nothing can foil Novelis because it has the art of rolling aluminum in the can . . . the aluminum can, that is. Novelis, a spinoff of Alcan, manufactures aluminum rolled semi-finished products primarily used by the construction and industrial, foil products, transportation, and beverage and food can industries. The rolled aluminum is made with a variety of alloy mixtures in a range of hardnesses, thicknesses, and widths, with various coatings and finishes designed specifically for its end-use segments. Customers include Agfa-Gevaert, Anheuser-Busch Companies, DaimlerChrysler , General Motors, Rexam PLC, and Visteon Corporation. The Ohio Valley Aluminum Company (OVACO) makes aluminum billets for the aluminum extrusions industry. (A billet is pushed or drawn through a die to create an extruded, or shaped, product, such as a frame or rail.) The company operates from facilities in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio that can produce some 450 million pounds of billets annually. OVACO cuts billets according to customer specifications; it can produce billets ranging in length from 18 inches to 216 inches. The company was founded in 1955. aluminum ore (bauxite) and manufactures aluminum ingot, billet (pressed bars), sheet, foil, and other products for the fabrication, extrusion, and conversion markets. The company maintains facilities in Louisiana and Ohio. Ormet emerged from bankruptcy in 2005; the company had hoped to resolve labor disputes before exiting bankruptcy but was unable to do so. It has hired a financial adviser to evaluate strategic alternatives, and it has exited the milled products business to concentrate on primary aluminum production. Ormet was founded in 1954. aluminum production and wood products manufacturing. Scepter plants process aluminum dross and scrap into ingots, molten aluminum, and other products. The company also trades aluminum and collects cans for recycling. Scepter Hardwoods produces drawer stock and components and related products. Scepter companies operate from facilities in the US (Indiana, New York, Tennessee, and Texas) and Canada (Quebec). Company president Garney Scott founded Scepter in 1986.

Address: 3313 W. 2nd St. The Dalles, OR 97058 Phone: 541-296-6161 Fax: 541-298-0888

Address: 3399 Peachtree Rd. NE, Lenox Bldg., Ste. 1500 Atlanta, GA 30329 Phone: 404-814-4200 Fax: 404-814-4219

• President: Brett Wilcox • CFO: William Reid • VP, Marketing and Sales: Daniel Gnall

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 7755.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 24.70% Employees (2004): 13,500

Address: 1100 Brooks Industrial Rd. Shelbyville, KY 40065 Fiscal Year End: February Phone: 502-633-2783 Revenue (2005): 250.00 M Fax: 502-633-0589 Employees (2005): 500

• Chairman: J. E. Newall • CEO and Director: Brian W. Sturgell • COO: Martha FinnBrooks

• Chairman: Jeffrey L Mackin • President: Don Carey • VP Sales: Ed Wiegand

• EVP and CFO: Jack Teitz Address: 1233 Main St., Ste. 4000 Wheeling, WV 26003 Phone: 304-234-3900 Fax: 304-234-3929

Address: 1485 Scepter Ln. Waverly, TN 37185-3290 Phone: 931-535-3565 Fax: 931-535-3342

• VP, General Manager Operations: Gary Mallett • VP, General Manager Sales and Marketing: Thomas V. Stephens

• President: Garney Scott Fiscal Year End: December Jr. Revenue (2005): 54.70 M • VP, Operations: Garney Employees (2005): 200 Scott III

Yes

Sherwin Alumina, one of the largest alumina refineries in North America, extracts aluminum oxide, called alumina, from bauxite ore. Formerly owned by Reynolds Metals, the company was sold in 2000 to a private investment entity, BPU Reynolds, made up of Sherwin Alumina executives Peter Bailey, Lewis Patterson, and Mark Uzelac. In 2004, China Minmetals Nonferrous Metals bought a 51% stake in Sherwin Sherwin Alumina Alumina; the BPU team owns the rest and continues to run Company the company. Superior Essex (formerly Superior TeleCom) is pushing its superior products -- communications wire and cable and magnet wire. The company, one of the US's leading makers of copper wire, has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and changed its name. Superior Essex's products can be found in transformers, generators, and electrical controls. The company's Essex Group makes magnet wires, while Superior Essex Communications makes both copper and fiber optic wire and cable. Sprint and regional Bell (telephone) operating companies, together, account for 57% of the communications segment's sales. In 2004 Superior Essex acquired the North American telecommunications Superior Essex Inc. cable division of Belden. Tower Extrusions produces extruded aluminum products. The company's facilities include five extrusion presses that range in size from 6 inches to 12 inches, a cast house, and an anodizing plant that can handle material as long as 38 feet. Tower Extrusions was founded in March 1977 with the Tower Extrusions purchase of the former Republic Aluminum facility in Olney, Ltd. Texas. Wabash Alloys uses aluminum scrap to produce aluminum casting alloys and molten aluminum. The company's products are used by customers in the die casting, sand casting, and steel producing industries. Wabash Alloys maintains eight facilities, located in the US, Canada, and Mexico, that Wabash Alloys collectively produce more than 1.6 billion pounds of aluminum L.L.C. alloy annually. The company was founded in 1958. The company is a leading maker of aluminum can sheet, which is used to produce packaging for beverages and food. The aluminum can sheet made by Wise Alloys is transformed into more than 16 billion beverage cans per year. Along with aluminum can sheet, Wise Alloys makes wide aluminum sheet, which is used in architectural applications and to make roofs for truck trailers. Wise Alloys is part of Wise Metals Wise Alloys LLC Group.

Address: 4633 Hwy. 361 Gregory, TX 78359 Phone: 361-777-2350 Fax: 361-777-2218

• CEO: Peter Bailey Fiscal Year End: December • President: Lewis Revenue (2005): 386.10 M Patterson III Employees (2005): 742 • CFO: Mark Uzelac

Address: 150 Interstate N. Pkwy. Atlanta, GA 30339 Phone: 770-657-6000 Fax: 770-303-8807

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 1795.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 26.00% Employees (2005): 4,100

Address: 1003 State Hwy 79 S. Olney, TX 76374-0218 Phone: 940-564-5681 Fax: 940-564-5033

• Partner: William M. McClelland • VP, Finance and Fiscal Year End: December Treasurer: Jay Stewart Revenue (2005): 36.00 M • Sales Manager: Stan Employees (2005): 165 Guess

Address: 4525 W. Old 24 Wabash, IN 46992-0466 Phone: 260-563-7461 Fax: 260-563-5997

Address: 4805 2nd St. Muscle Shoals, AL 35661 Phone: 256-386-6000

• CEO and Director: Stephen M. Carter • CFO and Treasurer: David S. Aldridge

• President: Bruce A. Warshauer • VP Sales: Joseph Adamo Chairman: David F. D'Addario • Wise Metals Group President and COO: Randall R. Powers • SVP Sales: Don Farrington

Yes

Through subsidiary Wise Alloys, Wise Metals Group makes aluminum can stock for companies in the beverage and food packaging industries worldwide. Wise Alloys uses recycled aluminum to produce its can stock, and sister company Wise Recycling is one of the largest collectors of aluminum beverage containers in the US. Wise Metals Group subsidiary Listerhill Total Maintenance Center provides maintenance and repair services for manufacturing facilities. Chairman and Wise Metals Group CEO David D'Addario owns a controlling stake in Wise Metals LLC Group.

Address: 857 Elkridge Landing Rd., Ste. 600 Linthicum Heights, MD 21090 Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 410-636-6500 Revenue (2005): 766.90 M Fax: 410-636-0856 Employees (2005): 1,196

• Chairman and CEO: David F. D'Addario • President and COO: Randall R. Powers • EVP and CFO: Danny Mendelson

Company Name

Abengoa Bioenergy Corp.

Acetex Corporation

Acuity Specialty Products Group, Inc.

Description Abengoa Bioenergy hasn't quit its home on the plains, but it has changed its name from High Plains Corporation since being acquired by Spanish engineering firm Abengoa in 2002. Among the largest US producers of ethanol, Abengoa Bioenergy owns three plants in the US and another three in Europe. The company's primary product is fuel-grade ethanol, which, when blended with gasoline, raises oxygen levels and reduces exhaust emissions of pollutants such as carbon monoxide. As part of a search for new revenue streams, Abengoa Bioenergy launched a research and development subsidiary that works in partnership with universities and other companies to develop improved processing technology for ethanol. to make textiles. The company gets more than half of its sales from producing acetic acid and its derivatives, key ingredients in the making of PET bottles, inks, paints, pharmaceuticals, and textile fibers. Acetic acid also is a key ingredient in producing Acetex's other major product line, vinyl acetate monomer (VAM), used in polyester fibers, as well as other products. It also owns Canadian plastics and film company AT Plastics. Specialty chemicals manufacturer Celanese acquired Acetex for just under $500 million in 2005. Acuity Specialty Products Group can help you make a clean sweep. The company is a business segment of Acuity Brands and manufactures and markets consumer chemical products. Its subsidiary companies include manufacturers Enforcer (fertilizer, pest control, and drain cleaners); Selig (environmentally friendly hand cleaners and degreasers and equipment used to clean aerospace and automotive parts); and Zep (automotive and janitorial supplies such as hand cleaners, degreasers, and floor polish). Acuity Specialty Products also makes a line of car wash products with the Armor All brand name sold to car wash sales professional. The company has had an agreement with Clorox, which owns the Armor All brand, since 2001.

This AA actually encourages chemical dependence. Advanced Aromatics (AA) produces 200 million pounds of chemical products per year. Products include tetrahydronaphthalene, high purity grades of naphthalene, aromatics, oxygenated solvents, and octane fuel Advanced components. AA's chemicals end up in a variety of products Aromatics, L.P. including everything from fertilizer and dyes to textiles and gasoline. Performance enhancers aren't just the products advertised on late night TV and in the back of men's magazines. Afton Chemical (formerly Ethyl Petroleum Additives) manufactures additives that improve the effectiveness of fuels and lubricants. The company was formed in mid-2004 from the additives division of NewMarket, which had been called Ethyl before switching to a holding company structure and dividing its business into two operating subsidiaries: Afton Afton and Ethyl. Afton divides its own products into fuel additives Chemical (which improve the refining process and boost the performance of Corporation gasoline and other fuels) and lubricant additives (which improve the performance, functionality, and durability of oils).

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• President and CEO: Javier Salgado Leirado • CFO: Ignacio García • Industrial Organization and New Projects Corporate Director: José Carlos Saz

Address: 1400 Elbridge Payne Rd., Ste. 212 Chesterfield, MO 63017 Phone: 636-728-0508 Fax: 636-728-1148

Address: 750 World Trade Centre, 999 Canada Place Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3E1, Canada Phone: 604-688-9600 Fax: 604-688-9620

Address: 4401 Northside Pkwy., Ste. 700 Atlanta, GA 30327 Phone: 404-352-1680

Key People

• Chairman and CEO: Brooke N. Wade • President, COO, and Director: Kenneth E. Vidalin • CFO: Lori Bondar

Fiscal Year End: August Revenue (2005): 535.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 2.20%

• President: James H. (Jim) Heagle • EVP, I&I Sales: Ross Harding • VP, Information Technology: Katheryn Simpson • President: Peter R. Buenz

Address: 5501 W. Baker Rd. Baytown, TX 77520 Phone: 281-424-4505 Fax: 281-424-3532

• CFO: Harlan Faircloth • Manager, Sales and Marketing: Michael L. Williams

Address: 500 Spring St. Richmond, VA 23219 Phone: 804-788-5800 Fax: 804-788-5184

• President: C. S. Warren Huang • SVP, Global Accounts and Strategy: Alexander McLean • VP, Sales and Marketing, North America: Robert A. (Rob) Shama

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AgriTec Systems takes agricultural waste products and turns them into usable specialty chemicals. The company's AgriTec, Inc. subsidiary is developing ways of converting rice hull ash (RHA) and other biomass materials into silicas, silicates, activated carbon, and related products, which are used in food processing, air and water purification, semiconductor fabrication, and industrial manufacturing. It is seeking global commercialization for its patented processes. Subsidiary enviroLife markets fine-celled foam (made from AgriTec converted biomass materials) for horticulture and agriculture Systems, Inc. applications. Break out the Tums, because things have just gotten a lot gassier over at Air Liquide America. The American distribution arm of gas distributor Air Liquide, the company has grown a lot bigger with its parent's 2004 acquisition of Messer Griesheim's North American business. Air Liquide America supplies industrial gases (oxygen, nitrogen, CO2, argon, etc.) to companies in the automotive, chemicals, food and beverage, and healthcare industries. Air Liquide Depending on its customer's needs, Air Liquide America can ship its America L.P. product in cylinders, by pipelines, or have it manufactured on site. A lot like Jumpin' Jack Flash, business at Air Products and Chemicals is a gas gas gas. The company provides gases such as argon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen to manufacturers, health care facilities, and other industries. Not all is light and airy, however. It also produces chemicals, including catalysts, surfactants, and intermediates used to make polyurethane, amines, and emulsions derived from vinyl acetate monomer (VAM). Air Products also makes Air Products gas containers and equipment that separates air, purifies hydrogen, and and liquefies gas. The company distributes industrial gases by Chemicals, building on-site plants (a strategy nearly as old as the company Inc. itself) or by truck for companies with less extensive needs. Air Products Healthcare supplies the air you breathe when you're in need of home health care services. Part of the Gases and Equipment segment of the giant industrial gas company Air Products and Chemicals, the division is comprised of a number of different regional businesses that supply medical gases for the home health care market. Formed in 1999 Air Products Healthcare operates in the Northeast and Southeast regions of the US along with Chicago. Air Products The company maintains 78 branches and its subsidiary companies include American Homecare Supply, Nightingale Medical, Rx Healthcare Pharmacy Services, and Vanguard Home Medical Equipment. Air Products Polymers, a joint venture of global VAE (vinyl acetateethylene) emulsion technology companies Air Products and Chemicals and Wacker-Chemie GmBH, makes and distributes latex polymers. Air Products Polymers makes an array of emulsions used in adhesives, building products, coatings, paper, textiles, and ink and graphic arts. Its adhesive brands include the Airflex, Flexbond, and Vinac emulsions. The company also makes materials for nonwoven binders used in disposable wipes, towels, and diaper cover stock. Its products are based on the vinyl acetate monomer (VAM). Air Air Products Products Polymers sells its products worldwide. It is a major supplier Polymers, L.P. to the pressure sensitive adhesives (PSA) market for labels.

• Chairman; Chairman and CEO, enviroTech: C. W. Wellen • President, CEO, and Director: Douglas K. Stephens • CFO, Secretary, Treasurer, and Director; President, enviroLi: Greg R. Wellen

Address: 100 E. NASA Rd. One, Ste. 209 Webster, TX 77598 Phone: 281-338-2966 Fax: 281-338-2966

Address: 2700 Post Oak Blvd., Ste. 1800 Houston, TX 77056 Phone: 713-624-8000 Fax: 713-624-8085

• President and CEO: Pierre DuFour • VP, Business Development: Johnnye J. Wozniak • Corporate Fiscal Year End: December Communications: Diane Revenue (2004): 2182.40 M Labelle

Address: 7201 Hamilton Blvd. Allentown, PA 18195-1501 Phone: 610-481-4911 Fax: 610-481-5900

Fiscal Year End: September Revenue (2005): 8143.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 9.90% Employees (2004): 19,900 Employee Growth (1 yr): 7.60%

• Chairman, President, and CEO: John P. Jones III • Group VP, Development and Technology: Arthur T. Katsaros • VP and CFO: Paul E. Huck

Address: 101 W. Elm St., Ste. 210 Conshohocken, PA 19428 Phone: 484-530-0880 Fax: 484-530-0888

• COO: David B. Hunter • Chief Development Officer: William J McGinnis • SVP, Sales and Marketing: Tom Gaffney

Address: 7201 Hamilton Blvd. Allentown, PA 18195-1501 Phone: 610-481-6799 Fax: 610-481-4381

• President: Wayne M. Mitchell • Senior Communications Specialist: Arthur (Art) George

Revenue (2005): 598.60 M Employees (2005): 3,700

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thank you very much. Air Water Inc. supplies industrial gases to the iron and steel, electronics, chemical, and medical sectors. Additionally, the company makes fine chemicals (pharmaceutical and agricultural intermediates) and has a foods unit, Snow Brand Foods, that markets ham and deli items. Air Water also makes consumer bathroom products and commercial food-freezing systems. Air Water was formed in 2000 when Daido Hoxan merged Air Water Inc. with Kyodo Oxygen. Airgas Canada is trying to make Canadians breathe easier. The company distributes industrial gases and mechanical supplies from eight locations in western Canada. The company's focus is on distributing specialty gases to the respiratory home care market, though Airgas Canada's products also include welding gases and supplies. Part of the growing US industrial gas distributor Airgas, the company maintains four locations in Alberta, two in Saskatchewan, Airgas Canada, and another two in British Columbia. Among the company's suppliers Inc. are welding equipment manufacturers Hobart Brothers and ESAB. Whether you're playing the slots in Reno or lobbying the Governator in Sacramento, Airgas Northern California and Nevada (NCN) can fulfill all of your industrial gas needs. The company is one of many regional divisions that make up Airgas' industrial gas distribution business. The company distributes a variety of industrial, medical, and fuel gases; dry ice; tools; as well as safety equipment. Airgas Airgas NCN maintains 36 locations (20 in the Northern California Valley, 12 Northern in the Bay Area, and four in Nevada) from which its customers can California and purchase their products. It also offers direct distribution to Nevada, Inc. manufacturing facilities, hospitals, and other job sites. Welders, anesthesiologists, and chemical engineers throughout the southeastern US turn to Airgas South to help them with their gas problems. Headquartered outside of Atlanta, the company operates industrial gas distributor Airgas' business in a five-state region (Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee) that has more than 60 branch locations. Its principal products and services are packaged and small bulk gases, gas cylinder and welding equipment rental, and process chemicals and hard goods. Airgas' customer base includes industrial manufacturers, medical Airgas South, institutions, food products makers, and petrochemical facilities. Inc. manufacturer, Akzo Nobel Base Chemicals manufactures and supplies products such as chlorine, iron and aluminum salts, dimethylether, hydrochloric acid, and sodium-related chemicals to the glass, detergent, and paper making industries. In addition to its product line, the company offers transport and water treatment services. Base Chemicals' claim to product fame is its production of chlorine through the electrolysis of brine. It owns and operates plants and facilities in Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands and is Akzo Nobel divided into two business units: sBU Chlor-Alkali (chlorine and Base caustic lye production) and sBU Ecosystems (chemical-related Chemicals products).

Address: 1-20-16 HigashiShinsaibashi, Chuo-ku Osaka 542-0083, Japan Phone: +81-6-6252-5411 Fax: +81-6-6252-3965

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 2510.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 27.20% Employees (2004): 5,566 Employee Growth (1 yr): 1.60%

Address: Bay 133, 3016 10th Ave. NE Calgary, Alberta T2A 6A3, Canada Phone: 403-272-6605 Fax: 403-248-0701

Address: 6790 Florin Perkins Rd., Ste. 300 Sacramento, CA 95828-1812 Phone: 916-379-1000 Fax: 916-376-8536

• Chairman and CEO: Hiroshi Aoki • Vice Chairman and COO: Masahiro Toyoda • President and COO: Yoshisuke Misaka

• President: Wendy Swift

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2005): 96.00 M Employees (2005): 485

• President: James (Jim) McCarthy • CFO: Lynn Oates • VP, Operations: James (Jim) Gindt

Address: 821-D Livingston Ct. Marietta, GA 30067 Phone: 770-792-2123 Fax: 770-792-5950

• President: Jay Sullivan • VP, Operations: Don Goldschmidt • VP, Marketing: Kent Carter

Address: Stationsplein 4 3800 AE Amersfoort, The Netherlands Phone: +31-33-467-6767

• General Manager: H.C.J. (René) Scheffers • Controller: Jan Sigger • Manager, Communications: Paul van der Boor

Akzo Nobel is the world's largest paint maker, but it can do more than paint a picture. The company is among the world's largest chemical manufacturers and also is a major salt producer. Akzo Nobel is organized along three business lines. The company's coatings group makes paints, automotive finishes, and decorative coatings. Its chemical unit produces pulp and paper chemicals, functional chemicals (including flame retardants and crop nutrients), surfactants, polymers, and catalysts. A third unit, pharmaceuticals, produces contraceptives, fertility treatments, antidepressants, Akzo Nobel antipsychotics, over-the-counter drugs, and veterinary medicines. N.V. Akzo has announced plans to split off its pharmaceuticals division. Welcome to the noble enterprise of surface chemistry. A worldwide leader in the production of surfactants, fatty acids, microspheres, and other wetting agents, Akzo Nobel Surface Chemistry's products are used in everything from asphalt, lubricants, and household products to detergents, biocides, and additives for paint. The company's products and services essentially thicken, absorb, regulate, or counterbalance the properties of liquid. Brand names include Bermocoll paint thickeners and Expancel microspheres (reduces weight in paper and paint). A business segment of Akzo Nobel worldwide painting and chemicals manufacturer Akzo Nobel, the Surface company owns and operates almost 20 production plants spanning Chemistry across ten countries. Albion Chemicals Group first took wing in 2001, emerging from the nest of Hays Chemicals through a management-led buyout. The company is among the leading independent distributors of builk and packaged chemicals in the UK. In addition to its distribution businesses, Albion manufactures chlor-alkali chemicals at two of its plants. The company has a network of 14 depots across the UK and Albion Ireland to supply businesses in the region. Albion joined Solvadis, Chemicals Dovechem, and US distributing consortium CHEMCENTRAL to form Group Plc a global chemical distributing group called Chemworld Alliance. Mexican conglomerate Alfa is a big player in five different business groups. Alpek, a global petrochemical concern with a special emphasis on synthetic fibers (Akra Polyester, Nylon de México, Fielmex, Indelpro, Petrotemex) accounts for about 35% of sales. Other operations include refrigerated-foods business Sigma Alimentos (Yoplait), Versax (Nemak automotive parts, Terza rugs), and Onexa, which explores telecom opportunities through its Alestra subsidiary. Alfa has alliances with more than 20 companies (such as AT&T and DuPont) around the world. It sold its Total HOME chain to hardware giant The Home Depot to concentrate on industrial Alfa, S.A. de businesses. C.V. Perhaps it wasn't such a fantastic finish, but when Alcoa was done with its chemicals division it presented it to the world as Almatis. Formerly known as Alcoa World Chemicals, Almatis was formed in early 2004 when the global aluminum giant sold its chemicals unit to private equity firms Rhône Capital and Teacher's Merchant Bank. The new company manufacture's alumina-based products are used to make abrasives and polishers, paper coatings, flame retardants, plastics and polymers, and refractories. Its Adsorbents and Catalysts division supplies activated alumina and offers toll processing Almatis GmbH services to the industry.

Address: Velperweg 76 6800 SB Arnhem, The Netherlands Phone: +31-26-366-4433 Fax: +31-26-366-3250

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 15386.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-10.50%) Employees (2004): 60,350 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-9.10%)

• Chairman, Supervisory Board: Jonkheer Aarnout Loudon • Chairman, Board of Management and CEO: G. J. (Hans) Wijers • Member, Board of Management and CFO: Rob Frohn

Address: SE 444 85 Stenungsund, Sweden Phone: +46-30-38-50-00 Fax: +46-30-38-45-58

• General Manager: Frank Sherman • Controller, Information Management, and Ebusiness: Gijsberth de Ruiter • Media Contact: Johnny Ericsson

Address: Albion House, Rawdon Park, Green Lane, Yeadon Leeds LS19 7XX, United Kingdom Phone: +44-113-387-9200 Fax: +44-113-250-0113

• Managing Director: Steve Holland • Commercial Director: Steve Heathcote • Business Development Director: Jonathan Birrell

Address: Avenida Gómez Morín 1111 Sur, Colonia Carrizalejo 66254 San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, Mexico Phone: +52-81-8748-1207 Fax: +52-81-8748-2551

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 5254.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 26.20% Employees (2004): 42,069 Employee Growth (1 yr): 11.00%

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 450.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): Address: Olof-Palme-Strasse 37 25.00% 60439 Frankfurt, Germany Employees (2004): 900 Phone: +49-69-957-341-0 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: +49-69-957-341-13 12.50%

• Chairman and CEO: Dionisio Garza Medina • CFO: Alfonso González Migoya • Vice President, Information Technology: Oscar Treviño

• Chairman: Hervé de Carmoy • CEO: D. Oscar Groomes • COO: David Dabney

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Americhem, Inc.

Ampacet Corporation

Andes Chemical Corporation

Ansul Incorporated

Aricom plc

You know all those pretty greens and blues you see in the drinks cooler at the Kwik E Mart? Americhem's responsible for that. The Ohio-based additives and dispersions company makes the stuff that makes the color for PET bottles used by soda and beer makers. Americhem's color and additives masterbatches also are used by the automotive, construction, and fibers industries. It has nine manufacturing sites, including one in the UK and one in China, and sales offices in China, Korea, Mexico, and Luxembourg. Americhem acquired a manufacturing facility in Georgia in late 2005, and it completed the construction of its plant in China in early 2006. Ampacet helps manufacturers of plastic products show their true hues with its custom color and additive concentrates. Using polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, polyamide, and polyester resins, Ampacet makes compounds and concentrates that enable plastics manufacturers to produce consistent colors and chemical characteristics for their extruded and molded products. The company's additives are used in food and industrial packaging, pipe and conduit, wire and cable, and other plastic products. Founded in 1937, Ampacet is one of the largest color compound and concentrate makers in North America and is expanding into the world market. Norman Alexander, chairman and CEO of Sequa Corporation, owns the firm. company exports raw chemical materials to more than 300 clients throughout Latin America. It distributes ingredients for use by the paints, inks, concrete and masonry additives, adhesives, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, and personal care product industries. The house paint industry accounts for most of the Hispanic-owned company's sales. Suppliers include Degussa, Akzo Nobel, Millennium Chemicals, and Rohm and Haas. Andes Chemical was founded in 1986 by Cuban-born president and CEO Fernando Espinosa. If you want to avoid severe fire damage, you better get Ansul-ated. A division of TYCO Fire and Security Services Ansul manufactures fire protection products for commercial, industrial, and marine applications. With manufacturing locations in Germany, Japan, Mexico, and the US, Ansul has a global sales reach for its range of products. In addition to a full line of fire extinguishers and extinguishing agents, the company also offers a series of training seminars on the hazards found in the chemical and petroleum industries. The US government is a major customer for Ansul. integrated mining, production, and distribution group for titanium dioxide (TiO2), the world's most popular whitening pigment, the company was founded to market its product in Russia and other former Soviet republics. Aricom owns nearly 75% of Olekminsky Rudnik, a Russian titanium ore mining company, and 100% of Chemelt, which trades and distributes TiO2. Aricom is still in the planning stages and is considering two options: forming a joint venture with Ukraine's top TiO2 maker, GAK Titan, or building a facility close to its mining property in the Russia's Amur Region. Aricom controls the titanium-related operations of Peter Hambro Mining.

Address: 225 Broadway East Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44221 Phone: 330-929-4213 Fax: 330-929-4144

• President and CEO: Richard C. (Rick) Juve • COO: Rick Matthew • CFO: John Berner

Address: 660 White Plains Rd. Tarrytown, NY 10591-5130 Phone: 914-631-6600 Fax: 914-631-7197

• President and CEO: Robert A. DeFalco • SVP, Finance: Joel Slutsky • SVP, Technical and Strategic Procurement: Victor J. Mimeault

Address: 10850 NW 30th St. Miami, FL 33172 Phone: 305-591-5601 Fax: 305-591-5607

• President and CEO: Fernando Espinoza • Accounting Supervisor: Silvia Perez • VP, Operations: Julie Peterson

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 31.70 M Employees (2005): 20

Address: 1 Stanton St. Marinette, WI 54143-2542 Phone: 715-735-7411 Fax: 715-732-3469

• President: Mark VanDover • VP, Finance: Dennis Moraros • VP, Sales - The Americas: William J. (Bill) Smith

Address: 10-11 Grosvenor Place London SW1X 7HH, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7201-8939 Fax: +44-20-7201-8938

• Chairman: Sir Malcolm Field • CEO: Thomas (Tom) Swithenbank • Finance Director and Company Secretary: Peter Howes

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 6.20 M Employees (2004): 29

Arizona Chemical Company

Arkema Inc.

Asahi Denka Co., Ltd.

Asahi Kasei Corporation

Ashland Distribution

Arizona Chemical is always pining for more business. The company is among the world's largest fractionators (separators) of crude tall oil (from the Swedish word talloja, or pine oil). It manufactures such pine tree-based chemicals as fatty acids, rosin esters, and terpenes. These chemicals are used to manufacture a wide variety of products, including adhesives, household cleaners, hydraulic fluids, inks, paints, personal care products, and plastics. Arizona Chemical has seven plants in the US and seven in Europe. The company was formed in 1930 by paper products maker International Paper (IP) and American Cyanamid and now is a wholly owned subsidiary of the former. Tall oil is a by-product of paper making. Arkema's into vinyl, but not in a weird way. The North American branch of TOTAL's basic chemicals unit manufactures many vinyl products like PVC, chlorochemicals, and assorted vinyl compounds. Its other two business segments are Industrial Chemicals (acrylics, hydrogen peroxide, and fluorochemicals) and Performance Products (additives, agrochemicals, organic peroxides, and technical polymers). Arkema operates about 20 manufacturing facilities in North America. The company was created in 2004 when TOTAL broke up its former chemicals subsidiary, ATOFINA, into two units: Arkema and TOTAL Petrochemicals. come primarily from producing chemicals including caustic soda (used in soap and paper). It produces other such chemicals as chlorine, additives for resins and polymers, and mixtures for liquid crystal displays. Founded in 1917, the company expanded into margarine in 1929 and now also makes shortening, mayonnaise, and raw food materials, among other food items. Part of the Furukawa Group, Asahi Denka has plants in France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, and the US. The company's Amfine Chemicals subsidiary in the US produces plastics additives. Asahi Kasei has the right chemistry for Japanese markets, so right in fact that it is Japan's #2 chemical company (behind Mitsubishi Chemical). The diversified company operates in seven segments. Its chemicals (basic chemicals, plastics, fertilizers) and construction materials (concrete panels, residential construction, and artificial fish reefs) groups together account for substantially more than half of Asahi Kasei's sales. The company's fibers unit, once Japan's largest rayon maker, stopped rayon production in 2001 but still makes nylon. Asahi Kasei also makes items ranging from artificial fish reefs to electronic materials and medical products. Almost all of its sales are in Japan. When you need the hard stuff brought to your door Ashland Distribution's the one to call. The division of specialty chemicals company Ashland distributes chemicals, plastics, and composites (thermoset resins and associated products) in North America and thermoplastic materials in Europe. Ashland Distribution serves coatings, adhesives, and inks makers; plastics compounders; the aerospace and electronics industries; and metalworking lubricant and chemical manufacturing businesses. It maintains about 70 locations throughout North America as well as another 25 overseas.

Address: 4600 Touchton Rd. East, Ste. 500 Jacksonville, FL 32246 Phone: 904-928-8700 Fax: 904-928-8779

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 692.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 3.00% Employees (2005): 1,600 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• General Manager: Gerald C. Marterer • Director, Finance: Charles Nelson • Director, Development and Planning: Manuel Canales

Address: 2000 Market St. Philadelphia, PA 19103-3222 Phone: 215-419-7000

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 1600.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 6.70% Employees (2004): 2,600 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-3.70%)

• President and CEO: George Cornelius • SVP and CFO: Patricia McCarthy • CIO: Mike Keough • Chairman and CEO: Masahiro Iwashita • President, COO, and Director: Hiroyuki Nakajima

Address: 3-14, NihonbashiMuromachi 2-chome, Furukawa Bldg., Chuo-ku Tokyo 103-8311, Japan Phone: +81-3-5255-9002 Fax: +81-3-3277-1965

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 1338.20 M • Executive Managing Revenue Growth (1 yr): Officer, Sales and Director: 16.00% Masao Gochou

Address: 1-1-2 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-8440, Japan Phone: +81-3-3507-2060 Fax: +81-3-3507-2495

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 11866.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 19.10% Employees (2004): 25,011 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-2.80%)

• Chairman: Nobuo Yamaguchi • President and Director: Shiro Hiruta • Director and Primary Executive Officer: Ichiro Itoh

Address: 5200 Blazer Pkwy. Dublin, OH 43017 Phone: 614-790-3333

Fiscal Year End: September Revenue (2005): 3810.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 19.10%

• President: Frank L. (Hank) Waters • VP, Corporate Accounts: Thomas P. (Tom) Semans

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ASHTA Chemicals Inc.

Astro Chemicals Inc.

Atlantic Methanol Production Company LLC

Austin Chemical Company, Inc.

Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings, Inc.

Like any good Midwestern son, ASHTA Chemicals is proud of where it's from, going so far as to take the name of its hometown, Ashtabula, Ohio. ASHTA manufactures and markets chlorine, potassium hydroxide, and other basic chemicals. The company, formed in 1992, has six production sites, 19 liquid distribution terminals, and five warehouses in the US and Canada. The name has nothing to do with George Jetson's dog or Houston's baseball club, but Astro Chemical can rocket any manner of chemicals to your home base. Founded in 1970 by Leo Diamond and William Cunningham, the business is still run by the Diamond and Cunningham families. Astro Chemicals works with companies both great (ADM, Celanese, and Shell) and small (Penn Specialty Chemicals and Reagent Chemical) and ships hundreds of chemicals including acids, amines, chlor-alkalies, ethers, glycols, inorganics, organics, oils, phosphates, silicates, and surfactants. The company serves clients in the chemical processing, personal care product, pulp and paper, and glass and refractory markets in the northeastern US. Atlantic Methanol Production Company must like to think proverbially, because "Waste not, want not" seems to be its motto. The company tries not to waste the natural gas that is a byproduct of parent company Samedan Oil's production process. Atlantic Methanol was founded in 1997 as a vehicle to make use of the nearly 100 million cubic feet of natural gas being expent each day off the coast of Equitorial Guinea. It began production four years later. Samedan (a subsidiary of Noble Energy) and Marathon Oil own 45% each, with the state-controlled Guinea Equatorial Oil & Gas owning the remaining 10%. Austin Chemical does just fine, even without the bionic capabilities of Steve or the accessibility to the live music of the Capital of Texas. The company supplies excipients, intermediates, APIs (active pharmaceutical ingredients), and specialty chemicals to the pharmaceutical, nutritional, and agrochemical industries. It also provides development, packaging, marketing, and logistical services. The company supplies more than 400 products from some 110 manufacturers including Akzo Nobel, Cargill, Ferro, and PPG Industries. In addition to its Chicago-area headquarters, Austin Chemical maintains operations in New Jersey and Arizona, as well as in China and India. marketer of ethanol, a grain alcohol mainly used as a fuel additive in gasoline to reduce vehicle emissions and enhance engine performance. Through its production facilities in Illinois and Nebraska and through purchase and resale operations and marketing alliances with other producers, the company distributes approximately 530 million gallons of ethanol annually. Major customers include BP Products North America, ConocoPhillips, Chevron Corporation, Royal Dutch/Shell, Marathon Oil and Valero Marketing and Supply Company. In 2006 the company filed to become publicly traded.

Address: 3509 Middle Rd. Ashtabula, OH 44005-0858 Phone: 440-997-5221 Fax: 440-992-0151

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 70.70 M Employees (2005): 100

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Reginald Baxter • VP, Finance and Administration, and CFO: Bill Brodnick • VP, Operations: Richard Jackson

• Chairman and CEO: William P. Cunningham Sr. • President: Christopher J. Diamond • Treasurer: Jeff Diamond

Address: 64-94 Shaw's Ln. Springfield, MA 01102 Phone: 413-781-7240 Fax: 413-781-7246

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 244.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 31.50% Employees (2004): 149 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• President: Paul Moschell • VP, Commercial Operations: Roger Dickson • Manager, Business Analyses: Wim Wilson

Address: 1565 Barclay Blvd. Buffalo Grove, IL 60089 Phone: 847-520-9600 Fax: 847-520-9160

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 8.10 M Employees (2005): 43

• President and CEO: Patrick J. Corboy • Director, Communications: Jack Euske • Director, Operations: Joseph J. Chivini

Address: 1300 S. 2nd St. Pekin, IL 61555 Phone: 309-347-9200 Fax: 309-346-0742

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 935.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 8.90% Employees (2005): 292

• Chairman: Bobby L. Latham • President, CEO, and Director: Ronald H. Miller • CFO: Ajay Sabherwal

Address: 12600 Northborough Dr., Ste. 150 Houston, TX 77067 Phone: 281-872-8324 Fax: 281-872-1084

Big Man On Campus? If you're looking within the special gases industry you could do worse than settling on BOC Process Gas Solutions (PGS), the largest division within the BOC Group. The unit operates in more than 60 countries worldwide and supplies BOC's industrial gases to the company's large-scale customers, primarily chemical and oil companies, the food and beverage industry, and the metals and glass sectors. PGS supplies its largest customers by pipeline or even on-site plants and ships its gases in smaller sizes by truck in liquid form. The division maintains a presence for its Badger State tonnage (pipeline-supplied) customers in the UK and US, as well as Ethanol, LLC Australia, South Africa, and Asia. Need a few tons of plastic? Bamberger Polymers distributes plastic resins for molders, extruders, compounders, and manufacturers that use plastics to make everything from automotive components to garbage bags. Bamberger distributes branded prime, generic prime, and wide spec resins (polyethylene, polypropylene, PET products, and specialty resins) and distributes its own lines of polyethylene, polypropylene, and polystyrene (Bapolene and Bapolan brands). Bamberger delivers more than 750 million pounds of bulk and Bamberger packaged resins annually via subsidiaries throughout North America Polymers, Inc. and Europe. Barton Solvents packages, stores, and delivers solvents and other chemical products for customers in eight Midwest states. Products include aromatics, alcohols, ketones, polyglycols, resins, greases, detergents, corrosion inhibitors, and surfactants. Barton has Barton locations in Iowa, Kansas, and Wisconsin. The company was Solvents, Inc. founded as a naphtha delivery service by Bud Barton in 1938. If it's a plastic world, then you can probably blame Basell for it. The company is the world's largest producer of polypropylene and Europe's largest producer of polyethylene, the key ingredients that go into plastics of all kinds. Used in a variety of products, polypropylene (PP) is a highly versatile polymer, and polyethylene is the most-used polymer. Basell also produces advanced polyolefins and licenses its polymer technology. The company was formed in 2000 from the combination of the polyolefin businesses of Royal Dutch/Shell Group and BASF. Those two companies sold Basell in 2005 to private investment firm Access Industries. Basell B.V. If you're a North American chemical company, BASF might strike you as a four-letter word. BASF Corporation -- the North American subsidiary of the world's largest chemicals company, BASF AG -makes nearly every chemical under the sun. The company has six business segments: chemicals (basic, intermediate, and performance), plastics (thermoplastics, foams, and urethanes), coatings (automotive and coil coatings), fine chemicals (vitamins, feed supplements, and raw materials for pharmaceuticals), agricultural chemicals (herbicides, insecticides), and BASF Plant Science (biotechnology). The company is BASF AG's NAFTA region BASF representative and is responsible for nearly a quarter of its parent's Corporation total sales.

Address: 820 W. 17th St. Monroe, WI 53566 Phone: 608-329-3900 Fax: 608-329-3866

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 97.70 M Employees (2005): 37

• Chairman and CEO: John L. Malchine • President, General Manager, and Director: Gary L. Kramer • CFO: James (Jim) Leitzinger

• Chairman and CEO: Fred Garcia • President and COO: Lawrence Ubertini • EVP: Steven Goldberg

Address: 2 Jericho Plaza Jericho, NY 11753-1658 Phone: 516-622-3600 Fax: 516-622-3610 Address: 1920 NE Broadway Des Moines, IA 50301 Phone: 515-265-7998 Fax: 515-265-0259

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 81.00 M Employees (2005): 147

• Chairman and CEO: Leon Casten • President: David Casten • COO: Doug Casten

Address: Hoeksteen 66 2130 AP Hoofddorp, The Netherlands Phone: +31-20-44-68-644 Fax: +31-20-44-68-649

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 9138.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 8.70% Employees (2004): 6,655 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-0.70%)

• President and CEO: Volker Trautz • CFO: Alan Bigman • Chief Information Officer: David Sides

Address: 100 Campus Dr. Florham Park, NJ 07932 Phone: 973-245-6000 Fax: 973-245-6714

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 11160.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 24.10% Employees (2004): 11,002 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-13.10%)

• Chairman and CEO: Klaus Peter Löbbe • EVP: Hans-Ulrich Engel • EVP and CFO: FriedWalter Muenstermann

Empire may be too strong a word, but BASF AG sure does have its operations spread far and wide. The world's largest chemical company maintains operations in the UK and Ireland through its BASF plc subsidiary to market plastics, agricultural chemicals, pigments and dispersions, fibers, and pharmaceutical intermediates; the largest segment is plastics and fibers. Manufacturing facilities are located in Northumberland, Teesside, Merseyside, Deeside, Derbyshire, and Sussex. Among the subsidiary companies underneath BASF plc are BASF IT Services Ltd., Cheadle Colour & BASF plc Chemicals, Elastogran, and Frank Wright Limited. to do business. The world's largest chemicals company has teamed with Sinopec to form BASF-YPC Company. The company, which shipped its first product to a customer in January 2005, manufactures a complete product line of basic and petrochemicals, with ethylene and propylene as BASF-YPC's primary products. Additionally its roster includes ethylene glycol, benzene, toluene, low density polyethylene (LDPE), acrylic acid, and acrylic esters. In mid2005 the company's world-scale manufacturing complex in Nanjing came online. This fully integrated site consists of a steam cracker, BASF-YPC which makes the ethylene and propylene, and nine downstream Company plants. Limited No, it's not the Canadian branch of Blue Oyster Club's fan club. Rather, it's the Canadian subsidiary of the British industrial gas manufacturing giant BOC Group. The company manufactures and distributes industrial gases and welding products for industrial (for everything from the auto to pulp and paper industries), scientific (all manner of lab gases), medical (nitrous oxide for anesthetics and helium that cools the magnets in MRI machines), and hospitality industry (nitrogen and CO2 for carbonated drinks, helium for balloons) uses. It also operates through BOC Edwards supplying BOC Canada products and services to semiconductor makers as well as chemical and pharmaceutical companies. Limited Big Man On Campus? If you're looking within the special gases industry you could do worse than settling on BOC Process Gas Solutions (PGS), the largest division within the BOC Group. The unit operates in more than 60 countries worldwide and supplies BOC's industrial gases to the company's large-scale customers, primarily chemical and oil companies, the food and beverage industry, and the metals and glass sectors. PGS supplies its largest customers by pipeline or even on-site plants and ships its gases in smaller sizes by truck in liquid form. The division maintains a presence for its BOC Process tonnage (pipeline-supplied) customers in the UK and US, as well as Gas Solutions Australia, South Africa, and Asia. When chemical companies all around the world need to move some product, they call on Brenntag. The company is Europe's largest chemical distributor (ahead of Univar) and among the top three in the US (along with the likes of Ashland and CHEMCENTRAL); it also ranks as the top distributor in Latin America. Brenntag had been a subsidiary of European logistics giant Stinnes until Bain Capital Brenntag stepped in and bought the company in 2004. From its 300 locations Holding GmbH Brenntag offers lab services (blending, compounding, preparation), & Co. KG storage, and then full logistics activities.

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 676.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 16.20% Employees (2004): 567 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-17.70%)

• Chairman: Walter Seufert • Managing Director: Torben Berlin Jensen • Manager, Corporate Communications: Chris Wilson

• Chairman: Dai Houliang • President: Bernd Address: Luhe District Blumenberg Nanjing, Jiangsu 210048, China • VP and General Manager, Phone: +86-25-5777-0888 Finance, Accounting, EDP, Fax: +86-25-5777-0999 and Materi: Li Chengfeng

• Chairman: Dai Houliang • President: Bernd Blumenberg • VP and General Manager, Finance, Accounting, EDP, and Materi: Li Chengfeng

Address: 5975 Falbourne St., Unit 2 Mississauga, Ontario L5R 3W6, Canada Phone: 905-501-1700

• VP and General Manager: Tom Winter • Operations and Technical Director: Doug Bonnar

• VP and General Manager: Tom Winter • Operations and Technical Director: Doug Bonnar

Address: The Priestley Centre, 10 Priestley Rd. Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XY, United Kingdom Phone: +44-1483-579-857

• CEO: John Bevan • Information Management Director: Graham Wyatt

• CEO: John Bevan • Information Management Director: Graham Wyatt

Address: Stinnes-Platz 1 45472 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany Phone: +49-208-7828-0 Fax: +49-208-7828-698

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 6274.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 16.20% Employees (2004): 8,798 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-1.10%)

• Chairman and CEO: Klaus Engel • CFO: Jürgen Buchsteiner • VP, Corporate Communications: Hubertus Spethmann

Address: Earl Road, Cheadle Hulme Cheadle, Greater Manchester SK8 6QG, United Kingdom Phone: +44-161-485-6222 Fax: +44-161-486-0891

Brenntag Mid-South doesn't make many chemicals of its own, but it hooks up people who do with people who need them. The company distributes industrial and specialty chemicals from 26 locations in states from Missouri in the Midwest to Florida in the South. Brenntag Mid-South has about 200 delivery vehicles, from local trucks to longdistance tractor trailers. Additionally Brenntag provides services like blending, repackaging, and technical and safety assistance. It serves the aluminum, automotive, food, mining, pharmaceutical, and water Brenntag Mid- treatment industries, among others. The company is a part of South, Inc. Brenntag North America, which is owned by Bain Capital. If you live in the US and need a chemical fix, Brenntag North America can set you up. One of the largest chemical distributors in North America, the company offers hundreds of industrial and specialty chemicals -- from acetic acid to zinc oxide -- and provides custom blending, just-in-time delivery, and custom packaging of chemicals in dry, liquid, or gaseous states. Customers include manufacturers in such industries as chemicals, pharmaceuticals, paints, electronics, pulp and paper, cosmetics, food and beverages, Brenntag North America, textiles, and water treatment. Bain Capital acquired Brenntag -- and thus Brenntag North America -- in 2004 from Stinnes. Inc. Brown Chemical mixes chemicals of various shades. The familyowned company specializes in distributing chemicals such as amines, food grade chemicals, latex additives, organics, phosphates, and sodiums for applications in textile, industrial, institutional, and specialty markets. Brown Chemical sells more than 1,500 products from 35 chemical manufacturers, and it offers Brown contract packaging, custom blending, and product research services. Chemical Co., The company operates two facilities in northern New Jersey, where it Inc. serves more than 1,000 customers over a 200 mile radius.

Caffaro is really chemically dependent, and the industry's given it the shakes of late. Caffaro, a subsidiary of the diversified Italian company Snia S.p.A., makes base, fine, and specialty chemicals. Some of the company's products include organic additives, detergents, biocides, water treatment products, textile and paper production chemicals. Like the rest of the industry, it's been hit hard lately by high raw-material costs coupled with lower demand for its products. In addition to selling Caffaro's agrochemical business, Snia has also sold Caffaro's 50% interest in a hydroelectricity plant Caffaro S.p.A. and shuttered two manufacturing facilities.

• President: Joel R. Hopper Address: 1405 Hwy. 136 West Henderson, KY 42420-9662 Phone: 270-830-1200 Fax: 270-826-1486

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 32.00 M Employees (2005): 186

Address: 5083 Pottsville Pike Reading, PA 19605 Phone: 610-926-6100 Fax: 610-926-0420

• President and CEO: Stephen R. (Steve) Clark Fiscal Year End: December • SVP and CFO: H. Edward Revenue (2004): 1800.00 M Boyadjian Revenue Growth (1 yr): • VP, Operations: David 6.60% Garner

Address: 302 W. Oakland Ave. Oakland, NJ 07436-1309 Phone: 201-337-0900 Fax: 201-337-9026

Address: Via Friuli, 55 20031 Cesano Maderno, Milano, Italy Phone: +39-0362-514-1 Fax: +39-0362-514-889 (454)

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 7.70 M Employees (2005): 35

• VP, Operations: Kenneth W. (Ken) Jones • VP, Sales: Michael (Mike) Staley

• President and COO: Doug Brown • VP, Finance and Operations; Director, Purchasing: Dave Lyle • VP, Sales and Marketing: Patrick Brown

• Chairman: Mario Chiti • Managing Director: Umberto Rosa • CFO: L. Bonalanze

cleaners, and cosmetics. The distribution company's chemicals are also used in inks, adhesives, personal care products, pharmaceuticals, and vitamin products. Product categories include antimicrobials, silicones, solvents, urethanes, surfactants, humectants, preservatives, and specialty resins. The company's suppliers include Dow Chemical, Eastman Chemical, Rhodia, and Stepan. Callahan transports products from four warehouses in the Callahan northeastern US and in Puerto Rico; it also offers packaging and Chemical blending services. The family-owned company was formed in 1958 Company by James Callahan Sr. Canada all you have to do is remember the three C's: Canada Colors and Chemicals. The firm is Canada's largest chemical distributor (ahead of Quadra Chemicals) and has 85 years in the business, eight warehouses, and a distribution network that spans the country. A wholesale distributor of industrial and specialty chemicals and resins, Canada Colors and Chemicals serves the plastics, paints, water treatment, and food ingredients industries. It manufactures sulfuric acid and oleum through its Sulco Chemicals Canada Colors subsidiary. Canada Colors and Chemicals, founded by R. R. Carrand Chemicals Harris in 1920, is a member of chemical distribution association Omni-Chem. Limited it. The company is the world's largest potash exporter, bringing Canadian potash to countries throughout the world. Canpotex was created in 1972 and distributes the products of its major shareowners, Canadian crop nutrient companies Agrium, Potash Corp., and The Mosaic Company 's Canadian unit (Mosaic Canada ULC). It sells about 8 million metric tons of potash per year, primarily to countries in Asia, Latin America, and Oceania. Canpotex Canpotex maintains an office in Singapore to direct its international marketing activities. Limited Canada's good for more than just sketch comedy and hockey. It also makes quite a lot of specialty chemicals. Celanese Canada is the Canadian subsidiary of specialty chemicals maker Celanese. The company makes basic chemicals, acetate products, polymers, polypropylene films, and food ingredients. Its manufacturing plant is located in Edmonton, Alberta, which, like many of Celanese's facilities, underwent some restructuring in 2004. The company Celanese shuttered its formaldehyde production that year and announced it Canada Inc. would do the same with its line of acetate products by 2007. Celanese Corporation was created in late 2004 and owns just over 95% of Celanese AG after a series of 2004 transactions led by the Blackstone Group. The company is the ultimate parent of all of the Celanese companies. Its primary operations include the manufacture of building block chemicals like acetic acid and vinyl acetate monomers (VAM). With Canadian acetyls maker Acetex as a subsidiary, it's the world's largest acetyls manufacturer. Those chemicals are used in everything from paints and inks to agricultural products and chewing gum. Nearly two-thirds of the company's sales come from the US and Germany. After a public offering in 2005 Celanese Blackstone still owns 62% of the company. Corporation

Address: 200 Industrial Ave. Ridgefield Park, NJ 07660-1388 Phone: 201-440-9000 Fax: 201-440-5441

• President: Ted Burke • VP, Operations: Tom O'Donnell • VP, Finance and Administration: Greg Shetler

Address: 80 Scarsdale Rd. Don Mills, Ontario M3B2R7, Canada Phone: 416-449-7750 Fax: 416-449-4269

• Chairman and CEO: Guy S. Carr-Harris • Business Development Specialist, Chemical Distribution: Sam Joshi

Address: 111 2nd Ave. South, Ste. 400 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7K 1K6, Canada Phone: 306-931-2200 Fax: 306-653-5505

• President and CEO: Steven Dechka • VP, Finance and CFO: Dwayne N. Dahl • VP Operations: Scott Rudderham

Fiscal Year End: September Revenue (2004): 194.70 M Address: PO Box 99, Stn. Main Revenue Growth (1 yr): Edmonton, Alberta T5J 2H7, (-25.80%) Canada Employees (2004): 400 Phone: 780-471-0511 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: 780-471-0144 0.00%

• President, Site Director, Edmonton: Andy Day • Coordinator, Communications: Bob Leman

Address: 1601 W. LBJ Fwy. Dallas, TX 75234-6034 Phone: 972-443-4000 Fax: 972-443-8555

• EVP and CFO: John J. Gallagher III Fiscal Year End: December • CEO and Director: Chinh Revenue (2005): 6070.00 M E. Chu Revenue Growth (1 yr): • President, CEO, and 58.70% Director: David N. Employees (2004): 9,100 Weidman

Yes

Charkit Chemical Corporation

CHEMCENTRA L Corporation

Chemical Lime Company

Chevron Oronite Company LLC

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC

Who hasn't run out of hydrazine right in the middle of something? Well, Charkit Chemical not only distributes hydrazine and hydrazine derivatives (for oxidation and corrosion inhibitors), but also imaging chemicals including emulsion and photo processing formulas, and toluene derivatives like benzyl alcohol and benzyl chloride (for industrial and personal care products). It serves customers in the imaging, food, cosmetic, metal and water treatment, and pharmaceutical industries from 11 US locations. CHEMCENTRAL is in the center of a chemically dependent world. The company is one of the top chemical distributors in North America. It carries products made by BASF, Dow Chemical, DuPont, and others. Key customers for CHEMCENTRAL's more than 8,000 chemical products include companies that manufacture adhesives, caulks, and sealants; cleaning agents; cosmetics and personal care products; inks and paint coatings; and plastic and rubber compounds. Once know as William J. Hough Company of Chicago, CHEMCENTRAL was established in 1926 by entrepreneurs Halbert Sampson and William Hough. Don't put "this" lime in your gin and tonic. Chemical Lime, as its name would suggest, provides lime and lime-based products (including quicklimes and hydrated limes) for use in steel making, ore processing, industrial manufacturing, and construction. The company's products also serve environmental purposes such as wastewater treatment and softening drinking water, as well as roadbed stabilization. Chemical Lime provides lime slurry (hot liquid lime) to its customers from its PORTA BATCH concentrated production units. Chemical Lime's quarries and plants are primarily located in the southern and western US. Lhoist Group of Belgium owns Chemical Lime, which was founded in 1966. Chevron Oronite Company's additives subtract the bad elements from oil and fuel. Oronite additives disperse deposits, control corrosion, and execute oxidation, thereby reducing wear and friction in fuel-burning engines. The company is a subsidiary of Chevron and affiliated with its chemical joint venture, CP Chem. Its products are divided into components and chemicals (detergents, dispersants, polybutene), oronite fuel additives (gasoline, diesel, and aftermarket additives), lubricating oil additives (hydraulic, engine, industrial, and marine oils), and viscosity index improvers (under the brand name PARATONE). A coin toss determined which company's name would go first when Chevron and Phillips Petroleum (now ConocoPhillips) formed a new 50-50 joint venture, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company (CPChem), in 2000. Among the largest US petrochemical firms, CPChem produces ethylene, propylene, polyethylene, and polypropylene -sometimes used as building blocks for the company's other products such as pipe. CPChem also produces aromatics such as benzene and styrene, specialty chemicals such as acetylene black (a form of carbon black), and drilling and mining chemicals. The company has formed several petrochemicals joint ventures in the Middle East. Most of CPChem's operations are located in the US.

Address: 9 Old Kings Hwy. South Darien, CT 06820-1725 Phone: 203-655-3400 Fax: 203-655-8643

• President and CEO: Charles A. Hinnant • CFO: Fred Wirth • COO and Director, Legal Affairs: Bryant Hinnant

Address: 7050 W. 71st St. Bedford Park, IL 60499 Phone: 708-594-7000 Fax: 708-594-6382

• President and CEO: John R. Yanney • VP and CFO: John G. LaBahn • SVP and Director, Sales and Marketing: Phillip A. Scafido

Address: 3700 Hulen St. Fort Worth, TX 76107 Phone: 817-732-8164 Fax: 817-732-8564

• President and CEO: David M. Reilly • CFO: Steve Barnish • Manager, Marketing: David C. (Dave) Hoffman

Address: 1301 McKinney St. Houston, TX 77010 Phone: 713-754-5300 Fax: 713-754-5523

• President: Ronald (Ron) Kiskis • Marketing Manager: Susan Boyle

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 9558.00 M Address: 10001 6 Pines Dr. Revenue Growth (1 yr): The Woodlands, TX 77380-1498 36.20% Employees (2004): 5,300 Phone: 832-813-4100 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: 800-231-3890 (-2.80%)

• President and CEO: Raymond I. (Ray) Wilcox • SVP, CFO, and Controller: Greg G. Maxwell • CIO: Larry R. Frazier

China National Chemicals Import & Export Corporation

Clariant GmbH

Clean Diesel Technologies, Inc.

Cognis Corporation

Cole Chemical & Distributing Inc.

The pragmatically named China National Chemicals Import & Export (known as Sinochem) deals in chemicals, primarily in the petroleum industry, but also in rubber, plastics, and fertilizer. Founded in 1950, the state-owned company is China's largest trading company and its first multinational conglomerate. It operates through more than 100 subsidiaries in China and abroad in concerns ranging from petroleum trading to real estate. One of only a handful Chinese companies ranked in "FORTUNE" magazine's Global 500, Sinochem has diversified into technology, finance, and information businesses. From painting to printing, Clariant GmbH makes it brighter. The company makes pigments for paints, lacquers, plastics, and other specialty applications. The company also makes printing inks for ink jet and laser printing, additives to improve heat resistance, and aluminum paints. Other Clariant GmbH divisions make surfactants, polymers, pharmaceutical and agricultural fine chemicals, and distribute color and additive concentrates. Clariant GmbH sells to the automotive, electronics, consumer goods, medical, packaging, and textiles markets. The company, which also has research and development operations, is part of specialty chemical giant Clariant International. to counteract global warming. The company is starting to commercialize its chemical fuel additives and other products for reducing diesel engine emissions and improving fuel economy. These include its platinum fuel catalysts, which are marketed in Europe and the US under the Platinum Plus brand. Clean Diesel Technologies also manufactures and licenses nitrogen oxide (NOx) reduction systems (under the brand name ARIS 2000) and chemical fuel additives to help control diesel engine emissions. The company has a licensing deal with Mitsui to use the ARIS technology in stationary engines in Japan. Former parent Fuel-Tech N.V. owns 11% of the company. Cognis Corporation is the North American presence of the German chemical manufacturer Cognis Deutschland. Cognis Corp. focuses on three product lines: care chemicals, coating technology, and oleochemicals. The company also has a patent law department. Cognis Corp. accounts for about a quarter of its parent's total sales. An investment group bought Cognis from Henkel in 2001 and took it private; management has plans to go public on its own in the coming years. petrochemical manufacturers. The company's products include acids, alcohols, amines, chlor-alkali, chlorinated solvents, fatty chemicals, glycol ethers, lubricants, and resins from suppliers including BASF, Cargill, and Dow Corning. It offers safety training, custom blending, warehousing, logistics, and custom packaging services from its locations throughout the US; the company also has import and export operations. Cole Chemical is a minority- and woman-owned business; it was formed by CEO Donna Fujimoto Cole in 1980.

Address: Sinochem Tower, A2 Fuxingmenwai Dajie Beijing 100045, China Phone: +86-10-8807-8888 Fax: +86-10-8807-8890

• President and CEO: Liu Deshu • CFO: Chen Guogang • VP Strategic Planning, Information Technology, and Administr: Luo Dongjiang

Address: Am Unisys-Park 1 65843 Sulzbach, Germany Phone: +49-6-196-757-60 Fax: +49-6-196-757-88-56

• Managing Director: Herbert Link • Member, Management Board: Alexander Klak • Member, Management Board, Finance and Administration: Henri Schlömer

Address: 300 Atlantic St., Ste. 702 Stamford, CT 06901 Phone: 203-327-7050 Fax: 203-323-0461

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 27.30% Employees (2004): 13 Employee Growth (1 yr): 30.00%

• President, CEO, and Director: Bernhard Steiner • SVP, Administration, CFO, and Treasurer: David W. Whitwell • VP, Sales and Marketing: R. Glen Reid

Address: 5051 Estecreek Dr. Cincinnati, OH 45232-1446 Phone: 513-482-3000 Fax: 513-482-5503

• President: Paul S. Allen • Chief Administrative Officer: Greg Pflum • Communications Manager: Kathy Bollmer

Address: 8915 Gaylord St. Houston, TX 77024-2903 Phone: 713-465-2653 Fax: 713-461-3462

• President and CEO: Donna F. Cole • Manager, Sales and Marketing: Dave Luther • Manager, Business Development: Hilda Rader

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 23.00 M Employees (2005): 12

Yes

Composites One LLC

Contran Corporation

CP Kelco

CPH Holding Corp.

CRI Asia Pacific

Composites One (C1) helps composites fabricators compose their products. The company distributes a variety of fiberglass and composite materials, such as additives, adhesives, gel coats, pigments, putties, polyester, and vinyl ester resins. A joint venture of GLS and Cook Composites and Polymers, C1 maintains more than 30 distribution centers and serves 7,000 customers throughout the US and in Canada. Give Texas billionaire Harold Simmons a 10-yard penalty, because the company he founded, Contran, is a holding company. Through subsidiaries and affiliations, Valhi, Inc. (a publicly traded company about 90% controlled by Contran) conducts diversified operations in chemicals (NL Industries and Kronos Worldwide), metals (Titanium Metals Corporation), waste management (Waste Control Specialties), computer support systems, and precision ball bearing slides and locking systems (CompX International). Contran also has a controlling interest in Keystone Consolidated Industries, a maker of fencing and wire products. Trusts benefiting Simmons' family (with Simmons as the sole trustee) own pretty much all of Contran. entire class. Formed in 2000 by the combination of Hercules' Copenhagen Pectin/Food Gums unit and the Kelco unit of Monsanto, CP Kelco's products include carrageenan, gellan gum, xanthan gum, and microparticulated whey protein. The company, a subsidiary of J. M. Huber, makes additives used to give food, industrial, personal care, and pharmaceutical products (everything from jam and ketchup to paint and cosmetics) the desired texture, viscosity, and stability. Until 2004 Lehman Brothers and Hercules had owned 71% and 29% of Kelco, respectively. Huber bought out Hercules in a deal that closed early in 2004 and acquired Lehman's in the Fall. halls with performance additives. Through its CPH Solutions and RTD Hallstar subsidiaries, the company makes polymer and personal care product additives used to improve the quality of rubber, plastics, adhesives, coatings, cosmetics, skin care items, and industrial products. It operates two US manufacturing facilities and distributes products to customers in the US and abroad. The company's brands include Paraplex, Plasthall, Hallcote, Quikote, Suprmix, Maglite, and Marinco. CPH Holding is owned by members of its executive staff. Doing the dirty work that helps to keep skies blue is what's at issue for CRI Asia Pacific. The company, a unit of the US-based CRI Catalyst (which itself is a subsidiary of Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies), distributes flue gas treatment catalysts and the related technology to chemical, environmental emission control, and petrochemical companies. Chief among the company's products are catalysts used to reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx) and dioxin removal (pollutants created as a byproduct of incinerating solid and liquid hazardous waste materials).

Address: 723 W. Algonquin Rd. Arlington Heights, IL 60005 Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 847-437-0200 Revenue (2005): 120.00 M Fax: 847-437-0664 Employees (2005): 600

• Chairman: Harold C. Simmons • President and Director: Steven L. Watson • VP and Controller: Gregory M. (Greg) Swalwell

Address: Three Lincoln Centre, 5430 LBJ Fwy., Ste. 1700 Dallas, TX 75240 Phone: 972-233-1700 Fax: 972-448-1444

Address: 123 N. Wacker Dr., Ste. 2000 Chicago, IL 60606 Phone: 312-554-7800 Fax: 312-554-7810

• CEO: Steve Dehmlow • President and COO: Leon Garoufalis • CFO: Jim Sieber

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 481.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 6.90% Employees (2004): 2,200 Employee Growth (1 yr): 37.50%

• President and CEO: Thomas B. (Tom) Lamb • SVP, Technology: Akiva T. Gross • VP, Operations and Business Management: Robert Bruce Dructor

Address: 311 S. Wacker Dr., Ste. 4700 Chicago, IL 60606 Phone: 312-554-7400 Fax: 312-554-7499

• Chairman: George A. Vincent • President and COO: John J. Paro • VP and CFO: Thomas (Tom) Seum

Address: 298 Tiong Bahru Rd., 07-03/04/05 Central Plaza 168730 Singapore Phone: +65-6276-3631 Fax: +65-6276-7456

• President: Robert Trout • Business Manager, Environmental Catalysts and Systems: Harry Tang • Business Director, EO & KataLeuna Catalyst: King Way Ma

CRI Catalyst Co.

CRI/Criterion Catalyst Company Ltd

Chemically speaking, CRI Catalyst (CRICC) is known for its chain reactions. The company, a part of Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies' Catalyst Technology unit, manages catalyst development centers, research laboratories, support groups, and manufacturing plants. Along with its CRI Asia Pacific subsidiary the company provides flue gas treatment catalysts used to reduce harmful emissions produced at chemical and petrochemical facilities. CRICC provides services such as silver management and silver recovery for the production of ethylene oxide. chemically challenged. The company acts as the European distributor for its parent, CRI Catalyst (which is a subsidiary of Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies). Through its subsidiary, Criterion Catalysts & Technologies, CRI/Criterion Catalyst provides hydroprocessing chemicals used by petrochemical companies. Along with ABB Lummus Global and Catalytic Distribution Technologies (CD Tech), it has developed a new, economically viable process to create low sulfur diesel and low sulfur gasoline with reduced emissions.

D.H. Litter scatters specialty chemical products across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. The distribution company sells to customers in the plastics, adhesives, paint and coatings, printing ink, paper, textile, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and food industries. It also provides product research and technical training to its customers. D.H. Litter D.H. Litter represents product manufacturers such as Alcoa, Bayer, and Company, Inc. Degussa. The company was founded in 1921. A miracle on the prairie? A subsidiary of Basin Electric Power Cooperative, Dakota Gasification does not turn water into wine, but it does the next best thing, it turns coal into natural gas. The Great Plains Synfuels Plant harnesses the abundant lignite resources underlying the North Dakota prairie. Through a complex gasification process the company transforms more than 6 million tons of coal into more than 54 billion standard cubic feet of natural gas annually, which is then used to supply homes and businesses across the Dakota Eastern US. In addition to natural gas, the company's Synfuels plant Gasification produces carbon dioxide, fertilizers, solvents, phenol, and other Company chemicals. of chemicals. DC Chemical (DCC) makes basic chemicals (soda ash, acetic acid, etc.), fine chemicals (ingredients for rubber and glyphosate), and petrochemicals (carbon black, benzene, and xylene). DC Chemical maintains nine manufacturing plants in South Korea and subsidiary offices throughout Asia as well as in Belgium, Turkey, and the US. The company was formed in 1959 -- then known as Oriental Chemical Industries (OCI) -- and changed its DC Chemical name following the 2001 merger of OCI and Korea Steel Co., Ltd. Petrochemical.

• President; President, CRI/Criterion Catalyst: Robert Trout • Business Manager: John Walker • Business Director, Technology and Development: Alan Del Paggio

Address: 16825 Northchase Dr., Ste. 1110 Houston, TX 77060 Phone: 281-874-2490 Fax: 281-874-2499

Address: 1650 Parkway, The Solent Business Park Whiteley Fareham, Hampshire PO15 7AH, United Kingdom Phone: +44-1489-881-881 Fax: +44-1489-881-882

Address: 565 Taxter Rd., Ste. 610 Elmsford, NY 10523 Phone: 914-592-1077 Fax: 914-592-1499

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 133.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-6.30%) Employees (2004): 48 Employee Growth (1 yr): 4.30%

• President: Robert Trout • Business Manager, Environmental Catalysts and Systems: Onno Maaskant • Business Director, EO Catalyst: James McAteer

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 46.00 M Employees (2005): 30

• President: Michael Granito • Sales Manager: David Penichter • Business Manager: Charlie Snyder

• Chairman: Don Applegate Address: 1600 E. Interstate Ave. Bismarck, ND 58501-0561 Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 701-221-4411 Revenue (2005): 233.70 M Fax: 701-221-4450 Employees (2005): 658

• President and CEO: Ronald R. (Ron) Harper • VP and COO: Alan C. (Al) Lukes

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 1909.70 M Address: Oriental Chemical Revenue Growth (1 yr): Bldg., 50 Sogong-dong, Jung-gu 27.20% Seoul, South Korea Employees (2004): 1,768 Phone: +82-2-727-9500 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: +82-2-757-4111 (-4.10%)

• Chairman, Representative Director: Soo Young Lee • Honorary Chairman: Hoi Rim Lee

Denki Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha's name is as complicated as some of the chemicals it manufactures. The company operates four business segments: petrochemicals, specialized chemical products, cement and construction materials, and pharmaceuticals and other operations. It makes products such as fertilizers, synthetic rubber, cement additives for construction and cement production, polyvinyl Denki Kagaku chloride (PVC) and vinyl acetate resins used to produce synthetic Kogyo rubber and plastics, and semiconductor-related electronic materials Kabushiki (including styrene resins used in semiconductor chips). Founded in Kaisha 1915, Denki Kagaku Kogyo has subsidiaries worldwide. DNT doesn't provide TNT, but it does supply a variety of other volatile substances. The company, which does business as E.W. Kaufmann, distributes specialty chemicals and equipment throughout the northeastern US from warehouses in Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. E.W. Kaufmann began as a sales representative organization in 1956; the employee-owned company now distributes chemicals from some 30 different manufacturers. Its suppliers include BASF, Huntsman, and DNT Reichhold. Subsidiary E.W. Kaufmann Services provides storage Corporation and transportation and maintenance installation Dorsett & Jackson tanks distributes raw materialsand in the western services. US. The

Dorsett & Jackson, Inc.

company provides specialty chemicals such as amines, food additives, pigments, plasticizers, polyglycols, resins, surfactants, and thickening agents. It serves customers in the paints and coatings, adhesives and sealants, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and plastics and rubber industries. Dorsett & Jackson's suppliers include Alcoa, Degussa, and Hexion. The company serves California, Nevada, and Arizona from locations in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The company was formed in 1954 by Bob Dorsett and Hartley Jackson and is owned by executives Paul Grubs, Donald Witteman, and Romer Johnson.

Durr Marketing Associates' forte is raw materials for the specialty chemical market. The company distributes catalysts, inorganic chemicals, pigments, lubricants, rust/corrosion/stain inhibitors, plasticizers, resins, and thickening agents. Its customers include Durr Marketing companies in the adhesives and sealants, paints and coatings, Associates, plastics and rubber, and electronics industries. Durr Marketing's Inc. suppliers include Interplastic, PPG Industries, and Huntsman. It takes Mother Nature millions of years to brew a barrel of oil, but DynaMotive Energy Systems wants to accelerate the process with its BioOil product. Clean-burning BioOil, made from forest and agricultural wastes, can be used as a substitute for fossil fuels in diesel engines, gas turbines, and boilers. BioOil, which is being tested by engine manufacturers in preparation for a commercial DynaMotive rollout, also can be used as raw material for fertilizer and specialty Energy chemicals. DynaMotive Energy Systems sold its DynaPower unit in Systems 2002. It has offices in Massachusetts and London, and sells to Corporation customers in Asia, Canada, Europe, and the US.

Address: Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower, 1-1,NihonbashiMuromachi 2-chome, ChuoTokyo 103-8338, Japan Phone: +81-3-3507-5055 Fax: +81-3-3507-5059

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 2377.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 16.80% Employees (2004): 5,618 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-1.00%) • President and Director: Toshio Hiruma

Address: 1320 Industrial Hwy. Southampton, PA 18966 Phone: 215-364-0240 Fax: 215-364-4397

• President: Brian Gilbert • Controller: Robin Connor • Director, Marketing: Jim Goldsmith

Address: 3800 Noakes St. Los Angeles, CA 90023 Phone: 323-268-1815 Fax: 323-268-9082

• Chairman: Paul E. Grubs • President and CEO: Donald F. (Don) Witteman • EVP and COO: Romer E. Johnson

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 37.90 M Employees (2005): 29

• President: David R. Durr • VP, Operations: Debra Ladley • VP, Sales: Keith Standbridge

Address: 1300 Lower Rodi Rd. Turtle Creek, PA 15145 Phone: 412-829-2300 Fax: 412-829-7680

Address: 1700 W. 75th Avenue, Suite 105 Vancouver, British Columbia V6P 6G2, Canada Phone: 604-267-6000 Fax: 604-267-6005

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 24 Employee Growth (1 yr): 33.30%

• Chairman: Richard Chen Hsing Lin • President, CEO, and Director: R. Andrew Kingston • CFO: Brian Richardson

Yes

E. I. du Pont de Nemours (DuPont) is focusing on chemicals and profits. The #3 US chemical maker (behind Dow and ExxonMobil Chemicals) has undergone a restructuring that consolidated eight business units into five. These segments produce coatings (automotive finishes and coatings), crop protection chemicals and genetically modified seeds, electronic materials (LCDs, sensors, and fluorochemicals), polymers and resins for packaging and other uses, and safety and security materials and chemicals. The company has E. I. du Pont de slimmed down, exiting the pharmaceutical business and fibers Nemours and industry (INVISTA -- including Lycra and Stainmaster), and is Company focusing more and more on biotechnology and safety and protection. E. T. Horn wants chemical makers to phone home... the company's home office, that is. The company distributes chemical ingredients in the western US. Customers include manufacturers of coatings, lubricants, elastomers and composites, building materials, food, and personal care products. E. T. Horn maintains warehouses in California, Oregon, and Utah and serves customers in 11 western US states. Its suppliers include Aqualon, Cabot, and Degussa. The E. T. Horn employee-owned company was founded by E. T. "Jack" Horn in the Company 1960s. Eaglebrook hopes to make rivers flow cleaner. The company manufactures a wide range of iron and aluminum coagulants for the wastewater and potable water industries. The company has offices in the US and Canada and has been acquired by Kemiron Companies, making it one of North America's largest suppliers of Eaglebrook, inorganic coagulants. Kemiron Companies is the US subsidiary of Inc. Finnish chemical company Kemira Oyj. Eastman Chemical can recall its past through photos -- it was once part of film giant Eastman Kodak. The company has developed into a major producer of chemicals, fibers, and plastics. Its Polyesters business group is responsible for Eastman's polymers and specialty plastics manufacturing operations. While the Chemicals & Fibers business group is comprised of the company's performance chemicals and intermediates; fibers; and coatings, adhesives, specialty polymers, and inks units. Eastman's products go into such items as food and medical packaging, films, and toothbrushes. Eastman Eastman is the #1 maker of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a Chemical plastic used to make packaging for soft drinks, food, and water. Company thanks to Ecolab Limited. The UK subsidiary of American specialty chemicals company Ecolab Inc, it has bought the UK businesses of pest elimination company Terminix and Adams Healthcare, a maker of hospital hygiene products, since late 2002. The acquisitions have greatly increased the scope of the company's business in Great Britain, which previously had been concentrated in the food and beverage industry as a provider of cleaning and disinfecting systems and services. Ecolab Limited operates from two locations in Ecolab Limited England.

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 26639.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-2.60%) Employees (2005): 60,000 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• Chairman and CEO: Charles O. (Chad) Holliday Jr. • EVP and COO: Richard R. Goodmanson • SVP and CFO: Gary M. Pfeiffer

Revenue (2005): 26.10 M Employees (2005): 100

• CEO: Gene Alley • President: Patrick Marantette • VP, Finance and Administration: Julie Wubbena

Address: 4801 Southwick Dr., Ste. 200 Matteson, IL 60443 Phone: 708-747-5038 Fax: 708-747-3278

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 41.40 M Employees (2005): 200

• Chairman: Alfred M. Tenny • President: Bill Wowchuk • Marketing Manager: Steve Tenny

Address: 200 S. Wilcox Dr. Kingsport, TN 37660 Phone: 423-229-2000 Fax: 423-229-2145

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 7059.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 7.30% Employees (2005): 12,000 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• Chairman and CEO: J. Brian Ferguson • President; Head of Chemicals and Fibers Business Group: James P. Rogers • SVP and CFO: Richard A. (Rich) Lorraine

Address: 1007 Market St. Wilmington, DE 19898 Phone: 302-774-1000 Fax: 302-999-4399

Address: 16141 Heron Ave. La Mirada, CA 90638 Phone: 714-523-8050 Fax: 714-670-6851

Address: David Murray John Bldg. Swindon SN1 1NH, United Kingdom Phone: +44-1793-51-12-21 Fax: +44-1793-61-85-52

• Regional VP: Ronald J. Lindsay Pringle • Finance Director: Stephan W. Weber

Yes

Yes

Eka Chemicals is able to eke out a fine living by providing chemicals to, primarily, the paper and pulp industry. A division of Dutch chemicals colossus Akzo Nobel, Eka reorganized in 2003. It now has two divisions: Pulp and Paper -- which itself is divided along geographic lines -- and Specialty Products. Eka's bleaching chemicals provide more than half of the company's total sales. The remaining portions of the Pulp and Paper unit provide everything from monitoring units for chem labs to coating additives. The Eka Chemicals Specialty Products division manufactures tall oils and other products AB for the glue, paint, and rubber industries. If it's chemicals for the North American pulp and paper industry you seek-a, then head right on over to Eka. The American arm of Eka Chemicals (a subsidiary of Akzo Nobel), the company is located throughout the US, with nine manufacturing plants. In addition to bleaching and water treatment chemicals, Eka Chemicals USA markets specialty products like adhesive resins and colloidal silica, which is used as a sealant by the electronics industry. Eka announced in late 2003 that it would restructure its North American Eka Chemicals business; it closed down one plant and ramped up production at two others. Inc. Elementis Specialties focuses on the elements of specialty chemicals. The company manufactures additives that improve the various properties of products made by the coatings, building products, and cosmetics industries. A division of Elementis plc, it manufactures rheological additives (that impact thinning and thickening and affect flow). The company also manufactures a line of pigment dispersions and a variety of other specialty additives and polymers. In 2004 Elementis bought Sasol's Servo unit and began Elementis integrating it within the Specialties' portfolio. Although its parent is Specialties, based in the UK, Elementis Specialties makes its home in New Inc. Jersey and has operations worldwide. EMCO Chemical Distributors has developed a special chemistry with its Midwest manufacturing customers. With a fleet of nearly 60 tankers, trailers, trucks, and vans, EMCO distributes chemicals that include acids, alcohols, aldehydes, surfactants, amines, solvents, and other industrial and specialty chemicals. The company's custom packaging facility provides contract blending and packaging services and concentrates on filling orders for hazardous chemicals. Its waste EMCO services division has an agreement to supply processed nonChemical hazardous waste to American Ref-Fuel's New York waste-to-energy Distributors, facility; the unit also provides hazardous waste disposal. President, Inc. CEO, and owner Edward Polen founded EMCO in 1971. pharmaceutical giant Merck KGaA (not to be confused with American pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. -- they're separate and unrelated and have been since 1917). EMD Chemicals specializes in producing pigments for automotive, packaging, plastics, and printing applications. The company is the result of the January 2003 combination of four Merck KGaA divisions: EM Science, EM Industries, EMD Pharmaceuticals, and EMD Biosciences. EMD EMD Chemicals also makes raw ingredients for cosmetics through its Chemicals Inc. subsidiary Rona.

Address: Lilla Bommen 1 445 80 Bohus, Sweden Phone: +46-31-58-70-00 Fax: +46-31-58-72-12

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 1336.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 18.90% Employees (2004): 3,070 Employee Growth (1 yr): 6.50%

Address: 1775 W. Oak Commons Ct. Marietta, GA 30062 Phone: 770-578-0858 Fax: 770-578-1359

• President: Jan Svärd • Head of Control and Information Technology: Gijsberth de Ruiter • Head of Business Development, BU-project: Ulf Liljestrand

• President: Mario Houde • VP, Operations: Roger Harcrow

Address: 329 Wyckoffs Mill Rd. Hightstown, NJ 08520 Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 609-443-2500 Revenue (2005): 86.90 M Fax: 609-443-2422 Employees (2005): 572

• Managing Director: Neil Carr • VP, Operations: Martin Neil • VP, Finance: Zahir Ibrahim

Address: 2100 Commonwealth Ave. North Chicago, IL 60064 Phone: 847-689-2200 Fax: 847-689-8470

• President and CEO: Edward Polen • VP and General Manager: Randall Polen • Controller: David Sigafus

Address: 480 S. Democrat Rd. Gibbstown, NJ 08027 Phone: 856-423-6300 Fax: 856-423-4389

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 120.00 M Employees (2005): 230

• President and CEO: Douglas S. Brown • CFO: Kathie Lamb • VP and General Manager, Analytics and Reagents: Bill Molnar

Someone's got to build the building blocks too, you know? Equistar Chemicals, a subsidiary of Lyondell Chemical, does just that. Equistar's primary product is ethylene, which is the world's mostused petrochemical and the basis for any number of other chemicals, plastics, and synthetics. Among the company's other products are propylene, butadiene, polyethylene, polypropylene, ethylene oxide, ethylene glycol, benzene, and toluene. Polyethylene is used in plastic bags and bottles; polypropylene is used in plastic caps, rigid packaging, automotive components, and carpet. The Equistar company was jointly owned by Lyondell and Millennium Chemicals Chemicals, LP until the former bought the latter in 2004.

Ercros, S.A.

Ethyl Corporation

ExxonMobil Chemical Company

FinishMaster, Inc.

Ercros is made up of five divisions: basic chemicals (caustic soda and ethyl acetate), agrochemicals and animal feed (dicalcium phosphate, industrial salt, and rock salt), emulsions (polymers in suspension), and pharmaceuticals (erythromycin and phosphomycin), and International. The company was formed in 1989 by the merger of Spain's two largest private chemical companies: S.A. Cros and Unión Explosivos Río Tinto. Cepa, another predecessor of Ercros, was the first company to produce penicillin in Spain. Ercros acquired Uralita's Aragonesas unit in 2005. Ethyl hears you knocking and it hopes you let its products in. The company is a subsidiary of NewMarket (formerly Ethyl), which was restructured in June 2004 as a holding company for Ethyl and sister company Afton Chemical. The new Ethyl markets its gasoline performance additives and diesel cetane improver (which increases ignition quality in diesel fuel) throughout North America. It also makes and markets anti-knock additive tetraethyl lead (TEL), mostly through a partnership with Octel, which sells TEL in places that still use leaded gasoline. TEL once was a primary product line for Ethyl but has seen diminishing returns since the U.S. Clean Air Act and others like it were put in place. No surprise that a subsidiary of the world's #1 oil company, Exxon Mobil, is among the world's top chemical companies. ExxonMobil Chemical ranks #1 or #2 in making many petrochemicals, including benzene and toluene, as well as polyolefins such as polypropylene (PP) and high-density and linear low-density polyethylene (HDPE and LLDPE, respectively). The company also is a major producer of olefins (such as ethylene and propylene, used to make polyolefins), aromatics, and specialty chemicals. ExxonMobil uses its polyolefins to make films for packaging and labeling and also licenses some of its process technology. It has operations in the Americas, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia/Pacific region. Accidents are why pencils have erasers and why FinishMaster sells tons of paint. The company is a top US distributor of automotive paints, coatings, and accessories, which it sells mainly to customers in the collision repair industry. FinishMaster distributes a wide variety of brand name products from such producers as BASF, DuPont, 3M, and PPG (its top suppliers). It also makes and markets refinishing accessories under the PrivateBrand label. The firm's distribution network serves its customers from about 170 sales outlets in 28 states. Chairman and CEO Andre Lacy controls 76% of FinishMaster through holding company LDI, Ltd.

Address: 1221 McKinney St., Ste. 700 Houston, TX 77010 Phone: 713-652-7300

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 9316.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 42.30% Employees (2004): 3,155 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-0.30%)

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 288.70 M Address: Avenida Diagonal 595, Revenue Growth (1 yr): Plant 5 7.50% 08014 Barcelona, Spain Employees (2004): 972 Phone: +34-934-393-009 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: +34-934-308-073 (-2.20%)

Address: 330 S. 4th St. Richmond, VA 23219 Phone: 804-788-5600 Fax: 804-788-5688

Address: 13501 Katy Fwy. Houston, TX 77079-1398 Phone: 281-870-6000 Fax: 281-870-6661

Address: 54 Monument Circle, Ste. 800 Indianapolis, IN 46204-2942 Phone: 317-237-3678 Fax: 317-237-2150

• CEO: Dan F. Smith • COO: Morris Gelb • SVP and CFO: T. Kevin DeNicola Executive: Antonio Zabalza Martí • General Manager, Corporative and Business Development: José L. Muñiz Álvarez • Director, Communications: Teresa Conesa Fábregues

• President: Russell L. Gottwald Jr.

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 27781.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 37.60%

• President: Michael J. (Mike) Dolan • VP, Global Operations: Bruce G. Macklin • VP, Marketing: Frank S. Panebianco

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 386.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 11.40% Employees (2004): 1,550

• President, COO, and Director: John A. Lacy • SVP, Business Development: Charles (Chuck) VanSlaars • SVP, Finance, and CFO: Robert R. (Bob) Millard

Yes

Floridienne s.a.

FMC CORPORATIO N

FMC Wyoming Corporation

Fuchs Lubricants Co.

FUCHS PETROLUB AKTIENGESEL LSCHAFT

Floridienne, originally named for its mining activities in Florida, now focuses on inorganic chemistry, food, and the life sciences. The holding company's agro-food division specializes in French seafood, snails, and truffles, as well as international food products. The company's chemical unit focuses in making zinc, lead, nickel, cadmium, and bismouth salts. In addition, Floridienne develops enterprises in the biotechnological, food-processing, and chemical industries through its life sciences division. Beluflo S.A. owns about 26% in the company. E may = mc2, but FMC = chemicals. Once in areas as diverse as oil field equipment and food machinery, FMC Corporation now focuses on industrial, specialty, and agricultural chemicals. The company's industrial chemicals include soda ash (it's one of the largest producers), hydrogen peroxide, and phosphorus chemicals. The rest of its sales come from agricultural products (insecticides and herbicides) and specialty chemicals (food and pharmaceutical additives). FMC and partner Solutia sold Astaris (now called ICL Performance Products LP), its phosphorus compounds joint venture, to Israel Chemicals Limited in late 2005. Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover, and sometimes a company's name says exactly what that company is. FMC Wyoming Corporation is pretty much as it sounds, a division of the FMC Corporation that is based in Green River, Wyoming. FMC Wyoming mines and manufactures sodium carbonate and soda ash for pulp and paper companies; its products also go into the making of livestock feed and other parts of the agricultural industry. Its caustic soda and soda ash also are used to make glass and in the manufacture of chemicals. FMC Wyoming accounts for the majority of its parent company's alkali chemicals segment. Lubricants, the US operating unit of Germany-based Fuchs Petrolub, one of the world's top independent manufacturers of specialty lubricants and greases. Its products, including heavy-duty greases, hydraulic fluids, industrial grease and maintenance lubricants, and metal working fluids, are used by customers in the food processing, industrial equipment, metals and mining, and pharmaceutical industries. Fuchs Lubricants also provides chemical process management services, including process control, optimization, usage reduction, and waste minimization services. Its Brooks Steel Division offers expertise on lubricants to the North American steel industry. one of the world's leading independent manufacturers of automotive and industrial lubricants. Its products include engine and gear oils, metalworking fluids, metal forming lubricants, corrosion preventatives, quenching oils, biodegradable lubricants, and greases. The company also provides polishing pastes and tools as well as anti-freeze, mining products, and vaselines. FUCHS PETROLUB operates through more than 50 production facilities and about 70 subsidiaries worldwide. It operates in the US through Fuchs Lubricants and in the UK through FUCHS LUBRITECH, which makes specialty lubricants for the food and beverage industries in the UK.

• Chairman: Philippe Bodson • Managing Director and Board Member: Jean-Marie Delwart • Group Financial and Central Services Manager: Gaëtan Waucquez

Address: Chaussée de Tervuren 198F 1410 Waterloo, Belgium Phone: +32-2-353-00-28 Fax: +32-2-353-05-81

Address: 1735 Market St. Philadelphia, PA 19103 Phone: 214-299-6000

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 2150.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 4.80% Employees (2004): 5,100 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-3.80%)

• Chairman, President, and CEO: William G. (Bill) Walter • SVP and CFO: W. Kim Foster • CIO: Michael F. Giesler

Address: Westvaco Rd. Green River, WY 82935 Phone: 307-875-2580 Fax: 307-872-2308

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 368.00 M Employees (2005): 875

• Manufacturing Director: Jim Pearce • IT Manager: Richard (Dick) Bardwell

Address: 17050 Lathrop Ave. Harvey, IL 60426 Phone: 708-333-8900 Fax: 708-333-9180

• Chairman and CEO: L. Frank Kleinman • President: David Hughey • VP Finance: Pamela (Pam) Watson

• Chairman, Supervisory Board: Jürgen F. Strube Fiscal Year End: December • Chairman of the Revenue (2004): 1495.40 M Executive Board: Stefan R. Revenue Growth (1 yr): Fuchs Address: Friesenheimer Str. 17 14.50% • Vice Chairman of the 68169 Mannheim, Germany Employees (2004): 4,155 Executive Board and Phone: +49-621-3802-0 Employee Growth (1 yr): Financial Director: Fax: +49-621-3802-190 (-1.50%) Alexander Selent

Yes

G.S. Robins flits from manufacturer to manufacturer dropping raw materials as it goes. Founded in 1923, the company is a familyowned business that distributes chemicals such as acids, adhesives and sealants, dyes, esters, flavors and fragrances, food additives, and intermediates for the food, cleaning product, coatings, metal treatment, and water treatment industries. Its suppliers include Akzo Nobel, DuPont, Georgia Gulf, and Hercules. G.S. Robins also offers G.S. Robins storage, custom blending, bulk handling, contract packaging, and and Company product research services. Gallade Chemical gallantly delivers chemicals far and wide. The company is a family-owned business that distributes chemicals such as acids, alcohols, chlor-alkali, polyglycols, solvents, thickening agents, and reagents to companies in industrial manufacturing, microelectronics, research and analysis, and specialty chemical industries. It also supplies laboratory, safety, and industrial products such as beakers, protective clothing, and testing kits. Gallade Chemical's suppliers include Sigma-Aldrich, 3M, EMD Chemicals, Gallade and Mallinckrodt. Founded in 1964, the company delivers products Chemical, Inc. throughout the US from its four locations in California. Gantrade gallivants about the globe trading chemical commodities. The company is a petrochemicals firm and producer of vinyl acetate monomer (VAM), as well as carbon black and ethylene and propylene derivatives. The company has marketing and storage operations in the US and throughout Europe. The Parekh family owns Gantrade and has interests in various other chemical companies through a venture with Citicorp Venture Capital. The Gantrade venture controlled synthetic rubber manufacturer Ameripol Synpol, Corporation which liquidated under bankruptcy protection in 2003. Gaylord Chemical Corporation manufactures just three products: dimethyl sulfide, dimethyl sulfoxide, and dimethyl sulfone. But those three chemicals go into a number of end products, including the production of pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, petrochemicals, inks, and solvents, as well as in semiconductor manufacturing. The company is a subsidiary -- for now -- of Temple-Inland's corrugated packaging unit, as a result of that company's 2002 purchase of the former Gaylord Container Company. Temple-Inland plans to sell off Gaylord the Gaylord Chemical as soon as the company concludes some Chemical litigation. Corporation General Chemical Industrial Products makes soda and another product that is rich in calcium, but don't be tempted to take drink. The company's products are soda ash (a raw ingredient in glass, soap, textiles, and detergent) and calcium chloride (which can be used to melt ice from roads and also to bind together the dust, dirt, and rock that make up an unpaved road). The firm, formerly called General General Chemical Group, entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Chemical in December 2003. It emerged in April of the following year as Industrial General Chemical Industrial Products. Subsidiary General Chemical Products Inc. Canada filed for bankruptcy protection in 2005.

Address: 126 Chouteau Ave. St. Louis, MO 63102-2490 Phone: 314-621-5155 Fax: 314-621-1216

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 51.50 M Employees (2005): 90

Address: 1230 E. St. Gertrude Place Santa Ana, CA 92707 Phone: 714-546-9901 Fax: 714-546-2501

• President: G. Stephen (Steve) Robins • CFO: Bob Branson

• President and CEO: Richard A. (Rick) Gallade

Address: 210 Summit Ave., Ste. 1 Montvale, NJ 07645 Phone: 201-573-1955 Revenue (2005): 4.60 M Fax: 201-573-8617 Employees (2005): 22

• President: Mahendra Parekh • CFO: Mark Cerepak • VP, Sales: Jai Moorthy

Address: 106 Galeria Blvd. Slidell, LA 70459-1209 Phone: 985-649-5464 Fax: 985-649-0068

• Chairman and CEO: Louie Zeillmann • President and COO: Paul Dennis • CFO: Jim LeBlanc

Address: 120 Eagle Rock Ave. East Hanover, NJ 07936 Phone: 973-599-5500

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 3.60 M Employees (2005): 44

• Chairman: Eugene I. (Gene) Davis • President, CEO, and Director: DeLyle W. Bloomquist

Yes

George S. Coyne Chemical Co., Inc.

GeorgiaPacific Resins, Inc.

Global Nuclear Fuel - Japan Co., Ltd.

Gulf Coast Chemical Corp.

H&R WASAG Aktiengesellsc haft

Flipping a coin to find a chemical distributor might bring up George S. Coyne Chemical. The company distributes industrial chemicals (for pharmaceuticals, food, and cosmetics), consumer products (pool chemicals, de-icing chemicals, solar salt), and metal finishing and plating chemicals, primarily in the Eastern US. Coyne Chemical also provides related valued-added services, such as warehousing, custom blending and packaging, and environmental consulting. The company was formed in 1868 by George S. Coyne and is operated by the founder's descendants. From one corner of the US all the way to the other, Georgia-Pacific Resins manufactures adhesives resins and wood chemicals for its corporate parent, paper and building products giant Georgia-Pacific. The wholly owned subsidiary functions as the chemical division of the parent, manufacturing adhesives, thermoset resins, and wood and paper chemicals; it also manufactures formaldehyde. GeorgiaPacific maintains 17 manufacturing facilities in the US and another four in South America. It ranks, along with Hexion Specialty Chemicals, as the world's largest thermoset and forest product resins makers. Global Nuclear Fuel-Japan Co. (GNF-J) is part of a joint venture formed by General Electric, Toshiba, and Hitachi in 2001. General Electric has the controlling 51% stake in the venture, and Toshiba and Hitachi split the remaining share. The company develops, manufactures, and sells nuclear fuel in Japan. Formerly Japan Nuclear Fuel Co., GNF-J evolved from a joint venture formed between Toshiba and Hitachi as early as 1967 to introduce to Japan a boiling water reactor (BWR) developed by GE. The nuclear fuel company is affiliated with US-based Global Nuclear Fuel Americas and GE Nuclear Energy. Gulf Coast Chemical serves Florida chemical consumers. The company supplies industrial chemical compounding components and equipment. It distributes products from 30 different manufacturers, including colorants, adhesives, resins, preservatives, filaments, and metal and plastic containers. The firm's suppliers include 3M, Degussa, and Ferro. Gulf Coast Chemical also provides warehousing services. The company was founded in 1957 and delivers by train and truck. Although H&R WASAG has exploded in growth by acquiring explosive companies, the specialty chemicals company remains most profitable in manufacturing chemical and pharmaceutical raw materials and plastics. With its 2005 acquisition of Westspreng, the group has become a leading explosives company in Germany. In 2004 it acquired the specialty products business of BP and agreed to acquire two Australian chemical plants from Exxon Mobil. Formerly Wasag-Chemie, the company added H&R to its name for major shareholder Hansen & Rosenthal and dropped "chemie." The group is involved in such operations as precision-molded parts (Gaudlitz), industrial explosives (WASAG-Chemie), gunpowder (WANO), and blasting machines (ZEB).

Address: 3015 State Rd. Croydon, PA 19021-6697 Phone: 215-785-3000 Fax: 215-785-1585

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 27.10 M Employees (2005): 124

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 588.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): Address: 55 Park Place, 16th Fl. 19.00% Atlanta, GA 30303 Employees (2004): 1,300 Phone: 404-652-4000 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: 404-747-2682 0.00%

Address: 2-3-1, Uchikawa Yokosuka, Kanagawa 239-0836, Japan Phone: +81-46-833-2323 Fax: +81-46-835-2326

Address: 101 Wayne Place Tampa, FL 33619 Phone: 813-623-5471 Fax: 813-620-0462

Address: Neuenkirchener Strasse 8 48499 Salzbergen, Germany Phone: +49-5976-945-300 Fax: +49-5976-945-308

• President and CEO: Thomas H. (Tom) Coyne • VP, Finance and Operations: Donald C. (Don) Helwig

• President: Richard G. (Rick) Urschel • Senior Manager, Accounting: Randy Brackett • Manager, IT: Roger Watson

• President and CEO: Hiroshi Machiba

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 3.80 M Employees (2005): 21

• Chairman: Frederick Walter • President and CEO: Daryl Allen • Manager, Operations: Brian McCullough

• Chairman, Supervisory Board: Bernd Günther • Chairman; Head of Plastics Division: Horst Hollstein • VP Sales, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Raw Materials Division: Niels H. Hansen

H. M. Royal is distinguished in its ability to distribute chemicals throughout the US. The company's products include compound ingredients, fillers and reinforcements, fire retardants and smoke suppressants, plasticizers, polymers, and performance additives. It serves customers including manufacturers, compounders, and formulators in the plastic, rubber, protective coating, adhesive, and sealant industries. H. M. Royal's suppliers include Albemarle, DuPont, and Rohm and Haas. The company operates distribution H. M. Royal, facilities in New Jersey and California and provides warehousing Inc. services across the US through affiliates. All that glitters may not be gold, but Haber makes the shiny stuff that really is gold a little easier to get. The company's Haber Gold Process is used to extract gold much the same way as cyanide, but without the toxic side effects. It licenses its technology to gold exploration companies. Haber's other operations include the development of electromolecular propulsion (EMP), an electrochemical process used to evaluate and identify biological stains. In 2005 the company, along with its joint venture partner Gold Haber, Inc. City, acquired a gold exploration concession in Ghana. Harcros Chemicals is poised for organic growth. The company distributes its own line of organic specialty chemicals, as well as thousands of other chemical products from other manufacturers (including BASF, DuPont, and Elementis). Harcros distributes through nearly 30 facilities found throughout the US. The company's organics division manufactures antifoams, emulsifiers, phosphate esters, and surfactants for nearly every major industry, including aerospace, furniture, metal working, personal care, rubber, water treatment, and more. Formerly a division of British chemicals maker Harcros Elementis, Harcros was taken private in 2001 through a Chemicals Inc management-led buyout assisted by GE Capital. Hatco Corporation lost its Grace more than a quarter century ago but still does alright. The lubricant and ester manufacturer was formerly a part of W. R. Grace & Co. but has been privately held since 1978. In addition to making synthetic lubricants and lubricant-grade esters for aviation, automotive, refrigeration, and industrial applications, Hatco manufactures specialty plasticizers, dielectric fluids, personal care product esters, and other specialty chemicals. The company also provides research and development and custom manufacturing services. Hatco is a subsidiary of chemical company Kaufman Hatco Holdings; Kaufman also owns lubricant maker Anderol. Corporation Haviland Enterprises distribute chemicals such as acids, alcohols, amines, chelating agents, lubricants, solvents, and surfactants. The company also provides contract blending and packaging, research and development, technical service, compliance training, and supply chain management services. It primarily serves customers in the midwestern US. Associated companies include Haviland Contoured Haviland Plastics, which makes spiral-wound plastic hose, and Haviland Enterprises Consumer Products, which blends and packages swimming pool Inc. chemicals for private-label customers.

Address: 689 Pennington Ave. Trenton, NJ 08618 Phone: 609-396-9176 Fax: 609-396-3185

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 18.30 M Employees (2005): 39

• President: Joseph E. (Joe) Royal • Director, Finance: Daniel G. Myers • Director, Operations: Terry Smith

Address: 58 Medford St. Arlington, MA 02474 Phone: 781-643-2727 Fax: 781-643-6164

• Chairman and CEO: Norman Haber • President and COO: Albert B. Conti • EVP, CFO, and Director: Peter R. (Pete) D'Angelo

Address: 5200 Speaker Rd. Kansas City, KS 66106 Phone: 913-321-3131 Fax: 913-621-7718

• President and CEO: Kevin Mirner • VP, Finance and Administration: John F. Felix • VP, Sales and Marketing: Susan Locke

Address: 1020 King George Post Rd. Fords, NJ 08863 Phone: 732-738-1000 Fax: 732-738-9385

• Chairman and CEO: Alex Kaufman • CFO: Joseph (Joe) Rall • SVP: Avron (Av) Magram

Address: 421 Ann St. Grand Rapids, MI 49504-2075 Phone: 616-361-6691 Fax: 616-361-9772

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 54.80 M Employees (2005): 145

• CEO: Tom Simmons • President: E. Bernard Haviland • CFO: Terry Schoen

Yes

Chemical distributor HELM U.S. (a subsidiary of Germany-based HELM Aktiengesellschaft ) distributes specialty and industrial chemicals from chemical producers to industrial customers in the Americas. Founded in 1976, the company specializes in distributing raw materials for producers of thermoset resins and coatings. Typical products include both liquid (acetone, acrylates, methanol, propylenes, xylenes) and solid (borax, fumaric acid, melamine, titanium dioxide) chemicals. The company also offers logistics HELM U.S. services such as chemical tanker chartering, documentation, and Corporation import and export regulatory assistance. Like flour, sugar, and eggs are to bakers, so are building block chemicals like ethylene, propylene, and butadiene for chemicals makers. Huntsman Base Chemicals manufactures base commodity chemicals (including ethylene and propylene) for clients in the petrochemicals and plastics industries. The company makes up nearly a third of the business of Huntsman Corporation. Much of its product (especially the ethylene and propylene) is used by the parent company's Polyurethanes and Performance Products segments. Outside customers include INVISTA and Goodyear, Huntsman which uses Huntsman's butadiene to make fibers for carpet and Base rubber for tires, respectively. Chemicals Not that it can't keep a secret, but Huntsman International is no longer private about its business. It is among the world's largest makers of basic chemicals and petrochemicals like ethylene and propylene. Huntsman also produces surfactants (used in cleaning and personal care products) and specialty chemicals like polyurethanes, propylene oxides, and propylene glycol. Huntsman also is among the largest makers of titanium dioxide, the most commonly used white pigment, with 15% of the world market. Huntsman International operates the business of Huntsman Huntsman Corporation, which was created in 2004 to take the Huntsman International family's business public, which occurred the following year. LLC ICC Chemical Corporation has a quick cure for manufacturers' chemical dependencies. The company acts as the international trading arm of parent ICC Industries, which manufactures chemicals, plastics, and pharmaceuticals. ICC Chemical markets products such as petrochemicals; plastic resins and raw materials; organic, inorganic, and specialty chemicals; performance products; and pharmaceutical and food ingredients. It has bulk storage and warehouse locations throughout the US, as well as a fleet of trucks, ICC Chemical railcars, and isocontainers. ICC Chemical has offices in Africa, Asia, Corporation Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. ICC Industries supplies the dealers who supply the public with drugs. ICC makes the raw materials that pharmaceutical companies use to manufacture drugs and trades many basic and specialty chemicals around the world. An international maker and marketer of chemicals, plastics, and pharmaceutical products, ICC also trades and distributes nutritional supplements and food ingredients. Its main subsidiary, ICC Chemical, maintains trading and marketing offices in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. ICC Industries owns a majority of Pharmaceutical Formulations, a ICC Industries manufacturer and distributor of generic over-the-counter drugs. The Inc. Farber family, including chairman John Farber, owns ICC.

Address: 1110 Centennial Ave. Piscataway, NJ 08854-4169 Phone: 732-981-1116 Fax: 732-981-0528

• President and CEO: Andreas Weimann • CFO: Bill Van Fossen

Address: 10003 Woodloch Forest Dr. The Woodlands, TX 77380 Phone: 281-719-6000

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 3859.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 79.30%

Address: 500 Huntsman Way Salt Lake City, UT 84108 Phone: 801-584-5700 Fax: 801-584-5781

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 6503.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 24.00% Employees (2004): 5,700 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-9.50%)

• President: Kevin J. Ninow

• Chairman: Jon M. Huntsman Sr. • President, CEO, and Director: Peter R. Huntsman • EVP and CFO: J. Kimo Esplin

Address: 460 Park Ave. New York, NY 10022 Phone: 212-521-1700 Fax: 212-521-1970

• Chairman: John J. Farber • President and CEO: William Brunger • Executive Vice President: Naveen Chandra

Address: 460 Park Ave. New York, NY 10022 Phone: 212-521-1700 Fax: 212-521-1970

• Chairman: John J. Farber • President: John Oram • VP and CFO: Blaise Sarcone

Producing about a third of the world's supply of bromine, ICL Industrial Products can make nearly 250,000 tons of bromine a year. The company (also called ICL-IP and formerly known as the Dead Sea Bromine Group) also manufactures magnesia and chlorine from Dead Sea brines. The bromine compounds are used in flame retardants, agrochemicals, and pharmaceuticals. Other sectors targeted by the company include the oil drilling, plastics and polymers processing, water treatment, and photography markets. ICL-IP, one of the four operating segments of Israel Chemicals (also ICL Industrial known as the ICL Group), markets its products worldwide through Products business partners and a sales network. ICL Performance Products LP is phosphorific! The North American unit of Israel Chemicals Limited's performance products segment produces phosphorus chemicals, phosphoric acid, and phosphate salts. The chemicals are used in foods, cleaners, water treatment, flat panel televisions, oral care products, paints and coatings, and pharmaceuticals. ICL Performance Products was formed in 2000 as ICL a joint venture of FMC and Solutia. ICL, wanting to expand its Performance operations in North America, bought the company, formerly called Products LP Astaris, for $255 million in late 2005. Hoping to perfectly meet the needs of its customers, Ideal Chemical & Supply distributes industrial and specialty chemicals to wholesale, retail, and manufacturing companies. The company's products include acids, alcohols, chlorinated solvents, esters, fatty chemicals, Ideal Chemical glycol ethers, and hydrogen peroxide. It serves customers across & Supply the southeast through its fleet of tankers, trailers, and trucks. The Company company also offers custom blending and packaging services. focus is on the production of industrial minerals and pigments. A giant in natural clay production, Imerys is the world's #1 producer of kaolin, a white clay used in the production of paints, plastics, adhesives, porcelain, paper, rubber, and textiles. Imerys structures its operations in four divisions: Specialty Minerals (kaolin, calcium carbonate); Pigments for Paper (production and commercialization of kaolin and precipitated calcium carbonate); Refractories and Abrasives (raw materials for ceramics); and Building Materials (clay roof tiles and bricks). Investment firm Pargesa Holding controls 35% of Imerys. Imerys Empire may not be such a popular word any longer, but Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) is still among the chemical royalty. Its specialty products group consists of National Starch and Chemical (industrial adhesives, starch), Quest (fragrance and flavors), and Uniqema (natural and synthetic lubricants and personal care products). Its paint offerings include the Alba, Dulux, and Glidden brands. ICI's regional and industrial chemicals segment (subsidiaries Imperial in Argentina, India, and Pakistan) makes explosives, soda ash, Chemical sulfur-related products, and fibers. The company announced in early Industries PLC 2006 its intention to sell Uniqema.

Address: 14 Kreutzer St. Beer Sheva 84101, Israel Phone: +972-8-629-7222

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 706.50 M Employees (2004): 1,400

Address: 622 Emerson Rd., Ste. 500 St. Louis, MO 63141-1160 Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 314-983-7500 Revenue (2004): 350.00 M Fax: 314-983-7638 Employees (2004): 570

• President and CEO: Yosef Shahar • VP, Finance: David Shear • VP Business Development: Haim Kosen • President and CEO: Richard V. (Dick) Kennedy Jr. • VP and CFO: Paul M. Schlessman • VP, Operations: James J. Kaiman

Address: 4025 Air Park St. Memphis, TN 38118 Phone: 901-363-7720 Fax: 901-366-0864

• President: Sam Block Jr. Fiscal Year End: September • CFO: Donna Brockman Revenue (2005): 38.00 M • VP, Operations: Kelly L. Employees (2005): 105 McCabe

Address: Tour Maine Montparnasse - 33, avenue du Maine 75755 Paris Cedex 15, France Phone: +33-1-45-38-43-00 Fax: +33-1-45-38-74-78

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 4030.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 13.10% Employees (2004): 14,088 Employee Growth (1 yr): 2.10%

Address: 20 Manchester Sq. London W1U 3AN, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7009-5000 Fax: +44-20-7009-5001

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 9998.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-6.90%) Employees (2004): 33,300 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-4.90%)

• Chairman: Aimery Langlois-Meurinne • CEO: Gérard Buffière • EVP, Finance and Strategy: Jérôme Pecresse • Chairman: Peter B. Ellwood • CEO: John D. G. McAdam • EVP, Mergers & Acquisitions, General Counsel, and Company Se: Andy Ransom

Yes

Independent Chemical Corporation

Ineos Chlor Limited

Ineos Fluor Limited

Ineos Group Limited

Ineos Oxide Ltd.

Independent Chemical Corporation distributes chemicals such as chelating agents, hydrogen peroxide, inorganics, and surfactants and offers custom blending and contract packaging for the textiles, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, and food industries. It carries products from over 70 major chemical manufacturers, including ASHTA, Degussa, Dow Chemical, Rhodia, Shin-Etsu, and U.S. Borax. Independent Chemical is a family-owned and -operated company and was founded in 1948 by Benjamin Spielman. alkali it produces ends up in products such as detergents, diapers, nylon seat belts, PVC pipes, and pharmaceuticals. A major chloralkali producer in Europe, it is also a top sulfur chemicals manufacturer and a major player in electrochemical technology. It manufactures caustic soda, hydrochloric acid, bulk liquid chlorine, and sulfuric acid, among other products. It is one of the major producers of chlorinated paraffin. Ineos Chlor shares common ownership with the Ineos group of companies, but is a separate entity. It was formed in 2001 when Ineos bought an 85% stake in ICI's chlor-alkali businesses; Ineos purchased the remaining 15% in 2004. Ineos Fluor manufactures hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) for a range of uses, from refrigerators to air conditioners to household insulation. The company, which is a member of the Ineos Group of chemical companies, also makes hydrofluoroalkanes (HKAs), which are used as propellants in medicinal inhalers, and fluoronated feedstocks, which are used as the building blocks for specialist polymers, pharmaceuticals, and fine chemicals. Ineos Fluor's manufacturing facilities are located in the UK and in Louisiana in the US; there's also one in Japan that is operated by Teijin. The company was established in 1989 after the mandatory phasing out of chemicals such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). businesses. Product lines include silicas and zeolites, ethylene oxide-based specialty and intermediate chemicals, fluorochemicals used as refrigerants and propellants, and phenol and acetate products. Ineos Chlor, a maker of chlor-alkali chemicals, shares controlling ownership but is technically separate from the group. Ineos Group has acquired BASF's US and Canadian polystyrene business and the amino resins business of US-based Cytec Industries. In 2005 it acquired petrochemicals group Innovene from BP for $9 billion. Ineos Group was formed in 1998 after a management buyout led by chairman and CEO Jim Ratcliffe, who controls the group. Killing bugs, sterilizing medical instruments, and keeping your car warm -- the products made at Ineos Oxide help with all of that. A member of the Ineos Group of companies, Ineos Oxide makes, primarily, ethylene oxide (EO) and ethylene glycol (EG). The first can be used to manufacture sterilants and pesticides, while ethylene glycol is a chief component of antifreeze and de-icing fluids and is used to produce polyester, PET resin, and coatings. Ineos Oxide is among the world's leading manufacturers of EO, EG, and their derivatives, along with chemical manufacturers BASF, BP, and Dow. It works through third-party agreements with companies like Crompton, Dow, and BASF.

Address: 79-51 Cooper Ave. Glendale, NY 11385 Phone: 718-894-0700 Fax: 718-894-9224

Fiscal Year End: February Revenue (2005): 27.50 M Employees (2005): 40

Address: Runcorn Site, South Parade Runcorn, Halton WA7 4JE, United Kingdom Phone: +44-1928-516-512 Fax: +44-1928-515-253

• CEO: Thomas P. (Tom) Crotty • Operations Director: Fiscal Year End: March Anthony (Tony) Traynor Revenue (2004): 1010.40 M • Business Director: Chris Employees (2004): 2,200 Tane

Address: The Heath Runcorn, Halton WA7 4QX, United Kingdom Phone: +44-1928-515-525 Fax: +44-1928-513-890

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 198.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 9.10% Employees (2004): 256 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-5.20%)

• Chairman: Andrew C. (Andy) Currie • CEO: David (Dave) Price • Finance Director: Roger Bell

Address: Hawkslease, Chapel Lane Lyndhurst, Hampshire SO43 7FF, United Kingdom Phone: +44-23-8028-7067 Fax: +44-23-8028-7054

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 4632.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 45.80% Employees (2004): 2,430 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-0.50%)

• Chairman and CEO: James A. (Jim) Ratcliffe • Finance Director: John Reece

Address: Hawkslease House, Chapel Lane Lyndhurst, Hampshire SO43 7FG, United Kingdom Phone: +44-23-8028-7067 Fax: +44-23-8028-7054

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 805.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 28.30% Employees (2004): 546 Employee Growth (1 yr): 1.90%

• President: Stanley Spielman

• Chairman: Antoine Verrijckt

Ineos Phenol produces phenol and acetone, two basic chemicals used in the manufacture of products ranging from aspirin to home appliances. A member of the Ineos Group of companies, Ineos Phenol is the world's largest phenol producer, ahead of the likes of Sunoco, Shell, and Dow. Acetone is a by-product of the process that manufactures phenol, the oxidation of cumene. Ineos Phenol is also the largest consumer of cumene. The company maintains two manufacturing facilities in Europe (in Antwerp, Belgium, and Ineos Phenol Gladbeck, Germany) and one in the US (in Mobile, Alabama). Ineos GmbH & Co. Phenol also acquired a cumene plant in Texas from Chevron Phillips KG Chemical in 2005. Add the additives product line of ExxonMobil Chemical Company to that of Shell Chemicals and you'll get, if not infinity, at least Infineum. The joint venture was formed in 1999 and makes petroleum additives for fuel and lubricants. Infineum divides its products along five distinct lines: driveline additives (for transmission fluids and axle lubrication), engine oil additives (for everything from lawnmowers to heavy-duty diesel engines), fuel additives (including refinery Infineum additives and those designed to improve fuel performance), International industrial products (compressor, metalworking, and hydraulic fluids), Limited and marine additives (for fuel and oil). Interchem is a leading international supplier of fine chemicals, pharmaceutical intermediates, pharmaceutical bulk actives, and other compounds. The company's customers include pharmaceutical developers and other manufacturers. In addition to matching chemical manufacturers with drugmakers, Interchem verifies that the chemicals it distributes meet the US Food and Drug Administration's ever-changing regulations. It also offers new product research and Interchem development, innovative packaging, and multimedia and marketing services. Interchem was founded in 1981. Corporation Interstate Chemical Company delivers the goods. Founded in 1968, the company has developed from a small regional chemical distributor to a firm with operations in the northeastern, midwestern, and western US. It operates warehouse and terminal facilities with a total storage capacity of about 17 million gallons, as well as a fleet of company-owned tractor-trailers (over 200 trucks, trailers, and tankers). Services include barge terminaling, custom chemical blending, food and pharmaceutical packaging, and liquid packaging. Interstate Chemical also provides intermediate bulk containers to its Interstate customers. President and chairman Albert Puntureri controls Chemical Company, Inc. Interstate Chemical. Corn can give you meal, muffins, bread, fritters, tortillas, and succotash. So why not fuel, too? Iroquois Bio-Energy is building a dry-mill ethanol production plant in Indiana for the manufacture of Iroquois Bio- ethanol as a fuel. The company will also sell distillers grains and Energy carbon dioxide, both of which are byproducts of the ethanol Company, LLC manufacturing process.

Address: Dechenstrasse 3 45966 Gladbeck, Germany Phone: +49-2043-958-302 Fax: +49-2043-958-947

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 3159.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 63.20% Employees (2004): 637 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-2.00%)

• CEO: Alberto Spera • VP, Operations: Otto Schnurr • CFO: Graeme Leask

Address: Milton Hill Business & Technology Centre Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX13 6BB, United Kingdom Phone: +44-1235-54-9500 Fax: +44-1235-54-9523

• President and CEO: Tony Gaskell • VP, Finance: Iain Richardson • VP, Technology: Shaun Kennedy

Address: 120 Rte. 17 North Paramus, NJ 07653-1579 Phone: 201-261-7333 Fax: 201-261-7339

• CEO: Joseph M. Pizza • VP, Marketing: Theresa Kelly • VP, Sales: David Hanson

Address: 2797 Freedland Rd. Hermitage, PA 16148-0600 Phone: 724-981-3771 Fax: 724-981-3675

• Chairman and President: Albert R. Puntureri • CFO: Paul Cirillo • Director, Marketing and Communications: Bill Merz

Address: 6317 E. 181st Ave. Hebron, IN 46341-9302 Phone: 219-996-4925 Fax: 219-996-4925

Revenue (2005): 67.00 M Employees (2005): 335

• President: Michael J. Aylesworth • Assistant VP and COO: Keith A. Gibson

The Dead Sea has given life to Israel Chemicals Limited (ICL). That body of water is rich in bromine, potash, salt, and magnesium, minerals that ICL turns into fertilizers and other products. Bromine commonly is used in flame retardants, and potash is a common fertilizer. The company accounts for about 35% of the world's bromine production and about 11% of the world's potash. ICL produces magnesium alloys -- used in auto parts -- through a joint venture with Volkswagen. Although most of the company's chemicals Israel are produced in Israel (from the Dead Sea), it sells mainly outside of Chemicals its home country (90% of sales). Investment firm Israel Corporation, Limited controlled by The Ofer Group, owns about 52% of the company. ITOCHU Chemicals America Inc. (ICAI) doesn't make any chemicals, but it sure can get them to your door when you need them. The company, a subsidiary of ITOCHU International, distributes a variety of chemical products, from specialty chemicals like adhesives and acids to plastic resins and ion exchange filters. ICAI serves chemical manufacturers, the pulp and paper, paints and ITOCHU coatings, and food and beverage industries. The company changed Chemicals its name from ITOCHU Specialty Chemicals at the beginning of 2005 America Inc. and is among the top 10 chemical distributors in the US. Iwatani International is all about gas and energy. The company's largest business unit, energy and general household products, supplies liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to both businesses and consumers, as well as related household products. The company also is a major supplier of industrial gases such as nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and carbon dioxide to electronics, steel, chemical, and paper Iwatani manufacturers, among others. Iwatani's other business activities International include producing materials used in semiconductor manufacturing, Corporation stainless steel processing, homebuilding, and pig breeding. As great as toothpaste, paint, and tires are, J.M. Huber claims to make them even better. Hard to believe, we know. Founded in 1890 by Joseph M. Huber (and still owned by his heirs), the company makes specialty additives and minerals used to thicken and improve the cleaning properties of toothpaste, the brightness and gloss of paper, the strength and durability of rubber, and the flame retardant properties of wire and cable. The diverse company also makes oriented strand board (a plywood substitute), explores for and produces oil and gas, and provides technical and financial services. J.M. Huber Huber has acquired hydrocolloids (thickeners for gums) maker CP Corporation Kelco from Lehman Brothers and Hercules. Jacob Stern & Sons, which primarily operates through its AcmeHardesty division, is a global oleochemicals marketer. AcmeHardesty distributes an array of oil- and fat-based chemicals, as well as flavor and fragrance ingredients and industrial chemical products. Its customers include manufacturers of adhesives, coatings, lubricants, soaps, food, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products. Most of Acme-Hardesty's oleochemicals are imported from Asia, the Middle East, and South America. Jacob Stern & Sons was Jacob Stern & founded in 1857 by Jacob Stern; the family-owned company continues to be managed by the founder's descendants. Sons, Inc.

Address: Millenium Tower, 23 Aranha St. Tel-Aviv 61070, Israel Phone: +972-3-6844-401 Fax: +972-3-6844-428

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 2715.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 19.60% Employees (2004): 8,546 Employee Growth (1 yr): 1.10%

Address: 360 Hamilton Ave., 6th Fl. White Plains, NY 10601 Fiscal Year End: March Phone: 914-333-7800 Revenue (2004): 237.00 M Fax: 914-333-7848 Employees (2004): 50

• Chairman: Yossi Rosen • President and CEO: Akiva Mozes • CFO: Avi Doitchman

• President: Hiroaki (Bob) Yamashita • SVP and Controller: Alex Tabaco • SVP, Sales and Marketing: Norihito Sasaki

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 5223.40 M Address: 21-8, Nishi-Shimbashi Revenue Growth (1 yr): 3-chome, Minato-ku 14.70% Tokyo 105-8458, Japan Employees (2004): 6,598 Phone: +81-3-5405-5741 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: +81-3-5405-5737 (-1.80%) • President and Director: Akiji Makino

Address: 333 Thornall St. Edison, NJ 08837-2220 Phone: 732-549-8600 Fax: 732-549-7256

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Peter T. Francis • Director, Corporate Communications: Robert (Bob) Currie

Address: 1464 E. Valley Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93108 Phone: 805-565-1411 Fax: 805-565-1415

• President: Philip Berstein • VP Finance: Marven Pierson • VP Sales and Marketing: Jerome Weisberg

From a garage bathtub in rural New York, John Wiley Jones launched what has become a leading repackager of chlorine and other chemicals used for water purification. JCI Jones Chemicals, formerly Jones Chemicals, also makes and distributes caustic soda, sodium bisulfite, and sodium hypochlorite. The company delivers its chemicals to water-treatment plants and sells its chlorine to privateJCI Jones label companies for repackaging and resale as household bleach. Chemicals, Founded in 1930, JCI has remained a family-owned business; Inc. current CEO Jeffrey Jones is the founder's grandson. Jilin Chemical Industrial Company Limited (JCIC) could write the book for Chemistry 101. As one of China's leading producers of basic chemicals and chemical raw materials, the company has four principal product groups: petroleum products, petrochemicals and organic chemicals, synthetic rubber and chemical fertilizers, and inorganics. The largest units are petroleum and petrochemical Jilin Chemical products, such as gasoline and ethylene. After much wrangling and Industrial restructuring involving state-owned corporations and agencies, Company PetroChina (itself a subsidiary of China National Petroleum Limited Corporation) now controls two-thirds of Jilin Chemical. JLM Industries knows how to perform. Most of the company's sales come from distributing performance chemicals, olefins, and specialty plastics. JLM also produces and sells phenol and acetone for use in making adhesives, coatings, plastics, and solvents. Phenol is used to make resins that go into bonding agents and wood adhesives; acetone is an intermediate for acrylic sheeting and other products. JLM also sells propylene (used in plastic film and molded parts) and inorganic and specialty chemicals. The company has about 1,000 clients worldwide, including Celanese, DuPont, Eli Lilly, 3M, and JLM Shell Chemicals. Founder and CEO John Macdonald and an Industries, Inc. investor group have taken JLM private. Johnson Matthey Inc. holds the precious metals, catalysts, coatings, and pharmaceutical businesses in the US. Pharm-Eco Laboratories (renamed Pharma Services in 2005) provides contract research and development for the pharmaceutical industry. The West Deptford subsidiary in New Jersey manufactures active pharmaceutical ingredients in the US. Its New York precious metals office sells platinum sheet, tube, and wire to jewelers. Johnson Matthey Fuel Johnson Cells is also based in the US. Matthey Inc. to 1817, is an established world leader in the refining and distributing of gold, silver, and platinum group metals (about 65% of sales). It is the sole marketing agent for Anglo Platinum, the world's largest platinum producer. Johnson Matthey's next largest unit, the Catalysts division, produces environmental catalysts for vehicles, fuel cells, and process catalysts. The company's Colours and Johnson Coatings business focuses on supplying decorative materials for Matthey Public ceramics. Its Pharmaceutical Materials division makes active Limited ingredients, such as codeine, sold to pharmaceuticals Company manufacturers.

Address: 1515 Ringling Blvd., Ste. 900 Sarasota, FL 34236 Phone: 941-330-1537 Fax: 941-330-9657

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2005): 100.00 M Employees (2005): 250

• President and CEO: Jeffrey W. Jones • EVP, Finance and CFO: Angela L. Marvin • SVP, Purchasing and Sales: James Chappel

Address: No. 9 Longtan Rd., Longtan District Jilin 132021, China Phone: +86-432-390-3912 Fax: +86-432-302-8126

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 3848.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 54.20% Employees (2004): 20,445 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-6.10%)

• Deputy Chairman: Xu Fengli • General Manager and Director: Shi Jianxun • Deputy General Manager and Director: Zhang Xingfu

Address: 8675 Hidden River Pkwy. Tampa, FL 33637 Phone: 813-632-3300 Fax: 813-632-3301

• Chairman, President, and CEO: John L. Macdonald • CFO: Michael J. Molina • VP, Operations: Scott MacDonald

Address: 435 Devon Park Dr., Ste. 600 Wayne, PA 19087 Phone: 610-971-3000 Fax: 610-971-3022

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2005): 470.70 M Employees (2005): 1,650

Address: 2-4 Cockspur St., Trafalgar Sq. London SW1Y 5BQ, England Phone: +44-20-7269-8400 Fax: +44-20-7269-8433

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2005): 8714.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 6.20% Employees (2005): 7,354 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-2.30%)

• CEO, Johnson Matthey Plc: Neil A. P. Carson • Chairman: Sir John Michael Middlecolt Banham • Chief Executive and Director: Neil A. P. Carson • Executive Director, Group Corporate Development, Colors and: D. W. Morgan

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K.A. Steel Chemicals has grown organically and inorganically -literally and figuratively. The company's specialty is the distribution of bulk inorganic commodity chemicals. It is the largest US distributor of caustic sodas (used in making soap, rayon, and paper, among other applications) and is a major producer and distributor of sodium hypochlorite (used to bleach pulp and in water purification). K.A. Steel also distributes hydrochloric acid (used to clean metals and as a chemical intermediate). The company has more than 20 plants and terminals in the US. Kenneth A. Steel Sr. founded K.A. Steel in K.A. Steel 1953 and second-generation Steel family members Robert and Ken Chemicals Inc. Jr. own the company. Kaneka Corporation is part of the solution, but contributes maybe a little to the problem as well. The diversified company's products include anti-hypertensive intermediates, but also margarine and shortening. Its largest segment makes basic chemicals, resins, and plastics (caustic soda, PVC, and sealants), while Kaneka's other big business line makes food products and pharmaceutical Kaneka intermediates. The company's third unit manufactures magnet wire, Corporation optical films, and synthetic fibers. KIC Chemicals distributes food, pharmaceutical, industrial, and personal care products. A short list of distributed offerings includes castor oil and castor seed derivatives, fatty acids, soap and cosmetic ingredients, flavor and fragrance ingredients, glycerin and vegetable oils, industrial chemicals, and plasticizers. KIC also provides custom packaging and labeling services. The company was established in KIC 1985. KIC Chemicals is owned by Edward Kort, the company's Chemicals, president. Inc. It doesn't turn things to gold with a single touch, it doesn't have a dream, and it has nothing at all to do with burgers. But this King -King Industries -- is master of its own domain. A manufacturer of additives for coatings and lubricants, King Industries has a distribution network that spans the globe and maintains sales operations in the Netherlands. The company serves customers in the industrial manufacturing, metalworking, rust prevention, and paint industries. Founded in 1932, King Industries is still controlled King Industries, Inc. by the family of founder Robert J. King. Chemical manufacturers in the southeastern US never mind getting a lump of Kohl at Christmas or any other time of year. Kohl Marketing moves products for companies like Degussa, Johnson Polymer, and Akzo Nobel; the chemical distributor's wingspan stretches from eastern Pennsylvania down to Florida and west to Tennessee and Mississippi. It distributes raw chemical materials to makers of paints, plastics, textiles, adhesives, graphic arts, and building materials. Kohl Marketing has distribution centers in North Kohl Marketing, Inc. Carolina, Florida, and at its home base in Roswell, Georgia.

• President: Robert (Bob) Steel • CFO: Bernie Ludwig • EVP, Operations and Administration: Brad Davidson

Address: 15185 Main St. Lemont, IL 60439 Phone: 630-257-3900 Fax: 630-257-5096

Address: 3-2-4, Nakanoshima, Kita-ku Osaka 530-8288, Japan Phone: +81-6-6226-5050 Fax: +81-6-6226-5037

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2005): 4072.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 7.50% Employees (2005): 6,649 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.80%

• Chairman: Masatoshi Takeda • President: Masami Onishi • Executive Director; General Manager, Finance and Accounting: Setsuo Shimazaki

Address: 84 Business Park Dr. Armonk, NY 10504 Phone: 914-273-6555 Fax: 914-273-6760

• President: Edward Kort • Controller: Dierdre O'Keefe • VP: Eric Kort

Address: Science Rd. Norwalk, CT 06852 Phone: 203-866-5551 Fax: 203-866-1268

• President and CEO: Richard S. King • CFO: Robert DiPani • EVP, Operations: F. Abi Karam

Address: 1103 Bombay Ln. Roswell, GA 30076 Phone: 770-753-4979 Fax: 770-753-4980

• President: Bob Niccol • VP, Logistics and Finance: Paul Englert • Manager, Marketing and Production: Bill Stobierski

Korea Kumho Petrochemical Co., Ltd.

L'Air Liquide S.A.

LG Chem, Ltd.

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Lonza Inc

Korea Kumho Petrochemical manufactures synthetic rubbers and resins, rubber chemicals, and electronic components for the semiconductor industry. Its products are found in everything from tires and shoes to office supplies and building materials. The company also builds heat and power plants that supply steam and electricity. Founded in 1970, Korea Kumho operates through several domestic offices and plants and international locations in Frankfurt, Germany; Shanghai, China; Jakarta, Indonesia; Los Angeles, US; Shenzhen, China; and Guangzhou, China. It is the holding company for the Kumho Asiana Group, (land and sea transportation, construction, tire manufacturing, and financial services, among others). Forget the outer planets, the earth has its own gaseous giant in the form of L'Air Liquide (Air Liquide). The world's largest industrial gas supplier, Air Liquide has more than 130 subsidiaries in 65 countries. It specializes in industrial gases (oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, acetylene, and helium) used in welding, heat treatment, plastic production, and other processes; the company also sells medical gases (oxygen, nitrogen, nitrous oxide). Its markets range from aerospace and food processing to steel and oil refining. Air Liquide took advantage of the break-up Messer Griesheim in 2004, buying a large portion of that company's operations -- in Germany, the UK, and the US -- for more than $3 billion. LG Chem got there first. Founded in 1947, it was Korea's first chemical company. The chemical division of the LG Group, the company produces a variety of products, including cosmetics, personal care products, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, and specialty chemicals. It's divided into three segments. The Chemicals and Polymers unit makes PVC, acrylates, and engineering plastics; its Industrial Materials division manufactures window frames, flooring materials, and other construction-industry products; and the company's Information and Electronic Materials segment produces rechargeable batteries and display materials. Much of Linde's business is lighter than air. The company is divided into two units: Gas and Engineering and Material Handling. A leading producer of industrial and medical gases, Linde also has an engineering unit that builds process plants for companies in the petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and gas manufacturing industries. But don't call Linde a lightweight. Its material handling division is one of the world's top makers of forklifts and also manufactures warehouse equipment, transmission systems, and hydraulic control devices. The company also made refrigeration equipment and cooling systems for retail food stores, but sold that business to Carrier for $400 million in a deal that closed in September 2004. From poisoning garden pests to exfoliating dry skin, Lonza Inc puts itself in the middle of things. As the US operations of its parent company, Lonza Inc accounts for about a third of the Lonza Group's $1 billion in annual sales. While Lonza doesn't actually make consumer products, the company provides chemical ingredients and intermediates for the personal care, water treatment, and plastics industries, from its five locations (four manufacturing and one R&D) throughout the US.

Address: 15/16F, Kumho-Asiana Bldg., 57, Shinmunno 1-ga, Jongno-gu Seoul, South Korea Phone: +82-2-6303-0114 Fax: +82-2-6303-3179

• Vice Chairman and CEO: Park Chan-Koo • President and CEO: Kim Heung-Gee • President and CEO: Kim Wan-Jae

Address: 75, Quai d'Orsay 75007 Paris, France Phone: +33-1-40-62-55-55 Fax: +33-1-40-62-54-65

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 12789.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 21.40% Employees (2004): 35,900 Employee Growth (1 yr): 12.50%

• Chairman, Supervisory Board: Alain Joly • Chairman, Management Board: Benoît Potier • VP, Finance and Administration: John Glen

Address: LG Twin Tower, East Tower, 20 Yoido-dong, Youngdungpo-gu Seoul 150-721, South Korea Phone: +82-2-3773-5114 Fax: +82-2-3773-7813

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 6804.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 43.30% Employees (2004): 9,816 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-1.80%)

• President, CEO, and Director: No Ki-Ho • President and CTO: Yeo Jong-Kee • EVP and CFO: Cho HanYoung

Address: Abraham-LincolnStrasse 21 65189 Wiesbaden, Germany Phone: +49-611-770-0 Fax: +49-611-770-269

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 12850.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 13.90% Employees (2004): 41,383 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-11.30%)

• Chairman, Supervisory Board: Manfred Schneider • Chairman of the Executive Board, President, and CEO: Wolfgang H. Reitzle • Member of the Executive Board, Accounts, Controlling, Financ: Peter Diesch

Address: 90 Boroline Rd. Allendale, NJ 07401 Phone: 201-316-9200 Fax: 201-785-9989

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 337.20 M Employees (2005): 527

• President and CEO: Stephan Kutzer • CFO: Vincent L. DiVito

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Quick as a cat, Lynx Chemical has joined the performancechemicals fray. The company was founded in mid-2003 by veterans of Eastman Chemical and the former Vulcan Chemicals (now part of Occidental Chemical). Lynx got its start by purchasing two plants in Georgia from Vulcan after the company had sold most of its performance-chemicals business line earlier that year; Lynx later acquired a third facility. The company isn't interested in competing with the big boys -- it is content to work in its small-market niche, Lynx Chemical making and marketing batches as small as less than a million Group pounds (quantities that are just not profitable for larger companies). additives to oil and gas companies in more than 70 countries worldwide. Its fluids cool and lubricate drill bits, remove rock cuttings, and maintain the stability of the wellbore. Through M-I's Swaco division, the company provides pressure control, rig instrumentation, and drilling waste management products and services. It is also a worldwide producer of barite and bentonite used by the oil and gas and industrial markets. M-I Swaco is a joint venture of Smith International (60%) and Schlumberger Limited M-I L.L.C. (40%). The world isn't black and white for Magruder Color. The company manufactures organic pigments for the ink, plastics, and paint industries. It produces flushed and dry color dispersions, acrylic chips, alkyd resins, ink vehicles, and specialty colors and varnishes. Magruder, founded in 1927, primarily serves graphic arts customers. The firm markets its pigments throughout the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The company has sold subsidiary Radiant Color, a maker of fluorescent pigments. The Weissglass family bought Magruder Color Magruder from founder Robert Magruder in 1962 (upon his retirement) and has Color expanded it over the decades through organic growth and Company, Inc. acquisitions. Malaco International distributes chemicals and petroleum products. Chemicals used by oil refineries account for much of the company's business; Chevron has been a major customer. Other chemical products handled by Malaco include caustic soda, glycerine, and surfactants, which are used by manufacturers in a variety of industries. Most of Malaco's customers are on the West Coast or the Gulf Coast of the US. The company distributes gasoline and diesel fuel primarily to government entities in California. Malaco doesn't maintain storage facilities, and transportation is handled by Malaco contractors. The family of company president and CEO Peter Llama International owns Malaco, which was founded in 1977. Inc. Martin Marietta Magnesia Specialties works the dynamics of dolomite and magnesium. A subsidiary of Martin Marietta Materials, the company manufactures and sells dolomitic lime and magnesiabased chemicals to customers in the industrial, agricultural, and environmental sectors. Magnesia Specialties' dolomitic lime products are primarily sold to customers in the steel industry. The firm's Martin Marietta chemicals segment includes products used for animal feed, flame Magnesia retardant, wastewater treatment, and paper production purposes. Specialties, The company has manufacturing facilities in Connecticut, Michigan, LLC Ohio, and Tennessee.

• President and CEO: James A. (Jim) Lewis • COO: Daniel (Danny) McCaul • VP, Research and Development: John Newlove

Address: 2000 Riveredge Pkwy., Ste. 750 Atlanta, GA 30328 Phone: 678-990-5020 Fax: 678-990-5021

• President and CEO: Loren K. Carroll Address: 5950 North Course Dr. Fiscal Year End: December • SVP and CFO: Chris Houston, TX 77072 Revenue (2004): 2231.90 M Rivers Phone: 713-739-0222 Revenue Growth (1 yr): • SVP, M-I Production Fax: 713-308-9626 19.60% Chemicals: John Kelly

Address: 1029 Newark Ave. Elizabeth, NJ 07208 Phone: 973-242-1300 Fax: 973-242-4087

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 70.20 M Employees (2005): 350

• Chairman: Allan Weissglass • President: Abdul Saleh • VP, Sales and Marketing: Evan Weissglass

Address: 1990 N. California Blvd., Ste. 608 Walnut Creek, CA 94596 Phone: 925-280-8710 Fax: 925-280-4580

• President: Peter Llama • VP: Elizabeth (Liz) Llama

Address: 195 Chesapeake Park Plaza, Ste. 200 Baltimore, MD 21220 Phone: 410-780-5500 Fax: 410-780-5777

• Chairman: Philip J. (Phil) Sipling • President: Daniel G. (Dan) Shephard

Materia manufactures catalysts and provides process technologies to companies in the agrochemical, fine chemical, materials, and pharmaceutical industries. The company's catalyst technology aids in the production of small, medium, and large molecules. Originally known as Advanced Sports Materials, Materia was founded in 1997 to commercialize metathesis polymer technology created at the Materia Inc. California Institute of Technology. resins, solvents, surfactants, and thickening agents to companies in the adhesives and sealants, automotive, glass and refractory, paints and coatings, pharmaceuticals, pulp and paper, and soaps and detergents industries. The company maintains facilities in Cleveland; Detroit; and Louisville, Kentucky. Customers include Cabot and other major chemical manufacturers. The family of company president Scot Westerbeek owns Matteson-Ridolfi, which was Mattesonfounded in 1932. Ridolfi, Inc. Mays Chemical doesn't make its clients say "Mother, may I?" before shipping them desired products. The company distributes chemicals and raw materials to customers in the automotive, cosmetics, electronics, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, paint, and pulp and paper industries. Mays Chemical's product lines include acids, alcohols, chlor-alkali products, chlorinated solvents, flavors and fragrances, food additives, glycol ethers, and inorganic chemicals. The company also offers chemical management services, cleaning and sanitation systems, formulated chemical products, and outsourcing services. Mays has customers in 14 countries in the Mays Chemical Americas, Europe, and Asia. The firm is owned by president William Company, Inc. Mays. Merichem will give you chemicals and send you on your merry way. The company produces phenol and cresylic acids at its plant in Houston, Texas. It produces naphthenic acids (used in paint driers and wood preservatives) at its plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Merichem also owns Gas Technology Products (GTP), which produces sulfur removal systems. Merichem was founded in 1945. The company is divided into two subsidiaries: Merisol USA handles all the phenolic products, and Merichem Chemicals & Refinery Services provides caustic management, sulfur removal, naphthenic Merichem acids, and other products and services to the refinery and coal Company processing industries. Messer Group (formerly Messer Griesheim) has rid itself of some of that gassy feeling. The company, a major producer of industrial gases, has sold about 70% of its gas holdings to industry giant Air Liquide for about $3.3 billion. It still operates in 32 countries but has shifted its focus from Western Europe and the US to Central and Eastern Europe and China. In addition to supplying gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, and helium, Messer builds gas plants for customers. Goldman Sachs and Allianz each owned a third of the company (along with the founding Messer family) but have sold their Messer Group stakes back to the Messer family, who financed that purchase with GmbH the Air Liquide deal.

Address: 60 N. San Gabriel Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91107 Phone: 626-584-8400 Fax: 626-584-1984

Address: 14450 King Rd. Riverview, MI 48192-7939 Phone: 734-479-4500 Fax: 734-479-1630

Revenue (2005): 5.00 M Employees (2005): 35

• President, CEO, CTO, and Director: Michael A. (Mike) Giardello • Director, Finance: Ron Chang

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 23.30 M Employees (2005): 16

• President and CEO: Scot Westerbeek • VP, Sales: Maynard Pittenger • Controller: Bill Riggs

Address: 5611 E. 71st St. Indianapolis, IN 46220 Phone: 317-842-8722 Fax: 317-842-4604

• President: William G. Mays • CFO and Controller: Eric Gillespie • COO: Bill West

Address: 5455 Old Spanish Trail Houston, TX 77023 Phone: 713-428-5000 Fax: 713-688-2626

• Chairman and CEO: Kenneth F. Currie • EVP: John M. (Johnny) Walbrick • VP, Finance, and Treasurer: Bruce D. Upshaw

Address: Limespark, OttoVolger-Straße 3c D-65843 Sulzbach, Germany Phone: +49-6196-7760-0 Fax: +49-6196-7760-501

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 710.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-62.20%) Employees (2004): 3,762 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-47.30%)

• CEO: Stefan Messer • CFO: Hans-Gerd Wienands • Director, Corporate Communications: Diana Buss

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC) is Japan's largest chemical company. Heading a list of subsidiaries and affiliates longer than a complex chemical formula, MCC is a major player in petrochemicals, specialty chemicals, carbon, and pharmaceuticals. Roughly a third of its sales come from petrochemicals such as ethylene, vinyl chloride, and raw materials for synthetic fibers. The company's functional materials segment produces plastics and films. The company also makes chemicals for semiconductor manufacturing and data storage Mitsubishi products such as CDS and DVDs. MCC owns almost 60% of Chemical Mitsubishi Pharma, which makes plasma derivatives, allergy Corporation medications, and cardiovascular pharmaceuticals. Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings was created in 2005 as a holding company for Mitsubishi Chemical and Mitsubishi Pharma, which both became wholly owned subsidiaries of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings after its establishment. As the largest chemical company in Japan, Mitsubishi Chemical (MCC) produces a wide variety of petrochemicals, specialty chemicals, and the like. Other products include plastics and films, data storage devices such as CDs and DVDs, as well as chemicals for semiconductor manufacturing. Mitsubishi Mitsubishi Pharma (MPC) makes pharmaceutical products for Chemical central nervous system, cardiovascular, and gastrointestinal Holdings disorders, in addition to OTC and anti-inflammatory drugs. MCC Corporation holds almost 60% of MPC. chemicals? We know what Mitsubishi Gas Chemical (MGC) would say. The company makes chemicals through four major units. Its Natural Gas Chemicals unit is primarily engaged in producing methanol, formaldehyde, and ammonia. Its Aromatics Chemicals unit produces xylenes, nylon, and plasticizers. The company's Specialty Chemicals unit makes hydrogen peroxide and plastic resins. Through its Information & Advanced Materials unit, MGC also is involved in producing materials such as plastics and circuit boards Mitsubishi Gas for electronics manufacturers. The company was formed in 1971 when Japan Gas Chemical merged with Mitsubishi Edogawa Chemical Company, Inc. Chemical. As can be gleaned from its name, Mitsui Chemicals America is the American home base of the Tokyo-based Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. With headquarters in Purchase, New York, the company makes adhesive resins, electronic materials, specialty polymers, and Mitsui engineering plastics. Mitsui Chemicals America has locations and Chemicals affiliates throughout the US, including in California, Michigan, Ohio, America, Inc. and Tennessee. Mitsui Chemicals stays chemically balanced as one of Japan's largest producers of petrochemicals and its leading producer of phenols (building blocks for plastics). The company produces petrochemicals for use in the manufacture of such items as synthetic rubber and pigments. Applications of phenols include pharmaceuticals, ink, and adhesives. Mitsui Chemicals' other chemical products include fiber intermediates used in polyester, Mitsui industrial chemicals used in paper, polymers used in pipes and films, Chemicals, and specialty resins used in adhesives. The company also makes Inc. polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and agrochemicals.

Address: 33-8, Shiba 5-chome, Minato-ku Tokyo 108-0014, Japan Phone: +81-3-6414-3730 Fax: +81-3-6414-3745

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 18225.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 15.70% Employees (2004): 33,496 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-11.00%)

• Chairman: Kanji Shono • President, CEO, and Board Member: Ryuichi Tomizawa • Deputy CEO; Supervising Special Mission, Internal Audit; Boa: Masaoki Funada

Address: 33-8 Shiba 5-chome, Minato-ku Tokyo 108-0014, Japan Phone: +81-3-6414-3730 Fax: +81-3-6414-3745

• Representative Director, Member of the Board, and President: Ryuichi Tomizawa

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 3225.20 M Address: Mitsubishi Bldg., 2-5-2 Revenue Growth (1 yr): Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku 23.80% Tokyo 100-8324, Japan Employees (2004): 2,363 Phone: +81-3-3283-5000 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: +81-3-3287-0833 (-5.00%)

• Chairman: Akira Ohira • President: Hideki Odaka • Senior Managing Executive Officer and Executive Assistant to: Hiromi Nakamura

Address: 800 Westchester Ave., Ste. N607 Purchase, NY 10573 Fiscal Year End: March Phone: 914-253-0777 Revenue (2005): 492.50 M Fax: 914-253-0790 Employees (2005): 700

• President: Kensaku Maruyama • Director, Finance: Koji Ito • Corporate Marketing Manager: Jennifer Giuliano

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 10313.40 Address: Shiodome City Centre, M 1-5-2 Higashi-Shimbashi, Revenue Growth (1 yr): Minato-ku 17.40% Tokyo 105-7117, Japan Employees (2004): 12,348 Phone: +81-3-6253-2100 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: +81-3-6253-4245 (-2.50%)

• Chairman: Hiroyuki Nakanishi • President: Kenji Fujiyoshi • Managing Director, Corporate Communications, Legal and Admin: Ritsuo Yamamoto

Depending on the situation, Morre-Tec Industries can bring home the bacon or fry it up in the pan. (If, by bacon, you mean bromineand chlorine-based chemicals.) Not only does the New Jersey company distribute chemicals through its partnerships with ICL Industrial Products and others, but Morre-Tec also manufactures its own line of specialty chemicals. Through affiliated companies (including Blenco Industries, JEDCO Adhesives, and Repackaging MORRE-TEC Services Corporation), Morre-Tec also manufactures adhesives and INDUSTRIES, solvents and imports chemicals for the food and cosmetics INC. industries. The company was formed in 1987. now a major Japanese trader, developer, and manufacturer of chemical products. Although chemicals, plastics, and related production machinery account for much of its sales, Nagase also produces and distributes electronics, medical supplies, and health care and beauty products. Nagase maintains a worldwide network of sales and distribution branches in Asia, Europe, and North America. The company operates through subsidiaries and alliances with Nagase & Co., companies such as Eastman Chemical Company and Union Ltd. Carbide. Founded in 1935 to produce carbide, Nippon Carbide has grown with the times. The company still makes basic chemicals, but it now also makes films, synthetic resins, and electronic materials. Nippon Carbide's films segment is its largest and makes wrapping film and reflective films for street signs. The company's resins unit makes melamine resins (for tableware), resins used in glue, and heatresistant resins (used in pipes). Its electronic materials segment Nippon makes ceramic wiring boards and specialty resins. The chemical Carbide Industries Co., segment still makes carbide derivatives and basic and fine chemical products ranging from pharmaceuticals to pesticides. Inc. Industrial has grown organically. The company has five chemical plants in Japan. Two plants in Fukushima produce barium compounds and lithium chemicals used in electronics and organic and inorganic phosphorus compounds. The other three plants produce silicate compounds, phosphorus compounds, and chromic acid compounds (used to finish metals). Nippon Chemical Industrial Nippon has ventures with Dowa Mining (Barium Chemicals), Fuji Chemical Chemical (Keiyo Chemical), and Asahi Denka (Kanto Sodium Silicates Glass), Industrial Co., among others. Affiliate JCI USA Inc. handles sales of industrial Ltd. chemicals in the US. Feeling parched? Then don't drink the products made by Nippon Soda Co. (NISSO) -- it's caustic. NISSO manufactures basic chemicals, including caustic soda and chlorine used for industrial purposes. The company also produces specialty and performance chemicals such as dyes and poultry and pig feed additives; agrochemicals such as herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides; and pharmaceuticals. NISSO's non-chemical operations include warehousing, transportation services, construction, and non-ferrous Nippon Soda metals operations. The company sells its products primarily in Japan Co., Ltd. but also in other parts of Asia, North America, and Europe.

• President: Leonard (Len) Glass • Controller: Steve Wigodsky • Sales Director: Alan Wirsul

Address: 1 Gary Rd. Union, NJ 07083-5527 Phone: 908-688-9009 Fax: 908-688-9005

Address: 1-1-17, Shinmachi, Nishi-ku Osaka 550-8668, Japan Phone: +81-6-6535-2114

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 5048.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 20.10% Employees (2004): 2,884 Employee Growth (1 yr): 3.40%

• Chairman: Hideo Nagase • President, CEO, and Director: Hiroshi Nagase • Managing Executive Officer, Plastics, Life Sciences, Fine Ch: Yoshizo Shibata

Address: 2-11-19 Kohnan, Minato-ku Tokyo 108-8466, Japan Phone: +81-3-5462-8200 Fax: +81-3-5462-8244

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 449.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 5.80% Employees (2004): 2,791 Employee Growth (1 yr): 3.70%

• President and Director: Tokushiro Hosoda • Director, General Affairs, Legal, General Accounting, and Bu: Yukio Yokoyama

Address: 9-11-1, Kameido, Koto-ku Tokyo 136-8515, Japan Phone: +81-3-3636-8111 Fax: +81-3-3636-6817

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 442.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 25.80%

• Chairman: Jun-ichi Tanahashi • President, CEO, and Director: Gen-ichi Satoh

Address: 2-1, 2-Chome, Ohtemachi, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-8165, Japan Phone: +81-3-3245-6054 Fax: +81-3-3245-6238

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 1280.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 12.70% Employees (2004): 1,564 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-2.90%) • President and Director: Katsunobu Inoue

Since its founding in 1887 as Japan's first chemical fertilizer manufacturer, Nissan Chemical Industries has grown to include a wide range of industrial and specialty chemicals, electronic materials, agrochemicals, and pharmaceuticals. Nissan Chemical Industries' basic chemical products include melamine, ammonia Nissan derivatives, silica products and electronic coatings, and acids. Its Chemical smallest chemical segment, pharmaceuticals, includes antiIndustries, Ltd. hypertensive, anti-inflammatory, and lipid-lowering drugs. If you should find yourself in the market for exploding pastries, NOF might be your one-stop bakery. The company is a major processor of oilseeds, from which it produces oleochemicals (common in personal care items such as detergents and shampoos) and food staples such as margarine, shortening, and processed oils. It also produces explosives used in construction and in military and space applications. In addition, NOF produces materials for electronics and petroleum-based chemicals such as surfactants, polymers, and paints for ships and automobiles. The company was founded in NOF 1937 by a merger of four firms involved in the manufacture of oil and Corporation fats, edible oils, coatings, and soap. The members of the Northern Growers Cooperative have had enough of cooperation and have decided to get down to business. Northern Growers, LLC provides corn to Northern Lights Ethanol (a joint venture with Broin Companies). The company grew out of the cooperative and is comprised of corn producers in South Dakota. Northern Lights operates an ethanol plant near Big Stone City, South Dakota that produces 40 million gallons annually. It receives Northern incentive payments on both the state and federal levels to produce Growers, LLC ethanol as an alternative fuel product. It doesn't have a screaming, bearded man hawking its products on TV commercials, but OxyChem does all right nonetheless. Occidental Chemical, the chemicals business of Occidental Petroleum, is manufactures basic chemicals, vinyls, petrochemicals, and specialty chemicals. It is the top US maker of chlorine and caustic soda (used in bleach, plastics, and pulp and paper) and the top producer of potassium hydroxide or caustic potash (used in fertilizers). Through its 76% stake in OxyVinyls, it's the leading North Occidental American maker of vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), used to make Chemical PVC resins. It bought the chemicals unit of Vulcan Materials for $360 Corporation million in a deal that closed in mid-2005. Brash new company Braskem has become the top money maker for holding group Odebrecht. Braskem, a leading thermoplastic resin producer in Latin America, was formed in 2002 when Odebrecht merged its chemical business with that of Copene and Mariana. Braskem makes plastics and acrylics, synthetic fibers, chemical compounds, pipes and tubes, and gasoline and solvents, among other products. Flagship company Construtora Norberto Odebrecht leads Odebrecht's engineering, heavy construction, and specialized technology operations, such as its electromechanical structures and offshore drilling services. Formed in 1944, Odebrecht is focusing on two areas: engineering and construction and chemicals and Odebrecht S.A. petrochemicals.

Address: 3-7-1, Kanda Nishikicho, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 101-0054, Japan Phone: +81-3-3296-8320 Fax: +81-3-3296-8210

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 1475.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 16.50% Employees (2004): 1,505 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-6.50%)

• President: Nobuichiro Fujimoto • Managing Director: Suketoshi Tsukamoto

Address: Yebisu Garden Place Tower, 20-3, Ebisu 4-chome, Shibuya-ku Tokyo 150-6019, Japan Phone: +81-3-5424-6600 Fax: +81-3-5424-6800

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 1301.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 14.40% Employees (2004): 3,599 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-4.30%)

• Executive Chairman: Masayasu Uno • President and CEO: Youhei Nakajima

Address: 48416 144th St. Big Stone City, SD 57216 Phone: 605-862-7902 Fax: 605-862-7904

• CEO, CFO, and Manager: Robert Narem • President and Manager: Steve Street

Address: 5005 LBJ Fwy. Dallas, TX 75244-6152 Phone: 972-404-3800 Fax: 972-404-3669

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 3675.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 15.60% Employees (2004): 2,974

• President: B. (Chuck) Anderson • Director, Communications and Web Development: Bill Dykes

Address: Av. Luis Viana, 2841, Paralela., Edifício Odebrecht 41827-900 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Phone: +55-71-2105-1111 Fax: +55-71-230-0701

• Chairman: Emílio Odebrecht • President and CEO: Fiscal Year End: December Pedro Augusto Ribeiro Revenue (2004): 8184.20 M Novis Revenue Growth (1 yr): • Director, Finance: Alvaro 59.80% Novis

Sure, there may be chlorine in your water, but it's also in the pipes, the soap, and your clothes too. Olin Chlor Alkali manufactures chlorine, caustic soda, hydrochloric acid, sodium hydrosulfite, and other chemicals. Chlor alkali chemicals are the basis for a vast array of pharmaceutical products, plastics, household cleaners, and clothing as well. Olin ranks as the #4 chlor alkali chemical maker in the US, after the likes of Dow and PPG. While many chlor alkali makers consume their own products as raw materials for other downstream products, Olin sells most of its own chlorine chemicals Olin Chlor to third parties. The company accounts for about a quarter of Olin Alkali Products Corporation's sales. Chemicals maker Orgasynth proves organic and synthetic chemicals don't have to be mutually exclusive. The company specializes in the synthesis of organic molecular chemicals. Fine chemicals account for a little more than one-third of its sales; specialty chemicals (flavorings, fragrances, dyes, and agrochemicals) make up the balance. Orgasynth sells its products to primarily European clients in a range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, electronics, cosmetics, food, and animal nutrition. Chairman and CEO Emmanuel Alves, a former executive of Rhône-Poulenc (now Sanofi-Aventis after successive mergers), and his family control Orgasynth S.A. nearly 85% of Orgasynth. Orica USA (formerly Energetic Solutions) belongs to a big, loud family. The company makes explosives and is part of Australian chemicals and explosives behemoth Orica Limited (formerly ICI Australia). The company is a leading supplier of commercial explosives and detonating systems to the mining, quarrying, and construction markets. In addition to providing blasting products, the company provides blast management services and technology. In 2005 the company entered a long-term contract with Terra Mississippi, a unit of Terra Industries, in which Orica will be supplied with industrial-grade ammonium nitrate and nitrate solution. Orica Orica USA Inc. UA traces its history to 1912. Blue skies, puffy white clouds, maybe even a pretty little rainbow -ORYXE Energy wants you to be able to see these things clearly. The company develops fuel additives that make engines run cleaner, thereby reducing the resulting pollution. Among the products ORYXE offers are additives for gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels. Its OR-LED diesel fuel additive has been approved by the state of Texas for sale, and the company has begun marketing the product in that state. OR-LED is used to help reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides ORYXE Energy as well as carbon monoxide, allowing engines to meet tougher International, emission standards. The company was founded by executive officers Fred and Chris Jordan in 2001. Inc. No Pain, no gain. Pain Enterprises helps customers in a number of industries (including the chemicals, food processing, hospitality, medical, packaging, and restaurant markets) by supplying them with carbon dioxide as gas (in bulk, cylinder, and nitrogen/CO2 mix forms) and as dry ice (in pellet or block versions). Pain Enterprises Pain also retails dry ice through its BerryCold Retail Dry Ice division. The Enterprises Inc company was established in 1957.

Address: 490 Stuart Rd. NE Cleveland, TN 37312 Phone: 423-336-4850 Fax: 423-336-4830

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 448.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 12.00% Employees (2004): 1,000 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• President: John L. McIntosh • Marketing Manager, Chlorine and Caustic Soda: Tom Rice

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 132.50 M Address: 211 Boulevard Vincent Revenue Growth (1 yr): Auriol 4.50% 75013 Paris, France Employees (2004): 538 Phone: +33-1-56-61-72-80 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: +33-1-56-61-72-99 10.90%

• Chairman and Managing Director: Emmanuel Alves • Deputy Managing Director: Carole Alves Abdelli • Finance Manager: Richard Michalak

Address: 33101 E. Quincy Ave. Watkins, CO 80137 Phone: 303-268-5000 Fax: 303-268-5250

• President: Donald O. (Don) Brinker • VP Marketing: Brian Wallace

Address: 6 Thomas Irvine, CA 92618-2512 Phone: 949-452-9272 Fax: 949-452-9274

Chairman and CEO: Walter L. Schindler • Vice Chairman and CTO: Frederick L. (Fred) Jordan • President and Chief Marketing Officer: Kevin McGlensey

Address: 101 Daniels Way Bloomington, IN 47404 Phone: 812-330-1400 Fax: 812-330-1544

• Chairman: John F. Pain • CFO: Sheila Pain Fiscal Year End: September • VP, Business Revenue (2005): 60.00 M Development and Employees (2005): 300 Marketing: Gil D'Arcy

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Polimeri Europa SpA

Praxair Distribution, Inc.

Specialty chemicals maker Penreco manufactures white mineral oils, petrolatums, specialty hydrocarbon fluids, petroleum sulfonates, cable-filling compounds, refrigeration oils, food grade compressor lubricants, and gelled products. Its products are used in cosmetics, skin and hair care products, and candles as well as in pharmaceuticals. The company is 50%-owned by ConocoPhillips; M.E. Zukerman Specialty Oil Corporation bought the other half of Penreco from the former Pennzoil-Quaker State in 2001. It was founded as the Pennsylvania Refining Company in 1878. Petrochem Carless wants to keep drivers from being carless. Petrochem Carless offers products such as antifreeze, brake fluids, de-icers, and racing fuels. It also supplies chemical solvents such as alcohols, amines, and esters. The company is one of the top European refiners and distributors of specialty hydrocarbons and advanced automotive fluids, as well as a leading supplier of drilling fluids. Petrochem Carless was formed in 2000 when Petrochem bought Carless (which traces its history back to 1859) from Spanish petrochemical manufacturer Repsol and merged the two companies' operations. The company underwent a management buyout (backed by Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance) in early 2005. Pssst. Hey, Buddy. Want some diammonium phosphate, monoammonium phosphate, or even any triple superphosphate? Because Phosphate Chemicals Export Association (PhosChem) knows a guy who can hook you up. PhosChem was organized in 1974 to market phosphate fertilizer chemicals internationally for its member companies. Its current membership is made up of Mississippi Phosphates (formerly part of Mississippi Chemical, which is now part of Terra Industries), two units of The Mosaic Company (Mosaic Fertilizer and Mosaic Phosphates), and PCS Phosphate (a subsidiary of Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan). The association is a top exporter of phosphate fertilizers and ships its products from nine ports in the southern US. Europe needs chemicals, too, and Polimeri Europa is more than happy to provide them. Polimeri Europa, the petrochemical arm of Italy-based oil behemoth Eni, produces and distributes a wide range of chemicals, operating through three main divisions: basic chemicals, polyethylene, and elastomers and styrenics. Polimeri Europa sells more than 5 billion tons of materials a year and has a sales network that is present in 17 countries. (Italy still accounts for more than half of company sales.) The company has its headquarters and numerous plants in Italy, and it also has plants in Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Portugal, and the UK. Perhaps you know a better method of getting your gas out into the world, but industrial gas heavyweight Praxair is content to use Praxair Distribution. The company distributes industrial, medical, and other gases to more than 600 Praxair locations in the US and Canada. Praxair Distribution delivers industrial gases and hardware to welders; respiratory gases and healthcare equipment to hospitals and homecare patients; and specialty gases and equipment to electronics, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, and chemical companies. It uses a line of stores and depots, cylinder-filling plants, homecare service locations, and distribution centers to serve its customers needs.

Address: 4401 Park Ave. Dickinson, TX 77539 Phone: 281-337-1534 Fax: 281-337-1200

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 250.00 M Employees (2005): 400

Address: Cedar Court, Guildford Rd. Leatherhead, Surrey KT22 9RX, United Kingdom Phone: +44-1372-360-000 Fax: +44-1372-380-400

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 297.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 12.40% Employees (2004): 173 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-10.80%)

Address: 100 S. SaundersRd., Ste. 300 Lake Forest, IL 60045 Phone: 847-739-1200 Fax: 847-739-1614

Address: Piazza Boldrini, 1 20097 San Donato Milanese, Milano, Italy Phone: +39-02-520-1

• President: Tom Readal

• CEO: Paul Gemski • Finance Director: Vincent Fannon • Commercial Director: David Little

• Founder and President; President, Mosaic Phosphates Company: Steven H. (Steve) Paxton Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 7390.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 31.20% Employees (2004): 6,563 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-6.80%)

Address: 39 Old Ridgebury Rd. Danbury, CT 06810-5113 Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 716-879-4077 Revenue (2005): 900.00 M Fax: 716-879-2040 Employees (2005): 4,000

• Chairman: Giorgio Clarizia • Managing Director and Board Member: Piero Raffaeli

• President: Wayne J. Yakich

Praxair, Inc.

Pride Solvents & Chemical Co.

PVS Technologies, Inc.

Quadra Chemicals Ltd.

Rasa Industries, Ltd.

At Praxair, doing business is always a gas. The company produces and sells atmospheric gases (oxygen, nitrogen, argon, and others) as well as process and specialty gases (CO2, helium, and hydrogen) for the chemicals, food and beverage, semiconductor, and health care industries. Depending on a client company's gas needs, Praxair can build an on-site gas plant or provide gases by the cylinder. The company's Praxair Surface Technologies subsidiary supplies hightemperature and corrosion-resistant metallic, ceramic, and powder coatings mainly to the aircraft, plastics, and primary metals industries. Praxair Healthcare Services supplies hospitals and the medical homecare industry. You can clean with pride. Pride Solvents & Chemical distributes chemicals such as alcohols, amines, chlorinated solvents, esters, surfactants, glycol ethers, and ketones. Industries and applications include metal cleaning, pharmaceuticals, paints and coatings, personal care products, flavors and fragrances, and compounding products. The company also provides custom blending and packaging services. Pride Solvents & Chemical's product suppliers include Celanese, Dow Chemical, and Rhodia. Formed in 1970, the family-owned company maintains five distribution locations and has a fleet of nearly 40 vehicles. PVS Chemicals makes undrinkable sodas, sulfur-based chemicals, and acids that not even Timothy Leary would find palatable. The company's product list includes sulfuric and hydrochloric acids, liquid caustic soda, ferric chloride, and ammonium thiosulfate. These intimidating-sounding chemicals are used in applications such as water treatment (wastewater, process, and municipal), electronics manufacture (including semiconductor etching), metal finishing and plating, and food and pharmaceutical production. PVS Chemicals' subsidiaries include PVS Technologies (water treatment), Dynecol (transportation, analysis, treatment, and recycling of chemicals), and PVS Nolwood (chemical distribution). Quadra Chemicals markets and distributes commodity and specialty chemicals and provides related services to customers throughout Canada. Quadra serves a broad customer base from a large range of industries, including animal feed, cosmetics, food processing, pharmaceuticals, pulp and paper, petroleum, and textiles. The Canadian company, which acquired US-based Great Western Chemical in 2001, sold its US operations in 2005 to chemicals distributor Brenntag. Quadra also operates a fleet of trucks and trailers, as well as tankers and railcars. Owners include company chairman and president Tony Infilise. three major business segments: machinery, chemicals, and electronic materials. Its machinery segment makes pipe-jacking machines used for tunneling in the installation of sewer, gas, and water lines and electricity and communication networks; it also makes screens and pumps for dealing with the slurry that its pipejacking machines produce. The chemical products include phosphorous, ferric oxide, and phosphoric acid. The electronics division recycles silicon wafers for re-use, produces dummy and test wafers, and makes high-purity materials such as gallium and phosphorus for electronics.

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 7656.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): Address: 39 Old Ridgebury Rd. 16.10% Danbury, CT 06810-5113 Employees (2004): 27,020 Phone: 203-837-2000 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: 716-879-2040 6.20%

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Dennis H. Reilley • President and COO: Stephen F. Angel • SVP and CFO: James S. (Jim) Sawyer

Address: 6 Long Island Ave. Holtsville, NY 11742 Phone: 631-758-0200 Fax: 631-758-0290

• CEO: A.W. Dhom Sr. • VP, Finance: Gary Klundt • VP, Sales: James Stipicevic

Address: 10900 Harper Ave. Detroit, MI 48213 Phone: 313-921-1200 Fax: 313-921-1378

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 22.10 M Employees (2005): 60

• President and CEO: James B. (Jim) Nicholson • VP and CFO: Donald R. Sosnoski

Address: 370 Blvd. JosephCarrier Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec J7V 5V5, Canada Phone: 450-424-0161 Fax: 450-424-9458

• Chairman and President: Anthony (Tony) Infilise • CFO: Pierre Thivierge

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 234.00 M Address: 1-1-1 Kyobashi, Chuo- Revenue Growth (1 yr): ku, Yaesu Dai Bldg. 6.40% Tokyo 104-0031, Japan Employees (2004): 748 Phone: +81-3-3278-3801 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: +81-3-3281-6699 (-8.20%)

• Managing Director: Masato Ryuman • President: Atsuhiro Ohi • Director: Katsuhiko Yamada

Yes

Through its subsidiaries, RÜTGERS makes chemicals that include aromatics, cosmetics, organic intermediates, petroleum products, and pharmaceuticals. A subsidiary of RAG, RÜTGERS also has interests in the construction, electronics, and plastics industries. The company's subsidiaries are: RÜTGERS Chemicals, Bakelite, and HT Troplast. RÜTGERS is in the process of exiting the plastics business. It has sold engineering plastics maker Isola to investment firm Texas Pacific Group and thermosetting resins producer Bakelite to the former Borden Chemical (now called Hexion Specialty RÜTGERS AG Chemicals). Baby, it's cold outside -- or inside. Refron distributes refrigerants such as CFCs, HCFCs, and HFCs throughout the US. The company operates roughly 100 stockpoints and sales offices nationwide and provides delivery services. It also offers retrofit blending, recycling and reclamation, purity testing, technical support, and information sharing services. Refron's customers include HVAC contractors, facility owners, government agencies, and manufacturing and transportation companies. The company was created in 1950 under Refron Inc. the name Refrigeration Sales Co. India and Reliance Industries rely on each other. The company is India's largest petrochemical firm and second largest company (behind Indian Oil and just ahead of Hindustan Petroleum). It contributes about 3% of India's GDP and is the country's largest exporter. Polyesters and polymers account for most of Reliance's sales. In 2006 the company demerged into four separate entities: Reliance Reliance Capital Ventures, Reliance Communication Ventures, Industries Reliance Energy Ventures, and Reliance Natural Resources. Limited Reliance intends to take these companies public. Ribelin Sales distributes additives, containers, extenders, fillers, inks, and pigments to markets that include the adhesives and sealants, construction and building materials, paints, cosmetics, plastics, printing, and textiles industries. The company, which Ribelin Sales, primarily serves the southeast, has distribution centers in Texas, Inc. Florida, Georgia, and Arizona. It's all in the family at Rit-Chem. The family-run business is a gobetween company that imports, exports, markets, and contracts for custom, high-quality, and hard-to-find chemicals. Its imports are primarily chemicals that are no longer made in the US, chemical preparations custom-produced for Rit-Chem, or chemicals of a higher quality than are typically made domestically. The company Rit-Chem Co., was founded by president Henry Rittel, who remains at the helm of Inc. business. Rohm and Haas is the one to blame if you can't get that paint out of your hair. The company's operations are divided among six segments, the largest of which is the coatings group, which makes additives and binders used by paint makers. The performance chemicals unit makes plastics additives and antimicrobials, while the electronic materials division manufactures photoresists and materials for making printed wiring boards. Acrylates make up most of its Monomers division, and Rohm and Haas' salt group markets salt for road ice control, table salt (Morton Salt), and water softening. Rohm and The smallest unit manufactures adhesives and sealants. The Haas Haas Company family controls 28% of the company.

Board: Heinz Rzehak • Head of Corporate Communications and Public Relations: Klaus Langhoff • Corporate Communications, RÜTGERS Chemicals AG: Detlef Markmann

Address: Rellinghauser Strasse 3 45128 Essen, Germany Phone: +49-201-1-77-02 Fax: +49-201-1-77-21-08

Address: 38-18 33rd St. Long Island City, NY 11101-2211

Key People • President: Jay Kestenbaum • VP, Sales: Gerald Kestenbaum

Phone: 718-392-8002 Fax: 718-392-8006

Address: Reliance Center, 19, Walchand Hirachand Marg., Ballard Estate Mumbai 400038, India Phone: +91-22-3032-7000 Fax: +91-22-2287-0072

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2005): 15210.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 29.00% Employees (2005): 12,113 Employee Growth (1 yr): 6.60%

• Chairman and Managing Director: Mukesh D. Ambani

Address: 3857 Miller Park Dr. Garland, TX 75042 Phone: 972-272-1594 Fax: 972-404-9683

• Chairman: Chuck Ribelin • President: Michael A. Ribelin • Controller: Rod Jenkins

Address: 109 Wheeler Ave. Pleasantville, NY 10570-3011 Phone: 914-769-9110 Fax: 914-769-1408

• President and CFO: Henry L. Ritell • VP, Market Development: Gary Rittel • VP, Sales: Wayne Rittel

Address: 100 Independence Mall West Philadelphia, PA 19106-2399 Phone: 215-592-3000 Fax: 215-592-3377

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 7994.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 9.50% Employees (2004): 16,691 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-3.20%)

• Chairman and CEO: Rajiv L. (Raj) Gupta • VP and CFO: Jacques M. Croisetiere • VP, CIO, and Director, Human Resources: Anne M. Wilms

Yes

And two shall become one. Shipley and Rodel have gotten married and become Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials, a subsidiary of specialty chemicals giant Rohm and Haas. Its three product lines are: Semiconductor Technologies (products for chemical mechanical polishing, which creates flawless chip surfaces, the unit's largest division), Circuit Board Technologies (chemicals and materials for Rohm and printed circuit boards used in cell phones and computers), and Haas Packaging and Finishing Technologies (coatings for integrated Electronic circuit packaging and connectors). The company accounts for almost Materials 20% of Rohm and Haas' revenue. Rowell Chemical keeps rolling, rolling, rolling... chemical ingredients to its customers. Along with its subsidiary, Milport Enterprises, the company distributes inorganic compounds, including acids, alkalis, bleaching agents, chelating agents and polymers, phosphates, potassium salts, sodium salts, surfactants, and metal and water treatment chemicals, primarily in the midwestern US. Rowell Rowell Chemical also offers custom compounding, repackaging, and some Chemical chemical manufacturing services, and it operates a fleet of Corporation distribution trucks, trailers, and tanks. Royster-Clark has been spreading it on thick for more than 125 years. The company makes and distributes fertilizer and cropprotection products. It also processes seed for other companies and sells seed under its own label. Operations include some 30 fertilizer granulation and blending and seed-processing plants; 250 retail farm supply centers; and 75 distribution terminals and warehouses. The company operates primarily in the midwestern and southeastern US. A majority of Royster-Clark's sales come from the distribution of Royster-Clark, fertilizers bought from third parties. Royster-Clark was acquired by Agrium for $515 million in 2006. Inc. SABIC isn't meant to be an anagram for basic; that's just a happy accident. SABIC Europe manufactures, markets, and distributes basic and intermediate petrochemicals, including hydrocarbons, polyethylene, polypropylene, and other polyolefins, to customers throughout Europe. SABIC Europe is the European arm of petrochemical producer Saudi Basic Industries (SABIC). It produces nearly three million tons of polyethylene and polypropylene per year, and the company, formerly named SABIC EuroPetrochemicals, also SABIC Europe markets its parent's products throughout the continent Got it, got it, need it, need it, got it, and got it. It is Samsung, but it's not the guys who make all that stuff you see at the electronics store. Rather, Samsung America Inc. (SAI) is the US arm of the Korean commodities trading, marketing and distribution, and investment company Samsung Corporation (a part of the Samsung chaebol, or industrial group). As a commodities trader, SAI deals in chemicals, steel, metals, textiles, and natural resources. The company's Samsung marketing and distribution efforts include consumer products ranging America, Inc. from health care products to FUBU clothing and Astra golf wear.

Address: 455 Forest St. Marlborough, MA 01752 Phone: 508-481-7950 Fax: 508-485-9113

• President and CEO: Pierre R. Brondeau Fiscal Year End: December • VP and CFO: Robert Revenue (2004): 1250.00 M Harrer Revenue Growth (1 yr): • VP and CTO: Gary S. 15.80% Calabrese

Address: 15 Salt Creek Ln., Ste. 205 Hinsdale, IL 60521 Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 630-920-8833 Revenue (2005): 12.60 M Fax: 630-920-8994 Employees (2005): 60

• Chairman and CEO: Nat J. Rowell • President: Terrence J. Matray • VP, Operations: Matt Koupal

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 1071.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 11.60% Employees (2004): 2,820 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-9.60%)

• Chairman and CEO: Francis P. Jenkins Jr. • President and COO: G. Kenneth (Ken) Moshenek • CFO: Paul M. Murphy

Address: 1251 Avenue of the Americas, Ste. 900 New York, NY 10020 Phone: 212-332-2965 Fax: 212-332-2999

Address: Poststraat 1 6135 KR Sittard, The Netherlands Phone: +31-46-4767-000 Fax: +31-46-4760-530

• CEO: Frans H. Noteborn • COO: Boy Litjens

Address: 105 Challenger Rd., Ste. 1 Ridgefield Park, NJ 07660 Phone: 201-229-5000 Fax: 201-229-5080

• President and CEO: Jae Hyung Lee • Treasurer: Kenny Cho

Yes

Samsung Total Petrochemical s Co., Ltd.

Sarcom Inc.

Saudi Basic Industries Corporation

S·Science Company, Ltd.

Süd-Chemie Aktiengesellsc haft

Samsung Total Petrochemicals sticks to the basics. The company manufactures building block chemicals that go into the making of a host of other chemicals needed to make the stuff we can use. It starts with a naphtha cracker, yielding propylene and ethylene, which are the raw materials in the production of polymers. Samsung Total divides its operations in three: polymer production (polyethylene, polypropylene, high- and low-density polyethylene), base chemicals (selling the ethylene and propylene the company does not use itself, as well as aromatics used to make the materials that go into synthetic fibers and such), and petrochemicals like solvents and liquefied petroleum gases (propane, butane, etc.). essential. The company distributes essential oils and fine and specialty chemicals for the flavors and fragrance industry; typical products include aromatic chemicals, terpenes, menthol crystals, psyllium seed husk, water-soluble gums, and vanilla beans. In addition to its New York State headquarters, Sarcom has offices in Florida and in China, and it has distribution deals with companies in France, China, and the US. It has a joint venture that produces essential oils in China, and its subsidiary AEP Colloids imports and distributes food ingredients. The company was founded in 1982 by Bob Palagonia. SABIC's is an acronym for the Saudi Basic Industries Corporation, but it could stand for "seriously big industrial chemicals company." Saudi Arabia's largest non-oil company, SABIC produces chemicals through six business units: basic chemicals, intermediates, polyolefins, PVC and polyester, fertilizers, and metals. The company is one of the world's largest makers of polyethylene and polypropylene. The Saudi government owns 70% of SABIC but has plans to privatize the company. The remaining 30% of the company is owned by private investors in Saudi Arabia and the other counties of the Gulf Cooperation Council. SScience Company, formerly Shimura Kako, imports nickel ingots from Canada-based Inco Limited. and processes the metal into nickel salts such as nickel chloride and nickel sulfate (90% of sales). Nickel salts are used in electroplating, ceramics, and pigments, and as catalysts. SScience has ended its nickel smelting operations to concentrate on nickel ingot processing. The company has expanded into new materials, including magnets and metallic particles. It has developed a method for creating tiny "nanoparticles" for use in catalysts; the method could be used in the creation of "nanomachines." SScience's other businesses include real estate, construction materials, and environmental equipment. From manure to your sewer, Süd-Chemie's products help make a nasty world a nicer place. The company's adsorbents and additives division (more than half of its sales) makes chemicals for municipal and industrial wastewater treatment, bleaching agents for the purification of edible oils and fats, and additives for the treatment of solid and liquid manure. The division's other products include thickening agents for paints, glues, and cosmetics, as well as desiccants for controlling moisture in pharmaceuticals. SüdChemie's catalysts are used in the manufacture of synthetic gases, biocides, and air-pollution control systems. One Equity Partners (OEP) owns about 40% of the company.

Address: 411-1, Dokgod Ri, Daesan Up Seosan, Chungchong-nam 356711, South Korea Phone: +82-2-772-6642 Fax: +82-2-772-6618

• President and CEO: Ko Hong-Sik

Address: 393 Church St. Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Phone: 518-580-9740 Fax: 518-580-8577

• President and CEO: Stephen (Steve) Strouse • Comptroller: Roy Arnold

Address: P.O. Box 5101 Riyadh 11422, Saudi Arabia Phone: +966-1-225-8000 Fax: +966-1-225-9000

• President and CEO: Stephen (Steve) Strouse • Comptroller: Roy Arnold

Address: 3-1-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-0005, Japan Phone: +81-3-3216-6431 Fax: +81-3-3214-3630

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 23.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 18.40% Employees (2004): 46 Employee Growth (1 yr): 17.90%

• President and CEO: Moritoshi Shinada • Managing Director: Yozo Ohta

Address: Lenbachplatz 6 D-80333 Munich, Germany Phone: +49-89-5110-0 Fax: +49-89-5110-375

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 1176.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 22.80% Employees (2004): 51,080 Employee Growth (1 yr): 925.30%

• Chairman, Supervisory Board: Jürgen F. Kammer • Chairman, Managing Board: Günter von Au • COO and Head of the Absorbents and Catalysts Division: Hans Jürgen Wernicke

Süd-Chemie Inc. (SCI) is a catalyst for many things. The company's catalysts are used in gases (by ammonia plants making fertilizers and methanol plants for fuel additives), hydrogenation (for the cosmetics and consumer products industries), and in the refining and petrochemical processes. It also produces dessicants, humidity indicators, industrial minerals, skin protectants, and ingredients to help the flow of things (rheological additives). The company also Süd-Chemie offers emissions control products and services. SCI is the US Inc. division of German chemical big wig Süd-Chemie. Schenectady International came to life by bringing good varnishes to life for General Electric. Founded by Howard Wright in 1906, the company was established to develop insulating varnishes for GE's early electrical devices. Schenectady International has sold its electrical insulating business to ALTANA, but it still makes friction material resins for use in making brake linings and clutch facings. The company's other products include alkylphenols, phenolic resins, and electronic chemicals used in the production of semiconductors, Schenectady imaging products, packaging, rubber compounds, agrochemicals, International, dyes, fuel additives, and flavoring agents. Descendants of Wright Inc. still own the company. Like peas and carrots, so go gigantic oil companies and less gigantic but still formidable petrochemical companies. Thus, you get Royal Dutch/Shell Group and Shell Chemicals. The division manufactures all manner of petrochemicals and is a leader or among the leaders in producing olefins, aromatics, solvents, phenols, and glycols for customers that make products such as plastics, coatings, and detergents. Shell and BASF had been partners in a polyolefinsShell making joint venture called Basell but sold the JV in 2005 to private Chemicals investment firm Access Industries. Infineum is another joint venture Limited (with ExxonMobil Chemical) that makes lubricant additives. Shintech produces PVC (the chemical also known as polyvinyl chloride). Based in Houston, Shintech also has plants in Freeport, Texas and in Louisiana. Shintech serves customers primarily in North American, but also exports its products worldwide. Established in 1973, Shintech is a US subsidiary of Japanese diversified Shintech, Inc. chemicals giant Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. Showa Denko is one of Japan's leading producers of chemicals and industrial materials. The company's sectors include petrochemicals (olefins, organic chemicals, plastic products), aluminum (aluminum cans, sheets, ingots, foils), electronics (semiconductors, ceramic materials, hard disks), chemicals (industrial gases, ammonia, agrochemicals), and inorganic materials (ceramics, graphite electrodes). Showa Denko, which is part of Japan's Fuyo Group, has Showa Denko more than 180 subsidiaries and affiliates. In 1939 Nihon Electrical K.K. Industries and Showa Fertilizers combined to form Showa Denko.

Address: P.O. Box 32370 Louisville, KY 40210 Phone: 502-634-7200 Fax: 502-634-7739

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 201.20 M Employees (2005): 800

• President and CEO: Thomas A. Marx • Lands and Contract Manager and Media Relations Contact: Richard Power

Address: 2750 Balltown Rd. Schenectady, NY 12304 Phone: 518-347-4200 Fax: 518-346-3111

• Chairman and CEO: Wallace A. Graham • President and COO: Charles G. Griswold • SVP, Financial and CFO: John C. Obst

Address: Shell Centre, 2 York Rd. London SE1 7NA, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7934-1234 Fax: +44-20-7934-7703

• EVP, Chemicals; President and CEO, Shell Chemical LP: Fran Keeth • VP, Asia/Pacific/Middle East Ventures and Development: Tan Ek Kia • VP, Strategy, Acquisitions, and Divestments: Sven Royall

Address: #3 Greenway Plaza, Ste. 1150 Houston, TX 77046 Phone: 713-965-0713 Fax: 713-965-0629

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 29497.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 41.70%

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2005): 53.30 M Employees (2005): 260

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 7184.10 M Address: 13-9 Shiba-Daimon 1- Revenue Growth (1 yr): Chome, Minato-ku 11.60% Tokyo 105-8518, Japan Employees (2004): 11,166 Phone: +81-3-5470-3235 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: +81-3-3436-2625 (-2.70%)

• President and CEO, Director: Chihiro Kanagawa • Senior Managing Director: Yasuhiko Saitoh

• Chairman: Mitsuo Ohashi • President and CEO: Kyohei Takahashi • Managing Director; Business Support Center: Hiroshi Ito

Siel Ltd. helps make India a bit cleaner and fatter. The conglomerate's businesses manufacture cleaning chemicals (caustic soda, chlorine, bleaching powder), and edible vegetable oils. Its consumer oils are sold under the Cornola, Panghat, Ruby, and Sunbeam brands . As part of a plan to restructure the company's debts, spun off its sugar operations into a new company, Mawana Sugars Ltd. Other associated, joint venture, or subsidiary companies include Honda Siel Power Products (portable generators, pumps), Siel Ltd. Usha International (electronic products). Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical manufactures chemicals from petroleum chemical fibres, polyester plastic, chemical raw materials and products, crude oil, petroleum refined products, hydrocarbon compound derivatives, fuel and equipment. Major products include ethylene, butadiene, polyethylene, polypropylene, refined PTA, ethylene glycol, aromatic hydrocarbons, acetic acid, gasoline, diesel, kerosene, and liquefied gas. The company operates close to 35 Sinopec manufactuing plants. China Petroleum & Chemical (Sinopec), which Yangzi is controlled by the Chinese government, owns a controlling interest Petrochemical in Yangzi Petrochemical. Sinopec has announced plans to buy back Co., Ltd. the company and privatize it. SNF Floerger is among the world's leading manufacturers of synthetic flocculants, laying claim to more than 25% of the world's market. (Synthetic flocculents are used in water treatment.) SNF Floerger also makes other products, including acrylamides and acrylates. The company has more than 30 subsidiaries and operations in more than 140 countries around the world, including SNF Inc. in the US and SNF (India), which is building a new facility SNF Floerger with backing from the Indian government. SNF Floerger generates SAS nearly all of its sales outside of France. manufactures synthetic flocculant, coagulant, and dispersant polymers used for municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment. Other industries served by SNF include paper processing, textile printing, oil production, agriculture, and personal-care products manufacturing. The American arm of French polymer maker SNF Floerger, the company has nine polymer production facilities around the US. Business units include Chemtall, Floquip (polymer preparation equipment), Pearl River Polymers, Polychemie, SNF Inc. and Polydyne. Mamma mia, it's Snia! The company, a leading Italian manufacturer of chemical and fiber products, has spun off its medical products businesses to concentrate on chemicals and textiles. Snia's chemical division, operating through subsidiary Caffaro, produces base, specialty, and fine chemicals. Snia's textile yarn business, Nylstar (run as a joint venture with Rhodia), produces cellulose acetate filament, nylon, and rayon. Italian financial company Bios S.p.A. owned just over 50% of Snia until 2005 when it spun off its holding to Bios shareholders, including Hopa S.p.A. (controlled by financier Emilio Gnutti), banking group Antonveneta, and Banca Snia S.p.A. Monte dei Paschi di Siena.

Address: Kirti Mahal, 5, 19 Rajendra Pl. New Delhi 110 008, India Phone: +91-11-25739103 Fax: +91-11-25743659

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2005): 50.20 M

Address: 777 Xinhua Rd., Yanjian Development Zone, Luhe District Nanjing 210048, China Phone: +86-25-5778-2200 Fax: +86-25-5778-4389

Revenue (2004): 3835.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 44.40% Employees (2004): 8,731

Address: ZAC de Milieux 42163 Andrézieux Cedex, France Phone: +33-4-77-36-86-00 Fax: +33-4-77-36-86-96

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 777.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 9.20% Employees (2004): 1,700 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• Chairman: Siddharth Shriram • Wholetime Director, Secretary, and Compliance Officer: K. P. Singh

• Chairman: Dai Houliang

• Chairman and President: René Pich • CFO: Philippe Chaut • Technical Director: René Hund

Address: 1 Chemical Plant Rd. Riceboro, GA 31323 Phone: 912-884-3366 Fax: 912-884-5031

• President: Peter Nichols • VP, Finance: James Carlson • Business Development and Marketing Manager: Scott Ramey

Address: Via Friuli, 55 20131 Cesano Maderno, Milano, Italy Phone: +39-02-63321 Fax: +39-02-6332-358

• Chairman: Umberto Rosa • Operating Vice Chairman: Andrea Matiussi • CEO and Board Member: Carlo Vanoli

Société d'Oxygène et d'Acetylène d'ExtrêmeOrient

SOL S.p.A.

Solvay Chemicals, Inc.

Solvay SA

Solvents and Chemicals, Inc.

Société d'Oxygène et d'Acetylène d'Extrême-Orient (SOAEO) provides a basic element of manufacturing (not to mention life): oxygen. A publicly traded subsidiary of French gas manufacturer Air Liquide, SOAEO packages and distributes oxygen, acetylene, and other gases and equipment used for welding; the company's products also have medical applications. Customers include the chemical, steel, electronics manufacturing, and health care industries. Although SOAEO is based in France, all of the company's manufacturing operations are in Asia. Air Liquide owns 87% of SOAEO. Look to SOL for more than sunlight. SOL S.p.A., the major operating entity of the SOL Group, produces and distributes industrial gases -oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, helium, gas mixtures, and more -used in the technical and medical arenas. Sister companies include Vivisol (oxygen and related respiratory treatment equipment) and Sol Welding (equipment and materials for the welding market sold under the Esseti and Overweld brands, among others). Headquartered in Italy, SOL has operations located in 15 countries in Europe. Despite the address in Belgium, Solvay doesn't waffle at all when it comes to the chemical sector. The industrial giant's chemicals division, Solvay Chemicals, accounts for about a third of its business. The unit's products include soda ash, calcium carbonate, and both organic and inorganic fluorides. Solvay Chemicals is comprised primarily of three formerly separate subsidiaries: Solvays Interox, Minerals, and Fluorides. The company is among the world leaders in a number of product lines, including fluorochemicals, hydrogen peroxide, detergents, and electrochemical specialties. Its more than 40 plants are spread throughout the world. Like Jean-Claude Van Damme rendered as a scientific equation, specialty chemicals company Solvay is the muscles from Brussels. With subsidiaries and affiliated companies in about 50 countries, the Belgium-based Solvay operates in three sectors: chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and plastics. Its chemicals sector makes hydrogen peroxide and soda ash (used to make glass). Solvay's pharmaceuticals include cardiological drugs, gastrointestinal enzymes, and antidepressants. And the company's plastics compounds include vinyl and polyethylene products; it also processes plastics into pipe, waterproofing foils, and fuel and air intake systems for automobiles. Belgian holding company Solvac owns 26% of Solvay. Just as its name suggests, Solvents and Chemicals distributes chemicals and solvents such as acids, alcohols, amines, chlorinated solvents, esters, glycol ethers, ketones, plasticizers, and sulfates. The company's customers include members of the paints and coatings, petroleum refining, and plastic industries. It delivers products throughout four states in the southwestern US and exports commodities to Latin America and the Middle East. Suppliers include Equistar Chemicals, Lyondell Chemical, and Shell Chemical. Founder Gabriel Baizan formed the company in the late 1960s.

Address: 75, Quai d'Orsay 75321 Paris Cedex, France Phone: +33-1-40-62-55-55 Fax: +33-1-40-62-54-65

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 259.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 172.30%

• Chairman: Jean-Claude Buono • CEO: Lee Chun Wah • Head of Communications: Dominique Maire

Address: Piazza Diaz, 1 20052 Monza, Milano, Italy Phone: +39-039-239-61 Fax: +39-039-239-6371

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 437.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 16.80% Employees (2004): 1,447 Employee Growth (1 yr): 6.20%

• Chairman and Managing Director: Aldo Fumagalli Romario • Vice Chairman and Managing Director: Marco Annoni • Finance Officer: Marco Filippi

Address: 3333 Richmond Ave. Houston, TX 77098-3099 Phone: 713-525-6500 Fax: 713-525-7806

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 3318.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 5.40% Employees (2004): 8,594 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-10.50%)

• President and CEO: Richard L. Hogan • VP, Finance and Customer Order Services: Stephen Kovar

Address: Rue du Prince Albert, 33 B-1050 Brussels, Belgium Phone: +32-2-509-6111 Fax: +32-2-509-6617

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 10744.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 13.30% Employees (2004): 29,300 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-2.30%)

• Chairman, Executive Committee, and Director: Aloïs Michielsen • General Manager, Chemicals: Christian Jourquin • Chairman: Baron Daniel Janssen

Address: 4704 Shank Rd. Pearland, TX 77581 Phone: 281-485-5377 Fax: 281-485-6129

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 8.80 M Employees (2005): 43

• President: Gabriel Baizan • Controller: Carl Caldwell • EVP: Jean-Pierre Baizan

Yes

Specialty Minerals, Inc.

SRF Limited

Sterling Chemicals, Inc.

Specialty Minerals Inc. (SMI) has a knack for developing industrial minerals and chemicals for the paper, coatings, building materials, ceramic, glass, polymer, and food industries. Its primary product is precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC), which brightens and whitens paper, teeth, and paint. In addition to the paper industry, pharmaceutical companies also are big users of PCC (as a buffering agent in tablets). Other mineral products include quicklime, limestone, and talc. SMI is a subsidiary of Minerals Technologies, accounting for about two-thirds of its parent's sales. SRF Limited is a diversified manufacturer with three core businesses: chemicals, industrial fabrics, and industrial synthetics. The company's chemicals are used for refrigeration and air conditioning. Its fabrics are fashioned into conveyor belts used in such industries as mining and utilities. SRF Limited's synthetic packaging films are used to contain consumer goods like soap, shampoo, and tea. Founded in 1974 as a manufacturer of nylon tire cord fabric, today the company is one of the world's largest producers of tire cord and a leading maker of belting fabrics. A not so sterling record is being burnished by petrochemical manufacturer Sterling Chemicals. Sterling is focused on producing core products, including styrene (ultimately used to produce disposable cups, packaging, and plastic products), and acetic acid (an ingredient in adhesives, coatings, and fibers). Its products are primarily sold to other chemical producers, as well as consumer and industrial product manufacturers. The company (formerly Sterling Chemicals Holdings) came out of bankruptcy in late 2002 and went public again in mid-2003. Resurgence Asset Management owns about 80% of the company. Sterling left the acrylonitrile business in 2005 due to a history of losses in the division.

Japan's #3 chemical producer behind Mitsubishi Chemical and Asahi Kasei, Sumitomo Chemical makes chemicals for almost everything made and grown under the sun. About one-third of the company's sales come from petrochemicals such as polypropylene, ethylene, and elastomers. Sumitomo's other major units make Sumitomo pharmaceuticals, agricultural chemicals (insecticides, herbicides, Chemical and fertilizers), and basic chemicals such as caustic soda and Company, methanol. The company also makes chemicals for electronics and Limited fine chemicals. The company is part of Japan's Sumitomo Group. If you can't stand the heat, use one of the chemicals that Summit Environmental distributes. The company is the sole marketer and distributor of FlameOut, an EPA-approved (and thus environmentally friendly) replacement for Halon for both commercial and residential fire fighting. FlameOut is also approved for use by the US Forestry Service; it is manufactured by BioGenesis. Additionally, Summit distributes a similar product, FirePower, as well as kind-to-the-Earth cleaning products (Ultimate Clean) and a line of cosmetics Summit Environmental (Pannache). The company markets its products through strategic alliances and distribution agreements in the Asia/Pacific region, Corporation, Europe, North America, and South America. Inc.

Address: The Chrysler Building, 405 Lexington Ave. New York, NY 10174 Phone: 212-878-1800 Fiscal Year End: December Fax: 212-878-1801 Revenue (2004): 623.40 M

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Paul R. Saueracker • EVP: Anton Dulski • Group SVP, Finance; CFO; and Treasurer: John A. Sorel

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2005): 261.80 M Address: Express Bldg., 1st Fl. Revenue Growth (1 yr): 9-10, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg 40.70% New Delhi 110002, India Employees (2004): 1,728 Phone: +91-11-237-384-94 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: +91-11-233-240-52 (-16.80%)

• Chairman and Managing Director: Arun Bharat Ram • VP, IT & HR: Kartikeya Bharat Ram • CFO: S.G.Y. Narayanan

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 851.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): Address: 333 Clay St., Ste. 3600 44.20% Houston, TX 77002-4109 Employees (2004): 336 Phone: 713-650-3700 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: 713-654-9551 (-21.90%)

• CEO, President, and Director: Richard K. Crump • SVP, Finance, and CFO: Paul G. Vanderhoven • SVP, Commercial: Paul C. Rostek

Address: 27-1, Shinkawa 2chome, Chuo-ku Tokyo 104-8260, Japan Phone: +81-3-5543-5102 Fax: +81-3-5543-5901

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 10965.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 18.30% Employees (2004): 19,036 Employee Growth (1 yr): 6.30%

• President: Hiromasa Yonekura • EVP, Technology and Research and Development: Satoshi Kawachi • Managing Director, Finance and Accounting Office, Investor a: Yuji Ito

Address: 210 S. Green Longview, TX 75601 Phone: 800-522-7841 Fax: 903-758-1903

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 31.50% Employees (2004): 5 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• Chairman and CEO: B. Keith Parker • CFO and Director: Chris Dellinges • VP Shareholder and Public Relations, Secretary, and Director: Paula B. Parker

Yes

Yes

Sunoco Chemicals has bulked up on polypropylene and phenol. In addition, the company produces benzene (and its derivatives) for manufacturers of fibers and detergents; toluene and xylenes for makers of fibers, film, and urethane products; and ethylene for specialty chemical companies. Sunoco Chemicals produces chemicals at eight facilities in the US. Most of the company's sales are in the US. The chemical producer, a unit of oil refiner and Sunoco marketer Sunoco, Inc., doubled in size with its 2001 purchase of Chemicals Aristech Chemical, formerly a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corp. Despite the oily name, Superior Oil actually distributes industrial products and provides chemical and waste services. Superior's solvents and chemicals division -- which has nine stocking facilities and a fleet of some 160 trucks, trailers, and tankers -- supplies manufacturers of paints and coatings, pharmaceuticals, fabricated metal products, and adhesives. The fiberglass and resins unit sells to clients that make products ranging from parts for recreational vehicles to bathtubs and showers. Superior Oil also provides blending, solvent reclamation, and hazardous waste removal Superior Oil services. Suppliers include BASF, Celanese, and Chevron Phillips. Company, Inc. The company is owned by members of its management team. Anyone who's grilled with charcoal would question its ability to make water cleaner, but Sutcliffe Speakman swears by it. The company makes activated carbon (which has charcoal as a precursor) as a filter for water treatment, gas and air purification, and solvent recovery; its large internal surface area allows activated carbon to act as an adsorbent. In addition to supplying activated carbons, Sutcliffe Speakman supplies emission contol systems worldwide for industries that include the chemical, pharmaceutical, printing, and Sutcliffe food and beverage sectors. Global activated carbon maker Calgon Speakman Carbon, which operates in Europe through Chemviron Carbon, Limited bought Sutcliffe Speakman in 2004. Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation is a diversified company that makes industrial gases, gas-handling equipment (including highpurity systems for semiconductor production), packaged foods, and house wares. The company markets its products to the food and beverage, shipbuilding, aerospace, chemical, and steel industries. Taiyo Nippon Nippon Sanso maintains the Thermos brand of vacuum bottles in Sanso Japan. Effective October 1, 2004 the company merged with Taiyo Corporation Toyo with the surviving company taking the combined new name Tanner plies the trade of chemical shipping and warehousing. The company distributes anhydrous ammonia and ammonium hydroxide by tank truck, railcar, drum, and cylinder to US customers from approximately 20 facilities east of the Mississippi. It also provides custom blending, contract packaging, and safety training services. Tanner's products are sold to companies in the refrigeration, metal treatment, agriculture, chemical production, personal care product, pulp and paper, and water treatment industries. The company, which Tanner was founded in 1954 by Lawrence Tanner, is run by a third Industries, Inc. generation of Tanner family members.

Address: 10 Penn Center, 1801 Market St. Philadelphia, PA 19103-1699 Phone: 215-977-3321 Fax: 215-977-3470

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 2197.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 35.00%

• President: Bruce G. Fischer • Director, Information and Technology: Michael B. Yuhas

Address: 400 W. Regent St. Indianapolis, IN 46225 Phone: 317-781-4400 Fax: 317-781-4401

• President: Ray Roembke • CFO and Director, Human Resources: Robert Andersen

Address: Edgar House, Lockett Road Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire WN4 8DE, United Kingdom Phone: +44-1942-275-400 Fax: +44-1942-275-600

• Managing Director: Allan Singleton • Sales and Marketing Director: Ralph Lowery

Address: 16-7, Nishi-Shinbashi 1-chome, Minato-ku Tokyo 105-8442, Japan Phone: +81-3-3581-8200 Fax: +81-3-3581-8755

Address: 735 Davisville Rd. Southampton, PA 18966 Phone: 215-322-1238 Fax: 215-322-7791

Fiscal Year End: March • Chairman: Konosuke Ose Revenue (2004): 2179.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): • President and CEO: 9.60% Hiroshi Taguchi

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 52.10 M Employees (2005): 102

• CEO: Raymond C. Tanner • President and COO: Stephen B. Tanner • Director, Sales: Tom Hearn

TCR doesn't make chemicals, it sells them. The company markets specialty chemicals to companies that use them to make adhesives, coatings, inks, food, sealants, plastics, and building products. TCR, which maintains six warehouses in Arizona, California, Colorado, Oregon, and Utah, distributes the goods of some 25 manufacturers. Typical products distributed include epoxies, resins, additives, latex, TCR carbon black, calcium carbonate, waxes, pigments, polymers, Industries, Inc. vegetable oils, and dispersants and surfactants. Technology Flavors & Fragrances (TFF) would like you to come to your senses by way of its products. Just as its name indicates, TFF makes flavors and fragrances used in a wide variety of beverages, cosmetics, foods, liquors, and pharmaceuticals. The company, founded in 1989, works with its clients to develop unique tastes and aromas for both consumer and institutional products; it has some Technology 36,000 flavor and fragrance product formulations in its library. Flavors & Formulations developed by TFF are used in more than 1,200 Fragrances, products sold worldwide. TFF has been acquired by industry rival Inc. FFG Industries, which is owned by investment firm Nautic Partners. completion chemicals. The company is a distributor of drilling fluids and specialty chemicals to oil and gas customers operating primarily in the Gulf Coast region of the US. Tekcor Technology's products Tekcor include completion, corrosion control, displacement, fluid loss Technology, control, polymer, and surfactant fluids. The company was founded in Ltd. 2000. The road does get bumpy, doesn't it? The road to success for fueladditive maker Texas Petrochemicals (TPC) had been smoothed by the US Clean Air Act of 1990, which requires an oxygenate be added to gasoline in heavily populated areas. The company had been getting about half its sales from the production of MTBE, the predominant oxygenate used in the US; however, it is reducing its dependence on MTBE following several contamination incidents. TPC's product line now focuses on C4 hydrocarbons, including butadiene (for synthetic rubber), butene-1 (used in the production of Texas Petrochemical ethylene), high-purity isobutylene (an intermediate for lube oils and specialty resins), and diisobutylene (a raw ingredient for surfactants). s LP than 20 companies such as Akzo Nobel, Dover Chemical, International Specialty Products, and PolyOne. Products include resins, colloids, specialty amines, silicas, carbon black, flame retardants, cosmetic ingredients, biocides, polymers, catalysts, lubricants, and epoxies. Customers include businesses in the coatings, adhesives, lubricants, industrial, and personal care TH Hilson markets. Company Thai Petrochemical Industry (TPI) is the leading integrated petrochemical company in Thailand, producing naphtha, liquefied petroleum gas, and lubricant oils. The bankrupt company is being reorganized by the Thai government -- the country's largest such restructuring case -- and plans to emerge from bankruptcy in 2006. Thai PTT Plc, Thailand's largest oil and gas group, purchased a 31.5% Petrochemical stake in the company in late 2005, although a legal battle to win Industry PCL majority control of the company waged on into the following year.

Address: 26 Centerpointe Dr., Ste. 120 La Palma, CA 90623 Phone: 714-521-5222 Fax: 714-521-1636

Revenue (2005): 5.40 M Employees (2005): 25

• CEO: Anthony Rumfola • President and COO: Sam Rumfola • VP, Finance: Don Smith

Address: 10 Edison St. E. Amityville, NY 11701-2814 Phone: 631-842-7600 Fax: 631-842-8332

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 16.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 2.60% Employees (2004): 67 Employee Growth (1 yr): 6.30%

• Chairman and CEO: Philip (Phil) Rosner • VP, CFO, Secretary, and Treasurer: Joseph A. Gemmo • VP, Business Development Worldwide: Phillip D. (Phil) Ross

Address: 1525 N. Post Oak Rd. Houston, TX 77055 Phone: 713-688-3278 Fax: 713-688-3620

• CEO: Thomas (Thom) Venus • President: Tim Harris

Address: 3 Riverway, Ste. 1500 Houston, TX 77056-1935 Phone: 713-627-7474 Fax: 713-626-3650

• Chairman: Mark C. Demetree • President, CEO, and Director: Charles W. (Charlie) Shaver • CFO: Ruth I. Dreessen

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2004): 646.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-8.80%)

Address: 1761 S. Naperville Rd. Wheaton, IL 60187 Phone: 630-665-3085 Fax: 630-665-0196

Address: TPI Tower, 11th Fl., 26/56 Chan Tat Mai Rd. Bangkok 10120, Thailand Phone: +66-0-2678-5000 Fax: +66- 0-2678-5001-5

• CEO: Terry Hilson • President: Lori Hilson • Manager, Accounting: Diana Hennig

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 3997.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 65.10% Employees (2004): 7,464

• CEO: Prachai Leophairatana • SVP, Finance and Accounting: Prasert Ittimakin

Yes

The Chemical Company

The Dow Chemical Company

The M.F. Cachat Co.

The Nippon Synthetic Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.

The Plaza Group

If you don't know what The Chemical Company (TCC) sells then you're probably not that smart. (Hint: It starts with a C and rhymes with schmemicals.) The company distributes a wide variety of specialty and commodity chemicals, from resins and polymers to acids and flame retardants. Its chemicals are used in a range of products, including cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, plastics, food, and paper. TCC operates nearly 20 warehouses and provides delivery services to customers throughout the US and Canada. The company also offers custom manufacturing services. production of plastics, chemicals, hydrocarbons, and herbicides and pesticides. The largest chemical company in the US and #2 worldwide (ahead of ExxonMobil and behind BASF), Dow also is a leader in performance plastics (engineering plastics, polyurethanes, and Dow Automotive). Other products include polyethylene resins for packaging (including Styrofoam brand insulation), fibers, and films, as well as performance chemicals like acrylic acid. The company also manufactures commodity chemicals (chlor-alkalies and glycols) and agricultural chemicals. Its smallest unit, Hydrocarbons and Energy, makes petrochemicals. Dow makes more than 3,500 products. M.F. Cachat distributes a cachet of specialty chemical products. The company supplies chemicals such as adhesives and sealants, food additives, inorganics, pigments, polyglycols, resins, surfactants, and thickening agents to members of the adhesives and sealants, paints and coatings, food, plastics, and rubber industries. The company's operations are focused in the midwestern and northeastern US. M.F. Cachat, founded in 1977, has expanded through acquisitions of other distributors. Nippon Synthetic Chemical Industry doesn't run a charity, but it does have a soup kitchen of sorts. The company makes specialty polymer chemicals like Gohsenol, a polyvinyl alcohol that affects water solubility, and Soarnol, a resin for use with food packaging and fuel tanks. Most of the company's products -- produced by the acetyl and fine chemical, functional resin, and advanced product (electronic components, film) divisions -- are synthetic raw materials used in consumer products. Nippon Synthetic Chemical creates vinyl resins, polymers, and liquefied acetylene that end up in agriculture, packaging, and electronic products. Mitsubishi Chemical owns more than a third of the company. The Plaza Group (TPG) is an international distributor of petrochemical solvents and chemical intermediates. Established in 1994, TPG is the exclusive marketer of some products from companies such as Shell Oil and Frontier Oil. The company markets to FORTUNE 500 companies, major international enterprises, direct consumers, and chemical distributors. Its products are used in the production of resins, coatings, and adhesives. TPG partners with global suppliers in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas. The company is owned by president Randy Velarde and is one of the largest minority-owned business in Houston, as well as in the US.

Address: 19 Narragansett Ave. Jamestown, RI 02835 Phone: 401-423-3100 Fax: 401-423-3102

Address: 19 Narragansett Ave. Jamestown, RI 02835 Phone: 401-423-3100 Fax: 401-423-3102

Address: 2030 Dow Center Midland, MI 48674 Phone: 989-636-1000 Fax: 989-636-3518

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 46307.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 15.30% Employees (2004): 43,203 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-6.80%)

• CEO: Robert N. (Nick) Roach Jr. • CFO: Frances H. Gammell-Roach • EVP, Sales: Forest Goodman • Chairman, President, and CEO: Andrew N. Liveris • EVP, CFO, and Director: Geoffery E. (Geoff) Merszei • EVP, Performance Plastics and Chemicals Portfolio: Romeo Kreinberg Yes • President: Michael Cachat

Address: 14600 Detroit Ave. Lakewood, OH 44107 Phone: 216-228-8900 Fax: 216-228-9916

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 70.00 M Employees (2005): 53

Address: Umeda Sky Building Tower East, 1-1-88 OhyodoNaka, Kita-ku Osaka 531-0076, Japan Phone: +81-6-6440-5300 Fax: +81-6-6440-5330

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 680.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 16.50% Employees (2004): 1,496 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-0.90%)

Address: 10375 Richmond Ave., Ste. 1620 Houston, TX 77042-4143 Phone: 713-266-1059 Fax: 713-266-8660

• VP, Finance: Bruce Jarosz • President, Sales: John Mastrantoni

• President and Director: Yoshiaki Hirai • President: Randy E. Velarde • Financial Director: Robert (Bob) Imm • Director, Business and Sales: Wilfred J. (Wilf) Kimball

Thunder Sword Resources gets its power from many places. Its main properties include the Pilot Harbour gold exploration project (Ontario) and the Geermu magnesium chloride project (China). It is also looking into importing magnesium chloride from Israel (due to lower shipping costs). The company plans to import the liquefied Thunder magnesium and sell it for use in dust control, fertilizer, and highway Sword de-icing products. Thunder Sword Resources is also researching Resources Inc. other uses for magnesium chloride. Tilley distributes chemicals, oils, and lubricants over roads both flat and hilly. The company offers a full range of chemicals, specialty chemicals, and solvents for customers in the food, personal care, and pharmaceutical industries. Its oil and lubricant products -- motor oils, hydraulic oils, transmission fluids, rust preventers, metalworking fluids -- are typically used by those in the automotive and manufacturing industries. Tilley also provides packaging, transfer, Tilley Chemical and handling services. Founded in 1952, Tilley's suppliers include Company, Inc. Morton Salt, BASF, Rhodia, and Dow. Tiszai Vegyi Kombinát Rt. (TVK) began as a factory commissioned to produce paint for the Soviet Union; after a switch to the production of fertilizer, today it manufactures petrochemicals, primarily polyolefins, from about seven plants. TVK is Hungary's sole manufacturer of polyolefins and has 20% of Central Europe's petrochemical market share. The company sells its products to small- and medium-sized plastics makers in more than 40 countries, though primarily in Europe. TVK is majority owned by Hungary's largest company, oil biggie MOL Group; it merged with another Tiszai Vegyi member of the MOL Group, the Slovak petrochem company Slovnaft Kombinát Rt. in early 2004. company's largest business segments produce acrylic acids and esters (used in fibers, rubber, and paper processors) and chloralkali chemicals, including caustic soda and chlorine. Toagosei also is a major producer of plastic products such as PVC pipe and couplings and other inorganic chemicals such as sulfuric acid (used in fertilizers) and industrial gases (oxygen and nitrogen) for medical use. The company also produces adhesives, including instant Toagosei Co., adhesive Aron Alpha, which is better known as Crazy Glue in the Ltd. US. Don't be fooled; it's a big distributor to women, too. Tomen America Inc., a subsidiary of Japanese trading conglomerate TOMEN, has divisions that deal in chemicals, food & produce, lumber, machinery, real estate, and textiles. Active in the US since 1950, Tomen America maintains branch offices Charlotte, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Portland, San Francisco, and San Jose. A sample of operations: subsidiary Deepwater Chemicals provides iodine derivatives to the agriculture, photography, ink and colorants, pharmaceutical, and water treatment industries; Tomen Tomen Grain Co., transports corn, soy, and other grains from the Midwest to America Inc. the Gulf Coast for shipment around the world.

Address: 736 Granville St., Ste. 1006 Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 1G1, Canada Phone: 604-682-4429 Fax: 604-682-4624

Fiscal Year End: October Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-41.40%)

• President, CEO, and Director: Siegfried (Siggy) Naguschewski

Address: 501 Chesapeake Park Plaza Baltimore, MD 21220 Phone: 410-574-4500 Fax: 410-391-6665

• President and CEO: John Tilley • Controller: Kirk Izer • VP, Sales: Richard Mumley

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 979.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): Address: TVK Ipartelep, Gyári út 35.70% 3581 Tiszaújváros, Hungary Employees (2004): 1,724 Phone: +36-49-522-222 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: +36-49-521-322 (-17.60%)

• Chairman: György Mosonyi • CEO and Deputy Chairman: Árpád Olvasó • Director, Operations: László Sebestyén

Address: 1-14-1, NishiShinbashi, Minato-ku Tokyo 105-8419, Japan Phone: +81-3-3597-7215 Fax: +81-3-3597-7217

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 1399.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 13.20% Employees (2004): 2,597 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-6.10%)

• Chairman: Bunshiro Fukuzawa • President and CEO: Akihiko Yamadera • Director, New Business Planning and Development and Director: Hideki Kato

Address: 1285 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10019 Phone: 212-397-4600 Fax: 212-582-2007

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 775.00 M Employees (2004): 200

• President: Tatsushi Yano • VP and CFO: Minoru Hirata

Tosoh America Inc.

Tosoh Corporation

Total Petrochemical s

Total Petrochemical s USA, Inc.

TR International Trading Company, Inc.

Tosoh America is a holding company for several chemical and specialty materials subsidiaries of Tokyo-based parent company Tosoh Corporation. Tosoh America provides finance, human resources, and information technology services for its Japanese parent's American operations. Tosoh America, founded in 1989, maintains facilities in California, Georgia, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Texas. The Tosoh USA division handles sales, marketing, and business development. Founded in 1935 as a maker of caustic soda, Tosoh (a Japanese abbreviation of oriental soda) still produces caustic soda but has expanded into a number of other areas. Today Tosoh's three core businesses -- petro-, basic, and specialty chemicals -- account for roughly equal portions of sales. The company's basic chemicals include polyvinyl chloride (PVC), vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), and chlorine. Petrochemicals include olefins such as benzene, toluene, and ethylene, as well as various polymers. Tosoh has been focusing on higher-margin specialty chemicals like ethylene amines and specialty materials such as quartz. The company has more than 140 affiliates worldwide but gets about 90% of sales from Japan. Total Petrochemicals is just a small portion of a very large TOTAL. The company is the business unit in charge of the French energy giant's worldwide production of base petrochemicals (olefins and aromatics), polyethylene, polypropylene, and styrenics (styrene, polystyrene, and elastomers). Olefins are the basic building blocks of the chemical world, such as ethylene and propylene, which are manufactured primarily from natural gas and naphtha; they are the raw materials used in just about everything the company makes. Total Petrochemicals operates facilities that are integrated with TOTAL's refining plants. Its main production operations are located in Belgium, China, France, Singapore, and the US. from France. But Total Petrochemicals USA, the North American arm of French energy giant Total's basic chemicals unit, is doing just fine in Houston. The company manufactures base and petrochemicals from its facilities in Texas and Louisiana and also operates a refinery in Texas. Total Petrochemicals produces polypropylene, polyethylene, polystyrene, and transportation fuels. Total operates on the theory that a petrochemical company is run best when it's tightly integrated with its petroleum company parent. And so Total Petrochemicals USA runs its facilities in conjunction with Total's plants in the US. TR International Trading Company (TRI) walks softly and carries a big chemical distributorship. The company distributes all manner of chemicals and raw materials from locations worldwide. TRI has its headquarters in Seattle and branch offices in Chicago and New Jersey. TRI maintains warehouses in Asia, Europe, and the US and ships its products to Australia, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, and South America.

Address: 3600 Gantz Rd. Grove City, OH 43123-1895 Phone: 614-539-8622 Fax: 614-539-8722

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2005): 256.70 M Employees (2005): 800

• President, Tosoh Corporation: Katsumi Ishikawa • Treasurer: Joel Moor

Address: 3-8-2, Shiba, Minatoku Tokyo 105-8623, Japan Phone: +81-3-5427-5118 Fax: +81-3-5427-5198

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 4585.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 16.40% Employees (2004): 9,196 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.30%

• Chairman and CEO: Madoka Tashiro • President and COO: Takashi Tsuchiya

Address: Rue de l'Industrie 52 1040 Brussels, Belgium Phone: +32-2-288-9111 Fax: +32-2-288-3369

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 12276.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 46.00% Employees (2004): 7,000 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-6.70%)

• President: Jean-Bernard Lartigue

Address: 1201 Louisiana St., Ste. 1800 Houston, TX 77002 Phone: 713-483-5000

• President and CEO; VP, Base Chemicals: Bernard Claude • CFO: Bertrand de La Noue • VP and CIO: Lee O'Shields

Address: 1218 3rd Ave., 21st Fl. Seattle, WA 98101 Phone: 206-505-3500 Fax: 206-505-3501

• President: Anthony Ridnell • CFO: Jeff Wright • CIO: Brian Gorzoch

Convinced that good chemical products translates into good profits, Transchemical distributes chemicals including alcohols, esters, ketones, solvents, and surfactants. It also provides solvent reclamation and blending services. Transchemical supplies customers in the adhesives and sealants, cosmetics and personal Transchemical care, food and beverage, paints and coatings, plastic and rubber, , Inc. and other industries. Treatt tricks your nose and taste buds into liking a thing. Although the company points out that it is not a flavor and fragance company, Treatt does make and supply raw materials used in the flavor and fragrance and food and beverages industries. It blends and distills essential oils. Products include flavor-enhancing citrus oils and Treattarome, a line of flavors named after the food from which they are distilled. The company's ingredients are used in air fresheners, cosmetics, soaps, soft drinks, confectionery, and pharmaceuticals. The Bovill family, including managing director Hugo Bovill, control 29% of the company. Treatt, founded in 1886, operates as R C Treatt in the UK and Treatt USA in the US. Treatt plc Treibacher Industries' chemical and metallurgy business is elemental. Its Steel and Foundry Products unit manufactures noble alloys like vanadium and molybdenum, while the Recycling division takes care of industrial metals that result as waste product from the first unit (recycling vanadium, nickel, and molybdenum). Treibacher's High Performance Materials division produces carbide powders used to manufacture tools and electrical parts, and the company's Rare Earths and Chemicals unit's products are used to manufacture Treibacher batteries, electronics, ceramics, and catalysts. Treibacher has a Industrie AG subsidiary in Slovenia and a sales unit in Canada. Ulrich Chemical wants to make its clients chemically rich. The company is a chemical distributor in the midwestern US. It serves customers from industries including metals and automotive, paint and coatings, plastics, pharmaceuticals, chemical processing, cosmetics and personal care, food and beverage, and water and electric utilities. Products include acids, solvents, reagents, and lubricants. Ulrich Chemical also provides custom blending and repackaging, manufacturing, hazardous waste removal, laboratory Ulrich analysis and troubleshooting, and information technology services. Chemical, Inc. The family-owned company was formed in 1919. Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) makes the legos of the chemicals world. The company, a subsidiary of Dow Chemical, turns out building-block chemicals such as ethylene and propylene, which are converted into the most widely used plastics resins: polyethylene and polypropylene. It is also a leading producer of ethylene oxide and ethylene glycol used to make polyester fibers and antifreeze, respectively. Although the name Union Carbide may conjure up nightmarish images of the Bhopal disaster in India (1984) or the company's more recent landslide of asbestos litigation, the HoustonUnion Carbide based company originally made its name as a major global chemical producer and continues today as a major basic chem maker. Corporation

Address: 419 E. DeSoto Ave. St. Louis, MO 63147 Phone: 314-231-6905 Fax: 314-231-5851

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 32.80 M Employees (2005): 28

• President: William F. (Fletch) Stovall Sr. • CFO: Sean Simmonds • Manager, Marketing: Daniel (Dan) Croghan

Address: Northern Way Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk IP32 6NL, England Phone: +44-1284-702-500 Fax: +44-1284-703-809

Fiscal Year End: September Revenue (2005): 57.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 0.20% Employees (2005): 173 Employee Growth (1 yr): 5.50%

• Chairman: Edward W. Dawnay • Managing Director: Hugo W. Bovill • Director, Finance and Secretary: Richard Hope

Address: Auer von Welsbach Str. 1 9330 Althofen, Austria Phone: +43-4262-505-0 Fax: +43-4262-2005

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 278.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 58.00% Employees (2004): 593 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-0.30%)

• CEO: Reinhard Iro • CFO: Rainer Schmidtmayer • Head of Marketing and Public Relations: Helene Leitner

Address: 3111 N. Post Rd. Indianapolis, IN 46226 Phone: 317-898-8632 Fax: 317-895-0614

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 33.40 M Employees (2005): 180

Address: 400 W. Sam Houston Pkwy. South Houston, TX 77042 Phone: 713-978-2016 Fax: 713-978-2394

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 5864.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 13.50% Employees (2004): 3,800 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-5.00%)

• President and CEO: Edward M. (Ed) Pitkin • CFO: James P. (Jim) Fohl • VP, Sales: Suzie Pitkin Shaw

• President and CEO: John R. Dearborn • VP, CFO, and Treasurer: Edward W. Rich

Tums can't stop it. Rolaids can't even hope to contain it. Union Industrial Gas Group (UnionGas) gives people gas from 45 locations across eight states. UnionGas operates a number of subsidiary companies (BMS/BTU, Doussan, Gulf Oxygen, Union Gas & Supply, United Welding, and Valley Gas & Specialty) that manufacture and deliver various industrial, medical, and specialty gases. Subsidiary Liquilux/Texgas provides propane and propane accessories to the Union Houston and Southeast Texas areas. Among the company's Industrial Gas customers are HVAC contractors, research laboratories, chemical Group manufacturers, mining companies, and pipe fabricators. United Mineral & Chemical distributes high-purity metals, such as aluminum, boron oxide, silicon, and tellurium. It also has a vast supply of coatings, industrial, food, and pharmaceutical chemicals. The company also distributes organic, inorganic, special effect, United Mineral fluorescent, and phosphorescent pigments. United Mineral & & Chemical Chemical was founded in 1956 by Alfred Frankel, Jacques Leviant, Corporation and Ralph W. Firman. Univar N.V., distributes agricultural and industrial chemicals from 20 locations across Canada. The company also offers custom blending, repackaging, and private label packaging services. Univar Canada provides logistics and warehousing services though its Fort Storage division, which operates warehouses in the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. The company targets industries that include oil and gas exploration and production, agriculture, mining, coatings and adhesives, food, pharmaceuticals, and water Univar Canada treatment. Ltd. A business unit of global chemical distributor Univar N.V., Univar Ltd caters to the distribution and logistical needs of UK customers. Through its three major business operations -- Chemical Distribution, Supply Chain Services, and Industrial Consumables (RW Greeff) -the company serves customers in industries that include construction and engineering, personal care and pharmaceuticals, transportation, and water treatment. The company operates a network of logistics centers throughout the UK and Ireland to ensure a regional supply and to provide service support in any market. Its RW Greeff unit, established in 1880, was the first company in the UK Univar Ltd to sell 3M products. Univar UK was founded in 1862. Univar is a leader in the universe of independent chemical distributors. The company buys chemicals in bulk and blends and packs them for customers in the agricultural, coating/ink/adhesive, electronics, food and beverage, forestry, mining, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, personal care, pest control, polymer, waste management, and water treatment industries. Univar also offers inventory management, custom labeling, custom packaging, waste management, warehouse management, and technical support services. The company serves about 250,000 industrial end-users Univar N.V. through more than 160 distribution centers.

Address: 4545 Fuller Dr., Ste. 336 Irving, TX 75038 Phone: 972-893-5600 Fax: 972-893-5690

• President and CEO: Jeffrey (Jeff) Ellis • CFO: John Olsen

Address: 1100 Valley Brook Ave. Lyndhurst, NJ 07071 Phone: 201-507-3300 Fax: 201-507-1506

• Chairman and CEO: Jacques Leviant • President and General Manager: A. Nurhan Becidyan

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 5.50 M Employees (2005): 22

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 689.10 M Address: 9800 Van Horne Way Revenue Growth (1 yr): Richmond, British Columbia V6X 20.90% 1W5, Canada Employees (2004): 766 Phone: 604-273-1441 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: 604-273-2046 2.40%

• President: Larry Bullock • VP, Finance: Joel Kallner

Address: 46 Peckover St. Bradford, West Yorkshire BD1 5BD, United Kingdom Phone: +44-1274-377000 Fax: +44-1274-377088

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 501.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 2.70% Employees (2004): 880 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-13.00%)

• CEO: David Jukes • Financial Director: Mike Latham • Business Director, Performance Chemicals, PCPE and Fiske: Martin Pugh

Address: 333 Blaak, 11th Fl. 3011 GB Rotterdam, The Netherlands Phone: +31-10-275-78-00 Fax: +31-10-414-68-63

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 5284.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 12.00% Employees (2004): 6,672 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-2.00%)

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Gary E. Pruitt • SVP and CFO: Patrick D. Tole • SVP, Strategic Planning and Business Development: David W. Mahon

Univar USA has an unvarying devotion to distributing chemicals across the US. Univar USA was once the US distribution arm of Royal Vopak, but the latter spun off all of its chemical distribution operations as Univar N.V., a separate publicly traded company, and Univar USA now operates as a Univar N.V. subsidiary. Univar USA distributes hundreds of chemicals, including acids, alcohols, catalysts, solvents, and flavorings. Its customers include manufacturers in such industries as chemicals, pharmaceuticals, Univar USA foods, pulp and paper, electronics, oil and gas, inks, and adhesives, Inc. as well as waste management companies. Van Diest Supply Company has tied itself up with a corn belt. The agricultural chemical distributor and maker sells its wares under the Corn Belt Products brand name. Those wares include herbicides, pesticides, adjuvants (which enhance the properties of herbicides and pesticides), and spray drift management products (which keep the herbicides and pesticides where they're intended to be and not drifting off to harm the surrounding environment). With a fleet of more than 175 trucks and pickups, Van Diest ships its products from about a dozen distribution centers spread throughout a 15-state area Van Diest of the Midwest. The family-operated company was founded by Bob Supply Van Diest in 1956. Company Van Horn, Metz & Co. distributes chemical ingredients such as pigments, dyes, extenders, additives, resins, lubricants, and base stocks. The company's customers include makers of plastic and rubber products, inks, adhesives and sealants, and paints and coatings. Founded in 1950 by Harold Van Horn and Donald Metz, the serves customers from Maine south to the Carolinas' and as far Van Horn, Metz west as Michigan. Van Horn Metz operates 10 warehouses and eight sales offices. & Co., Inc. Velsicol Chemical knows what it takes to make things flexible. The company produces specialty chemicals based on benzoic acid and cyclopentadiene, including specialty plasticizers (used to give resins and rubbers flexibility). Velsicol's major products, plasticizers, include benzoate esters, high-performance polymerics, and monomerics, and are used in adhesives, caulks, coatings, sealants, and PVC resins. The company is a top producer of cyclopentadienebased intermediates for flame retardants and pesticides; it also Velsicol makes additives for the food industry. Velsicol was founded in 1931; Chemical the company was the subject of a management buyout in 1986 and Corporation then was acquired by private equity firm Arsenal Capital in 2005. VeraSun Energy hopes its profits rise with the progress of the US quest for energy independence. The company is one of the nation's leading producers of ethanol, a type of alcohol that can be blended with gasoline and used to fuel motor vehicles. In the US, ethanol is made primarily from corn, and VeraSun maintains production facilities in the corn-growing states of Iowa and South Dakota. A third plant is under construction in Iowa, and VeraSun has announced plans to build two additional facilities, in Iowa and Minnesota. The VeraSun company is selling a branded fuel, VE85, at service stations in the Energy Midwest. CEO Don Endres owns just over 50% of VeraSun Energy; Corporation South Dakota investment firm Bluestem Funds owns 33%.

Address: 6100 Carillon Point Kirkland, WA 98033 Phone: 425-889-3400 Fax: 425-889-4100

• President: Terry Hill • SVP, Finance and Administration: Frank Mirabelli

Address: 1434 220th St. Webster City, IA 50595 Phone: 515-832-2366 Fax: 515-832-2955

• President: Robert (Bob) Van Diest • VP, Marketing: John Van Diest • Treasurer: Dalene Schlitter

Address: 201 E. Elm St. Conshohocken, PA 19428 Phone: 610-828-4500 Fax: 610-828-0936

• President: H. Morgan Smith • Controller: Anthony Crisafulli • EVP: Barrett C. Fisher

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 25.20 M Employees (2005): 24

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Arthur R. Sigel • EVP and CFO: Lawrence (Larry) Hartman • Director, Global Sales: Sherman Friedman

Address: 10400 W. Higgins Rd., Ste. 600 Rosemont, IL 60018-3713 Phone: 847-298-9000 Fax: 847-298-9014

Address: 100 22nd Ave. Brookings, SD 57006 Phone: 605-696-7200 Fax: 605-696-7250

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 236.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 22.00% Employees (2005): 145

• CEO and Director: Donald L. (Don) Endres • President and Director: Bruce A. Jamerson • SVP and CFO: Danny C. Herron

Virotec International develops and manufactures chemicals to minimize the environmental effects of industrial activity. The company provides technologies to treat contaminated waste in rock, soils, wastewater, and sludge. Building from its platform technology, Bauxsol, the company has developed several product lines, including ViroFlow, ViroSewage, ViroMine, ViroSoil, and ViroConcrete. In 2005 the company sold its HydroDec Technology unit. The group has expanded in North America and Europe and Virotec received regulatory approval for its products in the US and the UK. International Among projects in the US has been work for the Pennsylvania Ltd Department of Transportation to treat pyritic rock at Interstate 99. A modern-day Merlin might go to Vivion for ingredients for his potions. The company distributes chemicals and ingredients for use in the food, nutraceutical, industrial, personal care, pharmaceutical, and water treatment industries. It serves customers through a network of offices and warehouses in the western US. Vivion sells products, including acids, humectants, oils, anti-oxidants, coagulants, sweeteners, preservatives, solvents, biocides, and binders, from suppliers such as Akzo Nobel, Archer Daniels Midland, Dow Chemical, and Morton International. The company was founded Vivion, Inc in 1957. Wacker-Chemie puts the silicon in the chip industry -- literally. The German chemicals company supplies silicon, silicone, and silanes to the personal computer, telecom, and electronics industries. Split into two main units -- Chemicals and Semiconductors (including Siltronic) -- Wacker manufactures surface coating resins, industrial salt, acetyls, and insulation materials. Wacker has again announced plans to float Siltronic AG in an IPO (previous plans for an IPO were postponed in late March 2003). In 2005, Sanofi-Aventis sold its 44% stake in the company to the Wacker family. It is now publicly traded, Wacker with the Wacker family still controlling two-thirds of the company. Chemie AG Walsh & Associates fills its tote with chemical products and carries it throughout North America. The company distributes chemical ingredients and raw materials (for ink, paints and coatings, plastics, soaps, sealants, food, and personal care products), containers (paint cans, plastic pails, and plastic drums), and equipment (can crushers, filling machines, and mixers). Suppliers include Akzo Nobel, Degussa, and Rhodia. Walsh & Associates maintains locations in Walsh & Colorado, Michigan, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah. The Associates, company was founded in 1968 by Robert Walsh, Arthur Schmidt, Inc. and George Claytor. Warwick International has been cleaning up in the chemicals business for more than a quarter century. The company is a leading manufacturer of a bleach activator called MYKON that its based on the chemical tetra acetyl ethylene diamine (TAED). The activator allows detergents to become more powerful at lower temperatures and more quickly. Additionally, the Warwick Group maintains a number of chemical distribution companies worldwide. The company is a subsidiary of American aerospace and manufacturing company Sequa Corporation. In addition to serving the household and Warwick industrial detergents industry, the group targets such industries as International Group Limited water treatment, textile processing, coatings, and personal care.

Address: Administration Bldg. 50B, Pinewood Drive, Sanctuary Cove Hope Island, Queensland 4212, Australia Phone: +61-7-5530-8014 Fax: +61-7-5530-8052

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2004): 1.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 15.40% Employees (2004): 32 Employee Growth (1 yr): 23.10%

Address: 929 Bransten Rd. San Carlos, CA 94070 Phone: 650-595-3600 Fax: 650-595-2094

Address: Hans-Seidel-Platz 4 81737 Munich, Germany Phone: +49-89-6279-0 Fax: +49-89-6279-1770

• President: Edward Poleselli • Controller: Vince Duardo • VP: Michael Poleselli Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 3468.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 12.00% Employees (2004): 14,688 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-6.00%)

• President and CEO: Peter-Alexander Wacker • Member, Executive Board: Joachim Rauhut • SVP, Corporate Communications: Peter Polzer

• President and CEO: Ellen M. Murphy • Comptroller: Brian T. Walsh • Director Operations: Randall D. Lewis

Address: 1400 Macklind Ave. St. Louis, MO 63110-2004 Phone: 314-781-2520 Fax: 314-781-9424

Address: Mostyn Holywell, Flintshire CH8 9HE, United Kingdom Phone: +44-1745-560-651 Fax: +44-1745-561-353

• Chairman: Brian Sheeran • CEO: John R. Catling • Finance Director: Bruno Bamonte

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 259.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 8.20% Employees (2004): 461 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-3.80%)

• Managing Director: Robert F. (Bob) Ellis • VP, Finance: Steve Williams • VP, Sales and Marketing: E. Barry Tilby

It's an old saw, but Wausau Chemical does what its name says it does. It manufactures and distributes chemical products from its base in Wausau, Wisconsin. The company acts as a retailer and wholesaler. Its products include chemicals used for carwashes, boiler treatment, dairy cleaners, hay treatment, janitorial supplies, Wausau and laundry detergents. Wausau Chemical operates a fleet of trucks Chemical that serves all locations in Wisconsin, as well as eastern Minnesota, Corporation northern Illinois, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Chemical Service will deliver your hydrochloric and sulfuric acid, saving you a trip. The nationwide chemical distributor based in Michigan has a fleet of tankers, trailers, and freight boxes that it uses to transport chemicals to customers. Chemicals transported by Webb include acids (Webb distributes more than a million pounds a week), chlor-alkalis, alcohols, ketones, and acetates. In addition to Webb transportation, the company also provides safety training, inventory Chemical management, warehousing, liquid blending, and contract packaging Service Corp. services. chemical products. It distributes acids, adhesives and sealants, colorants, dyes, pigments, esters, flavors and fragrances, food additives, and intermediates throughout the Americas as well as Wego Asia and Europe. Customers include the agriculture, cosmetics, Chemical & detergent, food, organic intermediates, mining, pharmaceutical, Mineral photographic, paper, textile, water treatment, and wood treatment Corporation industries. chlor-alkali, chlorinated solvents, esters, flavors and fragrances, and glycol ethers from locations in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. The company also provides blending and custom packaging services. It sells chemicals from suppliers such as Akzo Nobel, Clariant, Flint Hills, Ineos Chlor, Lanxess, and Sunoco Chemicals. Whitaker Oil Whitaker Oil is a family-owned company that was founded in the Company, Inc. 1920s. White Martins doesn't mind giving its customers gas. The company, a subsidiary of global industrial gas giant Praxair, is South America's largest provider of industrial, specialty, and medical gases. White Martins serves customers in the chemical, health care, metal fabrication, and the food and beverage, industries, among others. White Martins The company also manufactures welding and cutting equipment, as Gases well as equipment for the transportation and storage of industrial Industriais gases. White Martins was delisted from Brazilian exchanges when Ltda. Praxair upped its ownership to more than 99%. Witton Chemical manufactures polyurethane and silaneted prepolymers for use in adhesives and sealants. It also makes a line of polyacrylic dispersants (produced by its Acriflow division) used by the water treatment, paints and coatings, and paper industries. Based in the UK, the company also has international operations headquartered in Cyprus. Witton Chemicals, which has produced Witton fine chemicals and polymers for multinational companies for more Chemical Co than 35 years, has been experiencing a slump in sales over the past Ltd two years. It has had to cut staff to make up for the shortfall in sales.

Address: 2001 N. River Dr., P O Box 953 Wausau, WI 54402-0953 Fiscal Year End: August Phone: 715-842-2285 Revenue (2005): 8.70 M Fax: 715-842-9059 Employees (2005): 35

• Acting President, Operations Manager, and Chemical Engineer: Arthur (Art) Flashinski • Manager, Accounting: Larry Theel

Address: 2708 Jarman St. Muskegon, MI 49444-0348 Phone: 231-733-2181 Fax: 231-739-5454

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2005): 28.80 M Employees (2005): 45

• Chairman and President: Robert N. Hilleary • Director, Finance: Richard Topp • VP and Director, Operations: Patrick O' Toole

Revenue (2005): 80.00 M Employees (2005): 50

• President: Bert Eshaghpour • Controller: Martin Ferber • VP: Edward Khalily

Address: 239 Great Neck Rd. Great Neck, NY 11021 Phone: 516-487-3510 Fax: 516-487-3794

Address: 1557 Marietta Rd. NW Atlanta, GA 30318 Fiscal Year End: June Phone: 404-355-8220 Revenue (2005): 46.00 M Fax: 404-355-8217 Employees (2005): 70

Address: Rua Mayrink Veiga, 9 20090-050 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 866.00 M Phone: +55-21-2588-6622 Revenue Growth (1 yr): Fax: +55-21-2588-6683 22.30%

Address: Southgate Avenue Mildenhall, Suffolk IP28 7AT, England Phone: +44-1638-716-001 Fax: +44-1638-717-658

• President: Domingos H. G. Bulus • VP, Industrial: Marcelo Pereira Quintaes • VP, Business: Murilo Melo

• Chairman: Andrew Wrench • Head of Sales and Marketing: Tony Butcher • Operations Manager: Steve Owen

Young Chemical Company

The products made by Wynn Oil have been to the moon and featured in Steve Martin's The Jerk. (No judgment implied, just stating a fact.) Wynn Oil and its subsidiaries (the Wynn's Specialty Chemical Group) develop, manufacture, and market specialty chemical products and automotive service equipment. The company's lubricating oils reduce friction in car engines and NASA rockets alike. Wynn's products include engine oil, coolants, transmission and brake fluids, and HVAC chemicals. Those products are sold under the brand names Friction Proofing, XTend, and Du All.Wynn Oil was founded in 1939 by Chestien Wynn, was bought by Parker Hannifin in 2000, and is now a subsidiary of ITW. Young Chemical is not old, more middle aged, really, but it knows what it's doing. Founded in 1959 by Donald Young, the company distributes chemicals throughout the Midwest, from western New York to Kentucky and north into Michigan. Young's products are made by such companies as BASF, DuPont, Millennium, and Solvay and are shipped from warehouses in Ohio and Michigan. The firm supplies chemical materials to companies in the cleaning, metal finishing, food, personal care, pharmaceutical, paint, specialty chemical, and chemical processing industries. Young Chemical is owned and operated by Donald Young's sons-in-law, president Todd Kroehle and EVP Bob Lisey.

zuChem, Inc.

zuChem's the one they call Dr. Feel Good. Its products are the ones that'll make you feel all right. In addition to making chemicals for pharmaceuticals, the Chicago-based, development stage company is in the process of making an artificial sweetener that can give that sugar high you crave without the calories you don't. zuChem manufactures glycochemicals for the pharmaceutical, food, flavor and fragrance, and specialty chemicals industries.

Wynn Oil Company

Address: 1050 W. 5th St. Azusa, CA 91702 Phone: 626-334-0231 Fax: 626-334-1456

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2004): 110.00 M

• President: Donald J. (Don) DiCostanzo • Marketing: Rosemary Torez

Address: 6465 Eastland Rd. Brook Park, OH 44142-1305 Phone: 440-234-3200 Fax: 440-234-3255

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 30.00 M Employees (2005): 42

• President: Todd Kroehle • EVP: Bob Lisey • Operations Manager: John Bennett

Address: 2201 W. Campbell Dr., Ste. 215 Chicago, IL 60612 Phone: 312-997-2150 Fax: 312-997-2160

• President and Director: David C. Demirjian • COO, President, Food Ingredients: Michael Friesema • VP, Corporate Development: Rajni Aneja

Company Name

Description A. Cohen & Co. was formerly a manufacturer of phosphor copper and other non-ferrous metal products. The company also provided metal recycling services. A. Cohen & Co., since ceasing all of its operations in 2004, continues to seek further A. Cohen & Co. investment in order to establish new business activities. The plc company currently is not involved in trade of any kind. Adastra Minerals is based in London, but has mining projects in development in Central Africa (Angola, Congo, and Zambia). The company owns exploration and mining concessions to diamond and mineral (including copper, cobalt, and zinc) properties. Upon acquiring the concessions, the company conducts feasibility studies to determine if reserves can be recovered profitably. Founder JeanRaymond Boulle owns nearly 10% of the company through his America Diamond Corp. and Gondwana (Investments) companies. Top UK insurer Prudential plc owns 14% of the company. First Quantum Minerals agreed to buy Adastra for Adastra Minerals $245 million in cash and stock in early 2006; Adastra later Inc. rejected a counter offer from Mwana Africa. Rod, wire, and tubing are the specialities of Ansonia Copper & Brass. The company casts, extrudes, and draws copper and copper alloys. The result is semi-finished products that undergo additional modification by the company's customers. Ansonia Copper & Brass operates from two facilities in Ansonia Copper & Connecticut, one devoted to rod and wire and the other Brass Inc. devoted to tubing. The company was founded in 1845. Antofagasta is one of the world's leading copper miners. It produces about 470,000 metric tons of copper annually. Antofagasta's road and railway operations transport mine output and consumable products in northern Chile and Bolivia. The company operates a joint venture, called Cordillera de las Minas, with the Brazilian mining company, Companhia Vale do Rio Doce. Antofagasta also owns a water distribution company in Chile. Chile's Luksic family owns 65% Antofagasta plc of Antofagasta through the E. Abaroa Foundation. Aries Resource, formerly Truax Ventures, isn't looking to the stars for help in finding copper and gold in Canada. The company has a copper exploration and development project located in the Liard mining division of British Columbia. It has another copper and nickel property in southwestern British Aries Resource Columbia. Aries Resource also has ventured to Brazil to Corp. explore for diamonds.

Contact Info Address: Purland Rd., West Thamesmead Business Park London SE28 0AT, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-8310-3354 Fax: +44-20-7636-5857

Financial Highlights Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 0

Key People

• Chairman: Graham Ashley

Fiscal Year End: October Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 49 Employee Growth (1 yr): 28.90%

• Chairman: Bernard Vavala • President, CEO, and Director: Timothy (Tim) Read • COO and Director: Bernard Pryor

Address: 75 Liberty St. Ansonia, CT 06401 Phone: 203-732-6600 Fax: 203-735-3787

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 39.10 M Employees (2005): 280

• President and CEO: Raymond L. McGee • CFO: Steven Turner • VP, Sales and Marketing: Jeff Lawlor

Address: 5 Princes Gate London SW7 1QJ, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7808-0988 Fax: +44-20-7808-0986

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 1908.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 77.40% Employees (2004): 2,842 Employee Growth (1 yr): 15.60%

• Managing Director and Director: Philip J. Adeane • CFO: Hussein Barma • VP, Finance and Development and CFO, Antofagasta Minerals: Alejandro Rivera

Address: St. Georges' House, 15 Hanover Sq. London W1S 1HS, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7355-3552 Fax: +44-20-7355-3554

Address: 1255 W. Pender St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1H2, Canada Phone: 604-681-0004 Fax: 604-681-0014

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• President and CEO: Reza A. Mohammed • Chairman: Rt. Hon. Edward Lawson

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ASARCO Incorporated

Atlantic Copper, S.A.

Aur Resources Inc.

mettle. The company, a subsidiary of diversified mining firm Grupo México, is a leading miner, refiner, and smelter. Each year it produces around 600 million pounds of copper, 300 million pounds of zinc, and 20 million ounces of silver. ASARCO's mines are primarily in the southwestern US. The company also produces such copper products as rod, cake, and billet and sulfuric acid as a by-product of the smelting process. Several of ASARCO's assets, including its majority stake in Southern Copper Corp. (SCC), were sold to Grupo México in 2003 in an effort to improve ASARCO's financial picture. It didn't work; the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2005. Atlantic Copper smelts and refines copper producing anodes, cathodes, wire rod, and wire and cables. The company is a subsidiary of Freeport-McMoran, with operations in Cordoba (continuous casting/wire drawing), Huelva (metallurgical complex), and Barcelona (wire plant). Atlantic Copper purchases copper concentrate from fellow Freeport-McMoran subsidiary PT Freeport Indonesia. Customers include Draka, General Cable/BICC, IBMei, Nexans, Pirelli, and Tyco. Founded in 1873 as The Rio Tinto Company, Atlantic Copper was acquired by Freeport-McMoran in 1993. When it comes to natural resources, what's mine is Aur's. Mining company Aur Resources' active operations include the Quebrada Blanca and Andacollo mines in Chile and the Louvicourt site in Quebec, Canada. These three mines produce more than 240 million pounds of copper annually, along with significant amounts of gold, silver, and zinc. Chilean operations account for the majority of sales. Aur Resources has development projects in Panama (Cerro Colorado, one of the world's largest copper reserves) and Canada (the Duck Pond project in Newfoundland).

Aztec Resources has gone to the ends of the Earth to serve its customers. The company is an iron ore producer in the state of Western Australia. The company's brownfield iron ore project is situated on the Koolan Island located off the Western Australian coastline in the Kimberley region north of Aztec Resources Derby. London-based Cambrian Mining owns about 19% of Limited Aztec Resources. Boliden is one of Europe's leading mining and smelting companies. It concentrates on zinc and copper and is the largest producer of mined zinc in Europe. It also produces lead, precious metals, sulfur, and lead and tin alloys. The company operates smelters in Sweden, Finland, and Norway and has mines in Sweden and Ireland. In 2003 Boliden sold its fabrication and engineering operations to Outokumpu and purchased Outokumpu's copper and zinc mining and smelting business. After the transaction Outokumpu became the largest shareholder, with 49% of the company. The group began restructuring after Outokumpu and Boliden combined their mining and smelting holdings. Outokumpu reduced its Boliden AB stake to 16% in 2005.

Address: 2575 E. Camelback Rd., Ste. 500 Phoenix, AZ 85016 Phone: 602-977-6500 Fax: 602-977-6700

• Chairman, CEO, and President: Daniel Tellechea Salido • VP, CFO and Treasurer: Genaro Guerrero Diaz Mercado • VP, Environmental Affairs: Tom Aldrich

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 490.60 M Address: Paseo de la Castellana, 95, Revenue Growth (1 yr): Torre Europa - Plant 17 31.60% 28046 Madrid, Spain Employees (2004): 731 Phone: +34-91-334-94-00 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: +34-91-334-94-53 (-6.80%)

• Managing Director: Javier Targhetta • SVP, Corporate Development: Patricio Barrios

Address: 1 Adelaide St. East, Ste. 2501 Toronto, Ontario M5C 2V9, Canada Phone: 416-362-2614 Fax: 416-367-0427

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 336.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 56.30% Employees (2004): 1,270 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.80%

• Chairman: Martin Claude Lepage • President, CEO, and Director: James W. Gill • EVP, Business Development: David W. Brace

Address: 6 Kings Park Rd. West Perth 6005, Australia Phone: +61-8-9420-1700 Fax: +61-8-9420-1777

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2005): 0.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 1.70% Employees (2005): 9 Employee Growth (1 yr): 28.60%

• Chairman and CEO: Ian Fred Burston • Marketing Manager: Warren Gilhome

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 2710.70 M Address: Klarabergsviadukten 90, 101 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 20 105.80% Stockholm, Sweden Employees (2004): 4,479 Phone: +46-8-610-15-00 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: +46-8-31-55-45 15.00%

• Chairman: Risto Virrankoski • President, CEO, and Director: Jan C. Johansson • Deputy CEO: Tom Niemi

Yes

Chino Mines Company

Colonial Metals Co.

Constellation Copper Corporation

Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile

Cumerio NV/SA

Chino Mines Co., a subsidiary of Phelps Dodge's Mining subsidiary, is a copper mining and processing company headquartered in New Mexico. The company operates an open-pit mine, a smelter, and a concentrator. Copper giant Phelps Dodge became the sole owner of Chino Mines in 2003 when it bought the remaining third of the company that had been controlled by Heisei Minerals Corp. (a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Materials Corporation). The mine dates back to 1910, but mining at the company's Hurley, New Mexico location was first done by American Indians and then the Spaniards who then controlled the American Southwest. up to date. Colonial Metals is a nonferrous metal smelting company. It primarily produces brass, bronze, and aluminum from purchased copper and from scrap and recycled materials. It sells its products mainly to makers of defense, housing, and industrial equipment. Customers of Colonial Metals have included the US Naval Supply Systems Command. (An unrelated company, Colonial Metals, Inc., supplies precious metals and precious metal-based chemicals.) Constellation Copper is hoping the stars align in their quest for copper. The company is a copper exploration and mining firm with projects mainly in Utah and Mexico. It also has a stake in a copper mining company located in Australia. End uses for copper include wire, tubing, electric motors, and electronics. Resource Capital Funds (RCF) is a major shareholder in Constellation Copper. Codelco is a different kind of high-energy copper top. Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile (Codelco) is the world's top producer of copper (ahead of US-based Phelps Dodge), controlling some 20% of the world's known copper reserves and mining around 1.8 million tons of copper annually. Copper accounts for some 40% of Chile's exports and, as the top copper firm, Codelco is responsible for around 3% of the country's gross domestic product. It is also a major producer of molybdenum (used for ferroalloys). Codelco's joint development partners on Chilean projects include Canadian firm Placer Dome, Australian firm Xstrata, and US firm CCM Ojos del Salado. Cumerio fully understands the merits of the chemical Cu. The copper processor, which was spun off from big metals processor Umicore early in 2005, operates through two units. Its Copper Refining division smelts and refines copper anodes and cathodes. The Copper Products division produces copper wirerod, speciality rod, billets, and cakes; ordinary and high-performance wire; and speciality chemicals and engineering metal powders. Cumerio's main operations in Belgium have been refining copper since the 1920s; the company also has processing operations in Bulgaria and Italy.

Address: 210 Cortez Ave. Hurley, NM 88043 Phone: 505-537-3381 Fax: 505-537-3694

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 200.00 M Employees (2005): 800

Address: 217 Linden St. Columbia, PA 17512 Phone: 717-684-2311 Fax: 717-684-9555

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 38.00 M Employees (2005): 122

• Unit General Manager, New Mexico Operations: Richard N. Mohr

• CEO: David Serls • COO: Michael R. Mann • Director, Sales: Gilda Hartman • Chairman: Patrick M. James • President, CEO and Director: Gregory A. Hahn • VP, Operations: Micheal P. Attaway

Address: 1040-999 W. Hastings St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2W2, Canada

Address: Huérfanos 1270 Santiago, Chile Phone: +56-2-690-3000 Fax: +56-2-690-3059

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 8203.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 116.90% Employees (2004): 16,778 Employee Growth (1 yr): 1.10%

• Chairman and Minister of Mining: Alfonso Dulanto Rencoret • President and CEO: Juan Villarzú Rohde • SVP, Mining Development and Projects: Juan Enrique Morales Jaramillo

Address: Broekstraat, 31 1000 Brussels, Belgium Phone: +32-2-227-1200 Fax: +32-2-227-1201

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 2079.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 65.90% Employees (2004): 1,554 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-4.20%)

• Chairman: Karel Vinck • CEO and Director: Luc Delagaye • CFO and Director: Michel Moser

Dia bras Exploration Inc.

Doublestar Resources Ltd.

DOWA MINING CO., LTD.

Eureka Resources Inc.

First Quantum Minerals Ltd.

company explores properties in northern Mexico for precious and base metals. Its projects include the Bolivar and Promontorio copper, gold, silver, and zinc properties along the Sierra Madre mineral belt in Chihuahua, Mexico. In 2005 Dia Bras Exploration dropped its plans to explore diamond properties in Ontario in order to focus on its projects in Mexico. Doublestar Resources oversees mining interests in Honduras that include copper, gold, lead, silver, and zinc deposits. The company also has a diamond development property in British Columbia and the Northwest Territories of Canada. Through his interests in Southern Gold, Alan Savage, Doublestar Resources' CEO, controls more than 10% of the company. Do you know about DOWA? The company processes and sells copper, gold, silver, and other metals, supplying its smelters with ore from its mining ventures in Mexico. DOWA also produces electronics materials, including metal powders for data storage tapes, gallium arsenide wafers for integrated circuits, and zinc powder for alkaline batteries. The company offers heat-treatment services and makes industrial furnaces, mainly for the automotive industry, at plants in Asia and North America. Other DOWA units are involved in real estate, recycling, and provide construction and engineering services. discovery before it shouts Eureka! The junior natural resources company owns interests in two properties in the Cariboo Mining Division in British Columbia. Eureka Resources explores for copper on the 10,000-acre Lottie Lake project, which it has an option to acquire. The company wrote off its 2,300-acre Fraser Gold project in 1998 after it determined gold could not be economically mined there. An increase in the price of gold, however, has prompted the company to perform more geophysical soils and sampling programs at the site. President John J. O'Neill owns 67% of the company. First Quantum Minerals knows the dynamics of mining in Africa's Copper Belt. The company owns all or part of several copper mining operations in Africa, and it has another site in development. Most of First Quantum's revenues come from its 17% stake in Mopani Copper Mines, which has mining and smelting operations in Zambia and Congo. However, the company has begun production at its 80%-owned Kansanshi site in Zambia. Its Frontier Copper and Guelb Moghrein deposits are in development. In 2006 the company made an offer to acquire UK-based Adastra Minerals, which also has projects in Africa. Adastra rejected the offer as too low but later agreed to a price of $245 million.

Address: 630 René-Lévesque Blvd. West, Ste. 2930 Montreal, Quebec H3B 1S6, Canada Phone: 514-866-6001 Fax: 514-866-6193

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2005): 0.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 617.50%

• Chairman: Robert J. Gayton • President, CEO, Secretary, and Director: Alan C. Savage • CFO: Simon J. Anderson

Address: 885 Dunsmuir St., Ste. 350 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1N5, Canada Phone: 604-688-7377 Fax: 604-688-7307

Address: 8-2, Marunouchi 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-8282, Japan Phone: +81-3-3201-1061 Fax: +81-3-3201-1259

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 2221.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 20.40% Employees (2004): 4,203 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-1.30%)

Address: 355 Burrard St., Ste. 1000 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2G8, Canada Phone: 604-608-6154 Fax: 604-602-1989

Address: 543 Granville St., 8th Fl. Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1X8, Canada Phone: 604-688-6577 Fax: 604-688-3818

• Chairman: Thomas L. Robyn • President, CEO, and Director: Réjean Gosselin • CFO: Léonard Téoli

• President, CEO, and Director: Hirokazu Yoshikawa • COO: Kenichi Watanabe • CFO and Director: Kazumasa Suezawa

• President and Director: John J. O'Neill

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 113.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 86.90% Employees (2004): 973

• Chairman and CEO: Philip K. R. Pascall • President and Director: G. Clive Newall • CFO and Director: Martin R. Rowley

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX) really digs its profits. The company's 91%-owned subsidiary PT Freeport Indonesia (PT-FI) operates the vast open-pit Grasberg gold, copper, and silver mine in Indonesia. (The government of Indonesia owns the other 9% of PT-FI.) Through its stake in PT-FI, FCX controls proved and probable reserves of about 37 billion pounds of copper and about 40 million ounces of gold. In addition to its mining operations, FCX engages in Freeportsmelting and refining. Copper, in the form of concentrates and McMoRan Copper in refined products such as cathodes and anodes, accounts & Gold Inc. for most of FCX's sales. than a phrase. GIM is a holding company for Germany's KM Europa Metal (KME), one of the world's top producers of semi-finished copper and copper alloys. In addition to the coin blanks used for the euro, KME also produces laminated metal, brass bars, cathodes, tubes, rolled products, and hightech products (cables and superconductor wires). KME is owned by Societa Metallurgica Italiana (SMI), which in turn is controlled by GIM. The company sells to customers in the G.I.M. - Generale building, electronics, telecom, and transportation industries. Industrie GIM's board is headed by members of the Orlando family, Metallurgiche which has been involved with the company for more than 100 S.p.A. years. Global Copper Corporation acquires, develops, and operates copper and gold mines in South America. The company currently owns and is developing properties in Relincho and Vizcachitas, Chile and in Taca Taca and San Jorge, Argentina. The Chilean properties contain Global Copper copper/molybdenum porphyry deposits. The sites in Argentina Corporation contain copper/gold porphyry deposits.

Grupo México S.A. de C.V.

I. Schumann & Co.

Mexico's largest mining company, Grupo México is the world's #3 copper producer, behind Chile's Codelco and US-based Phelps Dodge. The company's mining segment (about 75% of sales) has operations in Mexico (Minera México), the US (ASARCO), and Peru (75%-owned Southern Copper). The segment mines and refines copper, silver, zinc, molybdenum, lead, and other metals, as well as coal. It also produces intermediate copper products (cathodes and rods) and sulfuric acid. The company's Ferrocarril Mexicano (Ferromex) rail transport division operates Mexico's largest rail fleet (15,000 railcars) and has 6,000 miles of track. copper, brass, and bronze and manufactures copper-based alloys from its facilities in Ohio. The company processes the scrap into ingots and pellets, which are then sold to customers in the metal foundry industry. Members of the Schumann family own and run I. Schumann, which was founded in 1917.

Address: 1615 Poydras St. New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-582-4000 Fax: 504-582-1847

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 4179.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 76.20% Employees (2004): 14,988 Employee Growth (1 yr): 1.20%

• Chairman and President Commissioner, PT Freeport Indonesia: James R. (Jim Bob) Moffett • President and CEO; EVP, PT Freeport Indonesia: Richard C. Adkerson • SVP and COO: Mark J. Johnson

Address: Via dei Barucci 2 50127 Florence, Italy Phone: +39-055-4411-1 Fax: +39-055-4411-681

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 2861.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 17.40% Employees (2004): 7,270 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-6.20%)

• Honorary Chairman: Luigi Orlando • Chairman: Salvatore Orlando • Deputy Chairman: Vincenzo Manes

Address: 1550 - 625 Howe St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2T6, Canada Phone: 604-687-0407 Fax: 604-687-7041

• President and CEO: Ross J. Beaty • CFO: Sandra Lim • VP, Exploration: Leo Hathaway

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 4205.80 M Address: Avenida Baja California 200, Revenue Growth (1 yr): Colonia Roma Sur 71.20% 06760 México, D.F., Mexico Employees (2004): 21,068 Phone: +52-55-5080-0050 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: +52-55-5564-7677 1.20%

• Chairman and CEO; Executive President, Southern Peru Copper;: Germán Larrea MotaVelasco • VP, International Relations: Juan Rebolledo Gout • President, Finance and Administration: Daniel Tellechea Salido

Address: 22500 Alexander Rd. Bedford, OH 44146-5533 Phone: 440-439-2300 Fax: 440-439-0317

• President and CEO: Michael A. Schumann • VP, Finance: William D. Knight

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 36.20 M Employees (2005): 135

Yes

Yes

Imperial Metals Corporation

Inca Pacific Resources Inc.

Inlet Resources Ltd.

Inmet Mining Corporation

Jiangxi Copper

Imperial Metals wants to rule its share of the mining business in British Columbia. The company explores, develops, and produces base and precious metals, mainly copper, gold, and molybdenum. Its primary properties are located in British Columbia (Mount Polley mine, Nak property, and Huckleberry mine) and Nevada (Sterling property). Imperial Metals was formed in 2001. Fans of French cookware, telecommunications cable and wire, and the penny will love Inca Pacific Resources. An exploration and mining company focused primarily on copper, though it also explores for silver and molybdenum, it is developing multiple properties in Peru. Inca Pacific's primary location is the Magistral mine project in northern Peru. It and another project at Antoro Sur are scheduled for large-scale exploration operations in 2005. The company also operates another exploration project at Cueva Blanca. Inca Pacific began operations with a 1999 agreement with the government of Peru to acquire what would become its Magistral project. Inlet Resources hopes to find copper at the end of the rainbow. The company is active in copper and nickel mining development in Canada. Inlet Resources owns mineral properties including Red Lake Gold (in Ontario) and Ungava (in Quebec). The company, which is exploring its properties for mineral deposits, also believes platinum group metals are in the area. Inmet Mining believes it has a solid base for growth in base metals. The mining company emphasizes base metals such as copper and zinc, although gold accounts for about 30% of its sales. Inmet is involved in four producing mines: Troilus, a wholly owned gold mine in Quebec, Canada; Çayeli, a 55%owned joint venture in Turkey that produces copper and zinc concentrates; Ok Tedi, an 18%-owned copper mine in Papua New Guinea; and Pyhäsalmi, a copper and zinc mine in Finland. It also has a zinc mine in Canada and a copper mine in Turkey, both in development. The company explores in other areas of Europe and the Americas. Jiangxi Copper Company Limited is China's largest copper producer. The company manufactures 340,000 tons of copper annually from its mines, which include the Dexing and Yongping pits and the Wushan underground mine. It owns a copper smelter and refinery, and its majority-owned Jiangxi Copper Products subsidiary manufactures copper rods and wires. Other operations include gold and silver production. Jiangxi Copper Company Limited was formed by parent Jiangxi Copper Corporation, which is owned by the Chinese government, in 1997. Jiangxi Copper Corporation owns 48% of Jiangxi Copper Company Limited.

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.90 M Address: 580 Hornby St., Ste. 200 Revenue Growth (1 yr): Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3B6, (-97.40%) Canada Employees (2004): 190 Phone: 604-669-8959 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: 604-687-4030 (-9.50%)

Address: 625 Howe St., Ste. 1550 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2T6, Canada Phone: 604-687-3727 Fax: 604-687-7041

• Chairman: Pierre B. Lebel • President and Director: J. Brian Kynoch • CFO and Corporate Secretary: André H. Deepwell

• President, CEO, and Director: Anthony (Tony) Floyd

Address: 700 W. Pender St., Ste. 802 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1G8, Canada Phone: 604-605-0777 Fax: 604-683-8087

• President and Director: David Baker

Address: 330 Bay St., Ste. 1000 Toronto, Ontario M5H 2S8, Canada Phone: 416-361-6400 Fax: 416-368-4692

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 453.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 94.30% Employees (2004): 3,000 Employee Growth (1 yr): 219.50%

Address: 15 Yejin Ave. Guixi, Jiangxi 335424, China Phone: +86-701-377-7735 Fax: +86-701-377-7013

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 1282.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 96.00% Employees (2004): 13,040 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-2.70%)

• Chairman and CEO: Richard A. Ross • President and COO: Jochen E. Tilk • VP, Corporate Development: Frank Balint Yes

• Chairman: He Changming • CFO: Wu Jinxin • Executive Director and General Manager: Li Yihuang

Yes

Kazakhmys PLC

Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation

KGHM Polska Miedz S.A.

Laramide Resources Ltd.

Latitude Resources plc

When it comes to copper, Kazakhmys does everything from dig it up to refine it. Among the top ten copper producers in the world, the company mines, processes, smelts, and refines copper and copper cathode and rod products. It annually produces about 397,000 tons of copper cathode (used in computers, electric motors, automobiles, and other products). In addition, Kazakhmys processes and sells by-products such as gold, silver, and zinc. The company operates primarily in Kazakhstan (where it has about 15 mines), as well as in Germany and the UK. China accounts for most of the company's sales. Chairman Vladimir Kim has a controlling stake in Kazakhmys. Kennecott Utah Copper, a subsidiary of mining giant Rio Tinto, operates Bingham Canyon, one of the world's biggest open pit mines. (It's even visible from space.) Annual production at Bingham Canyon is nearly 300,000 tons of copper, nearly 400,000 ounces of gold, 3 million ounces of silver, and 18 million pounds of molybdenum. In operation since 1906, Bingham Canyon has produced about 17 million tons of copper -- more than any other mine in history. It has plenty of ore left, and Kennecott expects to continue open pit mining until 2013 followed by years of underground mining afterward. The company has its own smelter and refinery and sells its copper to fabricators. KGHM Polska Miedz is one of the largest Polish exporters. The company mines ores, primarily copper and silver, in Poland. Mined copper is smelted and refined into cathodes, wire rod, and round copper billets. It also produces gold, lead, aggregates, salt, as well as being involved in waste management. About 80% of sales comes from its copper operations; silver accounts for nearly 15% of sales. Formerly state-owned, the company began trading on the stock exchange in 1997. The Polish State Treasury still holds about 45% of KGHM Polska Miedz. mineral exploration. Spread throughout the world, the company has gold and base metals projects in Argentina, Australia, China, Canada, and Mexico. Laramide Resources' best bet may be its Westmoreland project (copper, gold, uranium) in Queensland, Australia. The company holds investments in Aquiline Resources and Alliance Pacific Resources. Latitude Resources (formerly Latin American Copper) is not about to cop out on its search for base metals in Chile. The junior mining company is involved in drilling, exploration, and excavation activities primarily related to iron oxide copper gold deposits. Its exploration efforts also extend to porphyry copper deposits. Latitude Resources operates in areas including Cerro Sur, El Teno, and Lillian; its joint venture with US-based Phelps Dodge focuses exploration efforts on the Candelaria Belt region in Northern Chile. Latitude Resources was founded in 2000. Resourceworks owns about 15% of the company.

Address: 4 New Sq., Bedfont Lakes, Feltham London TW14 8HA, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-8636-7900 Fax: +44-20-8636-7920

Address: 8362 W. 10200 South Bingham Canyon, UT 84006 Phone: 801-569-6000 Fax: 801-569-6045

• Chairman: Vladimir Kim • CEO: Ruslan Yun • COO: Alexander Yun

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 1113.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 54.20% Employees (2004): 1,400 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-0.40%)

• President and CEO: William (Bill) Champion • CFO: Robert L (Rob) Light • VP, Marketing and Sales: James Cowley

• Chairman: Elzbieta Niebisz Address: Marii Sklodowskiej- • President: Marek Address: Marii Sklodowskiej-Curie 48 Curie 48 Szczerbiak 59-301 Lubin, Poland 59-301 Lubin, Poland • First VP, Finance and Phone: +48-76-84-78-200 Phone: +48-76-84-78-200 Economics: Jaroslaw Fax: +48-76-84-78-500 Fax: +48-76-84-78-500 Andrzej Szczepek Address: Exchange Tower, 130 King St. West, Ste. 3680 Toronto, Ontario M5X 1B1, Canada Phone: 416-599-7363 Fax: 416-599-4959

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-14.00%)

Address: 43 N. Audley St. London W1K 6WH, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20 7493 9116 Fax: +44-20 7493 9118

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 9 Employee Growth (1 yr): 80.00%

• President: Marc Henderson • Secretary: Chris Irwin

• Chairman: Anthony Joseph (Tony) Williams • CEO: Martin Konig • COO: Sally Joy Schofield

Leader Mining International Inc.

Lumina Resources Corp.

Madeco S.A.

Mediterranean Resources Ltd.

MK Resources Company

Leader Mining International explores for such minerals as copper, tantalum, and magnesium in Canada. The company's projects include a magnesium claim near Vancouver, British Columbia; a tantalum deposit in north central Sasketchewan; and a copper deposit near Flin Flon, Manitoba. Leader Mining has a joint venture agreement with Kores Canada, a subsidiary of the Korean government, was established in 1987. Lumina Resources Corp explores and develops copper mines in Canada. The company operates the Hushamu property on northern Vancouver Island; it is made up of 18,200 hectares of mineral claims and contains copper/gold porphyry deposits. Lumina also owns the Redstone property located in the Northwest Territories; it contains copper mineralization deposits. Another site called Casino is located in the Yukon; it contains a lower grade copper/gold/molybdenum porphyry deposit. If you call a "copper" in South America, don't be surprised if you get Madeco. The company is one of Chile's leading manufacturers of copper wire and cable (building wire, fiberoptic telecommunications cable, and power cable), brass (pipes, bars, and sheets), aluminum (window and door frames, hardware), and flexible packaging (aluminum foil). Madeco sells its products to companies in the construction, consumer product packaging, energy, mining, and telecommunications industries. The company's Armat subsidiary makes coin blanks for the Chilean mint. Diversified Latin American investment enterprise Quiñenco owns more than 50% of Madeco. Mediterranean Resources (formerly Mediterranean Minerals) is searching out gold and base metal deposits at mineral properties located in Turkey and other countries. The company also maintains subsidiaries in Peru in order to oversee administrative operations related to mineral properties in which it retains arbitration rights. Toronto-based Dundee Precious Metals holds 30% of the company. Once a gold miner, MK Resources has switched to copper. MK Resources focuses on exploration and the purchase of promising metal properties. The company's key property is the Las Cruces copper deposit in Spain, which is estimated to have proven and probable reserves of more than 2.3 million pounds of copper. MK Resources also is engaged in exploration programs elsewhere in Spain and in Nevada. In 2005 MK Resources sold a 70% stake in Las Cruces to Inmet Mining, and in a related transaction, holding company Leucadia National took full ownership of MK Resources.

• President and CEO: R.J. (Bob) McGowan • CFO: Christopher Gulka • VP, Corporate Affairs, Europe: Roland Kesselring

Address: 505 6th St. SW, Ste. 2806 Calgary, Alberta T2P 1X5, Canada Phone: 403-234-7501 Fax: 403-234-7504

Address: 1550 - 625 Howe St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2T6, Canada Phone: 604-687-0407 Fax: 604-687-7041

Address: Ureta Cox, 930 San Miguel, Santiago, Chile Phone: +56-2-520-1000 Fax: +56-2-520-1140

• Chairman: Ross J. Beaty • President and CEO: Anthony (Tony) Floyd • CFO: Sandra Lim

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 581.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 45.30% Employees (2004): 2,768 Employee Growth (1 yr): 1.60%

Address: 890 - 885 Dunsmuir St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1N5, Canada Phone: 604-669-3397 Fax: 604-669-3357

Address: 60 E. South Temple, Ste. 1225 Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Phone: 801-297-6900 Fax: 801-297-6950

• Honorary Chairman: Oscar Ruiz-Tagle Humeres • Chairman: Guillermo Luksic Craig • CEO: Tiberio Dall'Olio Lenzini • Executive Chairman: Lawrence M. Glaser • President, CEO, and Director: Peter J. Guest • CFO: Winnie Wong

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 1.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-31.10%) Employees (2004): 30 Employee Growth (1 yr): 15.40%

• Chairman and CEO: G. Frank Joklik • President and Director: Thomas E. Mara • CFO, Secretary, and Treasurer: John C. Farmer

Yes

Mining for metals can be a big, hairy ordeal, but Monster Copper is up for the task. The company primarily seeks mineral deposits known as iron oxide hosted copper gold (IOCG). Monster Copper has exploration and development properties in the Yukon Territory, Labrador, and Nova Scotia and has formed a partnership with Noranda Exploração ( a subsidiary of Falconbridge) to explore a copper and gold property in northern Brazil. In Labrador the company was at Monster Copper first exploring for copper and gold, but has since partnered Corporation with Santoy Resources to focus on uranium exploration. Monterrico Metals hopes to find its fortunes in Peru. The company primarily explores the Rio Blanco copper and molybdenum project in northern Peru, on the border of Ecuador. It has various other base and previous metal projects that aren't advanced as Rio Blanco. For these Monterrico Metals exploration projects Monterrico Metals looks for partners. Plc None of its properties are in production. Mueller Copper Tube, part of the Mueller Industries group of companies, manufactures drawn copper tubing and copper fittings. Products include tubing designed to carry water and to carry refrigerants, as well as line sets. Fittings made by Mueller Copper Mueller Copper Tube are used in plumbing and other Tube Company, pressure applications. Other Mueller Industries units make Inc. fittings from plastic, brass, and other metals. Murchison United acquires, explores, and develops industrial mining properties in western Australia and Tasmania. The company's Millenium leases located in Queensland is being explored for copper and other minerals. Murchison United is Murchison United studying the viability of acquiring properties in Africa and the NL Republic of Guinea for the purpose of uranium exploration. NGK Metals manufactures beryllium copper metal alloy products. The company's products are offered in forms including bar, plate, rod, strip, and tube. It also sells such other goods as chill vents and safety tools. NGK Metals operates from facilities in France, Japan, and the US. The NGK Metals company is a subsidiary of Japan based maker of insulation Corporation for utility and industrial electric lines NGK INSULATORS. metal. The company is made up of two main business segments. The company's copper production unit produces copper cathodes (a 99.9%-pure form of copper) from ore, recycling materials, and scrap. Its second business unit, copper processing, then uses this copper to cast wire rod and shapes, copper alloys, and rolled products. The company produces about 800,000 tons of copper each year. Customers include companies in the chemical, electronics, automotive, and construction industries. NA also produces Norddeutsche precious metals (gold and silver) as a byproduct of copper Affinerie AG processing.

Address: 11 Rocksprings Ave. Richmond Hill, Ontario L4S 1R2, Canada Phone: 905-780-8783 Fax: 905-780-8790

Address: No. 2 London Wall Buildings London EC2M 5UU, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7448-5088 Fax: +44-20-7448-5089

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 146 Employee Growth (1 yr): 47.50%

• President, CEO, and Director: Michael J. Downes • Managing Director and Board Member: Christopher J. (Chris) Eager • COO and Director: Raymond J. (Ray) Angus

Address: Rte. 25 South Fulton, MS 38843 Phone: 662-862-2181 Fax: 662-862-3002

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 55.80 M Employees (2005): 400

• President and CEO: William D. O'Hagan • CFO: Kent A. McKee

Address: 2 Centro Ave., Subiaco Perth 6008, Australia Phone: +61-8-9381-4711 Fax: +61-8-9381-4722

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-91.40%)

• Chairman: Glenn R. Featherby • Managing Director: Mark D. Reilly

Address: 917 US Hwy. 11 South Sweetwater, TN 37874 Phone: 423-337-5500 Fax: 423-337-5540

Address: Hovestrasse 50 D-20539 Hamburg, Germany Phone: +49-40-7883-3224 Fax: +49-40-7883-3003

• President: Glade Nelson • Director of Technology: Nate Gildersleeve

Fiscal Year End: September Revenue (2005): 3639.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 19.00% Employees (2005): 3,158 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-1.50%)

• Chairman of the Executive Board: Werner Marnette • CFO: Toralf A. Haag • Head of Public Relations: Simone Tasche

Norther Peru Copper owns and develops the Galeno Cu-Au and Pashpap Cu-Mo copper properties located in Northern Peru. Galeno, located near the largest gold mine in South America, is made up of a porphyry deposit. The company has Northern Peru plans to explore the Pashpap property, which is made up of 5 Copper known porphyry deposits, through a joint venture with Japan Corporation Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation. Novicourt mines for several specific types of metals, including copper and zinc, in the Louvicourt region of Canada. Its primary asset is the company's 45%-stake in the Louvicourt mine (production ceased at the mine in 2005). The company also partners with Canadian mining firms on several other projects. It is exploring properties in Brazil and Canada (near the Louvicourt mine.) Novicourt is 60%-owned by copper and nickel mining giant Falconbridge Limited (formerly Noranda). Novicourt Inc. mainly for markets in Europe and the US. Products include copper rods, bars, sheets, plates, strips, wire, and tubes. Its operations are separated into five divisions: Americas, Appliance Heat Exchangers and Asia, Automotive Heat Exchangers, Europe, and Forming Equipment. The company, Outokumpu which was formerly part of Finland-based Outokumpu, was Copper Products sold to private equity firm Nordic Capital for about $770 Oy million. explanatory. The company explores and develops copper deposits in Peru. Its primary exploration project is the Toromocho deposit in the Morococha district, located in the central part of the country. In 2003 Peru Copper acquired the option to develop the Toromocho property from governmentowned Empresa Minera del Centro del Peru (known as Centromin). The company is also acquiring interests in other concessions adjacent to Toromocho. Founder and chairman J. David Lowell and his family hold about 15% of the Peru Copper Inc. company. Phelps Dodge (PD) may produce the metal found in pennies, but its rank in the copper business is no small change. PD is the world's second-largest copper producer, after Chile's Codelco. Copper accounts for most of PD's sales, but the company also produces gold, silver, molybdenum, and other mineral and chemical by-products of its copper operations. Other businesses -- under its Phelps Dodge Industries division -- include Phelps Dodge Wire & Cable (specialty conductors for the aerospace, computer, and automotive industries and telecommunications cables). The company produces more than half of the copper mined in the US. It Phelps Dodge sold Columbian Chemicals, which makes carbon black, to DC Corporation Chemical in early 2006.

Address: 1550 - 625 Howe St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2T6, Canada Phone: 604-687 0407 Fax: 604-687 0407

Address: 181 Bay St., Ste. 200 Toronto, Ontario M5J 2T3, Canada Phone: 416-982-7145 Fax: 416-982-7490

Address: Tuulikuja 2, Tapiola FIN-02101 Espoo, Finland Phone: +358-10-4255-700 Fax: +358-10-4255-747

• Chairman: Robert P. Pirooz • CEO and President: Marshall Koval • CFO: Sandra Lim Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 49.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 61.70% Employees (2004): 189 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-14.10%)

• President and CEO: George Jones • VP Finance and Controller: Michael Boone

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 251.20 M Employees (2005): 1,800

• Chairman: Finn Johnsson • President and CEO: John Peter Leesi • CFO: Jyrki Vesaluoma

Address: 475 W. Georgia St., Ste. 920 Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 4M9, Canada Phone: 604-689-0234 Fax: 604-688-0094

Address: 1 N. Central Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85004-4414 Phone: 602-366-8100

• Chairman: J. David Lowell • President, CEO, and Director: Charles G. Preble • CFO: Thomas J. Findley

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 8287.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 16.90% Employees (2004): 14,000 Employee Growth (1 yr): 7.70%

• Chairman and CEO: J. Steven Whisler • President and COO: Timothy R. Snider • EVP and CFO: Ramiro G. Peru

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a lot to Phelps Dodge Mining Company (PDMC). The mining and metals division of Phelps Dodge maintains copper and molybdenum mining operations (Climax Molybdenum) in the US and South America. Much of its copper is used as the primary raw materials for the electrical wire and cable industry, while molybdenum is used by the steel industry, primarily, and also chemical manufacturers. PDMC also produces gold, silver, and other metals as a by-product of its copper mining. The company operates three copper smelters in the US. PDMC, which produces more than a million tons of Phelps Dodge copper annually, accounts for about 70% of Phelps Dodge's Mining Company total sales. Quadra Mining is doing a little gambling in Nevada, but it's not at the casino. The company owns the Robinson Mine in eastern Nevada. Through mining contractor Washington Group, the company produces copper and gold. Originally formed back in 2002, Quadra Mining bought the Robinson Mine from BHP Billiton in 2004. The company also owns the Quadra Mining Sierra Gorda project in Chile. Ltd. Regalito Copper (formerly Lumina Copper) hopes to shine in the copper mining business. The company has the rights to copper exploration properties in Chile. Regalito Copper is waiting for mineral prices to rise before it initiates the development of these properties. Chairman Ross Beatty, also the chairman and CEO of Pan American Silver, controls about 30% of the company. Pan Pacific Copper Co., a joint venture of Mitsui Mining & Smelting and Nippon Mining & Metals, Regalito Copper made an offer to acquire Regalito Copper in 2006; Regalito's Corp. board endorsed the takeover bid. Rockwell Ventures has mining operations (primarily copper) in northern Chile through subsidiary Minera Ricardo Resources. The company is exploring and developing the properties in Chile in partnership with Rio Tinto. Rockwell Ventures is also involved in exploration projects in British Columbia. Officers Rockwell and directors of the company hold more than15% of its Ventures Inc. shares. As its name suggests, South American Gold and Copper Company (SAGC) explores and develops gold, silver, copper, and other industrial mineral properties in South America. The company's Pimenton mine in Chile started production in 2004. In addition, SAGC holds interests in several limestone South American deposits in Chile and the company is exploring a copper Gold and Copper deposit adjacent to the Pimenton mine. SAGC is also Company Limited investigating the viability of a gold prospect in Peru.

Address: 1 N. Central Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85004-4415 Phone: 602-366-8100 Fax: 602-366-7329

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 5443.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 92.40%

Address: 1177 W. Hastings St., Ste. 2000 Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 2K3, Canada Phone: 604-689-8550 Fax: 604-689-8556

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 11.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 64266.50% Employees (2004): 343

• President: David C. Naccarati • President, Phelps Dodge Sales Company: Arthur R. Miele • SVP, South American Mining Operations and Development: Harry M. (Red) Conger • Chairman: Alexander M. Laird • CEO: William H. (Bill) Myckatyn • President: Paul M. Blythe

Address: 1550 - 625 Howe St., Ste. 1550 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2T6, Canada Phone: 604-687-0407 Fax: 604-687-7041

• Chairman: Ross J. Beaty • President: David Strang • CEO and Director: Robert P. Pirooz

Address: 800 W. Pender St., Ste. 1020 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2V6, Canada Phone: 604-684-6365 Fax: 604-684-8092

• Chairman: Robert A. Dickinson • President, CEO, and Director: Ronald W. Thiessen • CFO, Secretary, and Director: Jeffrey R. Mason

Address: 67 Yonge St. Toronto, Ontario M5E 1J8, Canada Phone: 416-369-9359

Fiscal Year End: September Revenue (2005): 2.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 146.80% Employees (2005): 170 Employee Growth (1 yr): 17.20%

• Chairman: Paul J. DesLauriers • President and CEO: Stephen W. Houghton • EVP and CFO: William C. O'Donnell

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copper -- its mines are high in the Andes Mountains. One of the largest miners in the world, SCC mines, smelts, and refines copper at its Toquepala and Cuajone mines, about 400 miles from Lima. It produces blister copper and copper cathodes at the smelter and refinery in Ilo, Peru. SCC produces better than 1.5 billion pounds of copper annually, making it the No. 1 copper producer by reserves. Its copper is sold in Asia, Europe, and the Americas, where it's used mainly for building, construction, and electronics. The company also recovers silver and molybdenum from copper Southern Copper ore. Americas Mining Corporation, a subsidiary of Grupo Corporation México, owns 75% of SCC. Sumitomo Electric Wintec America manufactures wire and electric cable. The company's specialty is wire used in the production of magnets for electrical machinery. It serves customers involved in the manufacture of air conditioners, automobiles, hand tools, refrigeration equipment, and Sumitomo televisions among other products. Sumitomo Electric Wintec Electric Wintec America is a subsidiary of Japan-based Sumitomo Electric America, Inc. Industries. since 1691 -- along with gold, nickel, and zinc. Metals-related refining and processing operations account for more than half of SMM's sales. The company has smelting and refining operations, plus mining resources, in Japan (the Hishikari gold mine), the US, Australia, Peru, Philippines, and Chile. It also produces electronic materials (about 30% of sales), including bonding wire, lead frames, electric paste, and copper-clad polymide film for semiconductors and printed circuit boards. Other operations make construction and housing materials and offer soil and water remediation Sumitomo Metal services. Founded in 1590, SMM is part of the "keiretsu" Mining Co., Ltd. Sumitomo Group. Getting the lead (and zinc) out is paramount to Toho Zinc. The company is a leading Japanese producer of zinc and lead. The bulk of Toho Zinc's sales are from its smelting and refining operations, which produce lead, silver, sulfuric acid, and other nonferrous products. The company also manufactures electronic parts (noise-absorbing coils, noise filters, and high-frequency transformers), materials for gold coating, and products used by the aerospace and nuclear Toho Zinc Co., industries such as high-purity iron powder and flake used in Ltd. the manufacture of superalloys. Like its name says Uganda Gold Mining explores for gold in Africa. The company started out in Uganda exploring for gold, but now has moved on to a promising copper and cobalt property in the Rwenzori Mountains. Back home, Uganda Gold also holds two gold properties in British Columbia, which Uganda Gold it might explore with the help of joint venture partners. Officers Mining Ltd. and board members hold about 20% of the company.

Address: Avenida Caminos del Inca No. 171, Chacarilla del Estanque, Santi Lima 33, Peru Phone: +51-1-372-1414 Fax: +51-1-372-0262

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 4112.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 139.70% Employees (2004): 3,544 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-0.60%)

Address: 909 Industrial Dr. Edmonton, KY 42129-8944 Phone: 270-432-2233 Fax: 270-432-2838

• President, CEO, and Director: Oscar González Rocha • EVP and COO: Xavier Garcia de Quevedo Topete • VP, Finance, CFO, and Director: J. Eduardo González Felix

• President and CEO: Masahara (Mark) Kurata • Sales Manager: Tim Dubree

Address: 5-11-3, Shinbashi, Minatoku Tokyo 105-8716, Japan Phone: +81-3-3436-7701 Fax: +81-3-3434-2215

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 3806.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 28.40% Employees (2004): 8,187

• President: Koichi Fukushima • Senior Managing Executive Officer: Hirosuke Chihara

Address: 1-6-1, Nihonbashi-Honcho, Chuo-ku Tokyo 103-8437, Japan Phone: +81-3-3272-5611 Fax: +81-3-3271-0137

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 529.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 18.20% Employees (2004): 990 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-3.40%)

• President, CEO, and Director: Tadashi Aoki • Managing Director: Toshio Kurigami

Address: 307 Granville St. Vancouver, British Columbia V7K 1H2, Canada Phone: 604-682-2245 Fax: 604-682-2775

• President and CEO: Allan J. Beaton

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Vedanta Resources plc

Wolverine Tube, Inc.

Zambia Copper Investments Limited

Vedanta Resources explores, mines, and refines copper, zinc, and aluminum with operations located in Australia, Zambia, and India. Vedanta does business in India through its copper-producing subsidiary Sterlite Industries. Sterlite holds stakes in Hindustan Zinc and Bharat Aluminum Company. In Australia, Vedanta has copper mines in Queensland and Tasmania. Wolverine Tube helps refrigerators and air conditioners chill out. One of North America's largest makers of copper and copper alloy tube for commercial products, Wolverine sells directly to original equipment manufacturers. The company makes a broad range of commercial custom tubing, including industrial (for residential air conditioning units), technical (for heat exchangers), copper alloy (for utilities), and fabricated (for automotive, electrical, HVAC, and other applications) products, as well as wholesale tube for standard air conditioning, plumbing, and refrigeration. Zambia Copper Investments' portfolio is heavy on copper. The company primarily mines copper and cobalt through 28%-owned Zambian mining company Konkola Copper Mines (KCM). Other shareholders in KCM include Vedanta Resources (51%) and ZCCM Investments (21%). KCM also has smelting and refining operations. Copper Development Foundation has a 44% stake in Zambia Copper.

Address: 16 Berkeley St London W1J 8DZ, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7499-5900 Fax: +44-20-7491-8440

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2005): 1884.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 46.10% Employees (2005): 22,613 Employee Growth (1 yr): 79.40%

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 873.50 M Address: 200 Clinton Ave. West, 10th Revenue Growth (1 yr): Floor 9.50% Huntsville, AL 35801 Employees (2004): 3,178 Phone: 256-353-1310 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: 256-580-3659 5.50% Address: Clarendon House, 2 Church St. Hamilton, Bermuda Phone: 352-40-25-05-1 Fax: 352-40-25-05-66

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 440.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 23.70% Employees (2004): 0

• Chairman: Anil K. Agarwal • CEO: Kuldip K. Kaura • Finance Director and Director: Peter E. SydneySmith

• Chairman: Dennis J. Horowitz • CEO, President, and COO: Johann R. (Chip) Manning Jr. • SVP, CFO and Secretary: James E. Deason

• Chairman: Jean-Pierre Rozan

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Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited

AngloGold Ashanti Limited

Apollo Gold Corporation

Banro Corporation

Description Even in bad times, Agnico-Eagle Mines has always followed the Golden Rule: gold rules. The Canadian gold producer has limited its mining production to its 100%owned LaRonde Mine in Quebec, which produced about 270,000 ounces of gold in 2004. LaRonde holds more than 5 million ounces of gold in proven and probable reserves -one of the largest gold deposits ever found. The mine also produces copper, zinc, and silver as a byproduct of its gold mining. Through its Contact Diamond unit (formerly Sudbury Contact Mines), the company conducts diamond exploration at properties in Ontario, Quebec, Nunavut, and Northwest Territories in Canada. All that glitters is not AngloGold Ashanti, but much of it is. The company (a result of the 2004 merger of AngloGold and Ashanti Goldfields) is a contender with Newmont and Barrick to be known as the world's largest gold miner. AngloGold Ashanti has 63 million ounces of proven and probable reserves and mines about 6 million ounces from its open-pit and underground mines in Africa, Australia, and the Americas; it also has many exploration projects. In all, the company operates 20 mines in 10 countries. Prior to the merger, most of AngloGold's mines were high-overhead, deep-level, hard-rock operations in South Africa (now less than half of sales). South African minerals giant Anglo American owns 51% of AngloGold. Apollo Gold is not something you might find on Mount Olympus, but rather a mining company operating in Canada and the US. The company has gold, silver, lead, and zinc mine operations in Montana, Nevada, and Ontario. The company's Montana Tunnels facility produces about 35,000 ounces of gold annually along with a majority of the company's silver, lead, and zinc. Its Florida Canyon property (sold in late 2005) in Nevada produced more than 70,000 ounces of gold annually. Apollo is primarily focused on developing its Black Fox Project gold mine operation in Ontario. Banro is looking for a jewel in Africa's gold belt. The company explores and develops gold properties along the Twangiza-Namoya gold belt in the Congo. It is currently developing four gold projects (Kamituga, Lugushwa, Namoya, Twangiza) that cover more than 1,600 square miles in the Maniema and South Kivu provinces. It has identified about 2 million ounces of measured and indicated resources on the properties. The Congolese government holds a small ownership stake in the company's operations. Banro has a 40% ownership interest in Canadian mining company BRC Development.

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Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 241.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 28.40% Employees (2005): 789 Employee Growth (1 yr): 29.30%

• Chairman: James D. Nasso • Vice Chairman, CEO and Director: Sean Boyd • President, COO and Director: Eberhard (Ebe) Scherkus

Address: 11 Diagonal St. Johannesburg 2001, South Africa Phone: +27-11-637-6000 Fax: +27-11-637-6624

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 2629.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 9.70% Employees (2004): 65,400 Employee Growth (1 yr): 18.00%

• Chairman: Russell P. Edey • CEO and Executive Director: Robert M. (Bobby) Godsell • President and Director: Sir Sam Esson Jonah

Address: 204 Black St., Ste. 300 Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2M9, Canada Phone: 867-668-5252

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 43.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-33.10%) Employees (2005): 129 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-68.00%)

• Chairman: Charles E. Stott • President, CEO, and Director: R. David Russell • CFO: Melvyn Williams

Address: 145 King St. East, Ste. 500 Toronto, Ontario M5C 2Y7, Canada Phone: 416-947-1212 Fax: 416-367-4681

Address: 1 First Canadian Place, 100 King St. West, Ste. 7070 Toronto, Ontario M5X 1E3, Canada Phone: 416-366-2221 Fax: 416-366-7722

• Chairman: Simon F. W. Village • President, CEO, and Director: Peter N. Cowley • CFO: J. Gregory (Greg) Short

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Barrick Gold Corporation

Bema Gold Corporation

Birch Mountain Resources Ltd.

Cambior Inc.

In the world of mining, Barrick's name is golden. The company became the world's #1 gold producer, ahead of Newmont Mining and AngloGold Ashanti, after acquiring Placer Dome in 2006. Barrick alone churns out some 5 million ounces of gold annually and has 90 million ounces in proved and probable reserves. More than half of the company's production comes from its North America operations, which include the 9,900-acre Goldstrike property, located in Nevada's Carlin Trend gold-producing region. Its properties outside of North America include the Bulyanhulu mine in Tanzania, the Pierina mine in Peru, and the Kalgoorlie mine in Australia. Barrick bought fellow Canadian gold miner Placer Dome for $10.4 billion. Bema Gold beams most when it finds a rich gold strike. The gold and silver mining company owns the Julietta Mine (79%-owned, Russia) and the Petrex Mines (South Africa), both currently its primary assets in production. The company produces about 230,000 ounces of gold annually. Other interests include the Aldebaran Property (Chile), the Cerro Casale Deposit (Chile), the Yarnell Property (US), the Refugio Mine (Chile), and Russia's Kupol gold and silver project, which was acquired in 2003. The Refugio Mine (50%-owned) was brought into production in 2005. Birch Mountain Resources is trying to climb to the top of the heap in the industrial minerals business. The company was exploring and developing precious metal properties, but is now concentrating on industrial mineral properties (primarily lime and concrete aggregate) in the Athabasca region of northern Alberta. Formed in 1994, the company has three major divisions: Mineral Exploration, Mineral Technology, and Industrial Minerals. In 2004 Birch Mountain Resources announced the Hammerstone limestone project, which is waiting regulatory approval. construction is. One of the top gold producers in the world, the company operates six mines -- including underground and open-pit projects -- primarily in Canada, Guyana, and Suriname. Cambior produces about 700,000 ounces of gold annually and has total proven and probable reserves of 3.5 million ounces. The company's Omai mine in Guyana (expected to shutdown in 2005) produces about 240,000 ounces annually, or 35% of the company's gold. Meanwhile, its Rosebel gold mine in Suriname began production in 2004; the mine produced about 270,000 ounces the first year it came online. Cambior also mines ferroniobium and bauxite.

Address: BCE Place, Canada Trust Tower, 161 Bay St., Ste. 3700 Toronto, Ontario M5J 2S1, Canada Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 416-861-9911 Revenue (2005): 2350.00 M Fax: 416-861-2492 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 21.60%

• Chairman: Peter Munk • President, CEO, and Director: Gregory C. (Greg) Wilkins • EVP and CFO: Jamie C. Sokalsky

Address: 3100 Three Bentall Centre, 595 Burrard St. Vancouver, British Columbia V7X IJI, Canada Phone: 604-681-8371 Fax: 604-681-6209

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Clive T. Johnson • SVP, Operations: George Johnson • VP, Development and Production: Dennis Stansbury

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 108.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 17.30%

Address: 250 6th Ave. SW, Ste. 300 Calgary, Alberta T2P 3H7, Canada Phone: 403-262-1838 Fax: 403-263-9888

• Chairman: Kerry E. Sully • President, CEO, and Director: Douglas J. (Doug) Rowe • VP, Finance and CFO: Hansine Ullberg

Address: 1111 St. Charles St. West, East Tower, Ste. 750 Longueuil, Quebec J4K 5G4, Canada Phone: 450-677-0040 Fax: 450-677-3382

• Chairman: Guy G. Dufresne • President, CEO, and Director: Louis P. Gignac • VP, Business Development and Exploration: François Viens

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 300.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 57.20%

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Canyon Resources Corporation

Canyon Resources operates a gold mine in California. Its Briggs Mine, located in the southeastern part of the state, produced about 30,000 ounces of gold and 8,500 ounces of silver in 2004. The company is engaging in reclamation operations at its Kendall Mine, near Lewistown, Montana. In addition, Canyon Resources is exploring for gold and silver on properties elsewhere in the western US and in Africa and Latin America. The main customer for the company's gold is Standard Bank London; Metalor USA Refining is the main customer for the silver produced by Canyon Resources.

Cardero Resource is hot on the trail for mineral deposits. The company is primarily exploring copper, iron, gold, and silver properties in Argentina, Mexico, and Peru. In Mexico, where most of its projects are located, Cardero Resource has exploration operations in the Baja California State, the Coahuila de Zaragoza State, the San Luis Potosi State, and the Sonora State. The company is involved in a joint venture agreement with Anglo American to explore and develop the properties in the Baja California State. Australian mining giant Rio Tinto is involved in one of Cardero Resource Cardero Resource's projects in Peru. Cardero Resource also has a silver project in Argentina. Corp. Claude Resources digs up dirt clods to get to precious metals. The company is currently mining gold only at its Seabee mine in northern Saskatchewan, but has other exploration projects underway in northern Manitoba and northwestern Ontario. Claude produces about 40,000 ounces of gold annually at its Seabee mine; it has proven and probable reserves of about 160,000 ounces of gold. While Gold accounts for about 90% of the company's sales, Claude the company also produces natural gas, natural gas liquids, Resources Inc. and oil in Alberta and southeastern Saskatchewan. Through sheer concentration and might, Compañía de Minas Buenaventura extracts metals in the form of silverlead, silver-gold, zinc, and lead-gold-copper concentrates. Gold accounts for about 50% of the company's sales. Minas Buenaventura has an interest in Latin America's largest gold mine (about 45%, Minera Yanacocha, Peru), with 32 million ounces in mineable proved and probable reserves. It operates three mining units and has a controlling interest in five mining companies. The company Compañía de has exploration projects in Peru and other parts of South Minas America, mostly through joint ventures. It also has electric Buenaventura power transmission and engineering services companies S.A.A. for the mining industry.

Address: 14142 Denver West Pkwy., Ste. 250 Golden, CO 80401 Phone: 303-278-8464 Fax: 303-279-3772

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 4.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-65.30%) Employees (2004): 22 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-66.20%)

Address: 1177 W. Hastings St., Ste. 1901 Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 2K3, Canada Phone: 604-408-7488 Fax: 604-408-7499

Address: 224 4th Ave. South, Ste. 200 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7K 5M5, Canada Phone: 306-668-7505 Fax: 306-668-7500

• Chairman: Richard H. De Voto • President, CEO and Director: James K. B. Hesketh • VP and Chief Accounting Officer: David P. Suleksi

• President, CEO, and Director: Hendrik (Henk) van Alphen • CFO: Michael W. (Mike) Kinley

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• Chairman: Arnie E. Hillier Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 21.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-5.30%) Employees (2004): 171

• President, CEO, and Director: A. Neil McMillan • COO: Raymond G. Gagnon

• Chairman: Alberto Benavides de la Quintana Address: Carlos Villarán 790, Santa Fiscal Year End: December • President, CEO and Catalina Revenue (2005): 273.20 M Director: Roque Benavides Lima 13, Peru Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-1.20%) Ganoza Phone: +51-1-419-2538 Employees (2004): 1,984 • VP, CFO: Carlos E. Fax: +51-1-471-7349 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-5.30%) Gálvez Pinillos

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Crystallex International Corporation

DRDGOLD Limited

Eldorado Gold Corporation

Entrée Gold Inc.

"Hello" to Venezuela. Crystallex's main development project is the Las Cristinas gold mine in Venezuela. After a protracted court battle, in 2002 Crystallex was finally chosen to develop the Las Cristinas property (expected to begin production in 2007) located in Bolivar State. Other operations include the Tomi mine (gold in Venezuela), Lo Incréible mine (gold in Venezuela), and the Revemin Mill (ore processing in Venezuela). These operations are currently Crystallex International's only revenue generating projects. DRDGOLD, formerly Durban Roodepoort Deep, roots deep for profits. The gold mining and refining company has been mining west of Johannesburg since 1895. DRDGOLD produces about 400,000 ounces of gold annually, and it has more than 5 million ounces in ore reserves. It pursues ultradeep mining at depths of almost 2.5 miles. DRDGOLD focuses on three main projects in South Africa: the Blyvoor Section, the ERPM Section, and the Crown Section. Recent growth for the company has come through its operations in Papua New Guinea, where it owns the Tolukuma gold mine and has a 20% joint venture stake in the Porgera mine. DRDGOLD also has interests in Fiji. While it's not looking for a fabled city of gold, the company does have various exploration and development operations located in Brazil, China, and Turkey. Eldorado Gold primarily operates the São Bento Mine (the company's only producing mine) in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. In Turkey, the company is exploring and developing several projects including the Kisladag and Efemçukuru properties. In 2005 Eldorado Gold entered China by acquiring Afcan Mining and obtaining the Tanjianshan gold development project. Entrée Gold hopes to serve up a heaping helping of gold. The company explores and develops gold and copper prospects in Mongolia. Its holdings primarily include the Lookout Hill and Turquoise Hill properties, both located in the southern Gobi Desert. Entrée Gold has an agreement with Ivanhoe Mines to help develop the Lookout Hill project. None of the company's projects are in production. The company had been exploring Costa Rica in the 1990s, but pulled out after no luck. In 2002 Entrée Gold became involved in option agreements for property in Mongolia.

Address: 18 King St. East, Ste. 1210 Toronto, Ontario M5C 1C4, Canada Phone: 416-203-2448 Fax: 416-203-0099

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 25.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 23.80% Employees (2004): 567 Employee Growth (1 yr): 60.20%

Address: 299 Pendoring Ave., Blackheath Randburg 2195, South Africa Phone: +27-11-219-8700 Fax: +27-11-476-2637

• Chairman: Molton P. Ncholo • CEO and Director: Mark Fiscal Year End: June M. Wellesley-Wood Revenue (2005): 173.20 M • COO and Director: Louis Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-45.50%) C. Lamsley

Address: 550 Burrard St., Ste. 1188 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2B5, Canada Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 604-687-4018 Revenue (2005): 29.70 M Fax: 604-687-4026 Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-10.50%)

Address: 1166 Alberni St., Ste. 1201 Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 3Z3, Canada Phone: 604-687-4777 Fax: 604-687-4770

• Chairman: Robert A. Fung • President, CEO, and Director: Todd Bruce • CFO: Dan Hamilton

• Chairman: Hugh C. Morris • President, CEO, and Director: Paul N. Wright • COO: Norm S. Pitcher

• President, CEO, and Director: Gregory (Greg) Crowe

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FNX Mining Company Inc.

Gammon Lake Resources Inc.

Glamis Gold Ltd.

Gold Fields Limited

FNX Mining Company hopes the effects of its projects pay off. The company produces metals from Canada's Sudbury Basin, primarily mining for nickel, copper, platinum, palladium, and gold. It owns the Sudbury Basin project; partner Inco Limited processes and sells the production from the property. In order to concentrate on developing Sudbury the company sold off its stake in an Alaska property, but still holds an option on a property in Guinea. In 2005 the company acquired Dynatec's interest in the Sudbury project (making it 100%-owned by FNX) and its 50% holding in Aurora Platinum. In return Dynatec received a 20% stake in FNX. Gammon Lake Resources hopes to find itself swimming in a pool of gold. The company explores for precious metals, primarily gold in Canada and Mexico (including its main Ocampo gold and silver project in Chihuahua). The company has about 40 concessions at the Ocampo project and is expected to begin production in 2006. Gold was first discovered in the remote area of Ocampo in 1804 and was actively mined until the Mexican revolution of 1912. Gammon Lake also holds more than 25% of Mexgold Resources, which has gold and silver properties in Chihuahua and Guanajuto. Most of what glitters for Glamis Gold can be found in Honduras, Mexico, and the US. The company gets more than 80% of its revenue from two properties: the 67%owned Marigold Mine, a joint venture with Barrick Gold's Homestake Mining unit, in Nevada, and the San Martin Mine, in Honduras. Glamis also owns a producing property in Mexico, El Sauzal Mine, which yields silver as well as gold. The company's Rand Mine, in California, has been shut down. Glamis is developing the Marlin project in Guatemala, another gold and silver property. Overall, Glamis has reserves of some 6.3 million ounces of gold. The company moved to expand in 2006 when it bought the Canadian minerals company Western Silver. This company's not interested in "greener" fields. Gold Fields is one of the world's largest gold exploration and development companies. It ranks as South Africa's #2 gold producer, after AngloGold Ashanti. Gold Fields produces more than four million ounces of gold a year at mines in South Africa (Beatrix, Driefontein, Kloof), Ghana (Damang, Tarkwa), and Australia (St. Ives, Agnew). The company has mineral reserves and resources of more than 200 million ounces of gold. Norilsk Nickel is Gold Fields' largest shareholder, with a 20% stake in the company.

Address: 55 University Ave., Ste. 700 Toronto, Ontario M5J 2H7, Canada Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 416-628-5938 Revenue (2005): 72.70 M Fax: 416-360-0550 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 56.00%

• President, CEO, and Director: A. Terrance (Terry) MacGibbon • SVP and COO: Anthony P. (Tony) Makuch • VP and CFO: Ronald P. Gagel

Address: 202 Brownlow Ave., Cambridge 2, Ste. 306 Dartmouth, Nova Scotia B3B 1T5, Canada Phone: 902-468-0614 Fax: 902-468-0631

• Chairman and President: Fred George • CEO and Director: Bradley H. Langille • COO: John C. Thornton

Address: 5190 Neil Rd., Ste. 310 Reno, NV 89502 Phone: 775-827-4600 Fax: 775-827-5044

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 202.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 113.90%

• Chairman: A. Dan Rovig • President, CEO, and Director: C. Kevin McArthur • EVP and COO: James S. Voorhees

Address: 24 St. Andrews Rd. Parktown, Gauteng 2193, South Africa Phone: +27-11-644-2400 Fax: +27-11-644-0626

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2005): 1893.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 0.00% Employees (2005): 50,500 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• Chairman: Alan J. Wright • CEO and Director: Ian D. Cockerill • CFO and Director: Nicholas J. (Nick) Holland

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Venezuela, which contains proven and probable reserves of about 10 million ounces of gold and 1.3 billion pounds of copper. Gold Reserve has been developing Brisas since 1992, and the company is still working to raise money to begin mining. A feasibility study completed for Gold Reserve in early 2005 suggested that the company would need more than $550 million to put the Brisas project into Gold Reserve Inc. production. Precious few companies have a name as self-explanatory as Goldcorp. The gold mining company operates the Red Lake Mine in Ontario (its largest gold mine), a 38% stake in the Alumbrera gold and copper mine in Argentina, the Luismin Mine in Mexico, the Peak Mine in Australia, and the Wharf Mine in the US. Goldcorp's mines produce more than 1 million ounces of gold annually; the precious metal accounts for nearly all of the company's sales. In 2005 the company acquired Wheaton River Minerals, which operated mines in Argentina, Australia, and Mexico. The company's recent string of acquisitions has placed it among Goldcorp Inc. the top five gold mining companies in the world. Gold gets top billing at Golden Star Resources. The company's main assets are in southern Ghana, in West Africa's Ashanti gold belt, and include the Bogoso, Prestea, Prestea Underground (inactive), and Wassa properties. Overall, the company has proven and probable reserves of about 3.8 million ounces of gold. Golden Star owns a controlling stake in EURO Ressources (formerly Guyanor Ressources), which is developing a gold mining project in French Guiana, in South America. In addition, the company has interests in gold exploration projects elsewhere in Africa (Congo, Mali, Sierra Leone) and South America (Chile, Peru, Suriname). In 2005 Golden Star expanded in Golden Star Africa by acquiring St. Jude Resources. Resources Ltd. Great Basin Gold is sinking a lot into its mining efforts. Great Basin, part of minerals exploration and development company Hunter Dickinson's portfolio, is focused on its 25sq.-mi. Ivanhoe Project in Nevada's Carlin Trend gold belt. Initial exploration of just part of the property has identified a possible 900,000 ounces of gold in reserves. Ivanhoe has had a surface mine, but Great Basin has located feeder veins of gold and silver for underground mining. The company is teaming up with fellow Canadian Hecla Mining Great Basin Gold to develop identified deposits. Great Basin also explores Ltd. the Burnstone gold property in South Africa.

Address: 926 W. Sprague Ave., Ste. 200 Spokane, WA 99201 Phone: 509-623-1500 Fax: 509-623-1634

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 65 Employee Growth (1 yr): 71.10%

• Chairman: James H. Coleman • CEO and Director: Rockne J. Timm • President and Director: A. Douglas Belanger

Address: Waterfront Centre, 200 Burrard St., Ste. 1560 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3L6, Canada Phone: 604-696-3000 Fax: 604-696-3001

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 896.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 369.30% Employees (2004): 308 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-6.70%)

• CEO, President, and Director: Ian W. Telfer • EVP and COO: Russell C. Barwick • EVP and CFO: Lindsay Hall

Address: 10901 W. Toller Dr., Ste. 300 Littleton, CO 80127-6312 Phone: 303-830-9000 Fax: 303-830-9094

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 93.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 54.50% Employees (2004): 1,150 Employee Growth (1 yr): 15.00%

• Chairman: Ian A. MacGregor • President, CEO, and Director: Peter J. Bradford • SVP and CFO: Allan J. Marter

Address: 800 W. Pender St., Ste. 1020 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2V6, Canada Phone: 604-684-6365 Fax: 604-684-8092

• Co-Chairman: Robert A. Dickinson • Co-Chairman: Ronald W. Thiessen • President, CEO, and Director: Ferdi Dippenaar

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Harmony Gold Mining Company specializes in turning old digs into new digs. The company generally buys underperforming gold operations and turns them into low-cost, high-productivity mines. Harmony is South Africa's third largest gold miner and the sixth largest in the world. In South Africa (accounting for 90% of sales) it operates 12 shafts in the Free State Province. The company produces more than 3 million ounces of gold annually and has another 55 million ounces in reserves. Outside of South Harmony Gold Africa, it also operates mines in Australia (New Celebration, Mining Company South Kalgoorlie, and Mt. Magnet) and exploration projects Limited in Peru and Papua New Guinea. IAMGOLD--see me shine. The Canadian gold miner owns stakes in Mali's adjoining Yatela and Sadiola gold mines (40% and 38%, respectively); both are joint ventures with South African firm AngloGold Ashanti and the government of Mali. The Sadiola mine produces 450,000 ounces of gold annually and the Yatela mine produces about 240,000 ounces of gold annually. The two mines combined contain more than 3 million ounces of gold reserves. IAMGOLD also has ownership interests in various exploration projects IAMGOLD in other parts of West Africa as well as the Americas. Corporation IMA Exploration is digging where the Atlantic and Pacific mix, and it has its sights set on silver. The Canadian company operates a silver and lead mining interest in southern Argentina, where its Navidad project has an estimated potential reserve of 300 million ounces of silver and 1.2 million tons of lead. The company discovered the silver mineralization and galena (typical lead mineralization) throughout this region in 2003. IMA is managed and IMA Exploration partially financed by the Grosso Group, a Canadian mining Inc. specialist firm, chaired by IMA's CEO Joseph Grosso. a rocky business, but that hasn't stopped them from venturing to the Sierra Madre of northern Mexico. Formed in 1995, the company's primary project is the Carmen deposit at its Monterde property in the state of Chihuahua. Carmen was originally an underground mine in the 1930s and is believed by Kimber Resources to have potential again as an open pit mine. None of the company's properties are in production. Fund manager and company Kimber director James Puplava holds approximately 20% of Kimber Resources Inc. Resources. Kinross Gold digs gold mining so much, especially since prices have risen, that it acquired fellow Canadian gold miners Echo Bay Mines and TVX Gold. Those deals made Kinross one of the world's top 10 gold miners, upping its production to approximately 1.6 million ounces of gold annually. In addition, the company has proven and probable reserves of 19 million ounces of gold and more than 32 million ounces of silver. About half of the company's revenues come from its Fort Knox and Round Kinross Gold Mountain properties in the US. Other operations are located Corporation in Brazil, Canada, Chile, Russia, and Zimbabwe.

Address: 4 The High St., 1st Fl., Melrose Arch Melrose North, Gauteng 2196, South Africa Phone: +27-11-684-0140 Fax: +27-11-684-0188

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2005): 1265.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-10.50%) Employees (2005): 47,988 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-15.50%)

• Chairman: Patrice Motsepe • CEO and Director: Z. Bernard Swanepoel • Group Finance and Director: Nomfundo Qangule

Address: 220 Bay St., 5th Fl. Toronto, Ontario M5J 2W4, Canada Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 416-360-4710 Revenue (2004): 112.70 M Fax: 416-360-4750 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 16.70%

• Chairman: William D. Pugliese • President, CEO, and Director: Joseph F. (Joe) Conway • CFO: Grant A. Edey

Address: 837 W. Hastings St., Ste. 709 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3N6, Canada Phone: 604-687-1828 Fax: 604-687-1858

• Chairman: Gerald G. Carlson • President, CEO, and Director: Joseph Grosso • VP, CFO, and Director: Arthur Lang

Address: 800 W. Pender St., Ste. 215 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2V6, Canada Phone: 604-669-2251 Fax: 604-669-8577

Address: 40 King St. West, 52nd Fl. Toronto, Ontario M5H 3Y2, Canada Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 416-365-5123 Revenue (2005): 725.50 M Fax: 416-363-6622 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 8.80%

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• President, CEO, and Director: Robert V. Longe • CFO: Peter J.A. de Visser Yes

• Chairman: John E. Oliver • President, CEO, and Director: Tye W. Burt • EVP, COO, and Director: Scott A. Caldwell

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and it likes it that way. The company operates a gold mine on Papua New Guinea's Lihir Island, a volcanic island that contains one of the world's largest gold bodies. Lihir Gold produces over 600,000 ounces of gold annually and has reserves of more than 15 million ounces. Plant modifications -- particularly in the company's autoclaves (used to extract gold from ore) and a heat recovery project that allows ore containing lower sulfur grades to be treated more efficiently -- have improved Lihir Gold's production. Global mining giant Rio Tinto Group formerly controlled a Lihir Gold Limited 15% stake in Lihir Gold. Miner Meridian Gold seeks the longitude and latitude of paydirt. The company's top producing project is its El Peñón operation in Chile, which yields about 314,000 ounces of gold and some 4.8 million ounces of silver annually. Other operations include a joint venture with Barrick Gold at the Rossi site in Nevada and the Esquel gold project in Argentina, along with exploration projects in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru. The company's total proven and probable reserves include 4.4 million ounces of Meridian Gold Inc. gold at the El Peñón and Esquel sites. Mines Management explores and develops silver and copper properties in the US. The company's primary property is the Montanore project in northwestern Montana, which was operated between 1988 and 2002 by Noranda Minerals. Mines Management would like to further develop the Montanore property, and the company is working to complete the required environmental and engineering Mines studies and to determine an economically viable way to Management, Inc. conduct mining operations. Miramar Mining's gold is no mirage. The company's primary operation is the exploration of the Hope Bay gold project in Nunavut, Canada. In addition, it operates the Con and Giant Mines near Yellowknife in Canada's Northwest Territory. The two mines are winding down, with production dropping to about 15,000 ounces of gold in 2004. In order to focus on its promising Hope Bay project, Miramar divested most of its interest in Northern Orion Explorations, which has mining operations in Argentina and Cuba. Miramar Mining formed a joint venture in 2004 with Kinross Miramar Mining Gold to explore the Back River gold projects in Nunavut. Corporation Nevsun Resources is looking to heat things up in the mining business. The company explores and develops gold and base metal properties in Africa. It expects its Tabakoto gold project in Mali to begin commercial production after it completes construction in 2006. Its other main projects include the exploration of the Segala gold project in Mali and the Bisha property (which includes gold, copper, and zinc) in Eritrea. Nevsun also holds the Kubi gold project in Nevsun Ghana, with major player AngloGold Ashanti (formerly Resources Ltd. Ashanti Goldfields).

Address: Pacific Place, 7th Fl., Cnr. Champion Parade and Musgrave St. Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea Phone: +675-321-7711 Fax: +675-321-4705

Address: 9670 Gateway Dr., Ste. 200 Reno, NV 89521-3952 Phone: 775-850-3777 Fax: 775-850-3733

Address: 905 W. Riverside, Ste. 311 Spokane, WA 99201 Phone: 509-838-6050 Fax: 509-838-0486

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 224.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-4.20%) Employees (2004): 1,070 Employee Growth (1 yr): 8.20%

• Chairman: Ross Garnaut • CEO: Arthur Hood • CFO and General Manager, Finanacial and Commercial: Paul Fulton

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 131.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 3.70%

• Non-Executive Chairman: Christopher R. Lattanzi • Vice Chairman, President, and CEO: Brian J. Kennedy • EVP and Secretary: Edward H. Colt

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 0.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 0.00% Employees (2004): 5

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Glenn M. Dobbs • VP Business Development and Corporate Secretary: Douglas D. Dobbs • CFO and Treasurer: James H. Moore

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• Chairman: Anthony J. Petrina Fiscal Year End: December • President, CEO, and Revenue (2005): 0.40 M Director: Anthony P. (Tony) Address: 889 Harbourside Dr., Ste. Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-93.70%) Walsh 300 Employees (2004): 500 • EVP and COO: Brian M. North Vancouver, British Columbia Employee Growth (1 yr): 5.30% Labadie V7P 3S1, Canada Yes

Address: 1075 W. Georgia St., Ste. 800 Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 3C9, Canada Phone: 604-623-4700 Fax: 604-623-4701

• Chairman: Gary E. German • President, CEO, and Director: John A. Clarke • COO: Gerald J. (Gerry) Gauthier

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Newmont Mining certainly goes for the gold. The company is among the world's top gold producers (with Barrick ahead of AngloGold Ashanti), following acquisitions in Canada, Bolivia, and Australia. Newmont produces some 8 million ounces of gold annually; it has proven and probable reserves of more than 90 million ounces of gold. Other metals that the company mines include copper, silver, and zinc. Operations in North America and South America account for more than half of Newmont's production. It also Newmont Mining has mining facilities in Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, Corporation and Uzbekistan. American mining business for a long time to come. The company is putting all of its effort into exploring and developing the Pebble Property in Alaska, about 230 miles from Anchorage. The property is believed to contain more than 25 million ounces of gold and about 15 billion pounds of copper. Once owned by Canadian zinc miner Teck Cominco, the property's option rights were acquired by Northern Dynasty Minerals in 2004. Deposit developer Northern Dynasty Hunter Dickinson provides management services for the Minerals Ltd. company. Minerals nevertheless dates back to 1919. The company, formerly called Northgate Exploration, mines gold and copper at its Kemess South open pit mine in British Columbia. The mine produces some 300,000 ounces of gold and more than 75 million pounds of copper annually. Northgate's adjacent property, Kemess North, contains an estimated 4 million ounces of gold and nearly 1.5 billion pounds of copper; it's expected to begin producing around 2007. The company is also involved in several joint ventures including the Hyland Gold property with Northgate StrataGold and the Sustut Copper project with Doublestar Minerals Resources. Corporation NovaGold Resources is hitching its star to gold and copper prospecting. The company explores and develops mineral properties across Alaska and Canada. Its main projects include the Ambler (in partnership with Rio Tinto), Donlin Creek (in partnership with Placer Dome), and Nome operations in Alaska. In British Columbia, NovaGold Resources is exploring the Galore Creek gold and copper project. None of its mining operations are in production. NovaGold The company does earns revenue from sand-and-gravel Resources Inc. production (at its Nome property) and from the sale of land. Orezone Resources hopes to find that elusive strata of gold in the earth. To accomplish this task, the company has concentrated on exploring and developing gold properties in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Some of its properties in Burkina Faso include Bondi, Essakan, and Sega. Founded in 1995, Orezone Resources partners with other miners, most notably Gold Fields Limited, to move a project into Orezone production. Resources Inc.

Address: 1700 Lincoln St. Denver, CO 80203 Phone: 303-863-7414 Fax: 303-837-5837

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 4406.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-2.60%) Employees (2004): 14,000 Employee Growth (1 yr): 4.50%

• Chairman and CEO: Wayne W. Murdy • President and Director: Pierre Lassonde • SVP, Operations: Thomas L. Enos

Address: 800 W. Pender St., Ste. 1020 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2V6, Canada Phone: 604-684-6365 Fax: 604-684-8092

• Chairman: Robert A. Dickinson • President, CEO, and Director: Ronald W. Thiessen • CFO, Secretary, and Director: Jeffrey R. Mason

Address: 815 Hornby St., Ste. 404 Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 2E6, Canada Phone: 604-681-4004 Fax: 604-681-4003

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 257.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 36.10%

• Chairman: Terrence A. (Terry) Lyons • President, CEO, and Director: Kenneth G. Stowe • SVP and CFO: Jon A. Douglas

Fiscal Year End: November Revenue (2005): 1.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-9.50%) Employees (2004): 40

• President, CEO, and Director: Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse • SVP, CFO, and Secretary: Robert J. (Don) MacDonald • SVP and COO: Peter W. Harris

Address: 200 Granville St., Ste. 2300 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1S4, Canada Phone: 604-669-6227 Fax: 604-699-6272

Address: 290 Picton St., Ste. 201 Ottawa, Ontario K1Z 8P8, Canada Phone: 613-241-3699 Fax: 613-241-6005

Director: Ronald N. (Ron) Little • CFO: Douglas (Doug) Perkins • VP, Corporate Development: Greg Bowes

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Pacific Rim Mining Corp.

Queenstake Resources Ltd.

Randgold Resources Limited

Richmont Mines Inc.

Pacific Rim Mining hopes it has found the gold coast. The company is focusing on developments (primarily gold deposits) in the Americas. Its most advanced property is the El Dorado gold project in El Salvador. Its other assets include a 49% interest in the Denton-Rawhide gold mine in Nevada as well as various exploration projects in Argentina, Chile, and El Salvador. Kennecott Minerals holds the remaining shares in the Denton-Rawhide mine. The company was formed by the 2002 merger of US-based Dayton Mining and a Canadian company, also called Pacific Rim Mining, in an all-share deal. Queenstake Resources rules over gold mines in Nevada. The mining and exploration company's only property in production is the Jerritt Canyon gold mine, which was acquired from AngloGold and Meridian Gold in 2003. Jerritt Canyon is expected to produce about 275,000 ounces of gold annually from its mines in Nevada. The mine has been in production for about 25 years. Queenstake Resources had originally been involved in developing the Magistral mine, but decided to sell it in order to focus its resources on maximizing production at the Jerritt Canyon mine. Randgold Resources hopes its Morila mine is a golden gorilla. The exploration and mining company's chief asset is its stake in the Morila Limited gold mine located in Mali. Morila is a joint venture with leading gold miner AngloGold Ashanti. Randgold Resources has holdings in projects in Mali (the Loulo operation, which began production in 2005) and Côte d'Ivoire (the Tongon operation). It also has exploration projects in Senegal, Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Tanzania. The company has proven and probable reserves of about 2.5 million ounces of gold. Randgold Resources was spun off from Randgold & Exploration in 1995 and in 2006 Randgold & Exploration sold its remaining holding in the company. name. The company's Canadian mines produce about 70,000 ounces of gold annually and have total gold reserves of more than 600,000 ounces. It owns the Beaufor Mine, it's largest producing mine, in southwestern Quebec (half of its Beaufor stake is through 70%-owned subsidiary Louvem Mines Inc.). Richmont's nearby Camflo Mill processes mine production. The company's Francoeur and Nugget Pond mines have played out, but it expects the East Amphi and Island Gold properties to begin production in 2007.

Address: 625 Howe St., Ste. 410 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2T6, Canada Phone: 604-689-1976 Fax: 604-689-1978

Fiscal Year End: April Revenue (2005): 11.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-1.70%) Employees (2004): 134 Employee Growth (1 yr): 16.50%

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 90.20 M Address: 204 Lambert St., Ste. 200 Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-7.90%) Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 3T2, Employees (2004): 442 Canada

• Chairman: Catherine E. McLeod-Seltzer • CEO, President, and Director: Thomas C. (Tom) Shrake • CFO: F. John Norman • Chairman: Robert L. Zerga • CEO and President; EVP, Director of Exploration, and Directo: Dorian L. (Dusty) Nicol • VP, Finance and CFO: Eric H. Edwards

Address: La Motte Chambers, La Motte Street St. Helier, Jersey JE1 1BJ, Channel Islands Phone: +44-1534-735-333 Fax: +44-1534-735-444

• Chairman: Philippe Liétard Fiscal Year End: December • CEO and Director: D. Revenue (2004): 73.30 M Mark Bristow Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-33.10%) • Finance Director and Employees (2004): 110 Director: Roger A. Williams Employee Growth (1 yr): 5.80%

Address: 110 avenue Principale Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec J9X 4P2, Canada Phone: 819-797-2465 Fax: 819-797-0166

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 17.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-48.20%) Employees (2004): 180 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-22.40%)

• President and CEO: Martin Rivard • VP, Operations: Christian Pichette • Finance Director: Nicole Veilleux

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Rio Tinto is always on the lookout for pay dirt. Rio Tinto Group, one of the world's largest mining operations, comprises dual-listed sister companies Rio Tinto Limited (based in Melbourne) and Rio Tinto plc (based in London). Although each company trades separately, the two Rio Tintos operate as one business. Rio Tinto mines coal (about 20% of sales), iron, copper, uranium, industrial minerals (borax, salt, talc), aluminum, gold, and diamonds. The company has operations worldwide, but most of its mines are located in politically stable areas of Australia, Europe, and North America. Mining operations in these areas account for nearly 80% of sales. Subsidiaries include Rio Tinto Group Kennecott Utah Copper. gold mines, the company buys the right to collect royalties from mine operators. This strategy allows Royal Gold to minimize its exposure to the costs of mineral exploration and development. More than 80% of the company's revenue comes from its royalty interests related to the Pipeline Mining Complex, a project in Lander County, Nevada, operated by affiliates of Placer Dome and Rio Tinto. Royal Gold holds royalty stakes in other producing properties in the western US and in Argentina. The company also owns interests in exploration- and development stage projects in the US and in Argentina, Royal Gold, Inc. Burkina Faso, Finland, and Russia. Rubicon hopes to find the mother lode in Mother Earth. The company primarily has operations near Red Lake, Ontario, that it hopes to mine for gold; the properties are called the McFinley Gold Project and the McCuaig Property joint venture. Through subsidiaries, Rubicon also owns interests in properties in other parts of Canada and Alaska. Its Toquima Minerals subsidiary explores for gold and base metals in Alaska and Nevada. All the properties are in exploration stage, meaning the company has not yet Rubicon Minerals determined whether removing minerals from them would be feasible. Corporation exploration. The company is mainly exploring the Courageous Lake project in the Northwest Territories, the Grassy Mountain project in Oregon, and the KerrSulphurets and Red Mountain projects in British Columbia. Seabridge acquired the Noche Buena gold mining project located in Mexico from Hecla Mining in early 2006. It also holds options to form joint ventures in numerous other properties located in North America. Albert Friedberg, through Pan Atlantic Bank and Trust, holds a 20% interest Seabridge Gold in Seabridge Gold. Inc.

Address: 55 Collins St., Level 33 Melbourne 3000, Australia Phone: +61-3-9283-3333 Fax: +61-3-9283-3707

• CEO and Director: R. Leigh Clifford • Finance Director and Fiscal Year End: December Director: Guy R. Elliot Revenue (2005): 19033.00 M • Head of Communication Revenue Growth (1 yr): 61.30% and Sustainable Employees (2004): 33,000 Development: Andrew Employee Growth (1 yr): (-8.40%) Vickerman

Address: 1660 Wynkoop St., Ste. 1000 Denver, CO 80202-1132 Phone: 303-573-1660 Fax: 303-595-9385

• Chairman and CEO: Stanley Dempsey Fiscal Year End: July • President, COO, and Revenue (2005): 25.30 M Director: Tony Jensen Revenue Growth (1 yr): 18.20% • Chief Accounting Officer Employees (2005): 14 and Treasurer: Stefan L. Employee Growth (1 yr): (-6.70%) Wenger

Address: 800 W. Pender St., Ste. 1540 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2V6, Canada Phone: 604-623-3333 Fax: 604-623-3355

Address: 172 King St. East, Ste. 300 Toronto, Ontario M5A 1J3, Canada Phone: 416-367-9292 Fax: 416-367-2711

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 36

• Chairman: J. Garfield MacVeigh • President, CEO, and Director: David W. Adamson • CFO: Peter G. Wong

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 6 Employee Growth (1 yr): 20.00%

• President, CEO, and Director: Rudi P. Fronk • Chairman: James S. Anthony • CFO and Secretary: Roderick (Rod) Chisholm

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Tanzanian Royalty Exploration, formerly Tan Range Exploration, is more interested in gold than a golden tan. The company acquires prospecting licenses in East Africa and options out exploration and development rights under royalty agreements to larger mining companies. Tanzanian Royalty holds 140 mineral properties in Tanzania's Lake Victoria Greenstone belt and Kabanga regions (the sites of small scale mining in the past). In addition to gold, Greenstone deposits contain diamonds, copper, nickel, and Tanzanian zinc. While none of its properties are in production, the Royalty company has agreements with industry giants Barrick Gold Exploration and AngloGold Ashanti, as well as smaller firm Northern Corporation Mining Explorations. Taseko Mines owns and operates a copper mine and two properties where gold has been discovered, all in British Columbia. The company's Gibraltar Mine produces copper concentrate and molybdenum. Taseko's also owns the Prosperity project, which contains an estimated 2.3 billion pounds of copper and 6.7 million ounces of gold, and the Harmony property with an estimated 3 million ounces of Taseko Mines gold. Taseko is part of the stable of mining companies Limited managed by Hunter Dickinson, Inc. When it views its holdings, Vista Gold hopes its prospects for gold are good. The company's principal property is its Hycroft mine in Nevada. Hycroft -- an open-pit, heap-leach gold and silver mine -- produced more than a million ounces of gold between 1983 and 1999. Vista Gold has since suspended mining at Hycroft and has frozen development of its Amayapampa property in Bolivia, and both properties are being sold. Vista Gold owns other properties in the US (California, Colorado, Idaho, and Nevada) and in Bolivia, as well as interests in gold projects in Mexico and Indonesia. The company has agreed to buy Vista Gold Corp. the Mt. Todd gold mine in northern Australia. Yamana Gold (formerly Yamana Resources) does its business in Brazil. The company has operating mines (Fazenda Brasileiro and Fazenda Nova) that produce some 130,000 ounces of gold annually. It has two other mines under construction in Brazil (with plans to begin mining production in 2006). Yamana Gold also expects to mine for copper as part of its expansion plans. In 2006 the company acquired Canada-based RNC Gold, giving Yamana several mines in production and various exploration operations in Latin America. That year Yamana also bought Desert Sun Mining, which complements the company's Brazilian Yamana Gold Inc. operations.

Address: 355 Burrard St., Ste. 1400 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2G8, Canada Phone: 604-669-5598 Fax: 604-669-8915

• Chairman and CEO: James E. (Jim) Sinclair • President: Jonathan G. Deane • CFO, Secretary, and Director: Victoria Luis

Address: 800 W. Pender St., Ste. 1020 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2V6, Canada Phone: 604-684-6365 Fax: 604-684-8092

Fiscal Year End: September Revenue (2005): 75.50 M Employees (2004): 15 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• Co-Chairman: Robert A. Dickinson • Co-Chairman: Ronald W. Thiessen • President and CEO: Russell E. Hallbauer

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 10 Employee Growth (1 yr): 11.10%

• President, CEO, and Director: Michael B. Richings • CFO: Gregory G. Marlier • VP, Business Development: Howard M. Harlan

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 32.30 M Employees (2004): 1,307

• Chairman: Victor H. Bradley • President, CEO, and Director: Peter Marrone • COO and Director: Antenor Silva

Address: 7961 Shaffer Pkwy., Ste. 5 Littleton, CO 80127 Phone: 720-981-1185 Fax: 720-981-1186

Address: 150 York St., Ste. 1902 Toronto, Ontario M5H3S5, Canada Phone: 416-815-0220 Fax: 416-815-0021

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Description number 365 in Greek, and Abraxas Petroleum is working hard as a 365-day-a-year oil and gas company. The independent energy company is engaged in natural gas and crude oil exploration, development, and production. It operates primarily in Texas (along the Gulf Coast and in the Permian Basin) and in Wyoming, and reports estimated proved reserves of 75.1 billion cu. ft. of natural gas, and 3.1 million barrels of oil. In 2003 Abraxas sold its Canadian subsidiaries to a royalty trust for approximately $138 million, Abraxas and reorganized its remaining Canadian assets as Grey Wolf Petroleum Exploration, Inc. In 2005 Grey Wolf Exploration was spun off Corporation in an IPO. [ABP] Just like "Allegheny Moon" Patti Page sang about, Allegheny Energy Supply can really "shine, shine, shine." The company is the power production business segment of utility holding company Allegheny Energy (AE). The unit owns and operates about 20 fossil-fueled and hydroelectric power plants, but about 95% of its power is generated by coal (the company burns 18 million tons of coal a year). Located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the US, Allegheny Energy Supply Allegheny Energy plants have a generating capacity of approximately 11,000 Supply Company, MW and supplies power to AE's distribution subsidiaries as LLC well as to customers in deregulated markets. Altek Power hopes it has all the technology it needs to become a top player in the global electricity market. The independent power producer is a manufacturer of distributed generation plants. It operates a generation facility in Alberta that is fueled with solution gas (a waste product of the petroleum industry). Altek Power also sells distributed generation equipment, including waste gas-fired turbine generators and biomass (organic waste) energy systems. It provides engineering and construction services for power plants and other heavy industrial facilities. Altek Power Altek Power expanded in 2004 with the acquisition of an 80% stake in Corporation Focus Industrial Contractors, which provides biomass and [APKKF.PK] gas power construction. Three Mile Island looked like an opportunity, not a disaster, to AmerGen Energy, which acquires and operates nuclear plants as an independent power producer in North America. AmerGen was formed to capitalize on a marketplace in which utilities were unloading their nukes due to new laws or high operational costs. AmerGen acquired three nuclear stations in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey in 1999 and 2000; its assets give it a generating capacity of about 2,500 MW. More bidders have entered the nuclear market since then, and several acquisition attempts by AmerGen have been AmerGen Energy rejected by utilities that instead wanted to auction off the Company, LLC assets. AmerGen is a part of utility holding company Exelon.

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Address: 500 N. Loop 1604 E., Ste. 100 San Antonio, TX 78232 Phone: 210-490-4788 Fax: 210-490-8816

Address: 4350 Northern Pike Monroeville, PA 15146-2841 Phone: 412-858-1600 Fax: 412-856-3725

Address: 1708 Dolphin Ave., Ste. 1004 Kelowna, British Columbia V1Y 9S4, Canada Phone: 250-717-3707 Fax: 250-717-3708

Address: 300 Exelon Way Kennett Square, PA 19348 Phone: 610-765-5493 Fax: 610-765-5789

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Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 48.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 43.40% Employees (2005): 48 Employee Growth (1 yr): 2.10%

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Robert L. G. (Bob) Watson • EVP, CFO, and Treasurer: Chris E. Williford • VP Land and Marketing and Secretary: Stephen T. Wendel

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• Chairman and CEO: Paul J. Evanson • President: John P. Campbell • Chief Commercial Officer: Philip L. Goulding

• Chairman and CEO: Byron P. Loewen • President, CFO, Secretary, and Director: Rodney W. (Rod) Reum Fiscal Year End: December • Manager Distribution and Revenue (2004): 0.30 M Sales: James W. (Jim) Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-69.50%) Lehman

• President and CEO: Christopher M. (Chris) Crane

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untapped natural gas deposits, and American Oil & Gas is searching for them. The exploration and production company is focusing its efforts on Montana and Wyoming, a region with one of the largest undeveloped natural gas fields in the US. American Oil & Gas has acquired stakes in more than 180,000 gross acres in its five core project areas, and has estimated proved reserves of 321,710 barrels of oil and 346.3 million cu. ft. of natural gas, The company was formed via a strategic alliance between North Finn LLC and Tower American Oil & Colombia Corporation. In 2005 American Oil & Gas acquired Gas, Inc. [AEZ] Tower Colombia Corp. Generating profits through cogeneration, Americas Power Partners focuses on cogeneration technologies as it develops small-scale independent power plants in the US and sells electricity to utilities, marketers, and industrial and commercial users. The company also provides on-site distributed generation and optimization services (whereby it improves plant operations but leaves ownership in the hands of the client). In addition, Americas Power Partners improves some plant's utility and distribution systems while taking Americas Power ownership and operation of the plant. Armstrong International Partners, Inc. owns 41% of Americas Power Partners; chairman and CEO [APPN.PK] Mark Margason holds a 31% stake.

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation [APC]

Apache Corporation [APA]

Anadarko Petroleum has ventured beyond its original area of operation -- the Anadarko Basin -- to explore for, develop, produce, and market oil, natural gas, natural gas liquids, and related products worldwide. The large independent company has proved reserves of 1.1 billion barrels of crude oil and 7.5 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas. More than half of the company's reserves are in the US (Alaska, Louisiana, Texas, the midcontinent and Rocky Mountain regions, and the Gulf of Mexico). Other activities include coal, trona, and other mineral mining. Apache is an oil and gas exploration and production company with onshore and offshore operations in North America and in Argentina, Australia, China, Egypt, and the UK. The company has proved reserves of 2.1 billion barrels of oil equivalent, mostly from five North American regions: the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana, the Permian Basin in West Texas, the Anadarko Basin in Oklahoma, and Canada. In 2004 it acquired more than two dozen mature US and Canadian fields from Exxon Mobil for $347 million and Gulf of Mexico properties from Anadarko Petroleum for $525 million. In 2005 Hurricane Katrina destroyed 8 of its 241 rigs in the Gulf.

Address: 1050 17th St., Ste. 1850 Denver, CO 80265 Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 303-991-0173 Revenue (2005): 4.70 M Fax: 303-595-0709 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 571.40%

• Chairman and CEO: Patrick D. (Pat) O'Brien • President, CFO, and Director: Andrew P. (Andy) Calerich

Address: 710 N. York Rd. Hinsdale, IL 60521 Phone: 630-325-9101 Fax: 630-325-8167

• Chairman and CEO: Mark A. Margason • President, COO, and Director: Gordon B. Mendelson • CFO: Jerome P. Frett

Address: 1201 Lake Robbins Dr. The Woodlands, TX 77380-1046 Phone: 832-636-1000 Fax: 832-636-8220

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 7100.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 17.00% Employees (2005): 3,300 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• Chairman, President, and CEO: James T. (Jim) Hackett • SVP and CFO; CEO, Anadarko Algeria Company: R. A. (Al) Walker • VP Corporate Development: Albert L. (Al) Richey

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 7457.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 40.50% Employees (2005): 2,805 Employee Growth (1 yr): 6.20%

• Chairman: Raymond Plank • President, CEO, COO, and Director: G. Steven (Steve) Farris • EVP and CFO: Roger B. Plank

Address: 2000 Post Oak Blvd., Ste. 100 Houston, TX 77056-4400 Phone: 713-296-6000 Fax: 713-296-6496

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Aptly named, Apco Argentina exploits oil and gas resources in Argentina. Deregulation gave Apco Argentina's joint venture with Perez Companc and Petrolera Perez Companc the right to pump oil from the Entre Lomas concession in southwestern Argentina until 2026. The exploration and production company (69%-owned by US powerhouse The Williams Companies) holds a 53% stake in the Entre Lomas venture. Apco Argentina, which also holds interests in other Apco Argentina oil and gas concessions in Argentina, has proved reserves of Inc. [APAGF] 22.6 million barrels of oil and 65.1 billion cu. ft. of gas. ATP Oil & Gas looks for its revenues where others have shelved their operations. The company's strategy is to exploit continental shelf assets that are being sold by larger oil companies searching for higher returns in deeper waters. It explores and develops natural gas and oil properties primarily on the outer continental shelf of the Gulf of Mexico, where it has interests in 52 blocks, 26 platforms, and 68 wells, and in the Southern Gas Basin of the UK's North Sea. Its proved reserves total 275.2 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent; natural gas makes up the bulk of the reserves. ATP Oil & Gas Employees and directors, led by founder and CEO Paul Corporation Bulmahn, control 37% of ATP Oil & Gas. [ATPG] Barnwell Industries has more than a barnful of assets. Its interests range from oil and gas production, contract well drilling operations, and Hawaiian property investments. Barnwell Industries explores for and produces oil and natural gas primarily in Alberta, Canada. It has proved reserves of 1.3 million barrels of oil and 25.2 billion cu. ft. of gas. Subsidiary Water Resources International drills water and geothermal wells and installs and repairs water pump Barnwell systems in Hawaii. The company also owns a 78% interest in Industries, Inc. Kaupulehu Developments, which owns leasehold rights to [BRN] more than 1,900 acres in Hawaii. It may be small fruit in the giant petroleum industry, but Berry Petroleum delivers the juice. The company buys properties with heavy crude oil reserves for exploitation and sale to refining companies. Berry Petroleum's core properties are in California's Kern, Los Angeles, and Ventura counties, and its proved reserves of 126 million barrels of oil equivalent. The company squeezes the most from its assets by using thermal recovery: Steam is injected into heavy crude oil reserves to reduce oil viscosity and allow it to flow to the surface. Berry Petroleum also owns three gas-fired cogeneration facilities. Berry Petroleum In 2005 the company acquired 130,000 acres of oil and gas Company [BRY] assets in Colorado from J-W Operating Company.

Address: One Williams Center, 26th Fl. Tulsa, OK 74172 Phone: 918-573-2164 Fax: 918-573-6546

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 41.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 39.50% Employees (2005): 11 Employee Growth (1 yr): 22.20%

• Chairman and CEO: Ralph A. Hill • President, COO, and General Manager: Thomas Bueno • CFO, Controller, and Chief Accounting Officer: Landy L. Fullmer

Address: 4600 Post Oak Place, Ste. 200 Houston, TX 77027 Phone: 713-622-3311 Fax: 713-622-5101

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 146.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 26.40% Employees (2004): 50 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-3.80%)

• Chairman and President: T. Paul Bulmahn • SVP Operations: Leland E. Tate • SVP and CFO: Albert L. Reese Jr.

Fiscal Year End: September Revenue (2005): 41.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 16.10% Employees (2005): 52 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• Chairman and CEO: Morton H. Kinzler • President, COO, General Counsel, and Director: Alexander C. Kinzler • EVP, CFO, Secretary, Treasurer, and Director: Russell M. Gifford

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 404.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 47.40% Employees (2005): 209 Employee Growth (1 yr): 33.10%

• Chairman: Martin H. Young Jr. • President , CEO, and Director: Robert F. Heinemann • EVP and CFO: Ralph J. Goehring

Address: 1100 Alakea St., Ste. 2900 Honolulu, HI 96813-2833 Phone: 808-531-8400 Fax: 808-531-7181

Address: 5201 Truxtun Ave., Ste. 300 Bakersfield, CA 93309-0640 Phone: 661-616-3900 Fax: 661-616-3881

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Blue Dolphin Energy is trying to stay afloat in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Blue Dolphin Energy explores for and acquires, develops, and operates oil and gas properties in the Gulf of Mexico and along the Texas Gulf Coast. The company owns offshore pipeline operations and its Petroport subsidiary develops deep-water terminals and storage facilities, allowing large tankers to deposit crude oil directly into a pumping facility. Blue Dolphin Energy swam in choppy waters in 2003 and 2004, running up heavy debts in its Blue Dolphin exploration and production activities. In 2004 it reported Energy Company proved reserves of only 400 barrels of oil and 35.3 million cu. [BDCO] ft. of natural gas. Renewable energy never gets old to Boralex. The company produces wood-residue, natural gas-fired cogeneration, hydroelectric, and wind energy in Quebec, the northeastern US, and France. Boralex owns and operates power stations with a combined capacity of about 250.2 MW: eight hydroelectric plants (Canada, France, and US), five woodresidue thermal power stations (Maine and New York), and a natural gas cogeneration power station and three wind farms (France). It also manages several power generating facilities (191 MW of electricity) owned by Boralex Power Income Fund, in which it owns a 23% stake. Canada-based paper and packaging group Cascades owns 43% of Boralex, which Boralex Inc. was incorporated in 1982. first small independent exploration and production firms to use 3-D seismic imaging. The company continues to rely on 3-D and other advanced technologies for onshore exploration. It explores mainly in the Anadarko Basin, the onshore Texas Gulf Coast, and West Texas. Since its founding in 1990, it has drilled more than 650 wells. Brigham Exploration has net proved reserves of about 101.9 billion cu. ft. of natural gas and 3.2 million barrels of oil. Founder Brigham and CEO Bud Brigham and his wife, Anne, control 7% of the Exploration Company [BEXP] company. in the wake of the UK's 1957 Windscale plant nuclear accident, the 1979 Three Mile Island incident in the US, and the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine. But British Energy is still a believer. The group is the UK's largest electricity generator and produces about 20% of the UK's power through its eight nuclear facilities in Scotland and England (total capacity is 9,600 MW). British Energy also owns the 2,000-MW coal-fired plant (Eggborough) in England; it has sold its North American power generation operations. The British Energy company, affected by a slump in wholesale power prices, has Group plc completed a two-year restructuring and a government [BEYGF.PK] bailout.

Address: 801 Travis, Ste. 2100 Houston, TX 77002 Phone: 713-227-7660 Fax: 713-227-7626

• Chairman and CEO: Ivar Siem • President and Secretary: Fiscal Year End: December Michael J. (Mike) Revenue (2005): 4.50 M Jacobson Revenue Growth (1 yr): 221.40% • VP, Business Employees (2004): 7 Development: John P. Employee Growth (1 yr): (-22.20%) Atwood

Address: 36, rue Lajeunesse Kingsey Falls, Quebec J0A 1B0, Canada Phone: 819-363-5116 Fax: 819-363-5127

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 75.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 60.10% Employees (2004): 250 Employee Growth (1 yr): 4.20%

• Chairman and CEO: Bernard Lemaire • President, COO, and Director: Claude Audet • VP and CFO: JeanFrançois Thibodeau

Address: 6300 Bridge Point Pkwy., Building 2, Ste. 500 Austin, TX 78730 Phone: 512-427-3300 Fax: 512-427-3400

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 97.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 34.30% Employees (2004): 57 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Ben M. (Bud) Brigham • EVP and CFO: Eugene B. Shepherd Jr.

Address: 3 Redwood Crescent, Peel Park East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire G74 5PR, United Kingdom Phone: +44-135-526-2000 Fax: +44-135-526-2301

• Chairman: Adrian A. Montague Fiscal Year End: March • CEO and Director: Revenue (2005): 905.50 M William A. (Bill) Coley Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-40.30%) • Finance Director and Employees (2005): 5,451 Director: Stephen Employee Growth (1 yr): 5.50% Billingham

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Brookfield Power (formerly Brascan Power) isn't brash when it comes to producing electricity. The subsidiary of real estate firm Brookfield Asset Management generates more than 2,600 MW of capacity at hydroelectric plants in the Canadian provinces of Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia, as well as in the US (Louisiana, Maine, New Hampshire, and New York) and Brazil. Brookfield Power also has power transmission and distribution operations (11,000 customers) in northern Ontario. Both the company and its parent have Brookfield Power snapped up more than 70 hydroelectric generating stations in Corporation the US since September 2004.

Like a cog on a gear in a well-oiled machine, Cabot Oil & Gas (ticker symbol: COG) has engaged in the oil industry very efficiently. Cabot explores for and produces natural gas and oil, and it sells gas to industrial customers, local utilities, and gas marketers. It has estimated proved reserves of 1.2 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent. Major areas of operation include Appalachia, the Anadarko Basin (Kansas, Cabot Oil & Gas Oklahoma, and Texas), the Rocky Mountains (Wyoming), Corporation and the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. The company also [COG] has reserves in Alberta and British Columbia. Callon Petroleum can call on new technologies to find old petroleum resources, employing computer-aided techniques such as 3-D surveys to explore and develop oil and gas properties. It also focuses on acquiring properties. Most of the firm's holdings are in federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico, although some are onshore in Alabama and Louisiana. Callon's estimated proved reserves stand at 188.6 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent. The firm owns working and/or royalty interests in about 231 producing oil wells and 242 producing gas wells. Natural gas accounts for the bulk of its Callon Petroleum daily production. The company collaborates with Murphy Oil, Company [CPE] BP, and others in its offshore exploration. Calpine may get hot, but it also knows how to blow off some steam. The independent power producer and marketer controls more than 26,000 MW of generating capacity through interests in natural gas-fired power plants in the US, Canada, and the UK. Calpine is also a top geothermal producer; it owns 90% of the plants at the largest geothermal facility in the US (The Geysers in northern California), where electricity is produced from natural steam. Calpine has 750 MW of capacity from these plants. In addition, the company owns approximately 500 billion cu. ft. equivalent of proved Calpine natural gas reserves and has gas gathering and Corporation transportation assets. Calpine filed Chapter 11 late in 2005.

Address: BCE Place, 181 Bay St., Ste. 300 Toronto, Ontario M5J 2T3, Canada

• Co-Chairman: Ed Kress • Co-Chairman and CEO: Harry A. Goldgut • President and COO: Richard Legault

Phone: 416-363-9491 Fax: 416-363-2856

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 682.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 28.70% Employees (2005): 354 Employee Growth (1 yr): 2.30%

• Chairman, CEO, and President: Dan O. Dinges • SVP and COO: Michael B. Walen • VP and CFO: Scott C. Schroeder

Address: 200 N. Canal St. Natchez, MS 39120 Phone: 601-442-1601 Fax: 601-446-1410

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 141.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 17.90% Employees (2004): 87 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-7.40%)

• Chairman, Callon Petroleum and Callon Petroleum Operating: John S. Callon • President, CEO, Acting CFO, and Director, Callon Petroleum a: Fred L. Callon • Corporate Information Officer: H. Clark Smith

Address: 50 W. San Fernando St. San Jose, CA 95113 Phone: 408-995-5115 Fax: 408-995-0505

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 9229.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 3.50% Employees (2004): 3,505 Employee Growth (1 yr): 2.50%

• Chairman: Kenneth T. Derr • CEO and Director: Robert P. (Bob) May • CFO: Scott J. Davido

Address: 1200 Enclave Pkwy. Houston, TX 77077 Phone: 281-589-4600 Fax: 281-589-4828

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Canadian Hydro Developers wants to fill up the Canadian energy market with water, wind, and wood-waste generated electricity. The company builds and operates independent power plants that focus on low-impact renewable energy technologies, such as hydroelectric, biomass, and wind energy, in the provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario. It has 17 low-impact renewable power plants with a combined net capacity of 162 MW. In 2005 it signed a 20Canadian Hydro year contract to sell green power to the Ontario Electricity Developers, Inc. Finance Corporation for the Melancthon Grey Wind Project [CHDVF.PK] near Shelborne. Canadian Natural Resources has exploited Canada's resources to become one of the country's largest gas producers. The company has large oil and natural gas holdings in British Columbia and Alberta, as well as in Saskatchewan. It also has holdings in the North Sea and offshore West Africa. Canadian Natural has proved reserves of 1.1 billion barrels of oil and 2.7 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas and produces an average of 514,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. The company has begun development of its C $10.8-billion Horizon Oil Sands Project, which is Canada' Canadian Natural fourth major open-pit oil sands development. Horizon is Resources projected to produce up to 110,000 barrels of bitumen per Limited [CNQ] day by mid-2008. CanArgo make a go of it? Apparently so. CanArgo Energy, formerly Fountain Oil, is an independent oil and gas company that primarily acquires, develops, and exploits gas and oil properties in Eastern Europe. The main focus of CanArgo Energy is the Ninotsminda field in the Republic of Georgia, where the company's Ninotsminda Oil subsidiary operates a production-sharing venture with Georgian Oil. Proved reserves at the Ninotsminda field are 6.3 million barrels of oil and 2.6 billion cu. ft. of gas. CanArgo also explores in Georgia's Samgori field and holds interests in CanArgo Energy Kazakhstan. CanArgo has disposed of its oil and gas Corporation interests in Ukraine and its petroleum product marketing and [CNR] refining operations in Georgia. Carrizo Oil & Gas sees its future in 3-D. An independent exploration and production company that drills in proven onshore fields along the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana, Carrizo aggressively acquires 3-D seismic data and arranges land lease options in conjunction with conducting seismic surveys. As part of a new strategy, the company is exploiting deeper, over-pressured targets, which generally require higher cost. To reduce its risk, it is selling some of the prospects. Carrizo has additional properties in North Texas, the Rockies, and in the UK North Sea. Its total proved reserves stand at 109.3 billion cu. ft. of natural gas Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. [CRZO] equivalent. Chairman Steven Webster owns 11% of Carrizo.

Address: Ste. 500, 1324 17th Ave. SW Calgary, Alberta T2T 5S8, Canada Phone: 403-269-9379 Fax: 403-244-7388

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 19.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 17.60% Employees (2004): 44

Address: 855 - 2 St. SW, Ste. 2500 Calgary, Alberta T2P 4J8, Canada Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 403-517-6700 Revenue (2005): 8691.00 M Fax: 403-517-7350 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 38.20%

• CEO and Director: John D. Keating • President, COO, and Director: J. Ross Keating • CFO: Kent E. Brown

• Chairman: Allan P. Markin • President and Director: John G. Langille • COO: Steve W. Laut

Address: St. Peter Port, Guernsey GY1 3RR, Channel Islands Phone: +44-1481-729-980 Fax: +44-1481-729-982

• Chairman, President, Fiscal Year End: December and CEO: David Robson Revenue (2005): 7.60 M • CFO: Richard J. Battey Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-20.80%) • COO: Vincent McDonnell Employees (2004): 158

Address: 14701 St. Mary's Ln., Ste. 800 Houston, TX 77079 Phone: 281-496-1352 Fax: 281-496-1251

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 78.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 52.10% Employees (2004): 38 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• Chairman: Steven A. Webster • President, CEO, and Director: S. P. Johnson IV • VP, CFO, Secretary, and Treasurer: Paul F. Boling

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Chesapeake Energy Corporation [CHK]

China HuaNeng Group

Chesapeake Energy knows the peaks and valleys of the oil and gas business. The independent exploration and production company concentrates on building natural gas reserves through acquisitions in the US midcontinent region. This region accounts for the vast majority of the company's estimated proved reserves of 4.9 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent, but Chesapeake also has assets along the Gulf Coast, in the Permian Basin, and in the Ark-La-Tex region. In 2005, in a major move, the company acquired Columbia Natural Resources for $2.2 billion. Chesapeake co-founders Tom Ward (president) and Aubrey McClendon (CEO) own 5.9% and 5.5% of the company, respectively. China Huaneng Group (CHNG) is one of China's five largest power conglomerates. The company oversees government interests in 10 subsidiaries, including more than 40% in Huaneng Power International. Through subsidiaries it develops and operates more than 85 thermal and hydro power plants. CHNG is responsible for close to 195 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year. In addition to its powergeneration business, the company plans to enter other sectors, including finance, transportation, information technology, and renewable energy.

is the largest refiner and petrochemical producer in China. Its parent, state-owned China Petrochemical (Sinopec Group), reorganized in 2000 and pooled the best of its assets as Sinopec Corp. Sinopec Corp.'s businesses include oil and gas exploration and production; crude oil processing; oil products trading, transportation, distribution and marketing; and petrochemical products production, marketing and China Petroleum distribution. It has proved reserves of 3.3 billion barrels of oil and 2.9 trillion cu. ft. of gas, and owns more than 29,400 gas & Chemical stations. The government of China owns 55% of the Corporation company. [SNP] Cimarex Energy's energy is devoted to oil and gas exploration and production. The company was formed in 2002 by the spinoff of a unit of contract driller Helmerich & Payne's Cimarex Energy subsidiary and that unit's consequent acquisition of oil and gas explorer Key Production. Cimarex Energy is focusing its operations on the Midcontinent, Gulf Coast, Permian Basin, and Gulf of Mexico. The company has estimated proved reserves of more than 1.5 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent. In 2005 Cimarex Energy Cimarex Energy acquired Magnum Hunter Resources in a $2.1 billion stock deal that doubled the size of the company. Co. [XEC]

Address: 6100 N. Western Ave. Oklahoma City, OK 73118 Phone: 405-848-8000 Fax: 405-843-0573

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 4665.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 72.20% Employees (2004): 1,718 Employee Growth (1 yr): 44.10%

Address: 40 Xueyuan Nanlu Beijing 100088, China Phone: +86-10-6229-1888 Fax: +86-10-6229-1899

Address: 6A Huixin East St., Chaoyang District Beijing 100029, China Phone: +86-10-6499-0060 Fax: +86-10-6499-0022

Address: 1700 Lincoln St., Ste. 1800 Denver, CO 80203 Phone: 303-295-3995 Fax: 303-295-3494

• Chairman and CEO: Aubrey K. McClendon • EVP and CFO: Marcus C. Rowland • EVP Operations and COO: Steven C. Dixon

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• CEO: Li Xiaopeng

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 101984.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 36.20% Employees (2004): 389,451 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-2.80%)

• Chairman: Chen Tonghai • President: Wang Tianpu • SVP, CFO, and Director: Zhang Jiaren

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 1118.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 65.70% Employees (2005): 689 Employee Growth (1 yr): 89.80%

• Chairman, President, and CEO: F. H. Merelli • SVP Business Development and Land: Stephen P. Bell • VP, CFO, Secretary, and Treasurer: Paul J. Korus

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Revenues come naturally to CKX Lands. Formerly called Calcasieu Real Estate and Oil, CKX Lands owns about 14,000 acres in Louisiana that host oil and gas wells, mines, timber, and agricultural operations. Formed in 1930, the company does not perform any mining or oil and gas operations. Instead, it generates revenues through royalties from the natural resources produced from its land. Originally set up to receive mineral royalties spun off by a bank to its shareholders, CKX Lands' growth strategy is built around acquiring landholdings in southwest Louisiana. Its largets customer, Cox & Perkins accounts for about a third of the CKX Lands, Inc. company's sales; Kerr-McGee and Unit Petroleum each [CKX] account for about 15%. Former Texas gubernatorial candidate Clayton Williams once devoted his energy to politics. Now he's devoted to the independent oil and gas firm that he founded. Clayton Williams Energy explores for oil and gas deposits in Louisiana, New Mexico, and Texas and exploits those resources. The company has proved reserves of 299 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent. Most of those reserves are in the Permian Basin and in East Texas. It also operates 94 miles of gas pipeline and processing plants in Texas and Mississippi. Williams is CEO and owns approximately 48% of Clayton Williams the firm. In 2004 Clayton Williams Energy boosted its Energy, Inc. reserves by 150% with the acquisition of Southwest Royalties [CWEI] Inc. for $188 million. CNOOC manages China's offshore oil and gas exploration and production activities, in partnership with international oil and gas firms. Under Chinese government-regulated production sharing contracts, CNOOC has the sole right to acquire up to 51% of any successful discovery offshore China made by foreign partners. CNOOC has 2.2 billion barrels of oil equivalent in proven reserves, primarily in the South China Sea. CNOOC is also engaged in oil refining, natural gas processing, and refined and processed products marketing. The oil producer has a net production of 320,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, making it China's third CNOOC Limited largest oil company. CNOOC is 71%-owned by China [CEO] National Offshore Oil Corporation. Coast Mountain Power develops and operates independent hydroelectric power projects in British Columbia. Through its Coast Mountain Hydro Corp., the company is developing two hydroelectric-generating facilities on the Iskut River in northwestern British Columbia: the 112-MW (installed capacity) Forrest Kerr and the 19-MW More Creek project. In conjunction with the Forrest Kerr and More Creek projects, it has filed an application for a license for a 60-MW run-of-river hydroelectric generating plant on Mclymont Creek in British Columbia. The three projects will give the company a combined installed capacity of nearly 195 MW. It is also Coast Mountain developing a transmission line to deliver electricity to the BC Power Corp. Hydro grid.

Address: 3401 Ryan St. Lake Charles, LA 70601 Phone: 318-494-4256

Address: 6 Desta Dr., Ste. 3000 Midland, TX 79705-5510 Phone: 432-682-6324 Fax: 432-682-1452

Address: 65th Fl., Bank of China Tower, 1 Garden Rd., Central Hong Kong Phone: +852-2213-2500 Fax: +852-2525-9322

Address: Ste. 707, 1281 W. Georgia St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 3J7, Canada Phone: 604-681-8680 Fax: 604-681-8646

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 2.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 0.00% Employees (2005): 4 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• President and CEO: Arthur Hollins III • VP and Treasurer: William D. Blake

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 264.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 30.90% Employees (2005): 174 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.60%

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Clayton W. Williams • EVP, COO, and Director: L. Paul Latham • SVP, Finance, CFO, Secretary, Treasurer, and Director: Mel G. Riggs

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 8588.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 29.10%

• Chairman and CEO: Chengyu Fu • President and Director: Shouwei Zhou • CFO: Hua Yang

• Chairman: J. Christopher Lay • President, CEO, and Director: Clifford A. (Cliff) Grandison • CFO and Director: Peter J. Sproston

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Cogentrix Energy, Inc.

Comstock Resources, Inc. [CRK]

Constellation Generation Group, LLC

Contango Oil & Gas Company [MCF]

Covanta Energy Corporation

Tricks are for kids, but Cogentrix Energy is for electric generating facilities, silly rabbit. The company develops, owns, and operates independent power plants, located primarily in the US. Cogentrix Energy has an operational generating capacity of 3,300 MW from its stakes in more than 25 coal- and gas-fired facilities. The company also sells electricity wholesale to utilities and power marketers, primarily through long-term purchase or conversion contracts. New York-based investment firm Goldman Sachs Group acquired Cogentrix Energy in December 2003. and oil. The midsized independent oil and gas company has proved reserves of 504.7 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent (86% in the form of natural gas) on its properties in four major areas -- East Texas and North Louisiana, Mississippi, South Texas, and Southeast Texas. Comstock Resources operates 334 of the 670 producing wells in which it holds an interest. The company has grown by exploiting its existing reserves and through acquisitions. In 2004 Comstock Resources acquired producing properties from Ovation Energy for $62 million. In 2005 the company acquired assets from EnSight Energy Partners for $192.5 million. Constellation Generation is a real star when it comes to power generation. The company is a key element of parent Constellation Energy Group's nonregulated merchant energy division. The unit has more than 12,000 MW of generating capacity from 30 power and fuel processing facilities in 10 states. Its power is sold to wholesale customers through affiliate Constellation Energy Commodities Group (formerly Constellation Power Source). successful independent oil and natural gas company. Contango Oil & Gas (named after a term used by oil and gas traders to describe anticipated rising prices in the futures market) explores for and acquires oil and gas properties along the Gulf Coast. Contango, which holds proved reserves of 911 million cu. ft. of natural gas and 77,000 barrels of oil, has strategic exploration alliances with Juneau Exploration, Alta Resources, and others. In 2004 the company sold its south Texas natural gas and oil assets to Edge Petroleum for $50 million. CEO Kenneth Peak owns 18.5% of Contango. The power ball is back in Covanta Energy's court. The power producer has interests in plants located in the Americas, Asia, and Europe that generate some 2,000 MW of capacity. More than half of its power supply is derived from fossilfueled and hydroelectric facilities; the rest comes from its alternative energy facilities, including its waste-to-energy plants in the US. It also provides contract construction, maintenance, and operation services for water and wastewater systems in the US. Covanta Energy emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection when it was acquired by Covanta Holding (then Danielson Holding) in 2004.

Address: 9405 Arrowpoint Blvd. Charlotte, NC 28273-8110 Phone: 704-525-3800 Fax: 704-529-5313

• President: Larry Kellerman • Group SVP and CFO: Thomas F. Schwartz • Group SVP, Development, Mergers, and Acquisitions: Tom Bonner

Address: 5300 Town and Country Fiscal Year End: December Blvd., Ste. 500 Revenue (2005): 303.30 M Frisco, TX 75034 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 15.90% Phone: 972-668-8800 Employees (2004): 72 Fax: 972-668-8812 Employee Growth (1 yr): 5.90%

• Chairman, President, and CEO: M. Jay Allison • SVP, CFO, Secretary, Treasurer, and Director: Roland O. Burns • VP Corporate Development: Michael W. Taylor

Address: 1997 Annapolis Exchange Pkwy., Ste. 500 Annapolis, MD 21401 Phone: 410-897-5000 Fax: 410-234-5220

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 646.00 M Employees (2005): 2,300

• President; EVP, Constellation Energy: Michael J. (Mike) Wallace • CFO: James (Jim) Walkington • SVP, Business Development: Joe C. Turnage

Address: 3700 Buffalo Speedway, Ste. 960 Houston, TX 77098 Phone: 713-960-1901 Fax: 713-960-1065

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2005): 4.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-84.40%) Employees (2005): 6 Employee Growth (1 yr): 50.00%

• Chairman, President, CEO, CFO, and Secretary: Kenneth R. Peak

Address: 40 Lane Rd. Fairfield, NJ 07004 Phone: 973-882-9000 Fax: 973-882-7234

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 700.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-11.40%) Employees (2004): 1,800 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-25.00%)

• President and CEO: Anthony J. Orlando • SVP and CFO: Craig D. Abolt • SVP, Operations: John M. Klett

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CREDO Petroleum believes strongly in fossil fuels: It explores for, produces, and markets natural gas and crude oil in the US Gulf Coast, Midcontinent, and Rocky Mountain regions. The company has traditionally concentrated on shallow and medium-depth properties (7,000-10,000 ft.), but in 2005 it launched new projects in Kansas and South Texas (where it is drilling to well depths ranging from 10,000 to 15,500 feet). The company has estimated proved reserves of CREDO 15.5 billion cu. ft. of gas and 386,000 barrels of oil. Petroleum Subsidiary United Oil operates the company's properties in Corporation Oklahoma, and CREDO Petroleum's other subsidiary, SECO [CRED] Energy, owns royalty interests in the Rocky Mountains. Across the Gulf of Mexico region of the US, Crosstex Energy is hard at work pushing natural gas. The company gathers, transports, treats, and processes natural gas through more than 5,000 miles of pipeline, nine processing plants, four fractionatiors, and 190 gas treating plants. Its revenues are generated through the purchase and resale of natural gas from more than 40 independent producers located along the US Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida. Through its treating division, Crosstex cleans carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide from natural gas, enabling it to meet pipeline quality Crosstex Energy, requirements. Crosstex Energy Inc. owns and controls the general partner of Crosstex Energy. L.P. [XTEX]

Datang Power is a zinger in the Chinese power market. Datang International Power Generation (Datang Power), formerly Beijing Datang Power Generation, operates and develops power plants, sells electricity, and provides power equipment maintenance services throughout the country. Datang The company is one of China's largest independent power International producers; it has a generating capacity of about 11,300MW Power from interests in coal-fired and hydroelectric facilities. Datang Generation Power owns and operates 4 power plants and manages 15 Company Limited power companies. Government-owned China Datang Corp. [DIPGY.PK] owns about 35% of Datang Power. An independent oil and gas exploration and production company, Delta Petroleum has been dealt a good hand in proved reserves. It has 224.3 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent, 54% of which is in the Louisiana and South Texas basins on the Gulf Coast. It is also active in offshore California near Santa Barbara, Colorado's Denver-Julesberg and Piceance basins, and Wyoming's Wind River basin. Delta Petroleum operates three major subsidiaries: Castle Texas Exploration Limited Partnership, Delta Exploration Delta Petroleum Company, Inc., and Piper Petroleum Company. It also owns about 92% of Amber Resources. In 2006 Delta Petroleum Corporation acquired Castle Energy. [DPTR]

Address: 1801 Broadway, Ste. 900 Denver, CO 80202-3837 Phone: 303-297-2200 Fax: 303-297-2204

Fiscal Year End: October Revenue (2005): 13.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 38.00% Employees (2004): 10 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• Chairman, President, CEO, and Treasurer: James T. Huffman • VP and CFO: David W. Vreeman

Address: 2501 Cedar Springs, Ste. 600 Dallas, TX 75201 Phone: 214-953-9500 Fax: 214-953-9501

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 3033.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 53.30% Employees (2004): 325 Employee Growth (1 yr): 72.00%

• Chairman: Bryan H. Lawrence • President CEO, and Director: Barry E. Davis • EVP and CFO: William W. Davis

Address: 482 Guanganmennei Ave., 8th Fl., Xuanwu District Beijing 100053, China Phone: +86-10-8358-1901 Fax: +86-10-8358-1911

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 1639.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 36.50% Employees (2004): 9,891 Employee Growth (1 yr): 29.60%

• Chairman: Zhai Ruoyu • Vice Chairman and President: Zhang Yi • CFO: Wang Xianzhou

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2005): 61.80 M Employees (2005): 95 Employee Growth (1 yr): 90.00%

• Chairman and CEO: Roger A. Parker • President and COO: John R Wallace • CFO and Treasurer: Kevin K. Nanke

Address: 370 17th St., Ste. 4300 Denver, CO 80202 Phone: 303-293-9133 Fax: 303-298-8251

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Delta Power Company, LLC

Denbury Resources Inc. [DNR]

Devon Energy Corporation [DVN]

Double Eagle Petroleum Co. [DBLE]

Delta Power is an alpha company when it comes to developing, acquiring, financing, and managing independent power projects throughout the US. The company has interests in 29 primarily fossil-fueled power plants in nine states with a combined generating capacity of more than 2,700 MW. It sells its electricity through wholesale contracts with regional utility companies and on the spot market. Subsidiary Delta Power Services provides operation and maintenance services. Financial partners include John Hancock Financial Services, ArcLight Capital Partners, and Morgan Stanley. In 2005 the company sold two hydroelectric plants to Brascan Power for $31.4 million. Denbury Resources has long since capped its oil and gas operations in its native Canada to try its luck in the Deep South. The independent exploration and production company has estimated proved reserves of nearly 130 million barrels of oil equivalent and working interests in wells across Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and in the Gulf of Mexico. In Mississippi it also owns wells that produce carbon dioxide (CO2), which it uses to force oil out of the ground at nearby abandoned wells. In 2002 Denbury Resources bought Genesis Energy LLC, the general partner of Gulf Coast crude oil marketer Genesis Energy, L.P., and the Gulf Coast properties of Coho Energy. way into the big leagues. With acquisitions of PennzEnergy, Northstar Energy, and Santa Fe Snyder, it has become an oil and gas heavyweight. It got stouter by buying Anderson Exploration, and Mitchell Energy & Development. In 2003 it acquired Ocean Energy for $3.5 billion and merged it with Devon Newco. Devon has proved reserves of 649 million barrels of oil equivalent, 7.3 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas, and 246 million barrels of natural gas liquids. It also has exploration and production assets in the Gulf of Mexico, western Canada, and in other major oil patches worldwide. In 2006 Devon agreed to buy US-based Chief Holdings LLC for $2 billion. It's double or nothing for Double Eagle Petroleum (formerly Double Eagle Petroleum and Mining) which gambles on hitting pay dirt as it explores for and produces oil and gas in the Rocky Mountains of Utah and Wyoming. Double Eagle Petroleum owns interests in 524 producing wells, and natural gas accounts for 96% of the oil and gas independent's production. The company has proved reserves of more than 278,000 barrels of oil and 34.9 billion cu. ft. of natural gas, and leases acreage in seven states. Double Eagle Petroleum sells its oil and gas on the spot market. CEO Stephen Hollis owns more than 8% of the company.

Address: 67 Park Place East Morristown, NJ 07960 Phone: 973-889-9100 Fax: 973-889-0020

Revenue (2005): 61.40 M Employees (2005): 224

• President: Dean N. Vanech • SVP Finance: Richard G. Vicens

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 557.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 23.50% Employees (2004): 380 Employee Growth (1 yr): 1.60%

• Chairman: Ronald G. Greene • President, CEO, and Director: Gareth Roberts • SVP, CFO, Secretary, and Treasurer: Phil Rykhoek

Address: 20 N. Broadway Oklahoma City, OK 73102-8260 Phone: 405-235-3611 Fax: 405-552-4550

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 10741.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 16.90% Employees (2004): 3,900 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-0.60%)

• Chairman and CEO: J. Larry Nichols • President: John Richels • CFO and SVP, Corporate Finance and Development: Brian J. Jennings

Address: 777 Overland Trail, Ste. 206 Casper, WY 82602 Phone: 307-237-9330 Fax: 307-266-1823

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 20.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 56.50% Employees (2004): 1 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

Address: 5100 Tennyson Pkwy., Ste. 3000 Plano, TX 75024 Phone: 972-673-2000 Fax: 972-673-2150

Yes

Yes

• President, CEO, and Director: Stephen H. Hollis • CFO: David Milhom

Yes

Drax Group Limited

Edge Petroleum Corporation [EPEX]

Edison Mission Energy

Edison S.p.A.

Drax Group has bragging rights when it comes to operating the largest coal-fired power plant in Europe. The company's primary subsidiary, Drax Power, operates the Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire, England. The generation facility has a capacity of nearly 4,000 MW; its output is sold to wholesale electricity customers. Drax Group underwent a financial restructuring in 2003 after its largest customer, TXU Europe, filed for administrative protection. The company was formerly owned by US generation firm AES; it fell into the hands of AES' former project creditors in 2003. After refusing two takeover bids, the company was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2005. Edge Petroleum goes high-tech to gain an edge over its rivals in the oil and gas exploration and production business. The company relies on visualization software and a 3-D seismic database to find natural gas and oil prospects onshore along the Gulf of Mexico region. Edge Petroleum has proved reserves of 102.7 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent, of which 80% is natural gas and natural gas liquids. Although its primary operations are in Texas, where most of its net developed acreage is located, the company also has major developed holdings in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and New Mexico. In 2004 the company acquired Contango Oil & Gas' south Texas natural gas and oil interests for about $50 million. Edison Mission Energy (EME) once wanted to conquer the nonregulated energy sector, but now it'll settle for a piece of the US market. The company, a subsidiary of Edison International, has interests in power plants in US and Turkey (Doga project) that give it a net physical generating capacity of nearly 10,000 MW. EME sells power through contracts with large utilities, regional distributors, and other energy companies; it also trades energy on the open markets. A decline in wholesale energy prices has forced EME to retreat to its home soil and sell off nearly all of its foreign holdings. In business in Italy since the dawn of the electric age, Edison has grown to become Italy's leading independent power producer, with more than 6,000 MW of hydroelectric, fossilfueled, and wind-powered generating capacity. Much of Edison's electricity goes to Italy's largest utility, Enel; Edison also sells power to commercial and industrial businesses. The company has oil and natural gas marketing, exploration, and production operations; it also distributes gas directly to 154,000 retail customers. Edison was controlled by Italenergia Bis, a group led by Fiat and Electricité de France (EDF), but in 2005 the power shifted -- EDF and Italian utility AEM S.p.A. now jointly control Edison.

Address: Drax Power Station, P.O. Box 3 Selby, North Yorkshire YO8 8PQ, United Kingdom Phone: +44-17-5761-8381 Fax: +44-17-5761-8504

Address: 1301 Travis, Ste. 2000 Houston, TX 77002 Phone: 713-654-8960 Fax: 713-654-7722

Address: 18101 Von Karman Ave. Irvine, CA 92612 Phone: 949-752-5588 Fax: 949-263-9162

Address: Foro Buonaparte, 31 20121 Milan, Italy Phone: +39-02-6222-1 Fax: +39-02-6222-7379

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 1053.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 25.80% Employees (2004): 540

• Chairman, Drax Group and Drax Power: Gordon Horsfield • CEO and Director: Dorothy Thompson • Finance Director and Board Member: Gordon Boyd

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 121.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 87.90% Employees (2004): 53 Employee Growth (1 yr): 51.40%

• Chairman President and CEO: John W. Elias • SVP and CFO: Michael G. Long • VP Business Development and Planning: C.W. MacLeod

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 2248.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 37.20% Employees (2005): 1,745 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-1.30%)

• Chairman and CEO: Theodore F. (Ted) Craver Jr. • CFO and SVP: W. James (Jim) Scilacci • VP, Business Management: John P. Finneran Jr.

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 7769.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 14.10% Employees (2004): 3,857 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-2.80%)

Chairman and CEO: Umberto Quadrino • Head of Finance: Franco Balsamo • Director, External Relations and Communication: Andrea Prandi

Yes

It does not take a genius to figure out what business Electric Energy (EEI) is involved in. The company generates nearly 1,100 MW of electric capacity at its coal-fired power plant in Joppa, Illinois. The independent producer sells its power output to its shareholders. The Missouri-based utility holding company Ameren holds an 80% stake in EEI; Ameren purchased Dynegy's 20% stake in 2004 as part of its acquisition of Illinois Power Company (which now operates Electric Energy, as AmerenIP). Kentucky Utilities ( a subsidiary of LG&E Inc. Energy) owns the remaining 20% of the company. Enbridge Energy Management, bridging the gap over a complex structure of pipeline partnerships, manages and controls the business of Enbridge Energy Partners (formerly Lakehead Pipe Line Partners). The company's only asset is an 18% limited partner interest in Enbridge Energy Partners, which owns the US part of North America's longest liquid petroleum pipeline (Lakehead System) and also has interests in natural gas gathering, treating, processing, and transmission operations in East Texas. Enbridge Energy Enbridge Energy Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Enbridge Inc., holds Management, a 17% stake in the company, and serves as the general L.L.C. [EEQ] partner of Enbridge Energy Partners. derived from Energy, Canada, and Alberta). It has proved reserves of 1.1 billion barrels of oil and 11.8 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas in Canada and the US. Boosting its North American assets, in 2004 EnCana acquired Tom Brown for about $2.2 billion and sold a portion of its assets to Harvest Energy for about $395 million. That year the company sold its UK North Sea assets to Nexen for about $2.1 billion and has agreed to sell its natural gas liquids business to Provident Energy Trust for a reported $586 million. The company agreed in 2005 to sell its gas storage facilities to a private EnCana equity fund headed by Riverstone Holdings and The Carlyle Corporation Group. [ECA] and CEO), Encore Acquisition is an independent oil and natural gas company engaged in the acquisition, development, and exploitation of reserves in several basins. Operations include drilling in the Williston Basin of Montana and North Dakota, the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico, and the Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma. The company's total proved reserves of 196 million barrels of oil equivalent are primarily from its Cedar Creek Anticline asset (in Montana and North Dakota). Encore Acquisition was Encore formed in 1998 by J.P. Morgan Partners, Warburg Pincus & Acquisition Co., and Natural Gas Partners. In 2004 the company Company [EAC] acquired Cortez Oil & Gas.

Address: 2100 Portland Rd. Joppa, IL 62953 Phone: 618-543-7531 Fax: 618-543-7420

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 207.30 M Employees (2005): 257

• President: Robert L. Powers

Address: 1100 Louisiana, Ste. 3300 Houston, TX 77002 Phone: 713-821-2000 Fax: 713-821-2232

• Managing Director and Director: Stephen J. J. (S.J.J.) Letwin • VP Operations and Technology: R. L. Adams • VP Finance: M. A. Maki

Address: 855 - 2nd St. SW, Ste. 1800 Calgary, Alberta T2P 2S5, Canada Phone: 403-645-2000 Fax: 403-645-2091

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 14266.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 20.80% Employees (2004): 4,090 Employee Growth (1 yr): 6.10%

• Chairman: David P. O'Brien • President and CEO: Randall K. (Randy) Eresman • EVP and CFO: Brian C. Ferguson

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 457.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 53.20% Employees (2004): 164 Employee Growth (1 yr): 37.80%

• Chairman and CEO: I. Jon Brumley • President and Director: Jon S. (Jonny) Brumley • EVP, CFO, and Treasurer: Roy W. Jageman

Address: 777 Main St., Ste. 1400 Fort Worth, TX 76102 Phone: 817-877-9955 Fax: 817-877-1655

Yes

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Yes

Like famous British explorer Captain James Cook's vessel, The Endeavour, Endeavour International has been on quite a journey. The company started life as a graphics company (Expression Graphics) in 2000, before changing its name and business direction in 2002, when (as Continental Southern Resources) it began to focus on oil and gas exploration in the US. In 2004 it acquired NSNV, which held a North Sea seismic database, and became Endeavour Endeavour International. It then sold its US assets. The company is International buying up stakes in mature North Sea fields that the majors Corporation are moving away from. Endeavour International has proved [END] reserves of 2.2 million barrels of oil equivalent. It pays for Energy Partners to have friends in the oil and gas business. The independent explorer and producer focuses on the shallow Gulf of Mexico waters offshore Louisiana. It partners with big oil companies to explore for reserves on properties the majors have left behind; Energy Partners earns an interest in the new reserves and production. The company has interests in 327 productive wells, and has proved reserves of 41.9 million barrels of oil equivalent. Energy Partners, Energy Partners has grown through acquisitions, including the 2002 purchase of Hall-Houston Oil Company. Ltd. [EPL] Both enterprising and productive, Enterprise Products Partners is a leading player in the North American natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGL), and crude oil industries, with a range of processing, transportation, and storage services. Operations include natural gas processing, NGL fractionation, and crude oil transportation. The hub of the company's business is Houston's Mont Belvieu refinery complex. Enterprise owns interests in 18,368 miles of gas pipeline, 113,297 miles of NGL and petrochemical pipeline, Enterprise and 813 miles of crude oil pipeline. It also owns salt domes, Products drilling platforms, and fractionation and natural gas Partners L.P. processing plants. Chairman Dan Duncan holds a 37.4% [EPD] stake in Enterprise. EOG Resources hogs a resource -- natural gas. The independent oil and gas company is engaged in exploring for natural gas and crude oil and developing, producing, and marketing those resources. EOG, an independent offspring of the once powerful Enron, has total estimated reserves of 6.2 trillion cu. ft. equivalent, including 5.6 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas reserves and 106 million barrels of cude oil, condensate, and natural gas liquid (NGL) reserves. The company operates in major production basins in Canada, offshore Trinidad, the US, and the UK sector of the North EOG Resources, Sea. EOG is boosting its North American exploration Inc. [EOG] activities and expanding its reserves.

Fiscal Year End: December Address: 1000 Main St., Ste. 3300 Revenue (2005): 38.70 M Houston, TX 77002 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 945.90% Phone: 713-307-8700 Employees (2005): 52

• Co-CEO and Director: John N. Seitz • Co-CEO and Director: William L. (Bill) Transier • EVP, Operations and Business Development: Bruce H. Stover

Address: 201 St. Charles Ave., Ste. 3400 New Orleans, LA 70170 Phone: 504-569-1875 Fax: 504-569-1874

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 402.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 36.50% Employees (2005): 170 Employee Growth (1 yr): 12.60%

• Chairman and CEO: Richard A. Bachmann • President, COO, and Director: Phillip A. Gobe • Treasurer: Joseph H. LeBlanc Jr.

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 12257.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 47.30% Employees (2004): 2,606 Employee Growth (1 yr): 96.70%

• Chairman: Dan L. Duncan • President, CEO, and Director: Robert G. Phillips • EVP, CFO, and Director: Michael A. Creel

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 3607.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 56.70% Employees (2004): 1,250 Employee Growth (1 yr): 13.60%

• Chairman and CEO: Mark G. Papa • President, Chief of Staff, and Director: Edmund P. (Ed) Segner III • EVP Operations: Gary L. Thomas

Address: 2727 North Loop West Houston, TX 77008-1037 Phone: 713-880-6500 Fax: 713-880-6668

Address: 333 Clay St., Ste. 4200 Houston, TX 77002-7361 Phone: 713-651-7000 Fax: 713-651-6995

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Yes

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EXCO Resources, Inc. [XCO]

FieldPoint Petroleum Corporation [FPP]

Forest Oil Corporation [FST]

Galaxy Energy Corporation [GAX]

exploration and production operations in Colorado, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, and West Virginia. The company, which has an ongoing acquisition program, has estimated proved reserves of 668.3 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent. EXCO Resources holds interests in more than 5,180 wells. In 2004 the company acquired Appalachian explorer North Coast Energy for $225.1 million. In 2005 TXOK (a Boone Pickens-controlled affiliate) acquired ONEOK Energy. Following EXCO Resources' 2006 IPO, TXOK became a subsidiary in a move that added 223.3 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent to the company's reserves.

Got oil and gas? FieldPoint Petroleum can point to its oil and gas fields and its interests in about 340 productive oil and gas wells in Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Wyoming. The independent oil and gas exploration company operates some 61 of these wells. FieldPoint Petroleum has proved developed reserves of 880,991 barrels of oil, and 1.4 billion cu. ft. of natural gas. In 2005 the company announced plans to explore and develop of its Palo Duro Basin acreage (some 3,235 acres in Floyd County, Texas). Chairman and CEO Ray Reaves, an oil and gas industry veteran, controls 41% of the company. and gas business as it squeezes hydrocarbons from old forests buried deep underground. While the independent exploration and production company explores outside of North America, Forest Oil is focusing on building additional reserves in the US and expanding in Canada. It holds substantial acreage in Canada and also operates a marketing and trading unit in that country. The company reports proved reserves of 1.5 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent. Billionaire Philip Anschutz had controlled a 32.5% stake in Forest Oil. At the end of 2005 he controlled about 13%. It's not Carl Sagan's "billions and billions of stars" that Galaxy Energy Corporation is looking for, but a few stellar finds in the oil and gas exploration and production business. The company focuses on acquiring and developing coalbed methane and other natural gas properties in Montana, Texas, and Wyoming. In 2005 Galaxy Energy acquired 60% of a parcel of 4,000 undeveloped acres in the Piceance Basin in Colorado. The company is also looking into natural gas opportunities in Europe, primarily in Germany and Romania. CEO Marc Bruner controls 20.4% of the company.

Address: 12377 Merit Dr., Ste. 1700 LB 82 Dallas, TX 75251 Phone: 214-368-2084 Fax: 214-368-2087

• Chairman and CEO: Douglas H. Miller • Vice Chairman, President, and Secretary: Fiscal Year End: December Stephen F. Smith Revenue (2004): 92.80 M • VP, CFO, Chief Revenue Growth (1 yr): 189.20% Accounting Officer, and Employees (2004): 284 Treasurer: J. Douglas Employee Growth (1 yr): 115.20% Ramsey

Address: 1703 Edelweiss Dr., Ste. 301 Cedar Park, TX 78613 Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 512-250-8692 Revenue (2005): 4.00 M Fax: 512-335-1294 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 33.30%

Address: 1600 Broadway, Ste. 2200 Denver, CO 80202 Phone: 303-812-1400 Fax: 303-812-1602

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 1072.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 17.40% Employees (2004): 496 Employee Growth (1 yr): 8.30%

Yes

• Chairman, President, CEO and Director: Ray D. Reaves Yes

• Chairman: Forrest E. Hoglund • President and CEO: H. Craig Clark • EVP and CFO: David H. Keyte

• President, CEO, and Director: Marc E. Bruner • SVP, CFO, Secretary, Address: 1331 17th St., Ste. 1050 and Treasurer: Denver, CO 80202 Fiscal Year End: November Christopher S. Hardesty Phone: 303-293-2300 Revenue (2005): 1.30 M • COO and Director: Cecil Fax: 303-293-2417 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 1200.00% D. Gritz

Yes

Yes

Gasco Energy, Inc. [GSX]

GeoResources, Inc. [GEOI]

GMX Resources Inc. [GMXR]

Goodrich Petroleum Corporation [GDP]

Gasco Energy is not your local gas company or energy provider. The exploration and production independent develops and explores for natural gas and crude petroleum primarily in the Rocky Mountains. The company's exploration activities are focused on Utah's Uinta Basin and Wyoming's Green River Basin. Gasco Energy's proved reserves are 41.3 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent. The principal markets for its commodity products are natural gas transmission pipeline companies, private industrial companies, refining companies, and utilities. In 2004 ConocoPhillips accounted for 93% of the company's production. Though most of GeoResources' products are wet and slippery, one of them is dry and powdery. The company's oil and gas operations in Montana and North Dakota generate the bulk of its revenues. It also has a contract drilling operation. GeoResources has proved reserves of 2.3 million barrels of oil and 391 million cu. ft. of gas. It also mines leonardite, an oxidized lignite coal, which it processes into a powder used primarily as a dispersant or thinner in drilling muds. In 2004 GeoResources sold 48% of its crude oil to Plains Marketing Canada. Drilling companies active in the Gulf of Mexico buy most of the company's leonardite products as mud additives in oil and gas drilling. The natural resources in productive, hydrocarbon-rich geological basins are the target for GMX Resources. The Oklahoma-based independent oil and natural gas company explores on more than 20,800 combined net acres located in the Sabine Uplift in Texas and Louisiana, and the Tatum basin in New Mexico. With 66 net producing wells, GMX Resources has proved reserves of 64.3 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent. It has a large inventory of drilling and recompletion projects with an estimated 42 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent of proved undeveloped reserves. rocks of ancient Mother Earth, Goodrich Petroleum brings forth oil and gas. The independent exploration and production company delves into formations dating to the Miocene and Frio Age in southern Louisiana, where it has most of its proved reserves. The company also operates in the Cotton Valley trend in Texas and leases acreage in Michigan. Goodrich Petroleum owns interests in 139 active oil and gas wells and has estimated proved reserves of 172.8 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent. Chairman Patrick Malloy owns 21% of the company; director Josiah Austin, 22%.

Address: 8 Inverness Dr. East, Ste. 100 Englewood, CO 80112 Phone: 303-483-0044 Fax: 303-483-0011

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 16.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 412.10% Employees (2004): 13

• Chairman: Marc A. Bruner • President and CEO: Mark A. Erickson • EVP and COO: Michael K. Decker

• President, CEO, and Director: Jeffrey P. Vickers

Address: 1407 W. Dakota Pkwy., Ste. 1-B Williston, ND 58801 Phone: 701-572-2020 Fax: 701-572-0277

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 8.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 17.60% Employees (2004): 11 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-8.30%)

Address: 9400 N. Broadway, Ste. 600 Oklahoma City, OK 73114 Phone: 405-600-0711 Fax: 405-600-0600

• President, CEO, and Director: Ken L. Kenworthy Jr. • EVP, CFO, Secretary, Fiscal Year End: December Treasurer, and Director: Revenue (2005): 19.20 M Ken L. Kenworthy Sr. Revenue Growth (1 yr): 146.20% • Natural Gas Marketer Employees (2004): 18 and Pipeline Operations Employee Growth (1 yr): 125.00% Manager: Keith Leffel

Address: 808 Travis St., Ste. 1320 Houston, TX 77002 Phone: 713-780-9494 Fax: 713-780-9254

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 68.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 44.40% Employees (2004): 52 Employee Growth (1 yr): 40.50%

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• Secretary and Director: Cathy Kruse • VP Land and Finance: Jeffrey B. Jennings

• Chairman of the Board of Directors Emeritus: Henry Goodrich • Chairman: Patrick E. Malloy III • Vice Chairman and CEO: Walter G. (Gil) Goodrich

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Gulfport Energy Corporation [GPOR]

Harken Energy Corporation [HEC]

Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. [HNR]

Indeck Energy Services, Inc.

baskets. The exploration and production company sells 99% of its oil to Shell and 88% of its gas to Chevron. It operates off the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, with a heavy concentration on two fields: West Cote Blanche Bay and Hackberry Fields. Gulfport operates about 70 producing wells and has proved reserves of nearly 25 million barrels of oil equivalent. The company emerged from the ashes of WRT Energy, which filed for bankruptcy in 1996 amid allegations of fraud. Gulfport emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1997. Harken Energy harkens back to the days when a certain President George W. Bush was an oil man. Harken Energy, which bought Bush's small oil company more than a decade ago, explores for and produces oil and gas in the US and Latin America. It has interests in oil and gas wells in the Gulf Coast region of Texas and Louisiana. Internationally, it has exploration and development operations in Colombia, Panama, and Peru. The company, which is striving to put some unprofitable years behind it, has proved reserves of 13.3 billion cu. ft. of gas and 5.6 million barrels of oil. Lyford Investments Enterprises owns 30% of the voting stock of Harken Energy. Harvest Natural Resources is keen to harvest the natural resources of oil and gas. The independent's main exploration and production work takes place in Venezuela, where it has proved reserves of 36 million barrels of oil equivalent. It operates through its 80%-owned Venezuelan subsidiary, Harvest Vinccler C.A., which operates the South Monagas Unit in Venezuela. Founded in 1989, the company sold its stakes in Siberian ventures Arctic Gas and Geoilbent to Yukos in 2002 and 2003, although the company is still keen on developing Russian oil and assets. It also has interests in China. Power plant developer, owner, and operator Indeck Energy Services tries to make sure it always has a project on deck. The company owns and operates 11 fossil-fueled, hydroelectric, and alternative energy generation plants -- 10 in the northeastern US and one in the UK -- that have a total capacity of more than 850 MW. Indeck Energy Services also has 2,800 MW under development in Illinois and Michigan; and it operates two plants (400-MW of capacity) in the northeastern US for NRG Energy. Affiliate Indeck Power Equipment rents or leases boilers and generators, and Indeck Operations runs and maintains power and steam plants. Chairman and CEO Gerald Forsythe owns Indeck Energy Services, which was founded in 1985.

Address: 14313 North May Ave., Ste. 100 Oklahoma City, OK 73134 Phone: 405-848-8807 Fax: 405-848-8816

Address: 180 State St., Ste. 200 Southlake, TX 76092 Phone: 817-424-2424 Fax: 972-652-4433

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 27.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 18.80% Employees (2005): 63

• Chairman: Mike Liddell • CEO and Director: James D. (Jim) Palm • VP and CFO: Michael G. (Mike) Moore

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 37.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 27.00% Employees (2005): 46 Employee Growth (1 yr): 31.40%

• Chairman: Alan G. Quasha • President, CEO, and Director: Mikel D. Faulkner • VP, Finance, and CFO: Anna M. Williams

Address: 1177 Enclave Pkwy., Ste. Fiscal Year End: December 300 Revenue (2005): 236.90 M Houston, TX 77077 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 27.30% Phone: 281-899-5700 Employees (2004): 221 Fax: 281-899-5702 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• Chairman: Steve Chesebro' • EVP, COO, and Director: James A. Edminston • SVP Corporate Development: Byron A. Dunn

Address: 600 N. Buffalo Grove Rd. Buffalo Grove, IL 60089 Phone: 847-520-3212 Fax: 847-520-9883

• Chairman and CEO: Gerald R. (Gerry) Forsythe • President and COO: Thomas M. Campone • SVP and CFO: Lawrence A. Lagowski

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You can probable tell by its name that InterGen is an international generator of electricity. The independent power producer has interests in projects with more than 15,000 MW of generating capacity in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe. The company provides fuel procurement and project management, financing, and negotiation services. It's power is sold to utilities, energy marketers, and end-use customers. InterGen is currently a joint venture formed by Shell Oil (68%) and Bechtel (32%) in 1995, but the parents have agreed to sell the unit to Highstar Capital (a part of American International Group) for a InterGen reported $1.75 billion. There may be milk and honey on the other side of the River Jordan, but to date, not much oil. In Israel, Isramco has stakes in two long-term offshore leases, and serves as the operator of one (the Med Ashdod Lease). In the US the company is engaged (through subsidiary Jay Petroleum) in oil and gas exploration in Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Wyoming. It also had a minority interest in a Congo offshore exploration venture, which it wrote off in 2003. Isramco has proved reserves of 173,900 barrels of oil and 2.3 billion cu. ft. of gas. In 2004, the company purchased a luxury cruise liner for $8 million. Chairman and CEO Haim Isramco, Inc. Tsuff owns 49.8% of Isramco. [ISRL] and chemicals. The oil and gas company has proved reserves of about 1.3 billion barrels of oil equivalent. KerrMcGee explores for and produces oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The company is also a major producer of titanium dioxide (a white pigment used in paint, plastics, and paper) and operates chemical plants in Australia, Europe, and the US. KerrMcGee has agreed to sell several of its oil and gas fields in the North Sea to the UK-based Centrica and the DenmarkKerr-McGee based A.P. Møller - Mærsk. W&T Offshore has agreed to Corporation acquire Kerr-McGee's oil and gas holdings in the Gulf of [KMG] Mexico. It's a Linn-Linn situation. CEO Michael Linn's namesake company Linn Energy has successfully drilled for natural gas in the Appalachian Basin. The natural gas exploration and production company made seven property acquisitions (including more than 1,230 producing wells) between 2003 and 2005 in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. The company, which has drilled 126 wells with a 100% success rate, has proved reserves of 100.9 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent. Linn Energy has focused on shallow drilling (2,500 to 5,500 ft.), and many of its wells are connected to multiple producing zones. Following its IPO, Linn Energy, LLC Quantum Energy Partners will control 45% of the company; [LINE] CEO Linn, 14%.

• CEO: John Stokes • Manager Public Affairs: Sarah Webster • SVP and CFO: Martin Rees

Address: 15 Wayside Rd. Burlington, MA 01803-4609 Phone: 781-993-3000 Fax: 781-993-3005

Address: 11767 Katy Frwy., Ste. 711 Houston, TX 77079 Phone: 713-621-3882 Fax: 713-621-3988

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 7.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 32.80% Employees (2004): 11 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• Chairman and CEO: Haim Tsuff • President and Director: Jackob Maimon

Address: Kerr-McGee Center, 123 Robert S. Kerr Ave. Oklahoma City, OK 73102 Phone: 405-270-1313 Fax: 405-270-3029

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 5927.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 14.90% Employees (2004): 4,084 Employee Growth (1 yr): 4.30%

• Chairman and CEO: Luke R. Corbett • SVP and CFO: Robert M. Wohleber • SVP and COO: David A. (Dave) Hager

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 21.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 538.90% Employees (2004): 52

• Chairman: Toby R. Neugebauer • President, CEO, and Director: Michael C. (Mike) Linn • EVP and CFO: Kolja Rockov

Address: 1700 N. Highland Rd., Ste. 100 Pittsburgh, PA 15241 Phone: 412-854-0470 Fax: 412-854-0474

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Magellan Petroleum Corporation [MPET]

Maxim Power Corp. [MXGFF.PK]

McMoRan Exploration Co. [MMR]

Mexco Energy Corporation [MXC]

Magellan Petroleum has gone around the world to explore for oil and gas. It operates mainly through Magellan Petroleum Australia Limited (MPAL), a publicly traded Australian firm. MPAL's chief assets are interests in the Mereenie oil and gas field and the Palm Valley gas field in the Amadeus Basin in Australia's Northern Territory. MPAL and Magellan Petroleum also own interests in oil and gas properties in New Zealand, Canada, and the UK. The company has proved reserves of 25.4 billion cu. ft. of natural gas and 487,000 barrels of oil. MPAL's main customer is the Northern Territory's Power and Water Authority. environmental impact. The independent power producer develops, acquires, owns, and operates generation facilities in North America, Europe, and Asia. Its power plants are fueled by conventional fossil fuels and alternative energy technologies and combined have more than 260 MW of electric and 39 MW of thermal net generating capacity. It has another 58 MW under construction. Milner Power Limited Partnership, which operated a 144-MW power plant in Grande Cache, Alberta, acquired Maxim in a reverse takeover in 2005. It's oil and gas, not sulfur, that has the sweet smell of money for McMoRan Exploration. The company sold its sulfur operations in 2002, citing low sulfur prices, in order to focus on the exploration and production of oil and natural gas. Operating in the Gulf of Mexico and on the Gulf Coast, McMoRan Exploration has proved reserves of about 38.9 billion cu. ft. of natural gas and 7.1 million barrels of oil and condensate. The company owns or has stakes in 361 oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico and onshore Louisiana and Texas covering about 252,000 gross acres. McMoRan Exploration is also seeking to transform its Main Pass sulfur facilities into a liquefied natural gas terminal. Mexco Energy gets most of its energy not from Mexico, but from its close neighbor -- West Texas. The oil and gas exploration and production independent has estimated proved reserves of 7.3 billion cu. ft. of natural gas and 151,000 barrels of oil. While the company owns oil and gas properties in other states (including Louisiana, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Oklahoma), the majority of its activities take place in Texas. In 2004 the company launched a feasibility study to explore in Russia. Sid Richardson Energy Services (formerly Koch Midstream Services Company) is Mexco Energy's top customer, accounting for 21% of total revenues. Mexco Energy president Nicholas Taylor owns just under 51% of the company.

Address: 10 Columbus Blvd. Hartford, CT 06106 Phone: 860-293-2006 Fax: 860-293-2349

Fiscal Year End: July Revenue (2005): 21.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 12.90% Employees (2005): 33 Employee Growth (1 yr): 3.10%

Address: 715 5th Avenue SW, Ste. 1210 Calgary, Alberta T2P 2X6, Canada Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 403-263-3021 Revenue (2004): 30.10 M Fax: 403-263-9125 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 54.50%

Address: 1615 Poydras St. New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-582-4000 Fax: 504-582-1662

Address: 214 W. Texas Ave., Ste. 1101 Midland, TX 79701 Phone: 432-682-1119 Fax: 432-682-1123

• Chairman: Walt er McCann • President, CEO, CFO and Chief Accounting Officer: Daniel J. Samela

• Chairman: M. Bruce Chernoff • President, CEO, and Director: John R. Bobenic • SVP Business Development: Richard (Rick) Hopp

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 130.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 336.60% Employees (2004): 26 Employee Growth (1 yr): 36.80%

• Co-Chairman: Richard C. Adkerson • Co-Chairman: James R. (Jim Bob) Moffett • President and CEO: Glenn A. Kleinert

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2005): 3.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 3.40% Employees (2004): 5 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• Chairman: Thomas Graham Jr. • President and CEO: Nicholas C. Taylor • VP, CFO, Treasurer, and Assistant Secretary: Tamala L. (Tammy) McComic

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As one might expect, Midwest Generation sells wholesale electricity to markets in the Midwest. The independent power producer has a generating capacity of more than 7,000 MW from its six coal-fired power plants in Illinois; it also oversees the operation of an 1,884 MW power generating plant in Pennsylvania. Affiliate Edison Mission Marketing and Trading acts as a conduit for Midwest Generation's wholesale energy activities. Midwest Generation is a subsidiary of Edison International's merchant energy business, Edison Mission Midwest Energy. Exelon Generation accounts for more that 50% of of Generation, LLC the company's generation and capacity revenues. but is happy with old reserves too. The independent oil and gas exploration and production company drills in and around the Gulf of Mexico, mostly in the shallow waters off the Louisiana coast. It works onshore, in the Gulf Coast region of Texas and Louisiana and in the Rockies. Newfield has also expanded into Oklahoma's Anadarko Basin through the acquisition of Lariat Petroleum. Outside of the US the company has interests in Brazil, China, Malaysia, and the North Sea. Newfield has proved reserves of 1.8 trillion cu. ft. Newfield of natural gas equivalent. In 2002 Newfield acquired Gulf Exploration Coast explorer EEX Corporation. It acquired Inland Company [NFX] Resources in 2004. Noble Energy prizes petroleum and has the reserves to prove it. Noble Energy looks for oil and natural gas and produces and markets them in the US and internationally. US operations are in the West Coast, Rocky Mountain, midcontinent, and Gulf Coast regions. International operations include onshore and offshore activities in the Asia/Pacific region, the Middle East, South America, West Africa, and the North Sea. Noble has proved reserves of about 2 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas and 193.5 million barrels of oil. The company markets natural gas and oil. Noble Energy also generates electricity in Ecuador. In 2006 Noble Noble Energy, Inc. [NBL] Energy acquired United States Exploration for $411 million. Harnessing its heritage of Western technical know-how, Occidental Petroleum engages in oil and gas exploration and production and makes basic chemicals, plastics, and petrochemicals. The oil giant has proved reserves of 2.7 billion barrels of oil equivalent in the US, the Middle East, and Latin America. It owns 76% of OxyVinyls, the #1 producer of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resin in North America. Occidental Subsidiary Occidental Chemical (OxyChem) produces acids, Petroleum chlorine, and specialty products. Occidental Petroleum also Corporation has an energy trading and marketing operation, Occidental [OXY] Energy Marketing.

Address: 1 Financial Place, 440 S. LaSalle St., Ste. 3500 Chicago, IL 60605 Phone: 312-583-6000 Fax: 312-583-6111

Address: 363 N. Sam Houston Pkwy. East, Ste. 2020 Houston, TX 77060 Phone: 281-847-6000 Fax: 281-405-4242

Address: 100 Glenborough Dr., Ste. 100 Houston, TX 77067 Phone: 281-872-3100 Fax: 281-872-3111

Address: 10889 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90024-4201 Phone: 310-208-8800 Fax: 310-443-6690

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 1429.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 35.10% Employees (2005): 983 Employee Growth (1 yr): 2.40%

• President: Guy Gorney • VP and Regional VP, Finance: John P. Finneran Jr.

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 1762.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 30.30% Employees (2004): 640 Employee Growth (1 yr): 70.70%

• Chairman, President, and CEO: David A. Trice • SVP, CFO, and Secretary: Terry W. Rathert • VP Information Technology: Mark Spicer

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 2186.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 70.60% Employees (2004): 559 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-4.10%)

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Charles D. (Chuck) Davidson • SVP and CFO: Chris Tong • VP, Business Development: David L. Stover

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 15208.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 33.80% Employees (2004): 7,209 Employee Growth (1 yr): 1.10%

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• Chairman, President, and CEO: Ray R. Irani • SVP, CFO, and Head of Corporate Development: Stephen I. (Steve) Chazen • VP and CIO: Donald L. Moore Jr.

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Parallel Petroleum Corporation [PLLL]

Penn Virginia Corporation [PVA]

Petrohawk Energy Corporation [HAWK]

Petroleum Development Corporation [PETD]

Parallel Petroleum seeks unparalleled success by exploring for and producing oil and natural gas. The company has estimated proved reserves of 16.8 billion cu. ft. of natural gas and 18.9 million barrels of oil. Parallel Petroleum operates primarily on the Gulf Coast of South Texas, in East Texas, and in the Permian Basin of West Texas. The company sells directly on a month-to-month basis to other oil and gas companies. Founded in 1979, Parallel Petroleum originally focused on acquiring relatively unproven high-risk, high-cost properties. However, heavy losses prompted the company to sell its First Permian oil and gas assets in 2002 for $31 million and rethink its development strategy. Incorporated in Virginia and based in Pennsylvania, Penn Virginia is an oil and gas exploration and production company operating primarily in the Appalachian area of the US. It also operates in onshore areas of the US Gulf Coast. The company, which has proved reserves of 314 billion cu. ft. of natural gas and 6.3 million barrels of oil, and holds working interests in more than 1,400 wells, sells mostly on the spot market. It also has interests in coal (which it leases to other operators) and timber properties through 44.5%-owned Penn Virginia Resource Partners, which it spun off in 2001. oil prices to higher profits. The independent company's activities include the exploration, development, and production of crude oil and natural gas in the Anadarko, Arkoma, East Texas/North Louisiana, Gulf Coast, Permian Basin, and South Texas regions. Petrohawk Energy has estimated proved reserves of 437.3 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent. In 2004 it participated in a reverse stock split with Petrohawk Energy, LLC and relocated to Houston. CEO Floyd Wilson controls 67% of the company. In 2006 the company announced plans to acquire KCS Energy for $1.6 billion. The hills are alive with opportunity for Petroleum Development, which produces natural gas that it finds in the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian Basin; the independent also has operations in Michigan. The company owns interests in 2,700 wells and has proved reserves of 217.4 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent, of which less than 10% is oil. Petroleum Development also drills and operates wells for its partners, and often sets up public limited partnerships to fund its well-drilling program. Subsidiary Riley Natural Gas markets natural gas for the company and others in Appalachia. The company has sold its Ohio-based distribution utility, Paramount Natural Gas.

• Chairman and CEO: Thomas R. (Tom) Cambridge • President, Treasurer, and Director: Larry C. Oldham • COO: Donald E. (Don) Tiffin

Address: 1004 N. Big Spring, Ste. 400 Midland, TX 79701 Phone: 432-684-3727 Fax: 432-684-3905

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 66.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 84.90% Employees (2005): 40 Employee Growth (1 yr): 21.20%

Address: 3 Radnor Corporate Center, Ste. 230, 100 Matsonford Rd. Radnor, PA 19087-4564 Phone: 610-687-8900 Fax: 610-687-3688

• Chairman: Robert (Rob) Garrett Fiscal Year End: December • President, CEO, and Revenue (2005): 673.90 M Director: A. James (Jim) Revenue Growth (1 yr): 195.10% Dearlove Employees (2005): 340 • EVP and CFO: Frank A. Employee Growth (1 yr): 183.30% Pici

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• Chairman, President, and CEO: Floyd C. Wilson Address: 1100 Louisiana, Ste. 4400 Houston, TX 77002 Phone: 832-204-2700 Fax: 832-204-2800

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 258.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 667.90% Employees (2005): 154 Employee Growth (1 yr): 258.10%

• EVP, CFO, and Treasurer: Shane M. Bayless • EVP Corporate Development: Stephen W. (Steve) Herod

Address: 103 E. Main St. Bridgeport, WV 26330 Phone: 304-842-3597 Fax: 304-842-0913

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 288.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 44.80% Employees (2004): 120 Employee Growth (1 yr): 9.10%

• Chairman and CEO: Steven R. Williams • President and Director: Thomas E. Riley • CFO and Treasurer: Darwin L. Stump

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Independent oil and gas exploration and production company PetroQuest Energy has focused its quest for petroleum on the hydrocarbon-rich Gulf Coast Basin, but is also looking further afield. PetroQuest has offshore operations in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and onshore operations in Louisiana and Texas. It also has assets in Oklahoma. The company, formerly known as Optima Petroleum, and previously based in Canada, has proved reserves of 79.1 billion cu. ft. of natural gas, and 3.7 million barrels of oil. PetroQuest PetroQuest Energy and its predecessor companies have Energy, Inc. [PQ] been active in the Gulf Coast region since 1986. not located in the Western prairies, but below them, and below the Rocky Mountains, and the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The large independent exploration and production company, which has boosted its Gulf of Mexico properties, holds proved reserves of 986.7 million barrels of oil equivalent. The vast majority of the exploration and production company's reserves are found within the US, but Pioneer also explores for and produces oil and gas in Canada, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, South Africa, and Pioneer Natural Tunisia. In 2006 the company sold some Gulf of Mexico oil Resources and gas assets to Marubeni Offshore Production for $1.3 Company [PXD] billion. Plains Exploration and Production has ventured beyond the plains to explore for oil and gas. A former subsidiary of Plains Resources, the company targets offshore fields as well as onshore areas for acquiring, developing, and producing oil and gas. It operates primarily in the Los Angeles and San Joaquin Basins of California, the Santa Maria Basin offshore California, the Gulf Coast Basin of Louisiana, the East Texas Basin, and the Permian Basin. The company has estimated proved reserves of 401 million barrels of oil equivalent. In Plains Exploration and 2003 Plains Exploration acquired 3TEC Energy, and in 2004 it acquired Nuevo Energy. In 2006 the company agreed to Production Company [PXP] buy Stone Energy for $1.5 billion. Pogo sticks to its core business of searching for oil and natural gas. Pogo Producing explores for, develops, and produces those resources onshore in the US (the Permian Basin in West Texas and New Mexico; South Texas and Louisiana; and Wyoming), offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, and in Canada. The company holds stakes in close to 90 federal and state lease blocks offshore from Louisiana and Texas and owns 3.9 million gross leasehold acres in North America. It also owns more than a million acres in New Zealand. Altogether, it has proved reserves of 1.2 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas and 144 million barrels of oil. Pogo sold its Pogo Producing Hungarian and Thai assets in 2005 and bought Northrock Company [PPP] Resources in Canada.

Address: 400 E. Kaliste Saloom Rd., Ste. 6000 Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-232-7028 Fax: 337-232-0044

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 120.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 42.60% Employees (2005): 63 Employee Growth (1 yr): 31.30%

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Charles T. Goodson • SVP, CFO, Treasurer, and Director: Michael O. Aldridge • SVP Business Development and Land: Dalton F. Smith III

Address: 5205 N. O'Connor Blvd., Ste. 900 Irving, TX 75039 Phone: 972-444-9001 Fax: 972-969-3576

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 2215.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 20.90% Employees (2005): 1,694 Employee Growth (1 yr): 9.30%

• Chairman and CEO: Scott D. Sheffield • President and COO: Timothy L. (Tim) Dove • EVP and CFO: Richard P. (Rich) Dealy

Address: 700 Milam St., Ste. 3100 Houston, TX 77002 Phone: 713-579-6000 Fax: 713-579-6500

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 944.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 40.60% Employees (2005): 640 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-8.00%)

• Chairman, President, and CEO: James C. (Jim) Flores • EVP and CFO: Stephen A. (Steve) Thorington

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 1225.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-7.40%) Employees (2004): 260 Employee Growth (1 yr): 17.60%

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Paul G. Van Wagenen • EVP, Operations: Stephen R. Brunner • SVP and CFO: James P. Ulm II

Address: 5 Greenway Plaza, Ste. 2700 Houston, TX 77252-2504 Phone: 713-297-5000 Fax: 713-297-5100

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In many parts of the US people are "talkin' 'bout PPL G-g-ggeneration. PPL Generation, a subsidiary of PPL Corporation, operates nearly 40 power plants in northeastern, northwestern, and southwestern portions of the US. Not a discriminating power producer, PPL Generation utilizes a variety of fuels at its plants, including coal, natural gas, oil, uranium, and water. The independent power producer has more than 12,000 MW of generating capacity, PPL Generation, including a stake in a the Peru-based Aguaytia project. PPL LLC Generation output is marketed by affiliate PPL EnergyPlus. homes and businesses. PPL Montana operates eleven hydroelectric power plants along the Missouri River, as well as two coal-burning plants, that give it a combined generating capacity of nearly 1,200 MW. PPL Montana has been a part of PPL Generation since 1999, when its parent (PPL Corporation) acquired power generation stations (coal-fired and hydro-powered) belonging to Montana Power. Basin Electric Cooperative provides nearly 100 MW of power to PPL Montana between November and April. PPL Montana's power is marketed through wholesale affiliate PPL PPL Montana EnergyPlus. LLC PPM Energy is a real power player in the energy industry. The company, formerly PacifiCorp Power Marketing, holds the nonregulated North American operations of parent company Scottish Power. PPM Energy primarily develops and operates cogeneration power plants and wind farms; it has an operational generating capacity of approximately 1,600 MW in the Midwest and western US. PPM Energy also markets and trades wholesale energy and offers risk and asset management services. It has natural gas storage and hub operations through its ENSTOR affiliate. The company's customers include public and private utilities, large industrial PPM Energy, Inc. companies, and other energy marketers. Premier Power sets the stage for power generation in Northern Ireland. The independent power producer, a subsidiary of BG Group, operates the largest generation facility in the province. Its Ballylumford Power Station is a fossil-fueled plant with 1,300 MW of capacity. The company Premier Power sells most of its energy to distribution utility Northern Ireland Limited Electricity. PrimeEnergy hopes to keep the pump primed with its oil and gas exploration and production activities, which take place primarily in Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and West Virginia. The company has proved reserves of 2.9 million barrels of oil and 37.7 billion cu. ft. of natural gas. Its PrimeEnergy Management unit is the managing general partner of 18 oil and gas limited partnerships. PrimeEnergy, subsidiaries Prime Operating and Eastern Oil Well Service and some affiliates operate more than 1,500 oil and gas wells. Subsidiary Southwest Oilfield Construction provides PrimeEnergy site preparation and construction services for PrimeEnergy Corporation and third parties. CEO Charles Drimal owns 29% of the firm. [PNRG]

Address: 2 N. 9th St. Allentown, PA 18101-1179 Phone: 610-774-5151 Fax: 610-774-4198

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 1966.70 M Employees (2005): 525

• President and Chief Nuclear Officer: Bryce L. Shriver

Address: 303 N. Broadway, Ste. 400 Billings, MT 59101 Phone: 406-237-6900 Fax: 406-237-6901

• President and Chief Nuclear Officer, PPL Generation: Bryce L. Shriver • VP and COO: Bradley E. Spencer • Director Marketing and Trading: Joel D. Cook

Address: 1125 NW Couch, Ste. 700 Portland, OR 97209 Phone: 503-796-7000 Fax: 503-796-6901

• President and CEO: Terry F. Hudgens • CFO: Merrick Kerr • SVP, Business Development and Origination: Peter van Alderwerelt

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2005): 42.20 M Employees (2005): 168

Address: Ballylumford, Islandmagee Larne BT40 3RS, United Kingdom Fiscal Year End: December Phone: +44-28-9338-1100 Revenue (2004): 387.20 M Fax: +44-28-9338-1240 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 43.90%

Address: One Landmark Square Stamford, CT 06901 Phone: 203-358-5700 Fax: 203-358-5786

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 75.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 22.00% Employees (2005): 217 Employee Growth (1 yr): 10.70%

• CEO: Bill Cargo • Business Manager: Lesley Hogg • Business Development Manager: Paddie Larkin

• President, CEO, and Director; President, PrimeEnergy Manage: Charles E. Drimal Jr. • EVP, Treasurer, and Director; EVP, PrimeEnergy Management: Beverly A. Cummings

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PSEG Energy Holdings is the holding company for Public Service Enterprise Group's international energy distribution PSEG Energy and independent power production unit, PSEG Global, and Holdings L.L.C. its energy investment unit, PSEG Resources. Absolute power may corrupt absolutely, but PSEG Power LLC markets power unambiguously. The company, created in 1999, is the independent power production and energy marketing subsidiary of Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG). The unit manages PSEG Nuclear LLC (operating the Salem and Hope Creek generating stations) and PSEG Fossil LLC (which includes gas, oil, coal, and natural gas) power plants. Its PSEG Energy Resources and Trade unit buys and sells wholesale power, natural gas, and other energy commodities throughout New England, Connecticut, PSEG Power LLC Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and Virginia. PYR Energy has the energy to handle the peer pressure in the competitive oil and gas market. The technology-oriented oil and gas exploration firm focuses its exploration on land it controls in the Gulf Coast, Texas, and Rocky Mountain regions. PYR Energy, which has proved reserves of 7.1 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent, uses advanced seismic imaging and other technology to enhance its exploration success rate in developing underexploited fields. PYR Energy The company obtained Texas and Gulf Coast assets with the Corporation acquisition of bankrupt oil and gas explorer Venus Exploration in 2004. [PYR] With mercurial speed, Quicksilver Resources seeks to turn oil and gas finds into profits, primarily through acquiring the assets of rival oil and gas firms. The independent exploration and production company owns assets in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana, New Mexico, Texas, and Wyoming, and Canada, as well as interests in gas gathering pipeline systems. Quicksilver Resources has proved reserves (located primarily in Michigan and Alberta) of 1.1 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent. Chairman Thomas Darden, CEO Quicksilver Glenn Darden, and other Darden family members control Resources Inc. 35% of Quicksilver Resources. [KWK] Range Resources is riding the range as an independent acquirer and developer of US oil and gas resources. The company's long-term strategy involves acquiring long-lived established properties and it has major development areas in the Appalachian, Gulf Coast, and Southwest (West Texas, western Oklahoma, and Texas Panhandle) regions. Natural gas accounts for about 80% of Range Resources' proved Range reserves of about 1.4 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent. Resources The company holds more than 2,380,000 net acres of Corporation leasehold properties, and an inventory of more than 7,700 [RRC] drilling locations.

Address: 80 Park Plaza - T20 Newark, NJ 07102 Phone: 973-430-7000 Fax: 973-456-3589

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 749.00 M Employees (2005): 2,756

• President and COO: Frank Cassidy • EVP and CFO: Thomas M. (Tom) O'Flynn • VP, Finance and Development: Edward (Ed) Sondey

Address: 80 Park Plaza - T25 Newark, NJ 07102-4194 Phone: 973-430-7000 Fax: 973-623-5389

Address: 1675 Broadway, Ste. 2450 Denver, CO 80202 Phone: 303-825-3748 Fax: 303-825-

• Chairman and CEO: E. James (Jim) Ferland • President and COO: Robert J. (Bob) Dougherty Jr. • EVP and CFO: Thomas M. (Tom) O'Flynn

Fiscal Year End: August Revenue (2005): 6.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 577.80% Employees (2004): 8 Employee Growth (1 yr): 60.00%

• Chairman, President, CEO, and CFO: D. Scott Singdahlsen

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• Chairman: Thomas F. (Toby) Darden • President, CEO, and Director: Glenn M. Darden

Address: 777 W. Rosedale St., Ste. 300 Fort Worth, TX 76104 Phone: 817-665-5000 Fax: 817-665-5004

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 310.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 72.70% Employees (2004): 342 Employee Growth (1 yr): 13.60%

Address: 777 Main St., Ste. 800 Fort Worth, TX 76102 Phone: 817-870-2601 Fax: 817-870-2316

• Chairman: Charles L. Blackburn Fiscal Year End: December • President, CEO and Revenue (2005): 527.70 M Director: John H. Revenue Growth (1 yr): 66.00% Pinkerton Employees (2004): 504 • EVP, COO, and Director: Employee Growth (1 yr): 233.80% Jeffrey L. (Jeff) Ventura

• SVP and CFO: Philip W. Cook

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Remington Oil and Gas Corporation [REM]

Rosetta Resources Inc. [ROSE]

Royale Energy, Inc. [ROYL]

Sempra Generation

Southern Power Company

Remington Oil and Gas is a straight shooter. The independent gas and oil company (formerly Box Energy) focuses its exploration, development, and production operations on offshore properties in the Gulf of Mexico and onshore properties along the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and Texas. The company has proved reserves of more than 252.1 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent (16.9 million barrels of oil and 150.7 billion cu. ft. of gas). Remington Oil and Gas owns interests in about 200 gross producing oil and gas wells. Idaho tater titan and spudillionaire J.R. Simplot owns 18% of the company. In 2006 Cal Dive International agreed to buy Remington Oil and Gas for $1.4 billion. Rosetta Resources has set off on its own discovery for oil and natural gas. The company, which basically comprises Calpine Corporation's former domestic oil and natural gas exploration business, primarily owns acreage in California, Texas, and Colorado. Rosetta is obligated by contract to sell nearly half of its production back to Calpine. Rosetta management is largely made up of former Calpine employees. The geological basins of Northern California are getting the Royale treatment. Using modern computer-aided exploration technologies, Royale Energy concentrates its exploration and production efforts in the Sacramento and San Joaquin basins. The company pursues a strategy of acquiring stakes in oil and gas reserves via private joint ventures. It also owns leasehold interests in Louisana, Texas, and Utah. Royale Energy has estimated proved reserves of 15.8 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent. CEO Donald Hosmer, CFO Stephen Hosmer, and their father and company chairman Harry Hosmer, together own approximately 38% of Royale Energy. Sempra Generation (formerly Sempra Energy Resources) pools its parent's resources into generating electricity for the competitive market. The unit, which is part of Sempra Energy's Sempra Global division, has nearly 2,700 MW of generating capacity from interests in fossil-fueled power plants. It also has about 3,000 MW from power plants under construction or in development stages, and it manages about 3,800 MW of thermal and hydroelectric capacity that was acquired from AEP Texas Central by Sempra Energy's Topaz Power Partners joint venture in 2004. Southern Power develops and operates independent power plants in the southeastern US. The company, which is part of Southern Company's Generation and Energy Marketing division, has nearly 5,000 MW of generating capacity from its fossil-fueled facilities. Its electricity output is marketed to wholesale customers in the region. Southern Power also has 1,200 MW of capacity from plants under construction.

• President, CEO, and Director; President, CKB & Associates an: James A. Watt • SVP Exploration and Production and COO: Robert P. Murphy • SVP Finance: Frank T. Smith Jr.

Address: 8201 Preston Rd., Ste. 600 Dallas, TX 75225-6211 Phone: 214-210-2650 Fax: 214-210-2643

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 260.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 11.40% Employees (2004): 37 Employee Growth (1 yr): 12.10%

Address: 717 Texas, Ste. 2800 Houston, TX 77002 Phone: 731-335-4000 Fax: 731-335-4197

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Bulent Ayhan Berilgen • EVP, Corporate Development: Charles Frederick Chambers III Fiscal Year End: December • EVP, CFO, Secretary Revenue (2005): 113.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-54.40%) and Treasurer: Michael Joseph Rosinski Employees (2004): 111

Address: 7676 Hazard Center Dr., Ste. 1500 San Diego, CA 92108 Phone: 619-881-2800 Fax: 619-881-2899

Address: 101 Ash St. San Diego, CA 92101 Phone: 619-696-2000 Fax: 619-696-4463

Address: 270 Peachtree St. NW Atlanta, GA 30303 Phone: 404-506-5000 Fax: 404-506-0455

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 24.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-6.20%) Employees (2004): 30 Employee Growth (1 yr): 11.10%

• Chairman: Harry E. Hosmer • President, CEO, Secretary, and Director; Chairman and Presid: Donald H. Hosmer • EVP, CFO and Director; Secretary and Director, Royale Petrol: Stephen M. Hosmer

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 85.00 M Employees (2005): 350

• President: Michael R. (Mike) Niggli • VP, Energy Supply: William R. Engelbrecht • VP, Project Development: Kevin F. Swartz • President and CEO: Ronnie L. Bates • CFO: Michael W. (Mike) Southern • Chief Production Officer: Jerry L. Stewart

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Southwestern Energy is putting a lot of energy into gas and oil exploration and production in the Southwest. The company operates in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, where it has proved reserves of 645.5 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent, some 92% of which is natural gas. Southwestern Energy is also engaged in natural gas transportation and marketing. The company had announced plans to sell subsidiary Arkansas Western Gas, which distributes natural gas to 145,000 customers in Arkansas, to help pay a $109 million judgment in a lawsuit Southwestern brought by royalty owners. However, another court ruling in Energy Company its favor allowed Southwestern Energy to take the unit off the [SWN] auction block. St. Mary Land & Exploration isn't afraid to travel. The oil and gas exploration and production company spreads its operations across the US: the midcontinent, the ArkLaTex region and Gulf Coast, the Williston Basin in North Dakota and Montana, and the Permian Basin in West Texas and New Mexico. The company has proved reserves of 794.5 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent. In the late 1990s St. Mary Land & Exploration sold its Russian oil and North American copper mining investments to focus on its core US St. Mary Land & oil and gas properties. The company has expanded its Exploration activities in the Rockies through the acquisition of coalbed Company [SM] methane assets in Wyoming and Montana. and gas exploration, production, transport, refining, and marketing giant. Statoil operates in 29 countries, focusing its upstream activities on the Norwegian continental shelf, the North Sea, the Caspian Sea, Western Africa, and Venezuela. It has proved reserves of nearly 4.3 billion barrels of oil equivalent. Statoil has a retail network of more than 2,000 gas stations under its own brand, as well as the 1-2-3 network of automated outlets, in nine north European countries. Statoil sold its 50% stake in petrochemicals venture Borealis in 2005. The Norwegian government, which has been divesting shares in Statoil, still owns nearly 71% of Statoil ASA [STO] the group. You can't squeeze blood from a stone, but you can squeeze energy. Stone Energy, which in 2006 agreed to be acquired by Plains Exploration and Production for $1.5 billion) acquires and exploits mature oil and natural gas properties that have high potential. The company, which has estimated proved reserves of 593 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent, has 58 producing properties in the Gulf of Mexico, and 21 active properties in the Rockies. With rising Stone Energy oil prices it has been able to increase development activities Corporation and acquire more properties (including expanding into the [SGY] Rockies via its purchase of Basin Exploration).

Address: 2350 N. Sam Houston Pkwy. East, Ste. 300 Houston, TX 77032 Phone: 281-618-4700 Fax: 281-618-4818

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 676.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 41.80% Employees (2004): 595 Employee Growth (1 yr): 9.40%

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Harold M. Korell • EVP Finance and CFO: Gregory D. (Greg) Kerley

Address: 1776 Lincoln St., Ste. 700 Denver, CO 80203 Phone: 303-861-8140 Fax: 303-861-0934

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 739.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 70.80% Employees (2005): 305 Employee Growth (1 yr): 19.10%

• Chairman and CEO: Mark A. Hellerstein • President and COO: A. J. (Tony) Best • VP Finance, CFO, Treasurer, and Secretary: David W. Honeyfield

Address: Forusbeen 50 N-4035 Stavanger, Norway Phone: +47-51-99-00-00 Fax: +47-51-99-00-50

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 57839.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 14.90% Employees (2004): 23,899 Employee Growth (1 yr): 23.70%

• President and CEO: Helge Lund • EVP and CFO: Eldar Sætre • EVP Communication: Reidar Gjærum

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 636.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 16.90% Employees (2005): 271 Employee Growth (1 yr): 14.80%

• Chairman: James H. Stone • President, CEO, and Director: David H. Welch • EVP Business Development: Craig L. Glassinger

Address: 625 E. Kaliste Saloom Rd. Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-237-0410 Fax: 337-237-0426

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STP Nuclear Operating Company (STPNOC) is a bright idea down in Texas, but just don't ask you know who to pronounce it. The company manages the South Texas Project Electric Generating Station near Bay City, Texas. The nuclear power plant, which went into operation in 1988, produces about 2,500 MW of electricity and serves more than a million homes. The company is jointly owned by CenterPoint Energy subsidiary Texas Genco (31%), City Public Service of San STP Nuclear Antonio (28%), and Austin Energy (16%). AEP Texas Central Operating has sold its 25% stake to City Public Service of San Antonio Company and Texas Genco. The company explores for, processes, and markets oil and natural gas, mainly in Canada, but also in the US. It has proved reserves of 639 million barrels of oil equivalent. The first company to produce commercial crude oil from Canada's oil sands, Suncor now produces light crude oil, diesel fuel, and custom blends from Athabasca oil sands. It produces 206,100 barrels of oil equivalent per day. Its Sunoco subsidiary (unrelated to the US-based company of the same name) refines crude oil and processes and distributes fuels, petrochemicals, and heating oils. Suncor markets gasoline in Suncor Energy Ontario from some 500 gas stations (mainly SunocoInc. [SU] branded). No laggard, oil and gas exploration and production company Swift Energy has interests in more than 930 producing wells, primarily in Texas and Louisiana. It also has two major exploration regions in New Zealand. The company's core US production areas are the Lake Washington Field in Louisiana, and the AWP Olmos Field in Texas. Swift Energy aims to increase reserves and production by adjusting the balance between drilling and acquisition activities in response to market conditions. It is also expanding its production activities in New Zealand. The company's proved reserves consist of 799.8 billion cu. ft. of natural gas Swift Energy Company [SFY] equivalent. Swift Energy Company was founded in 1979. independent power production subsidiary, Synex Energy Resources, develops, purchases, owns, and operates generation facilities in Western Canada. Subsidiary Sigma Engineering provides consulting, design, and environmental assessment services for hydroelectric projects. The company owns and operates hydroelectric plants (15 MW of capacity) in British Columbia and the US. It is developing two new projects: the Kyuoquot Electrical Utility and the Cypress Creek Hydro Project. The company took over the operation of four hydro plants in Michigan in 2004. Synex, established Synex in 1987, also holds a stake in Coast Mountain Hydro in International Inc. British Columbia.

Address: FM 521 Wadsworth, TX 77483 Phone: 361-972-8445 Fax: 361-972-8050

• President and CEO: Joe Sheppard • Public Information Officer: Alan Mikus • Staff Public Affairs Specialist: Edward Conaway

Fiscal Year End: December Address: 112 4th Ave. SW Revenue (2005): 8383.00 M Calgary, Alberta T2P 2V5, Canada Revenue Growth (1 yr): 22.30% Phone: 403-269-8100 Employees (2004): 4,605 Fax: 403-269-6217 Employee Growth (1 yr): 8.10%

• Chairman: J. R. Shaw • President, CEO, and Director: Richard L. (Rick) George • SVP and CFO: J. Kenneth (Ken) Alley

Address: 16825 Northchase Dr., Ste. 400 Houston, TX 77060 Phone: 281-874-2700 Fax: 281-874-2726

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 423.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 36.10% Employees (2005): 311 Employee Growth (1 yr): 14.30%

• Chairman: A. Earl Swift • CEO and Director: Terry E. Swift • President and Secretary; President, Swift Energy Internation: Bruce H. Vincent

Address: 1444 Alberni St., 4th Fl. Vancouver, British Columbia V6G 2Z4, Canada Phone: 604-688-8271 Fax: 604-688-1286

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2005): 2.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 70.50% Employees (2005): 26

• Chairman and Secretary: Alan W. Stephens • President, CFO, and Director: Gregory J (Greg) Sunell

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Talisman Energy hopes its efforts to develop hydrocarbon projects worldwide will work like a charm. Canada's largest independent oil and gas exploration and production company, Talisman is active in Southeast Asia, North America, and the North Sea. It also explores in North Africa and in Latin America and the Caribbean region. Talisman has proved reserves of 1.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent and a production rate of 438,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. Talsiman acquired Norwegian company Pertra, formerly a unit of Petroleum Geo-Services, for $155 million in 2005. It Talisman Energy has also acquired rival Paladin Resources for £1.2 billion Inc. [TLM] ($2.3 billion). just yet, but it's getting there. The firm is engaged in exploring for, producing, and transporting oil and natural gas in Tennessee (primarily in the Swan Creek Field) and Kansas (in properties near Hays). Tengasco uses 3-D seismic technology to maximize recovery of its reserves; its proved reserves are 7.9 billion cu. ft. of natural gas and 1.1 million barrels of oil. The firm also is involved in natural gas marketing, pipeline construction, and related energy services. Its Tengasco Pipeline unit manages its pipeline Tengasco, Inc. operations. Dolphin Offshore Partners owns 33% of [TGC] Tengasco.

Address: Ste. 3400, 888 - 3rd St. SW Calgary, Alberta T2P 5C5, Canada Phone: 403-237-1234 Fax: 403-237-1902

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 8149.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 52.90% Employees (2004): 1,870 Employee Growth (1 yr): 6.40%

• Chairman: Douglas D. Baldwin • President and CEO: James W. (Jim) Buckee • EVP Finance and CFO: Michael D. McDonald

Address: 10215 Technology Dr., Ste. #301 Knoxville, TN 37932 Phone: 865-675-1554 Fax: 865-675-1621

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 7.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 18.00% Employees (2005): 23 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-4.20%)

• Chairman: Peter E. Salas • CEO and Director: Jeffrey R. Bailey • CFO: Mark A. Ruth

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 2054.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 2.60% Employees (2004): 1,564 Employee Growth (1 yr): 3.50%

• Chairman and CEO: Jack Fusco • CFO: Hamsa Shadaksharappa • EVP, Business Development and Strategic Planning: Thad Hill

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 67.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 16.10% Employees (2004): 47 Employee Growth (1 yr): 4.40%

• Chairman: Stephen M. Gose Jr. • President CEO, and Director: James E. (Jim) Sigmon • VP, CFO, and Treasurer: P. Mark Stark

From the get-go, Texas Genco aims to be a major producer of electricity in the Lone Star State. The company has interests in power plants across Texas and a generating capacity of more than 14,000 MW. Most of its plants are fossil-fueled; the firm also owns a 31% stake in the STP Nuclear facility. Texas Genco sells its power to wholesale customers in the state's newly deregulated market. Parent CenterPoint Energy (formerly Reliant Energy) spun off 19% Address: 12301 Kurland Dr. of Texas Genco to shareholders in 2003. While Texas Genco Houston, TX 77034 filed an initial public offering (IPO) in 2005, NRG Energy Phone: 713-795-6000 Texas Genco Inc. announced intentions to buy the company for $5.8 billion. The Exploration Company of Delaware isn't looking to go where no one has gone before -- only where no other drillers have gone. Through its direct efforts and joint ventures with other oil and gas firms, the company explores for oil and natural gas in the Dakotas, Montana, and South Texas. It has proved reserves of 17.7 billion cu. ft. of natural gas and 3.4 million barrels of oil. The Exploration Company sells its oil Address: 500 N. Loop 1604 East, and gas wholesale through independent marketers. To Ste. 250 The Exploration support its core operations in the Maverick Basin in South San Antonio, TX 78232 Company of Texas, in 2002 the company acquired a 69-mile-long pipeline Phone: 210-496-5300 Delaware, Inc. gathering system. By the end of 2004 The Exploration Fax: 210-496-3232 [TXCO] Company was operating 90 miles of gas gathering pipeline.

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Houston, we have a platform. Houston Exploration performs some of its gas and oil exploration, development, and production from offshore platforms in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico, although the majority of its reserves are located onshore. The company offsets the risks of its highpotential Gulf operations by holding lower-risk onshore properties where it generates about 55% of its production. The Houston Houston Exploration's proved reserves (94% natural gas) Exploration total 793 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent. Its biggest Company [THX] customer, ConocoPhillips, accounts for 12% of sales. Meridian Resource knows it takes longitude and latitude to locate oil and gas reserves, and the company uses 3-D seismic technology to improve its success rate. The exploration and development company focuses on the Gulf Coast and the Gulf of Mexico; it has proved reserves of 139 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent. Meridian is focusing its exploration and production activities on the Biloxi Marsh The Meridian Land area, in addition to the development of the Weeks Resource Island field properties. Together these assets comprise an Corporation area of 8,000 sq. miles of 3-D seismic data. [TMR] Toreador Resources is looking to the bull market in oil prices to lift its revenues. The oil and gas explorer, which focuses on exploration opportunities in the international arena, owns royalty and mineral interests in properties located in France, Romania, Trinidad, and Turkey. In 2004 the company sold its US hydrocarbon properties, but retains stakes in about 900 Toreador oil and gas wells in Kansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Resources Oklahoma, and Texas. Toreador, which has proved reserves Corporation of 13.8 million barrels of oil equivalent, sells its oil and gas to [TRGL] refiners and pipeline companies. TransAlta Power transforms fossil fuels into electricity. The company owns a 49.9% indirect interest in the Mississauga, Ottawa, and Windsor power plants in Canada. It holds the indirect interest through its 49.9% limited-partnership stake in TransAlta Cogeneration (TA Cogen), an independent power producer with interests in five gas-fired power plants in Ontario and one coal-fired, mine-mouth plant in Alberta. Ontario. The plants have a total generating capacity of 1,338 MW of electricity, which is sold under long-term contracts. TransAlta Power, TransAlta Corp. has sold its minority stake in TransAlta L.P. Power, which was formed in 1997. TransGlobe Energy spans the earth from North America to the Middle East. The oil and gas exploration and production company's main interests are in Yemen and in the Canadian province of Alberta (primarily in central Alberta). The company started out in 1968 as a mining company called Dusty Mac before switching to oil and gas exploration and production in 1992 and changing its name to TransGlobe Energy. TransGlobe, which has total proved reserves of more than 7.8 million barrels of oil equivalent, ramped up its TransGlobe exploration activities in Yemen in 2002 and 2003 and moved Energy into Egypt in 2004. In Egypt it has a 50% working interest in Corporation the Nuqra concession on the eastern bank of the Nile. [TGA]

Address: 1100 Louisiana, Ste. 2000 Houston, TX 77002-5215 Phone: 713-830-6800 Fax: 713-830-6885

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 621.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-4.40%) Employees (2005): 167 Employee Growth (1 yr): 7.70%

• Chairman, President, and CEO: William G. (Billy) Hargett • SVP and CFO: Robert T. Ray • EVP and COO: Steven L. (Steve) Mueller

Address: 1401 Enclave Pkwy., Ste. Fiscal Year End: December 300 Revenue (2005): 195.70 M Houston, TX 77077 Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-3.40%) Phone: 281-597-7000 Employees (2004): 74 Fax: 281-597-8880 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• Chairman and CEO: Joseph A. Reeves Jr. • President and Director: Michael J. Mayell • SVP and Chief Accounting Officer: Lloyd V. DeLano

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 30.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 47.10% Employees (2005): 67 Employee Growth (1 yr): 48.90%

• Chairman: John M. McLaughlin • President, CEO, and Director: G. Thomas Graves III • SVP,Finance and CFO: Douglas W. Weir

Address: 4809 Cole Ave., Ste. 108 Dallas, TX 75205 Phone: 214-559-3933 Fax: 214-559-3945

Address: 110 12th Ave. SW Calgary, Alberta T2P 2M1, Canada Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 28.80 M Phone: 403-267-7110 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 44.70% Fax: 403-267-2590 Employees (2004): 0

Address: Ste. 2500, 605 - 5th Ave. SW Calgary, Alberta T2P 3H5, Canada Phone: 403-264-9888 Fiscal Year End: December Fax: 403-264-9898 Revenue (2005): 58.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 86.40%

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• Chairman: T. Iain Ronald • President and Director: Ian A. Bourne • VP, Finance: Marvin J. Waiand

• Chairman: Robert A. Halpin • President, CEO, and Director: Ross G. Clarkson • VP, COO, and Director: Lloyd W. Herrick

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Ultra Petroleum goes to geographic extremes (Wyoming and China) in the search for petroleum products. The independent exploration and production company recovers natural gas from Cretaceous sandstone deposits in the Green River Basin of southwestern Wyoming. The oil and gas company has expanded into China though the acquisition of Pendaries Petroleum, a Houston-based oil and gas exploration company that has large oil assets in Bohai Bay. Ultra Petroleum has proved reserves of 2 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent in the US, and 45.5 billion cu. ft. of Ultra Petroleum natural gas equivalent in China. The company also has Corp. [UPL] assets in Pennsylvania and Texas. VAALCO Energy has boldly gone where bigger players are sure to follow. The small independent, which merged with the 1818 Oil Corp. in a reverse acquisition in 1998, is engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of oil and gas. Its strategy is to balance its lower-risk domestic drilling with higher-potential international prospects. VAALCO holds offshore exploration assets in Gabon. The company sold its Philippine holdings in 2004. VAALCO has interests in the Texas Gulf Coast. It has proved reserves of 8.7 million barrels of oil and 54 million cu. ft. of gas. The 1818 fund, VAALCO Energy, managed by Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. of New York., controlled 65% of VAALCO but sold this stake in 2005. Inc. [EGY] Olympic Resources) knows how to make money. The natural gas exploration and production independent has primary operations in California, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. The company has estimated proved reserves of 6.7 million barrels of oil equivalent. In 2005 Whittier Energy acquired Rimco Production for $56 million. Rimco had proved reserves of 2 million barrels of oil and 11 billion cu. ft. of Whittier Energy natural gas. The deal also gives Whittier Energy an Corporation additional 116 active wells in 18 producing fields in Alabama, [WHIT] Louisiana, and Texas. XTO Energy doesn't have to cross its fingers and hope its fields produce oil and gas. It buys mostly long-lived producing properties, and has begun more exploration of unproved reserves. The large independent's holdings are mainly in Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. XTO Energy owns interests in more than 18,100 wells and operates gas gathering systems in Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. The company has proved reserves of 6.1 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas, 209 million barrels of oil, and 47 million barrels of natural gas liquids. In 2004 it purchased XTO Energy Inc. 150 natural gas and oil properties in seven US states from [XTO] Chevron for $912 million.

Address: 363 N. Sam Houston Pkwy. E., Ste. 1200 Houston, TX 77060 Phone: 281-876-0120 Fax: 281-876-2831

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 516.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 100.20% Employees (2005): 57 Employee Growth (1 yr): 39.00%

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Michael D. Watford • CFO: Marshal D. (Mark) Smith • VP Operations: William B. (Bill) Picquet

Address: 4600 Post Oak Place, Ste. 309 Houston, TX 77027 Phone: 713-623-0801 Fax: 713-623-0982

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 84.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 50.30% Employees (2005): 16 Employee Growth (1 yr): 33.30%

• Chairman and CEO: Robert L. Gerry III • President, CFO, and Director: W. Russell Scheirman

Address: 3355 W. Alabama St., Ste. 950 Houston, TX 77098 Phone: 713-850-1880 Fax: 713-850-1879

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 26.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 166.30%

• Chairman: James A. Jeffs • President, CEO, and Director: Bryce W. Rhodes • COO: Daniel Silverman

Address: 810 Houston St. Fort Worth, TX 76102-6298 Phone: 817-870-2800 Fax: 817-870-1671

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 3519.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 80.70% Employees (2004): 1,356 Employee Growth (1 yr): 34.70%

• Chairman and CEO: Bob R. Simpson • President and Director: Keith A. Hutton • EVP and CFO: Louis G. Baldwin

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YPF, S.A. [YPF]

parent: Integrated oil company YPF is 99%-owned by Repsol YPF, Spain's largest oil concern (formerly Repsol). YPF has proved reserves of about 1.2 billion barrels of oil, and 8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. It produces, refines, and markets petroleum, natural gas, and petrochemicals. The company's three Argentine refineries have an annual capacity of about 116 million barrels, 51% of Argentina's total refining capacity. YPF distributes oil to its approximately 1,900 service stations in Argentina. Subsidiary YPF International has production interests in Indonesia and develops US oil and gas properties.

Address: Avenida Presidente Roque Sáenz Peña 777 C. 1035 ACC Buenos Aires, Argentina Phone: +54-11-4329-2000 Fax: +54-11-4329-2113

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 7032.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 4.10% Employees (2004): 9,583 Employee Growth (1 yr): 2.00%

• Chairman: Antonio Brufau Niubo • CEO: Enrique Locutura • CFO and Director: Carlos A. Olivieri

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Description Exploring for gold isn't exactly Bada bing, bada boom -- we're rich, but it helps to own a former producing mine. Abington Ventures focuses its gold and silver exploration activities in the Sheeptanks Mining District in southwestern Arizona. The natural resources company had an option to buy the Verdstone Mine, which operated from 1992 to 1996 when gold prices fell, where it is drilling, but it didn't renew that option in 2005. It also owns options Abington Ventures on nearby claims. The company has working interests in two oil Inc. and gas producing wells in Saskatchewan. There's gold in them thar' scrap heaps, or there can be, and that's where Academy comes in. Academy refines precious metals, including silver and gold, from leftovers such as flake, scrap, sludges, sweepings, filings, and buffings. The company manufactures bullion, provides materials (sheet, wire, and casting grain products) for jewelry makers and silversmiths, and operates silver-recovery equipment for the photo processing, medical, and graphic arts industries. The company operates refineries in Albuquerque and Philadelphia and maintains several satellite and Academy service locations throughout the US. Academy was founded in Corporation 1976. Acier Leroux, also known as Leroux Steel, processes and distributes more than 3,000 formed steel products (such as steel plates, sheet, coil, bars, and tubes) used in construction. It is one of the leading metals service centers in Canada, with operations throughout Quebec. Leroux was acquired by competing metals service center Russel Metals in 2003. Following the acquisition, Acier Leroux inc. Leroux's operations in the US were disposed of in 2004. ADS Logistics doesn't deal in music, but it is a fan of metal. ADS (formerly Alternative Distribution Systems) provides fully integrated distribution services to the US metals industry. Operating throughout the contiguous 48 states, ADS distributes steel and aluminum, serving metals producers, traders, processors, and manufacturers through a network of warehousing and distribution centers. Through its four operating units -- Area Transportation, Roll & Hold Warehousing & Distribution, Integrated Solutions, and Western Intermodal -- ADS provides transportation, warehousing, inventory management, and third-party logistics. Chicago ADS Logistics, investment firm Code Hennessy & Simmons, through its May LLC Logistics unit, owns ADS. At the service of the electronics and jewelry industries, Advanced Chemical makes products used in the electroplating process and refines precious metals from waste produced in electroplating and Advanced jewelry making. The company's refining processes are designed to Chemical recover gold, palladium, platinum, rhodium, and silver. Advanced Company Chemical was founded in 1972.

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Address: 125A - 1030 Denman St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6G 2M6, Canada Fiscal Year End: October Phone: 604-683-6657 Revenue (2004): 0.10 M Fax: 604-684-4407 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 3.50%

Address: 5520 Midway Park Place NE Albuquerque, NM 87109 Phone: 505-345-1805 Fax: 505-344Address: 1331 Graham-Bell St. Boucherville, Quebec J4B 6A1, Canada Phone: 450-641-2280 Fax: 450-641-9024

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 103.40 M Employees (2005): 200

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 350.00 M

• President and Director: Walter Brenner • CFO and Director: J. Lewis Dillman

• President: Keith Philippi • CFO: Dan Radford • CTO: Diane Harding • President and CEO: Edward M. (Bud) Siegel Jr. • EVP and CFO: Brian R. Hedges

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Stephen H. Fraser • EVP and COO: John Klyczek • VP, Accounting: Patrick G. Sullivan

Address: 935 W. 175th St. Homewood, IL 60430 Phone: 708-799-4990 Fax: 708-799-5927 Address: 105 Bellows St. Warwick, RI 02888 Phone: 401-785-3434 Fax: 401-941-9210

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Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 10.80 M Employees (2005): 40

• CEO: Gerald Smith Jr. • President and COO: Gerald Smith III • Controller: Lou DiPaolo

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Afrasia Mineral Fields Inc.

African Eagle Resources plc

African Rainbow Minerals Limited

AfriOre Limited

Aguila American Resources Ltd.

Alamos Gold Inc.

Asia, but it does do business in Canada. The company is involved in mineral exploration with Angel Exploration in Alberta. It is looking to acquire or partner with other mineral exploration businesses in its sector. Afrasia Mineral Fields is managed and administered by venture capital firm Varshney Capital. Praveen Varshney, president of Afrasia Mineral Fields, also heads up Varshney Capital. African Eagle Resources is soaring over eastern and southern Africa hunting for the right spot to mine gold. This creature explores for precious and base metals. It is currently investigating the Mkushi copper project in Zambia and the Eagle Eye iron, copper, and gold project in Zambia. African Eagle Resources is also having initial success in its exploration of the Miyabi gold project in Tanzania. African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) develops and operates mines in South Africa in the ferrous, platinum group metals, nickel, and gold sectors. The mining company has a 50% holding in Assmang Limited, which mines ferrous metals including iron ore, manganese, and chrome ore. Formerly Anglovaal Mining, African Rainbow operates the Modikwa and Two Rivers platinum mines, among others. The company's Nkomati mine produces nickel and copper. In 2004 the company sold its Avgold Limited subsidiary to Harmony Gold Mining and now holds a 16% stake in Harmony. AfriOre dumped coal in favor of platinum. The company used to be in the business of coal or gold, depending on how you look at it. AfriOre operated coal mining properties (which it sold in 2004) primarily in South Africa. After divesting its coal operations, AfriOre expanded into platinum group metals mining, with an interest in the Akanani platinum project in South Africa. The company has continued exploring its gold projects in Kenya, Mali, Namibia, and South Africa. Aguila American Resources calls Peru home. The company explores and develops precious and base metals primarily at its Anogstura gold property in Peru. The mining project consists of about five concessions and is located in a mountainous area in the Department of Apurimac in southern Peru. None of Aguila American Resources' projects are in production. Alamos Gold has made its way to Mexico to find gold. The company explores for and develops precious metals interests, which primarily includes its Mulatos project located on the Salamandra Property (a 16,083-hectare concession holding) in the state of Sonora. Expected to produce about 150,000 ounces of gold annually in the first phase (at the Estrella Pit), the Mulatos project is an advanced gold deposit which should begin operations in 2005. In the meantime, Alamos Gold is also exploring several other properties within its Salamandra Property.

Address: 925 W. Georgia St., Ste. 1304, Cathedral Place Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3L2, Canada Phone: 604-684-2181 Fax: 604-682-4768

• President and Director: Praveen K. Varshney Park • Managing Director and Board Member: Mark E. Parker • Finance Director, Secretary, and Board Member: Bevan J. Metcalf

Address: 6-7 Queen St., 2nd Fl. London EC4N 1SP, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-72-486059 Fax: +44-20-76-917745

Address: ARM House, 29 Impala Rd., Chislehurston Sandton, Gauteng 2146, South Africa Phone: +27-11-779-1300 Fax: +27-11-779-1312

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2004): 619.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-5.50%) Employees (2004): 5,162 Employee Growth (1 yr): 57.20%

Address: Craigmuir Chambers Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands Phone: 212-386-5496 Fax: 212-386-5425

• Chairman: Stuart R. Comline Fiscal Year End: February • President and CEO: G. Revenue (2005): 0.20 M Michael van Aswegen Revenue Growth (1 yr): 108.80% • CFO: Susan M. J. (Sue) Employees (2005): 7 Myburgh

Address: 1090 W. Georgia St., Ste. 1305 Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 3V7, Canada Phone: 604-685-9316 Fax: 604-683-1585

Address: 2010-120 Ade;aode St/ W/ Toronto, Ontario M5H1T1, Canada Phone: 416-368-9932 Fax: 416-368-2934

• Chairman: Patrice Motsepe • CEO and Director: André Wilkens • Financial Director: Frank Abbott

• President, CEO, and Director: John F. Huguet • President and CEO: John A. McCluskey • CFO: Jon Morda • VP and Chief of Operations: John F. Van De Beuken

Aleris International, Inc. [ARS]

Alliance Holdings GP, L.P.

Almaden Minerals Ltd. [AAU]

Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. [ANR]

Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. [ALTI]

Aleris International was formed in 2004 when aluminum recycler IMCO Recycling bought aluminum sheet maker Commonwealth Industries. The combined company's Aleris Recycling unit processes and delivers recycled aluminum (beverage cans and scrap) and metal alloys (aluminum scrap and other metals) in molten or ingot form. Outside the US, Aleris International sells aluminum through its aluminum recycling and foundry alloy plants in Brazil, Germany, Mexico, and the UK. Aleris Rolled Products makes alloy aluminum sheet from recycled metal. Aleris Zinc recycles zinc to make galvanized steel, corrosion-resistant paint, and specialty chemicals. Aleris International expanded in 2005 by buying ALSCO Metals. When it comes to coal mining, it takes more than one company to make an Alliance. Alliance Holdings GP owns Alliance Resource Management GP, which is the managing general partner of coal mining company Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. That company has eight coal mining complexes (seven underground, one surface) in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Maryland, plus other coal interests in West Virginia. Alliance Holdings GP generates revenue from its general partnership interest and its 43% ownership stake in Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. The Alliance companies have been assembled by Joseph Craft III, who is chairman, president, CEO, and owner of Alliance Holdings GP. Almaden Minerals is an amalgamation of former mining companies. The exploration stage company plans to explore and develop copper, gold, and silver mining projects in Canada and Mexico. Its properties in Mexico include Caballao Blanco, Fuego, San Carlos, and San Jose. Almaden Minerals also has a joint venture with BHP Billiton to explore properties in eastern Mexico. In addition, the company holds a 50% stake in Canadian diamond mining firm ATW Resources. Alpha Natural Resources doesn't mind going underground. The company produces steam and metallurgical coal at more than 40 underground mines and more than 20 surface mines, primarily in central and northern Appalachia. Low-sulfur steam coal, which is used mainly as fuel for electricity generation, accounts for most of Alpha's sales. The company sells about 25 million tons of coal annually, including 20 million tons produced at its mines and 5 million tons purchased from other mining companies. Most of the purchased coal is blended with coal from Alpha's mines before being sold. Alpha controls somewhere near 500 million tons of proved and probable coal reserves. When Altair Nanotechnologies paints the town, its pigment of choice is titanium dioxide (TiO2). Through subsidiary Altair Nanomaterials, the company produces titanium dioxide particles used in paints, coatings, and sensors. Altair intends to create new applications and products with its nanocrystalline technology. Thus far, it has developed uses for TiO2 in producing white pigments, thermal sprays, water purifiers, fuel cells, and pharmaceuticals. As part of a corporate restructuring, Altair has discontinued the operations of its mineral recovery unit, including mining assets and a mineral processing machine, the centrifugal jig, for segregating and recovering fine particles of precious metals like gold.

Address: 25825 Science Park Dr., Ste. 400 Beachwood, OH 44122 Phone: 216-910-3400 Fax: 216-910-3650

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Steven J. (Steve) Demetriou Fiscal Year End: December • EVP and CFO: Michael Revenue (2005): 2429.00 M D. (Mike) Friday Revenue Growth (1 yr): 98.00% • SVP, Treasurer, and Employees (2005): 4,200 Corporate Development: Employee Growth (1 yr): 31.30% Sean M. Stack

Address: 1717 S. Boulder Ave. Tulsa, OK 74119 Phone: 918-295-1415 Fax: 918-295-7361

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 653.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 20.40% Employees (2004): 2,300

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Joseph W. Craft III • SVP and CFO: Brian L. Cantrell • SVP, Marketing: Gary J. Rathburn

Address: 750 W. Pender St., Ste. 1103 Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2T8, Canada Phone: 604-689-7644 Fax: 604-689-7645

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 0.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 700.00% Employees (2005): 6

• President and CEO: James Duane (Duane) Poliquin • CFO: Dione Bitzer

Address: 1 Alpha Place Abingdon, VA 24212 Phone: 276-619-4410

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 1627.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 28.20% Employees (2005): 3,591

• Chairman: Hans J. Mende • President, CEO, and Director: Michael J. (Mike) Quillen • VP and CFO: David C. Stuebe

Address: 204 Edison Way Reno, NV 89502-2306 Phone: 775-856-2500 Fax: 775-856-1619

• President, CEO, and Director: Alan J. Gotcher Fiscal Year End: December • CFO and Secretary: Revenue (2005): 2.80 M Edward H. (Ed) Revenue Growth (1 yr): 133.30% Dickinson Employees (2005): 62 • SVP, Sales and Employee Growth (1 yr): 87.90% Marketing: Roy Graham

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Amalgamated Metal Corporation (AMC) stays in the mix by trading, distributing, and manufacturing metals, building products, and chemicals for a wide range of industrial applications. Its metals primarily include steel and non-ferrous metals (aluminum and tin), and its chemicals operation distributes paints and coatings, specialty, and food chemicals. AMC has operations in nearly 15 countries. In North America, the company operates Amalgamated subsidiary Amalgamet, which trades non-ferrous metals, Metal Corporation chemicals, and essential oils. Formerly a subsidiary of the German PLC tourism business TUI, management led a buy-out of AMC in 2003. If it's yellow and in the ground, odds are that Amarillo Gold wants to get its hands on it. The company is now prospecting in Brazil at its Mara Rosa project (which it acquired from Metallica Resources.) It also has a deal with Phelps Dodge to develop another mining project in Brazil. Amarillo Gold is exploring other regions of Brazil for gold deposits as well. The company emerged out of Consolidated Excellerated Resources, which was developed Amarillo Gold in 2003. Corporation AmerAlia is sold on soda. Through subsidiary Natural Soda, Inc., AmerAlia owns sodium bicarbonate leases covering more than 9,540 acres. The company's main development is on 1,320 acres of federal land in Colorado's Piceance Creek Basin (leased through 2011). The adjacent White River Nahcolite Minerals site, acquired in 2003, covers over 8,000 acres. AmerAlia can produce about 110,000 tons of sodium bicarbonate per year. Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) is used in animal feed, food, and pharmaceuticals. Byproducts such as soda ash and caustic soda are used to make glass, detergents, and chemicals. The AmerAlia, Inc. Jacqueline Badger Mars Trust owns 47% of AmerAlia. (Ms. Mars [AALA.PK] is an heir to the Mars candy fortune.) American Colloid mines bentonite clay and employs it to make products used in animal feed, cat litter, cosmetics, metal castings, and pharmaceuticals, as well as in the production of iron ore. The properties of bentonite clay allow it to be used as an absorption agent, binder, lubricant, sealant, or thickener. American Colloid American Colloid constitutes a major part of the minerals business of its parent, Company AMCOL International. American Steel & Aluminum, a subsidiary of Canada-based Novamerican Steel, primarily processes and distributes carbon steel, aluminum, and stainless steel products to customers through about 10 operating plants in the mid-Atlantic and northeastern US. Its products include hot and cold-rolled carbon steel and alloy and coated bar, coil, sheet, plate, and tubular forms. American Steel American Steel was founded in 1962 and later acquired by Novamerican Steel in and Aluminum 1996. Corporation AMG Resources is a full-service scrap metal brokerage and processing company. The company operates 10 scrap-processing facilities in the US and two in the UK. AMG Resources sells its products to steel mills and foundries and to other scrap dealers. AMG Resources AMG Resources was founded in 1988 to acquire Vulcan Detinning, Corporation which was established in 1902 to remove tin from tin-plate scrap.

Address: 55 Bishopsgate London EC2N 3AH, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7626-4521 Fax: +44-20-7623-6015

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 1180.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 53.70% Employees (2004): 1,668 Employee Growth (1 yr): 4.00%

Address: Exchange Tower, P.O. Box 99, Ste. 3680 Toronto, Ontario M5X 1B1, Canada Phone: 416-304-4209 Fax: 416-599-4959

Address: 20971 E. Smoky Hill Rd. Centennial, CO 80015-5187 Phone: 720-876-2373 Fax: 720-876-2374

• Chairman: H. Stodieck • Chief Executive: V. H. Sher • Director, Group Financial Control; Director, North American: G. C. L. Rowan

• CEO: Buddy Doyle

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Bill H. Gunn • EVP, CFO, Secretary, Fiscal Year End: June Treasurer, and Director: Revenue (2004): 12.60 M Robert C.J. van Mourik Revenue Growth (1 yr): 172.80% • Director of Sales and Employees (2004): 34 Marketing, Natural Soda Employee Growth (1 yr): 3.00% Inc.: Brad Bunnett

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 48.90 M Employees (2005): 608

• President: Gary D. Morrison • Sales Manager Asia, AMCOL Paper Technologies: Hugh Parker

Address: 1080 University Ave. Norwood, MA 02062 Phone: 781-762-8014 Fax: 781-762-8804

Fiscal Year End: November Revenue (2005): 40.70 M Employees (2005): 123

• President and COO: Stephen D. Shaw • VP Finance and Treasurer: Peter V. Balboni

Address: 4100 Grand Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15225 Phone: 412-777-7300 Fax: 412-331-0972

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 80.00 M Employees (2005): 130

• President and CEO: Allan Goldstein • COO: Ronald Zorn • CFO: Brian Cohen

Address: 1500 W. Shure Dr. Arlington Heights, IL 60004 Phone: 847-392-4600 Fax: 847-506-6199

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Anatolia owns land in Turkey for mining gold, copper, and other minerals. The company has focused its exploratory drilling efforts Anatolia Minerals on its Çöpler gold project, which is believed to contain 4 million Development ounces of gold. To identify other mineral deposits on the land it Limited controls in Turkey, Anatolia has taken on industry giant Rio Tinto [ALIAF.PK] as an exploration partner. Anglesey is anxious to get its hands on some gold, silver, or any other minerals, for that matter. Anglesey Mining owns zinc, copper, lead, gold, and silver properties at Parys Mountain (located north of the island of Anglesey in northern Wales) and Dolaucothi (located in southern Wales). Operations at the Dolaucothi property are suspended, but the company is actively exploring the Parys Anglesey Mining Mountain property. Bermuda-based company Juno Limited maintains a 45% ownership of Anglesey Mining. plc Anglo American's name might be a little misleading -- it's never been American. The UK-based company owns stakes in leading global producers of gold (51%, AngloGold Ashanti), platinum (75%, Anglo Platinum), and diamonds (45%, De Beers Consolidated). In addition, Anglo American has interests in paper and packaging goods (more than 20% of sales), ferrous and base metals, and industrial minerals. It also is one of the world's largest independent coal miners. The company controls assets around the world. Descendants of the founding Oppenheimer family no longer Anglo American control Anglo American, although Nicky Oppenheimer, who chairs plc [AAUK] De Beers, sits on the company's board. Anglo Pacific Group is involved in the exploration, mining, and development of minerals primarily located in Australia and Canada. The company earns royalties from the Kestrel and Crinum coal mines in Australia (operated by Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton) and has interests in other coal operations in Canada. Anglo Pacific has also invested in diamond, gold, and platinum mining operations in Australia and North America, but has reduced Anglo Pacific its holdings in these operations as the company looks to coal for Group plc growth. It also holds a talc deposit in Scotland. Gold may glitter, but Anglo Platinum sees pizzaz in platinum. The company, commonly called Amplats, which is more than 70%owned by resources giant Anglo American, is the world's largest miner of platinum group metals, or PGMs, such as platinum, palladium, and rhodium. The company produces about 2.5 million ounces of platinum and more than a million ounces of palladium annually. Its reserves include more than 220 million ounces comprising platinum, palladium, rhodium, and gold (a byproduct of PGM mining). PGMs are used in catalytic converters, electronics, fuel cells, industrial processes (as catalysts), and jewelry. Amplats Anglo Platinum operates seven mines, three smelters, and two refineries, all in Limited South Africa.

Address: 10920 W. Alameda Ave., Ste. 205 Lakewood, CO 80226 Phone: 303-292-1299 Fax: 303-297-0538

• Co-Chairman: Timothy Haddon • Co-Chairman, President, and CEO: Richard C. Moores II • CFO: Douglas Tobler

Address: Parys Mountain Amlwch, Anglesey LL68 9RE, United Kingdom Phone: +44-1-248-361333 Fax: +44-1-248-361419

• Chairman and CEO: John F. Kearney • Finance Director and Company Secretary: Ian Cuthbertson

Address: 20 Carlton House Terrace London SW1Y 5AN, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7968-8888 Fax: +44-20-7968-8500

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 29434.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 18.10% Employees (2004): 209,000 Employee Growth (1 yr): 8.30%

• Chairman: Sir Mark Moody-Stuart • CEO and Executive Director: Anthony J. (Tony) Trahar • EVP, Group Human Resources and Business Development: Russell King

Address: 17 Hill St. London W1J 5NZ, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7409-1111 Fax: +44-20-7629-0370

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 10.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 70.50% Employees (2004): 4 Employee Growth (1 yr): 33.30%

• Executive Chairman: Peter M. Boycott • Finance Director: Brian M. Wides

Address: 55 Marshall St. Johannesburg 2001, South Africa Phone: +27-11-373-6111 Fax: +27-11-373-5111

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 3398.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 40.40% Employees (2004): 46,740 Employee Growth (1 yr): 1.50%

• Non-Executive Chairman: Barry E. Davison • CEO and Director: Ralph Havenstein • Executive Director, Finance and Business Development and Boa: Roeland van Kerckhoven

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Angus & Ross will go to great lengths to find good mineral prospects. The company is exploring Australia, Brazil, Canada, China and Greenland primarily for gold, base metals, and tantalum (used mainly in electronics manufacturing). Its Black Angel Mining subsidiary (84%-owned) operates a zinc and lead project in Angus & Ross Greenland. Several investment firms own sizable stakes in Angus PLC & Ross. Anooraq Resources has platinum on its mind. The company explores and develops platinum group metals (PGM) prospects in South Africa. Anooraq Resources' mineral properties include the Drenthe and Witriver farms, as well as the Overysel Farm through a joint venture with a Anglo American Platinum subsidiary. It also holds interests in other properties, all within the prolific Bushveld Anooraq Complex. Before going to South Africa, the company had been Resources exploring for metals in Mexico. CEO Ronald Thiessen works for Corporation [ANO] Hunter Dickinson, a mining management firm. Antares Minerals likes its chances for minerals in Latin America. Formerly Planet Ventures, the company is engaged in the acquisition, exploration, and development of copper and gold. It has several prospects in northwestern Argentina as well as an Antares Minerals agreement with Phelps Dodge for a project in Peru. None of its Inc. properties are in commercial production. small island off Indonesia. When mining exploration in Latin and South America proved fruitless, the company began exploring and mining precious metals on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. Apolo Gold & Energy has a partnership with PT Metro Astatama to develop gold and silver properties on the island. Its primary property is the NUP project. In addition, Apolo Gold & Energy also Apolo Gold & holds an interest in an oil property in Kazakhstan. Founder and Energy, Inc. former CEO Martial Levasseur controls about 15% of the [APLL.OB] company. Aquarius Platinum wants platinum lovers to pour it on. The company mines for platinum and other platinum group metals (PGMs) in South Africa's highly productive Bushveld Complex and in Zimbabwe through its 50% stake in Mimosa Investments. PGMs, including palladium and rhodium, are used in electronics, catalytic converters, and jewelry. Aquarius Platinum focuses on small deposits and a capital-intensive (mechanized) rather than a labor-intensive mining model. Founded in 1996, the company Aquarius Platinum produces around 330,000 PGM ounces annually, mostly at its Limited 50%-owned Kroondal mine (a partnership with Anglo Platinum).

Address: St. Chad's House, Piercy End, Kirkbymoorside York YO62 6DQ, United Kingdom Phone: +44-1751-430-988 Fax: +44-1751-430-991

Fiscal Year End: February Revenue (2005): 0.00 M Employees (2005): 5 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-28.60%)

• Chairman and Chief Executive: Robin Andrews • COO: Andrew P. Zemek • Finance Director and Secretary: Paul Williams • Co-Chairman: Robert A. Dickinson • Co-Chairman: Popo S. Molefe • President, CEO, and Director: Ronald W. Thiessen

Address: 800 W. Pender St., Ste. 1020 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2V6, Canada Phone: 604-684-6365 Fax: 604-684-8092 Address: 25 Main St. North, 3rd Fl. Toronto, Ontario LOR 2HO, Canada Phone: 905-667-5075 Fax: 905-689-0443

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• President and Director: John E. Black

Address: 409 Granville St., Ste. 1209 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1T2, Canada Phone: 604-687-4150 Fax: 604-687-4155

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 15 Employee Growth (1 yr): 650.00%

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Peter Bojtos • CFO, Secretary, and Director: Robert G. Dinning

Address: Level 4, Ste. 5, South Shore Centre, 85 The Esplanade South Perth 6151, Australia Phone: +61-8-9367-5211 Fax: +61-8-9367-5233

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2004): 132.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 104.90% Employees (2004): 40 Employee Growth (1 yr): 5.30%

• Chairman: Stuart A. Murray • Managing Director: Gert R. Ackerman • Finance Director: Ayanda Khumalo

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Arch Coal, Inc. [ACI]

Archipelago Resources PLC

ARCON International Resources P.l.c.

Argosy Minerals Inc.

Asbury Carbons, Inc.

Asbury Graphite of California, Inc.

What powers your power company? Perhaps Arch Coal. About half of the electricity generated in the US comes from coal, and Arch Coal is one of the country's largest coal producers, behind industry leader Peabody Energy. Arch Coal produces more than 125 million tons of coal a year from nearly two dozen mines in the western US and Central Appalachia; the company has proved and probable reserves of about 3.1 billion tons. Steam coal -- low-ash coal used by electric utilities to produce steam in boilers -accounts for the vast majority of the company's sales. To store and ship its Appalachian coal, the company operates the Arch Coal Terminal near the Ohio River. Archipelago Resources is engaged in the exploration and production of gold and other base metals. The company's primary holding is an 85% interest in the Toka Tindung Gold project (acquired in 2002) located in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Toka Tindung is expected produce 160,000 ounces of gold annually once it begins production in 2006. It has an estimated resource of 1.75 million ounces of gold. Archipelago Resources also explores for gold in Vietnam and the Philippines. The UK-based investment firm Ocean Resources Capital holds a 33% stake in the company. ARCON International Resources, through subsidiary ARCON Mines, operates the Galmoy zinc mine in County Kilkenny, Ireland. ARCON was formed through the 1992 merger of Atlantic Resources, Conroy Petroleum, and Natural Resources (companies associated with multimillionaire Sir Anthony O'Reilly, whose son was ARCON's chairman.) Lundin Mining acquired the company in 2005. Argosy Minerals has set out around the world to explore and develop mineral deposits. The company is involved in various mineral holdings, chiefly the MusongatiBurundi Nickel project (Africa), the Lac Panache project (Canada), and the Gold Creek project (US). The Lac Panache project in Ontario is being explored for platinum group metals (PGMs), copper, nickel, and other metals. In 2003 it sold the Kremnica Gold project in Slovakia and in 2004 Argosy Minerals terminated its New Caledonia Nickel project, a proposed joint venture deal with Norilsk Nickel. and markets a wide range of carbon- and graphite-based materials. Applications include coatings, friction materials, fuel cell plates, lubricants, and powder metallurgy. Asbury Carbons operates from facilities throughout the US and in Canada. The company was founded in 1895 by Harry Riddle and is run by his descendants. A unit of graphite producer Asbury Carbons, Asbury Graphite of California produces carbon-related materials such as artificial and natural graphite, breeze cokes, and green and calcined-petroleum cokes. Customers include iron and steel producers and industrial manufacturers. Applications for Asbury Graphite of California's products include cathodic protection, friction, glass production, industrial reactants, lubrication, packing media, refractory, and rubber.

Address: 1 CityPlace Dr., Ste. 300 St. Louis, MO 63141 Phone: 314-994-2700 Fax: 314-994-2878

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 2508.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 31.50% Employees (2005): 3,700 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-10.80%)

Address: 17 Strome Rd. Applecross, Perth 6153, Australia Phone: +61-00-618-9364-8301 Fax: +61-00-618-9316-3819 Address: 60 Merrion Rd., Ballsbridge Dublin 4, Ireland Phone: +353-1-667-3063 Fax: +353-1-667-3065

Address: 23 Richardson St., Level 1, Ste. 3 South Perth 6151, Australia Phone: +61-61-8-9474-4178 Fax: +61-61-8-9474-4236 Address: 405 Old Main St. Asbury, NJ 08802 Phone: 908-537-2155 Fax: 908-537-2908

Address: 2855 Franklin Canyon Rd. Rodeo, CA 94572 Phone: 510-799-3636 Fax: 510-799-7460

• Chairman and CEO: Steven F. Leer • President, COO and Director: John W. Eaves • SVP and CFO: Robert J. Messey

• Managing Director: J. Colin Loosemore • Finance Director: Barry J. Casson Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 50.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 81.50% Employees (2004): 200 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-7.80%) • CEO and CFO: W. Peter Kidney • Chairman and President: Peter H. Lloyd Fiscal Year End: December • CFO and Director: Revenue (2004): 0.20 M Marcus N. Foster Revenue Growth (1 yr): • Manager, Corporate (-80.40%) Development: David A. Employees (2004): 8 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00% Russell

Revenue (2005): 21.00 M Employees (2005): 300

• CEO: Marvin Riddle • President: Stephen A. Riddle • VP Operations: Carol A. Kalmar

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 171.10 M Employees (2005): 300

• CEO, Asbury Carbons: Marvin Riddle • President, Asbury Carbons: Stephen A. Riddle

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Asia Aluminum Holdings Limited

Asia Aluminum Holdings has taken a prominent place in China's metal scene. The company, through a number of subsidiaries, makes and sells aluminum extrusion and stainless steel products serving the construction, transportation, industrial, and homeimprovement sectors. The company also provides design and testing services for aluminum products and is building its capabilities in the aluminum flat-rolled products sector. The company has five aluminum extrusion plants in Nanhai and with the addition of Asia Aluminum City in Zhaoqing, the company will not only expand its extrusion capabilities but add rolled products manufacturing to its offerings.

Asia Energy PLC

Asia Energy is just touching the surface of the coal mining business. It's a coal exploration and development company with shallow coal deposits in Bangladesh. The company's main operation is the Phulbari coal project, which is situated in the Dinajpur region of northwest Bangladesh. Once Phulbari is in production the coal will be exported to India and other parts of Asia.

Have you had your zinc today? Well, Asturiana de Zinc sure has. The company's core business is the refining and production of zinc metal. Its primary mining operation is the Reocín mine in Spain. Along with your run-of-the-mill ingots and wire, the company also produces zinc-based alloys, sulphuric acid, germanium dioxide, and good old zinc oxide. In 2003 Asturiana acquired German zinc smelter Nordenham. Its parent company, Switzerland-based Asturiana de Zinc, Xstrata plc, has rolled its other zinc operations into Asturiana, S.A. including its facilities in Australia and the UK. ATAC Resources has gone on the offensive to find precious metals. The company owns and explores mineral properties in Canada, concentrating its gold exploration on ten properties in the Yukon and the Northwest Territories. Its current projects include ATAC Resources the Arn and Golden Revenue properties in the Yukon Territory of Ltd. Canada. None of its properties are in production. Atacama Minerals is an industrial minerals mining company that operates in South America through its subsidiary Atacama Minerals Chile. The company's main asset is the Aguas Blancas mine, an industrial minerals property in the desert of northern Chile. Atacama Minerals' Aguas Blancas property produces iodine, sodium nitrate, and sodium sulphate. In 2005 Atacama acquired a Atacama Minerals 100% stake in Aguas Blancas after buying out ACF Minera's Corp. holding in the property.

Address: 12th Flr., Railway Plaza, 39 Chatham Rd. S, Tsimshatsui Kowloon, Hong Kong Phone: +852-27890200 Fax: +852-23981808

• Chairman: Wui Chun Kwong • Deputy Chairman and CEO: Yiu Tsuan (Benby) Chan • Executive Director, Production and Operations: Jianqiu Zhong

Address: 27 Abemarle St. London W1S 4DW, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7097-1798 Fax: +44-20-7491-2758

• Chairman: Christopher J. (Chris) Eager • CEO and Director: Steve Bywater • Executive Director, Project Development and Board Member: Bill McIntosh

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2005): 0.00 M Employees (2005): 56 Employee Growth (1 yr): 180.00%

Address: Cardenal Marcelo Spinola 42, 7 piso 28016 Madrid, Spain Phone: +34-91-334-42-00 Fax: +34-91-334-42-02

• Chairman and Chief Executive: Santiago Zaldumbide • Financial Manager: Juan León Jariego • Research and Business Development Manager: Emilio Tamargo Benavides

Address: 510 W. Hastings St., Ste. 1016 Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 1L8, Canada Phone: 604-688-2568 Fax: 604-688-2578

• Chairman: Alan R. Archer • CEO and Director: James M. (Jim) Stephen • President and Director: Robert C. (Rob) Carne

Address: 885 W. Georgia St., Ste. 2101 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3E8, Canada Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 604-689-7842 Revenue (2004): 5.20 M Fax: 604-689-4250 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 15.40%

• Chairman: Lukas H. Lundin • President and CEO: Edward F. Posey • CFO: Wanda Lee

ATH Resources ranks right up there as one of the largest coal mining companies in the UK. It operates three opencast sites (Skares Road, Grievehill, and Garleffan) in East Ayrshire, Scotland. The company has additional exploratory coal mining projects in Scotland and France. Formed in 2003 by acquiring Aardvark TMC, ATH Resources produces about 1.5 million tons of coal annually. Aardvark TMC is now a subsidiary that operates its Skares Road site; ATH Garleffan operates the Garleffan site. ATH ATH Resources Resources primarily supplies coal to utility companies, including plc British Energy, E.On, and Drax Group. import business: marketing, logistics, and quality control. It holds stakes in bulk handling and transportation facilities, as well as shipping agencies and laboratories. ATIC Services is a joint venture created in 1995 by Charbonnages de France and Electricité de France. The company owns and operates offices in Australia, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, ATIC Services and the US. Through its Atlas Fausett Contracting unit, mineral exploration company Atlas Mining provides underground mining-related services for mine operators, other exploration companies, and companies in the construction and natural resource industries. The company also is working to develop its Dragon Mine property in Juab County, Utah, which contains a deposit of halloysite clay, a substance used to make bone china, fine china, and porcelain. In addition to its mining operations, Atlas harvests timber from land it Atlas Mining controls in northern Idaho. Atlas has sustained financial losses, Company however, and the company's auditors have questioned whether it [ALMI.OB] will be able to stay in business. Atna Resources is a mineral exploration company that purchases, explores, and develops mineral resource properties. The company concentrates on precious metals and operates primarily in Canada, the United States (Arizona and Nevada), and Chile. With an eye on developing properties in Nevada, Atna Resources has acquired such projects as the Pinson Gold and Searchlight in 2004, as well as the Triple Junction/Dixie Fork properties in 2003. Atna Resources In the past several years, it also formed several agreements for Ltd. options to acquire interests in other claims in Nevada. Aurizon Mines hopes that gold is on the horizon. The company explores and mines for gold in the Abitibi region of northwestern Quebec. Aurizon's primary property is the Casa Berardi Mine, which is in development. In 2005 the company sold its 50% stake in the Sleeping Giant Mine to Cambior, which owns the other 50% stake. Cambior holds about 10% of the company. Aurizon is using the cash from the Sleeping Giant sale to fund its Casa Berardi Aurizon Mines Ltd. development. The company sold its stake in the Beaufor Mine and [AZK] Perron properties to Richmont Mines in 2001.

Address: Aardvark House, Sidings Court Doncaster, South Yorkshire DN4 5NU, England Phone: +44-130-276-0462 Fax: +44-130-276-0463

Fiscal Year End: September Revenue (2005): 67.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 20.10% Employees (2005): 197 Employee Growth (1 yr): 13.20%

Address: 91 bis, rue du ChercheMidi 75006 Paris, France Fiscal Year End: December Phone: +33-1-53-63-38-63 Revenue (2004): 150.00 M Fax: +33-1-53-63-38-58 Employees (2004): 65

Address: 630 E. Mullan Ave. Osburn, ID 83849 Phone: 208-556-1181 Fax: 208-556-6741

• Chairman and CEO: Jean-Claude Muller • COO: Stéphane Lemoine • Financial Manager: Hervé Royon

Chairman, President, and CEO: William T. Jacobson

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• Chairman: Glen D. Dickson • President, CEO, and Director: David H. Watkins • CFO: G. Ross McDonald

Address: 510 Burrard St., Ste. 510 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3A8, Canada Phone: 604-684-2285 Fax: 604-684-8887

Address: 510 Burrard St., Ste. 900 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3A8, Canada Phone: 604-687-6600 Fax: 604-687-3932

• Chairman: David Port • Chief Executive: Tom Allchurch • Development Director: Mike Tod

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 0.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-95.90%) Employees (2004): 47 Employee Growth (1 yr): 42.40%

• Chairman, President, and CEO: David P. Hall • EVP and CFO: Ian S. Walton

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The luminous phenomenon that Aurora Metals (BVI) Limited (Aurora Metals) looks for is precious metal. The company explores for a variety of minerals, including platinum group minerals and nickel-cobalt-copper minerals, on properties in the US (in Montana). It also is exploring for lead and zinc in Tunisia. In conjunction with the development of a gem identification and verification technology, Aurora Metals acquired 637700 BC Ltd, a Aurora Metals British Columbia-based company in 2002. This unit changed its (BVI) Limited name to Crystal Coding Ltd and it became a wholly-owned [AURMF.OB] subsidiary. Aurora Metals is owned by Aurora Gold. Avalon Ventures explores and mines mineral properties exclusively in Canada. The company has primarily been exploring for rare metals and industrial minerals (such as beryllium, lithium, feldspars, and tantalum) used in high technology products. In 2005 Avalon Ventures acquired the Thor Lake rare metals deposit in the Northwest Territories. Its other advanced projects include the Avalon Ventures Separation Rapids rare metals project in Ontario and the Red Hill copper, zinc, and silver property in British Columbia. Ltd. Avocet Mining is all set to explore and mine for gold. The company has three operational gold mining projects: one in Malaysia (Penjom), one in Indonesia (North Lanut), and one in Tajikistan (ZGC). Avocet Mining is also currently exploring for gold through a joint venture at a mining site in the Papua province of New Guinea. The company owns 100% of the Penjom project, 80% of the North Lanut project, and 75% of the ZGC project. Most of the company's Avocet Mining revenue comes from its Penjom project, which produces more PLC than 100,000 ounces of gold annually. AZCO Mining hopes it has the Midas touch when it comes to mica. Among the company's key assets is the Black Canyon mica project in Arizona, which includes a mine and a processing plant. An industrial mineral, mica is used by the paint, plastics, and cosmetics industries. Operations at Black Canyon have been shut down since 2002, however, because of a lack of money. AZCO AZCO Mining Inc. hopes to raise funds to reopen the mica project and to develop the company's Ortiz gold property in New Mexico. [AZMN.PK] known as bioleaching, to extract precious and base metals from sulphide ores and concentrates. Bioleaching uses naturally occurring bacteria to oxidize minerals, breaking their structure and allowing metals to be released. The company has developed bioleaching operations for companies in Australia, China, Mexico, and South Africa. In 2005, it relinquished its 55% interest the Tonkin Springs gold project in Nevada. Sun Valley Gold is the BacTech Mining company's largest shareholder with a 20% stake in BacTech Corporation Mining.

Address: P.O. Box 27494 Denver, CO 80227-0494 Phone: 303-727-8609 Fax: 303-936-0333

• President: John A. A. James • CFO, Controller and Secretary: A. Cameron Richardson

Address: 111 Richmond St. West, Ste. 1005 Toronto, Ontario M5H 2G4, Canada Phone: 416-364-4938 Fax: 416-364-5162

• Chairman: Lawrence P. Page • President and CEO: Donald S. Bubar

Address: 9 Berkeley St., 7th Fl. London W1J 8DW, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7907-9000 Fax: +44-20-7907-9019

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 68.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 39.40% Employees (2004): 1,754 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-4.20%)

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• Chairman: N. G. McNair Scott • CEO: John T. Catchpole • Finance Director: Jonathan G. Henry

Address: 7239 N. El Mirage Rd. Glendale, AZ 85382 Phone: 623-935-0774 Fax: 623-935-0781

• Chairman: Lawrence G. (Larry) Olson • President, CEO, and Director: W. Pierce Carson

Address: 439 University Ave., Ste. 1450 Toronto, Ontario M5G 1Y8, Canada Phone: 416-813-0303 Fax: 416-596-9840

• President, CEO, and Director: Ross Orr • CFO and Secretary: Jim D. Kirke

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Balli Group plc

Through its subsidiaries, Balli Steel and Balli Trading, the group trades and distributes steel as well as aluminum, chemicals, office products, agricultural goods, and other commodities. Flat-rolled steel makes up about half of total steel sales. Chemicals and aluminum make up most of the company's non-steel trading business. Established in 1991, the trading house has grown through the acquisitions such as Klockner Steel Trade (2000), Comvex (2002), and RXI (2003). Its Comvex unit is a bulk handling terminal in the Black Sea. Balli also operates alumina refineries and aluminum rolling mills.

Band-Ore Resources has its eye out for a good strip of precious metals. The company is involved in diamond and gold exploration with mining properties in the prolific Timmins mining area of northern Ontario. Its properties mainly include the Corbiere Property, GQ Diamond Property, Rock Star, Thorne Gold, and Thunder Creek. The miner is looking for joint venture partners to Band-Ore help develop its gold and diamond properties. Band-Ore Resources Ltd. Resources was founded in 1946. This bard ventures forth to do more than tell tales. Bard Ventures acquires interests in land in Canada and the UK for exploration and development of natural resources and minerals. The company sold its oil and gas property in Alberta in 2004, but it has continued to acquire interests in mineral and oil and gas properties. Bard Ventures is searching for silver, gold, and other mineral assets in central British Columbia and northern Canada's Nunavut Territory. It has agreed to acquire 50% stakes in both the Ingenikia/Swannell and Wasi Creek prospects from Cross Lake Minerals Ltd. Bard Bard Ventures Ventures pays for its activities by selling shares to investors and taking on exploration and development partners. Ltd. Barrick Goldstrike Mines is the mother lode for Barrick Gold. The company operates two producing mines (Betze-Post and Meikle) on property totaling some 9,900 acres, located on the prolific Carlin Trend in Nevada. Goldstrike produces about 2 million ounces of gold annually. It's the largest gold producing operation for Canadian mining company Barrick Gold. There are two processing plants located on the property which separate the gold Barrick Goldstrike from the recovered ore. Barrick is actively exploring other areas of Mines Inc. its prolific Goldstrike property for development. Behr Iron & Steel doesn't growl when it comes time to collect and recycle scrap metal. The subsidiary of Joseph Behr and Sons buys, processes, and sells scrap steel and iron that is used as raw material by steel mills and foundries. Other Joseph Behr and Sons Behr Iron & Steel, units handle nonferrous metals and provide construction, Inc. demolition, and trucking services. Behr and Sons processes nonferrous scrap metals such as aluminum breakage, copper wire and choppings, nickel alloys, solder, and tin. Russian immigrant Joseph Behr founded the company in 1906. Other companies in the Behr family are engaged in construction, iron and steel scrap processing, and Behr Metals trucking.

Address: 5 Stanhope Gate London W1K 1AH, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7306-2000 Fax: +44-20-7491-9000

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 1325.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 17.40% Employees (2004): 847 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-4.50%)

• CFO: Hassan Alaghband • Group Finance Director: David Spriddell

Address: 120 Adelaide St. West, Ste. 512 Toronto, Ontario M5H 1T1, Canada Phone: 416-364-6420 Fax: 416-364-5400

• Chairman: Peter A. Crossgrove • President, CEO, and Director: Wayne J. O'Connor • CFO, Treasurer, and Secretary: James N. Fairbairn

Address: 1255 W. Pender St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 2V1, Canada Phone: 604-687-2038 Fax: 604-687-3141

• Chairman: Donald A. R. (Don) Sheldon • President, CEO, and Director: Eugene Beukman • CFO: Carmon Currie

Address: P.O. Box 29 Elko, NV 89803 Phone: 775-778-8380 Fax: 775-738-7685 Address: 1100 Seminary St. Rockford, IL 61104 Phone: 815-987-2600 Fax: 815-968-4560 Address: 208 Quaker Rd. Rockford, IL 61105 Phone: 815-987-2680 Fax: 815-987-2681

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 745.00 M • VP, North America, Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-8.40%) Barrick Gold: Gregory A. Lang Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 26.90 M Employees (2005): 131

• President: William J. Bremner • VP, Operations: Mike Schwebke

• VP: Randall Peck

Beitai Iron & Steel Group has hardly limited itself to working in metal. In addition to its iron and steel operations, the company is active in real estate, chemicals, heavy machinery, and trade industries. Through Benxi Iron & Steel, the company produces pig iron, steel billets, slabs, wire rods, and strip steel. It also provides casting processing services, turning raw materials into steel pipes for sale throughout Asia. Liaoning North Coal Industry produces ammonia and urea for use in agricultural, medical, and textile industries. Beitai also manufactures and sells heavy machinery Beitai Iron & Steel including dump trucks, loaders, and paper making machines Group Co., Ltd. through its subsidiary Benxi North Machinery Heavy Truck Co.. (dating to 1903), mines and processes gold, chromite, copper, and other minerals. However, with metal prices low, Benguet has closed many of its mining operations and diversified into such businesses as bottled water, construction, real estate development, ecotourism, trading, reforestation, and trucking and warehousing. Most non-mining operations are part of its Benguet Management Corp. subsidiary (75% of sales). Following years of financial woes, Benguet was put under custody of the Philippines' Benguet Presidential Commission on Good Government. Insiders, including Corporation the family of chairman and CEO Benjamin Romualdez, control [BENGF.PK] 54% of Benguet. mining and oil company BHP Limited acquired UK miner Billiton plc in 2001. The result is a two-headquartered, dual-listed company that is run as a single entity with the same board of directors and management. The Melbourne side is BHP Billiton Limited; the London-based side is BHP Billiton Plc; collectively they're known as BHP Billiton. The company ranks among the world's top producers of iron ore and coal (thermal and metallurgical) and is a major producer of petroleum products such as crude oil and natural gas. Other units produce aluminum, base metals, diamonds, manganese, and stainless steel. BHP Billiton BHP Billiton [BHP] has operations on six continents. BHP Billiton Limited is one half of a dual-listed mining giant. It is headquartered in Melbourne; the other part of the company -- BHP Billiton Plc -- is based in the UK. Although they maintain separate listings the companies are managed as a single entity and have the same management team and board of directors. The twin firms were created when BHP (Australia) acquired Billiton (UK) in 2001. The company ranks among the world's top producers of iron ore and coal (thermal and metallurgical) and is a major producer of petroleum products such as crude oil and natural gas. BHP Billiton also produces aluminum, base metals, diamonds, manganese, BHP Billiton and stainless steel. Limited [BHP]

Address: 36, Huanshan Rd., Mingshan District Benxi, Liaoning 117022, China Phone: +86-414-486-8855 Fax: +86-414-484-3613

• President: Yang Xinhua

Address: 1 Corporate Plaza, 845 Arnaiz Ave. Makati, Metro Manila 1223, Philippines Phone: +63-2-812-1380 Fax: +63-2-813-6611

• Chairman: Ferdinand G. Romualdez • President and CEO: Benjamin P. G. Romualdez • SVP, Finance and Treasurer: Salvador P. Pabalan

Address: 180 Lonsdale St. Melbourne 3000, Australia Phone: +61-1300-55-4757 Fax: +61-3-9609-3015

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2005): 29587.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 29.30% Employees (2005): 36,468 Employee Growth (1 yr): 4.00%

• Chairman: Don R. Argus • Chief Executive and Director: Charles W. (Chip) Goodyear • Executive President and Director: Miklos (Mike) Salamon

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2004): 23513.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 42.10% Employees (2004): 35,000

• Chairman: Don R. Argus • Chief Executive and Director: Charles W. (Chip) Goodyear • Executive President and Director: Miklos (Mike) Salamon

Address: 180 Lonsdale St. Melbourne 3000, Australia Phone: +61-1300-55-4757 Fax: +61-3-9609-3015

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BHP Billiton Plc [BBL]

headquartered in London; the other part of the company -- BHP Billiton Limited -- is based in Australia. Although they maintain separate listings the companies are managed as a single entity and have the same management team and board of directors. The twin firms were created when BHP (Australia) acquired Billiton (UK) in 2001. BHP Billiton is one of the world's top producers and processors of alumina, aluminum, base metals, stainless steel, and carbon steel materials (iron ore and manganese). Other significant operations include oil and gas exploration and coal mining.

Address: Neathouse Place London SW1V 1BH, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7802-4000 Fax: +44-20-7802-4111

Address: 1155 University St., Ste. Birim Goldfields may be based in Canada, but its business is in 812 Ghana. The company's primary property is the Bui gold project, Montreal, Quebec H3B 3A7, which it is currently developing. In addition, it holds the Nkenkasu, Canada Bia Tano, and Banda Ahenkro properties in Ghana. Birim Phone: 514-393-8611 Birim Goldfields Goldfields also has a deal with Golden Star Resources to explore Fax: 514-393-1158 Inc. [BRGFF.PK] and develop the Dunkwa Royalty property. Little girls who love horses won't necessarily love this Black Beauty. A subsidiary of Peabody Energy, Black Beauty Coal Company operates six coal mines in Indiana and three in Illinois. The company primarily supplies power companies in the midwestern US. Black Beauty holds a 75% stake in the United Minerals Company and provides the workforce for the Arclar Address: 7100 Eagle Crest Blvd. Company. In 2003 Peabody acquired the remaining interest in Black Beauty that it had not already held. Black Beauty produces Evansville, IN 47715 Black Beauty Coal somewhere around 25 million tons of compliance, medium sulfur, Phone: 812-434-8500 Company and high sulfur stem coal annually. Blue Tee has stayed out of the rough through diversification. The company, operating through its subsidiaries, distributes steel and scrap metal and manufactures a variety of industrial equipment. Blue Tee's Brown-Strauss Steel subsidiary is a leading distributor of steel products (beams, pipe, tubing) in the western US. Other operations include AZCON (scrap metal sales and rail cars and Address: 250 Park Ave. South parts), GEFCO (portable drilling rigs), Standard Alloys (pump New York, NY 10003 parts), and Steco (dump-truck trailers). Union Tractor provides Phone: 212-598-0880 replacement parts for construction and transportation equipment in Fax: 212-598-0896 western Canada. Blue Tee is owned by its employees. Blue Tee Corp. The boss won't mind if he catches the BNI Coal employees dozing on the job, as long as it's done on a bulldozer that is. The company, a subsidiary of Minnesota-based utility company ALLETE, mines for lignite coal at its Center Mine property. BNI Coal excavates an estimated 4.5 tons of coal a year, most of Address: 1637 Burnt Boat Dr. which is sold to the Minnkota Power Cooperative and the Square Bismarck, ND 58502 Butte electric generating facilities (the supply contracts are not set Phone: 701-222-8828 to expire until 2027). The company also reclaims approximately Fax: 701-222-1547 BNI Coal Ltd. 210 acres of land each year at a cost of about $15,000 per acre.

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2005): 29587.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 18.60% Employees (2005): 36,468 Employee Growth (1 yr): 4.00%

• Chairman: Don R. Argus • Chief Executive and Director: Charles W. (Chip) Goodyear • Executive President and Director: Miklos (Mike) Salamon

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2005): 0.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-98.90%) Employees (2004): 50

• Chairman: Charles Thomas Ogryzlo • CEO and Director: Denis Simoneau • President: Victor (Vic) King

• Chairman: Steven Chancellor • SVP: Wayne Parke

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 740.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 95.30%

• Chairman and CEO: Richard A. Secrist • President and COO: William M. Kelly • SVP Finance and Secretary: David P. Alldian

• President and General Manager: Mike Hummel • Manager, Operations: Steve Hovey • Manager, Finance and Accounting: Pat Clement

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BPK Resources Inc. [BPKR.OB]

Brazauro Resources Corporation [BZOFF.PK]

Breakwater Resources Ltd. [BWLRF.OB]

Brigadier Gold Limited

Bronx Ventures Inc. [BRXVF.OB]

BPK Resources is searching for a new kind of resource following its 2006 acquisition of Graphite Technology Group, which is engaged in the business of mining, manufacturing, and selling of natural and synthetic graphite and carbon-based materials for use in a wide range of industrial applications. The company owns graphite mines in Canada, China, and Madagascar. BPK Resources was formerly an oil and gas exploration and production company operating in Texas and Louisiana. The firm did not operate any of the wells, it merely provided investment capital for acquisition and development. BPK Resources sold these interests in order to try its hand in a new area of business. Tapajos gold district in northern Brazil's Para state. The company has embarked upon a drilling program. It shifted its focus to Brazilian gold in 2004 after results from its diamond mining business in Arkansas proved to be disappointing. Brazauro Resources changed its name from Jaguar Resources in 2004 to avoid being confused with other companies operating under the Jaguar name. Breakwater Resources keeps business flowing with zinc. The mining company concentrates primarily on buying and developing zinc mines in the Americas and North Africa. Its operational mines include the Myra Falls mine in Canada, the El Mochito Mine in Honduras, the El Toqui Mine in Chile, and the Bougrine Mine in Tunisia. Although zinc concentrate represents the bulk of its sales, the company also mines for copper, gold, lead, and silver. Breakwater's Caribou (lead, silver, and zinc) and Langlois (zinc) mines are currently closed for maintenance and repairs. The Bouchard-Hébert mine was closed in 2005. Investment company Dundee Bancorp owns about 15% of Breakwater Resources. Brigadier Gold Limited is on the march for gold and diamonds in Canada. The company explores for gold mining opportunities in Ontario's Kirkland Lake and Larder Lake region. The company has expanded it diamond mining operations through the acquisition of the Clifford Diamond Project located in Ontario. In 2004 Brigadier Gold dissolved its foreign subsidiaries. Bronx Ventures, formerly Lucky 1 Enterprises, is trying to get rid of the gambling bug but is still looking for the gold bug. The company holds a stake in the Lithium Mineral Properties in Ontario, Canada, but it sold its investment in Three Card Games Software, which makes products for online gaming (and accounted for all of the company's revenue). Bronx Ventures also has begun exploration on its claims at the Extra High property (copper, gold, and silver deposits), located in the Kamloops Mining Division of British Columbia. Three Card Games was sold to Las Vegas From Home.com, a company with which Bronx Ventures shares directors and management.

Address: 5858 Westheimer St., Ste. 709 Houston, TX 77057 Phone: 713-978-7991 Fax: 713-785-8530 Fiscal Year End: January Revenue (2005): 0.00 M Address: 800 Bering Dr., Ste. 208 Revenue Growth (1 yr): Houston, TX 77057 (-96.40%) Phone: 713-785-1278 Employees (2005): 3 Fax: 713-785-5247 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• CEO and Director: Christopher M. Giordano Yes • Chairman and CEO: Mark E. Jones III • President and Director: Leendert G. (Len) Krol

Address: 95 Wellington St. West, Ste. 950 Toronto, Ontario M5J 2N7, Canada Phone: 416-363-4798 Fax: 416-363-1315

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 131.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 37.30% Employees (2004): 1,870 Employee Growth (1 yr): 42.30%

• Co-Chairman: Ned Goodman • Co-Chairman: Garth A. C. MacRae • President, CEO, and Director: George E. Pirie

Address: 2900 Steeles Ave. East Thornhill, Ontario L3T 7R5, Canada Phone: 416-410-7956 Fax: 905-707-1520

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-84.00%)

• President, CEO and Director: Herb Kokotow • CFO and Treasurer: Kenneth (Ken) Wolfson

Address: 1199 W. Hastings St., 6th Fl. Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 3T5, Canada Phone: 604-681-1519 Fax: 604-681-9428

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 189.10% Employees (2004): 6 • President, CEO, CFO, Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00% and Director: Bedo H. Kalpakian

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Brookmount Explorations, Inc. [BMXIE.OB]

Brush Engineered Materials Inc. [BW]

C-E Minerals Inc.

Caledon Resources Plc

Caledonia Mining Corporation [CALVF.OB]

Brookmount Explorations hopes it has the Midas touch. Formed in 1999, the exploration-stage mining company is engaged in the discovery and development of precious metal resource properties located throughout North and South America. It owns interests in properties in the provinces of Quebec and British Columbia in Canada, as well as in Peru, with hopes to eventually mine the land for gold and precious metals. The company's primary project is the Mercedes 100 property in Peru. President Peter Flueck controls approximately 20% of Brookmount Explorations. Brush Engineered Materials, through Brush Wellman and other subsidiaries, is a supplier of beryllium, alloys such as copper beryllium, and beryllia ceramics. Its Metal Systems Group supplies beryllium products and alloys and accounts for about 60% of sales. Beryllium's properties -- high thermal conductivity, strength, hardness, and resistance to corrosion and wear -- give it a wide variety of uses in the computer, telecommunications, medical, and electronics industries, among others. The company's Microelectronics Group produces special manufacturing materials such as high-temperature braze materials and precious metal preforms. The US accounts for about 70% of Brush Engineered Materials' sales. You can be pretty sure of the answer to the Animal, vegetable, or mineral? query if you're playing 20 Questions with C-E Minerals. The subsidiary of French industrial minerals company Imerys processes and distributes aluminas, alumina-silica calcines, and fused minerals used by customers in such industries as electronics, electrical equipment manufacturing, plastics, and cosmetics. C-E Minerals' products are used in refractory, metalproduction, casting, abrasive, and other industrial applications. The company has operations in the US, Asia, and South America. Caledon Resources explores for and produces gold ore in China. Its projects include Badu Gold (Guangxi Province), Hengxian (Guangxi Province), Gaolong (Guangxi Province), and Mojiang (Yunnan Province). Most of the company's resources are going into exploring its Mojiang project. It also holds nearly 15% of Chinese exploration company Dynasty Gold, which has projects in the Xingjiang province. Caledon Resources primarily partners with local mining companies in order to facilitate the exploration and development of projects. Caledonia Mining has some interesting prospects. The company owns part or full interest in mining properties in Africa and Canada. Caledonia's mines and concessions contain gold (about 2 million ounces in resources), diamonds, cobalt, copper, nickel, and platinum. The company's Barbrook Mines property in South Africa produces gold, but its other properties are either on care and maintenance (idled), or are still in development. Caledonia's interests include tie-ups with Australian mining giant BHP Billiton in Africa and with Rio Tinto subsidiary Ashton Mining of Canada.

Address: 666 Burrard St., Ste. 600 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2X8, Canada Phone: 604-676-5244 Fax: 604-632-3717

• President and Director: Peter Flueck • COO, Secretary, Treasurer, and Director: Zaf Sungur • CFO: Jay J. Shapiro

Address: 17876 St. Clair Ave. Cleveland, OH 44110 Phone: 216-486-4200 Fax: 216-383-4091

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 541.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 9.10% Employees (2004): 1,912 Employee Growth (1 yr): 4.30%

• Chairman, President and CEO: Richard J. (Dick) Hipple • VP, Finance and CFO: John D. Grampa • VP, Corporate Communications: Patrick S. Carpenter

Address: 901 E. 8th Ave. King of Prussia, PA 19406 Phone: 610-265-6880 Fax: 610-337-7163

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 90.30 M Employees (2005): 928

• President and CEO: Timothy J. Mc Carthy • VP, Marketing: David Johnson

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 39 Employee Growth (1 yr): 290.00%

• Chairman: Robert Alford • CEO: George G. Salamis • Financial Controller and Corporate Secretary: Manish Kotecha

Address: 18 Upper Brook St. London W1K 7PU, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-318-5780 Fax: +44-20-318-5781

• Chairman: G. Rupert Pardoe • President, CEO, and Address: 2145 Dunwin Dr., Unit 9 Fiscal Year End: December Director: Stefan E. Mississauga, Ontario L5L 4L9, Revenue (2004): 0.70 M Hayden Canada Revenue Growth (1 yr): 39.90% • VP Operations, COO, Phone: 905-607-7543 Employees (2004): 335 and Director: James Fax: 905-607-9806 Employee Growth (1 yr): 24.10% (Jim) Johnstone

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Cambridge Mineral Resources is getting a degree in the school of hard knocks. In the competitive mining industry, the company explores for gold, silver, copper, zinc, and lead mostly in Peru and Spain. In Spain, its primary project is the Lomero-Poyatos deposit, located in the mining region of the Iberian Pyrite Belt. The Cambridge company is also becoming active in Serbia and Bulgaria. In 2004 Mineral Resources Cambridge Mineral Resources ended its exploration for plc gemstones in Ireland and search for gold in the Falklands. Cambridge-Lee Industries manufactures and distributes copper and copper alloy products. The company primarily makes copper tubing for plumbing and refrigeration at facilities in the US and Mexico. It distributes copper tubes and fittings in Europe. Cambridge-Lee also operates a machinery division and an Cambridge-Lee industrial metals division. The company was bought by MexicoIndustries, Inc. based Grupo Iusa, a diversified industrial group, in 1993. Is your nuclear reactor running low on fuel? Cameco maybe able to help. The company is the world's largest producer of uranium, accounting for about a fifth of the western world's uranium output. It converts its ore to fuel-grade products used by nuclear power plants, including Cameco's 32%-owned electricity generating plant Bruce Power. In Canada, Cameco mines the world's largest known deposit of high-grade uranium, McArthur River, and another site, Rabbit Lake. It is developing Cigar Lake, second in size only to McArthur River. Cameco has two operations in the US (in Wyoming and Nebraska). Cameco holds a controlling stake in Cameco Centerra Gold, which has gold mining interests in the Kyrgyz Corporation [CCJ] Republic and Mongolia. Campbell Resources is going for economies of scale. Campbell's operating mines include the Joe Mann Mine (owned by subsidiary Meston Resources), which produced about 40,000 ounces of gold and 800,000 pounds of copper in 2004, and the Copper Rand gold and copper mine (100%-owned as of 2004). The company is also exploring its Corner Bay copper property. In 2001 Campbell acquired MSV Resources and GéoNova Explorations, companies Campbell that also mined for gold in the Chibougamau area of Quebec. Resources Inc. Overall, the company owns 12 mining properties in the [CBLRF.OB] Chibougamau area. Can Can-Cal strike it rich? The question hasn't been answered. Can-Cal Resources is an exploration-stage mining company that plans to acquire, explore, and develop precious mineral and metal properties. The company owns inactive gold and silver exploration properties in the US (Arizona and California) and in Mexico (Durango). In July 2005 Can-Cal and its Mexican subsidiary, Can-Cal Sierra Madre Resources, dropped plans for a joint venture with Resources, Ltd. Minera Apolo to explore gold and silver concessions in Zacatecas. [CCRE.OB] Can-Cal will instead concentrate on its US properties.

• Chairman: Michael B. Thomsen • Managing Director: Colin J. Andrew • Finance Director: Michael J. Burton

Address: 10 Fenchurch Ave. London EC3M 5BN, United Kingdom Phone: +44-207-663-5618 Fax: +44-207-663-5700

Address: 86 Tube Dr. Reading, PA 19612 Phone: 610-926-4141 Fax: 610-926-7307

Address: 2121 11th St. West Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7M 1J3, Canada Phone: 306-956-6200 Fax: 306-956-6201

Address: 1155 rue University, Ste. 1405 Montreal, Quebec H3B 3A7, Canada Phone: 514-875-9033 Fax: 514-875-9764

Address: 2500 Vista Mar Dr. Las Vegas, NV 89128 Phone: 702-243-1849 Fax: 702-243-1869

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 55.80 M Employees (2005): 400

• Acting President: Charles Banham • VP, Sales: Ed Kerins

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 1128.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 29.20%

• President, CEO, and Director: Gerald W. (Jerry) Grandey • SVP and CFO: O. Kim Goheen • SVP and COO: Terry V. Rogers

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• Chairman: James C. McCartney • President, CEO, and Director: André Y. Fortier

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 18.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 5.20% Employees (2004): 310 • EVP and COO: Claude Employee Growth (1 yr): 13.10% Begin

• Chairman, President and CEO, CFO, and Treasurer: Ronald D. Sloan

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Northern Crown Mines hopes the empire strikes back -- as Canadian Empire Exploration. Canadian Empire (formerly Northern Crown Mines) holds the rights to several precious metals properties in Canada. The company is focusing on the Atikokan West property in southwestern Ontario, as well as the Barrington, Silver Hope, and McBride Grubstake properties in British Canadian Empire Columbia. Canadian Empire Exploration is partnering with Teck Exploration Corp. Cominco to develop the Atikokan West property. If this company were a predator, gold would be its prey. Canadian Gold Hunter, formerly named International Curator Resources, explores and develops gold properties in Canada. The company Canadian Gold holds interests in properties in British Columbia, Nunavut, and Hunter Corp. Manitoba. None of Canadian Gold Hunter's projects are in [CGHLF.PK] production. Chairman Lukas Lundin also heads Lundin Mining. determining what and where the company's operations are. The company is a natural resource exploration and production company whose current focus is exploring and developing the Prairie Creek property (containing high grade zinc, copper, lead, and silver) in the Mackenzie Mountains of the Northwest Canadian Zinc Territories. While exploring Prairie Creek is at the top of its list, Corporation Canadian Zinc also explores other promising areas near the [CZICF.PK] property. Canarc Resource believes it can find gold. The company is a gold and silver exploration and production company with operations in Canada (Eskay Creek mine and New Polaris property), Costa Rica (Bellavista gold deposit), and Suriname (Sara Kreek gold mine and Benzdorp property). Shareholder and #3 North America gold producer Barrick Gold assists Canarc as a joint venture partner in Canarc Resource regards to its Canadian properties. Barrick operates the Eskay Corp. [CRCUF.OB] Creek property. Cancor Mines' comfort zone is gold, silver, and copper. The exploration mining company operates several properties in Quebec, Canada. Cancor is primarily exploring its KistabicheBonfortel-Poirier properties in the prolific Abitibi area. It also has a 50% interest in the Gémini-Turgeon gold mining project; Canadian Cancor Mines Inc. gold mining firm Cambior owns the other 50%. As investments go, gold mining is a risky business, but if and when the gold is commercially mined, then it's a capital idea. Capital Gold primarily explores for gold through its properties in Mexico and Colorado. It owns rights to mining consessions in the State of Sonora, Mexico and property in Lake County, Colorado. The Chanate deposit is located in northern Sonora (a 45-minute drive Capital Gold from the town of Caborca), and consists of 12 mining concessions Corporation with a total area of 8,662 acres. Oro de Altar, a subsidiary of [CGLD.OB] Capital Gold, owns the concessions and surface land.

Address: 675 W. Hastings St., Ste. 1205 Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 1N2, Canada Phone: 604-687-4951 Fax: 604-687-4991

• President, CEO, and Director: John S. Brock • CFO and Corporate Secretary: Jeannine P. M. Webb

Address: 885 W. Georgia St., Ste. 2101 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3E8, Canada Phone: 604-689-7842 Fax: 604-689-4250

• Chairman: Lukas H. Lundin • President and CEO: Richard J. Bailes • CFO, Controller, and Treasurer: Wanda Lee President: John F. Kearney • CFO: Danesh K. Varma

Address: 700 W. Pender St., Ste. 1202 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1G8, Canada Phone: 604-688-2001 Fax: 604-688-2043 Address: 850 W. Hastings St., Ste. 800 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1E1, Canada Phone: 604-685-9700 Fax: 604-685-9744

• VP, Exploration, COO, and Director: Alan B. Taylor • Chairman and CEO: Bradford James (Brad) Fiscal Year End: December Cooke Revenue (2004): 0.00 M • President and COO: Employees (2004): 11 Jack McClintock Employee Growth (1 yr): 22.20% • CFO: Philip Yee

Address: 1410 Stanley St., Ste. 606 Montreal, Quebec H3A 1P8, Canada Phone: 514-849-3013 Fax: 514-849-9181

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2005): 0.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 43.30% Employees (2005): 1 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

Address: 76 Beaver St., 26th Fl. New York, NY 10005 Phone: 212-344-2785 Fax: 212-344-4537

Fiscal Year End: July Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 6 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

Crevier • President, CEO, and Director: Kamil A. Khobzi

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• CFO, Secretary, Treasurer, and Director: Ercan Ugur

• Chairman, President, and Treasurer: Gifford A. Dieterle • CFO: Christopher Chipman

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company manufactures a number of products that make use of diatomaceous earth, which is rich with the fossilized shells of microscopic bugs called diatoms. Its products are used as filter aids for everything from beer to chemicals to fruit juices and as functional additives for products like agrochemicals, cosmetics, paint, plastic film, and rubber. Some of the brand names those products are sold under include Celite, Diactive, Primisil, and Celkate. The company is a unit of Imerys' World Minerals Celite Corporation subsidiary. Celtic Energy has been gathering steam with its coal business in the UK. The company has coal mining operations in Wales (where it is the leading coal miner) that produce about two million tons of coal annually. Its coal products include Black Diamond (high quality, low ash anthracite), Group 1 Anthracite (medium quality anthracite), and Welshbrite Anthracite (economy anthracite). Celtic Energy produces coal in South Wales and sells it primarily to the Celtic Energy industrial and domestic UK markets. The company was founded in Limited 1995 when British Coal was privatized. These Celts roam Russia and Kazakhstan in search of gold and other precious metals. Celtic Resources' main mining operations include Nezhdaninskoye (a gold and silver mine in Russia), Suzdal (a gold mine in Kazakhstan), and Zherek (75%-owned gold mine in Kazakhstan). The company also has a 21% holding in UK-based Eureka Mining, which has mining operations in Russia and Kazakhstan. Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold (which holds a Celtic Resources 10% stake in the company) has a partnership deal to help develop Holdings plc Celtic Resources' precious metal projects in Kazakhstan. development company explores for gold, silver, and copper in Egypt. Its principal property is the promising Sukari Gold project, located in the Eastern Desert Concession. The project is estimated to hold nearly 3 million ounces of gold. It is also testing other nearby prospects located in the area. In addition, Centamin Egypt Centamin Egypt has an interest in the Nelson's Fleet gold exploration operation in Limited Australia. Centerra Gold will go to great distances to get gold. Operating mainly in Central Asia and the former Soviet Union, the company produces about 900,000 ounces of gold annually. Its Boroo (Mongolia) and Kumtor (Kyrgyz Republic) mines account for all of Centerra's production. The company is exploring adjacent properties around its mines, as well as a plot of land in Nevada. Uranium producer Cameco Corporation spun off its gold business to form Centerra, but still controls more than 50% of the company. Kyrgyzaltyn, which processes and refines gold from the Kumtor Centerra Gold Inc. mine, holds about 15% of Centerra. At Chaparral Steel, the I-beams of Texas are upon you, all the livelong day. The minimill operator makes structural steel and steel bar products, such as large steel beams, specialty bar products, and reinforcing bar (rebar). It operates mills in Texas and Virginia. Chaparral sells its products to cold finishers, forgers, manufacturers, steel fabricators, and steel service centers, Chaparral Steel primarily in North America. Former parent Texas Industries, Inc., Company [CHAP] (TXI) spun off Chaparral Steel to shareholders in July 2005.

Address: 130 Castilian Dr. Goleta, CA 93117 Phone: 805-737-2433 Fax: 805-735-5699

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 78.30 M Employees (2005): 1,145

• President and CEO: John Oskam • CFO: John Leichty

Address: Heol Ty Aberaman Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taff CF44 6RF, United Kingdom Phone: +44-1685-874-201 Fax: +44-1685-878-104

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 41.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-1.00%) Employees (2004): 302 Employee Growth (1 yr): 3.40%

• Chief Executive: Mark Thomas • Finance Director: D. J. Lee

Address: Hatfield House, 52-54 Stamford St., 1st Fl., Blackfriars London SE1 9LX, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7921-8800 Fax: +44-20-7921-8801

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 13.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 12.20% Employees (2004): 521 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-17.80%)

• Chairman: Peter M. L. Hannen • Managing Director: Kevin A. Foo • Finance Director: Michael Palmer

Address: 57 Kishorn Rd. Mt. Pleasant, Western Australia 6153, Australia Phone: +61-8-9316-2640 Fax: +61-8-9316-2650

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2004): 1.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 72.80% Employees (2004): 42 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-33.30%)

• Chairman: Sami ElRaghy • Managing Director: Josef El-Raghy

Address: 1 University Ave., Ste. 1500 Toronto, Ontario M5J 2P1, Canada Phone: 416-204-1953 Fax: 416-204-1954

• Chairman: Patrick M. James • President, CEO, and Director: Leonard A. (Len) Homeniuk • EVP and CFO: David M. Petroff

Address: 300 Ward Rd. Midlothian, TX 76065 Phone: 972-775-8241 Fax: 972-775-1930

• Chairman: James M. Hoak Jr. • President, CEO, and Director: Tommy A. Valenta • VP and COO: William H. Dickert

Fiscal Year End: May Revenue (2005): 1116.40 M

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least that's what it hopes. Chapleau is a gold exploration company focused on the Americas. The company owns a 25% interest in Indian Ranch in Nevada, with partner Placer Dome, where it is exploring for gold deposits. It is also exploring several properties in British Columbia, Canada. In 2005, Chapleau acquired a polymetallic property from Teck Cominco in Argentina. The company's move into Argentina over the last couple of years is Chapleau designed to give it a foothold in the South American mining Resources Ltd. market. The chief asset of Chief Consolidated Mining is 19,000 acres of land near Eureka, Utah, that the company hopes will yield valuable minerals. The company has been working to develop the Burgin Mine (silver, plus lead and zinc) and the Trixie Mine (gold, silver, and copper). Environmental cleanup obligations associated with Chief earlier mining operations on the property have delayed the Consolidated company's progress, however. Chief Consolidated Mining also has Mining Company studied the possibility of developing some of its land for [CFCM.PK] commercial and residential use. and sells billets and strips to customers in China, which mainly consist of steel manufacturers who further process the billets and strips into downstream steel products such as angles, rebars, wire rods and pipes. China Oriental's production facilities are located in Tangshan City, Hebei Province. Its steel production facilities consist of a sintering and pelletizing plant, an iron smelting plant, a steel making plant, and a steel rolling plant. The company's China China Oriental annual production capacity exceeds 3 million tons of billets, Group Company making China Oriental one of the largest suppliers of billets in Limited China. based energy company in China. CSEC operates four mining groups -- two underground mines (Shendong Mines and Wanli Mines) and two open-cut mines (Zhunge'er Mines and Shengli Mines) -- with a total of 21 operating mines in western and northern China. The Shendong Mines account for close to 80% of its total coal production. CSEC owns and operates four railway lines and port facilities for the transportation of its coal. The company also operates and develops power plants in BeijingChina Shenhua Tianjin-Hebei, Zhejiang, and Guangdong with an total installed Energy Company capacity of close to 6,000 MW. Shenhua Group holds just over Limited 80% of the company. The earth suffers a little death every time Climax Molybdenum pulls its product out of the ground. The company produces and supplies molybdenum (also known as moly) from its underground and open-pit mines in Arizona and Colorado, including the Henderson mine. The company also operates molybdenum processing and roasting facilities in the US and Europe (UK and the Netherlands). Molybdenum is used primarily by the steel industry as an anti-corrosive and, on a smaller scale, the chemical industry. Founded in 1916, Climax Molybdenum is a subsidiary of Climax Phelps Dodge's mining operations. Climax makes Phelps Dodge Molybdenum the world's #1 molybdenum producer. Company

Address: 135 - 10th Ave. South, Ste. 104 Cranbrook, British Columbia V1C 2N1, Canada Phone: 250-489-5156 Fax: 250-489-5185

• Chairman and Secretary: Allan Rella • CEO and Director: Jim Stypula • President and Director: Eric Wiltzen

Address: 304 S. Beck Eureka, UT 84628 Phone: 435-433-6881

• Acting President and CEO: Richard R. Schreiber

Address: Great Eagle Centre, 9th Fl., Ste. 901-2 and 10, 23 Harbour Rd., Hong Kong Phone: +852-2511-1369 Fax: +852-2511-1301

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 1100.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 72.80% Employees (2004): 4,617 Employee Growth (1 yr): 3.50%

Address: Zhouji Tower, 4th Fl., 16 Ande Rd. Beijing 100011, China Phone: +86-10-5813-3355 Fax: +86-10-8488-2107

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 4739.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 45.50% Employees (2004): 54,340 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-42.00%)

Address: 1 N. Central Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85004-4415 Phone: 602-366-8100 Fax: 602-366-7317

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 35.10 M Employees (2005): 200

• Chairman and CEO: Han Jingyuan • Financial Controller and Company Secretary: Lai Po Sing

• Chaiman: Chen Biting • President: David H. (Dave) Thornton • VP, Technology and Business Development: Mohamed Khan • VP, Engineered Materials: James C. (Jim) Handley

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Cline Mining is inclined to keep its mining business close to home. The natural resources company holds several potential metallurgical coal-producing (for use in steelmaking) properties in British Columbia. Its most promising coal properties include the Lossan and Lodgepole coal mine properties, which are both undergoing feasibility studies. Cline Mining also owns an iron ore property in Madagascar and a gold project in Ontario. The Cline Mining company has a strategic relationship with major shareholder Mitsui Corporation Matsushima of Japan to sell its coal on the international market. Cloudbreak Resources is looking for a lucky break in its search for gold and other minerals. Formerly Condor Gold Fields Inc., Cloudbreak is a development-stage company involved in identifying and acquiring resource properties. The company has an interest in the Gollete property, a key gold prospect in Argentina's Valle de Cura region of northwestern San Juan. It is also providing detailed geological mapping and geochemical sampling to IMA Exploration to help identify targets needing further exploration for mineral properties. Cloubreak has agreed to acquire an interest up Cloudbreak to 60% on the Talea gold-silver property in Oaxaca, Mexico, from Resources Ltd. Continuum Resources Ltd. ASAP. The company, through its subsidiaries August Industries and Montezuma Holdings, has ongoing exploration projects in Nevada (Vasquir and Montezuma) and Finland (Kuusamo). Its Montezuma property is about 8,000 acres in Eureka County, CMQ Resources Nevada. CMQ Resources' Finnish project is located near the Arctic Inc. Circle. Coastport Capital hopes to hit the mother lode in its new line of business. The capital pool company acquired an interest in a Nicaraguan mining exploration project in 2004. Still in its early stages of development, the San Ramon project will additionally Coastport Capital involve operating as a joint venture with Radius Gold Inc. It is Inc. believed to contain several major gold quartz veins. It isn't difficult to understand what business Comaplex Minerals is in. The company explores for precious and base metals in Canada and Mexico. In Canada, it is involved in joint ventures with Cumberland Resources, WMC Resources, and Placer Dome to primarily develop gold properties in the Nunavut region. Comaplex holds stakes in oil and natural gas properties to help fund its Comaplex mining activities. Gold Fields Limited holds a 20% interest in the Minerals Corp. company. Commander Resources is looking for a stronghold of copper, gold, nickel, and other metals. The company is mainly pursuing its Baffin Island gold project in Nunavut, Canada. It is also exploring other copper, gold, and nickel projects throughout British Columbia, Labrador, Newfoundland, Quebec, and Yukon. The company has Commander a stake in diamond exploration company Diamonds North Resources Ltd. Resources.

Address: 530 Lasalle Blvd. Sudbury, Ontario P3A 1W9, Canada Phone: 705-560-8100 Fax: 705-560-8521

• Chairman: William (Bill) McKnight • President, CEO, and Director: Kenneth H. Bates • EVP and COO: Gordon Gormley

Address: 409 Granville St. - Ste. 1458 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1T2, Canada Phone: 604-669-3707 Fax: 604-669-3797

• President and Director: Mitchell (Mitch) Adam • CFO and Director: Bruce Bragagnolo

400 Calgary, Alberta T2P 1E5, Canada Phone: 403-261-4653 Fax: 403-294-0105

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-32.20%)

Address: 595 Howe St., Ste. 501 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2T3, Canada Phone: 604-685-8287 Fax: 604-685-4675

• CEO: Martin R. Lambert • CFO: David M. McGoey

• President and Director: Laurie W. Sadler • Public Relations: Warwick G. Smith

Address: 1015 4th St. SW, Ste. 901 Calgary, Alberta T2R 1J4, Canada Phone: 403-265-2846 Fax: 403-232-1421

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 1.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-33.40%) Employees (2004): 3 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-25.00%)

• President, CEO, and Director: George F. Fink • VP, Finance, CFO, and Secretary: Garth E. Schultz

Address: 510 Burrard St., Ste. 510 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3A8, Canada Phone: 604-685-5254 Fax: 604-685-2814

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-76.70%)

• Chairman: William J. Coulter • President, CEO, and Director: Kenneth E. Leigh

Commerce Group owns El Salvador's San Sebastian Gold Mine, which contains some 1.5 million ounces of gold reserves. Production at the mine has been suspended since 1999, however, while the company works to raise money to upgrade the facility's Commerce Group gold-processing equipment. Commerce Group also explores for Corp. [CGCO.OB] other gold and silver mining opportunities in El Salvador. Mining for tantalum is a tantalizing idea for Commerce Resources. The junior natural resources company explores tantalum and niobium deposits on 18 square miles of claims it owns in eastern British Columbia. The company's Fir claims hold inferred deposits of 203 tons of tantalum and 1,047 tons of niobium; its Verity claims hold inferred reserves of 196 tons of tantalum and 646 tons of niobium. Tantalum is a valuable mineral used to make efficient Commerce capacitors in cell phones, laptop computers, and other electronics. Resources Corp. Niobium is used to block corrosion in stainless steel. The ballots are in -- and this committee votes for gold. Committee Bay Resources is a Canadian gold exploration company, seeking gold primarily in the prolific Committee Bay greenstone belt located in Nunavut, Canada. The company has also expanded its exploration activities to Argentina and Australia. It moved into Australia in 2005 when it acquired local mining outfit Matador Exploration. South African exploration and development company Committee Bay Gold Fields Limited has options to invest in over half of the Resources Ltd. ownership of Committee Bay. company with operations in Canada. Its main asset is the Basin Coal mine in British Columbia. In 2004 the company acquired a 100% interest in the Basin Coal property. It is looking to acquire other thermal coal mines in Canada. Expanding beyond coal Compliance mining, the company is also involved in electrical power generation Energy and coal bed methane exploration. Compliance Energy was Corporation formed in 2000. ComWest Enterprise (formerly ComWest Capital Corp.) had hoped you'll get a charge out of electric vehicles, but it is now digging another business plan. Through its 50% interest in Dynasty Electric Car, ComWest manufactured a line of low-speed, zeroemission electric cars under the Dynasty name. ComWest sold its interest in Dynasty in May 2004. In December 2005 ComWest Capital merged with Chatworth Resources, which has an option to purchase 50% of some mining operations in British Columbia. As part of the agreement, Chatworth shareholders received 60% of the shares in the new, amalgamated company while ComWest ComWest shareholders received the remaining 40%. The combined Enterprise Corp. company was renamed ComWest Enterprise Corp.

Conquest Resources Limited

Conquest Resources is on the march for gold around the world. The company has numerous exploration properties in Canada and Africa (Tanzania and Zimbabwe). Conquest Resources is actively exploring its Alexander Project in the prolific Red Lake area of northern Ontario. It also holds an indirect interest in a property in Central Asia. In addition the company holds a significant stake in Oxus Gold, which operates in Uzbekistan and the Kyrgyz Republic.

Address: 6001 N. 91st St. Milwaukee, WI 53225-1795 Phone: 414-462-5310 Fax: 414-462-5312

Address: 789 W. Pender St., Ste. 1450 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1H2, Canada Phone: 604-484-2700 Fax: 604-681-8240

Address: 9797 45th Ave., Ste. 220 Edmonton, Alberta T6E 5V8, Canada Phone: 780-437-6624 Fax: 780-439-7308

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 45 Employee Growth (1 yr): 2.30%

• Chairman, President, CEO, COO, CFO, and Treasurer: Edward L. Machulak

• President and Director: David I. Hodge • Chairman: John Robins • President, CEO, and Director: John Williamson • VP, CFO, and Director: Sean Mager

Address: 885 Dunsmuir St., Ste. 584 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1N5, Canada Phone: 604-689-0489 Fax: 604-681-5910

• Chairman, President, and CEO: James C. (Jim) O'Rourke • CFO and Director: Rodney A. (Rod) Shier

Address: 591 Chester Rd. Delta, British Columbia V3M 6G7, Canada Phone: 604-526-6126 Fax: 604-526-1746

• President and CFO: Douglas F. Good

Address: 347 Bay St., Ste. 201 Toronto, Ontario M5H 2R7, Canada Phone: 416-362-8243 Fax: 416-368-5344

• Chairman: John F. Kearney • President, CEO, and Director: Terence N. McKillen • VP and Director: D. Brett Whitelaw

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Conroy Diamonds and Gold doesn't mind what it finds, as long as its either diamonds or gold. The company 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 is also exploring the Tullybuck-Lisglassan gold deposit in County Monaghan. Conroy Diamonds and Gold had Conroy Diamonds also explored for diamonds in Finland, but those interests were deand Gold P.l.c. merged into another company, Karelian Diamond Resources. one of the US's largest coal mining companies, along with Peabody Energy and Arch Coal. The company has some 4.5 billion tons of proved and probable reserves, mainly in northern and central Appalachia and the Illinois Basin, and it produces about 70 million tons of coal annually. CONSOL primarily mines bituminous coal, which burns cleaner than lower grades. Customers include electric utilities and steel mills; Allegheny Energy accounts for about 10% of CONSOL's sales. CONSOL delivers coal using its own railroad cars, export terminals, and fleet CONSOL Energy of towboats and barges. The company also engages in natural gas Inc. [CNX] exploration and production. A pot of gold at the end of a rainbow may belong to this company. That is, of course, if the rainbow ends on one of its properties. Consolidated Abaddon Resources is a precious metal and uranium exploration company engaged in the development of properties in the Athabasca basin of northern Saskatchewan and the Red Lake mining district of northwestern Ontario, Canada. Its other properties include about 15,000 acres of potential uranium property in Saskatchewan, as well as an interest in about 5,500 Consolidated acres of land in the Red Lake Gold Camp in Ontario (also known Abaddon as the Black Bear II and Sidace Lake properties). Abaddon's revenue is generally derived from interest income. Resources Inc. Consolidated Global Minerals pretty much sticks to mineral exploration in North America. Through its Mount Royale Ventures subsidiary, the company is involved in gold exploration at the Front Range project in Colorado. It also has various other option agreements for mineral claims in Canada and the US. In 2004 the company sold its mineral holdings in Tunisia to Maghreb Minerals. Consolidated As a result of the sale Consolidated Global Minerals has a roughly Global Minerals 30% stake in Maghreb. Ltd.

Consolidated Puma Minerals Corp.

You will find this animal only in the outer reaches of Russia. Consolidated Puma Minerals explores and develops mineral properties in the Kola peninsula of northwest Russia. The company's main focus is on the exploration and mining of platinum and palladium at its East Pansky property (purchased from Bema in 2002). Bema Gold holds a 55% interest in Puma Minerals.

Consolidated Spire Ventures Ltd.

Consolidated Spire Ventures aspires to find natural resource properties. The company is a minerals exploration company operating in Canada and Mexico. Its holdings in properties include the Prospect Valley Gold Property (in an option agreement with Almaden Minerals) in British Columbia and the Tetasiari Gold Property in Mexico. None of Spire's properties are in production.

• Executive Chairman: Prof Richard Conroy Address: 10 Upper Pembroke St. Fiscal Year End: May • Managing Director: Dublin 2, Ireland Revenue (2005): 0.00 M Maureen T. A. Jones Phone: +353-1-661-8958 Employees (2005): 10 • Finance Director: Fax: +353-1-662-1213 Employee Growth (1 yr): 11.10% James P. Jones

Address: Consol Plaza, 1800 Washington Rd. Pittsburgh, PA 15241-1421 Phone: 412-831-4000 Fax: 412-831-4103

Address: 885 W. Georgia St., Ste. 1490 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3E8, Canada Phone: 604-687-3376 Fax: 604-687-3119

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 3377.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 25.50% Employees (2004): 6,982 Employee Growth (1 yr): 7.00%

• Chairman: John L. Whitmire • President, CEO, and Director: J. Brett Harvey • CFO: William J. Lyons

• President and CEO: James G. (Jim) Pettit

Address: 837 W. Hastings St., Ste. 308 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1B6, Canada Phone: 604-632-0085 Fax: 604-605-0009

• President, CEO, and Director: George W. Heard • CFO: Alec Peck

Address: Three Bentall Center, 595 Burrard St., Ste. 3100 Vancouver, British Columbia V7X 1J1, Canada Phone: 604-681-8371 Fax: 604-681-6209

• President and Director: Roger T. Richer • CFO: Mark A. Corra • EVP, Development and Director: Jerry R. Korpan

Address: 1250 - 800 W. Pender St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2V6, Canada Phone: 604-662-7455 Fax: 604-683-1055

• CEO, President, and Director: Robert B. (Brian) Buchanan • CFO, Secretary, and Director: Shiraz (Raz) Hussein

Yes

The company, formerly Misty Mountain Gold, is one of mining investment/management firm Hunter Dickinson, Inc.'s (HDI's) stable of companies. Continental Minerals is focusing on exploration and development -- it owns no properties and has none in production. The company is primarily exploring the Continental Xietongmen copper and gold property in Tibet. It has a partnership Minerals with Great China Mining in the project, and in early 2006 Corporation Continental agreed to merge with Great China. Continental and [KMKCF.OB] HDI share several key executives. They know how to watch their pennies at Copper and Brass Sales. The operation is part of German conglomerate ThyssenKrupp's nonferrous metals and plastics processing and distribution business, ThyssenKrupp Materials (TMX). Copper and Brass Sales processes and distributes aluminum, brass, bronze, copper, nickel, zinc, and stainless and carbon steels. The operation's processing capabilities include annealing, cutting to length, edge conditioning, slitting, tension leveling, and rerolling. Copper and Brass Sales has more than 35 locations in the US and Canada, Copper and Brass where it stocks a variety of alloys, shapes, and sizes in order to Sales reduce processing and delivery time. holdings in California and Nevada, focusing on the Robertson Mining Claims which reside in Crescent Valley, Nevada. The exploration company seeks prospects through mapping, prospecting, geophysics, and drilling on its properties. Coral Energy Corporation and Coral Resources comprise the list of Coral Gold's two wholly-owned subsidiaries. None of its mining operations are in production. In 2006 U.S. Gold announced plans Coral Gold to acquire Coral Gold. Chairman Robert McEwen is also chairman Resources Ltd. and CEO of U.S.Gold. what will they come up with? It might just be the Corex Gold Corporation. The mining company has turned its attention to Mexico to explore and develop gold properties in Zacatecas State. Corex Gold's primary exploration projects include the El Trebol property, the Santa Rita property, and the Zuloaga property, which Corex Gold are all 100%-owned. None of its mineral properties are in Corporation production. of resources. Through the single subsidiary Cornerstone Resources, it explores for gold and copper in more than a dozen mineral reserve properties throughout Newfoundland and Cornerstone Labrador. The company partners with other mining companies, Capital Resources including Falconbridge, in order to help fund its exploration Inc. projects.

Corona Gold Corporation

Corona Gold Corporation digs for precious and base metals in its own backyard. The Canadian mining company primarily explores properties in northwestern Ontario. It main properties include Thunder Lake West (83%-owned) and Dayohessarah Lake. Teck Corporation holds the remaining stake in Thunder Lake West. Corona Gold Corporation was originally formed in 2002.

Address: 800 W. Pender St., Ste. 1020 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2V6, Canada Phone: 604-684-6365 Fax: 604-684-8092

• Co-Chairman: Raymond J. Soper • President, CEO, and Director: Gerald S. Panneton • Co-Chairman: Ronald W. Thiessen

Address: 22355 W. 11 Mile Rd. Southfield, MI 48034-4735 Phone: 248-233-5700 Fax: 248-233-5777

• President: William G. (Bill) Sabol • CFO: Mark Yonick • EVP and COO: Richard J. Greaves

Address: 455 Granville St., Ste. 400 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1T1, Canada Phone: 604-682-3701 Fax: 604-682-3600

Fiscal Year End: January Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 56.70% Employees (2004): 3 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• Chairman: Robert R. (Rob) McEwen • President, CEO, and Director: Matt Wayrynen • CFO: Lindsay E. Gorrill

Address: 409 Granville St., Ste. 350 Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 1T2, Canada Phone: 604-683-2505 Fax: 604-683-2506

• President, CEO, and Director: Craig D. Schneider • CFO: Terese J. Gieselman

Address: 109 Clyde Ave. Mount Pearl, Newfoundland A1N 4R9, Canada Phone: 709-745-8377 Fax: 709-747-1183

• Chairman and CEO: John M. Fleming • President and Director: Glen H. McKay • CFO: David R. Loveys

Address: 2200 Yonge St., Ste. 905 Toronto, Ontario M4S 2C6, Canada Phone: 416-482-8606 Fax: 416-488-1676

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-36.10%)

• President and CEO: Murray John • CFO: Peter C. McRae

Yes

Corriente Resources Inc. [ETQ]

Cream Minerals Ltd. [CRMXF.OB]

Crested Corp. [CBAG.OB]

Crew Gold Corporation [CRUGF.PK]

Cross Lake Minerals Ltd.

Address: 800 W. Pender St., Ste. Corriente Resources has hitched itself to a copper belt. The 520 company explores and develops copper and gold projects in Latin Vancouver, British Columbia V6C America. Its primary operation is a stake in property along the 2V6, Canada Corriente Copper Belt in southeast Ecuador. The company has an Phone: 604-687-0449 alliance with BHP Billiton to explore projects. Management owns Fax: 604-687-0827 more than 10% of Corriente Resources. Cream Minerals isn't interested in nougat, but it would like to get its Address: 570 Granville St., Ste. hands on a nugget. The company explores for gold and other 1400 precious metals, primarily at properties in Canada and Mexico Vancouver, British Columbia V6C (through subsidiary Cream de Mexico). In 2005 it launched into a 3P1, Canada diamond exploration project with a partner in Sierra Leone, West Phone: 604-687-4622 Africa. Chairman and CEO Frank Lang owns more than 30% of Fax: 604-687-4212 Cream Minerals. operations include mining for precious metals, coalbed methane gas contract drilling, and pipe construction operations. U.S. Energy (USE) owns a 70% stake in Crested, and the two companies own stakes in uranium and gold properties in Wyoming and Utah and a molybdenum property in Colorado. Through Sutter Gold Mining subsidiary, the company is seeking to expand its gold, uranium, and molybdenum properties. USE and Crested also manage a Address: 877 N. 8th West fixed base aircraft facility and rental properties in Wyoming. In Riverton, WY 82501 2005 USE and Crested sold Rocky Mountain Gas, their oil and gas Phone: 307-856-9271 exploration and production subsidiary, to Enterra Energy Trust for Fax: 307-857-3050 about $20 million. Crew Gold has dispersed its team around the globe. The company has mining properties in Africa, Greenland, Norway, and the Philippines. Its key projects include 82%-owned Nalunaq, Aquliaruseq, and Nanortalik, all in southern Greenland; the Hurdal Address: Abbey House, molybdenum property in Norway; the Barberton gold mine in South Wellington Way Weybridge, Surrey KT13 0TT, Africa; and several nickel-sulfur-gold sites in the Philippines. Commercial production at Nalunaq, its chief operating mine, began United Kingdom in 2004; the mine currently produces about 60,000 ounces of gold Phone: +44-193-226-8755 Fax: +44-193-226-8756 annually. Crew Gold has assets of more than 3 million ounces of gold. Cross Lake Minerals will cross any lake if it means finding precious metals. The mineral exploration and development company explores for natural resource properties for base and precious Address: 1255 W. Pender St. metals and owns interests in 14 properties in Canada. Its main Vancouver, British Columbia V6E property is the QR Property in British Columbia (acquired from 2V1, Canada Kinross Gold in 2004). Cross Lake Minerals is also examining the Phone: 604-687-2038 Ruddock Creek property for lead, zinc, and silver metals. In Fax: 604-687-3141 addition, the company has interests in properties in Ontario.

• CEO and Chairman: Kenneth R. (Ken) Shannon • President: Thomas E. (Tom) Milner • CFO and Secretary: Darryl F. Jones • Chairman, President, and CEO: Frank A. Lang • CFO and Corporate Secretary: Shannon M. Ross

• Chairman and CEO: John L. Larsen • President and COO: Keith G. Larsen • SVP and Director: Harold F. Herron

• Executive Chairman: Hans C. Qvist • President, CEO, and Director: Jan A. Vestrum • CFO: James Cole

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-34.00%)

• Chairman: Donald Sheldon • President and Director: Gordon A. Keevil • CFO: Carmon Currie

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Crown Resources hopes to reign over a kingdom of gold called Buckhorn Mountain. The project, in Washington state, has proven and probable reserves of nearly 1 million ounces of gold. Crown Resources has been unable to raise enough money to develop the Buckhorn Mountain project on its own, however, and the company Crown Resources has agreed to be acquired by Kinross Gold, which owns a milling Corporation facility near the Buckhorn site. Company chairman Steven [CRCE.OB] Webster controls a 33% stake in Crown Resources. Pencil this down: Crystal Graphite mines and processes flake graphite for use in the fuel cell industry. The company excavates the mineral from open pit mines on claims covering 31 sq. mi. near the Valhalla Wilderness Provincial Park in British Columbia. The company can run 4,100 tons per year of flake graphite, but has plans to expand its processing plant. Its high-purity flake graphite is sold to make bi-polar plates used in fuel cells; the rest goes to the carbon brush and friction plate markets. In 2004 the company Crystal Graphite entered the pumice market when it acquired volcanic aggregate Corporation firm CPC. Fallen on hard times, the company entered bankruptcy [CYTGF.PK] in 2006. Cumberland Resources is a mineral exploration and development company with an emphasis on gold. The company is involved in developing three properties in Nunavut, Canada -- primarily the Meadowbank project, but it also has interests in the Meliadine East and West projects. Meadowbank is in the Kivalliq district of northern Canada. Cumberland Resources has been drilling holes at the Meadowbank project for the past several years to determine Cumberland its strike potential. The company estimates that the project holds Resources Ltd. gold reserves of about 2.5 million ounces. and other precious metals. Cusac Gold Mines develops precious metals mining properties in Canada. Since 1985 its Table Mountain Gold Mine in British Columbia has produced more than 250,000 ounces of gold, but the mine has been in care-andmaintenance status since 1999. It is also exploring for platinum in the Similkameen Mining Division in British Columbia, however. The company stopped its Golden Loon platinum exploration Cusac Gold Mines project due to poor results and also dropped its option on the Ltd. [CUSIF.OB] Taurus Gold Project.

Cypress Development Corp.

Cypress Development is a precious and base metal exploration and development company. The company operates several gold and silver projects in Ontario, as well as three zinc and gold deposits in Nevada and a nickel project in South Voisey Bay, Labrador. It stopped exploration at its Labrador property in 2004. None of the company's projects are in production.

Address: 4251 Kipling St., Ste. 390 Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 Phone: 303-534-1030 Fax: 303-534-1809

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 7 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• Chairman: Steven A. Webster • President, CEO, and Director; President and CEO, Solitario: Christopher E. (Chris) Herald • VP, Finance, CFO, Secretary, and Treasurer; VP, Finance, Sec: James R. Maronick

Address: 999 W. Hastings St., Ste. 1750 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2W2, Canada Phone: 604-681-3060 Fax: 604-682-4886

Fiscal Year End: August Revenue (2004): 0.30 M • CFO: Bernie Zacharias Employees (2004): 8 • SVP, COO, and Employee Growth (1 yr): 60.00% Director: Brian C. Wear

Address: 505 Burrard St., Ste. 950 Vancouver, British Columbia V7X 1M4, Canada Phone: 604-608-2557 Fax: 604-608-2559

• President, CEO, and Director: Kerry M. Curtis • Chairman: Walter T. Segsworth • CFO and Corporate Secretary: Michael L. Carroll

Address: 911 - 470 Granville St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1V5, Canada Phone: 604-682-2421 Fax: 604-682-7576

• Chairman: Guilford H. Brett • CEO, CFO, and Director: David H. Brett

Address: 885 W. Georgia St., Ste. 1490 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3E8, Canada Phone: 604-687-3376 Fax: 604-687-3119

• President and CEO: Donald C. (Don) Huston • VP, Corporate Communications: Donald G. (Don) Myers

Yes

• President, CEO, and Director: Gordon J. Sales

Yes

Its predecessor was created in 1967 to sell nylon to Southeast Asia, but Daewoo International has stretched beyond that business to become one of South Korea's leading international trading companies. Trading primarily in chemicals, textiles, metals, and steel, Daewoo International was formed in 2000 when Daewoo Corporation, once the flagship of the now-defunct Daewoo Group, split into three companies. Daewoo International took on Daewoo Daewoo Corporation's trading business. Since then Daewoo International International has drastically trimmed its workforce, overseas operations, and Corporation joint ventures. Desert Sun Mining believes precious metals are hot. The mining company is focused on the exploration and development of the Jacobina Project at Bahia Gold Belt property located in northeastern Brazil. The property was closed in 1998 due to falling gold prices, but Desert Sun Mining is reopening the mine. The company estimates the Bahia property holds up to 1.4 million Desert Sun Mining ounces of gold. In 2006 fellow Canadian miner Yamana Gold acquired Desert Sun for about $500 million in stock. Corp. Donner Metals (formerly Donner Minerals) is on the hunt for base metals in Canada's back country. The company has copper and nickel exploration projects which include South Voisey Bay (Labrador), Stephens Lake (Manitoba), and Rainbow (Nunavut). Mining firms Falconbridge and Teck Cominco have joint ventures with the company to explore some of these mineral properties. In 2005 the company restructured and split into two businesses: Donner Metals Donner Metals runs the mineral exploration operations, while Ltd. Donner Petroleum took over the oil and gas exploration unit. operates the Shoal Creek underground coal mine in Alabama and the Pribennow surface coal mine in Colombia. Drummond's ABC Coke unit produces foundry coke, which is used mainly in the automotive, construction, smelter and sugar industries, at a plant in Alabama. In addition, Drummond develops housing communities and office parks in Alabama, California, and Florida. H. E. Drummond began his namesake company in 1935 on land homesteaded by his mother; eventually his five sons entered the business. The Drummond family still owns and manages the Drummond company. Company, Inc. There is more to Dumont Nickel than its name might suggest. The company primarily operates the Clifton-Goldhill gold, silver, and copper joint venture (with Clifton Mining and Woodman Mining) in western Utah and the Attawapiskat diamond property in the James Bay area of Ontario. Dumont Nickel also holds interests in other Dumont Nickel exploration properties in Canada. None of its properties are in Inc. production. Dundarave Resources, formerly JABA Exploration, is on the hunt for precious and base minerals in Mexico, the US, and South America. The company's exploration projects include Beatty, Silver Bell, and Redrock Canyon gold properties (US); Niko silver and base metal project (Mexico); and the Tecka copper property (Argentina). Dundarave Resources finances some of its operations through joint venture partnerships. None of its projects are in Dundarave production. Resources Inc.

Address: 541 5-Ga Namdaemunno, Chung Gu, CPO Box 2810 Seoul, South Korea Phone: +82-2-759-2114 Fax: +82-2-753-9489 Address: 65 Queen St. West, Ste. 810 Toronto, Ontario M5H 2M5, Canada Phone: 416-861-0341 Fax: 416-861-8165

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 4789.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 38.50% Employees (2004): 2,020

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 17.40 M Employees (2004): 290

• President and CEO: Lee Tae-Yong • Chairman: Stan Barti • President and CEO: Bruce Humphrey • CFO: Stephen Woodhead

Address: 157 Alexander St., 3rd Fl. Vancouver, British Columbia V6A 1B8, Canada Phone: 604-683-0564 Fax: 604-602-9311

• CEO and Director: David (Dave) Patterson • President and Director: Harvey Keats

Address: 1000 Urban Center Dr., Ste. 300 Birmingham, AL 35242 Phone: 205-945-6500 Fax: 205-945-6440

• Chairman and CEO: Garry N. Drummond Sr. • SEVP, External Affairs and Treasurer: Walter F. Johnsey • SVP and CFO: Jack Stilwell

Address: 230 Richmond St. West, Ste. 802 Toronto, Ontario M5V 1V6, Canada Phone: 416-595-1195 Fax: 416-595-5458

• Chairman: Denis A. Clement • President, CEO, Secretary, and Director: Shahé F. Sabag

Address: 885 W. Georgia St., Ste. 1500 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3E8, Canada Phone: 604-408-4777 Fax: 604-408-4799

Exploration: James A. Briscoe • President, CEO, and Director: Paul F. Matysek • CFO and Secretary: Brent Peters

Dynacor Mines is engaged in the exploration and development of precious metal properties in Peru. The company does custom milling (producing about 10,000 ounces of gold annually) at its Acari gold mine. It has purchased more equipment to expand production of the mine. Dynacor is exploring several other Dynacor Mines properties in Peru including Casaden, Cerro Calvan, and Inc. Tumipampa. Dynamic Materials Corporation (DMC) has an explosive personality when it comes to working with metal. The company (formerly Explosive Fabricators) uses explosives to metallurgically bond, or "clad," metal plates (usually joining a corrosion-resistant alloy and carbon steel). Clad metal is used to make heavy-duty industrial pressure vessels and heat exchangers. The company also produces components using more traditional metalworking techniques such as machining, rolling, and hydraulic expansion. Dynamic Materials DMC's AMK Welding subsidiary machines and welds parts primarily for the commercial aircraft and aerospace industries. Corporation SNPE Inc., a subsidiary of SNPE S.A., owns 52% of the company. [BOOM] provides services to mining companies worldwide through two divisions: Mining Services (mine design, construction, and operation) and Metallurgical Technologies (development and commercialization of metals). Its primary project is the Ambatovy project (nickel and cobalt in Madagascar). In 2005 Dynatec received a 20% stake in FNX Mining, in exchange FNX now holds Dynatec's stake in the Sudbury project and its interest in Aurora Dynatec Platinum. Chairman Ian Delaney is also chairman of Sherritt Corporation International. Eaglecrest Explorations has an eagle eye when it comes to finding gold. The company owns concessions covering 64 square miles in the Itenez Province of northeastern Bolivia. Early Spanish explorers discovered and mined gold in the vicinity, and the region is still home to some small-scale miners. Eaglecrest Exploration has been trenching and drilling to locate a high grade gold deposit in the quartz veins that run throughout the area. Some material is analyzed at the site by a bulk sampling crusher mill, while other Eaglecrest Explorations Ltd. samples are shipped to laboratories in Bolivia and Peru. One of the largest steel distributors in North America, Earle M. Jorgensen primarily sells bars, tubing, and plate products made from carbon, alloy, and stainless steels; aluminum; and brass. Customers include companies in industries such as construction and farm equipment, general machining, industrial equipment, oil and gas, and transportation; machining companies account for more than a quarter of sales. The company operates a network of more than 35 service centers and processing facilities in the US and Canada. Funds managed by investment firm Kelso & Earle M. Company owned more than half of Earle M. Jorgensen until it was Jorgensen acquired by rival Reliance Steel & Aluminum in 2006. Company

Address: 1801 McGill College Ave., Ste. 1325 Montreal, Quebec H3A 2N4, Canada Phone: 450-667-3224 Fax: 450-667-2520

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 4.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 3.60%

• Chairman: Jean Martineau • President, CEO, and Director: Marc Blais

Address: 5405 Spine Rd. Boulder, CO 80301 Phone: 303-665-5700 Fax: 303-604-1897

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 79.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 46.30% Employees (2004): 163 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-14.20%)

• Chairman: Michel Nicolas • President and CEO: Yvon Pierre Cariou • VP CFO and Secretary: Richard A. (Rick) Santa

Address: 9555 Yonge St., Ste. 200 Richmond Hill, Ontario L4C 9M5, Canada Phone: 905-780-1980 Fax: 905-780-1990

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 123.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 5.40% Employees (2004): 1,222 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-6.00%)

• Chairman: Ian W. Delaney • President and CEO: Bruce V. Walter • EVP, COO, and Director: John W. Lill

Address: 1055 W. Hastings St., Ste. 300 Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 2E9, Canada Phone: 604-684-7160 Fax: 604-684-7160

• President and CEO: Carl A. Erickson • CFO: William Jung • VP, Corporate Development: Paul M. Zdeblak

Address: 10650 Alameda St. Lynwood, CA 90262 Phone: 323-567-1122 Fax: 323-563-5500

• Chairman: David M. Roderick • CEO and Director: Maurice S. Nelson Jr. • President and COO: R. Neil McCaffery

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2005): 1608.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 54.60% Employees (2005): 1,712

Yes

Earth Sciences, Inc. [ESCI.PK]

Eastern Alloys, Inc.

Eastern Associated Coal Corp.

Eastern Platinum Limited

Eastmain Resources Inc.

ELE Capital Corporation

Earth Sciences is holding on to its pieces of earth. The company owns mineral rights in the western US and in Venezuela, but it is not conducting any exploration activities. In 2003 Earth Sciences spun off its main operating subsidiary, environmental technology and specialty chemicals company ADA-ES. Through Canadian subsidiary Earth Sciences Extraction Company (ESEC), Earth Sciences extracted purified phosphoric acid (used in foods, soft drinks, fertilizers, and other products). However, ESEC was idled because of insufficient funding. Earth Sciences was formed in 1963 to market its geochemical exploration techniques. Eastern Alloys manufactures zinc alloys at its facilities in Maybrook, New York; and Henderson, Kentucky. Its zinc alloy products can be used in die-casting alloys, gravity-casting alloys, slush-casting alloys, steel-coating alloys, and mold-base alloys. The company's customers are primarily in North America; Eastern Alloys also supplies clients in Asia and South America. The company was founded in 1965. West Virginia's country roads have been taking Eastern Associated Coal home for years. The company manages most of Peabody Energy's coal mines in the state. Peabody is the world's largest coal company, and its Appalachian region includes five operating units in West Virginia and one in Eastern Kentucky. Eastern Associated Coal, which became a part of Peabody in 1987, runs three of them, which include both mines and preparation plants. The company mines and processes mediumand high-sulfur steam and metallurgical coal and ships somewhere near 10 million tons annually. company is a platinum group metals (PGMs) mining exploration and development company. It has interests in PGM properties, including the Mareesburg and Spitzkop projects, in South Africa. Eastplats hopes to have Mareesburg in production by 2006. In 2005 Jonpol acquired Eastern Platinum Holdings and then combined it with fellow mining company Elgin Resources to form Eastern Platinum Limited. Eastmain Resources does most of its mineral exploration in the Eastmain River area. The company explores for and develops deposits of precious and base metals in Canada, predominantly looking for gold ore in Northern Quebec. Most of the company's funding goes to its Clearwater gold project. It also has properties located throughout Ontario and New Brunswick. Eastmain Resources holds a 50% stake in the Reserve Creek gold project in Ontario. The company explores many of its properties through joint venture partnerships with other mining firms including Barrick Gold, Falconbridge, and Dianor Resources. ELE Capital Corporation (formerly The Electric Mail Company) is scanning for acquisitions instead of e-mail. The company, which once developed and marketed e-mail and virus scanning software as The Electric Mail Company, sold that business to a subsidiary of j2 Global Communications in early 2004. ELE Capital has agreed to acquire the Kyrgyzstan gold assets of Oriel Resources in a deal that gives Oriel a majority ownership in ELE Capital.

Address: 8100 South Park Way, Unit B Littleton, CO 80120-4525 Phone: 303-734-1727 Fax: 303-734-0330

• Chairman: Ramon E. Bisque • President, Treasurer, and Director: Mark H. McKinnies

Address: Henry Henning Dr. Maybrook, NY 12543 Phone: 845-427-2151 Fax: 845-427-5185

• Chairman: Richard J. Bauer • President and CEO: Richard H. Bauer • SVP and Steel Mill Product Sales: Richard A. Young

Address: 202 Laidley Tower Charleston, WV 25324 Phone: 304-344-0300

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 225.20 M Employees (2005): 1,450

Address: 837 W. Hastings St., Ste. 408 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3N6, Canada Phone: 604-685-6851 Fax: 604-685-6493

• President: Jiri Nemec • VP and Treasurer: Walter L. Hawkins

• President and Director: Ian Rozier • CFO: Barbara Dunfield

Address: 36 Toronto St., Ste. 1000 Toronto, Ontario M5C 2C5, Canada Phone: 519-940-4870 Fax: 519-940-4871

• President, CEO, and Fiscal Year End: October Director: Donald J. Revenue (2004): 0.10 M Robinson Revenue Growth (1 yr): 122.10% • CFO: James L. Bezeau

Address: 5331 Headland Dr. West Vancouver, British Columbia V7W 3G4, Canada Phone: 604-714-2420 Fax: 604-714-2426

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-75.70%)

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Darryl J. Yea

Yes

Where you may see a giant scrap heap, ELG Haniel sees a goldmine. The company recycles and trades stainless steel scrap and processes metal alloys (cobalt, nickel, titanium) for the stainless steel industry. It also trades stainless steel sheet and coils. Products are moved from their raw used materials to one of several recycling plants, and then distributed to their end purchaser through intermediary companies. A subsidiary of Franz Haniel & Cie, the company operates about 35 facilities in 15 ELG Haniel GmbH countries around the world, including ELG Haniel Metals in the US. In the, uh, one-man's-trash-is-another-man's-treasure category, scrappy ELG Haniel Metals has made a mint from the business of metal-morphosys. US-based ELG Haniel Metals recycles stainless steel and special alloys from about 4,000 suppliers (some of which are also its customers). ELG Haniel Metals' recycling operation has actually lowered the the cost of recycling steel to the degree that the process is less expensive than the nickel that goes into primary production of stainless steel. As one of the fastest-growing ELG Haniel Metals subsidiaries of ELG Haniel, its parent in 2004 bolstered its Corp. investment in the company's future development. Elkem ASA is one of Norway's largest industrial companies, as well as a global supplier of aluminum, ferroalloys, silicon metal, carbon, and microsilica. Customers include the foundry, chemicals, aluminum, and electronics industries. Its aluminum products include billets, rolling ingots, and foundry ingots. In addition, Elkem produces hydroelectric power for Norway's power market and is involved in energy trading in the Nordic market. It is also developing its own technology for highly purified silicon, to be used in solar cells. In 2005 aluminum producer Alcoa sold its 47% interest in Elkem to Orkla ASA, which had a 50% stake. Elkem was originally established in 1904 as Elektrokemisk by Sam Eyde. Elkem ASA based Elkem ASA. Among its operating subsidiaries are Elkem Metals Co. and Elkem Materials. The group's operations supply silicon metal, ferrosilicon, carbon products, microsilica, and calcium carbide to customers. Silicon metal is used by the chemical (silicones), electronics (semiconductors), and aluminum (alloying metal) industries. Elkem Holding has production plants in Iowa, Ohio, West Virginia, and Quebec, Canada. Norway-based Orkla, which has taken control of the parent company, plans to sell the silicon metal operations of Elkem in West Virginia (Elkem Elkem Holding, Alloy). Inc. Engelhard Corporation converts base materials into wealth -- but no alchemy is involved. The company operates in four segments. Its material services segment provides precious and base metals as raw materials for manufacturers. Engelhard's environmental technologies segment sells emission-control systems (such as catalytic converters) for automobiles. Other segments produce pigments and performance additives (used in plastics, coatings, paper, and cosmetics) and chemical catalysts and sorbents (used Engelhard to make pharmaceuticals and other chemicals). In 2006 chemical Corporation [EC] giant BASF made an offer to acquire Engelhard for $4.9 billion.

Address: Kremerskamp 16 47138 Duisburg, Germany Phone: +49-(0)2034501-0 Fax: +49-(0)2034501-251

Address: 369 River Rd. McKeesport, PA 15132 Phone: 412-672-9200 Fax: 412-672-3236

• Chairman, ELG Haniel: Friedrich Terörde

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 54.80 M Employees (2005): 265

• CEO: Simon Merrills • CFO: David Reichenecker

• CEO: John G. Thuestad

Address: Hoffsveien 65 B N-0303 Oslo, Norway Phone: +47-22-45-01-00 Fax: +47-22-45- 01-55

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 3641.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 31.50% Employees (2004): 11,056 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-0.30%)

Address: Airport Office Park, Bldg. 2, 400 Rouser Rd. Moon Township, PA 15108-2749 Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 412-299-7200 Revenue (2005): 272.10 M Fax: 412-299-7225 Employees (2005): 1,350

Address: 101 Wood Ave. Iselin, NJ 08830 Phone: 732-205-5000 Fax: 732-906-0337

• CFO: Svein-Tore Holsether • SVP, Strategy and Corporate Development, and Company Secreta: Baard Haugen

• President: Geir Kvernmo • CFO: Svein-Tore Holsether

• Chairman and CEO: Barry W. Perry Fiscal Year End: December • VP and CFO: Michael Revenue (2005): 4597.00 M A. Sperduto Revenue Growth (1 yr): 10.30% • VP, Corporate Employees (2005): 7,100 Communications: Mark Employee Growth (1 yr): 21.10% Dresner

Yes

Enterayon, Inc. [ETYN.PK]

Enterayon's net is no longer filled with digital music. Formerly NetMusic Entertainment, the company previously operated netmusic.com, a directory of music-related information that later evolved into a digital music distribution outlet. After disappointing sales in the face of fierce competition from industry leaders such as Apple (iTunes) and RealNetworks, the company completely changed the focus of its business, announcing a new strategy involving the exploration, acquisition, development, and mining of precious metals and other mineral properties. NetMusic became Enterayon in 2005.

Facing financial difficulties and supply shortages, Spanish zinc refiner and smelter Española del Zinc is under court-supervised administration. Besides zinc, the company also produces monohydrated sulfuric acid, and zinc alloys, oxides, and dust. It Española del Zinc laid off more than 230 employees between May 1 and August 31, S.A. 2005. Española del Zinc was founded in 1956.

Esperanza Silver Corporation

Eti Maden

Etruscan Resources Incorporated

Esperanza means "hope" in English and Esperanza Silver hopes to strike silver in Bolivia, Mexico, and Peru. Esperanza Silver primarily drills in the Atocha property in Bolivia and also explores for silver on its Flor de Loto and Estrella projects in Peru. It's also exploring the La Esperanza gold and silver property in Mexico. General Minerals holds a 15% stake in Esperanza Silver. Eti Maden, formerly Eti Holding, is on top of the world when it comes to producing borates. The Turkish state-owned company, through Eti Mine Works, is a world-leading miner and processor of boron. (Turkey holds about 60% of the world's boron reserves.) Eti produced 715,000 tons of refined boron products in 2004, a 64% increase over the previous year. Boron is used in products such as soaps, detergents, glass, fertilizers, and nuclear materials. The company also produces perlite, which is used as a construction material, scrubbing sand in refineries, and for growing in greenhouses, among other applications. Scanning the continent for precious resources, Etruscan Resources explores and develops gold and diamond properties in Africa. In West Africa, Etruscan began production in 2004 at its 40%-owned Samira Hill gold property (expected to produce about 100,000 ounces of gold annually) in Niger. The company also holds the 90%-owned Youga gold property in Burkina Faso, as well as prospects in the Ivory Coast and Mali. In South Africa, the company owns a 51% stake in the Tirisano Diamond Mine. The mining operation, which sifts gravel deposits in the Ventersdrop region, has been upgraded to produce 27,000 carats a year.

Address: 201 5th Ave. South, Ste. 23 Edmonds, WA 98020 Phone: 425-775-9197 Fax: 425-775-9353

• Chairman and CEO: Perry Leopold • CFO and Director: Jeff Falus • COO: Michael Lewison

Address: Avenida Tito Didio s/n 30392 Cartagena, Murcia, Spain Phone: +34-96-832-1282 Fax: +34-96-852-9412

Chairman: Juan Martínez Martínez • Financial Director: Míguel Angel Barajas Gutiérrez • Sales Director: E. Manuel García Morales

Address: 570 Granville St., Ste. 300 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3P1, Canada Phone: 604-685-2242 Fax: 604-681-4692

Address: Cihan Sk., No: 2, 06430 Sihhiye 06430 Ankara, Turkey Phone: +90-312 231 70 20 Fax: +90-312 230

Address: 48 Gerrish St. Windsor, Nova Scotia B0N 2T0, Canada Phone: 902-798-9701 Fax: 902-798-9702

• CEO and Director: William J. Pincus

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 290.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 19.80% Employees (2004): 4,370 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-3.90%) • Chairman and General Manager: Orhan Yilmaz

Fiscal Year End: November Revenue (2004): 0.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-86.50%)

• President and CEO: Gerald J. McConnell • CFO and Treasurer: Glenn Holmes • VP Exploration and COO: Donald (Don) Burton

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For Eurasia Gold, Kazakhstan is as good as gold. Although its headquarters is in Canada, Eurasia Gold is a gold exploration company that operates through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Andas-Altyn. The company's primary operations consists of two producing gold mines (Central Mukur and Myaly) in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Eurasia Gold produces about 30,000 ounces of gold annually. Both mines are located in the East Kazakhstan Oblast province. Canada-based miner, and fellow gold producer in Eurasia Gold Kazakhstan, Thistle Mining maintains a 58% ownership stake in Corp. Eurasia Gold. Eurasia Mining may be based in the UK, but its business is in Russia. The company owns and operates gold and platinum group metals (PGMs) projects in Northwest and Central Russia (Kola Peninsula and Urals projects). Its exploration of the Urals project is a joint venture with Anglo Platinum. The company's project development plans for South Africa exploration had been put on hold as the company worked through renewal permits and other Eurasia Mining setbacks, but it eventually disposed of those interests in 2004. PLC This company's work is as good as gold, or as good as any other metal deposits it may find. Eureka Mining is engaged in the exploration and production of properties, primarily located in the former Soviet Union, potentially containing copper, gold, and other base metal deposits. Its mining oprerations include Mykubinsk and Central Kazakhstan (exploration for gold and copper), and Kentau (gold mining operations). Celtic Resources holds a 21% stake in Eureka Mining Plc the company. Being resourceful is what it takes to be successful in the exploration and mining business, and EURO Ressources believes it has what it takes. EURO Ressources (formerly Guyanor Ressources) explores and develops precious metal (primarily gold) and diamond deposits in French Guiana and other areas. The company underwent a restructuring (including change of top officers) in 2004, at which time it acquired participation rights to a Suriname gold mine from US-based Golden Star Resources, which controls more than 55 % of EURO Ressources. Australian EURO Ressources financial services powerhouse Macquarie Bank acquired nearly S.A. 10% of EURO Ressources in 2005. European Goldfields does what it says. It is a Canadian-based resources company that explores for gold, silver, and base metal properties in Romania and Greece. In 2004 the company acquired a 65% interest in Hellas Gold in Greece and is exploring and developing mineral properties in the Balkans. In Romania its two main projects include Certej (gold and silver) and Cainel (gold). European European Goldfields was formed in 2000 with its principal interests Goldfields Limited residing in Romania.

European Minerals Corporation

Like the name says, European Minerals looks for minerals in Europe. It holds an 86% interest in the Varvarinskoye gold-copper deposit in Kazakhstan, that has proven reserves 2.2 million ounces of gold as well as 255 million pounds of copper. European Minerals also explores other properties in eastern Europe. The company holds an interest in an oil and gas investment.

Address: 120 Adelaide St. West, Ste. 2500 Toronto, Ontario M5H 1T1, Canada Phone: 416-504-2899 Fax: 416-504-2729

Address: 14-16 Regent St. London SW1Y 4PH, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7976-1222 Fax: +44-20-7976-1422

• Chairman: Kumar E. Mukashev Fiscal Year End: December • President, CEO, and Revenue (2004): 11.70 M Director: Baltabek K. Revenue Growth (1 yr): 25.40% Mukashev Employees (2004): 675 • CFO and Director: Employee Growth (1 yr): 11.60% Ismail Nishanbayev

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 32 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-22.00%

• Chairman: Kevin A. Foo

Address: Hatfield House, 1st Fl., 52/54 Stamford St. London SE1 9LX, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7921-8810 Fax: +44-20-7921-8811

Address: 8 Lotissement les Nénuphars 97354 Rémiré-Montjoly, French Guiana Phone: +594-594-295-440 Fax: +594-594-379-224 Address: Financial Plaza, Ste. 200, 204 Lambert St. Whitehorse, Yukon YIA 3T2, Canada Phone: 416-361-0737 Fax: 416-361-0923 Address: 22 Grosvenor Sq. London W1K 6LF, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7529-7508 Fax: +44-20-7491-2244

• Chairman: Michael P. Martineau • Managing Director and Board Member: Christian Schaffalitzky • CFO: Michael J. de Villiers

• CEO and Director: David Bartley • Executive Director and Board Member: Andrzej S. Sliwa

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-4.90%) Employees (2004): 1 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-75.00%)

• Managing Director: James H. Dunnett • President: Jean-Pierre Prévôt • Chairman: Dimitrios Koutras • CEO and Director: David J. R. Reading • CFO and Director: Timothy Morgan-Wayne

• Chairman: Anthony J. (Tony) Williams • President, CEO, and Director: William G. Fiscal Year End: December (Bert) Kennedy Revenue (2004): 0.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 900.00% • CFO: Stephen Gledhill

European Nickel PLC

Mining company European Nickel identifies, acquires, and develops nickel laterite deposits, primarily in Turkey and the Balkan region. The company's principal project is a 100%-owned nickel deposit (expected to begin production in 2007) in western Turkey. Mining giant BHP Billiton financially backs the company's project in Turkey and holds about 10% of European Nickel. Formed in 2000, European Nickel has developed a metallurgical process to extract nickel ores through a heap leach method that it believes to be less costly than conventional technologies.

EuroZinc Mining is up to more than just zinc these days. The company explores and develops copper, lead, silver, and zinc properties in Portugal. Its Neves Corvo copper mine is in production and the Aljustrel zinc project is in development. Copper EuroZinc Mining is sent from the Neves Corvo mine to a port near Lisbon, where Corporation [EZM] the copper is then sent off to customers in Europe and Canada. Everton Resources digs the Dominican Republic. The gold and copper mining exploration company, partly through an alliance with Globestar Mining, is seeking areas of exploration in the country. In addition, Everton Resources is increasing its holdings near Placer Dome's promising Pueblo Viejo gold project in the Dominican Republic. In 2004, the company also extended its exploration back home in Canada (in the James Bay region of Quebec). Everton Everton Resources continues to acquire interests in claims adjacent to its Resources Inc. current land holdings. Excellon Resources is hoping for excellent results in its exploration and production of precious metals in Mexico. The company produces silver and other metals through a joint venture agreement with Apex Silver Mines at the Platosa-Saltierra project, located in northeastern Durango State, Mexico. It shipped out its first truckload of ore from the Platosa-Saltierra project in 2005 and is looking to expand the project quickly as it explores other areas Excellon of the property. Resources Inc. Exeter Resource Corporation has made a foray into South America. The Canada-based company explores for copper, gold, and silver in Argentina. Its primary project, La Cabeza, is in the Mendoza Province. Exeter Resource is also involved in Exeter Resource exploration projects in the Patagonia region, through a partnership Corporation with South African mining firm AngloGold Ashanti. This company's path of exploration "orbits" around the universe of prospecting for diamonds, gold, and other precious metals. Founded in 1983, Exploration Orbite mainly explores and mines for precious and other metals including gold, copper, nickel, and zinc, as well as diamonds, in Québec. The company owns and operates several properties in the prolific Abitibi area in Canada, with the Le Tac property representing its primary project in an Exploration Orbite advanced stage of exploration drilling. None of Exploration Orbite's V.S.P.A. Inc. projects are currently in production.

Address: Fortune House, 7 Stratton St. London W17 8LE, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7495-5055 Fax: +44-20-7629-9370

Fiscal Year End: September Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 46 Employee Growth (1 yr): 820.00%

• Chairman: Felix Pole • Managing Director: Simon Purkiss • Finance Director: Andrew Lindsay

Address: 543 Granville St., Ste. 1601 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1X8, Canada Phone: 604-681-1337 Fax: 604-681-1339

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 100.90 M Employees (2004): 870 Employee Growth (1 yr): 911.60%

• Chairman: Edward J. Fletcher • Vice Chairman and CEO: Colin K. Benner • President and COO: Alvin W. Jackson

Phone: 613-241-2332 Fax: 613-241-6005

• Chairman and CEO: André D. Audet • CFO and Secretary: Marc Carbonneau • Advisor: Brooke Macdonald

Address: 6 Adelaide St. East, Ste. 220 Toronto, Ontario M5C 1H6, Canada Phone: 416-364-1130 Fax: 416-364-6745

• Chairman: Richard W. Brissenden • President, CEO, and Director: A. Douglas MacKenzie • VP and CFO: Robert C. Brissenden

Address: 700 W. Pender St., Ste. 301 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1G8, Canada Phone: 604-688-9592 Fax: 604-688-9532

• Chairman: Yale Simpson • President and CEO: Bryce Roxburgh • CFO: Cecil R. Bond

Address: 400 St. Jacques, Bureau 200 Montreal, Quebec H2Y 1S1, Canada Phone: 514-849-7336 Fax: 514-849-9260

• President and Director: Pierre Gévry • VP, Strategy and Technology and Director: Richard Boudreault

Address: 290 Picton St., Ste. 201 Ottawa, Ontario K1Z 8P8, Canada

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Fairbanks Gold Mining doesn't mind the cold, especially when it's finding gold. The company mines, explores, and develops properties in Alaska, including the Fort Knox open pit mine, which produces nearly 400,000 ounces of gold annually. Fairbanks Gold is owned by Canada-based precious metals miner Kinross Gold. Fairbanks Gold The Fort Knox mine is one of the largest operations that Kinross Mining, Inc. Gold owns. Fairmile Goldtech tries to do a fair amount of gold exploration. The company primarily explores and develops precious metal properties in Nevada. Fairmile Goldtech bought the rights to a bioremediation process from US-based Pintail Systems in 2004. The company uses the non-toxic extraction technique to recover gold and silver precious metals from the deposits. Mining companies Fairmile Goldtech typically use cyanide to extract metals from mineral deposits. None of the companies projects are in production. Inc. explores for diamonds and gold in North America. It has properties in Manitoba, Newfoundland, and Ontario. In Manitoba the company formed a joint venture with Exploration Innovateurs to explore its gold and diamond claims. Falcon Ventures is also looking for other joint venture partners to help develop its Falcon Ventures prospects. None of the company's projects are in production. Incorporated Formed in 1983, board member E. Ross Peat holds more than [FIXVF.PK] 10% of the company. Falconbridge would agree that a mine is a terrible thing to waste. One of the world's top miners and smelters of copper and nickel (together accounting for more than three-quarters of sales), Falconbridge, formerly called Noranda, also produces aluminum, zinc, lead, and precious metals. Falconbridge's manufactured and commodity products include aluminum foil. The company operates worldwide, but the US and Canada together account for the great majority of its business. It changed its name upon its 2005 acquisition of the former Falconbridge. Brascan had owned about Falconbridge 20% of Falconbridge but sold its stake to XStrata in mid-2005. Inco Limited [FAL] agreed to buy Falconbridge later that year. Fancamp Exploration is an exploration and development company searching for metals and minerals in Canada. The company is primarily prospecting for iron ore and titanium through an option agreement of a property located in Longue Point, Quebec. It is also involved in several other projects in Quebec, which are either Fancamp joint ventures or 100%-owned. Sheridan Platinum Group holds Exploration Ltd. more than 20% of the company.

Farallon Resources Ltd.

Canadian mineral exploration company Farallon Resources has migrated South to find minerals. Through its subsidiary Farallon Minera Mexicana, the company explores for lead, silver, and gold at its Campo Morado mining project in Guerrero State, Mexico (near Mexico City). Farallon Resources acquired the project in 1995 and has since worked to get the operations in production by 2009. Campo Morado dates back to the early 1900s when silver was first found in the area.

Address: 1 Fort Knox Rd. Fairbanks, AK 99712 Phone: 907-488-4653 Fax: 907-490-2290

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 42.20 M Employees (2005): 360

Address: 837 W. Hastings St., Ste. 2001 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3N7, Canada Phone: 604-294-1082 Fax: 604-473-9138

• President and CFO: Michael Raftery

Address: 9925 Jasper Ave., Ste. 2001 Edmonton, Alberta T5J 2X5, Canada Phone: 780-454-4950 Fax: 780-424-2617

Address: 181 Bay St., Ste. 200 Toronto, Ontario M5J 2T3, Canada Phone: 416-982-7111 Fax: 416-982-7423

• Operations Manager: Scott Montelius

• President, CEO, and Director: David P. Power Yes

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 8148.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 16.80% Employees (2004): 14,500 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-3.30%)

• Chairman: David W. Kerr • CEO and Director: Derek G. Pannell • President: Aaron W. Regent

Address: 7290 Gray Ave. Burnaby, British Columbia V5J 3Z2, Canada Phone: 604-434-8829 Fax: 604-434-8823

• President and Director: Peter H. Smith

Address: 1020 - 800 W. Pender St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2V6, Canada Phone: 604-684-6365 Fax: 604-684-8092

• Chairman: Ronald W. Thiessen • President, CEO, and Director: Richard H. (Dick) Whittington • CFO, Secretary, and Director: Jeffrey R. Mason

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 2 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

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Ferrostal is going for the ironman competition. Ferrostaal AG, a subsidiary of Germany's MAN AG, is a steel trader (steel products and non-ferrous metals), but it is also involved in industrial steel construction (water treatment facilities, industrial plants, bridges, and power plants) and the manufacture and distribution of industrial equipment (printing and packaging machines and offset printers). The company also delivers nautical equipment and navy and merchant ships. While Ferrostaal has operations throughout the world, nearly half of the company's total sales come from Latin America and Germany. Ferrostaal was founded in 1919 as an Ferrostaal AG international trading firm. Ferrostaal Inc. imports and distributes a variety of steel products. The company is a subsidiary of Germany-based Ferrostaal AG, which itself is part of MAN, a diversified German manufacturer. Items handled by the Ferrostaal distribution network include long, Ferrostaal flat, and semi-finished steel products, as well as wire and wire Incorporated products and special steel and plates. First Silver Reserve has no reservations when it comes to mining silver. The company mines for silver ore primarily in the San Martin mine in the northern portion of the state of Jalisco in Mexico. It produces about 2 million ounces of silver annually and estimates its reserves to be 12 million ounces. First Silver is evaluating other areas of its San Martin mine for exploration and development. The company processes the ore for smelting into silver at its nearby First Silver ore processing facility. On average, First Silver Reserve yields Reserve Inc. nearly 10 ounces of silver per ton of milled ore. Who you gonna trust with your coal assets? The Fording Canadian Coal Trust, an income trust, owns about 60% of partnership Elk Valley Coal (formerly Fording Coal Partnership) that combined the Canadian metallurgical coal assets of Fording Inc., Teck Cominco, Sherritt International, Luscar Coal, and CONSOL Energy, along with the coal transport assets of Westshore Terminals Income Fund. Teck Cominco owns the other 40% of the coal partnership and manages the operation. The partnership operates six mines and is the world's #2 exporter of hard coking coal, which is a key ingredient in steelmaking. Through NYCO, Fording also operates Fording Canadian an industrial minerals unit, which produces wollastonite, in the US Coal Trust [FDG] and Mexico.

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 4344.30 M Address: Hohenzollernstrasse 24 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 20.20% D-45128 Essen, Germany Employees (2004): 4,679 Phone: +49-201-818-01 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: +49-201-818-2822 (-30.00%)

• Chairman: Matthias Mitscherlich • Managing Director, Finance, Controlling, and General Adminis: Jens Gesinn • Managing Director, Corporate Communications: Bernard Buhmann

Address: 16510 Northchase Dr. Houston, TX 77060 Phone: 281-999-9995 Fax: 281-999-4143

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 801.80 M Employees (2005): 105

• President and CEO: Uwe T. Schmidt • CFO -- Finance and Administration: Matthias Lietsch

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 15.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 51.30% Employees (2004): 400 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• President, CEO, and Director: Hector Davila Santos • VP, Finance, CFO, and Director: Rodney A. (Rod) Shier • Director, Operations: Armando Ibarra Amaya

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 1612.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 65.70%

• Chairman and CEO: Michael A. Grandin • President; President and CEO, Elk Valley Coal: James L. (Jim) Popowich • VP and CFO: R. J. (Jim) Brown

Address: 885 Dunsmuir St., Ste. 584 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1N5, Canada Phone: 604-602-9973 Fax: 604-681-5910

Address: Fording Place, Ste. 1000, 205 9th Ave. SE Calgary, Alberta T2G 0R4, Canada Phone: 403-264-1063 Fax: 403-264-7339

Address: 999 W. Hastings St., Formation Capital Corporation has formed a plan to find mineral Ste. 1510 deposits. The company explores for, develops, and refines Vancouver, British Columbia V6C minerals through its mining operations in Canada, Mexico, and the 2W2, Canada US. Through eight mining properties the company mines, gold, Phone: 604-682-6229 Formation Capital silver, cobalt, copper, and uranium. It also has started a precious Fax: 604-682-6205 Corporation metals refining business called Formation Chemicals. and has instead chosen the business of mining to find its fortune. Address: 148 Fullarton St., Ste. The company has set up camp in the Northwest Territories to 1508 explore and develop deposits containing coal, gold, silver, copper, London, Ontario N6A 5P3, and other assorted minerals. It's primary asset is the Mount Canada Fiscal Year End: December Klappan anthracite coal deposit in British Columbia. It's also Phone: 519-858-8188 Revenue (2004): 0.10 M Fortune Minerals investigating the NICO cobalt and gold deposit in the Northwest Fax: 519-858-8155 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 156.10% Limited Territories.

• Chairman and CEO: Mari-Ann Green • President and Director: J. Scott Bending • SVP and CFO: J. Paul Farquharson • Chairman: George M. Doumet • President, CEO, and Director: Robin E. Goad • CFO: Julian Kemp

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Foundation Coal Holdings, Inc. [FCL]

Foundation Coal Holdings has found a solid footing in the US. One of the largest coal miners in the country, Foundation Coal operates about a dozen surface and underground mines in Central Appalachia, Northern Appalachia, the Powder River Basin, and the Illinois Basin. Foundation Coal produces and sells around 70 million tons of coal annually and has 1.7 billion tons of proved and probable coal reserves. Steam coal, produced for electric utilities, accounts for more than 90% of the company's sales. Foundation Coal also produces metallurgical coal (for steel manufacturers). Foundation Coal was formed in 2004 to buy RAG American Coal from German conglomerate RAG.

Franc-Or Resources has mining activities in Nevada or Russia, depending on how you look at it. The company explores for precious metals at properties in Nevada (where it holds claims) Franc-Or and Russia (where it is looking to acquire claims). It had been Resources seeking gold in French Guiana, but Franc-Or Resources has Corporation withdrawn from the country, selling its assets. Not to be confused with collectibles vendor Franklin Mint, Franklin Mining has collected interests in gold, silver, lead, and zinc projects in the US, Bolivia, and Colombia. The company's Franklin Mines, in Clear Creek County, Colorado, were actively worked between 1865 and 1915, but production has been sporadic since then, and the property is for sale. Franklin Mining's Mayaya gold Franklin Mining, project in Bolivia is more promising, but production there has been Inc. [FMNJ.PK] hampered by a lack of equipment. While it doesn't actually have free gold, Freegold Ventures does have several mining projects where it intends to liberate gold from its confines. The company's Almaden, Golden Summit, Grew Creek, Rob, Rainbow Hill, and Union Bay projects are located in Canada and the US (Alaska and Idaho). It lowers its own costs by operating several of these exploration projects as joint ventures Freegold Ventures with partner companies, including Pacific North West Capital and Limited Lonmin. Freegold Ventures was founded by chairman Harry Barr. [FGOVF.OB] CDS & Company controls nearly 70% of the company. What does Freewest Resources Canada tell its mineral prospectors? Go east young men! The natural resources company explores for gold, diamonds, platinum, and base metals in eastern Canada. It has generally focused its prospect holdings at about a dozen locations in northwestern Quebec, northwestern Ontario, and southwestern New Brunswick. As indications of gold and other Freewest targeted minerals have been found at several sites, Freewest Resources Resources must conduct further geological surveys to determine if Canada Inc. the concentrations warrant site development for mining.

Address: 999 Corporate Blvd., Ste. 300 Linthicum Heights, MD 21090 Phone: 410-689-7500 Fax: 410-689-7511 Address: 1801 McGill College Ave., Ste. 1325 Montreal, Quebec H3A 2N4, Canada Phone: 514-842-5323 Fax: 514-842-3306

• Chairman, President and CEO: James F. Fiscal Year End: December Roberts Revenue (2005): 1316.90 M • SVP and CFO: Frank J. Revenue Growth (1 yr): 202.00% Wood Employees (2004): 2,750 • SVP Development and Employee Growth (1 yr): 5.80% IT: James A. Olsen

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-65.40%)

• Chairman: Michael Steeves • President and CEO: Robert J. Casaceli • CFO and Secretary: Vatche Tchakmakian

Address: 2764 Lake Sahara Drive, Ste. 111 Las Vegas, NV 89117 Phone: 702-944-8972 Fax: 702-838-5130

• President, CEO, and Director: Jaime Melgarejo Jr. • CFO: William M. Jackson

Address: 2303 W. 41st Ave. Vancouver, British Columbia V6M 2A3, Canada Phone: 604-685-1870 Fax: 604-685-6550

• Chairman: Harry Barr • President and CEO: Steve Manz • CFO: Gordon Steblin

Address: 1155 University St., Ste. 1308 Montreal, Quebec H3B 3A7, Canada Phone: 514-878-3551 Fax: 514-878-4427

Fiscal Year End: October Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-42.10%) Employees (2004): 4 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-20.00%)

• Chairman: George Bryson • President, CEO, and Director: Mackenzie I. (Mac) Watson • VP, Finance and Director: Ronald Kay

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G W R Resources would like for its initials to mean Gold Was Reached. The junior exploration company is drilling through layers of rock to uncover gold deposits on claims it has acquired in Canada. G W R Resources owns all or part of about 25 claims covering 58 square miles in the Lac La Hache region of south central British Columbia. Drilling has revealed its 100%-owned Ann North Zone claims have potential for large copper and gold deposits. G W R Resources has an 80% interest in seven claims G W R Resources with Peach Lake Resources and 40% in four claims with Cassidy Inc. Gold. It's the sole owner of the remaining claims. Think of Gabriel Resources as the Count Dracula of gold mining -the company loves a rich vein. Gabriel owns 80% of Romanian mining company Rosia Montana Gold; Minvest SA, Romania's state mining company, owns the rest. The Rosia Montana joint venture has mines in western Transylvania, part of Romania's "Golden Quadrilateral," where mining activity dates back some 2,000 years. The site contains reserves of more than 10 million ounces of gold and 50 million ounces of silver. Production is scheduled to begin around 2006. An adjacent development, Bucium, contains both gold-silver and copper-gold resources. Gabriel Resources Gabriel's management is also involved with European Goldfields, another Romanian mining venture. Ltd.

Galantas Gold Corporation

General Minerals Corporation

Geoinformatics Exploration Ltd.

Galantas Gold, formerly European Gold Resources, explores and develops gold properties in Northern Ireland. The company began exploration in Ireland when it acquired Omagh Minerals in 1997. It also produces and sells gold jewelry through its Galántas Irish Gold unit. Galantas Gold holds both Omagh and Galántas Irish Gold under its Cavanacaw subsidiary. General Minerals Corporation has marshaled all of its forces in order to locate copper, silver, and gold in Bolivia, Chile, and the US (Arizona). After initial exploration, the company has partnered with larger mining companies, such as Phelps Dodge and Teck Cominco, with the capability to develop the properties. The company has also formed subsidiaries to explore for precious metals in Mongolia and Afghanistan. General Minerals sold its holding in Lumina Copper in 2004. Geoinformatics Exploration (formerly Aegean International Gold) explores and develops gold mineral properties and manages projects for other mining and exploration companies. The company is involved in various exploration projects in Australia, Canada (British Columbia, Ontario, and the Northwest Territories), Mexico, the US, and the Ukraine. Canadian mining company St Andrew Goldfields sold its 30% stake in Geoinformatics Exploration in 2005. Goldcorp also has a small holding in the company.

Address: 5230 Lansdowne Rd. Armstrong, British Columbia V0E 1B4, Canada Phone: 250-546-8048 Fax: 250-546-3635

Address: 110 Yonge St., Ste. 1501 Toronto, Ontario M5C 1T4, Canada Phone: 416-955-9200 Fax: 416-955-4661

• CEO, CFO, President, and Director: Irvin Eisler

• Chairman: Oyvind Hushovd Fiscal Year End: December • President and CEO: Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Alan R. Hill Employees (2004): 330 • VP and CFO: Richard Employee Growth (1 yr): (-0.30%) S. Young

Address: Cavanacaw Omagh BT78 5LH, United Kingdom Phone: +44-28-8224-1100 Fax: +44-28-8224-1194

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-15.90%)

• Executive Chairman: Jack Gunter • President and CEO: Roland Phelps • Director, Jewellery Operations: Eugene McLaughlin

Address: 580 Hornby St., Ste. 880 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3B6, Canada Phone: 604-684-0693 Fax: 604-684-0642

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 6 Employee Growth (1 yr): 200.00%

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Ralph G. Fitch • CFO: William Filtness

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 2.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 92.40%

• Chairman: Michael Etheridge • Vice Chairman and COO: Nicholas (Nick) Archibald • CEO and President: Michael Smyth

Address: 330 Bay St., Ste. 1109 Toronto, Ontario M5H 2S8, Canada Phone: 416-861-1300 Fax: 416-861-1999

Gerald Metals and its affiliates trade nonferrous and precious metals such as alumina, aluminum, bauxite, gold, silver, zinc, copper, and platinum group metals. Customers include miners, industrial consumers, smelters, and refineries, as well as central banks and government entities. Gerald Metals operates primarily from offices in the US, Switzerland, and China; the company maintains additional facilities elsewhere in Asia and Europe and in South America. Through its financing arm, Gerald Metals offers such services as pre-export financing, lending to mining companies, project financing, and development of hedging and options strategies. The company was founded by Gerald Lennard Gerald Metals, Inc. in 1962. GHG Resources thinks the potential for China is still underground. The company, formerly Consolidated Golden Thunder Resources, is a precious metals exploration and mining company, searching for gold in the Yunnan Province of China. Through its Tun Resources subsidiary, GHG Resources works with local Chinese companies to explore and develop properties in the region. GHG Resources Exploration project areas include Bianfushan, Lanintang, and Limited Shangzhai in the Zhen Yuan Mining District. Gippsland Limited finds its financial oasis in the desert. The company is engaged in the exploration and mining of tantalum, a hard metal used for the production of foil, wire, and metal rods, primarily in the central eastern desert of Egypt. The company expects to produce about 650,000 pounds of tantalum pentoxide a year from its share of the Abu Dabbab and Nuweibi projects, operated through a joint venture with the Egyptian Geological Survey & Mining Authority, which are located near the western shore of Egypt's Red Sea. Gippsland also has interests in gold and Gippsland Limited base metal exploration projects. Gitennes Exploration is an exploration and development mining company, primarily concerned with locating deposits of gold, silver, zinc, and copper. The company is currently exploring five properties in Peru and four projects in British Columbia, Canada. Its most advanced project is the Tucumachay property located in Gitennes the Andes Mountains of Peru. None of its projects are currently in Exploration Inc. production. business in South America. The company explores and develops gold properties in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. It is expanding production operations at its underground Limon Mine in Nicaragua and has begun production at its Bellavista Mine in Costa Rica. Combined these two mines are expected to produce about 100,000 ounce of gold annually (and they contain about 850,000 ounces of gold reserves). Glencairn Gold acquired Black Hawk Glencairn Gold Mining in 2003, receiving the Limon Mine and several other Corporation [GLE] exploration properties. For Glencar Mining the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow is found in West Africa. Founded in 1971, the company (formerly Glencar Explorations) has conducted gold mining exploration operations in Africa (Ghana, Mali, and Uganda) since the 1980s. It is also involved in the Laois exploration project in Ireland. In addition to Glencar Mining mining, the company provides exploration and surveying services. plc [GCMXF.PK] The company sold its Rennicks subsidiary to Tara Mines in 2002.

Address: 680 Washington Blvd. Stamford, CT 06901 Phone: 203-609-8300 Fax: 203-609-8301

• Chairman and CEO: Lloyd Lander • CFO: Jeff Malakoff • CIO: Jim Berger

Address: 1255 W. Pender St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 2V1, Canada Fiscal Year End: September Phone: 604-662-3230 Revenue (2004): 0.40 M Fax: 604-682-4309 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 302.70%

• President and CEO: Christopher Fung • Secretary and CFO: Sharon Lewis

Address: Level 2, 18 Stirling Hwy. Nedlands, Western Australia 6009, Australia Phone: +61-8-9389-8611 Fax: +61-8-9389-8612

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 55.20% Employees (2004): 1 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

Address: 1055 W. Hastings St., Ste. 2390 Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 2E9, Canada Phone: 604-682-7970 Fax: 604-685-7903

• Executive Chairman: Robert J. (Jack) Telford • President, CEO, and Director: Jerry D. Blackwell • CFO: Kerry Spong

Address: 6 Adelaide St. East, Ste. 500 Toronto, Ontario M5C 1H6, Canada Phone: 416-860-0919 Fax: 416-367-0182

• Chairman: Ian J. McDonald • President, CEO, and Fiscal Year End: December Director: Kerry J. Knoll Revenue (2005): 19.40 M • VP Finance and CFO: Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-1.50%) Derek Price

Address: 71 Lower Baggot St. Dublin 2, Ireland Phone: +353-1-661-9974 Fax: +353-1-661-1205

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 2 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• Chief Executive: Hugh McCullough • COO and Technical Director: Kieran Harrington

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Glencore International AG

Globex Mining Enterprises Inc.

GMA Resources Plc

Gold Standard, Inc. [GSDD.OB]

Glencore International trades in the stuff of which stuff is made. The company is a commodities trader (metals and minerals, agricultural products, and energy) and a diversified natural resources conglomerate with interests in companies involved in mining, smelting, refining, and processing. In the energy sector, the company markets such products as coal, crude oil, jet fuel, and gasoline. Glencore's ownership stakes include Columbia Falls Aluminum, a 30% stake in Century Aluminum, and a 40% share in Xstrata. Founded in 1974 as a marketer of ferrous and nonferrous metals and other products, the company is owned by management and employees. Globex Mining Enterprises stays busy in North America with more than 50 exploration properties. The company explores some of its properties and options others to fellow mining Canadian outfits. For properties it doesn't option, Globex Mining looks for joint venture partners. Its properties contain copper, gold, silver, zinc, and other minerals deposits. GMA Resources is looking for a golden oasis in the Sahara. The company's primary asset is its controlling stake in the Tirek Gold mine (52%-owned) located in the Sahara desert of southern Algeria. State-owned oil company Sonatrach and other investors hold the remaining shares in the Tirek mine. It is also exploring the Amesmessa Deposit, located adjacent to the Tirek mine. None of its properties are in production. GMA Resources was originally formed in Australia in 2002. Gold Standard is hanging its flag on the mineral riches of Brazil, where the company hopes to find and develop gold-producing properties. Its Gold Standard Minas subsidiary owns the rights to mine gold and other precious metals on a 30,000-acre claim in the Brazilian state of Mato Grasso. But exploration efforts have been suspended because of a lack of money, and Gold Standard is looking for an exploration partner or an opportunity to combine with another business. The company also owns mineral and exploration rights to property located elsewhere in Brazil, in southern Uruguay, and in the Dugway region of western Utah.

The top of the gold heap is where Gold Summit aims to be. The company, formerly Gold Summit Mines, explores for and develops gold prospect properties in Canada (northwestern and northern Ontario and central Quebec) and the US (eastern, central, and western Nevada and southern California). Gold Summit's projects Gold Summit include Tip Top, Monte Cristo, and Gold Springs. None of its Corporation properties are in production. In search of gold and copper, Golden Eagle International has spread its wings in Bolivia . The company is exploring prospects in the Tipuani-Cangalli area north of La Paz and in the Precambrian Shield area in eastern Bolivia. Overall, Golden Eagle controls more than 150,000 acres of mining concessions. Gold production on the company's Cangalli claims was halted in 2004 because of a Golden Eagle farmers' strike; the company has yet to produce minerals on its International, Inc. other properties. Golden Eagle has generated no revenue since [MYNG.OB] late 2004.

• Chairman: Willy R. Strothotte • CEO: Ivan Glasenberg • Director of Finance: Zbynek E. Zak

Address: Baarermattstrasse 3 CH-6340 Baar, Zug, Switzerland Phone: +41-41-709-20-00 Fax: +41-41-709-30-00

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 72000.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 31.60% Employees (2004): 50,000

Address: 146-14th St. Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec J9X 2J3, Canada Phone: 819-797-5242 Fax: 819-797-1470

• President, CEO, and Director: Jack Stoch Fiscal Year End: December • Secretary, Treasurer, Revenue (2004): 0.60 M CFO, and Director: Revenue Growth (1 yr): 179.50% Dianne Stoch

Address: 30 Farringdon St. London EC4A 4HJ, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7544-5677 Fax: +44-20-7544-5565

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 8.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 263.10% Employees (2004): 258 Employee Growth (1 yr): 14.70%

Address: 136 S. Main St., Ste. 712 Salt Lake City, UT 84101 Phone: 801-328-4452 Fax: 801-328-4457

Fiscal Year End: October Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 7 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-41.70%)

Address: 181 University Ave., Ste. 1414 Toronto, Ontario M5H 3M7, Canada Phone: 416-367-4571 Fax: 416-367-5269

Address: 12401 S. 450 East, Bldg. D1 Salt Lake City, UT 84020 Phone: 801-619-9320 Fax: 801-619-1747

• Non-Executive Chairman: Richard J. Linnell • CEO: Colin R. Ikin • Finance Director: Simon J. Farrell

• Chairman, President, Principal Executive Officer, Treasurer,: Scott L. Smith Yes Cook • President, CEO, and Director: Anthony P. Taylor • VP, Corporate Development: Gil Atzmon

• Chairman: H. R. (Roy) Shipes Fiscal Year End: December • President, and CEO: Revenue (2004): 1.30 M Terry C. Turner Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-0.30%) • VP US Administration, Employees (2004): 38 CFO, Treasurer, and Employee Growth (1 yr): Secretary: Tracy A. (-59.10%) Madsen

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Golden Queen Mining Co. Ltd. [GQMNF.PK]

Goldrea Resources Corp.

Golden Queen Mining wants to be queen of the mountain. The company is developing a gold and silver open pit, heap leach (a process of extracting gold by moving a cyanide solution through crushed ore) operation at its Soledad Mountain property in southern California. It also hopes to produce construction aggregate at the property. Gold mining has occured at Soledad Mountain since the late 19th century. Trusts owned by Landon Clay hold a 20% stake in the company. Goldrea Resources is going for the gold...and other metals (silver, molybdenum, platinum, and palladium). The exploration and development company has seven projects in the works, including two joint ventures with its sister company Molycor Gold. It has five properties in British Columbia, and one each in Quebec and Arizona. The company has historically focused its attention on North America, but Goldrea Resources is now actively involved in gold exploration projects in the Shandong Province of China.

Goldsource Mines is looking for the perfect source of gold and silver. The company used to explore gold and silver mineral properties in Indonesia, but has since moved its exploration much closer to home. Its now in search of precious metals in the Goldsource Mines Americas. Goldsource Mines is involved in an option agreement Inc. for mineral claims in British Columbia. Goldstake Explorations has staked its claim on two continents: Australia and North America. In Australia, the company explores and develops gold, copper, and nickel deposits in the Northern Territory. One of its properties includes Hill End, known for producing a 639-pound gold nugget in 1872. In North America, Goldstake Goldstake Explorations is primarily prospecting for gold in South Explorations Inc. Dakota and Ontario, Canada. This company's coke does go into aluminum cans, but you wouldn't want to drink it. Great Lakes Carbon is a leading producer of anode-grade and industrial-grade calcined petroleum coke (CPC). Anode-grade CPC, which accounts for most of Great Lakes Carbon's sales, is used to make carbon anodes for the production of primary aluminum. Industrial-grade CPC is used mainly to make titanium dioxide. CPC is made from raw petroleum coke, a byproduct of petroleum refining. Great Lakes Carbon produces CPC at three plants in the US; sister company Copetro operates a CPC facility in Argentina. The Great Lakes Carbon Income Fund, a Great Lakes publicly traded Canadian entity, controls Great Lakes Carbon. Carbon LLC

Greystar Resources Ltd.

Greystar Resources is looking for something a little more shiny. The company's principal asset is the Angostura gold and silver mining project in northeastern Colombia. It has been exploring Angostura since 1995. Greystar Resources also has oil and gas holdings in Colorado through subsidiary Greystar USA. CDS & Co. holds more than 90% of the company.

Address: 6411 Imperial Ave. Vancouver, British Columbia V7W 2J5, Canada Phone: 604-921-7570 Fax: 604-921-9446

• Chairman: Edward G. Thompson • President and Director: H. Lutz Klingmann

Address: 2A 15782 Marine Dr. White Rock, British Columbia V4B 1E6, Canada Phone: 604-531-9639 Fax: 604-531-9634

• President and CEO: Larry W. Reaugh • CFO: Ron Jorgensen

Address: 1311 Howe St., Ste. 405 Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 2P3, Canada Phone: 604-691-1760 Fax: 604-691-1761

• President and Treasurer: J. Scott Drever • CFO: Graham Thody

Address: 67 Yonge St., Ste. 501 Toronto, Ontario M5E 1J8, Canada Phone: 905-415-1224 Fax: 905-415-1224

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Robert B. Cleaver

Address: 551 5th Ave., Ste. 3600 New York, NY 10176 Phone: 212-370-5770 Fax: 212-370-5973

• Chairman: Theodore C. Rogers • President, CEO, and Director: James D. McKenzie • SVP and CFO: Ronald J. Statile

Address: 570 Granville St., Ste. 300 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3P1, Canada Phone: 604-682-8212 Fax: 604-681-4692

• President, CEO, and Director: David B. Rovig • CFO: K. Peter Miller

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Griffin Mining is not a mythical beast, but it has swooped down in China to develop zinc and gold mining projects. Its main operation is a joint venture (with Chinese group Caijiaying Lead Zinc Preparatory Committee) in the Caijiaying zinc project located near Beijing. Construction was completed on the project in 2005 and it has commenced production. The company is also scoping out Griffin Mining other projects in China. Trellus Partners holds a stake of more Limited than 10% in Griffin Mining. with ski slopes or Miami Vice busts. The company manufactures metal powders, thermal spray powders, metal products, and specialty chemicals. Its powders go into everything from concrete to sporting goods, from pigments and plastics to medical and dental supplies. Starck also makes electroconductive polymers and colloidal silica for the electronics industry. It has 16 plants located in Europe, North America, and Asia. The company was acquired by Bayer in 1986 and is now a part of Bayer H.C. Starck Inc. MaterialScience. resourceful, Halo Resources concentrates on looking for gold and other metals. The company (formerly Trimark Energy) has shifted its focus from oil and gas exploration to the acquisition of nearproduction base and precious metal deposits. Halo Resources is involved in three projects: the Duport gold mine in Ontario, a gold exploration project at Bachelor Lake in Quebec, and a grass roots gold project at Quarter Moon Lake in Manitoba. In 2005 Halo Resources acquired a 50% stake in the Bachelor Lake project, which has an ongoing 12,500-meter underground drill program. Halo Resources The Duport project has an ongoing drill program of up to 20,000 Ltd. [HLOSF.OB] meters. It takes heavy coal for Headwaters to keep its head above water. The company uses its patented binding process to turn coal derivatives into synthetic fuel briquettes. Through Headwaters Energy Services (HES), the company licenses its technology and supplies the binding reagents, which are made by Dow Reichhold, to 28 third-party facilities (such as utilities and coal companies). Headwaters is expanding through acquisitions; its construction materials segment, which markets manufactured stone and specialty siding products, has grown to account for more than half Headwaters of the company's sales. Headwaters is also a top marketer of coal Incorporated [HW] combustion products (CCPs), such as fly ash and bottom ash. Precious metals are priority at Heraeus Holding. The company's largest subsidiary is precious metals trader W.C. Heraeus, which also processes precious and specialty metals into products used in the aerospace, automobile, ceramics, chemical, electronics, glass, medical, and pharmaceutical industries. Among Heraeus Holding's 100-odd other subsidiaries and affiliates are Heraeus Kulzer (dental restoration products), Heraeus Quarzglas (equipment and optics made from quartz glass), Heraeus Electro-Nite (temperature sensors used in the steel and auto industries and appliances), and Heraeus Noblelight (infrared, ultraviolet, and other specialty light Heraeus Holding sources). The Heraeus family owns the 150-year-old holding GmbH company.

Address: 60 St. James's St., 6th Fl. London SW1A 1LE, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7629-7772 Fax: +44-20-7629-7773

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 41 Employee Growth (1 yr): 583.30%

• Chairman: Mladen Ninkov • Finance Director: Roger Goodwin

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 91.40 M Employees (2005): 400

• Chairman: Heinz Heumüller • President: Olaf Schmidt-Park • Information Systems Director: Raymond M. Houle

Address: 625 Howe St., Ste. 1280 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2T6, Canada Phone: 604-484-0068 Fax: 604-484-0069

Fiscal Year End: August Revenue (2004): 0.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 24.90% Employees (2004): 2

• Chairman and CFO: Nick DeMare • President and CEO: Marc Cernovitch • SVP and COO: Tom Healy

Address: 10653 S. River Front Pkwy., Ste. 300 South Jordan, UT 84095 Phone: 801-984-9400 Fax: 801-984-9410

Fiscal Year End: September Revenue (2005): 1064.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 92.20% Employees (2004): 3,680 Employee Growth (1 yr): 360.00%

• Chairman and CEO: Kirk A. Benson • CFO: Steven G. (Steve) Stewart

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 11373.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 22.20% Employees (2004): 9,832 Employee Growth (1 yr): 6.60%

• Chairman, Supervisory Board: Jürgen Heraeus • Chairman, Board of Management: Helmut Eshwey • COO and CTO: Frank Heinricht

Address: 45 Industrial Place Newton, MA 02461-1951 Phone: 617-630-5800 Fax: 617-630-5879

Address: Heraeusstraße 12-14 D-63450 Hanau, Germany Phone: +49-6181-35-0 Fax: +49-6181-35-3550

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for its customers. Heraeus Precious Metals Management (HPM) sells precious metals and offers metal trading and hedging services to customers. The company deals in precious metals such as gold, silver, platinum, and palladium, in physical forms from grains to ingots and bars. It also operates a refining division for scrap precious metals (i.e., jewelry and dental filling scraps) and other materials such as petroleum, photographic films and Heraeus Precious papers, and other chemical catalysts containing metals. Heraeus Metals Precious Metals is the North American trading unit of the Heraeus Management, Inc. Holding. Hidefield Gold wants gold and other precious metals to come out of hiding. The company acquires and develops gold fields; its primary project is the Cata Preta development in the Minas Gerais state of Brazil. (In 2005 the company bought the 50% stake in Cata Preta that it didn't own from Brazilian Diamonds.) Hidefield Gold also has several gold exploration projects in Argentina. The company has additional holdings in other precious metal projects Hidefield Gold plc under development in North and South America. explores and develops precious metal in Canada, West Africa, and Russia. High River's main focus is Russia, where it has an 85% holding in two producing gold mines, which accounts for all of the company's production. It produces about 100,000 ounces of gold annually. In 2005 High River acquired a substantial stake in Jilbey Gold Exploration, which has operations in Burkina Faso. Operations at its New Britannia Mine in Manitoba, Canada (High High River Gold River owns half of the mine with Kinross Gold) were suspended in Mines Ltd. 2005. Highbank Resources is staying close to home to find gold. The Canada-based company, formerly Consolidated E.T.C. Industries, drills on the Granby Peninsula property, located in British Columbia. It has a 50% interest in the Granby claim. Expanding its search beyond the precious yellow metal, in 2005 Highbank Resources acquired the Swamp Point aggregates, gravel, and Highbank Resources Ltd. sand project in British Columbia. Highland Gold wants to make its fortune in Russia. The company has mining operations in Russia, including its primary asset, one of the country's largest producing mines, Mnogovershinnoe (MNV). Its other producing mine is Darasun in the Chita region. In all these two mines produce about 200,000 ounces of gold annually. Highland Gold also has several other properties in Russia that are in development. It hopes to bring its Novoshirokinskoye project Highland Gold into prodcution next. Deputy chairman Ivan Koulakov holds 15% of Mining Limited the company; mining giant Barrick Gold has a 20% stake. 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 located in Canada and the US. It has another thermal coal mine in Tennessee under Hillsborough development. Hillsborough Resources is also acquiring holdings in Resources coking coal development projects in other areas of British Limited Columbia.

Address: 540 Madison Ave. New York, NY 10022 Phone: 212-752-2180 Fax: 212-752-7141

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 800.00 M Employees (2005): 21

• Chairman: Jürgen Heraeus • President: John Burdsall • Chairman: Kenneth P. Judge • CEO: John F. Prochnau

Address: 30 Farringdon St. London EC4A 4HJ, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7581-0111 Fax: +44-20-7581-4477

Fiscal Year End: September Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 4 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

Address: 155 University Ave., Ste. 1700 Toronto, Ontario M5H 3B7, Canada Phone: 416-947-1440 Fax: 416-360-0010

• Chairman: Donald A. Whalen Fiscal Year End: December • President, CEO, and Revenue (2004): 80.70 M Director: David V. Revenue Growth (1 yr): 14.60% Mosher Employees (2004): 4,089 • CFO: Steven W. Employee Growth (1 yr): (-9.10% (Steve) Poad

• Finance Director: Kenneth (Ken) Bone

• Chairman: Dennis H. McKnight • President, CEO, and Director: Jake Bottay • CFO, Secretary, and Director: Gary Musil

Address: 625 Howe St., Ste. 600 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2T6, Canada Phone: 604-683-6648 Fax: 604-683-1350

Address: 26 New St. St. Helier, Jersey JE2 3RA, Channel Islands Phone: +44-1534-814-202 Fax: +44-1534-814-815

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 82.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 14.60% Employees (2004): 3,700 Employee Growth (1 yr): 32.10%

• Chairman: James Cross • Managing Director: Dmitri Korobov • COO: Scott Yelland

Address: The Marine Bldg., Ste. 1100, 355 Burrard St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2G8, Canada Phone: 604-684-9288 Fax: 604-684-3178

• Chairman: Winston D. Stothert Fiscal Year End: December • President and CEO: Revenue (2004): 19.40 M David J. Slater Revenue Growth (1 yr): 86.70% • COO, Surface Employees (2004): 83 Operations: David A. Employee Growth (1 yr): 27.70% Fawcett

hinterlands of Canada. Formerly Gladiator Minerals, the exploration and development company is acquiring interests in properties with potential for gold, silver, copper, nickel, platinum, and palladium. Its main properties include the Helen Gold Zone in the Yukon and the Teck and Lockout properties in Ontario. Hinterland Metals President and CEO Mark Fekete holds a 10% interest in Inc. Hinterland Metals. Hobet Mining mines coal in Central Appalachia. The company operates the Hobet 21 mine, which is located on some 19,700 acres in Boone and Lincoln counties in southern West Virginia. Equipment at Hobet 21 includes a dragline, electric shovel, and wheel-loader spread. Coal mined there is processed at an on-site preparation plant and transported out by rail. Former parent Arch Coal sold Hobet Mining in 2005 to Magnum Coal, a company Hobet Mining, Inc. backed by affiliates of investment firm ArcLight Capital. Hoeganaes (pronounced HEY-gun-ess) produces powdered ferrous metals (atomized steel and sponge iron) for use by auto parts makers and other manufacturers. The steel and iron powders are used to make structural parts, filters, and bearings, as well as in friction applications such as brake pads and linings. Hoeganaes products also are used in chemical and welding applications. Outside the US, the company has operations in Germany. Hoeganaes Hoeganaes was founded in 1953. The company is part of the Corporation automotive business segment of UK-based GKN. including gold and silver, and extracts saleable material. The company's products are sold primarily to jewelry makers. The company was founded in 1912 by Jay Hoover and Harry Strong to refine industrial platinum scrap; over the years Hoover & Strong Hoover & Strong has developed some 30,000 products designed for use by the Inc. jewelry industry. Bearing out the adage that one person's trash is another's trash, Horsehead turns zinc-containing dust into zinc and value-added zinc products. Key raw materials for the company include dust from the electric-arc furnaces used at steel minimills and residue from the galvanizing of metals. Besides zinc metal (used in galvanizing and alloying), Horsehead's products include zinc oxide (used in the agricultural, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries) and zinc dust (used in corrosion-resistant coatings). The company operates from facilities in Illinois, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennesee, and Texas. Investment firm Sun Capital Partners owns Horsehead Corp. Horsehead. Hullas del Coto Cortés has all the right sites for anthracite, as well as bituminous coal and lignite. About 80% of the company's production, some 500,000 tons extracted annually, is from underground mines. All but one percent of its sales are to the electric power sector in Spain, where coal is the most used fuel for generation (composing more than 30% of the total). The remaining one percent is sold for domestic use and to small industry. Banco Pastor owns more than 63% of Hullas del Coto Cortés, which was Hullas del Coto founded in 1919. Translated into English, the company's name Cortés, S.A. means "Bituminous Coal of the Cortés Enclosure."

Address: 680 3rd Ave., Ste. 203 Val d'Or, British Columbia J9P 1S5, Canada Phone: 819-874-8182 Fax: 819-874-8183

• President, CEO, and Director: Mark Fekete

Address: St. Rte. 119, S. Shaffer Rd. Madison, WV 25130 Phone: 304-369-6780

• General Manager: Mike Jarrell • President: Robert J. (Bob) Fulton • SVP, Sales and Marketing: William H. (Bill) Michael • VP, Finance: Pete Saitis

Address: 1001 Taylors Ln. Cinnaminson, NJ 08077-2017 Phone: 856-829-2220 Fax: 856-829-7156 Address: 10700 Trade Rd. Richmond, VA 23236-3000 Phone: 804-794-3700 Fax: 804-794-5687

Address: 300 Frankfort Rd. Monaca, PA 15061 Phone: 724-774-1020 Fax: 724-774-4348

Address: Montalbán 3, 1 dcha., Apartado 826 28014 Madrid, Spain Phone: +34-91-531-95-00 Fax: +34-91-532-18-80

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 48.60 M Employees (2005): 180

Revenue (2005): 46.50 M Employees (2005): 157

• CEO: George Hoover • President: Torry Hoover • VP, Finance: Dan Pharr

• President and CEO: James M. Hensler • VP and CFO: Robert D. Scherich • VP, Sales and Marketing: James A. Totera

• Chairman: Fernando Pastor González

Hunter Valley Energy Coal Ltd.

company produces more than eight million tons of thermal coal through its mines in New South Wales, Australia. Its primary operations include the Mt Arthur coal mine and the Wyong development project. Its customers are located primarily in Australia, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Hunter Valley Energy is a subsidiary of BHP Billiton's Energy Coal segment, which maintains other coal operations in Africa and the Americas. The company is able to make use of Billiton's marketing hubs in Singapore and the Netherlands.

Hurlen Corporation

Hurlen distributes metals to aerospace companies through warehouses in California and Florida. The company, also known as Hurlen Kenig Aerospace, specializes in aerospace and commercial-quality metals such as high-temperature refractory and nickel alloys, copper and copper alloys, hand forgings, aluminum alloys, and stainless steels. Hurlen also offers related treatment and processing services, including heat treating, cutting, sonic testing, grinding, and milling. Customers have included companies such as Boeing, Gulfstream, Lockheed Martin, and Rolls-Royce.

Hwange Colliery Company Ltd

Impala Platinum Holdings Limited [IMPUY.PK]

Inco Limited [N]

Hwange Colliery mines for coal in Zimbabwe. The coal is used primarily in electricity generation and steel manufacturing. Founded in 1923, Hwange Colliery (formerly called Wankie Colliery) is 40%-owned by the Zimbabwean government. The company is the largest coal company in Africa outside South Africa. British property magnate Nicholas van Hoogstraten owns about 32% of Hwange Colliery. Impala Platinum (Implats) has swiftly become the world's secondlargest platinum producer (behind Anglo Platinum). Implats produces nearly 1.9 million ounces of platinum annually from its mines in South Africa (the Bushveld Complex) and Zimbabwe (the Great Dyke). The company also produces palladium, rhodium, and ruthenium (all platinum group metals) as well as nickel and other metals. The bulk of Implats' platinum is used in automobiles (to make catalytic converters) and jewelry; it is also sold to the chemical, electronics, glass, and petroleum industries. North America and Asia account for most of the company's sales. Implats has exploration projects in Australia, Brazil, and the US. of nickel (after Russian giant Norilsk Nickel), which is used primarily for manufacturing stainless steel and batteries. Inco also mines and processes copper, gold, cobalt, and platinum group metals. It makes nickel battery materials and nickel foams, flakes, and powders for use in catalysts, electronics, and paints. Sulphuric acid and liquid sulphur dioxide are produced as byproducts. The company's primary mining and processing operations are in Canada, Indonesia, and the UK. In 2005 Inco announced the acquisition of Canadian nickel and copper mining giant Falconbridge Limited. The merger will make Inco the world's largest nickel producer.

Address: Thomas Mitchell Drive Muswellbrook, New South Wales 2333, Australia Phone: +61-2-6542-4800 Fiscal Year End: June Fax: +61-2-6542-4801 Revenue (2005): 39.00 M

• President and COO: Derek Nightingale • General Manager, Finance: Ockert Nel • Environment and External Affairs Manager: Ian Tredinnick

Address: 9841 Bell Ranch Dr. Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670 Phone: 562-941-5330 Fax: 562-941-4750

• CEO and Treasurer: Jay Hurtado • President, Kenig Aerospace (Florida): Emily Mountcastle • Sales Representative/Network Administrator (Kenig/Florida): Eric Andrew

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 18.50 M Employees (2005): 30

• Chairman: Munacho Mutezo • Managing Director: Godfrey Dzinomwa • Marketing and Public Relations Manager: George Nkala

Address: 17 Nelson Mandela Ave. Harare, Zimbabwe Phone: +263-4-78-1985 Fax: +263-4-78-1988

Address: 3rd Fl., Old Trafford 4,, Isle of Houghton, Boundary Rd. Houghton, Gauteng 2198, South Africa Phone: +27-11-481-3900 Fax: +27-11-484-0254

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2005): 1876.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-0.30%) Employees (2005): 31,000 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-1.90%)

• Chairman: Frederick (Fred) Roux • CEO and Director: Keith C. Rumble • CFO and Director: David Brown

Address: 145 King St. West, Ste. 1500 Toronto, Ontario M5H 4B7, Canada Phone: 416-361-7511 Fax: 416-361-7781

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 4518.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 5.60% Employees (2004): 10,973 Employee Growth (1 yr): 4.70%

• Chairman and CEO: Scott M. Hand • President, COO, and Director: Peter C. Jones • EVP and CFO: Robert D. J. (Bob) Davies

Yes

Yes

Industrias Peñoles, S.A. de C.V.

Industrias Peñoles really has a silver lining -- the company is one of the world's largest silver producers. Peñoles has proven and probable reserves of more than 430 million ounces of silver, some 4 million ounces of gold, 800 thousand tons of lead, and 2.6 million ounces of zinc. It is also involved in several mining joint ventures, as well as mining exploration projects in Peru. The company's Metals segment smelts lead, refines silver, and produces sulfuric acid and other smelting byproducts. Its Chemicals group produces such chemicals as sodium sulfate and ammonium sulfate. The US accounts for about 75% of the company's export sales. Peñoles is part of Mexican conglomerate Grupo BAL.

Canadian company Inter-Citic Minerals feels right at home in China. Formerly Inter-Citic Mineral Technologies, the exploration company has a license for the Dachang gold project in the Qinghai Province. Its other exploration license is for the Zalantun gold project in Inner Mongolia. Inter-Citic Minerals has formed joint venture partnerships with several local Chinese government Inter-Citic agencies in order to explore and develop mineral properties in the Minerals Inc. country. International Arimex Resources is no stranger to mining in the Americas. Since 1986, the development stage company has explored Arizona, Mexico, and Canada. International Arimex Resources is now primarily exploring for gold, copper, and silver, International at properties throughout British Columbia and Saskatchewan, Arimex Resources Canada. Its most promising project is in Fort St. James, British Inc. Columbia. really is international. The company is exploring and developing the Dulong zinc and tin property in Yunnan Province, China. Barytex shares ownership in the project with several Chinese companies. It also owns the Mel and Barb zinc, lead, and silver properties in the Yukon. Barytex management holds a 20% stake International in the company; Canadian precious metals giant Barrick Gold Barytex Resources Ltd. owns about 10%. International Coal Group focuses its energy on one nation, the US. The company produces coal from 10 mining complexes in Northern and Central Appalachia (Kentucky, Maryland, and West Virginia) and from one complex in the Illinois Basin. International Coal Group produces low-sulfur steam coal, which is sold mainly to electric utilities, and metallurgical coal, which is sold to steelmakers. Steam coal accounts for two-thirds of the company's 900 millions tons of proved and positive coal reserves. International Coal Group was formed in May 2004 when investor International Coal Wilbur Ross led a group that bought many of the assets of Horizon Group, Inc. [ICO] Natural Resources in a bankruptcy auction. practically a United Nations of businesses. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in coal mining and marketing (L&K Coal), lumber production and distribution (Gilco Lumber), and manufacturing of trailers and truck bodies (Benson International). International Industries also owns a hotel in West Virginia. James H. "Buck" Harless founded International Industries International in 1947. Industries, Inc.

Address: Moliere No. 222, Colonia Polanco 11540 México, D.F., Mexico Phone: +52-55-5279-3000 Fax: +52-55-5279-3514

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 1479.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 29.30% Employees (2004): 6,842 Employee Growth (1 yr): 4.60%

• Chairman: Alberto Baillères • President, CEO, and Director: Jaime Lomelín Guillén • EVP Finance and Information Systems: Mario Arreguín Frade

Address: 60 Columbia Way, Ste. 501 Markham, Ontario L3R 0C9, Canada Phone: 905-479-5072 Fiscal Year End: November Fax: 905-479-6397 Revenue (2004): 0.00 M

• Chairman: Mark R. Frederick • President, CEO, and Director: James J. (Jim) Moore • VP Corporate Communications: Stephen Lautens

Address: 555 Burrard St., Ste. 900 Vancouver, British Columbia V7X 1M8, Canada Phone: 604-893-7066 Fiscal Year End: December Fax: 604-648-8868 Revenue (2004): 0.00 M

• Chairman: J. Kenney (Ken) Berscht • President and CEO: Chris England

Address: 750 W. Pender St., Ste. 750 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2T8, Canada Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 604-688-9368 Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Fax: 604-688-9336 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 105.10%

• Chairman: Roman Shklanka • President and Director: Leo King

Address: 2000 Ashland Dr. Ashland, KY 41101 Phone: 606-920-7400

Address: 96 MacCorkle Ave. SW South Charleston, WV 25303 Phone: 304-746-6021 Fax: 304-746-7705

• Non-Executive Chairman: Wilbur L. Ross Jr. • President and CEO: Fiscal Year End: December Bennett K. (Ben) Hatfield Revenue (2005): 647.70 M • SVP Sales and Revenue Growth (1 yr): 375.90% Marketing: Philip Michael Employees (2004): 1,425 Hardesty • President: Gary G. White • General Sales Manager, Gilco: Darrell Sheets

Yes

International Minerals Corporation

Interpipe Inc.

Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. [IVN]

Ivernia Inc.

International Minerals is working to develop gold and silver properties in South America. The company's primary projects include the Rio Blanco, Gaby, and Cañicapa properties in Ecuador and the Pallancata properties in southern Peru. International Minerals has undertaken exploratory drilling programs to determine the feasibility of mineral production. There's something new and used flowing through Interpipe's pipe dream. Interpipe buys and distributes new and used structural steel pipe used in construction, fencing, sign-pole making, tunnels, and water wells. The company especially carries a large supply of DSAW (double-submerged arc weld), ERW(electric resistance welding) and seamless pipes. Interpipe does business throughout Canada and the US. This Ivanhoe is not Sir Walter Scott's hero of yore, but it does have an adventurous story to tell. Ivanhoe Mines, formerly Indochina Goldfields, explores for and develops mineral properties, primarily in Asia. Its main projects are Oyu Tolgoi, a development in remote Mongolia that holds an estimated 9 million ounces of gold and 11 billion tons of copper, and the Monywa copper project (50%owned) in Myanmar. Other holdings include 70% of the Bakyrchik gold mine in Kazakhstan and a 40% stake in Jinshan Gold Mines, with properties in China. Chairman and CEO Robert Friedland owns 32% of Ivanhoe. For Ivernia "get the lead out" is more than just a cliche, it's a way of life. The mining and exploration company has lead and zinc mining operations in Australia, including the Magellan mine (which began production in 2005). It expects to produce about 100,000 tons of lead annually when the mine is in full production. Ivernia sold its 50% stake in the Ireland-based Lisheen mine to Anglo American plc.

Jaguar Nickel is on the prowl for nickel and cobalt in Central America. The company explores and develops about a dozen properties that it licenses in Guatemala. Jaguar Nickel's primary project is the Sechol Property in the foothills of the Sierra de Santa Cruz mountains. It began exploration in 1998 when the company acquired a stake in Minera Mayamerica. Jaguar Nickel exited Jaguar Nickel Inc. Venezuela in 2001. James River Coal hopes the coal keeps flowing. After having to shut several mines because of money problems, the company still runs five mines in eastern Kentucky (Central Appalachian Basin) that produce some 8.5 million tons of coal annually. In 2005 the company expanded by buying Triad Mining, which owns and operates seven coal mines in southern Indiana (Illinois Basin) that produced about 3.4 million tons of coal in 2004. James River Coal is buying additional Illinois Basin coal reserves to complement the Triad operations. James River Coal emerged from bankruptcy in James River Coal 2004; in 2006, it hired investment bankers to help evaluate ways to Company [JRCC] boost shareholder value that could include a sale of the company.

Address: 7950 E. Acoma Dr., Ste. 211 Scottsdale, AZ 85260 Phone: 480-483-9932 Fax: 480-483-9926

• President, CEO, CFO, and Director: Stephen J. Kay • President: Bianni Bianco • CFO (HR): Brenda White • VP and Sales: Jeannette Hutchinson

Address: R.R. #3, 3320 Miles Rd. Mount Hope, Ontario L0R 1W0, Canada

• Chairman and CEO; Chairman and President, Address: 999 Canada Place, Ste. Fiscal Year End: December Ivanhoe Capital: Robert 654 Revenue (2004): 44.10 M M. Friedland Vancouver, British Columbia V6C Revenue Growth (1 yr): • COO, President and 3E1, Canada (-50.80%) Director: John Macken Phone: 604-688-5755 Employees (2004): 2,471 • CFO and Director: Fax: 604-682-2060 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-0.60%) Peter G. Meredith Fiscal Year End: December Address: 44 Victoria St., Ste. 400 Revenue (2004): 0.10 M Toronto, Ontario M5C 1Y2, Revenue Growth (1 yr): 65.90% Canada Employees (2004): 47 Phone: 416-867-9298 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: 416-867-9384 (-53.00%)

• Chairman: J. Trevor Eyton • President, CEO, and Director: Alan De'ath • VP and CFO: Mario Stifano

Address: 120 Adelaide St. West, Ste. 2015 Toronto, Ontario M5H 1T1, Canada Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 416-363-1124 Revenue (2004): 0.40 M Fax: 416-360-0728 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 401.80%

• President, CEO, and Director: John B. Yates • VP, Finance: John A. Francis • VP, Marketing and Corporate Development: Somerset P. Parker

Address: 901 E. Byrd St., Ste. 1600 Richmond, VA 23219 Phone: 804-780-3000 Fax: 804-780-0643

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 454.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 95.90%

Yes

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Peter T. Socha • SVP and COO: Coy K. Lane Jr.

Yes

JFE Shoji Holdings, Inc.

Jim Walter Resources, Inc.

Joseph Behr and Sons, Inc.

Jubilee Platinum plc

KCP, Inc.

JFE Shoji Holdings, formed by the combination of Kawasho Corporation and NKK Trading, built its business on steel. The company has expanded though to become active in food, semiconductor, construction materials, and chemicals trading. Steel trading, through its JFE Shoji Trade subsidiary, still accounts for a majority of sales. JFE Shoji sells steel products, purchased from JFE Steel and other mills, to the automotive, shipbuilding, and electrical industries, among others. JFE Shoji's assets include fuels, ships, and real estate holdings. JFE Steel controls about 40% of the company. their air conditioners and other electrical appliances without the power produced from the coal mined by Jim Walter Resources and its industry peers. A subsidiary of Walter Industries (as is Jim Walter Homes), Jim Walter Resources operates three coal mines in Alabama that have the capacity to produce about 7.5 million tons of coal annually. The company sells its coal to electricity generators and steel producers in the US and overseas; sales outside the US account for more than half of the company's coal revenue. Bull markets and bear markets come and go, and through them all Joseph Behr and Sons sticks to the scrap metal business. Through its subsidiaries, including Behr Iron & Steel and Behr Specialty Metals, the company buys, processes, and sells scrap iron, steel, and nonferrous metals such as aluminum and copper. In addition, Behr is engaged in construction and demolition work, via its G&M Construction unit. The company's Behr Trucking unit provides freight transportation services. The company was founded by Joseph Behr, grandfather of CEO Richard Behr, in 1906. As you might gather, this company is jubilant for prolific platinum properties. Jubilee Platinum explores for and owns platinum properties primarily in South Africa (Bushveld Complex) and Madagascar (Londokomanana district and Mahajanga province). The company additionally owns interests in Canada and Sierra Leone. Mining development and investment company Golden Prospect owns a 15% stake in Jubilee Platinum; company management holds a 10% interest. KCP takes its parent company, networking services firm Level 3 Communications, to a whole new level -- below ground. KCP (formerly Kiewit Coal Properties) produces coal through its 50% interests in two coal miners: Decker Coal Company, a joint venture with Kennecott Energy, and Black Butte Coal, a joint venture with the Bitter Creek Coal Company (a subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum). The two surface mining operations produce about 13.5 tons of coal annually. KCP's customers, mainly electric utilities, include Commonwealth Edison, Sierra Pacific, Idaho Power, and Minnesota Power. Peter Kiewit Sons' manages the company's mines.

• Chairman: Hiroo Naruki Address: 2 Chome 7-1, Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-8070, Japan Phone: +81-3-5203-5510 Fax: +81-3-5203-5289

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 11164.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 15.70%

• President and President, JFE Shoji Trade: Osamu Sato • Senior Managing Director: Yutaka Horiguchi

Address: 16243 Hwy. 216 Brookwood, AL 35444 Phone: 205-554-6150 Fax: 205-554-6161

President and COO, Jim Walter Resources: George R. Richmond • VP and CFO: Greg Dean • VP, Marketing: Michael T (Mike) Madden

Address: 1100 Seminary St. Rockford, IL 61104 Phone: 815-987-2600 Fax: 815-987-2606

• President and CEO: Richard Behr • CFO: Leland Foecking • VP Marketing, Behr Mason City: John Glover

Address: 2 Cromwell Place, 4th Fl., South Kensington London SW7 2JE, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7584-2155 Fax: +44-20-7589-7806

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2005): 0.00 M Employees (2005): 7 Employee Growth (1 yr): 16.70%

Address: 100 Kiewet Plaza Omaha, NE 68131 Phone: 402-342-2052

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 84.20 M Employees (2005): 29

• Chairman: Malcolm A. Burne • CEO: Colin Bird • Group Financial Manager: Raju Samtani

• President: R. Douglas Bradbury

Ken-Mac is into metal, but don't expect it to care about Black Sabbath. A subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp's North American materials unit, Ken-Mac Metals processes and distributes aluminum, pre-painted aluminum, and stainless steel sheet, slit coil, and plate metal. The company sells its products throughout North America to the automotive, construction, consumer durables, residential and commercial construction, and truck and trailer industries. It has production facilities in Chicago, Cleveland, Ken-Mac Metals, Detroit, and Los Angeles and offers eight slitting liens and cut-toInc. length and blanking services. Kenmare Resources is a mining and minerals exploration and development company that owns and operates the Moma Titanium Minerals Project, its main asset, in Mozambique. The project (currently under construction) will produce titanium minerals including rutile, ilmenite, and zircon. Kenmare conducts other operations in Niassa (northern Mozambique), where it holds licenses that cover 250km of a gold belt, and in County Carlow, Kenmare Ireland, where it holds two mineral exploration licenses. Resources plc Apparently, there's also coal in them there hills. Kennecott Energy Corporation (KEC) operates four wholly owned coal mines located in the mountains of Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming. Its coal is sold primarily to electricity generators operating in the midwestern and southern regions of the US. The company, which produces more than 100 million tons of coal annually, is a subsidiary of Rio Tinto. KEC formed in 1993 and has expanded through subsequent acquisitions from the likes of W. R. Grace and Kerr-McGee. The company announced in 2006 that it would change its name to Rio Kennecott Energy Tinto Energy America, a move designed to align KEC more closely Company with its parent in the eyes of the public. Before you dig up any of that gold or copper or silver you've got to find it in the first place. Kennecott Exploration Company takes care of that part of the job for much of Rio Tinto's North American operations. The company is the U.S. mining and drilling services subsidiary of the Anglo-Australian Rio Tinto Group. Kennecott Exploration is focused on locating and acquiring mining opportunities in North and Central America. It does the location Kennecott scouting for other Rio Tinto group companies like Diavik Diamond Exploration Mines, and Kennecott's copper, energy, and minerals mining Company iterations. Alaska's Gold Rush may be long done, but the state's still got some bling buried underneath it. Kennecott Greens Creek Mining Company, a Kennecott Minerals subsidiary, holds a majority ownership of the Greens Creek Mine, a gold, silver, zinc and lead mining operation near Juneau, Alaska. Hecla Mining Company holds the remaining 30% interest in the mine. Greens Creek's underground mine delivers a polymetallic ore (containing all four Kennecott Greens minerals) to a surface mill and concentrator, which produces Creek Mining separate concentrates that are then delivered to smelters Company worldwide.

Address: 17901 Englewood Dr. Cleveland, OH 44130-3454 Phone: 440-234-7500 Fax: 440-234-4459

Fiscal Year End: September Revenue (2005): 61.70 M Employees (2005): 202

Address: Chatham House, Chatham St. Dublin 2, Ireland Phone: +353-1 671 0411 Fax: +353-1 671 0810

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 70 Employee Growth (1 yr): 27.30%

• Chairman: Charles J. Carvill • Managing Director: Michael Carvill • COO: Chris Gilchrist

Address: 505 S. Gillette Ave. Gillette, WY 82717 Phone: 307-687-6000 Fax: 307-687-6015

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 301.20 M Employees (2005): 1,633

• President and CEO: Bret Clayton • VP, Finance, Strategy, and Law and CFO: Alan J. Davies • VP, Marketing: Jeff Price

Address: 224 N. 2200 West Salt Lake City, UT 84116 Phone: 801-238-2400 Fax: 801-238-2480

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 5.60 M Employees (2005): 70

• President, CEO, and Director: John V. Main • CFO: S.L. Mecham

Address: 3000 Vintage Blvd., Ste. 200, PO Box 32199 Juneau, AK 99801-7125 Phone: 907-789-8100 Fax: 907-789-8108

• President: Larry E. Parsons

• President and CEO: Adrian F. Jackman • COO and General Manager: Rich A. Heig • CFO and Treasurer: M. T. Sadler

Kennecott Minerals Company, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto Group, develops, manages, and operates five gold and silver mining and milling businesses in Canada, Mexico and the United States.The Cortez Mine is a gold mining joint venture with Placer Dome (which owns 60%); the Denton-Rawhide Mine is 51% owned by Kennecott Minerals (with Pacific Rim Mining owning the rest). The Greens Creek Mine -- located near Juneau, Alaska -- produces silver, gold, zinc, and lead. Kennecott's wholly owned Ridgeway Mine is located in South Carolina and is an open pit gold mine. And its Eagle Project, also wholly owned, is a nickel and copper Kennecott deposit that is undergoing evaulation to determine its potential as Minerals Company a mining property. Kinbauri Gold may be in Canada, but its heart is in Spain. The junior mining company is primarily exploring for gold at the Corcoesto project in northwestern Spain through a partnership with Rio Narcea Gold Mines. It has also re-activated its exploration of Morrisette Creek in Ontario and Laniel in Quebec. Kinbauri Gold holds two other gold properties in Nevada. In 2005 the company Kinbauri Gold received an influx of cash following a lawsuit settlement in which Corp. IAMGOLD had to pay damages and costs. King's Bay is looking for a king's ransom in gold. The company explores for precious metals in Manitoba and northwestern Ontario. It has focused its resources specifically on the Red Lake district and Pickle Lake area of Ontario. Its other claims include King's Bay Gold Garnet Lake, Gold Horse, and Helena Lake. Incorporated in 1998, Corporation King's Bay began trading in 2002. Kirkland Lake Gold is looking to dive into big pool of gold. The exploration and mining company operates five gold properties in the Kirkland Lake area of Ontario. It produces gold from the #3 shaft of its Macassa property and the #2 shaft of its Lake Shore ramp property. It also owns the Teck-Hughes, Kirkland Minerals, and Wright Hargreaves properties. Kirkland Lake Gold's properties currently yield more than 45,000 ounces of gold annually. Commencing operations in 1983, the company purchased its Kirkland Lake properties (all were former producing mines) from Kirkland Lake Kinross Gold in 2001. Gold Inc. Klöckner never takes a time-out from business. The company is one of the world's largest distributors and processors of steel and other metals. It handles such products as sheet, plate, tubes, and bar steel, along with stainless steel and aluminum. Klöckner offers steel-processing services such as flame cutting, plasma cutting, cutting to length, and splitting. It also distributes plastics, hardware, and building materials. The company has facilities in Europe and North America (Namasco Corp. in the US and Namasco Ltd. in Canada). German state-owned bank WestLB holds nearly 95% of Klöckner & Co AG Klöckner.

Key People • CEO: Adrian F. Jackman • CFO and Treasurer: M. T. Sadler • Head of Information Technology: Brian Oldham

Address: 224 N. 2200 West Salt Lake City, UT 84116-2921 Phone: 801-238-2492 Fax: 801-238-2488

Address: 110 Westhunt Dr. Carp, Ontario K0A 1L0, Canada Phone: 613-836-2594 Fax: 613-831-2730

• President, CEO, and Director: Vern N. Rampton

Address: 140 William Gibson Bay Winnipeg, Manitoba R2C 5L8, Canada Phone: 204-253-4653 Fax: 204-224-0306

• President and CEO: Richard R. Rivet • CFO: Ray Préfontaine

Address: 570 Granville St., Ste. 300 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C3P1, Canada Phone: 604-689-1428 Fax: 604-681-4692

• Chairman: D. Harry W. Dobson Fiscal Year End: April • President, CEO, and Revenue (2005): 17.60 M Director: Brian A. Revenue Growth (1 yr): 146.10% Hinchcliffe Employees (2005): 275 • CFO: Robert G. Employee Growth (1 yr): 8.70% Rodrigue

Address: Neudorfer Strasse 3-5 D-47057 Duisburg, Germany Phone: +49-203-307-0 Fax: +49-203-307-5000

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 6571.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 37.40% Employees (2004): 9,831 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-1.90%)

• Chairman and CEO: Thomas Ludwig • CFO and Member, Board of Management: Derrick G. Noe

automobiles, and construction materials. Other mining operations include gold, silver, platinum group metals, and copper production. The company has overseas subsidiaries and affiliates in Australia, Canada, Thailand, and the US. Founded in 1974, Korea Zinc began operations in the US when it acquired Big River Zinc in 1996. In 2005 it announced it would sell or liquidate its US operations pending an internal investigation into its future profitability prospects. Further to that end, the company closed up Korea Zinc shop at Big River Zinc in February 2006 due to rising costs in zinc Company, Ltd. ore. KPS Ventures is a company of many names -- and a couple of industries, to boot. Formerly Sun Ice Limited until 2004 and Sylre (pronounced SIL-ray) until spring 2005, KPS Ventures once held trademarks for golf and ski clothing, as well as sports and leisure wear. The firm traded in the business of licensing its trademarks in the US and Canada for royalty revenue for a focus on mining. The company was purchased by Canadian investment bank Northern KPS Ventures Ltd. Financial Corporation in 2005 and changed its name and direction [KPSFF.PK] then. and Thabazimi iron ore mines (producing 30 million tons annually), open-pit coal mines (producing nearly 20 million tons annually), and one of the world's largest coal-processing plants. It also operates the Ticor heavy minerals project in Africa. The company owns more than 2.5 billion tons of iron ore reserves (the ore is used almost exclusively to make steel). Nearly 70% of Kumba's iron ore is exported; its customers mainly include China and Japan. Kumba also mines zinc and mineral sands that contain Kumba Resources heavy minerals such as titanium and zircon. Most of Kumba's Limited properties are in Africa, but it also has projects in Australia and China. [KBREY.PK] La Mancha Resources is on a mission to find gold in Argentina. Formed in 1996, the company's primary objective is to explore and develop the advanced-stage Hualilan gold property in the San Juan province. It is currently completing exploratory drilling on the project. La Mancha has another property on hold in Argentina and in 2006 it acquired interests in mines in Australia, Sudan, and the Ivory Coast. The man behind La Mancha, chairman Walter La Mancha Berukoff, holds about 15% of the company. Resources Inc.

La Plata Gold Corporation

Lake Shore Gold Corp.

La Plata Gold may be based in Canada, but its heart is in Mexico. The company primarily explores for gold and silver in the Durango and Guerrero states of Mexico. Its properties include El Violin, La Purisima, Jesus Maria, and San Rafael. La Plata also has properties in Argentina, but it isn't currently developing these projects, while it focuses on developing its properties in Mexico. Lake Shore Gold has set a course for precious metals in Ontario and Quebec. The company's assets include the Timmins Gold property; the Bazooka property in Quebec; and the Abitibi project, which it is expanding with the help of partners. In 2004 Lake Shore Gold acquired partner Holmer Gold Mines and as a result took 100% ownership of the Timmins Gold property. Fellow Canadabased mining company FNX Mining has an interest of approximately 15% in the company.

Address: 142 Nonhyun-dong, Gangnam-gu Seoul, South Korea Phone: +82-2-519-3411 Fax: +82-2-514-5038

Address: 595 Burrard St., Ste. 3123, 3 Bentall Centre Vancouver, British Columbia V7X 1J1, Canada Phone: 604-609-6113 Fax: 604-609-6145

Address: Roger Dyason Rd. Pretoria West 0183, South Africa Phone: +27-12-307-5000 Fax: +27-12-323-3400

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 1124.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 43.30%

• Chairman and CEO: Chang Young Choi • President and Director: Keun Cheol Choi • VP, CFO, and Director: Eui Ryung Lee

• President and Director: Gordon Keep Yes • Non-Executive Chairman: Allen J. Morgan Fiscal Year End: December • Chief Executive: C. J. Revenue (2004): 2222.50 M (Con) Fauconnier Revenue Growth (1 yr): 122.20% • Executive Director, Employees (2004): 9,691 Business Operations: M. Employee Growth (1 yr): (-8.40%) J. (Mike) Kilbride Yes

Address: 311 W. 1st St. North Vancouver, British Columbia V7M 1B5, Canada Phone: 604-998-1250 Fax: 604-998-1253 Address: R141 - 757 W. Hastings St., Ste. 381 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1A1, Canada Phone: 604-687-4701 Fax: 604-687-4709 Address: 701 W. Georgia St., Ste. 1650 Vancouver, British Columbia V7Y 1C6, Canada Phone: 604-669-3533 Fax: 604-688-5175

• Executive Chairman: Walter H. (Wally) Berukoff • CFO: Ian D. Brown

• President: Cosme M. Beccar Varela • Chairman: Alan C. Moon • President and CEO: Brian R. Booth • CFO: Parkash K. Athwal

Lakota Resources partners with other mining companies to explore and develop gold deposits in the Lake Victoria Greenstone belt of Tanzania. Its operations include the Tembo project, the Ilkungu properties, the Bunda properties, and the Tulawaka Area properties. Lakota Resources also leases property near Lakota Resources Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Chairman and CEO George Inc. Breuler owns about 30% of the company. Liberty Mines would like to free nickel, copper, and cobalt from its underground holding. The company, formerly Liberty Mineral Exploration, has pinpointed its exploration activities near Timmins, Ontario. Its projects include Redstone, McWatters, and McAra Lake. The Redstone property was a joint venture with Inco Limited, until Liberty bought out Inco's stake in late 2004. The company spent a long while preparing the mine and was able to begin production in early 2006. Management and directors hold more Liberty Mines Inc. than 10% of Liberty Mines. Digging for nickel, gold, and copper makes up the lion's share of LionOre Mining International's operations. In Botswana, the company owns 85% of Tati Nickel, which mines about 10,000 metric tons of nickel (plus by-products such as copper and gold) annually at its Phoenix mine in Botswana (accounting for 65% of nickel sales). LionOre also owns Australia-based nickel mines Black Swan, Emily Ann, Maggie Hays, and the Thunderbox gold mine, along with other various projects in development. In addition, LionOre Mining LionOre owns Activox, an Australian hydrometallurgical (mineral International Ltd. leaching through a liquid process) processing company. Lithic Resources isn't interested in stone, but it is interested in the minerals attached to the stone. The company explores for platinum and palladium at its Roaring River property and gold and copper at its Friendly Lake project. These projects are located in Ontario and Lithic Resources British Columbia, respectively. The company was started through Ltd. the restructuring of Berland Resources in 2002. silver in Canada. The company holds stakes in numerous precious metal properties that it is exploring in the Yukon Territory and British Columbia. It also owns a uranium property in Saskatchewan that it acquired in 2004 (adjacent to the Cluff Lake mine). None of the company's projects are in production. Board members and Logan Resources senior management combined hold more than 25% of Logan Ltd. Resources. At Lonmin, all that glitters is not gold -- platinum is more precious to the company these days. The company is the world's #3 platinum producer (after Anglo Platinum and Impala Platinum), with an annual production of more than 900,000 ounces. Applications for platinum include catalytic converters for vehicles and jewelry. Its Lonmin Platinum, or Lonplats, unit mines platinum group metals (PGMs, including platinum, palladium, and rhodium) through two South African companies: Western Platinum and Eastern Platinum. In addition to its Australian PGM investments, Lonmin Plc Lonmin has exploration activities in North America, South Africa, [LNMIY.PK] and Tanzania. Prudential plc has a 14% stake in the company.

Address: 15 Toronto St., Ste. 600 Toronto, Ontario M5C 2E3, Canada Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 416-368-3332 Revenue (2004): 0.10 M Fax: 416-368-8957 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 85.90%

• Chairman and CEO: George H. Breuler Jr. • President: Stanley D. Robinson • Secretary and Treasurer: John L. (Jack) Tindale

Address: 1662 Valentine Garden Mississauga, Ontario L5J 1H5, Canada Phone: 905-601-0922 Fax: 780-437-7898

• Chairman: Donald Schurman • President and CEO: Gary Nash • CFO: Thomas James

• Chairman: Donald C. Bailey Address: 20 Toronto St., 12th Fl. Fiscal Year End: December • President, CEO, and Toronto, Ontario M5C 2B8, Revenue (2004): 342.60 M Director: Colin H. Steyn Canada Revenue Growth (1 yr): 16.90% • CFO, Secretary, and Phone: 416-777-1985 Employees (2004): 850 Director: Theodore C. Fax: 416-777-1320 Employee Growth (1 yr): 30.80% (Ted) Mayers Address: 912-510 W. Hastings St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 1L8, Canada Phone: 604-687-7211 Address: 789 Pender St. West, Ste. 570 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1H2, Canada Phone: 604-689-0299 Fax: 604-689-0288

Address: 4 Grosvenor Place London SW1X 7YL, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7201-6000 Fax: +44-20-7201-6100

• President and CEO: Chris Staargaard Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 5 Employee Growth (1 yr): 25.00%

• President, CEO, and Director: Seamus Young • CFO, Secretary, and Director: Judith T. Mazvihwa

Fiscal Year End: September Revenue (2005): 1128.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 9.50% Employees (2005): 22,402 Employee Growth (1 yr): 7.00%

• Chairman: Sir John A. Craven • Chief Executive and Director: Bradford A. (Brad) Mills • CFO and Director: John N. Robinson

Yes

Love 'em or leave 'em is Louvem's attitude when prospecting for mines. The company has gold exploration and mining operations in northwestern Quebec, but its primary asset is a 50% ownership stake in the Beaufor Mine. The Beaufor Mine produces about 25,000 ounces of gold annually. Louvem also has an 81% stake in the Monique Property (located near the Beaufor Mine). Richmont Louvem Mines Mines owns about 70% of Louvem and holds the other 50% stake Inc. in the Beaufor Mine. Lundin Mining Corporation (formerly South Atlantic Ventures) is involved in the exploration and development of lead, silver, zinc, and copper projects in Sweden and Finland. The company began mining production in 2004 when it bought the Zinkgruvan silver, lead, and zinc mine in Sweden in 2004. Expanding its base metals production into other areas of Europe, Lundin Mining acquired 90% of Ireland-based ARCON International Resources in 2005. Lundin Mining The mining company also bought North Atlantic Natural Resources Corporation (which has operations in Sweden) from Boliden in 2004. Luscar Energy Partnership might be one source of all those Northern lights. Canada's largest coal miner, Luscar provides thermal coal to electric utilities and industrial customers in several Canadian markets. Through its Luscar Coal subsidiary it operates about 10 mines, including eight that are wholly owned, producing 40 million tons of coal. Luscar's mines have reserves of some 1.2 billion tons of coal. The company's metallurgical coal assets and its 23% stake in Neptune Bulk Terminals are part of the Fording Canadian Coal Trust, an income trust that is the world's #2 Luscar Energy exporter of metallurgical coal. Luscar Energy Partnership is held Partnership by Sherritt International and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. There's no need to chafe, not so long as we have Luzenac America around. The company mines and processes talc for the Luzenac Group and ultimately the Rio Tinto Group. Luzenac America operates three mines and six processing plants in Canada, Mexico, and the US; it also has sales offices in Colorado and Ontario. Talc is the world's softest rock, the music of John Tesh notwithstanding, and is used in the manufacture of paper, paints, ceramics, and personal care products. Luzenac first made inroads in North America with the 1988 purchase of Streetley's talc Luzenac America, division; Luzenac America was born with the 1992 acquisition of Inc. the talc operations of Cyprus. Lionel Richie. Instead, it is the #1 talc mining and processing company with a quarter of the world market. (Talc is the world's softest rock.) Luzenac produces talc for personal care products, plastics, paints, ceramics, agriculture, and water purification. It operates mines and processing plants in France, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Italy, Mexico, Spain, the US (through Luzenac America), and the UK. The great majority of Luzenac's mines are open-pit. Though it dates back more than 100 years, the Luzenac Group has been a part of Rio Tinto's Industrial Minerals segment Luzenac Group since 1988.

Address: 1 Place-Ville-Marie, Ste. 2130 Montreal, Quebec H3B 2C6, Canada Phone: 514-397-1410 Fax: 514-397-8620

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 11.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 5.10% Employees (2004): 148 Employee Growth (1 yr): 9.60%

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Jean-Guy Rivard • VP Finance: Jean-Yves Laliberté

Address: 885 W. Georgia St., Ste. 2101 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3E8, Canada Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 604-689-7842 Revenue (2004): 43.10 M Fax: 604-689-4250 Employees (2004): 5

• Chairman: Lukas H. Lundin • President and CEO: Karl-Axel Waplan • CFO: Ander Haker

Address: 1600 Oxford Tower, 10235 - 101 St. Edmonton, Alberta T5J 3G1, Canada Phone: 780-420-5810 Fax: 780-420-5878

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 415.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 43.10% Employees (2004): 1,657 Employee Growth (1 yr): 4.20%

• Chairman: Jowdat Waheed • President and CEO: Patrice Merrin Best • SVP: Howard Ratti

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 38.40 M Employees (2005): 562

• VP, Regional Operations North America: Jon Godla • VP, Finance: Roger Smith

Address: 345 Inverness Dr. South Ste. 310 Centennial, CO 80112 Phone: 303-643-0400 Fax: 303-643-0446

Address: 131 Avenue Charles de Gaulle 92200 Neuilly, France Fiscal Year End: December Phone: +33-1-47-45-90-40 Revenue (2004): 375.00 M Fax: +33-1-47-47-58-05 Employees (2004): 1,500

• President and CEO: Joachim Roeser • COO: Claude Stenneler • CFO: Bruno de Gabriac

Macsteel International USA distributes alloy and carbon rod and wire through locations in California, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, and Texas. Macsteel International USA is a subsidiary of Macsteel Macsteel International, which itself is owned by industry giant Mittal Steel International USA and South Africa-based Macsteel Holdings, which has operations Corporation in about 40 countries worldwide. Maffei is always in a state of flux -- flux materials, that is. Maffei is one of Europe's leading miners, extractors, and producers of flux materials, including feldspar, quartz, riolite, and wollastonite. Most of Maffei's minerals are intended for the ceramic industry for the production of items such as tile, but they can also be found in tableware enamels, paint, and fiberglass. The company is also involved in the building and the operation of wastewater and sewage plants. Ceramic tile manufacturer IRIS Ceramica owns Maffei S.p.A. 50% of Maffei, which was founded in 1901.

Mano River Resources Inc.

Marakand Minerals Limited

Massey Energy Company [MEE]

Maximum Ventures Inc.

Mano River Resources just wants two things: gold and diamonds. The company primarily explores for and develops gold and diamond properties in Africa (Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone) and Canada. To a lesser extent Mano River Resources also holds some iron ore deposits. The company is seeking to set up a new entity to handle its diamond operations. Marakand Minerals is in the market for silver and base metal mineral mines. The company, which is nearly 60%-owned by Oxus Gold, is exploring and developing the Khandiza deposit in southeastern Uzbekistan. The project is in development (with production expected to begin in 2007) and has the potential to produce gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc. Besides the Khandiza project, Marakand Minerals holds the Akjilga silver project in Tajikistan, and exploration projects in Uzbekistan. Massey Energy gets all of its power from coal. The company is one of the leading coal miners in the US, producing steam and metallurgical coal at about 20 mining complexes in Appalachia (West Virginia, Kentucky, and Virginia). It produces more than 40 million tons of coal annually and owns about 2.3 billion tons of proved and probable reserves. Massey's other operations include coal-handling facilities. Buyers of Massey's coal include utilities, steelmakers, and industrial manufacturers. Affiliates of American Electric Power and DTE Energy account for 13% and 12% of Massey's sales, respectively. Maximum Ventures doesn't see geography as a roadblock to potential success in the mining business. The gold and base metal mining exploration company has purchased stakes in several properties, including the nearby Stump Lake gold and silver project in British Columbia, as well as gold and copper properties in remote areas of Mongolia (the Edren and Ulaan properties). Maximum Ventures was involved in a lawsuit with another mining firm, regarding a partnership in the Mongolian properties.

Address: 333 Westchester Ave., Ste. S101 White Plains, NY 10604 Phone: 914-872-2700 Fax: 914-872-2722

Revenue (2005): 10.10 M Employees (2005): 31

Address: Via Guido Reni, 2/L 42014 Castellarano, Reggio nell'Emilia, Italy Phone: +39-0536-877-111 Fax: +39-0536-877-101

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 68.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 1.50% Employees (2004): 144 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-4.00%)

• Chairman and CEO: Mauro Tabellini • Finance Director: M. Grazia Francomano • Sales Director: Stefano Di Primio

Address: 890 W. Pender St., Ste. 600 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1J9, Canada Phone: 604-689-1700 Fax: 604-687-1327

Fiscal Year End: January Revenue (2005): 0.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 1175.00%

• Chairman and CFO: Guido E. (Guy) Pas • President, CEO, and Director: Thomas G. (Tom) Elder

Address: 105 Piccadilly London W1J 7NJ, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7907-2000 Fax: +44-20-7907-2001

Address: 4 N. 4th St. Richmond, VA 23219 Phone: 804-788-1800 Fax: 804-788-1870 Address: 501 - 905 W. Pender St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1L6, Canada Phone: 604-669-5819 Fax: 604-669-5886

• President and CEO: Salvatore Purpura

• Chairman: William J. (Bill) Trew • CEO and Director: Alasdair Stuart

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Don L. Fiscal Year End: December Blankenship Revenue (2005): 2204.30 M • SVP and COO: Chris Revenue Growth (1 yr): 24.80% Adkins Employees (2004): 5,034 • VP and CFO: Eric B. Employee Growth (1 yr): 13.70% Tolbert

• President, CEO, and CFO: Douglas B. Brooks

Yes

junior natural resource company buys interests in potential gold and silver bearing land and explores for deposits that can be mined. Maximus Ventures' trenching and drilling activities are centered on concessions in North America. The company is involved in a joint venture option agreement with Miramar Mining to explore properties along the Hope Bay gold belt in the Nunavut territory. In Argentina, Maximus Ventures held an 80% interest in the Condor Yacu concession with Cardero Resource and a 70% option to joint venture with Silver Standard Resources on the Maximus Ventures nearby Los Corderos property, but it abandoned those properties Ltd. in 2004.

Address: 837 W. Hastings St., Ste. 408 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3N6, Canada Phone: 604-685-6851 Fax: 604-685-6493

Address: 609 Granville St., Ste. What glitters is gold for this company. Maxy Gold explores for, 1578 acquires, and develops precious metal properties, mainly located Vancouver, British Columbia V7Y in the Yunnan Province of China, in hopes of finding gold. Its 1G5, Canada Fiscal Year End: December projects include the Luchun Gold and Midu Gold properties. None Phone: 604-688-8811 Revenue (2004): 0.10 M of its projects are currently in production. Southwestern Resources Fax: 604-688-8852 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 189.30% Maxy Gold Corp. holds more than 10% of the company. Mazarin, through subsidiaries such as Asbestos Corporation and Bell Asbestos Mines, is involved in producing a form of asbestos called chrysotile. Chrysotile fiber is primarily sold to customers in Address: 699 Monfette East Asia, who mostly use it in cement and plastic products. With the Thetford-Mines, Quebec G6G Fiscal Year End: December health risks associated with asbestos, demand for chrysotile has 7G9, Canada Revenue (2004): 0.50 M dropped. In 2003 its industrial mineral resources business (which Phone: 418-338-5195 Revenue Growth (1 yr): included graphite and dolomite) was transferred to Sequoia Fax: 418-338-6069 (-50.90%) Minerals. Mazarin Inc. MBMI Resources is a mining company with a handful of gold exploration properties in Canada. Its gold operations are located in Address: 470 Granville St., Ste. Ontario and Manitoba. The company is also developing several 311 nickel laterite properties in the Philippines through a joint venture Vancouver, British Columbia V6C with Olympic Mines and Development. It also has interests in other 1V5, Canada nickel properties in the Philippines. Once the nickel mines are in Phone: 604-683-1991 MBMI Resources production, MBMI Resources' plans to ship the metal to Fax: 604-683-8544 consumers in Asia. Inc. MCK Mining has ventured beyond Canada to find wealth. The Address: 56 Temperance St., 4th company's primary project is the exploration of the Chepica gold Fl. and copper prospect near Talca, Chile. It also explores for Toronto, Ontario M5H 3V5, phosphate concentrate through its 50% stake in the Martison Lake Canada Project (located in Ontario). Baltic Resources hold the remaining Phone: 416-361-0737 50% in the Martison Lake Project. None of its operations are in Fax: 416-361-0923 MCK Mining Corp. production. Medallion Resources is looking for gold and other metals to hang around its neck. While it currently doesn't have any projects in the Address: 475 Howe St., Ste. 920 Fiscal Year End: March pipeline, the company generally evaluates and explores promising Vancouver, British Columbia V6C Revenue (2005): 0.00 M mineral properties in North America. Medallion Resources 2B3, Canada Revenue Growth (1 yr): Medallion holdings include the inactive Minera Hera-Mex subsidiary. Phone: 604-681-9558 (-99.70%) Resources Ltd. President and CEO Robert Blakestad resigned in 2005.

• Chairman: David A. Fennell • President and CEO: Frederick T. Graybeal • CFO and Secretary: Barbara Dunfield Simpson • President, CEO, and Director: Andre Gauthier • General Exploration and Business Development Manager: Zhu Chengwei

• Chairman and President: John LeBoutillier • CFO: Mario Simard

• President and Director: Michael T. Mason • VP Corporate Development and Director: David G. Tafel

• President, CEO, and Director: Stephen Case • VP, Development: Patrick Gorman

• President, CEO, and Director: William H. (Bill) Bird

Medoro Resources has foretold of its bold search for gold. Although based in Canada, the company has gold exploration and development operations on the island of Sardinia and other areas of Europe (primarily in Italy though). Medoro Resources operates with the help of strategic mining partners such as Gold Fields Medoro Limited, Chaco Resources, and Sargold Resource Corporation. In Resources Ltd. addition to gold, the company also explores for copper and silver. Long before you put the pedal to the metal, Metaleurop puts metal in the pedal. The company is a top refiner of zinc and lead for the auto and construction industries. Other products include die-casts and lead and zinc oxides, as well as germanium, indium, gallium, and high-purity arsenic, which are used in high-tech manufacturing. Metaleurop also recycles lead from batteries and polypropylene from car battery cases. Swiss trading group Glencore International owns 33% of Metaleurop; TUI AG (formerly Preussag; Germany) owns about 10%. Under mounting debt, the Metaleurop S.A. company filed for bankruptcy in 2003. Metaline Contact Mines owns mineral properties, but it leaves the mining to others; instead, the company leases its mineral interests and collects royalties when metals are produced. Metaline leases its zinc and lead properties in Washington state to a unit of Canadian mining firm Teck Cominco. Metaline's Golden Chest mine, in Idaho, is leased to New Jersey Mining. Idaho-based NorPac, whose shareholders include Metaline CEO Richard Howell, Metaline Contact director Ed Pommerening, and secretary John Beasley, controls Mines [MTLI.OB] an 87% stake in Metaline. Metallic Ventures Gold (MVG) didn't go to Nevada for the slots. It's gambling on the gold mining business. The company acquires, explores, and develops gold-producing properties, primarily in the past-producing mining districts of Nevada. The company's advanced projects include operations at the Converse (near the Metallic Ventures Battle Mountain Trend) and Goldfield properties. MVG is looking Gold Inc. for joint venture partners for all of its other exploration properties. Metallica Resources isn't the holding company of heavy-metal rocker Metallica. Rather it's a precious metals miner that focuses on properties in Mexico and Chile with proven indicators of mineral deposits. Metallica is developing the Cerro San Pedro Mine (gold and silver) in central Mexico. (It bought out joint venture partner Glamis Gold in 2003.) Legal battles have postponed the company's plans for mining to begin at Cerro San Pedro. Metallica's source of revenue thus far has been from joint Metallica ventures, investments, and interest income. The company is also exploring for gold and copper in Chile, but has sold its interest in Resources Inc. the Mara Rosa gold mining project in Brazil. [MRB]

Address: 110 Yonge St., Ste. 1502 Toronto, Ontario M5C 1T4, Canada Phone: 416-603-4653 Fax: 416-360-7783

• Chairman and CEO: Giuseppe Pozzo • CFO: Mario Miranda

Address: 6 place de la Madeleine 75008 Paris, France Fiscal Year End: December Phone: +33-1-42-99-48-48 Revenue (2004): 274.20 M Fax: +33-1-42-99-48-99 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 29.20%

• Chairman and CEO: Yves Roche • Corporate Communications: Michel Trabuc

Address: W. 3848 Turtle Patch Rd. Pine River, WI 54965 Phone: 920-987-5317 Fax: 920-987-5317

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 62.50% Employees (2004): 0

Address: 40 King St. West, Ste. 2100 Toronto, Ontario M5H 3C2, Canada Phone: 732-792-2200 Fax: 732-792-2211

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 18 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-84.30%)

• Chairman and CEO: Jeffrey R. Ward • President and Director: Richard D. McNeely • CFO: Miles Bachman

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 0.00 M Employees (2005):

• Chairman: Craig J. Nelson • President, CEO, and Director: Richard J. Hall • VP, CFO, and Secretary: Bradley J. (Brad) Blacketor

Address: 36 Toronto St., Ste. 1000 Toronto, Ontario M5C 2C5, Canada Phone: 888-933-0313 Fax: 416-350-3510

• President, CEO, and Director: Richard L. Howell

Yes

Yes

Minco Mining & Metals Corporation [MMK]

Whether you need your gold and silver in powder form, sparkling on your finger, as a shiny tooth, or good old ingots, Metalor Technologies can be of help. Metalor Technologies International smelts and refines precious metals for a wide range of uses. Its refining division recycles precious metals and converts them into powders, grains, or ingots. From there, the metals are turned into technical coatings, components for the watch and jewelry industries, silver contacts for the electrical industry and electrotechnics, and alloys for use by dental labs. Metalor has operations in 15 countries. Gold, silver, and platinum start out precious, but Metalor USA Refining Corporation makes them useful. The company takes refined precious metals and turns them into glittery industrial coatings, electrical contacts, watch and jewelry components, and alloys for use in dental labs. Highly sensitive to market and currency fluctuations, the US division of Swiss company Metalor Technolgies International, has quit selling cadmium-based products and sold off one production facility. If it's a commodity Metorex mines it. The company controls the operations of several mining companies, which are prospecting for various metals in locations mostly in South Africa and Zambia. The company's holdings include Wakefield Investments (coal, 90%owned), Chibuluma Mines (copper, 85%-owned), Vergenoeg Mining (fluorspar, 70%-owned), and the Barberton Mines (gold, 54%-owned), among others. Most of the company's sales come from coal and gold, but antimony and copper also account for a large part of sales. Metorex also mines fluorspar and cobalt. Minco Mining and Metals is on the move. Based in Canada, the exploration-stage mining company has acquired, explored, and developed potential precious metal and base metal projects in western China since 1994. It is currently involved in about 10 projects, including the Changkeng Gold Project, the Fuwan Silver Project, and the White Silver Mountain Project. Because of ownership restrictions in China, the company operates primarily through joint ventures with Chinese companies and government agencies. CEO Ken Cai holds nearly 20% of the company's stock.

Minco plc

Minco is on the move in the mining business. Formerly Irish Marine Oil, the company has licenses to explore for gold and zinc in Ireland. Minco also owns a precious metals mining concession near Laguna Zacatecana in the state of Zacatecas, Mexico. Although net yet in production (expected to do so by 2006), the Laguna property has proven reserves of silver, as well as gold and mercury. Minco also has holdings in copper and gold properties in Durango, Mexico.

Metalor Technologies International SA

Metalor USA Refining Corporation

Metorex Limited

Address: Avenue du Vignoble CH-2009 Neuchâtel, Switzerland Phone: +41-32-720-61-11 Fax: +41-32-720-66-25

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 238.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 9.90%

• Chairman: Martin Bisang • CEO: Scott Morrison • CFO: Fredy Hiltmann

Address: 255 John L. Dietsch Blvd. North Attleboro, MA 02763 Phone: 508-699-8800 Fax: 508-695-1603

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 63.20 M Employees (2005): 180

• CEO: Martin Bisang • CFO: Bob Armstrong • COO: Ken Beilstein

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2004): 145.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 47.70%

• Chairman: Anthony S. (Simon) Malone • Managing Director: Charles D. S. Needham • Operations Director: Keith C. Spencer

Address: 2nd Fl., Cradock Heights, 21 Cradock Ave., Rosebank Rosebank 2146, South Africa Phone: +27-11-880-3155 Fax: +27-11-880-3322

Address: 1055 W. Hastings St., Ste. 1980 Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 2E9, Canada Phone: 604-688-8002 Fax: 604-688-8030

• Chairman: William Meyer • President, CEO, and Director: Ken Z. Cai • VP, Corporate Development: Robert S. Tyson

Address: 162 Clontarf Rd. Dublin 3, Ireland Phone: +353-1-833-2833 Fax: +353-1-833-3505

• Chairman and CEO: Roger W. Turner • CFO, Secretary, and Director: Danesh K. Varma • Director of Exploration and Business Development: Terence N. McKillen

Yes

Minco Silver sees China as its silver lining. The company's primary property is the Fuwan Silver project (estimated to hold 130 million ounces of silver) located in the Guangdong Province. It also has several other exploration licenses -- granted by the Chinese government -- to explore other areas in the Sanzhou Basin of the Guangdong Province. Minco Silver is 55%-owned by Minco Mining & Metals and 20%-owned by mining partner Silver Standard Minco Silver Resources. In 2005 Minco Silver was spun off from Canadian Corporation mining company Minco Mining & Metals in an IPO. Minco supplies fused silica and fused magnesia for applications including electrical elements, refractories, investment casting, fillers, and friction materials. Essentially high-grade glass, Minco's products are able to withstand higher-than-normal temperatures, making them useful as conductors for electronics and in other industries that use ceramic-based products. Minco operates from Minco, Inc. offices in the US and Europe. Like a lucky leprechaun, Minefinders has found its pot o' gold -and silver. Minefinders, a development-stage precious metals miner based in Canada, has been exploring for minerals since 1995. The company's assets include projects containing nearly three million ounces of gold and around 130 million ounces of silver. Minefinders has properties in the US (in Nevada) and Mexico. Its Mexico properties include the Dolores gold and silver Minefinders mine, one of the world's largest undeveloped gold-silver sites, and Corporation Ltd. its Northern Sonora properties. The San Antonio property in [MFN] Zacatecas, Mexico was written off in 2004. When it comes to mining, Mining and Metallurgical Company Norilsk Nickel is a real Russian bear. The company, one of the world's largest miners, accounts for more than 4% of Russia's exports. By its own estimate, Norilsk Nickel is the largest producer of nickel and palladium, and it has a sizable stake in cobalt and platinum production worldwide. The company also became Russia's largest gold producer when it acquired fellow Russian miner Polus. Other business ventures include energy supply, Mining and telecommunications, and transportation. Norilsk Nickel holds a Metallurgical controlling stake in US-based platinum producer Stillwater Mining. Company Norilsk Investor Vladimir Potanin and general director Michael Prokhorov Nickel [NILSY.PK] each own 25% of the company. exports coal, coke, billet, ferrosilicon, ferrosilicomanganese, fluorite, magnesium, ferromolybdenum, and carborundum. Through its subsidiaries, it is also engaged in international shipping and forwarding, storage and warehousing, international tendering and bidding, luxury hotels, high and new technology, financing and industrial manufacturing. Minmetals Development has established 12 majority-owned subsidiaries, including four trading companies, one international freight forwarder, one auction Minmetals and bid company, a branch of Shangri-la, two manufacturers of Development Co., computer and Internet products, two metal producers and one Ltd property developer.

Address: 1055 W. Hastings St., Ste. 1980 Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 2E9, Canada Phone: 604-688-8002 Fax: 604-688-8030

• Chairman: William Meyer • CEO and Director: Ken Z. Cai • CFO: Simon J. Anderson Tom Cole • VP Finance: Mike Wilds

Address: 510 Midway Circle Midway, TN 37809-3706 Phone: 423-422-6051 Fax: 423-422-4802

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 10.90 M Employees (2005): 100

Address: 1177 W. Hastings St., Ste. 2288 Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 2K3, Canada Phone: 604-687-6263 Fax: 604-687-6267

• Chairman: Robert L. Leclerc Fiscal Year End: December • President, CEO, and Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Director: Mark H. Bailey Employees (2004): 25 • CFO: Ronald J. Employee Growth (1 yr): 25.00% Simpson

Address: 22 Voznesensky Pereulok 103009 Moscow, Russia Phone: +7-495-787-7667 Fax: +7-495-785-5808

Address: Bldg. B, 5 Sanlihe Rd., Haidian District Beijing, Beijing 100044, China Phone: +86-10-6849-4208

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 7033.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 35.40% Employees (2004): 100,786 Employee Growth (1 yr): 4.40%

• VP Marketing and Business Development: Bill Rigney

• Chairman of the Board of Directors: Andrey A. Klishas • Chairman of Management Board and General Director: Michael D. Prokhorov • Deputy General Director and Head of Marketing and Sales: Victor Sprogis

• Chairman: Zhongqu Zhou • General Manager: Guiquan Feng • CFO and General Manager, Finance: Jianhua Ren

Yes

Yes

Mitsui Mining and Smelting Company, Limited

Mitsui Mining Company, Limited

Molycor Gold Corporation

Molycorp, Inc.

Moneta Porcupine Mines Inc.

Mitsui Mining and Smelting (known as Mitsui Kinzoku), a member of the Mitsui "keiretsu," supplies nonferrous metals for industrial uses. Formed in 1950, the company smelts, refines, and fabricates copper, zinc, and other nonferrous metals from ores produced at its own mines or purchased from outside sources. The company is Japan's top producer of zinc, popularly used as a protective coating for steel. It makes die-cast parts from zinc, aluminum, and magnesium primarily for the automotive industry; it also makes copper foil, ceramics, and packaging tapes for the electronics industry. Mitsui Kinzoku's services groups are involved in environmental engineering, metals recycling, and information processing. Mitsui Mining Company knows that things go better with coke, and so the company is going back to its original formula of business. Once vastly diversified, most of Mitsui Mining's revenue now comes from its fuel products, which include coal and coke, petroleum, and liquefied petroleum gas. The group still consists of about 40 subsidiaries with businesses ranging from construction materials, industrial equipment, and chemicals, to waste recycling. Government-backed Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan (IRCJ) has taken management control of debt-laden Mitsui Mining in hopes of rescuing the troubled firm. Daiwa Securities holds nearly 30% of the company; IRCJ has a 13% stake. Molycor Gold is of course digging for gold, but it also prospects for platinum, molybdenum, silver, copper, and other base metals. The company has multiple resource properties in British Columbia and Nevada. It is involved in joint ventures for several of these exploration projects with sister Canadian mining company Goldrea Resources. None of its projects are in production. Molycor Gold was incorporated in 1966 under the name Ft. Lauderdale Resources. Don't look for any mollycoddling of the earth here. Molycorp, a subsidiary of Unocal, mines and produces lanthanide and molybdenum compounds, concentrates, and oxides using open-pit mining techniques. Lanthanides (which include cerium, lanthanum, and yttrium) are used in everything from cell phones and computers to X-Ray film and television glass. They are also key components in aerospace and defense products such as the tiles on the space shuttle, the nose cones of missles, and in jet engine turbines. Molycorp has a joint venture with Sumitomo Metals to sell lanthanide goods in Japan. The company began operations in 1920 with a molybdenum mine in New Mexico. Moneta Porcupine Mines is in the bristling business of mining exploration and development. This creature is largely in pursuit of gold and is shying away from base metals. It has 10 projects in an Ontario territory that has produced nearly 70 million ounces of gold in the past. The company is focusing on the Porcupine and Golden Highway Camps in the Timmins area of Ontario. Moneta is also involved in four joint venture programs on its gold properties, with such companies as Placer Dome and Acrex Ventures. Moneta is not in production and has no sales.

Address: 1-11-1 Osaki, Shinagawa-ku Tokyo 141-8584, Japan Phone: +81-3-5437-8028 Fax: +81-3-5437-8029

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2005): 4073.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 9.30% Employees (2005): 9,701 Employee Growth (1 yr): 3.20%

• Chairman and CEO: Shimpei Miyamura • President and COO: Hiroshi Makihara • EVP and Deputy COO: Tatsuo Sunaga

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 131.70 M Address: 3-3-3, Toyosu, Koto-ku Revenue Growth (1 yr): Tokyo 135-6007, Japan (-93.30%) Phone: +81-3-5560-1311 Employees (2004): 2,648 Fax: +81-3-5560-1994 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-1.10%) • President and CEO: Taro Yamaho Address: 2A 15782 Marine Dr. White Rock, British Columbia V4B 1E6, Canada Phone: 604-531-9639 Fax: 604-531-9634

• Chairman and CEO: Larry W. Reaugh • President: Ed Lee

Address: 67750 Bailey Rd. Mountain Pass, CA 92366 Phone: 760-856-2201 Fax: 760-856-2344

• President: Allen C. Randle • VP, Technology: John Burba • VP, Sales: Robert (Bob) Noll

Address: 65 3rd Ave. Timmins, Ontario P4N 1C2, Canada Phone: 705-264-2296 Fax: 705-267-7490

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 60.00 M Employees (2005): 280

• Chairman: Rhoderic (Rod) Whyte • President, CEO, and Director: John P. Larche • CFO, Secretary, and Director: Kevin L. Snook

Mountain Boy Minerals Ltd.

and base metals it is seeking. The exploration-stage mining company prospects for gold in British Columbia, Canada. Its portfolio includes 12 properties (10 of which are 100% owned by Mountain Boy Minerals) that eventually may yield gold, silver, lead, and zinc ores, as well as minerals. Properties Mountain Boy Minerals has an interest in include Georgia River, MacKenzie, and Silver Coin.

Moydow Mines International Inc.

Moydow Mines International acquires, explores, and develops mineral properties, principally gold, in West Africa and Canada. In Canada the company has interests in claims in Labrador and Newfoundland. It is also involved in diamond exploration in Angola. None of its properties are in production. President and CEO Brian Kiernan holds a 35% stake in Moydow Mines.

MPAC Industries Corporation

Formerly a media company working in the motion picture and sound recording industries, MPAC Industries Corporation is shifting into a different industry with an agreement to mine coal in Turkey. The company is in the initial stages of development in Turkey and does not have any mines in production. Moorgate Management holds a 15% stake in MPAC Industries.

Murgor Resources is on the move in Canada. It is exploring gold properties, and to a lesser extent copper and nickel deposits, throughout New Brunswick, Ontario, and Quebec. Murgor Resources has about 10 properties in various stages of exploration. Founded in 1969, the company's strategy is to initiate Murgor Resources the exploration of promising properties and then find a joint Inc. venture partner to further develop the project. Mustang Minerals is galloping around Canada in search of nickel and platinum properties. Its main focus is the Maskwa nickel property in Manitoba. Mustang Minerals came into possession of the Maskwa property when it acquired Global Nickel in 2004. The Mustang Minerals company is also involved in the Abitibi nickel project in Ontario. Corp. Atlantis Minerals holds about 10% of the company's stock. Mwana Africa (which means "Sons of Africa") searches for gold properties in Africa. Formerly African Gold, the company explores for gold at its properties located in Zimbabwe (Inez, Dalmeny, and Mahogony mines) and Ghana (Konongo/Owere Project). Economic hardships in Zimbabwe are making it difficult for the company to maintain its operations there, so Mwana Africa is looking to Ghana for expansion. In 2005 the company jumped from exploration to mineral production when it announced that it was acquiring Mwana Africa and taking its name. Founder and former Mwana Africa Plc chairman John Teeling retired in 2005.

Address: 306 5th Ave., Ste. D Stewart, British Columbia V0T 1W0, Canada Phone: 250-636-2290 Fax: 250-636-2446

• President and CEO: Frank Kamermans • CFO: Randolph (Randy) Kasum

Address: 20 Toronto St., Ste. 1220 Toronto, Ontario M5C 2B8, Canada Phone: 416-703-3751 Fax: 416-367-3638

Kiernan • President, CEO, and Director: Brian P. Kiernan • COO: J. Joseph (Joe) Breen

Address: 4438 W. 10th Ave., Ste. 508 Vancouver, British Columbia V6R 4R8, Canada Phone: 604-551-7697 Fax: 604-648-8706

• Chairman and CEO: Firoz Lakhani • President, COO, and Director: J. Richard W. Hall • CFO, Secretary, and Director: Leonard I. J. Goldsmith

Address: 615 Rene-Levesque Blvd. West, Ste. 1200 Montreal, Quebec H3B 1P5, Canada Phone: 514-878-3551 Fax: 514-878-4427

Hodgson • President, CEO, and Director: André C. Tessier • Secretary, Treasurer, and Director: Mark Schneiderman

Address: 65 Queen St. West, Ste. 302 Toronto, Ontario M5H 2M5, Canada Phone: 416-955-4773 Fax: 416-368-1539

• President and Director: Robin E. Dunbar • CFO: Alex Falconer

Address: 162 Clontarf Rd. Dublin 3, Ireland Phone: +353-1-833-2833 Fax: +353-1-833-3505

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-62.70%) Employees (2004): 64 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-26.40%)

• Chairman: Oliver Baring • CEO: Kalaa Mpinga • Finance Director: David Fish

n.v. Umicore s.a.

Namasco Corporation

Nanophase Technologies Corporation [NANX]

Naptau Gold Corporation [NPTU.OB]

National Coal Corp. [NCOC]

The core of Umicore is no longer just zinc and copper. Although still one of the world's largest recyclers and smelters of zinc, the company has diversified its business to include a Precious Metals Services unit (recycling and refining) and a Precious Metals Products and Catalysts segment (automotive catalysts and specialty products). The company's advanced materials business provides germanium and tellurium used by the electronics and optics industries. Umicore has spun off its copper rod and billet manufacturing business as a separate company called Cumerio. the Germany-based Klöckner, acts as a metal distributor throughout the US and Canada. The company distributes general steel line products that include bar, grating and flooring, pipe, plate, and structural tube. The flat rolled division distributes aluminum, coated, cold and hot-rolled, prepainted and preplated steel products. Namasco also provides processing services such as drilling, flame cutting, plasma tee splitting, sawing, precision slitting, and structural cambering. Customers include the Siemens Logistics and Assembly Systems (airport equipment manufacturer), Eagle Lift (auto lift manufacturer), and the U.S. Military. Nanophase Technologies sweats the small stuff. The company is commercializing its nanocrystalline materials (molecular-size ceramic and metallic materials in powder form) for applications in advanced materials technology, such as conductive and antistatic coatings for computer monitors. It also develops abrasion-resistant coatings (with uses from coated vinyl flooring to contact lenses), environmental catalysts, health care products (sunscreen), and advanced ceramics (cutting tools and ceramic bearings). Chemical maker BASF accounts for about 70% of the company's sales. A development-stage company, Naptau Gold formerly sought to develop gold properties in Canada, but the company relinquished its gold-related mineral interests in 2003. Naptau Gold instead is exploring other business opportunities, including the development of base metal mining properties. Also under consideration are investments in the hotel and real estate businesses. Naptau Gold has not been profitable, however, and the company's auditors have questioned whether it can stay in business. CEO J. Greig owns a 66% stake in Naptau Gold. underground mines and one surface mine in southeastern Kentucky and eastern Tennessee, part of the coal-producing region designated in the industry as central and southern Appalachia. National Coal controls the mineral rights to about 115,000 acres in the region. The company's production nearly tripled from 2004 to 2005, up to 1.2 million tons. It controls more than 80 million tons of proved and probable reserves and sells primarily to utilities but also to industrial customers. Jon Nix, the company's chairman, president, and CEO, owns about 44% of National Coal; investor Stewart Flink controls a 27% stake through Crestview Capital.

Address: Rue du Marais 31 1000 Brussels, Belgium Phone: +32-2-227-71-11 Fax: +32-2-227-79-00

Address: 500 Colonial Center Pkwy., Ste. 500 Roswell, GA 30076 Phone: 678-259-8800 Fax: 678-259-8873

Address: 1319 Marquette Dr. Romeoville, IL 60446 Phone: 630-771-6708 Fax: 630-771-0825

Address: 103 E. Holly St., Ste. 303 Bellingham, WA 98226 Phone: 604-277-5252

Address: 8915 George Williams Rd. Knoxville, TN 37923 Phone: 865-690-6900 Fax: 865-691-9982

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 9705.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 65.30% Employees (2004): 11,478 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.10%

• Chairman: Karel Vinck • CEO and Director: Thomas Leysen • CFO: Marc Grynberg

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 219.40 M Employees (2005): 700

• President and CEO: Bill Partalis • VP and CFO: Kirk A. Johnson • VP, Marketing: Martin (Marty) Flanagan

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 6.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 30.80% Employees (2004): 51 Employee Growth (1 yr): 4.10%

Perkins • President, CEO, and Director: Joseph E. Cross • CFO, Secretary; Treasurer, and Controller: Jess Jankowski

• CEO and Director: J. Greig • President: Loren Miller • CFO, Secretary, Treasurer and Director: Edward D. Renyk

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Jon Nix Fiscal Year End: December • CFO: T. Michael Love Revenue (2005): 65.90 M • EVP and COO: Revenue Growth (1 yr): 287.60% Kenneth F. Hodak

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Natural Resource Partners (NRP) makes money from coal without getting its hands dirty. Rather than mining the coal itself, NRP leases properties to coal producers. The company's properties -mainly in Appalachia but also in the Northern Powder River Basin and the Illinois Basin -- contain proven and probable reserves of about 1.8 billion tons of coal. NRP was formed as a partnership between WPP Group (Western Pocahontas Properties, New Gauley Coal, and Great Northern Properties) and Arch Coal. Arch Coal has sold its stake in NRP but remains one of the company's Natural Resource top lessees, along with Alpha Natural Resources. Chairman and Partners L.P. CEO Corbin Robertson Jr. controls about 35% of NRP, primarily [NRP] through WPP Group. Formerly an oil and gas exploration company, Navasota Resources now explores and develops mineral properties in Canada. The company currently has interests in several gold properties in British Columbia and Nunavut and has signed a letter of agreement with Mano River Resources to buy an interest (up to 60%) in the Missamana and Gueliban gold properties of Guinea, Navasota West Africa. Navasota Resources has also acquired the Stenlund Resources Ltd. Property in northern Ontario. NEMI Northern Energy & Mining believes coal is the way to go. The company is a metallurgical coal exploration and development company with properties in northeast British Columbia. NEMI Northern Energy & Mining's projects include the Trend Small Mine, Belcourt, and Saxon properties. The company's Trend coal property, located near Tumbler Ridge, began mining operations in NEMI Northern 2006 and is expected to reach full production by 2007. The Energy & Mining Belcourt and Saxon properties are being explored as a joint Inc. venture partnership with Western Canadian Coal. Nevada Pacific Gold explores and develops gold and silver properties in the Western US and Mexico. The company owns the Magistral mine in northwestern Mexico, but due to increased costs operations have been suspended. Nevada Pacific Gold also has several gold exploration projects currently operating in the Battle Mountain/Cortez gold region of Nevada. Several of the gold projects are joint venture agreements with fellow Canadian gold Nevada Pacific miner Placer Dome. In late 2005 Robert McEwen, chairman and Gold Ltd. CEO of U.S. Gold, took control of 30% of the company. New Dimension Resources has gone in a different direction, but it's still digging for gold. Formerly NDT Ventures, the company has precious metals exploration operations throughout the Americas. It has active gold exploration projects in Nevada and Peru. In addition, the company has interests in precious metals properties in British Columbia, Nunavut, Ontario, and Manitoba. In late 2005 NDT Ventures reorganized and split up its metals and energy New Dimension exploration operations. New Dimension Resources manages the Resources Ltd. company's metals interests, while NDT Energy is a separate unit [NWDMF.PK] that handles the energy exploration business.

Address: 601 Jefferson St., Ste. 3600 Houston, TX 77002 Phone: 713-751-7507 Fax: 713-650-0606

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 159.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 31.10% Employees (2005): 0

• Chairman and CEO: Corbin J. Robertson Jr. • President and COO: Nick Carter • CFO and Treasurer: Dwight L. Dunlap

Address: 141 Victoria St., Ste. 207 Kamloops, British Columbia V2C 1Z5, Canada Phone: 250-374-7377 Fax: 250-374-9296

• Chairman and CEO: William S. Sanesh • President: Christopher J. Wild • CFO and Corporate Secretary: James T. Gillis

Address: Guinness Tower, 1055 W. Hastings St., Ste. 200 Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 2E9, Canada Phone: 604-689-0277 Fax: 604-688-5210

• President: P. C. (Pat) Devlin • CFO: Bill Filtness • VP Operations: Peter Sheehan

Address: 625 Howe St., Ste. 750 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2T6, Canada Phone: 604-646-0188 Fax: 604-646-0189

• Chairman, Interim CEO and President: David Hottman • CFO: W. R. (Bill) Franklin

Address: 625 Howe St., Ste. 860 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2T6, Canada Phone: 604-687-7545 Fax: 604-689-5041

• Chairman: Donald A. McLeod • President, CEO, and Director: Frederic G. (Fred) Hewett

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No product of the Garden State, New Jersey Mining seeks out silver, gold, and base metals in the Coeur d'Alene area of northern Idaho. The company holds the rights to seven mineral properties, three of which are considered development-stage: the New Jersey mine, the Silver Strand mine, and the Golden Chest mine. New New Jersey Jersey Mining's exploration-stage properties include the CAMP, Mining Company Lost Eagle, Roughwater, and Wisconsin-Teddy projects. President [NJMC.OB] Fred Brackebusch controls a 38% stake in the company. Shhh! Do not disturb New Sleeper Gold. The Canadian mining company is dreaming about gold nuggets. Its main holding is a joint venture with X-Cal Resources to explore and develop the Sleeper gold project in Nevada. The company is investing its money mostly in the Sleeper project, which was a former operating mine that had been closed in 1996 by Amax Gold. New Sleeper New Sleeper Gold Gold emerged from the company formerly known as Upland Corporation Resource Corporation in 2004.

Newcrest Mining Limited

Newmont Australia Limited

Newmont Mining Corporation of Canada Limited

Newcrest Mining owns or has stakes in gold and copper mining operations in Australia and Indonesia. Its mines in development or production include Cadia Hill, Cracow, Ridgeway, Toguraci, and Telfer. The company also has exploration projects in Australia, Asia, and the Americas (including interests in Nevada). In 2005 Newcrest Mining produced more than 1.1 million ounces of gold and 96,000 tons of copper. Newcrest Mining was formed by the 1990 merger of Newmont Australia Limited and BHP Gold Mines. National Nominees Limited holds about 20% of the company's shares. When you need to dig under Down Under, turn to Newmont Australia. The company holds interests in five gold mining operations in Australia. Newmont Australia accounts for nearly a quarter of teh US-based Newmont Mining's sales. The unit was brought under the Newmont umbrella with the 2002 acquisition of Normandy mining. It also has a zinc and copper production facility but has agreed to sell its Golden Grove operations, located in Western Australia's Outback, to Oxiana for just over $200 million. The deal is in keeping with Newmont's intention to focus on its core gold operations. Gold miner Newmont Mining Corporation of Canada (formerly Franco-Nevada Mining) doesn't waste much money digging for paydirt. Instead, it buys stakes in already operating gold, silver, and platinum mines so it can collect royalties without having to worry about capital obligations or environmental liabilities. Newmont Canada has holdings that are both in-production and indevelopment gold/silver properties, primarily in the Americas and Australia. It also owns diamond royalties in Canada and platinum royalties in the US and South Africa. Newmont Mining, the world's largest gold producer, acquired the company in 2002 and changed its name.

Address: 89 Appleberg Rd. Kellogg, ID 83837 Phone: 208-783-1032 Fax: 208-783-3331

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 5 • President, Treasurer, Employee Growth (1 yr): 66.70% and Director: Fred W. Brackebusch

Address: 1111 St. Charles West, Ste. 650, East Tower Longueuil, Quebec J4K 5G4, Canada Fiscal Year End: March Phone: 450-677-2585 Revenue (2005): 0.20 M Fax: 450-677-2601 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 316.90%

Address: Level 9, 600 St. Kilda Rd. Melbourne 3004, Australia Phone: +61-3-9522-5333 Fax: +61-3-9510-2996

• Chairman: David A. Fennell • President, CEO, and Director: James A. Crombie • CFO: Alain Krushnisky

• Non-Executive Chairman: Ian R. Johnson • Managing Director and CEO: Anthony (Tony) Palmer Fiscal Year End: June • Executive General Revenue (2004): 490.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 21.20% Manager, Corporate Services and Corporate: Employees (2004): 3,203 Employee Growth (1 yr): 64.90% Bernard Lavery

Address: 100 Hutt St. Adelaide 5000, Australia Phone: +61-8-8303-1700 Fax: +61-8-8303-1900

• Managing Director: John A. S. Dow • VP, Finance: Gary E. Farmar • VP, Operations: Paul J. Dowd

Address: 20 Eglinton Ave. West, Ste. 1900 Toronto, Ontario M4R 1K8, Canada Phone: 416-480-6480 Fax: 416-488-6598

• Chairman and CEO, Newmont Mining: Wayne W. Murdy • President, Newmont Mining: Pierre Lassonde • SVP and CFO, Newmont Mining: Bruce D. Hansen

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Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited

Niocan Inc.

Nippon Denko Co., Ltd.

Nippon Steel Trading Co., Ltd.

Noble Fiber Technologies, LLC

Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) mines lignite coal India--it also generates power from the coal. The company operates three mines, located near the South Indian city of Chennai. It produces 24 million tons of coal per year. NLC also produces and distributes 2490 MW of power per year from three stations. The power goes to the South Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerela, Tamil Nadu, and Pondicherry. The company also provides consulting services in mine planning and construction and the renovation and life extension of old power stations. The company was founded in 1956. Niocan has a can-do attitude when it comes to mining niobium. The company explores for niobium, a talc-like mineral that is used in the production of steel and superalloys, at its Oka ferroniobium project in Quebec. Niobium competes with other minerals such as vanadium and molybdenum. The company is looking to get authorization from the government to begin production at its Oka project. In 2005 co-founder René Dufour retired as chairman and CEO. Founded in 1995, Niocan is 20%-owned by Electrum Ferrometals. without Nippon Denko. The company is the largest producer of ferromanganese in Japan, accounting for approximately 50% of that country's annual production. Besides ferroalloys, the diversified company also produces industrial chemicals (soda ash and boron and chromium chemicals), new materials (lithium-ion battery materials, zirconium oxide), and environmental recycling systems (water purification for fuel cells). Nippon Denko sells its products to steel, chemical, and aluminum industries, among others. Nippon Steel Trading does pretty much what you'd expect -- it is the steel-trading operation of Nippon Steel, Japan's biggest steelmaker. The company trades such products as steel bars, hotand cold-rolled coils, and wire products in China, Southeast Asia, and the US. Nippon Steel Trading also imports steelmaking raw materials -- iron ore from Australia, Brazil, and India and coal from Australia, Canada, China, Indonesia, Russia, and the US. The company operates a ferro-alloy joint venture in South Africa. Other operations include trading in heavy machinery, fuels, and nonferrous metals. Nippon Steel owns 37% of the company; Mitsui holds 20%. business model. The company markets and distributes X-Static, a silver fiber that is used in manufacturing textiles, home fashions, military boots and apparel, medical garments, and a variety of other consumer products. X-Static is an effective anti-microbial and has proven anti-static, heat transfer, and therapeutic properties as well. Athletic and outdoor clothing clients include Fox River Mills, Pearl Izumi, and Spyder Active Sports. Noble Fiber Technologies' sister company Sauquoit Industries manufactures XStatic.

Address: Block-1 Neyveli, Tamil Nadu 607 801, India Phone: +91-4142-252214 Fax: +91-4142-252646

• Chairman and Managing Director: S. Jayaraman • Director, Finance: J. N. Prasanna Kumar

Address: 2000 Peel St., Ste. 760 Montreal, Quebec H3A 2W5, Canada Phone: 514-288-8506 Fax: 514-843-4809

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 122.90% Employees (2004): 160

• Chairman and CEO: Hubert R. Marleau • President and Director: Richard R. Faucher

Address: 13-14,1-chome,Tsukiji Tokyo 104-8112, Japan Phone: +81-3-3546-9319 Fax: +81-3-3542-3690

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 561.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 41.90% Employees (2004): 673 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-3.40%)

• President and CEO: Yoichiro Mitsui • General Manager, General Affairs: Sumio Sawada

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 8097.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 25.20% Employees (2004): 1,754

• President, CEO, and Representative Director: Seiki Miyamoto • EVP and Representative Director: Hidehiko Matsukawa • Executive Managing Director: Ikuo Ebihara

Address: Nittetsu ND Tower, 5-7 Kameido 1-chome, Koto-ku Tokyo 136-8733, Japan Phone: +81-3-5627-2905 Fax: +81-3-5627-2950

Address: 421 S. State St. Clarks Summit, PA 18411 Phone: 570-348-2760 Fax: 570-348-2760

• President and CEO: William (Bill) McNally • CFO: Donna Bennie

Noble Group Limited

North American Palladium Ltd. [PAL]

North Atlantic Resources Ltd.

Northern Mining Explorations Ltd.

Northern Orion Resources Inc. [NTO]

Noble Group Limited maintains an unlimited appetite for raw materials. The investment holding company is principally engaged in the international supply of raw materials to customers in the agriculture, energy, metals, minerals and ores, and logistics markets. Noble Group conducts business through a network of 65 offices in 35 countries, providing supply chain services for the sourcing, marketing, processing, and transportation of industrial and agricultural products. The group is also involved in technical ship management services, trade finance, and coal mining. CEO Richard Elman owns 40% of the company. North American Palladium is "not" a palatial sports stadium. It's an exploration and mining company that produces palladium (about 70% of sales), along with platinum, nickel, gold, and copper, at the Lac des Iles mine north of Thunder Bay in northwestern Ontario. Lac des Iles produces about 300,000 ounces of palladium annually. It also mines roughly 25,000 ounces of platinum and gold annually. The largest use for palladium is in making automobile catalysts to reduce exhaust emissions. Palladium is also used in various other applications in the electrical, dental, chemical, and jewelry industries. Falconbridge and Inco Limited purchase the metals from North American Palladium for smelting and refining.

Address: 18th Fl., MassMutual Tower, 38 Gloucester Rd. Hong Kong Phone: +852-2861-3511 Fax: +852-2527-0282

Address: 130 Adelaide St. West, Ste. 2116 Toronto, Ontario M5H 3P5, Canada Phone: 416-360-7590 Fax: 416-360-7709

Address: 55 Adelaide St. East, North Atlantic Resources (formerly North Atlantic Nickel) prospects Ste. 410 Toronto, Ontario M5C 1K6, for and develops locations for the mining of gold in west Africa. The company currently has numerous exploration projects in Mali, Canada after originally acquiring properties in the country in 2002. None of Phone: 416-703-6348 its projects are in production. North Atlantic Resources is looking Fax: 416-703-6507 to acquire other properties in Mali. Northern Mining Explorations set its compass for East Africa in Address: 1010, rue de la search of gold and base metals. The company's most prominent Gauchetière Ouest, Bureau Moperation is the Tulawaka gold project (a joint venture with mining 110, Place du Canad giant Barrick Gold) in Tanzania. It also has licenses for properties Montreal, Quebec H3B 2N2, adjacent to the Tulawaka project. The Tulawaka mine began Canada production in 2005. In addition, Northern Mining Explorations is Phone: 514-866-6500 investing in exploration projects in Eritrea (East Africa) and Fax: 514-866-3799 Quebec. Northern Orion Resources prefers the glint of ore in the ground to the twinkle of stars in the sky. The company mines for gold and copper primarily in northwestern Argentina. Northern Orion's Address: 1075 W. Georgia St., principal operation is a 12% stake in the Bajo de la Alumbrera Ste. 250 open pit mine. The Alumbrera mine is owned in part by Xstrata Vancouver, British Columbia V6E and Wheaton River Minerals. In addition, Northern Orion 3C9, Canada Resources owns the Agua Rica copper, gold, and molybdenum Phone: 604-689-9663 project in Argentina and it holds a 50% stake in the Mantua gold Fax: 604-434-1487 and copper project in Cuba.

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 8622.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 96.10% Employees (2004): 870 Employee Growth (1 yr): 16.00%

• Chairman: Tobias Josef Brown • CEO and Director: Richard Samuel Elman • COO and Director: Gary W. Mize

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 154.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 14.80% Employees (2004): 380

• Chairman: Andre J. Douchane • President, CEO, and Director: James D. (Jim) Excell • CFO: Ian M. MacNeily

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 232.70% Employees (2004): 10 Employee Growth (1 yr): 100.00%

• Chairman: Lyle R. Hepburn • President, CEO, and Director: Jon North • CFO: Roderick (Rod) Chisholm

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-13.30%) Employees (2004): 3 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• President and CEO: Charles H. Bertoni • COO: Charles Timothy (Tim) Williams • Secretary, Treasurer, and CFO: Dominique Moreau

• Chairman: Robert Cross • President, CEO, and Director: David Cohen • VP, Finance and CFO: Horng Dih Lee

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Northshore Mining helps feed North America's appetite for steel by engaging in the mining and processing of taconite, a low-grade iron ore. The iron ore pellets that can be derived from taconite are a key raw material for the steel industry. The Northshore mine produces about 5 million tons of iron ore pellets annually. Cleveland-Cliffs, a leading producer of iron ore pellets, acquired Northshire Mining in 1994. Northshore Mining's predecessor Northshore Mining began operations in 1955 as one of North America's first taconite Company mining and processing facilities. for precious and other metals. The company searches for and develops nickel and gold properties primarily in Manitoba and Ontario, Canada. It is exploring the Mel properties in Manitoba and the Rainy River, Cameron Lake, and Prairie Lake projects in Ontario. Nuinsco Resources also has a nickel project in Quebec. In 2006 the company acquired a 10% stake in Campbell Nuinsco Resources (with warrants to buy another 20%) and management Resources rights to that company's Joe Mann gold mine and Copper Rand Limited copper mine. OmniSource is omnivorous when it comes to scrap metal. One of the largest scrap processors and distributors in North America, OmniSource takes unusable metal products and turns them into raw materials for use in mills and foundries that produce steel, aluminum, and copper. The company operates some 35 scrap processing facilities in the eastern US and Canada. In addition, OmniSource designs and manages scrap-handling operations at more than 100 customer-owned facilities. The company's Superior Aluminum unit operates a smelting facility that turns scrap into aluminum alloys. OmniSource is owned by the family of chairman OmniSource and CEO Leonard Rivkin, whose father, Irving Rivkin, founded the Corporation company in 1943. Ontex Resources is onboard when it comes to exploring natural resource properties. The company has properties primarily in Ontario and Quebec, which it searches for precious metals as well as for oil and gas deposits. None of its projects are currently in Ontex Resources production. Ontex Resources also holds a stake in natural gas Limited exploration company Echo Energy Canada. Opawica Explorations is putting out feelers for gold in the Americas and Africa. The mining exploration and development company primarily has claims at the Lac Short Mine in Quebec, and the Straw Lake gold and Atikwa properties in Ontario. It has also ventured to West Africa (Ghana and Botswana) for gold and Opawica base metals. Opawica Explorations had explored the Tapajos gold Explorations Inc. district in Brazil, but decided not to invest in the property. It can be either base or precious metals that Oriel Resources explores for in Europe and Asia. Formed in 2003, the company is primarily focused on gold, silver, and nickel mining in Russia, the former republics of the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe. In 2005 the company acquired the Voskhod chrome deposit (expected to begin production in 2007) in Kazakhstan. Most chromite ore is used in the production of stainless steel (to make it harder and Oriel Resources more corrosion resistant). plc

Address: 10 Outer Dr. Silver Bay, MN 55614 Phone: 218-226-4125 Fax: 218-226-6087

Address: 940 The East Mall, Ste. 110 Toronto, Ontario M9B 6J7, Canada Phone: 416-626-0470 Fax: 416-626-0890

• Chairman and CEO, Cleveland-Cliffs Inc: John Brinzo

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 93.40% Employees (2004): 3 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• Chairman and CEO: Leonard I. Rifkin • President: Daniel M. Rifkin • EVP and CFO: Gary E. Rohrs

Address: 1610 N. Calhoun St. Fort Wayne, IN 46808 Phone: 260-422-5541 Fax: 260-423-8528 Address: 777 Bay St., Ste. 1910 Toronto, Ontario M5G 2E4, Canada Phone: 416-360-4031 Fax: 416-360-4034

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-55.10%)

Address: 701 W. Georgia St., Ste. 515 Vancouver, British Columbia V7Y 1C6, Canada Phone: 604-681-3170 Fax: 604-681-3552

Address: 18 Upper Brook St. London W1K 7PU, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7514-0590 Fax: +44-20-7514-0591

• Chairman and CFO: René R. Galipeau • CEO: W. Warren Holmes • President: Brian E. Robertson

• President: Charles A. Harnick • CFO: Bob Gilmore

• President and CEO: Donald M. (Dan) Clark • CFO and Secretary: Dennis Petke

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 48 Employee Growth (1 yr): 1100.00%

• Chairman and CEO: Sergey V. Kurzin • COO and Director: Nicholas R. (Nick) Clarke • CFO, Secretary, and Director: David J. Swan

Orko Silver wants to make a whale of a gold or silver discovery on the prospects it acquires and explores. The junior natural resources company and its joint venture partner Goldcorp hold the intermediate stage La Preciosa gold and silver project near Durango, Mexico. The claims cover about 525 acres and include more than a mile of tunnels. Orko also has an interest in a second gold-silver project, Santa Monica, located adjacent to La Preciosa. To help fund these projects, Orko has exited from its option agreements with Cypress Development and Skyharbour Resources on claims in the Red Lake district of Ontario. The Orko Silver Corp. company changed its name from Orko Gold in 2006. Oromonte Resources is taking a little trip from the mall to the mine. Oromonte Resources (formerly TravellersMall.com) is a development-stage company in the gold mining business, with holdings in Ecuador. Oromonte Resources became a public company in 2005 through a reverse acquisition by TravellersMall.com. The travel company had operated an online marketplace for the hospitality industry, providing an outlet for hotels and cruise lines to sell their products direct to consumers. Oromonte The company's e-commerce marketplace had been essentially Resources Inc. dormant prior to the acquisition of Oromonte Resources. Orphan Boy has found adoptive parents in gold and silver. The mining company has interests in seven mineral properties with about 700 mineral claim units. The properties are all within trucking distance of the Goldstream mill, a processing mill in the Big Bend Metals area of British Columbia, Canada that is owned by Orphan Boy. Incorporated in 1995, the company mines gold, Orphan Boy silver, zinc, and copper. Resources Inc. Orvana Minerals hopes to find nirvana in the gold mining business. The company develops and operates precious metal properties in the Americas. Its primary project is the Don Mario gold mine (in production since 2003) in eastern Bolivia. Orvana Minerals produces nearly 70,000 ounces of gold annually. The company is looking to further explore and expand its Don Mario concession and adjacent land holdings, while also exploring other parts of the Americas for precious metals. In 2005 Orvana took over the Orvana Minerals management functions of the Don Mario mine from privatelyCorp. owned mining firm Compania Minera del Sur. precious metals in central Asia, primarily in Uzbekistan. Its Amantaytau Goldfields operations (jointly owned by Oxus and the Uzbekistan government) yielded its first gold bar in 2004. The company produces about 150,000 ounces of gold annually, but expects to increase production as more mines are started on the property. Oxus has a second gold and silver mine at Amantaytau set for full production in 2006. The company is also involved in a polymetallic mine through a controlling stake in Marakand Oxus Gold plc Minerals.

Address: 2610 - 1066 W. Hastings St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 3X2, Canada Phone: 604-684-4691 Fax: 604-684-4601

• CEO, President, and Director: Gary Cope • CFO and Director: N. Ross Wilmot

Address: 2451 Dieppe Ave. SW, Ste. 223 Calgary, Alberta T3E 7K1, Canada Phone: 403-299-0357 Fax: 403-216-9260

• Chairman and CFO: Brian Usher-Jones • President and Director: Hubert J (Hub) Mockler • VP of Special Projects and Director: Peter Barker

Address: 325 Howe St., Ste. 410 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1Z7, Canada Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 604-687-3520 Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Fax: 604-688-3392 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 178.10%

• Chairman: Ronald A. Coombes • President and CEO: David Martin-Smith

Address: 320 Bay St., Ste. 1530 Toronto, Ontario M5H 4A6, Canada Phone: 416-369-1629 Fax: 416-369-1402

• Chairman: George Hamilton • President, CEO, and Director: T. Sean Harvey • VP, Business Fiscal Year End: September Development and Revenue (2004): 19.20 M Special Projects: Revenue Growth (1 yr): 540.10% Eduardo Rosselot

Address: 105 Piccadilly London W1J 7NJ, England Phone: +44-20-7907-2000 Fax: +44-20-7907-2001

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2004): 1.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 153.50% Employees (2004): 108 Employee Growth (1 yr): 42.10%

• CEO and Director: William J. (Bill) Trew • Finance Director and Director: Jonathan A. Kipps

Pacific Booker Minerals Inc.

Much like Clementine's father, Pacific Booker Minerals' business is "excavating for a mine." The Canadian mining company is exploring and developing the Morrison/Hearne Hill gold, copper, silver, and molybdenum property in British Columbia. Pacific Booker bought 100% of the Morrison claim from Noranda in 2004. The deal helps the company proceed to explore the property and allows it to find additional outside investors.

Pacific North West Capital doesn't go for gold or silver; it prefers platinum. The company searches for and develops sites that have platinum group metals (PGM) deposits throughout the Canadian wilderness. It has also expanded into nickel exploration. Pacific North West Capital has partnered with platinum miners Anglo Pacific North West Platinum and Lonmin to help provide funding for exploration Capital Corp. projects. Palladex has found gold in them thar hills...of central Asia. The company explores and develops gold and other precious metals in mountainous Kyrgyz Republic, which sits within the Tien Shan gold belt, where it operates both the Aksur and Karakala projects. Palladex is concentrating its exploration and development activities primarily in central Asia. None of its operations are in production. The company's board members hold a combined 20% stake in Palladex. Palladex plc Palmaris Capital, formerly Waverly Mining Finance, specializes in investing in coal and gold mining projects in Australia and Scotland. The company's operations are performed through holdings in two companies: Mining (Scotland), a coal mining company, and Perseverance Corporation, which is a gold mining firm. In 2005 Palmaris Capital sold its services group Palmaris Services, which provided equipment leasing, contract cleaning Palmaris Capital (factories and plants), retail security and other theft-prevention Plc services. Pan African Resources, formerly White Knight Investments, has switched hemispheres. The firm now prospects for gold in Ghana (Wa Project), the Central African Republic (Bogoin Project), and Mozambique (Manica Project). The Manica project in Mozambique is operated by Pangea Exploration. When the company was known as White Knight Investments it targeted private technology firms, particularly Scandinavian Internet companies. White Knight Investments became a gold exploration company when it acquired Pan African projects in Ghana and Mozambique from Mistral Resource Resources Plc Development in 2003.

Patagonia Gold Plc

Patagonia Gold has migrated to South America in search of gold. The company, formerly called HPD Exploration, owns and explores for gold deposits in the Patagonia region of South America, with operations in Chile and Argentina. The company has been selling off its interests in other areas in order to concentrate on the Patagonian region. Patagonia Gold still holds exploration properties in New Zealand.

Address: 1702 - 1166 Alberni St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 3Z3, Canada Phone: 604-681-8556 Fax: 604-687-5995

• President, CEO and Director: Gregory R. Anderson • CFO, Secretary, and Director: Michael Mews • Chairman: William G. Deeks

Address: 2303 W. 41st Ave. Vancouver, British Columbia V6M 2A3, Canada Phone: 604-685-1870 Fax: 604-685-8045

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Harry Barr • CFO and Director: Gordon Steblin • VP, Business Development: Peter Dasler

Address: 15 Bolton St. London W1J 8BG, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7629-4800

• Non-Executive Chairman: Simon F. W. Village • CEO: Merlin A. MarrJohnson • Director of Operations: Rashid Jaboev

Address: Patterson Bldg., Gartsherrie Road Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire ML5 2EU, United Kingdom Phone: +44-1236-440-410 Fax: +44-1236-421-467

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2004): 8.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 2.60% Employees (2004): 294 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-14.00%)

• Chairman: Timothy P. Noble • Managing Director: R. Gregory (Greg) Melgaard • Finance Director and Secretary: James Richardson

Address: Manfield House, Level 2, 1 Southampton St. London WC2R 0LR, United Kingdom Phone: +44-2075842155 Fax: +44-2075897806

• Chairman: Colin Bird • CEO and Director: Jan Nelson • Finance Director and Board Member: Nathan A. Steinberg

Address: 20 Upper Grosvenor St. London W1K 7PB, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7409-7444 Fax: +44-20-7499-8811

• Chairman: Sir John A. Craven • Managing Director: William H. (Bill) Humphries • Director of Operations: Marc J. Sale

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 18 Employee Growth (1 yr): 1700.00%

No, PBS Coals doesn't have anything to do with the Public Broadcasting Service or a new Ken Burns documentary on the history of the US energy industry. The company, which mines coal in Pennsylvania, derives its name from the three counties where it originally engaged in mining: Preston County, West Virginia; Bedford County, Pennsylvania; and Somerset County, PBS Coals, Inc. Pennsylvania. PBS Coals was founded in 1963. To Peabody Energy it's a coal-cooled world. The world's largest coal producer, Peabody operates more than 30 mines and processing facilities in the US and Australia. It produces about 240 million tons of coal annually and maintains nearly 10 billion tons in reserve. US customers, primarily power companies, account for more than 90% of Peabody's sales. Its operations include coal trading and brokering, coalbed methane production, transportation-related services, and development of coal-based Peabody Energy generating plants. Peabody was founded in 1883 as a coal Corporation [BTU] supplier, but began coal mining in earnest in 1926.

Pencari Mining Corporation

Penn Virginia Resource Partners, L.P. [PVR]

Petaquilla Minerals Ltd. [PTQMF.OB]

Address: 1576 Stoystown Rd. Friedens, PA 15541 Phone: 814-443-4668 Fax: 814-445-2809

Address: 701 Market St. St. Louis, MO 63101-1826 Phone: 314-342-3400 Fax: 314-342-7799

Address: 1177 W. Hastings St., Pencari Mining prefers the color yellow, especially if it's in the form Ste. 1750 of gold. Formerly Azure Resources, the company is a Vancouver, British Columbia V6E development-stage company that acquires and explores mineral 2K3, Canada properties. It is currently engaged in gold exploration in Nova Phone: 604-683-2808 Scotia and Indonesia. None of Pencari Mining's properties are in Fax: 604-683-2286 production and it is looking for partners to help finance its projects. company Penn Virginia Corporation to manage its coal properties. It manages some 54 coal mines in Kentucky, New Mexico, Virginia, and West Virginia; PVR leases mining rights on those properties to about 30 third-party mine operators, collecting royalties based on the amount of coal produced and the price at Address: 3 Radnor Corporate which it is sold. The company's land contains some 560 million Center, Ste. 230, 100 Matsonford tons of proven or probable reserves of mostly low-sulfur Rd. bituminous coal. PVR also sells timber from its properties and Radnor, PA 19087 charges fees to mine operators for use of its coal preparation and Phone: 610-687-8900 transportation facilities. Penn Virginia Corporation manages PVR Fax: 610-687-3688 and controls 43% of the firm. There's more to Panama than a canal -- there's gold. Petaquilla Minerals, formerly Adrian Resources, owns 52% of Minera Petaquilla, which mines gold, copper, and other minerals in the Petaquilla district of Panama. (Inmet Mining owns 48% of Minera Address: 701 W. Georgia St., Petaquilla.) Minera Petaquilla has partnered with Teck Cominco Ste. 1820 and Inmet Mining to develop the first phase of the Petaquilla Vancouver, British Columbia V7Y property -- the Molejon gold deposit. Estimated reserves at the 1C6, Canada Petaquilla property include about 9 billion pounds of copper, more Phone: 604-694-0021 than one million ounces of gold, 24 million ounces of silver, and Fax: 604-694-0063 130 million pounds of molybdenum.

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2005): 100.00 M Employees (2005): 85

• President: Robert Scott • CFO: James (Jim) Martin • VP, Operations: Paul Wild

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 4644.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 27.90% Employees (2005): 8,300 Employee Growth (1 yr): 5.10%

• Chairman: Irl F. Engelhardt • President, CEO, and Director: Gregory H. (Greg) Boyce • EVP and CFO: Richard A. (Rick) Navarre

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• CEO and President: Adrian Rollke • CFO: Peter G. Wilson

• Chairman and CEO: A. James (Jim) Dearlove Fiscal Year End: December • President and COO: Revenue (2005): 444.70 M Keith D. Horton Revenue Growth (1 yr): 496.90% • VP, CFO, and Director: Employees (2004): 0 Frank A. Pici

• President and Director: Michael Levy • CFO: John S. Watt • Manager, Corporate Communications: Tom Byrne

Yes

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This mineral exploration and development company has found Russian gold. Peter Hambro Mining produces gold from several mining projects across the Amur Region in Russia. Projects and current mining operations include the Pokrovsky operating gold mine, the Pioneer and YamalZoloto deposits, and joint ventures in both the Magadan (Omchak project) and Amur (Rudnoye project) Regions. Peter Hambro has partnerships in Russia with Rio Tinto and Norilsk Nickel. It produces more than 200,000 ounces of gold Peter Hambro annually. The namesake of the company, Peter Hambro, is Mining PLC chairman of the company. For Philex Gold the gold rush has stretched all the way from Canada to the South Pacific. The company has gold and copper mining operations in the Philippines, including a joint venture with UK-based mining giant Anglo American in a property on Mindanao Island. Prior to that Philex Gold was involved in commercial production at its Bulawan mine from 1996-2002. None of its Philex Gold Inc. operations are in production. a clump of moss to reveal a dome-shaped rock sparkling with gold. Thus began the chain of events that led to the creation of Placer Dome, the world's sixth-largest gold mining company. Placer Dome produces more than 3.5 million ounces of gold a year and has 60 million ounces in proved and probable reserves. It also produces about 410 million pounds of copper annually as well as silver as a byproduct of its gold mining. Placer Dome has interests in more than 15 mines in Australia, the Americas, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, and Tanzania. Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold made a $10.4 billion offer and acquired Placer Dome Placer Dome Inc. in early 2006. Not surprisingly, Planet Exploration explores many parts of the planet. The junior mineral exploration company has active gold projects in Canada (Red Lake Mining), Mongolia (Argalant Project - gold/copper projects), and Mexico (Copalquin gold/silver projects). In 2005 the company wrote-off its Wulonbulang Gold Project in China. Fellow Canadian gold mining company Goldcorp Planet Exploration owns nearly 20% of Planet Exploration and is involved as a Inc. partner in the Red Lake Mining project. Playfair Mining doesn't want it all, just its share of mineral exploration properties. The company explores and develops properties primarily in Newfoundland, including the Gregory River gold and copper project and the Grey River gold and tungsten Playfair Mining project. Playfair Mining is also looking for promising properties Ltd. nearby. None of its operations are currently in production. True to its name, PMI Ventures has in fact ventured to find gold. The Canadian company holds property along the potentially lucrative Asankrangwa Gold Belt of southwestern Ghana, a country in which it has been involved for 12 years. The company has interests in eight gold mineralization concessions in the area that cover 380 sq. km. It also has a joint venture agreement with Ghanaian company Goknet. PMI Ventures also holds interests in oil and gas properties in Canada. The government of Ghana PMI Ventures Ltd. retains a 10% earning in the profit of anything mined in the area.

Address: 11 Grosvenor Place, Belgravia London SW1X 7HH, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7201-8900 Fax: +44-20-7201-8901 Address: 141 Adelaide St. West, Ste. 1604 Toronto, Ontario M5H 3L5, Canada Phone: 416-861-1221 Fax: 416-861-1226

• Chairman: Peter Hambro • Director, Business Development and Board Fiscal Year End: December Member: Jay Hambro Revenue (2004): 62.10 M • Director, Finance, Revenue Growth (1 yr): 42.30% Company Secretary, and Employees (2004): 1,687 Board Member: Philip Employee Growth (1 yr): 32.60% Leatham • Chairman, President, and CEO: Walter W. Brown • VP, Finance: Paula M. Kember

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Gregory C. (Greg) Wilkins Address: Ste. 1600, 1055 • EVP, Project Dunsmuir St. Fiscal Year End: December Development and Vancouver, British Columbia V7X Revenue (2005): 1978.00 M Corporate Relations: 1P1, Canada Revenue Growth (1 yr): 4.80% William M. (Bill) Hayes Phone: 604-682-7082 Employees (2004): 17,400 • EVP, Operations: Evert Fax: 604-682-7092 Employee Growth (1 yr): 39.20% van den Brand Address: 750 - 11th St. SW, Ste. 400 Calgary, Alberta T2P 3N7, Canada Phone: 403-537-0067 Fax: 403-237-5816 Address: 470 Granville St., Ste. 520 Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 2E9, Canada Phone: 604-687-7178 Fax: 604-687-7179

Address: 475 Howe St., Ste. 511 Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 2B3, Canada Phone: 604-682-8089 Fax: 604-682-8094

• President and CEO: Ranjeet Sundher

• President, CEO, and Director: D. Neil Briggs

• Chairman: Pearce M. Bowman • President and CEO: Douglas R. MacQuarrie

PolyMet Mining isn't limiting itself to one type of metal. The company is primarily looking to develop its NorthMet deposit in northeastern Minnesota. NorthMet contains cobalt, copper, gold, nickel, as well as platinum group metals (PGMs). PolyMet has an agreement with Cleveland-Cliffs to use certain facilities and PolyMet Mining equipment to process the production from the NorthMet project. Corp. The company holds two subsidiaries: Fleck Minerals in Canada [POMGF.OB] and PolyMet Mining Inc. in the US. are the names of Portman's iron ore projects. The company is one of the largest iron ore producers in Australia. Koolyanobbing, which produces about 5 million tons of iron annually, is expected to produce about 8 million tons when production is expanded in 2006. Portman also owns a 50% stake (a joint venture with Henry Walker Eltin Group) in the Cockatoo Island project off the Kimberley Coast. US-based iron ore producer Cleveland-Cliffs has steadily increased its holding in the company (now with an 80% Portman Limited controlling interest). Prize Mining has high esteem for underground metal deposits. Formerly Muskox Minerals, the mining exploration company works with joint venture partner Anglo American Exploration (Canada) to operate its sprawling Muskox Layered Intrusion project in Nunavut to search for potential deposits of copper, nickel, palladium, and platinum. Prize Mining is also examining gold-bearing bedrock Prize Mining deposits near Atlin, British Columbia at the 3,800-acre Pine Creek Corporation prospect, which it has an option to buy. progressive, but Progress Fuels is doing just fine with it. The subsidiary of Progress Energy produces coal and natural gas in the US for use by Progress Energy's utilities businesses. Most of its coal is mined in the Appalachian region of the US, though not quite a third is taken from South America. Again more than two thirds of Progress Fuels' coal is delivered by rail, with the remainder shipped by barge. It used to manufacture and repair railcars through Progress Rail Services, but that business was sold Progress Fuels in early 2005 for $405 million to an affiliate of JPMorgan Chase & Corporation Co. You might not know it but apparently the gold rush is on in Mongolia. QGX has several joint ventures with Ivanhoe Mines to explore Mongolian gold prospects and is drilling at its Golden Hills property. The company also holds more than 100 exploration licenses that cover about 25,000 square miles in Mongolia that may hold a number of mineral deposits. QGX has been exploring for gold in Mongolia since 1994. Barrick Gold holds roughly 10% of QGX Ltd. the company. QIT-Fer et Titane has a license to il. The company operates the Tio mine in Quebec where it mines for ilmenite. The company also has a smelting operation where its produces titanium dioxide and iron from ilmenite. Its mine is located near Havre-Saint Pierre, from which the ore is transported to the metallurgical complex in SorelTracy for processing. The company is owned by the AngloAustralian mining giant Rio Tinto Group. QIT-Fer et Titane sells its QIT-Fer et Titane, products through Rio Tinto Iron & Titanium, located in Montreal. Inc. They're sold to more than 40 countries on all the major continents.

• Chairman: W. Ian L. Forrest • President, CEO, and Director: William F. Murray • CFO: Terese J. Gieselman

Address: 1177 W. Hastings St., Ste. 2350 Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 2K3, Canada Phone: 604-669-4701 Fax: 604-669-4705

Address: Level 11, The Quadrant, 1 William St. Perth 6000, Australia Phone: +61-8-9426-3333 Fax: +61-8-9426-3344

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 152.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 40.00% Employees (2004): 78 Employee Growth (1 yr): 14.70%

Address: Lancaster Building, 304 8th Ave. S.W., Ste. 707 Calgary, Alberta T2P 1C2, Canada Phone: 403-236-2222 Fax: 403-398-0693

Address: 410 S. Wilmington St. Raleigh, NC 27601 Phone: 919-546-6111 Fax: 919-546-6615 Address: 35 Main St. North, Unit 31 Waterdown, Ontario L0R 2H0, Canada Phone: 905-689-9442 Fax: 905-689-9443

Address: 1625 Marie-Victorin Rd. Sorel-Tracy, Quebec J3R 1M6, Canada Phone: 450-746-3000 Fax: 450-746-4438

• Chairman: John S. Brinzo • Managing Director and CEO: Richard Mehan • CFO: Anthony (Tony) Schoer

• President and CEO: Feisal A. Somji • COO: A. J. H. (Harry) McGucken

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 1510.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 18.50% Employees (2004): 1,000 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• President: Paula J. Sims • Director, Coal Sales: Joseph B. Jefferson

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 69.10% Employees (2004): 6

• President, CEO, and Director: David C. Anderson • COO: Paul L. Zweng • CFO and Director: Mark Wayne

• Chairman and CEO: Jim Cook • President: Pat Fiore • Executive Director of Finance: Alain Durand

Yes

Queenston Mining is searching for Pandora's box, and hoping there is gold to be found within. The company owns and operates several gold and base metal projects across Canada (primarily in Ontario and Quebec). Queenston is focusing its efforts on two projects in the Abitibi greenstone belt: the Pandora project (Quebec) and the Kirkland Lake project (Ontario). It has a joint venture with Newmont Mining to develop projects at its Kirkland Queenston Mining Lake camp. Queenston has holdings in Western Silver and Inc. Thundermin Resources. Quexco gets the lead out and puts it back in. A leading secondary lead producer, this private holding company recycles scrapped lead acid batteries into refined lead and lead products. Quexco's RSR Corporation subsidiary is one of the largest lead smelters in the US, with operations in California, Indiana, New York, and Texas. Quexco also owns Eco-Bat Technologies plc, a UK-based battery recycler with operations in Europe and South Africa. The company's RSR Technologies subsidiary (formerly its R&D unit) Quexco offers technology and product development services to the metals Incorporated industry. Chairman and CEO Howard Meyers controls Quexco. coal producer, as well as an international chemicals, energy, and technology conglomerate with some 450 companies under its wing. RAG's operations include domestic coal and coke mining (Deutsche Steinkohle), and international mining (RAG Coal International). Other subsidiaries include STEAG (power station management and process technology), Saarberg (environmental services and power generation), Degussa and RÜTGERS (specialty chemicals), and RAG Immobilien (real estate and construction). German energy firms E.ON and RWE own 39% and RAG 22%, respectively, of RAG; steel company ThyssenKrupp owns Aktiengesellschaft 21%. A descendant of Rand Mines Limited, South Africa's oldest mining house, holding company Randgold & Exploration explores for gold, diamonds, base and ferrous metals in Africa. Spun off by Randgold & Exploration in 1995, Randgold Resources owns mining interests in western Africa, including 50% of one of Africa's premiere gold mines, Morila Limited (a joint venture with AngloGold Ashanti) in Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, and Tanzania. An audit revealing a large number of missing shares has sent a shock wave through the company's management. Founder and Randgold & former chairman Roger Kebble and his son, Brett, were forced to Exploration Company Limited resign along with other directors and officers of Randgold. Reading Alloys produces high-purity metals and alloys, primarily for use in jet engines and other aerospace components, but also for companies in the building and construction, electronic, medical, semiconductor, and transportation industries. In addition, Reading Alloys produces metal powders used to make highly engineered Reading Alloys, parts. The company is a subsidiary of KB Alloys. Reading Alloys Inc. was founded in 1953.

Address: 111 Richmond St. West, Ste. 1116 Toronto, Ontario M5H 2G4, Canada Phone: 416-364-0001 Fax: 416-364-5098

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-30.60%) Employees (2004): 10

• Chairman: Hugh D. Harbinson • President, CEO, and Director: Charles E. Page • CFO and Director: John M. Arnold

Address: 2777 N. Stemmons Fwy. Dallas, TX 75207-2501 Phone: 214-688-4000 Fax: 214-630-5864

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Howard M. Meyers • Chairman of the Management Board: Werner Müller • Member of the Management Board, Address: Rellinghauser Straße 1- Fiscal Year End: December CFO, and VP, Business 11 Revenue (2004): 25503.00 M Operat: Peter Schörner 45128 Essen, Germany Revenue Growth (1 yr): 57.90% • Head of Phone: +49-201-177-02 Employees (2004): 93,657 Communication: Fax: +49-201-177-2050 Employee Growth (1 yr): 20.60% Christian Kullmann

Address: 28 Harrison St. Johannesburg 2001, South Africa Phone: +27-11-688-5011 Fax: +27-11-834-9195

• Chairman: David M. Nurek • CEO and Board Member: Peter H. Gray • Financial Director and Board Member: John C. Lamprecht

Address: 220 Old W. Penn Ave. Robesonia, PA 19551 Phone: 610-693-5822 Fax: 610-693-5542

• President and COO: Paul O. Jones • VP Sales and Marketing: Graham P. Walker

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 22.20 M Employees (2005): 114

Redcorp Ventures hopes that with a little loving care its Redfern Resources subsidiary will blossom into something bigger. Redfern Resources is exploring the Tulsequah Chief gold and silver property in British Columbia, Canada. Redcorp also maintains the Hawk property, which is located northwest of Prince George, British Columbia. The company holds a stake in fellow CanadaRedcorp Ventures based mining firm EuroZinc Mining and has investments in some Ltd. oil and gas wells.

Address: 777 Hornby St., Ste. 760 Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 1S4, Canada Phone: 604-669-4775 Fax: 604-699-5330

Address: World Trade Center, Resource Finance & Investment explores and develops properties 10, route de l'Aeroport Resource Finance in the US that contain a variety of mineral deposits. It currently 1215 Geneva, Switzerland & Investment Ltd. leases properties in Oregon (chromium, garnet, and zircon), as Phone: +41-22-799-08-00 [RFIVF.OB] well as Illinois and Kentucky (lead, zinc, and diamonds).

Rhino Resource Partners is looking to take the coal industry by the horn. Get it? By the horn? Anyway, the company operates more than 20 mines, both surface and underground, in Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia. Rhino Resource Partners controls more than 140 million tons of proved and probable coal reserves, of which about three-quarters is used for electricity generation by utilities and industrial customers. It produces somewhere near 7 million Rhino Resource tons annually. The company operated as CAM Holdings until Partners, L.P. 2006; it is controlled by private equity fund Wexford Capital. With a portfolio of properties at varying stages of development (early stage to production), Ridge Mining (formerly Cluff Mining) has high hopes for its Blue Ridge, Fountain Ridge, and Sheba's Ridge projects, as well as other prospective platinum group metal projects situated in and around the prolific Bushveld complex in South Africa. Ridge's other mineral interests include the Kalsaka gold project in Burkina Faso, the Mabounié niobium project in Gabon, and the Maligreen gold deposit in Zimbabwe. Ridge Mining Ridge Mining plc divested most of its gold assets in 2005. Riverstone Property leaves no stone unturned in its search for gold. The junior natural resource company owns several prospects in West Africa, and is seeking others for exploration and possible development. Riverstone's primary property, the Rambo project in northeastern Burkina Faso, covers about 100 square miles and includes several pits used by local artisans. The company is conducting soil sampling, geological mapping, and drilling at the site to search for gold deposits that can be economically mined. President and CEO Michael McInnis holds a similar position with Riverstone Nevada gold explorer Gateway Gold. Resources Inc. RJK Explorations thinks it is on the road to finding gold in Canada. Besides gold, the company also searches for base metals and diamonds. It focuses on exploration and development around the Greenstone belts in Ontario. Properties that RJK Explorations has RJK Explorations an interest in include Goldie, Stares/Calvert, and Wedge. None of Ltd. its projects are in production.

Address: 265 Hambley Blvd. Pikeville, KY 41501 Phone: 606-432-3900

Address: 7th Fl., Brettenham House, 5 Lancaster Place London WC2E 7EN, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7379-1474 Fax: +44-20-7379-9443

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 243.30% Employees (2004): 7 Employee Growth (1 yr): 133.30% • President and CEO: Terence E. Chandler Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 2 Employee Growth (1 yr): 100.00% • CEO: Philip J. Garrat Yes • Chairman and President, Rhino GP LLC: Mark D. Zand • CEO and Director, Rhino GP LLC; CEO, CAM Holdings LLC: Terry N. Coleman Fiscal Year End: March • EVP Finance and Revenue (2005): 280.00 M Administration, Revenue Growth (1 yr): 458.50% Secretary, Treasurer and Employees (2005): 900 Dir: Jay L. Maymudes

• Chairman: Oliver Baring Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 63 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-4.50%)

• Chief Executive: Terence Wilkinson • Commercial Director: Francis Johnstone

Address: 595 Howe St., Ste. 906 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2T5, Canada Phone: 604-801-5020 Fax: 604-801-6075

• President and CEO: Michael D. McInnis • CFO: Kerry Spong

Address: 347 Bay St., 3rd Fl. Toronto, Ontario M5H 2R7, Canada Phone: 416-628-5940 Fax: 416-628-5940

• President and CEO: Glenn C. Kasner • CFO: Robert J. Kasner

Address: 7th Ave., Aéroport de Robex Resources has joined the gold rush in Mali. The company Québec, Ste. 705 is a gold exploration and development company with exploration Ste-Foy, Quebec G2G 2T7, operations in Mali, West Africa. Since 1996 Robex Resources has Canada Fiscal Year End: December been primarily exploring properties in the prolific Kenieba Valley Phone: 418-877-6411 Revenue (2004): 0.10 M Robex Resources region. The company's La Corne Gold and Bilali Gold projects are Fax: 418-877-8033 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 606.10% Inc. the farthest along in development. Rock on! Roca Mines knows that's the only way to strike gold. The junior resource exploration company buys prospects and searches for gold and other valuable mineral deposits. It holds the Foremore VMS gold project and SeaGold property in northern British Address: 500 - 1045 Howe St. Columbia, as well as the MAX molybdenum project. The Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z company's major focus is the exploration of two gold properties in 2A9, Canada the Liard Mining Division of British Columbia, where it is Phone: 604-684-2900 conducting soil sampling and drilling. Roca Mines' MAX property in Fax: 604-684-2902 Roca Mines Inc. the Revelstroke Mining Division is being explored for molybdenum. The Yukon territory is home to the town of Ross River; it's also home to the mineral properties owned by Ross River Minerals. The development stage mining company owns the Tay-LP gold property located within the Trintina Gold Belt area in Yukon. Ross River is also involved in exploration outside of Canada; it owns a copper and gold property, El Pulpo, in Sinaloa State, Mexico. The Ross River company acquired the El Pulpo property from Almaden Minerals in Minerals Inc. 2005. Medieval alchemists tried to turn lead into gold. RSR's operations are even more complex -- the company turns batteries into lead and then into money. RSR, a leading US-based lead smelter, represents the stateside operations of privately owned holding company Quexco. RSR recycles scrapped lead-acid batteries and other lead-bearing materials into refined lead and calcium and antimonial lead alloys. The company operates recycling facilities in California, Indiana, and New York. RSR's parent, Quexco, also RSR Corporation owns UK-based battery recycler Eco-Bat Technologies. RTI International Metals hopes manufacturers that seek a lightweight yet tougher-than-nails material will have titanium on the cranium. Through its subsidiaries, the company operates in two segments: titanium products and metals fabrication and distribution. The titanium group's products include ingots, bars, plates, sheets, strips, pipes, and welded tubing that are used by the aerospace industry to make aircraft bulkheads, tail sections, engine components, and wing supports. RTI's fabrication and distribution group operates through subsidiary RTI Energy RTI International Systems and makes pipe, tubing, and offshore riser systems for Metals, Inc. [RTI] the oil, gas, and geothermal energy industries. touches turns to gold. The company owns properties called Gold Centre and Gullrock near Red Lake, Ontario, in Canada. The Gold Centre property borders Goldcorp's Red Lake Mine, one of the world's more profitable gold mines. It also owns a gold property in British Columbia, Canada. Rupert Resources currently has no Rupert Resources mines in production and is in pre-exploration stage at all of its properties. Ltd.

• Chairman: Marcel Bédard • President, CEO, and Director: Richard Savard • VP, Business Development: André Vézina

• President, CEO, and Director: Scott E. Broughton • CFO, Secretary, and Director: David J. Skerlec

Address: 1004 - 750 W. Pender St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2T7, Canada Phone: 604-682-2770 Fax: 604-682-2331

• President, CEO, and Director: Marcus N. Foster • CFO, Secretary, and Director: Philip J. Walsh • Shareholder Communications: Karen Robb

Address: 2777 Stemmons Fwy., Ste. 1800 Dallas, TX 75207 Phone: 214-631-6070 Fax: 214-631-4013

• President and CEO: Robert Finn • VP and Controller: James Schureman

Address: 1000 Warren Ave. Niles, OH 44446 Phone: 330-652-9955 Fax: 330-544-7701

• Chairman: Robert M. Hernandez • President, CEO, and Director: Timothy G. Rupert • VP, CFO, and Treasurer: Lawrence W. Jacobs

Address: 470 Granville St., Ste. 520 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1V5, Canada Phone: 604-687-7178 Fax: 604-687-7179

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 346.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 61.60% Employees (2005): 1,225 Employee Growth (1 yr): 3.40%

• Chairman and CEO: Donald G. (Don) Moore • President and Director: D. Neil Briggs

Yes

Sabin Metal Corporation

Sabina Silver Corporation

Sage Gold Inc.

Sanders Lead Company, Inc.

Sasol Limited [SSL]

Sabin Metal helps its customers go for the gold, or the silver, or the platinum, or the palladium. The company processes items such as printed circuit boards, telecommunications components, dental and jewelry making scraps, and photographic materials in order to isolate and refine the small amounts of gold and other precious metals contained in them. Sabin Metal also engages in precious metals trading. company owns or holds interests in properties with potential gold or base metal deposits and explores for minerals itself or through its partners. Sabina owns an interest in potential gold-bearing property in the Red Lake mining division in Ontario. It sold a portion of its Red Lake holdings to Placer Dome and Wolfden Resources in exchange for financing exploration and production operations. Sabina also has prospective gold properties in the Nunavut Territory's Hackett River area, about 10 miles south of the Arctic Circle. The company divested its oil and gas royalties in Texas. Sage Gold, formerly Sahelian Goldfields, hopes to be wise in the ways of finding gold and other precious metals. The mining exploration and development company owns numerous properties in Ontario and Quebec, as well as Nevada. The company made a significant move into Nevada in late 2004 when it acquired the Pony Spur and Dike mining properties (in the south end of the Carlin-Rain Trend, Nevada), as well as the Corridors and Sugarloaf properties (located in the Midas Trend, Nevada). Old car batteries are just something to trip over for most people, but they look like money to Sanders Lead. The company recycles lead-acid batteries and smelts and refines the lead -- in other words, it gets the lead out. Members of the Sanders family, including company president Wiley Sanders, are major investors in Sanders Lead. Wiley Sanders also owns a stake in KW Plastics, which recycles polypropylene and polyethylene products. operations. It markets liquid and gaseous fuels (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, fuel alcohol, and fuel oils) and lubricants. The company also converts coal into synthetic fuels. Petroleum is used as a feedstock in some of Sasol's chemical products, which include surfactants, olefins, polymers, and solvents. To create feedstock for its synthetic fuels and chemicals plants, Sasol operates coal mines in South Africa. The company has chemical manufacturing and marketing operations in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Its Sasol Petroleum International unit explores for and produces oil and gas in western and southern Africa. Sasol incorporated in 1979.

Address: 300 Pantigo Place, Ste. 102 East Hampton, NY 11937 Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 631-329-1717 Revenue (2005): 42.60 M Fax: 631-329-1985 Employees (2005): 150

• President: Andrew E. Sabin • SVP: Ron Bleggi

Address: 646 Clearwater Crescent London, Ontario N5X 4J7, Canada Phone: 519-438-4555 Fax: 519-438-9666

• Chairman and CEO: William W. Cummins • President: Abraham P. Drost

Fiscal Year End: September Revenue (2005): 0.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 22.50%

Address: 365 Bay St., Ste. 500 Toronto, Ontario M5H 2V1, Canada Phone: 416-204-3170 Fax: 416-260-2243

• President, CEO, and Director: C. Nigel Lees • Chairman: Patrick J. Mars • CFO: William D. (Bill) Love

Address: 1 Sanders Rd. Troy, AL 36079 Phone: 334-566-1563 Fax: 334-660-0107

• President: Wiley C. Sanders Jr. • CFO and Controller: Wayne Turberville • VP, Operations: Bart Sanders

• CEO and Director: L. Patrick A. (Pat) Davies Address: 1 Sturdee Ave., Fiscal Year End: June • Deputy CEO and Rosebank Revenue (2005): 10141.00 M Director: Trevor S. Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Revenue Growth (1 yr): 7.20% Munday Phone: +27-11-441-3111 Employees (2005): 30,004 • CFO and Director: Fax: +27-11-788-5092 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-2.90%) Christine Ramon

Address: 750 W. Pender St., Ste. The miners of Saville are looking for ore bodies. Saville Resources 1760 is a Canadian junior mining company that explores and develops Vancouver, British Columbia V6C mineral properties in British Columbia, Canada. Its primary project 2T8, Canada in the area is the Bud gold, silver, and copper property, which it Phone: 604-646-7216 Saville Resources has been exploring since 2003. None of Saville Resources' Fax: 604-688-6552 Inc. projects are in production.

• President, CEO, and Director: Xiao Hai Yin

Yes

Senator Minerals Inc.

Scarborough Minerals is looking for gold, in hopes that the green will follow. The company, formerly called Greenwich Resources, owns gold properties in northeastern Greece (the Sappes Gold Project) and Ireland. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary United Goldfields Corporation, it owns two mineral interests in western Australia (Paddington Gold Mine and Golden Ridge Mine). In 2006 the company merged with two Australian mining firms to form a new company under the name Scarborough Minerals. The former Greenwich Resources acquired Danae and Buka Minerals to form Scarborough. Scorpio Mining hopes it can thrive in the desert. The Canadian company is primarily exploring and developing the Nuestra Senora project in Sinaloa, Mexico. The project mainly holds silver, but also has been found to contain zinc, copper, and lead deposits. Scorpio Mining has options on other various mineral resource properties in Nova Scotia and Quebec. True to its name SearchGold Resources is looking for gold, but diamonds are also an important part of its exploration business. Its most promising projects include the Bakoudou gold deposit in Gabon and the Mandala diamond property in Guinea. Besides surface exploration of the Bakoudou site, the company is also investigating other promising prospects in West Africa. In 2004 SearchGold Resources acquired exploration properties in Quebec, including Lake Chevrier and Fortune Lake West. SEMAFO may be based in Canada, but it finds all of its gold in West Africa. The company produces precious metals at its mines in Guinea (Kiniero Gold Mine) and Niger (Samira Hill Gold Mine). Samira Hill accounts for most of the company's gold production. It's also exploring and developing gold properties in Burkina Faso and Ghana. The company is looking to expand production by starting mining operations at its Mana project in Burkina Faso. In late 2005 controlling shareholder Managem sold nearly all of its 52% interest in the company to Georesources Exploration. Senator Minerals is bypassing Nevada's casinos and heading straight for deposits of precious metals underground. The company explores and acquires gold, silver, and copper properties primarily in Nevada (Elko County), but also in Alaska and northwestern Arizona. It also has copper interests in Canada. Management and directors hold about 30% of Senator Minerals.

Serengeti Resources Inc.

Serengeti Resources explores for gold and copper on the plains of North America. The company's projects are mostly located in the Western Cordillera area of British Columbia. It has partnered with fellow miner Rimfire Minerals Corporation in drilling at the Tide property and has staked a claim at the Twin Property. It has several other mineral claims in the area at less advanced stages.

Scarborough Minerals plc

Scorpio Mining Corporation

SearchGold Resources Inc.

SEMAFO Inc.

Address: 1 Mathon Place, Mathon Malvern, Worcestershire WR13 5NZ, United Kingdom Phone: +44-1-684-892550 Fax: +44-1-684-892271

Fiscal Year End: September Revenue (2004): 0.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-6.20%) Employees (2004): 5 • Executive Director: Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00% Robert J Champion de Crespigny Address: 475 Howe St., Ste. 511 • Chairman, President, Vancouver, British Columbia V6C and CEO: Peter J. 2B3, Canada Hawley Phone: 604-678-9639 • CFO: Jean-Yves Fax: 604-602-9640 Laliberte Address: 440 René-Levesque West Blvd., Ste. 1160 Montreal, Quebec H2Z 1V7, Canada Phone: 514-866-4224 Fax: 514-866-2626

Address: 750, Marcel-Laurin Blvd., Ste. 375 Saint-Laurent, Quebec H4M 2M4, Canada Phone: 514-744-4408 Fax: 514-744-2291 Address: 418 E. 14th St. North Vancouver, British Columbia V7L 2N8, Canada Phone: 604-904-1330 Fax: 425-984-9440 Address: 800 W. Pender St., Ste. 450 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2V6, Canada Phone: 604-689-7761 Fax: 604-689-5528

• President, CEO, and Director: Philippe Giaro Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 20.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 38.10% Employees (2004): 335 Employee Growth (1 yr): 235.00%

• Chairman: Jean Lamarre • CEO and President: Benoit La Salle • COO: Benoit Desormeaux • CEO and President: Donald A. (Tony) Simon • Manager, Business Development: Keith Patey • President, CEO, and Director: David W. Moore • CFO and Director: Ian D. Brown

Resources now keeps a sharp eye out for a natural resource opportunities in the US. For the last decade the company has been engaged in oil and gas exploration and production, primarily in Texas. Through its Sharpe Energy Company subsidiary, Sharpe Resources produces about 5 barrels of oil per day from its working interests in Texas. In 2004 the company announced that it Sharpe Resources intended to refocus the company's operations on gold and silver Corporation mining by acquiring 60% of a gold mining project in Lyon County, [SHGPF.OB] Nevada. ShenHua Group trades in coal. Established in 1995 by the Chinese government, ShenHua oversees coal production in the country's Shenfu Dongsheng Coal Fields as well as affiliated chemical processing and power generation operations. Subsidiary China Shenhua Energy was spun off in 2005, taking most of the group's coal production and sales operations. The group continues to hold stakes in Shaanxi Guohua Jinjie Energy Corporation (power generation), Shenhua Shendong Power (coal-based ShenHua Group chemical processing and power generation), Guohua Energy Corporation Investments (investment in coal-mining companies), and Xisanju Limited Companies (coal mining and power generation). Sherritt International is aiming to be the new sheriff in the energy business. The company is primarily involved in nickel and cobalt mining, thermal coal production, oil and gas exploration and production, and electricity generation. Its largest operation is the metals mining segment (about 40% of sales), which operates Moa Nickel, a Cuban mining and processing facility, as well as a metal refinery in Canada. Sherritt's coal revenue is derived from its 50% holding in top Canadian thermal coal producer Luscar Energy Sherritt Partnership. Sherritt also operates oil and natural gas fields in International Cuba and Spain. Also in Cuba, the company has a one-third Corporation interest in electricity generating company Energas. Silver Quest Resources, formerly Southern Rio Resources, hasn't had to go too far south to find precious and base metal deposits. The company primarily explores and develops gold, silver, and copper properties in British Columbia. It also has a stake in properties located in Ontario and the Yukon. Silver Quest is looking for joint venture partners for the exploration of some of its Silver Quest properties. None of its operations are in production. Resources Ltd. Silverado Gold Mines is fuel of ideas. The company has four Alaskan gold properties: Hammond, Nolan, Eagle Creek, and Ester Dome. However, while its gold properties are still being explored, Silverado is looking for a new source of income. It formed subsidiary Silverado Green Fuel to develop low-rank coalwater fuel (LRCWF, used in oil-fired boilers and utility generators). The company plans to convert its Grant Mill site to an LRCWF Silverado Gold facility. Tri-Con Mining, an affiliate owned by Silverado chairman Mines Ltd. and CEO Garry Anselmo, handles Silverado's exploration and [SLGLF.OB] development operations.

Address: 3258 Mob Neck Rd. Heathsville, VA 22473 Phone: 804-580-8107 Fax: 804-580-4132

• President, CEO, and Director: Roland M. Larsen

Address: 17/F-18/F Shenhua Mansion, No.22, Xibinhe Rd., Andingmen, Dong Beijing, Beijing 100011, China Phone: +86-105-8132114

Address: 1133 Yonge St. Toronto, Ontario M4T 2Y7, Canada Phone: 416-924-4551 Fax: 416-924-5015 Address: 650 W. Georgia St., Ste. 1410 Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 4N8, Canada Phone: 604-687-3959 Fax: 604-408-0489

Address: 1111 W. Georgia St., Ste. 505 Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 4M3, Canada Phone: 604-689-1535 Fax: 604-682-3519

Yes

• Chairman and Executive Director: Chen Biting

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 901.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 42.20% Employees (2004): 835 Employee Growth (1 yr): 5.70%

• Chairman: Ian W. Delaney • President, CEO, and Director: Jowdat Waheed • VP, Investor Relations & Corporate Affairs: Deanna L. Horton • President, CEO, and Director: Lindsay R. Bottomer • CFO and Director: Randy C. Turner

• Chairman, President, CEO, COO, and CFO: Garry L. Anselmo

Yes

SilverCrest Mines has its mind on silver. The company, through its Norcrest Silver subsidiary, explores and develops silver properties in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. SilverCrest Mines is also making inroads into the US with its Blackstone mine SilverCrest Mines in Idaho. Officers and directors hold an interest of approximately Inc. 30% in SilverCrest Mines. SIMCALA, also known as Silicon Mining Co. of Alabama, produces high-grade silicon metal used in chemical and aluminum products. The aluminum industry uses silicon metal to make alloys for automotive components such as engine housings, pistons, and cast aluminum wheels; chemical companies use it to produce silicone for lubricants, gaskets, and cosmetics, and to make polysilicon, an element used in making silicon wafers for semiconductors. The company's smelting process also produces microsilica, which is used as a strengthener and filler by the concrete, refractory, mineral, and oil exploration industries. SIMCALA has been a Dow Corning subsidiary since 2003. SIMCALA, Inc. SiPi Metals recovers precious metals (including gold, silver, and platinum group metals) from scrap generated by the aerospace, chemical, electronics, and photographic industries. An old hand at metal recycling -- the company was founded in 1905 -- SiPi specializes in recovering metals heavily contaminated with substances such as fiberglass and plastic. The company also produces brass, bronze, and other copper alloys. SiPi employees own a majority of the company through an employee stock SiPi Metals Corp. ownership plan. SLAM Exploration is swinging for the fences in the pursuit of precious and base metals. The company is part owner of the Bathurst joint venture with Falconbridge Limited (formerly Noranda) to develop zinc and lead deposits in New Brunswick. Also in that province it has some other silver, lead, and zinc properties. SLAM Exploration holds several gold projects in SLAM Exploration northwestern Ontario, including the Cadman Lake, Reserve Creek, and Opikeigen properties. Ltd. A subsidiary of Walter Industries, Sloss Industries makes foundry coke, furnace coke, slag fiber, and specialty chemicals. Foundry coke is sold to ductile iron pipe plants (including fellow Walter Industries unit U.S. Pipe) and to foundries that produce castings, such as for the automotive and agricultural equipment industries. Furnace coke is sold mainly to steelmakers. The slag fiber made by Sloss is used primarily by makers of acoustical ceiling tile. The company's specialty chemical products include nutraceutical Sloss Industries components, pharmaceutical raw materials, plastics additives, and Corporation rubber additives. Sloss was founded in 1918.

Address: 1311 Howe St., Ste. 405 Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 2P3, Canada Phone: 604-691-1730 Fax: 604-691-1761

• President: J. Scott Drever • COO: Eric N. Fier • CFO: Barney Magnusson

Address: 1940 Ohio Ferro Alloys Rd. Mt. Meigs, AL 36057 Phone: 334-215-7560 Fax: 334-215-8969

• CFO: R. Myles Cowan II • VP Sales and Marketing: Bob Konecny • President: William E. Boardwine

Address: 1720 N. Elston Ave. Chicago, IL 60622-1579 Phone: 773-276-0070 Fax: 773-276-7014

Fiscal Year End: September Revenue (2005): 80.00 M Employees (2005): 120

• President: Leslie S. Pinsof • CFO: Marion A. Cameron • SVP, Operations: Robert S. Glidden

Address: 285 Campbell St. Miramichi, New Brunswick E1V 1R4, Canada Phone: 506-627-1353 Fax: 506-627-1328

Fiscal Year End: January Revenue (2005): 0.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-46.30%)

• Chairman: John A. Hansuld • CEO: Michael R. (Mike) Taylor

Address: 3500 35th Ave. North, PO Box 5327 Birmingham, AL 35207-0327 Phone: 205-808-7803 Fax: 205-808-7715

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 61.50 M Employees (2005): 347

• President: Chuck Stewart • EVP and CFO: Carol Farrell

Sojitz Corporation is trading in all kinds of places. Formerly called Sojitz Holdings, the company's 400-plus subsidiaries trade in a wide array of businesses, ranging from steel and automobile parts to apparel, making it one of the largest trading houses in Japan. Sojitz's other major businesses include aerospace, foods, oil and gas, chemicals and plastics, retail property development, and construction materials. Asia and North America (through its Sojitz Corporation of America unit) are major contributors to its overseas trading operations. Sojitz was formed by a merger of two Japanese Sojitz Corporation trading powerhouses, Nissho Iwai and Nichimen Corporation. adjourn. The company, formed by the merger of Nissho Iwai American Corporation and Nichimen America, is the US trading arm for the Japan-based Sojitz Holdings Corporation that distributes goods such as industrial machinery, aerospace equipment, chemicals, food, lumber, and a variety of consumer products. Its investment division provides financing, direct investment, insurance services, and logistics services. Sojitz Sojitz Corporation Corporation of America is responsible for all operations in North, of America Central, and South America. Solitaire Minerals is going at it alone to explore and develop precious and base metal properties in Canada. The junior mineral exploration company is focusing on prospects in Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. Its High Rock Lake project in Saskatchewan is an agreement to acquire 100% interest in Solitaire Minerals uranium claims in the area. None of its properties are in Corp. production. Solitude can be a precious resource, but Solitario Resources is more interested in finding precious minerals. The company explores for and develops gold, silver, platinum, copper, and zinc Solitario properties in Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru. It also owns an Resources interest in a mineral property in Nevada. Solitario has formed an Corporation alliance to explore for gold in South America with a unit of industry [SOLI.PK] giant Newmont Mining. Solomon Resources is a junior mineral exploration firm with gold and copper projects on several continents. In Asia, the company has projects in Mongolia. It also operates several projects in Australia, including Kalgoorlie and Newcrest (a joint venture with Newcrest Mining). In the Americas, Solomon Resources has gold Solomon properties in Alaska, Canada, and Chile. The company funds Resources these exploration projects through the sale of company shares or Limited the sale of its investments. Glittering gold may not be just a mirage for Sonora Gold. Formerly International Coromandel Resources, the company acquires and develops mineral resource properties in Sonora, Mexico. Its primary project is the Santa Gertrudis gold property, which was in production in the 1990s by previous owners Phelps Dodge Mining and Campbell. The company is also exploring the less advanced San Enrique copper, gold, and molybdenum project, located near the Santa Gertrudis mine. Sonora Gold is part of the United Sonora Gold Corp. Resource Group, which handles administration for the company.

• President and CEO: Akio Dobashi • Senior Managing Address: 1-20 Akasaka 6-chome, Fiscal Year End: March Executive Officer, New Minato-ku Revenue (2005): 2271.00 M Business Development: Tokyo 107-8655, Japan Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-3.70%) Yasuyuki Fujishima Phone: +81-3-5446-3600 Employees (2005): 16,419 • Managing Executive Fax: +81-3-5446-1542 Employee Growth (1 yr): 12.50% Officer, CFO: Yoji Sato

Address: 1211 Avenue of the Americas, 44th Fl. New York, NY 10036-8880 Phone: 212-704-6500 Fax: 212-704-6947

• President and CEO: Jun Matsumoto • CFO: Takashi Tsukada

Address: 1788 - 650 W. Georgia St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 4N8, Canada Phone: 604-683-5445 Fax: 604-687-9631

Address: 4251 Kipling St., Ste. 390 Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 Phone: 303-534-1030 Fax: 303-534-1809

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 9 Employee Growth (1 yr): 125.00%

• President and Director: Charles Desjardins • Chairman: Mark E. Jones III • President, CEO, and Director: Christopher E. Herald • CFO and Secretary: James R. Maronick

Address: 475 Howe St., Ste. 900 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2B3, Canada Fiscal Year End: July Phone: 604-669-6656 Revenue (2005): 0.10 M Fax: 604-684-9877 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 9.90%

• President, CEO, and Director: Lawrence J. (Larry) Nagy • President: Keith Laskowski

Address: 800 W. Pender St., Ste. 620 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2V6, Canada Phone: 604-685-5851 Fax: 604-685-7349

• President and CEO: Dave McMillan • CFO: Harold Forzley

Yes

Southern Star Resources Inc.

Southwestern Resources Corp.

Sparton Resources Inc.

Special Metals Corporation

Spectrum Metals Inc.

St Andrew Goldfields Ltd.

Southern Star Resources is shining brightly in Canada. The company is exploring and developing gold properties in the prolific Red Lake region of Ontario. Its primary operation is a joint venture with Exall Resources to explore the Gold Eagle Mine property. The mine was last in production during the 1930s and 1940s. Southern Star doesn't have mines in production. based Southwestern Resources logs a lot of miles to find the right spot to dig into the ground. Its main property is the Boka Gold project, covering about 60 square miles in the Yunnan Province of China. In Peru the company formed a partnership with Anglo American Exploration to explore the Antay copper project. In addition, Southwestern Resources holds the Accha zinc project and has teamed up with other large mining companies, including Newmont Mining, to develop other gold and silver properties in Peru. Southwestern Resources sold its Canabrava Diamond subsidiary to Superior Diamonds in exchange for a 15% stake in the company. Sparton Resources started in Canada, but has gone all the way to China in search of base and precious metals. The company has exploration and development activities in Canada, China, and Mexico. Since 2004, Sparton Resources has primarily been exploring the Luxi Gold Project in the Yunnan Province of China. The company also holds a minor stake in an undeveloped natural gas reserve in Nova Scotia. Special Metals makes nickel- and cobalt-based alloys and superalloys for aircraft engine rotating components and other highperformance systems. The company's products are designed to withstand extreme heat, stress, and corrosion. They are available as billet, plate, and tube; extruded shapes; and wire and welding consumables. Special Metals also makes wrought superalloys and superalloy powders. Customers include companies in the aerospace, automotive, chemical, petroleum, and power generation industries. Special Metals has 10 plants in the US and Europe. The company has agreed to be acquired by Precision Castparts, which makes investment castings used in aerospace and power generation applications. Spectrum Metals, which does business as Corrosion Materials, supplies customers with corrosion-resistant alloys. The company's products include more than a dozen nickel alloys and several grades of titanium alloys. Corrosion Materials sells its alloys in a variety of forms, including bar, fittings, flanges, pipe, plate, sheet, and tubing. Through its Sunshine Metals subsidiary, the company distributes aluminum plate and bar products. St Andrew Goldfields may be the patron saint of shiny metal objects. The company explores and develops gold and silver mining properties in North America. It plans to develop properties in the near term in Ontario and Alaska, as well as in British Columbia. The company's Stock Gold Complex in Ontario is closest to production (expected to begin production in late 2005.) St Andrew Goldfields has a 65% interest in Heritage Explorations. In 2005 it sold its 28% interest in technology-based exploration company Geoinformatics Exploration.

Address: 347 Bay St., Ste. 301 Toronto, Ontario M5H 2R7, Canada Phone: 416-628-5905 Fax: 416-628-5911

Address: 701 W. Georgia St., Ste. 1650 Vancouver, British Columbia V7Y 1C6, Canada Phone: 604-669-2525 Fax: 604-688-5175

• Chairman: Robert D. Cudney Fiscal Year End: December • President and Director: Revenue (2004): 0.00 M John G. Tait Revenue Growth (1 yr): 222.40% • CFO: Brent Peters

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 50 Employee Growth (1 yr): 100.00%

• Chairman: W. David Black • President, CEO, and Director: John G. Paterson • VP, Corporate Affairs: Thomas W. (Tom) Beattie

Address: 55 University Ave., Ste. 605 Toronto, Ontario M5J 2H7, Canada Phone: 416-366-3551 Fax: 416-366-7421

• Chairman: Edward G. Thompson • President and CEO: Alan Lee Barker

Address: 3200 Riverside Dr. Huntington, WV 25705-1771 Phone: 304-526-5100 Fax: 304-526-5643

• Chairman: Leo G. Thompson • President: Dennis L. Wanlass • VP and CFO: Douglas D. Watts

Address: 2262 Groom Rd. Baker, LA 70714 Phone: 225-775-3675 Fax: 225-774-0514

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 36.90 M Employees (2005): 136

Address: 1540 Cornwall Rd., Ste. 212 Oakville, Ontario L6J 7W5, Canada Phone: 905-815-9855 Fax: 905-815-9437

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 151 Employee Growth (1 yr): 1158.30%

• VP Finance: Bernadette Wege • Chairman: Herbert Abramson • President, CEO, and Director: Glenn Laing • Manager, Corporate Development and Investor Relations: Miles S. Speedie

St Barbara Mines Limited

Australian mining company St Barbara Mines pulls out more than 80,000 ounces of gold annually from mines in western Australia. Mining operations include its Southern Cross mine, which accounts for all of the company's gold production, as well as exploration activities at Leonora, Tarmoola, and Gwalia Deeps, among others. St Barbara Mines sold its 54% interest in NuStar Mining Corporation in 2005 in order to refinance the company and pay off existing debts. Later in 2005 it acquired the gold business from fellow Australian gold miner Sons of Gwalia.

Statesman Resources is looking for a mining project it can really get behind. Formerly called Aeon Ventures, the exploration and development company doesn't have any assets but the Canadianbased company is looking for properties or other businesses it can Statesman acquire and operate. Statesman Resources currently has no Resources Ltd. revenue-generating mining operations under its control. Not much can stem the global tide of steel from Stemcor. From more than 50 offices in countries all over the world, the company purchases, trades, markets, and sells raw steel, semi-finished steel, and end-user steel materials. Some of the types of steel traded include billets, bright bar, engineering steel, reinforcing bar, slabs, and stainless steel wire. Stemcor assists companies with financing the purchase of steel and offers its own network for distribution of steel products by land and sea.The company traces Stemcor Holdings its roots to the establishment of a joint venture between Limited industrialist H.A. Oppenheimer and CCC Germany in 1951. Mining company Sterlite Gold explores properties primarily in Asia and the former Soviet Union. Its Ararat Gold Recovery Company (AGRC) subsidiary focuses on an operation in Armenia that includes the Zod and Meghradzor mines and a tailings plant in Ararat. Total gold production at Ararat amounts to about 70,000 ounces annually. The company also has exploration projects in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma). Sterlite -- along with the associated Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd. (mining, metals, fiber optics) -- became controlled by Twin Star Holdings in 2002, when Sterlite Gold Ltd. that company's stake increased to more than 55%. Stillwater Mining holds claim to the only significant source of platinum and palladium outside South Africa and Russia. The company extracts, processes, and refines platinum group metals (PGMs) -- platinum, palladium, and associated minerals -- at mines and a smelter in Montana. PGMs are used in catalytic converters for automobiles, as well as in jewelry and in various industrial applications. Stillwater Mining produces some 430,000 ounces of palladium and 125,000 ounces of platinum annually. Byproduct minerals include copper, gold, nickel, and silver. The company has proven and probable reserves of about 42 million Stillwater Mining tons of ore. Russian mining giant Norilsk Nickel owns a 55% stake Company [SWC] in Stillwater Mining.

Address: Level 2, 16 Ord St. West Perth 6005, Australia Phone: +61-8-9476-5555 Fax: +61-8-9476-5500

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2005): 51.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 129.80% Employees (2005): 33 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-19.50%)

Address: 470 Granville St., Ste. 822 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1V5, Canada Phone: 604-669-8300 Fax: 604-879-4005

• Chairman: Colin Wise • Managing Director and CEO: Eduard Eshuys • CFO and Secretary: Ross J. Kennedy

• Chairman: Glenn Whiddon • President, CEO, and Director: Keith Coughlin

Address: Level 27, City Point, 1 Ropemaker St. London EC2Y 9ST, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7775-3600 Fax: +44-20-7775-3679

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 5350.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 100.60% Employees (2004): 400 Employee Growth (1 yr): 35.10%

• Executive Chairman: Ralph Oppenheimer • Group Managing Director: Julian Verden • Finance Director: David Paul

Address: 44 Hill St., Mayfair London W1X 7FR, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7629-6070 Fax: +44-20-7629-7426

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 26.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 24.50% Employees (2004): 1,249 Employee Growth (1 yr): 5.10%

• Chairman: Anil Agrawal • President and CEO: B. K. Sharma • CFO: B. S. Vadivelu

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 507.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 13.40% Employees (2004): 1,575 Employee Growth (1 yr): 2.30%

• Chairman and CEO: Francis R. (Frank) McAllister • EVP and COO: Stephen A. Lang • VP and CFO: Gregory A. Wing

Address: 1321 Discovery Dr. Billings, MT 59102 Phone: 406-373-8700 Fax: 406-373-8701

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Sulliden Exploration dreams in metallic colors. The company explores for and develops properties in Canada and Peru in hopes of finding gold, lead, silver, and other deposits. The company's primary focus has been its wholly-owned Shahuindo Gold-Silver project located in northern Peru. The exploration of the Shahuindo project has largely been on hold pending the outcome of a court Sulliden case resolving an ownership dispute of the property with Exploration Inc. Algamarca. Sulliden Exploration was founded in 1985. Sumikin Bussan is some kind of busy trader. The company is primarily engaged in the trading of iron and steel, textiles, and food products; it also trades machinery, nonferrous metals, chemicals and plastics, and other items. In addition, Sumikin Bussan makes office, construction, and manufacturing equipment and buys and sells real estate. Founded to carry out the Sumitomo Group's metal-trading business, Sumikin Bussan expanded into other commodities (textiles, apparel, and foodstuffs) after acquiring Sumikin Bussan Itoman in 1993. Steel products manufacturer Sumitomo Metal Corporation Industries owns about 40% of Sumikin Bussan. Sunshine Metals distributes aluminum bar, block, rod, and plate products to aerospace, military, and commercial customers worldwide through distribution centers in California, Kansas, Washington state, and China. Among the company's main suppliers for the products it distributes are Alcoa, Kaiser Aluminum, and Weber Metals. Sunshine Metals is a unit of Sunshine Metals Spectrum Metals, which does business as Corrosion Materials. Although it's not a good source of Vitamin C, Tang Industries "is" a diversified holding company. Its largest subsidiary, National Material, is a metal fabricating and distributing company that engages in steel stamping and recycles and trades aluminum and scrap metal. Another subsidiary, SKD Automotive Group, makes stamped and welded vehicle components, including chassis, structural, and suspension components. Tang Industries also owns manufacturer GF Office Furniture and has investments in pharmaceuticals and real estate. Tang Industries was founded in Tang Industries, 1960 by Chinese immigrant Cyrus Tang after he bought a small Inc. metal-stamping shop in Illinois. Target Exploration and Mining has its sights now set on gold. The mining company (formerly Leicester Diamond Mines) had aimed to explore for diamonds, generally in the Otish Mountains region of Quebec. Its diamond activities are on hold as it is reorganizing its operations, after having dumped its holdings in various mineral properties. Target Exploration and Mining exploration does have Target Exploration option agreements for several gold and copper properties in British and Mining Corp. Columbia.

Address: 1155 University St., Ste. 812 Montreal, Quebec H3B 3A7, Canada Phone: 514-861-1953 Fax: 514-954-9673

Fiscal Year End: April Revenue (2004): 0.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 23.20% Employees (2004): 10

Address: 6-2, Hommachi 3chome, Chuo-ku Osaka 541-8544, Japan Phone: +81-6-6244-8001 Fax: +81-6-6244-8009

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2005): 9575.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 13.30% Employees (2005): 3,607 Employee Growth (1 yr): 1.60%

• Acting Chairman: James H. Coleman • President, CEO, and Director: Jacques Trottier • CFO and Secretary: Michel Rathé

• President and CEO: Gashun Amaya

Address: 1302 Clarkson Clayton Center, Ste. 209 Ellisville, MO 63011 Phone: 636-527-7050 Fax: 636-527-7052

• President: Chuck Tussey • VP International Sales: David Haywood

Address: 3773 Howard Hughes Pkwy., Ste. 350N Las Vegas, NV 89109 Phone: 702-734-3700 Fax: 702-734-6766

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Cyrus Tang • Treasurer and Secretary: John Chen

Address: 1066 W. Hastings St., Ste. 2300 Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 3X2, Canada Phone: 604-601-8273 Fax: 604-601-8250

• President, CEO, and Director: Mark J. Morabito • CFO and Director: Jon D. Bridgman • Corporate Secretary: Brigitte M. McArthur

Teck Cominco Limited

TECO Coal Corporation

Tenke Mining Corp.

Terra Nova Gold Corp.

Terraco Gold Corp.

Teck Cominco really digs zinc. Its Red Dog mine in Alaska holds one of the world's largest zinc reserves. The company also owns or has interests in a number of mines located in Canada and Peru. Teck Cominco also mines gold, coal, and copper. In 2003 it traded its metallurgical coal interests and $150 million for a stake in the newly formed Fording Canadian Coal Trust. Teck Cominco holds about 40% of the Elk Valley Coal partnership, with the trust controlling the remainder, and manages its operations. In 2006 Teck Cominco offered to buy Canadian nickel miner Inco for $16 billion. Predecessor Teck was founded in 1913 as a gold miner, and the company still mines more than 250,000 ounces of gold a year in Canada. For TECO Coal buried treasure doesn't have to be bright and shiny, sometimes it's coal black. The company, a subsidiary of TECO Energy, owns 13 operating subsidiaries that mine and produce volatile metallurgical, ultra low ash, and low sulfur coals. Additionally the companies make synthetic fuel, and processes coal. The mines and facilities are in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. TECO Coal operates 28 underground and 10 surface mines from four mining complexes. None of the coal it produces is sold to TECO Energy's electric company. Its customers are the steel industry and electric utilities. company primarily explores for copper and gold in South America (via the Josemaria, Vicuña, and Batidero projects in Argentina) and copper in Africa (through a 55% interest in the Tenke Fungurume Project located in Congo's Katanga province). In addition, the mining company has obtained the earn-in rights to TNR Resources Ltd.'s Northern Properties, a combination of copper and gold exploration properties in San Juan and La Rioja provinces of Argentina. Terra Nova Gold, formerly GlobeNet Resources, is looking for a bit of earth to explore. The company had several unsuccessful gold exploration projects in Newfoundland, but wrote them off in 2005. Terra Nova also dropped its option on the San Diego gold property in Mexico. UK-based investment firm Ocean Resources Capital holds about 45% of the company. Terraco Energy, was a Canadian oil and gas company that entered the gold mining business by purchasing properties in Nevada and Arizona. It controls a 3-mile strike in the "Bonanza" gold property in the Harquahala Mining District in La Paz County, Arizona. The area is home to two of the largest gold mines in the district. Other properties the company is exploring include two Nevada prospects: Eagleville (in Mineral County) and Tuscarora (in Elko County) in Nevada. Terraco is seeking silver in addition to gold.

• Chairman: Norman B. Keevil Address: 200 Burrard St., Ste. • President, CEO, and 600 Fiscal Year End: December Director: Donald R. (Don) Vancouver, British Columbia V6C Revenue (2004): 2845.20 M Lindsay 3L9, Canada Revenue Growth (1 yr): 52.80% • SVP, Corporate Phone: 604-687-1117 Employees (2004): 6,710 Development: Robert J. Fax: 604-687-6100 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-7.10%) Vance

Address: 200 Allison Blvd. Corbin, KY 40701 Phone: 606-523-4444 Fax: 606-523-4490 Address: 2101-885 W. Georgia St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3E8, Canada Phone: 604-689-7842 Fax: 604-689-4250 Address: 3rd Fl., 157 Alexander St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6A 1B8, Canada Phone: 604-684-0561 Fax: 604-602-9311

Address: 666 Burrard St., Ste. 500 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3P6, Canada Phone: 604-639-3199 Fax: 604-639-3197

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 280.00 M Employees (2005): 618

• President: J. J. (Jim) Shackleford • VP, Operations: Robert Zik • VP, Comptroller: Clark Taylor

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 40 Employee Growth (1 yr): 8.10%

• Chairman: Lukas H. Lundin • President, CEO, and Director: Paul K. Conibear • CFO: Wanda Lee

• CEO and Director: David Patterson • President and Director: Harvey Keats

• President and Director: Todd Hilditch • CFO and Corporate Secretary: Rochelle Pires

Tertiary Minerals plc

Tertiary Minerals is in the age of exploration. The company explores for gold, platinum group metals, copper, and other minerals primarily in Scandinavia and Saudi Arabia. Some of its projects include Ghurayyah (tantalum-niobium) in Saudi Arabia, Ahmavuoma (copper and gold) in Sweden, and Kaaresselkä (gold) in Finland. Tantalum is used in capacitors for consumer electronics. Its diamond interests, including the Kuusamo project in Finland, were spun off as a separate company -- called Sunrise Diamonds -- in 2005. Tertiary Minerals holds approximately 25% of Sunrise Diamonds.

Teryl Resources braves the cold in Alaska and the heat in Texas. The company owns interests in several gold properties in Alaska's Fairbanks Mining Division. The 20%-owned Gil project in Alaska is a partnership with Kinross Gold. It also holds a silver prospect in Teryl Resources British Columbia. Teryl Resources, through subsidiary Teryl Inc., Corp. [TRYLF.PK] has oil and gas operations in Texas.

Address: Sunrise House, Hulley Road Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 2LP, United Kingdom Phone: +44-1625-626-203 Fax: +44-1625-626-204 Address: 1103 - 11871 Horseshoe Way Richmond, British Columbia V7A 5H5, Canada Phone: 604-278-5996 Fax: 604-278-3409

Address: 675 W. Hastings St., Teuton Resources doesn't have to venture far from home to find Ste. 207 precious metals. The company explores gold and silver properties Vancouver, British Columbia V6B in the Stewart and Eskay Creek regions of British Columbia. It has 1N2, Canada about six properties its developing including Bonsai, Tennyson, Phone: 604-682-3680 Teuton Resources and Treaty Oak. Most of the company's projects are being Fax: 604-682-3992 Corp. developed in conjunction with option partners. Texas T Minerals (formerly Texas T Resources) now prefers to hunt for gold, not Texas tea. The former oil and gas exploration and production company operated in the Alberta and Saskatchewan provinces of Canada, as well as in Eastern Europe. The company has been restructuring and divesting subsidiaries. It has shifted its focus to exploring for minerals in northern Quebec. Address: 1530 9th Ave. SE Texas T Minerals has acquired an option from Canadian Royalties Calgary, Alberta T2G 0T7, Inc. for a 50% stake in part of the Raglan Mine. It has also signed Canada a letter of intent to acquire an option on the La Isla property in the Phone: 403-290-1250 Texas T Minerals Inca del Oro region of northern Chile. The property is a gold, silver, Fax: 403-272-3620 and copper prospect. Inc. Texxon, a development stage company not related to global oil giant Exxon Mobil, is working to license a process to withdraw platinum from mineralized water, and it has lined up potential customers for the platinum. But Texxon lacks the cash to commercialize its operations, and the company in the meantime Address: 207 N. Gilbert, Ste. has acquired telecommunications services provider V3 Global. To 210-D expand its telecom operations, Texxon announced plans in 2005 Gilbert, AZ 85234 to buy TelePlus, which resells airtime for international wireless Texxon, Inc. Phone: 480-215-0195 communications. [TXXNE.OB]

• Executive Chairman: Patrick L. Cheetham Fiscal Year End: May Revenue (2005): 0.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 44.60% Employees (2005): 250

• President and Secretary, and Director: John G. Robertson • CFO and Director: Susanne Robertson

Yes

• President: Dino Cremonese

• President, CFO, Secretary, and Director: Jacqueline Danforth

• Chairman and CEO: Benjamin Hansel • President and Director: Gifford Mabie III

Yes

The Coteau Properties Company

garde film maker. Rather the Coteau Properties Company mines some 16 million tons of coal each year from its Freedom Mine in Beulah, North Dakota. It began operations in 1983. Its coal is marketed through a partnership with a subsidiary of Basin Electric. Customers primarily are electric utilities, though Coteau also sells to another Basin subsidiary, Dakota Gasification Company, which operates a coal gasification plant. The company is a part of NACCO Industries subsidiary The North American Coal Corporation.

Since it has been in business since the nineteenth century, it's probably fair to say that The David J. Joseph Company (DJJ) has been in a scrap or two. One of the largest scrap-metal brokerage operations in the US, DJJ recycles and sells both ferrous (iron and steel) and nonferrous metals (copper, aluminum, lead, and brass) worldwide. To accomplish this feat, the company operates more than 25 scrap processing centers (including more than 10 automobile shredders) and about a dozen trading offices in the US. Its shredders can process up to a million car hulks each year. DJJ is a subsidiary of Netherlands-based energy and retail firm The David J. Joseph Company SHV Holdings. The Doe Run Company assures us that no female deer are injured or killed in the production of its metal products. The company is primarily involved in mining, milling, smelting, and refining lead. It is also engaged in the recycling and fabrication of lead and lead products. Doe Run has operations in the US (Arizona, Missouri, and Washington) and South America (Peru). The venerable US company expanded outside of the US for the first time in 1997 The Doe Run when it acquired the smelters and refineries in La Oroya, Peru, and the Cobriza copper mine, creating Doe Run Peru. Company The North American Coal Corporation has been digging up dirt since 1913. The company, a subsidiary of NACCO Industries that's also known as NACoal, operates surface lignite mines in Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, and Texas. It has 2.4 billion tons of proven and probable coal reserves. It operates through subsidiary companies like Coteau Properties, Falkirk Mining, and The North Red River Mining Company. NACoal is the oldest of NACCO's American Coal subsidiaries, which also include Hamilton Beach/Proctor-Silex and Corporation NACCO Material Handling, the maker of Yale-branded forklifts. Midway Coal Mining for his eyes. The subsidiary of Chevron Corporation (formerly called ChevronTexaco), owns and operates coal mines in Alabama, New Mexico, and Wyoming. The company operates two surface mines, the McKinley mine in New Mexico and Kemmerer in Wyoming, and the North River underground mining location in Alabama, as well as a minority interest in a Venezuelan-based operation called Inter-American Coal. P&M The Pittsburg & sells more than 14 million tons of coal annually and controls more Midway Coal than 165 million tons of developed and undeveloped coal Mining Co. reserves.

Address: 204 County Rd. 15 Beulah, ND 58523 Phone: 701-873-2281 Fax: 701-873-7226

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 144.30 M Employees (2005): 400

• President: Marc Schulz • CTO: Doug Ritzke

Address: 300 Pike St. Cincinnati, OH 45202 Phone: 513-419-6200 Fax: 513-419-6222

• President and CEO: Keith B. Grass • EVP and CFO: James H. Goetz • SVP, IT: Gary Muzzillo

Address: 1801 Park 270 Dr., Ste. 300 St. Louis, MO 63146 Fiscal Year End: October Phone: 314-453-7100 Revenue (2005): 867.30 M Fax: 314-453-7177 Employees (2005): 4,271

• Chairman: Ira Leon Rennert • President and CEO: Bruce Neil • CFO: David A. Chaput

• President and CEO: Robert L. (Bob) Benson • SVP, Business Address: 14785 Preston Rd., Ste. Fiscal Year End: December Development and 1100 Revenue (2004): 110.80 M Engineering: Clark A. Dallas, TX 75240 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 17.70% Moseley Phone: 972-239-2625 Employees (2004): 1,360 • SVP and CFO: Charles Fax: 972-387-1328 Employee Growth (1 yr): 10.60% B. (Chuck) Friley

Address: 4601 DTC Blvd. Denver, CO 80237 Phone: 303-930-3600 Fax: 303-930-4189

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 255.60 M Employees (2005): 1,387

• President: Steven (Steve) Parker

The Scottish Coal Company Limited

Thistle Mining Inc.

Thunder Mountain Gold, Inc. [THMG.OB]

The Scottish Coal Company is the largest coal miner in Scotland and one of the largest coal miners in the UK. The company produces about four million tons of coal annually. Scottish Coal has also been expanding into other businesses: wind farms, water, and waste recycling recovery. It was formerly a part of British Coal, but following the breakup of the company Scottish Coal is now held by Mining (Scotland) Limited. Heavy machinery equipment supplier Castlebridge Plant Limited and waste handling firm Alba Resource Recovery are sister companies of Scottish Coal. competitors. Formed in 1996, the ambitious gold mining company has set a goal of 500,000 ounces of gold production per year. Thistle has grown by acquiring existing operations. It currently has gold mines in Kazakhstan, the Philippines, and South Africa. The company went through a restructuring in 2005, in which debt holders Casten Holdings and MC Resources received a 35% stake in Thistle. Mining company Thunder Mountain Gold is looking for its next project. In September 2005 the company sold its real property and mining claims in the Thunder Mountain District of Valley County, Idaho, to the Trust For Public Land, an environmental group that buys land for conservation. No minerals had been produced on Thunder Mountain Gold's Idaho properties since the early 1990s. Currently the company operates no producing mines and owns no mining properties; it is firmly in the exploration stage.

Address: Castlebridge Business Park Gartlove, Clackmannanshire FK10 3PZ, United Kingdom Phone: +44-125-973-3800 Fax: +44-125-973-3850

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 205.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 12.30% Key People Employees (2004): 503 • Chairman: Prof John Employee Growth (1 yr): (-2.10%) Ross Harper

Address: Private Bag X10206 Welkom, Free State 9460, South Africa Phone: +27-57-391-9114 Fax: +27-57-391-9118

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 65.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-18.80%)

• President, CEO and Director: E. James Collord • CFO, Secretary, Treasurer and Director: Robin S. McRae

Address: 3605 E. 16th Ave. Spokane, WA 99223-3620 Phone: 509-535-6092

Address: 111 Richmond St. Thundermin is digging for gold and base metals with furious might. West, Ste. 1116 The company primarily explores for copper, gold, and zinc in Toronto, Ontario M5H2G4, Canada. It has interests in about 60 properties located in mainly in Canada Manitoba, Newfoundland, Quebec, and Saskatchewan. Phone: 416-364-0001 Thundermin Thundermin is concentrating its exploration efforts on the Green Fax: 416-364-5098 Resources Inc. Bay and Cape Bay gold properties in Newfoundland. Tungsten seems to be on the tip of Tiberon's tongue. The exploration and mining company's biggest asset is its approximately 80% stake in the Nui Phao tungsten property being Address: 330 Bay St., Ste. 505 developed in Vietnam. It's estimated to have tungsten reserves of Toronto, Ontario M5H 2S8, 53 million. Once the mine begins operations (expected by 2008), Canada Tiberon has plans to also produce other minerals and metals such Phone: 416-214-1877 Tiberon Minerals as fluorspar, bismuth, gold, and copper. In addition, the company Fax: 416-214-0091 Ltd. has operations in Canada. Philippines. In the exploration stage, its Esperanza gold project is in the Baguio mines district of the northern Philippines. The Address: 26981 Highwood Circle company also is exploring the Honey gold and Norman copper Laguna Hills, CA 92653 Tiger International claims in the Surigao gold district of northeast Mindanao. In Phone: 949-362-1600 Resources Inc. addition, Tiger International Resources has mining interests in Fax: 949-362-5055 [TGILF.PK] Malaysia.

• CEO: Gerrit M. Kennedy • Chairman: Rt. Hon. Lord Lang • CFO: Andreas Graetz

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 16.90% Employees (2004): 1 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

Yes

• Chairman: James W. Gill • President, CEO, and Director: John B. Heslop • Chairman: Ian Roderick Gowrie-Smith • President, CEO, and Director: Mario Caron • VP, Finance and CFO: Walter Henry

• President and CEO: Patric Barry

Yes

Tinka Resources Limited

Tinka Resources doesn't tinker around on its mineral prospects in South America. The junior natural resources company hires experts to conduct drilling and other sampling tasks in its search for gold and copper. Most of its exploration projects are conducted through a partnership with privately held Australian company Sierra Peru. The partnership is currently exploring the Luminaria, Demetrio, Chunumayo, and Tibillos projects in Peru. Tinka Resources also has claims, totaling 17,000 acres, at the Pampa project in south-central Peru. The company had an option agreement with IMA Exploration on 25,000 acres in the Patagonia region of Argentina, but withdrew in 2004.

Tiomin Resources has titanium on its mind. The company is currently developing its Kwale titanium project in Kenya. Once in production (expected to begin in 2007), Kwale will produce rutile and ilmenite (sources of titanium dioxide), as well as zircon (used in ceramic glazing, foundry molds, and electronics). Titanium dioxide pigment is used in paints, sunscreens, plastics, and textiles. In addition, Tiomin has other exploration properties Tiomin Resources located in Kenya and Canada. It's also involved in a copper and Inc. gold mining joint venture in Peru. sponge. Along with titanium sponge (primary titanium), the company makes melted, mill, and fabricated titanium products. Titanium is a lightweight metal used by commercial and military aerospace manufacturers and the power generation, pollution control, and auto industries. TIMET's aerospace customers, which include Boeing, Rolls-Royce, and United Technologies, use titanium for applications such as jet engine components and wing supports. TIMET operates production facilities in the US and Europe. Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons controls a majority Titanium Metals Corporation [TIE] stake in the company.

TLC Ventures Corp.

Tom Exploration Inc.

TLC Ventures wants to give its mineral exploration and mine development business some tender loving care. The company's only current project is the Point Leamington property in Newfoundland, Canada. The property has estimated potential for yielding zinc and copper in addition to precious metals including gold and silver. It acquired the Point Leamington property from Rubicon Minerals in 2004. Gold Fields controls approximately 10% of TLC Ventures. Tom Exploration thinks gold in Canada is the way to go. The company has mining claims on the Elder, Blondeau, Lalonde, and Tagami properties. It plans to devote most of its resources into developing the Elder gold property in Quebec. Tom Exploration also has an investment in the Bristol gold property (and started exploration on the project in 2005.) Bristol had been previously controlled by major mining players Placer Dome, Teck Corporation, and Cameco Corporation.

Address: 1090 W. Georgia St., Ste. 1305 Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 3V7, Canada Phone: 604-685-9316 Fax: 604-683-1585

• President, CEO, and acting CFO: Andrew J. B. Carter • Chairman, President, and CEO: Jean-Charles Potvin • VP Finance, CFO and Corporate Secretary: Bruce Ramsden • VP Project Development: Robbert Borst

Address: 26 Wellington St. East, Ste. 820 Toronto, Ontario M5E1S2, Canada Phone: 416-350-3779 Fax: 416-350-3570

Address: 1999 Broadway, Ste. 4300 Denver, CO 80202 Phone: 303-296-5600 Fax: 303-296-5645

Address: 200 Granville St., Ste. 285 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1S4, Canada Phone: 604-681-9944 Fax: 604-681-9955 Address: 15, Gamble East, Ste. 204 Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec J9X 3B6, Canada Phone: 819-797-8668 Fax: 819-797-6050

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 749.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 49.40% Employees (2004): 2,227 Employee Growth (1 yr): 8.40%

• Chairman: Harold C. Simmons • Vice Chairman and CEO: Steven L. Watson • President and COO: Christian Leonhard Henley • Interim CEO and President, CFO, and Director: Edward C. Farrauto • VP, Corporate Development and Director: Blayne Johnson

• President and Director: Gilles Fiset

Yes

Toyota Tsusho America, Inc.

Tone Resources hopes to hit pay dirt in Nevada. Although headquartered in Canada, the company explores for gold in the northern and central part of Nevada. It is exploring nearly 10 mineral properties, many located near popular mining areas in such counties as Elko and Eureka. Since 2004 Tone Resources has been involved in a strategic partnership with fellow Canadabased mining company Teck Cominco for several of its exploration projects in Nevada. Toodyay Resources, formerly Gympie Gold, is a coal and gold exploration company with operations in Australia. In late 2003 a fire broke out at its Southland Colliery mine, effectively shutting down all operations and forcing the company into bankruptcy. In early 2004 the company divested its gold assets and liquidated other operations. Chinese mining company Yanzhou Coal Mining Company purchased the company's Southland Coal subsidiary, while a combination of mineral exploration companies and investment entities purchased Toodyay Resources' Eldorado Gold operations. After exiting bankruptcy, the company is seeking a fresh start under its new name, Toodyay Resources. to mine. The junior natural resources company primarily owns two advanced gold projects in Europe. Tournigan's Curraghinalt project in Northern Ireland contains an estimated 260,000 ounces of gold. In the Slovak Republic, Tournigan owns the Kremnica gold project, which has been mined since the Middle Ages and contains an estimated 420,000 ounces of gold and nearly 3 million ounces of silver. The company also holds uranium properties in the Slovak Republic and the US. It had options on sites in El Salvador (including the historic El Potosi gold mine), but sold these projects in 2004. Toyota Tsusho America, a subsidiary of Toyota Tsusho Corporation, distributes a wide variety of products and provides logistics services from more than 30 offices and warehouses in North America. The company has six operating units, industrial materials (specialty chemicals and automotive materials); logistics and manufacturing support (OEM and aftermarket automotive parts); machinery, electronics, and technology (electronic components); metals (steel and wire cloth, flat-rolled steel, aluminum smelting); natural products and resources (food and paper products); and vehicles (Toyota and Daihatsu products to Latin America and Caribbean countries).

Trade Winds Ventures Inc.

Trade Winds Ventures is navigating a course through North America to explore and develop mineral properties. The company's primary concern is gold exploration in the prolific Red Lake and Detour Lake districts of Ontario. It also holds the Turner Lake property in Nunavut. Trade Winds Ventures is interested in exploring and developing projects in the US.

Tone Resources Limited

Toodyay Resources Ltd.

Tournigan Gold Corporation

Address: 2244 W. 32nd Ave. Vancouver, British Columbia V6L 2B2, Canada Phone: 604-263-5614 Fax: 604-263-5610

Address: Level 1, 33 Ord St. West Perth 6005, Australia Phone: +61-9286-9999 Fax: +61-9286-9888

• President and CEO: Scott D. Baxter • Acting CFO: Daniel F. Huber

• Administrator: Andrew Love

Address: 700 W. Pender St., Ste. 301 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1G8, Canada Phone: 604-683-8320 Fax: 604-683-8340

• CEO: Damien E. Reynolds • President and COO: James Walchuck • CFO: Robert (Bob) Nowell

Address: 437 Madison Ave., 29th Fl. Fiscal Year End: March New York, NY 10022 Revenue (2005): 377.80 M Phone: 212-418-0100 Employees (2005): 1,200

• President and CEO: Takashi Hasegawa • EVP and COO: William Wiener • General Manager, Machinery, Electronics, and Technology: Tsutomu Suzuki

Address: 1620 W. 8th Ave., Ste. 302 Vancouver, British Columbia V6J 1V4, Canada Phone: 604-736-5005 Fax: 604-736-5004

• President and CEO: Ian D. Lambert • CFO: Harvey M. Lawson

Trans America Industries Ltd.

Trans-Siberian Gold plc

Tri Origin Exploration Ltd.

Tribute Minerals Inc.

Trio Gold Corp.

Triple Plate Junction PLC

Trans America Industries explores for gold...and black gold. In Manitoba, the company has mineral claims at the Lynn Lake gold project. It also holds a small stake in the Claymore/Bonnie Glen oil and gas property in Alberta. In 2005, Trans America Industries formed a joint venture (with Majestic Gold Corp.) to explore for gold in the Shandong Province of China. It's not easy being in the precious-metals mining business, especially if your mining operations happen to be located in Siberia. Trans-Siberian Gold braves the cold to acquire and develop gold mining properties in Russia. The company's properties include Veduga in western Siberia and Asacha/Rodnikova in eastern Russia. Trans-Siberian Gold is also looking to explore the Yakutia area for gold and silver. Formed in 2004, none of its operations are in production. Gold mining giant AngloGold Ashanti holds roughly a 30% stake in the exploration company. Tri Origin Exploration hopes to get the lead out while going for the gold. At five mining properties (two in Canada and three in Australia), Tri Origin is at varying stages of exploration or development for the future mining of gold, silver, copper, zinc, and lead. In Canada, the company primarily drills for gold deposits at its Red Lake Extension project in the prolific Red Lake region of Ontario. Tri Origin Exploration's operations in Australia are conducted through 51%-owned Tri Origin Minerals. Tribute Minerals wouldn't mind gold as an acknowledgement of gratitude for its hard work. Through a relationship with Falconbridge Limited (formerly Noranda), Tribute Minerals explores for gold and base minerals in Canada, primarily in Ontario. Its main project is the Confederation Lake property, but it has several other exploration projects nearby. None of Tribute's properties are in production. If this company has to name its favorite trio, it would be gold, silver, and copper. Trio Gold is a junior mining company primarily exploring for precious metals; it owns the Rodeo Creek property in Nevada's Carlin Trend gold-producing region. The mining company additionally owns the Empire Mine property in Idaho and the San Ramon property in Chile. None of its properties are currently in production. Triple Plate Junction doesn't mind digging through multiple layers of earth to get to gold. The company has gold exploration activities in Papua New Guinea and Vietnam. In Vietnam it is prospecting at the Pu Sam Cap (PSC) area in partnership with Newmont Vietnam. The company changed its focus (and its name) from registering Internet domain names to gold exploration with the acquisition of Larchland Limited in 2003. Candice Holdings has a 25% stake in Triple Plate Junction.

Address: 905 W. Pender St., Ste. 300 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C Fiscal Year End: December 1L6, Canada Revenue (2004): 0.10 M Phone: 604-688-8042 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 304.50% • President and Director: Fax: 604-689-8032 John K. Campbell Chairman: John Jeremy Seymour Marshall Address: Unit B1, Church Barn, • Managing Director and Old Farm Business Centre, Board Member: Jocelyn Church Road Fiscal Year End: December Waller Toft, Cambridgeshire CB3 7RF, Revenue (2004): 0.00 M • Finance Director, United Kingdom Employees (2004): 253 Secretary, and Board Phone: +44-1223-265-760 Employee Growth (1 yr): Member: Simon V. Olsen Fax: +44-1223-265-765 169.10%

Address: 3 Centre St., Ste. 206 Markham, Ontario L3P 3P9, Canada Phone: 905-294-9942 Fax: 905-294-9943

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2004): 1.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 37701.00%

Address: 67 Yonge St., Ste. 808 Toronto, Ontario M5E 1J8, Canada Phone: 416-368-2929 Fax: 416-601-1450

• President, CEO, and Director: Ian BrodieBrown Fiscal Year End: December • VP, Corporate Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Development: Peter Revenue Growth (1 yr): 186.60% Purcell

Address: 251 Midpark Blvd. SE, Ste. 145 Calgary, Alberta T2X 1S3, Canada Phone: 403-262-9640 Fax: 403-262-9759

• President, CEO, and Director: Harry B. Ruskowsky • CFO and Secretary: David W. Bassett

Address: 105 Piccadilly London W1J 7JN, United Kingdom Phone: +44-207-499-1400 Fax: +44-207-499-1455

• Chairman: Ian Roderick Gowrie-Smith • CEO and Director: Geoffrey (Geoff) Walsh • Finance Director and Board Member: David John Lees

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2005): 0.00 M Employees (2005): 7 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-56.30%)

• President and Director: Robert I. Valliant • CFO: Toni Chapman

Troon Ventures Ltd.

Troon Ventures, managed by Northair Group, explores for gold and base metal deposits in Ontario. The company's properties include Troy and Fry Lake. The Troy gold property is near the successful mining areas of Kirkland Lake, Val d'Or, and Timmins. The Northair Group manages other Canadian mining companies including NDT Ventures and Sherwood Mining.

Tumi Resources Limited [TUMIF.OB]

Tumi Resources wants a steady diet of gold and silver. The company explores for precious metals in Mexico and Peru. Its main exploration program is the Cinco Minas project in the Jalisco silver belt near Guadalajara, Mexico. Other projects include Gran Cabrera and Jimenez Del Teul in Mexico. Chairman, president, and CEO David Henstridge holds about 10% of the company.

TVI Pacific Inc.

TXU Mining Company LP

Tyhee Development Corp.

Tyler Resources Inc. [TYRRF.OB]

TVI Pacific is prospecting in Asia. The company is a precious (gold and silver) and base metals exploration company with operations in the Philippines and China. Its main project in the Philippines is the Canatuan mine, which is being expanded to produce copper and zinc by 2006. Its HPGEI subsidiary in China operates the Shuikoushan project in the Hunan province, as well as other exploration properties. The company's TVI Drilling Division performs contract drilling services for clients throughout Asia. For TXU Corp. that land may be your land, but this land is a mine. TXU Mining, a subsidiary of the Texas energy company, excavates coal from six locations at three mining sites in Texas: Martin Lake Mine, Big Brown Mine, and Monticello Mine. TXU Mining owns one of the nation's largest lignite surface-mining operations in the nation, with more than 30 million tons produced each year. (Lignite is an intermediate product between peat and the more common bituminous coal.) The unit resides within TXU's Power segment, and the whole of its production capacity is used to fuel TXU's power generation needs. TXU Power also uses natural gas and nuclear fuels for power generation. Tyhee Development has some mining prospects that it hopes will pan out. The junior exploration company primarily explores and develops the Yellowknife gold project in Canada's Northwest Territory. Its Yellowknife project, which consists of the Discovery Mine and Nicholas Lake properties, was purchased in 2001. The company completed surface drilling on the project and has advanced to underground development of the site. Tyhee Development has owned interests in other properties in the Northwest Territory with deposits of silver, copper, cobalt, and silver. Tyler Resources does most of its digging in Mexico. The company primarily explores the 95%-owned Bahuerachi property in the Chihuahua state of Mexico. Through its Recursos Tyler subsidiary, the company has confirmed gold, molybdenum, zinc, silver, and copper deposits and is working to further develop the property. In Canada, Tyler Resources also has interests in diamond properties in the Northwest Territories and a gold exploration program in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Address: 625 Howe St., Ste. 860 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2T6, Canada Phone: 604-687-7545 Fax: 604-689-5041

• President and CEO: D. Bruce McLeod • Secretary: Gail M. Sharp

Address: 1090 W. Georgia St., Ste. 1305 Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 3V7, Canada Phone: 604-685-9316 Fax: 604-683-1585

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 2 Employee Growth (1 yr): 100.00%

Address: 736 6th Ave. SW, Ste. 2000 Calgary, Alberta T2P 3T7, Canada Phone: 403-265-4356 Fax: 403-264-7028

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Clifford M. James Fiscal Year End: December • VP, Exploration: Carl Revenue (2004): 2.70 M Caumartin Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-4.30%) • VP, Finance and Employees (2004): 476 Administration, CFO: E. Employee Growth (1 yr): 31.50% John Adkins

• Chairman, President, CEO, and acting CFO: David A. Henstridge • Secretary: Mariana Bermudez

Yes

• SVP and Chief Fossil Officer: Richard Wistrand Address: 1601 Bryan St. Dallas, TX 75201 Phone: 214-812-5600

Address: 675 W. Hastings St., Ste. 401 Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 1N2, Canada Phone: 604-681-2877 Fax: 604-681-2879 Address: 926 5th Ave. SW, Ste. 500 Calgary, Alberta T2P 0N7, Canada Phone: 403-269-6753 Fax: 403-266-2606

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 325.70 M Employees (2005): 1,765

• Senior Director, Mine Operations: Gerry Pearson

• Chairman: Denis M. Taschuk • President, CEO, and Director: David R. Webb

• Chairman: Gregory H. Smith Fiscal Year End: July • CEO and Director: Jean Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Pierre Jutras Revenue Growth (1 yr): 235.30% • CFO: Jennifer Munro

Yes

Typhoon Exploration is creating a whirlwind of mining activity in Canada. The company primarily explores for gold, copper, and zinc. Its current mining projects inlcude the McCorkill, Fayolle, Monexco, Lac Aigneault, and Wapiscan properties located in Typhoon Quebec. None of its operations are in production. CDS & Co. Exploration Inc. holds more than 60% of the company's shares. U. S. Borax digs up a lot of dirt so that you can make your clothes a lot less dirty. One of Rio Tinto Group's industrial minerals subsidiaries, it operates the largest open pit mine in California. The company mines boron to produce refined borates. U. S. Borax supplies nearly half the world's refined borates, which are used in such products as detergents, insulation fiberglass, heat-resistant glass, ceramic glazes and tiles, agricultural micronutrients, wood treatments, polymer additives, and pest control products. It U. S. Borax Inc. markets its products to more than 100 countries worldwide. U.S. Energy, through its 70% stake in Crested Corp., has put its energy in many places, including minerals, natural gas, real estate, and aviation. The company, which operates the Sutter Gold Mining subsidiary, is seeking to expand its gold, uranium, and molybdenum properties. U.S. Energy also runs an aircraft support business that includes flight instruction and aircraft fueling and maintenance. In 2005 U.S. Energy sold its 91% stake in Rocky Mountain Gas, a company engaged in exploring and developing U.S. Energy Corp. coal bed methane properties, to Canada-based Enterra Energy. [USEG] The deal leaves U.S. Energy with a stake in Enterra. Eureka! Eureka County, Nevada, that is, where mining company U.S. Gold owns the Tonkin Springs gold property. The company is evaluating the ongoing development and production of the site, which includes an open-pit gold mine, a milling facility, and support facilities. U.S. Gold took full ownership of the Tonkin Springs property in 2005 by buying out BacTech Mining. Through affiliate Gold Resource Corporation, U.S. Gold owns an interest in the El U.S. Gold Aguila gold and silver property in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Corporation Industry veteran Rob McEwen acquired a 33% stake in U.S. Gold [USGL.OB] in 2005 and was named the company's chairman and CEO. Treasure of the Sierra Madre is the main attraction for UC Resources. The exploration-stage company is engaged in acquiring, exploring for, and developing mineral properties, primarily silver and gold. It has interests in mineral properties within the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico, one of the North America's most active silver and gold exploration and mining areas. UC Resources holds a 100% interest in a 19,269-hectare (192-sq.-km.) Copalquin property, near Durango, Mexico, where it has been drilling prospects. The company has abandoned its interests in the Gregory River and Botwin Basin properties in UC Resources Newfoundland and in the Raglan properties in Quebec in Canada. Ltd.

Address: 255 Curé-Labelle Blvd., Ste. 204 Laval, Quebec H7L 2Z9, Canada Phone: 450-622-4066 Fax: 450-622-4337

• President and CEO: David McDonald • Secretary and CFO: Michael Lesage

Address: 26877 Tourney Rd. Valencia, CA 91355 Phone: 661-287-5400 Fax: 661-287-5495

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 179.40 M Employees (2005): 1,200

Address: 877 N. 8th West Riverton, WY 82501 Phone: 307-856-9271 Fax: 307-857-3050

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 0.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-82.60%) Employees (2004): 35 Employee Growth (1 yr): 2.90%

Address: 2201 Kipling St., Ste. 100 Lakewood, CO 80215 Phone: 303-238-1438 Fax: 303-238-1724

Address: 595 Howe St., Ste. 507 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2T5, Canada Phone: 604-681-7265 Fax: 604-681-2161

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-90.40%) Employees (2004): 3 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• President and CEO: Gary Goldberg • COO: Chris Robison • CFO: Jeff Olsen

• Chairman and CEO: Keith G. Larsen • VP Finance, CFO, Treasurer, and Chief Accounting Officer: Robert S. (Scott) Lorimer Yes • Chairman and CEO: Robert R. (Rob) McEwen • President and COO: Ann S. Carpenter • VP, CFO, and Secretary: William F. Pass

• President, CEO, and Director: Richard J. (Rick) Hamelin • VP Corporate Development: William S. (Will) Elston • CFO: Nicole Wood

Yes

UCM Group plc

UK Coal plc

Unigold Inc.

Unimin Corporation

United States Antimony Corporation [UAMY.OB]

UCM Group makes synthetic mineral crystals by melting and then cooling natural magnesite and zircon, which are then crushed and graded according to the customer's specifications. The material is then sold to customers who use them in insulation products, steelmaking, automotive products, and ceramic components. In the US, the UCM Group owns zirconia materials manufacturer Universal America and electro-fused magnesia producer Muscle Shoals Minerals. With UK Coal the name pretty much says it all. The British company owns and operates more than a dozen surface and underground mine properties located throughout the UK. It is the largest coal miner in Britain, producing about 15 million tons of coal annually (about 60% of all coal mined in the UK). The company also redevelops former mining sites into agricultural land and business parks, which it then rents or sells. In 2004 UK Coal sold its minor coal subsidiary in Australia. The company expanded dramatically in the 1990s when it acquired the coal mining assets of government-owned British Coal. While Unigold's search for the yellow-tinted precious metal may be obvious, you may not know that the company also looks for copper. It explores and develops gold and copper properties in the Dominican Republic. Unigold is currently determining the potential of the Los Candelones Deposit on its Neita property. The company is looking to partner with other mining companies to further develop the property. company's products include ball clay, barium sulfate, bentonite clay, calcium carbonate, dolomite, feldspar, high-purity quartz, kaolin, magnetite, microcrystalline silica, nepheline syenite, olivine, silica sand, and talc. Unimin sells its products to customers in a broad range of industries, including producers of ceramics, fiberglass, fiber-optics, glass, oil and gas, paint and coatings, quartz lighting, and semiconductors. It operates from facilities in the Americas, Australia, and Europe. The company was founded in 1970. The products of United States Antimony don't span the alphabet from A to Z, but they do include both antimony and zeolite. The company produces antimony oxide, which is used as a flame retardant in plastics, fiberglass, and textiles and as a color fastener in paint. United States Antimony buys most of its raw antimony from China and Canada. The company has begun exploratory mining operations on a property in Mexico. United States Antimony also processes zeolite, which is used in animal feed, fertilizer, water filtration, and other applications. The company has been losing money, however, and its auditors have questioned whether it will be able to stay in business. Al Dugan owns a quarter of the company.

• Chairman: John Gordon

Address: Doxey Rd. Stafford ST16 1DZ, United Kingdom Phone: +44-1785-223-122 Fax: +44-1785-212-259

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 63.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 11.20%

• Chief Executive: Jamie Brundell • Group Finance Director: Melvyn Fookes

Address: Harworth Park, Blyth Road, Harworth Doncaster, South Yorkshire DN11 8DB, United Kingdom Phone: +44-1302-751751 Fax: +44-1302-752420

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 853.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-14.90%) Employees (2004): 5,348 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-11.80%)

• Chairman: David Jones • CEO and Director: Garold (Gerry) Spindler • Finance Director and Board Member: Christopher (Chris) Mawe

Address: 141 Adelaide St. West, Ste. 420 Toronto, Ontario M5H 3L5, Fiscal Year End: December Canada Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Phone: 416-363-2467 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 79.10% Fax: 416-363-2058

• President, CEO, and Director: John P. Thompson • VP Finance, CFO, and Director: Joseph Del Campo

Address: 258 Elm St. New Canaan, CT 06840 Phone: 203-966-8880 Fax: 203-966-3453

• President: Kevin F. Crawford • EVP: Thomas M. Kilroy Jr. • SVP Finance and Treasurer: William E. Whamond

Address: 1250 Prospect Creek Rd. Thompson Falls, MT 59873 Phone: 406-827-3523 Fax: 406-827-3543

Key People • Chairman, President, Secretary and Treasurer: John C. Lawrence • Manufacturers and Sales Representative: Matt Keane

Yes

UrAsia Energy, formerly Signature Resources, wants to make a name for itself in the uranium mining business. With the acquisition of UrAsia BVI in 2005, the company began exploring for uranium, primarily through its holdings in several projects in Kazakhstan. It has a 30% stake in the Kharassan uranium project and a 70% interest in the Betpak Dala joint venture. When the company was Signature Resources, it explored for gold and silver UrAsia Energy in Uganda and Canada. It had little luck in both countries and Ltd. dropped the option agreements for all of those properties. The company processes used uranium -- about half of which comes from old Russian atomic warheads -- into enriched uranium, which it then supplies for commercial nuclear power plants. USEC is the radioactive recycler of choice for the "Megatons-to-Megawatts" program, a US-Russian agreement to convert uranium from warheads into nuclear fuel. USEC also processes uranium for the US Department of Energy. The company's NAC unit, acquired in 2004, provides consulting services to nuclear power plant operators and transportation of USEC Inc. [USU] nuclear materials. Usibelli Coal Mine scrapes the earth's surface to help keep the lights on in Alaska. The company mines coal on about 32,500 acres near Healy and sells it to power producers in the state's interior. Usibelli Coal Mine has proven reserves of some 100 million tons. The company was founded in 1943 by Emil Usibelli, Usibelli Coal Mine, father of company chairman Joe Usibelli and grandfather of Inc. company president Joe Usibelli Jr.

Viceroy Exploration Ltd. [VCRYF.PK]

Viking Gold Exploration Inc.

Virginia Mines, Inc.

There's gold in them thar holes, according to Viceroy Exploration. The company explores for gold on its five wholly owned properties in Argentina. Its most advanced project is the Gualcamayo property located in the San Juan Province. With current resources of about 1.5 million ounces, Viceroy is gearing up to start pulling it out. Viceroy Exploration doesn't have any mines in production. Viking Gold Exploration has set off in search of gold in North America. Formerly named Copper Hill Corporation, the company explores for gold in the Northwest Territories (in the Yellowknife region) and Newfoundland. Its projects in Newfoundland include Powderhorn Lake, Tim's Cove, and Turk's Gut. The Yellowknife region is known for its productive gold belt. Virginia Mines isn't in Virginia, but it does have mining exploration and development activities in northern Quebec. The company's Éléonore project is being mapped and surveyed. Virginia Mines also has a deal with Falconbridge Limited (formerly Noranda) to explore and develop its Coulon project. It has slowed or ended other projects in order to focus on the Éléonore property. In 2006 Canadian mining outfit Goldcorp acquired a controlling stake in the company.

• Chairman: Ian W. Telfer

Address: 3 Bentall Centre, Ste. 3123, 595 Burrard St. Vancouver, British Columbia V7X 1J1, Canada Phone: 604-684-9333 Fax: 604-684-9331

Address: 2 Democracy Center, 6903 Rockledge Dr. Bethesda, MD 20817 Phone: 301-564-3200 Fax: 301-564-3201

Address: 100 River Rd Healy, AK 99743 Phone: 907-683-2226 Fax: 907-683-2253

• CEO, President, and Director: Phillip Shirvington • CFO and Secretary: Gordon Keep

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 1559.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 10.00% Employees (2004): 2,871 Employee Growth (1 yr): 7.40%

• Chairman: James R. (Jim) Mellor • President and CEO: John K. Welch • SVP: Philip G. Sewell

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2005): 30.00 M Employees (2005): 100

• Chairman: Joseph E. (Joe) Usibelli • President: Joseph (Joe) Usibelli Jr. • VP, Finance: Rick Hundrup • Chairman: Ronald K. Netolitzky • President, CEO, and Director: Patrick G. Downey • CFO: John Fairchild

Address: 520-700 W. Pender St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1G8, Canada Phone: 604-669-4777 Fax: 604-696-0212 Address: 160 Frederick St., Ste. 203 Toronto, Ontario M5A 4H9, Canada Phone: 416-955-9511 Fax: 416-368-8721

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-46.30%)

• President and CEO: Alex Doulis • CFO: David J. King

Address: 116 St. Pierre St., Ste. 200 Quebec City, Quebec G1K 4A7, Canada Phone: 418-694-9832 Fax: 418-694-9120

Fiscal Year End: February Revenue (2004): 0.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 5.20% Employees (2004): 17 Employee Growth (1 yr): 21.40%

• President, CEO, and Director: André Gaumond • CFO and Secretary: Gaétan Mercier

Yes

Yes

Vista Continental has its sights set on South American gold. Through its 75%-owned VCC Nevada unit, the company owns concessions to explore for gold and other valuable minerals along the Urubamba River in central Peru. VCC Nevada has hired a contractor and undertaken a drilling and test-mining program in an effort to find gold deposits that can be economically mined, but a lack of money has hindered the company's explorations. In addition, VCC Nevada owns a 40% stake in mining claims along the Mazaruni River in Guyana, where the company hopes to find Vista Continental gold and diamonds. The other 60% of the company's Guyana Corporation project is owned by investor Alberto DoCouto, who owns 81% of [VICC.PK] Vista Continental. Helping to get goods to where they're needed is the order of the day at voest-ALPINE Intertrading (VAIT). The company specializes in trading and marketing activities primarily related to the steel industry, but also in agricultural commodities, chemicals, petrochemicals, and other products. VAIT also provides financing and logistical services. The company has more than 25 offices in 17 countries; its activities are primarily centered in Europe, but the company also does business in Africa, the Americas, and Asia. VAIT was previously a subsidiary of Austrian steel company voest-ALPINE voestalpine, which continues to have a stake of nearly 40% in the Intertrading AG trading company. Production Association if that helps at all) is a leading producer of titanium and magnesium alloys, including ingots and mill products. The company also produces aluminum alloys, ferrotitanium, and other metal products. Subsidiary Tirus distributes products throughout Europe and North America, as well as provides services such as cutting, heat treating, precision grinding, and machining to customer specifications. Its NF&M International unit makes titanium billet and bar stock. VSMPO-AVISMA exports about 70% of its produced titanium; customers include leading VSMPO-AVISMA aerospace companies such as Rolls-Royce, Pratt & Whitney, GE, and Boeing. Corporation For Wallbridge walls or bridges aren't part of the business, but the company does delve into holes in the earth. The company is a copper, nickel, and platinum group metals mining company with projects primarily in Ontario. It has turned most of its attention to exploring and developing its promising Sudbury properties, through joint ventures with several other larger mining companies Wallbridge Mining (including Lonmin and Falconbridge). Wallbridge also holds land in Company Limited Nova Scotia and Minnesota.

Wealth Minerals Ltd. [WMLLF.OB]

Wealth Minerals hopes its name is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The company, formerly known as Triband Enterprise, explores for uranium, gold, and other metals in the Americas. Wealth Minerals has uranium mineral property interests throughout Peru and gold projects in British Columbia. In Peru, Wealth Minerals is mapping, sampling, and surveying its various properties.

Address: 6600 West Charleston Blvd., Ste. 118 Las Vegas, NV 89146 Phone: 702-228-2077 Fax: 702-228-1837

Fiscal Year End: September Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 3 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-25.00%)

Yes

• Chairman: Karl Mistlberger • Director, IT Services: Johannes Juranek • Director, Accountancy: Reinhilde Kraus

Address: Strasserau 6 4010 Linz, Austria Phone: +43-7327-804-0 Fax: +43-7327-804-355

Address: 1 Parkovaya St. 624760 Verkhnaya Salda, Sverdlovsk, Russia Phone: +7-34345-2-1304 Fax: +7-34345-2-4736

• President, VP, and Treasurer, and Director: Alberto Docuto

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 380.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 33.10% Employees (2004): 15,280 Employee Growth (1 yr): 1.90%

• Chairman: V. I. Brecht • General Director: Vladislav V. Tetiyukhin • Chief of the Accountant: Tamara Novosadova

Address: 129 Fielding Rd. Lively, Ontario P3Y 1L7, Canada Phone: 705-682-9297 Fax: 705-682-2144

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 27.20%

Address: 1177 W. Hastings St., Ste. 1901 Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 2K3, Canada Phone: 604-331-0096 Fax: 604-331-0026

• Acting President and Director: Jerry G. Pogue • VP, Corporate Development and Director: Gary R. Freeman

Yes

Weda Bay Minerals Inc.

Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd.

Western Québec Mines Inc.

Western Silver Corporation

Westmoreland Coal Company [WLB]

Weda Bay Minerals has made a career out of saving nickels. The company's subsidiary P.T. Weda Bay has nickel and cobalt mining interests on the island of Halmahera in Indonesia. The Indonesian government, through its ownership in P.T. Antam, also has a stake in the operations. Specialty chemicals maker OM Group provided funding for some of the company's exploration activities in Indonesia. Patrick Evans was appointed CEO of Weda Bay Minerals in 2005. The following year French minerals company Eramet moved to acquire Weda Bay for about $230 million; it owns 95% of the company and has extended its tender offer in order to acquire the rest. Wesdome Gold Mines, formerly River Gold Mines, tries to find where the gold flows. The company produces about 70,000 ounces of gold from its Wawa and Mishi-Magnacon gold properties in Northwestern Ontario. The company also has a 61% stake in Moss Lake Gold Mines (also in Ontario) with reserves of about 2 million ounces of gold. The ore produced by Wesdome Gold is processed at the company's mill located in the center of the Mishi-Magnacon property. With the merger of Wesdome Gold and River Gold in 2006, Western Québec Mines owns a 38% stake in the company.

Key People • Chairman: Mark Toivanen • President and CEO: Patrick C. Evans • CFO: Peter McLatchie

Address: 20 Toronto St., 12th Fl. Toronto, Ontario M5C 2B8, Canada Phone: 416-603-0591 Fax: 416-367-3638

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 25 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-83.30%)

Address: 8 King St. East, Ste. 1305 Toronto, Ontario M5C 1B5, Canada Phone: 416-360-3743 Fax: 416-360-7620

• President: Paul D. Cregheur Fiscal Year End: December • Chairman: Murray H. Revenue (2004): 28.60 M Pollitt Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-1.00%) • Secretary, Treasurer, Employees (2004): 200 and Director: Donald D. Employee Growth (1 yr): (-9.10%) Orr

Address: 8 King St. East, Ste. Go to Western Québec, young man. As its name might suggest, 1305 Western Québec Mines operates gold mining and exploration Toronto, Ontario M5C 1B5, facilities in western Quebec, mainly in the Val d'Or region. Formed Canada in 1945, the company mainly draws revenue from two companies Phone: 416-360-3743 that it has ownership stakes in. Fellow Canadian mining company Fax: 416-360-7620 Western Québec owns a 38% holding in Wesdome Gold Mines. Western Silver can always fall back on gold, zinc, or lead if the silver doesn't pan out. The company conducts mineral exploration and development projects on its properties in Mexico and Canada. Its leading silver mine candidate is the 100%-owned Peñasquito Address: 1111 W. Georgia St., silver, gold, zinc, and lead project in the state of Zacatecas in Ste. 2050 central Mexico. Western Silver also has interests in other Vancouver, British Columbia V6E exploration sites in Zacatecas. In addition, the company is sole 4M3, Canada owner of a copper-bearing property in the Yukon; it plans to seek a Phone: 604-684-9497 development partner for the open-pit site. Glamis Gold acquired Fax: 604-669-2926 the company in 2006 making it a wholly owned subsidiary. Westmoreland Coal is ready to take its lumps -- of coal, that is. Through its subsidiaries, Westmoreland Coal produces about 30 million tons of coal annually from mines in Montana, North Dakota, and Texas. It controls about 485 million tons of proved and probable coal reserves. Nearly all of the company's coal is sold to power producers (including Xcel Energy and NRG Energy); the Address: 2 N. Cascade Ave., rest is sold to industrial companies and institutions. Some of 14th Fl. Westmoreland Coal's customers maintain power generation Colorado Springs, CO 80903 facilities adjacent to the company's mines. In addition to its coal Phone: 719-442-2600 operations, Westmoreland Coal owns stakes in power plants in Fax: 719-448-5824 Colorado and North Carolina.

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-71.70%) Employees (2004): 60 Employee Growth (1 yr): 500.00%

• Chairman: Murray H. Pollitt • President, CEO, and Director: Barry G. Smith • VP, Operations: Paul D. Cregheur

Fiscal Year End: September Revenue (2005): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 50 Employee Growth (1 yr): 4900.00%

• Chairman and CEO: F. Dale Corman • President, COO, and Director: Thomas C. Patton • VP, Finance and CFO: R. Joseph Litnosky

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 362.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 13.00% Employees (2004): 943 Employee Growth (1 yr): 2.60%

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Christopher K. Seglem • CFO: David J. Blair • SVP, Power: Robert W. Holzwarth

Yes

WGI Heavy Minerals mines, produces, and markets industrial minerals, chiefly garnet but also ilmenite, leucoxene, rutile, and zircon. The company has mining and processing operations in Germany, India, and the US (Idaho). Operations in India account WGI Heavy for more than half of the company's sales; Transworld Garnet, a Minerals, subsidiary of WGI in India, primarily mines industrial garnet used Incorporated by the electronics industry. in Africa and North America. The company's main mineral property is a gold exploration project in South Africa near the major goldfields of the Witwatersrand Basin. Wits Basin also owns rights to the Bates-Hunter Gold Mine in Central City, Colorado, plus interests in two mineral projects in Ontario, Canada (Holdsworth and McFaulds Lake). The company was known as Active IQ Wits Basin Technologies before it sold its accounting software and Web Precious Minerals hosting operations in 2003 and entered the mineral exploration Inc. [WITM.OB] business. WMC Resources gets a lot out of the Outback. The Australian mining giant is the world's third-largest miner of nickel, behind #1 Norilsk Nickel and #2 Inco. It produces more than 110,000 tons of nickel annually. (Nickel is a main ingredient in making stainless steel.) WMC owns the Olympic Dam in South Australia, a leading source for uranium oxide used by power generators throughout the world. The Olympic Dam operation also produces a large amount of copper and some gold. The company's fertilizer operations, accounting for nearly 15% of sales, mines for phosphate. WMC WMC Resources has operations in Australia, Asia, and the Americas. BHP Billiton acquired WMC in 2005. Ltd. Wolfden Resources explores and develops gold and base metal projects primarily in eastern and northern Canada. The company's primary interests include in the High Lake, Ulu Gold, and East Bay properties. The Ulu Gold property in Nunavut was acquired in 2004 from Echo Bay Mines. Wolfden Resources is involved in several joint venture partnerships at these properties with larger precious metal miners including Teck Cominco, Placer Dome, and Bema Gold. Fellow Canadian miner Goldcorp acquired a 10% stake in the company in late 2005. Wolfden has several Wolfden exploration projects located near Goldcorp's Red Lake gold mine. Resources Inc. World Minerals digs up one kind of dirt, which it uses to help you keep out all the other dirt you don't want. The company mines and produces industrial minerals, including diatomite and perlite, through subsidiaries Celite Corporation (diatomaceous earth products) and Harborlite Corporation (perlite products). Diatomite is primarily sold to customers for use in filtering and as a filler in paints. Perlite is a volcanic rock also used in filtering. The World Minerals, company has been a subsidiary of Imerys, a French industrial Inc. minerals and pigments company, since 2005.

Address: 1875 N. Lakewood Dr., Ste. 201 Coeur d'Alene, ID 83814 Phone: 208-666-6000 Fax: 208-666-4000

• Chairman, Interim President and Interim CEO: Covill Brown • CFO, Secretary, and Treasurer: Greg S. Emerson • VP International Sales and Marketing: William Meyerholtz

Address: 80 S. 8th St., Ste. 900 Minneapolis, MN 55402 Phone: 612-349-5277 Fax: 612-395-5276

• CEO and Director: H. Vance White • CFO, Secretary, and Director: Mark D. Dacko

Address: Level 16, IBM Centre, 60 City Rd. Southbank, Victoria 3006, Australia Phone: +61-3-9685-6000 Fax: +61-3-9686-3569

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 2989.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 32.40% Employees (2004): 4,863 Employee Growth (1 yr): 3.50%

• Chairman: Miklos (Mike) Salamon • Interim CEO and Director: Christopher (Chris) Campbell • Interim CFO: Brendan Rudd

Address: 309 S. Court St. Toronto, Ontario P7B 2Y1, Canada Phone: 807-346-1668 Fax: 807-345-0284

• Chairman: John F. Cook • President, CEO, and Director: Ewan S. Fiscal Year End: December Downie Revenue (2004): 0.80 M • COO: John A. Revenue Growth (1 yr): 236.60% Begeman

Address: 130 Castillian Dr. Goleta, CA 93117-3028 Phone: 805-562-0200 Fax: 805-562-0298

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 285.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 7.20% Employees (2004): 1,591

• Chairman, President, and CEO: John Oskam • SVP, Finance and CFO: John Leichty • SVP, Sales: Steve Baimel

Yes

X-Cal Resources Ltd.

Xstrata plc

Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Limited [YZC]

Yorbeau Resources Inc.

Yukon Zinc Corporation

Zaruma Resources Inc.

X-Cal Resources is involved in the acquisition and exploration of mineral properties in the US and Canada. The company has interests in two gold properties in Nevada, and one in British Columbia, Canada. X-Cal is currently focused on exploration activities at two of its properties -- The Sleeper Gold Project in Humboldt County, Nevada and the Mill Gild Property in Lander County Nevada. The Sleeper Gold project is a joint venture with New Sleeper Gold. If you get extremely excited about the extraction of mineral resources, you surely know all about Xstrata plc. The company exports coal from and produces ferrochrome and vanadium in Australia and South Africa, mines and smelts zinc in Spain (through subsidiary Asturiana de Zinc) and in Germany, and mines anthracite in Swaziland. Xstrata plc was formed in 2002 when Xstrata AG bought Glencore International's coal assets. The following year the company acquired MIM Holdings, a deal that doubled Xstrata's coal and zinc holdings. Coal accounts for not quite half of sales, and Xstrata is among the world's largest coal exporters. Credit Suisse Group and Glencore own 24% and 16%, respectively, of Xstrata. Yanzhou Coal Mining is helping fuel China's industrialization. The company is a leader in coal production in Eastern China, where its conducts most of its sales. The company produces more than 40 metric tons per year and has about 2 billion metric tons in proven and probable reserves -- about 10 tons a year are exported. Yanzhou Coal operates six mines, producing both thermal coal for electric generation and coking coal for metallurgical production. It also owns major rail transport assets. State-owned Yankuang (Group) holds 58% of Yanzhou Coal. primary asset is the Astoria property in Quebec, located within a Falconbridge Limited (formerly Noranda) mining camp. The Astoria mineral property is not in production, but the exploration company is looking to develop it into an open pit gold mine. Yorbeau Resources also has various other exploration properties in northwestern Quebec. Société Minière Alta holds more than 10% of the company. Formerly called Expatriate Resources, the more aptly-named Yukon Zinc explores and develops silver and zinc properties in the Yukon. The company is part of the Expatriate Group, which includes Pacifica Resources and StrataGold. Yukon Zinc's primary property is the Finlayson Massive Sulphide District, which it is exploring. It also holds a joint venture interest in the nearby Logan deposit. The company has gone under a transformation after being reorganized several times over the past several years. Zaruma Resources believes that a mine is a terrible thing to waste. The company has gold mines in Mexico and Venezuela; the Mexico operation also explores for copper at its Luz del Cobre copper deposit. Its San Antonio property in the Sonora State of Mexico is estimated to hold about 300,000 ounces of gold and its El Foco property in Venezuela contains about 100,000 ounces of gold.

Address: P.O. Box 48479, Bentall Centre Vancouver, British Columbia V7X 1A0, Canada Phone: 604-662-8245 Fax: 604-688-7740

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 11 Employee Growth (1 yr): 450.00%

• President, CEO, and Director: Shawn M. Kennedy • CFO and Director: John M. Arnold

Address: Bahnhofstrasse 2 6301 Zug, Switzerland Phone: +41-41-726-60-70 Fax: +41-41-726-60-89

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 6091.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 75.00% Employees (2004): 17,062 Employee Growth (1 yr): 11.30%

• Chairman: Willy R. Strothotte • Chief Executive: Michael (Mick) Davis • CFO and Director: Trevor Reid

Address: 40 Fushan Rd. Zoucheng, Shandong 273500, China Phone: +86-537-538-2319 Fax: +86-537-538-3311

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 1277.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 52.20% Employees (2004): 29,266 Employee Growth (1 yr): 4.70%

• Chairman: Wang Xin • Vice Chairman and General Manager: Yang Deyu • CFO and Director: Wu Yuxiang

Address: 110 Place Crémazie, Ste. 430 Montreal, Quebec H2P 1B9, Canada Phone: 514-384-2202 Fax: 514-384-6399

• Chairman: David Crevier Fiscal Year End: December • President, CEO, and Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Director: Georges Revenue Growth (1 yr): 329.80% Bodnar Jr.

Address: 475 Howe St., Ste. 701 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2B3, Canada Phone: 604-682-5474 Fax: 604-682-5404 Address: 20 Toronto St., 12Fl. Toronto, Ontario M5C 2B8, Canada Phone: 416-869-0772 Fax: 416-367-3638

• President and CEO: Harlan D. Meade • VP Corporate Development and CFO: Robert McKnight • Manager Investor Communications: Brian Soregaroli Kielland • President, CEO, and Director: Thomas F. Utter • CFO and Secretary: Frank van de Water

Yes

sand, Zemex can oblige. Zemex's industrial minerals business operates subsidiaries that produce mica (used in coatings, friction materials, and oil well drilling applications), feldspar (sodium and potassium varieties), kaolin clay, and sands (used in the ceramics, glass, plastics, and fiberglass industries). In December 2005 Zemex sold its aluminum waste recycling business, Alumitech, to aluminium recycling industry leader Aleris International. PeruZemex based industrial minerals producer Cementos Pacasmayo Corporation acquired Zemex in 2003. Zeo-Tech Enviro explores and mines industrial minerals, particularly zeolite (an inorganic, porous volcanic mineral). Primary applications for zeolite include water and air filtration, waste treatment, soil enhancement, and industrial absorbent. Developmental stage company Zeo-Tech Enviro has zeolite mining operations in British Columbia as well as precious metals Zeo-Tech Enviro processing operations in Arizona. The company holds a 25% stake Corp. in zeolite processor United Zeolite Products. The company owns eight gold and copper mines. It operates the Zijinshan Gold Mine (which is the largest single open pit gold mine in terms of gold production output and mining scale in China), Guizhou Shuiyindong Gold Mine, Jilin Hunchun Gold-Copper Mine, and Anhui Guichi Paodaoling Gold Mine. The company also owns the Xinjiang Ashele Copper Mine, Fujian Zijinshan Copper Mine, Anhui Tongling Jiaochong Gold Mine, and Sichuan Jiuchaigou Caodi Gold Mine, which are under construction. In addition to the development and exploration of mining resources, Zijin Mining Group Zijin Mining also provides services in geological studies and Co., Ltd mining consulting. Zimplats Holdings (formerly Zimbabwe Platinum Mines) mines platinum and platinum group metals (PGM), such as rhodium and palladium, as well as nickel from resources and reserves on the Great Dyke in Zimbabwe. Its PGM mining activities include operating the Ngezi mine, the Selous Metallurgical complex, and the Hartley Ore mine. The company mines more than 2 million Zimplats Holdings tons of ore annually. Zimplats operates from offices in Australia, Limited the UK, and Zimbabwe. South-Africa based platinum giant Impala [ZMPLF.PK] Platinum Holdings (Implats) holds more than 85% of the company. This animal sniffs out zinc oxide in uncommon places. ZincOx Resources produces zinc oxide mainly from recycling facilities in Turkey and the US. It recovers zinc primarily from waste products, such as lead slags and steel scrap. Zinc oxide is mostly used by ZincOx Resources the rubber industry, but is also found in paint and pharmaceuticals. plc The company is also exploring the Jabali zinc deposit in Yemen.

Address: 1040 Crown Pointe Pkwy., Ste. 270 Atlanta, GA 30338 Phone: 770-392-8660 Fax: 770-392-8670

• President, Alumitech, Inc. and Industrial Minerals: Patrick Carr • CFO: Belinda Brock

Address: 1066 W. Hastings St., Ste. 2300 Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 3X2, Canada Fiscal Year End: June Phone: 604-684-3301 Revenue (2005): 0.10 M Fax: 604-408-8893 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 67.20%

Address: Zijin Mansion, Zijin Avenue Shanghang County, Fujian 364200, China Phone: +86-597-388-3151 Fax: +86-597-388-3997

Address: 7 New St. St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands Phone: +44-1481-727-272 Fax: +44-1481-711-220 Address: 7 Tanners Yard, London Rd. Bagshot, Surrey GU19 5HD, United Kingdom Phone: +44-1276-455-700 Fax: +44-1276-850-015

• President and Director: L. Raymon (Ray) Paquette

• Chairman: Chen Jinghe • CFO: Zhou Zhengyuan

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2004): 99.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 39.70% Employees (2004): 600 Employee Growth (1 yr): 35.10%

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 10 Employee Growth (1 yr): 11.10%

• Chairman: Michael John (Mike) Houston • CEO and Director: Gregory (Greg) Sebborn • COO: Jonathan (Anton) Wheeler Noel Masson • Managing Director and Board Member: Andrew Woollett • Finance Director and Board Member: Peter Fry

Yes

Zinifex Clarksville operates an electrolytic zinc smelter in Clarksville, Tennessee, that produces about 110,000 tons of zinc metal annually. The Clarksville facility is one of four smelters operated by Australia-based Zinifex, a leading zinc and lead mining and processing company. Zinifex was formed in 2004 to acquire the Clarksville facility and other key mining and smelting assets from Pasminco, which had run into financial trouble. The Zinifex Clarksville Clarksville smelter, which is accessible by barge, rail, and road, Inc. was commissioned in 1978.

Address: 1800 Zinc Plant Rd. Clarksville, TN 37040 Phone: 931-552-4200 Fax: 931-552-0471

• President: Matt Howell

Company Name Description No one can mix up oil like grandma does. Amalie Oil (named after the founders' grandmother) blends and supplies lubricants and other oil products including motor oils, transmission fluids, gear oils, and greases. To control costs, the company also manufactures its own bottles to store its products. Amalie Oil, which markets its products worldwide, has distribution operations in Dallas; Jacksonville, Florida; and Los Angeles. The Sonneborn brothers founded the company, one of the early Pennsylvania Crude (paraffin-rich) oil enterprises, in 1903. Amalie Oil Lubricants firm Petroleum Packers acquired Amalie Oil in 1998 Company, Inc. and Petroleum Packers changed its name to Amalie Oil. You might say that American Agip is as slick as a whistle. Formed in 1987, the subsidiary of Italian energy heavyweight Eni operates three major petrochemical businesses: the manufacturing and marketing of lubricants; the marketing and trading of MTBE and methanol; and the trading of refined petroleum products. American Agip supplies more than 11,000 bulk and package customers throughout the Eastern US, and across Canada. It has a manufacturing center in Cabot, Pennsylvania and distribution centers located in Cabot, American Agip Hainesport (NJ), Jane Lew (WV), Medina (OH), Westbury (NY), Company, Inc. and Boucherville (Quebec, Canada). BP is also BO (Big Oil). It is the world's second largest integrated oil concern, behind Exxon Mobil. The company, which was formed in 1998 from the merger of British Petroleum and Amoco, grew by buying Atlantic Richfield Company. BP has proved reserves of 18.3 billion barrels of oil equivalent, including large holdings in Alaska. BP is the largest oil and gas producer in the US and also a top refiner, processing 2.8 billion barrels of crude oil per day. BP operates about 28,500 gas stations worldwide, including 15,900 in the US. With the success of its BP Solar International subsidiary, BP has created BP Alternative Energy (hydrogen, solar, and wind power generation) with an BP p.l.c. [BP] initial investment of $1.8 billion. Castrol Consumer North America spends as much time on top of a hood as it does under them. The company, often recognized as a sponsor for a variety of drag racing, funny car, and Formula 1 racecar drivers, is a distributor of Castrol brand synthetic lubricants to automotive service providers and retailers in North America. It also provides specialty lubricants, including degreasers, lubes, and transmission fluids, for boating, Castrol motorcycling, racing, and snowmobile customers. Castrol Consumer North Consumer North America is a regional unit of Castrol, the UKAmerica Inc. based lubricants firm owned by global oil giant BP.

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Address: 1601 McCloskey Blvd. Tampa, FL 33605 Phone: 813-248-1988 Fax: 813-248-1488

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 27.20 M Employees (2005): 139

• President: Harry J. Barkett • COO: Rick Barkett • CFO: Ken Barkett

Address: 666 5th Ave. New York, NY 10103-0599 Phone: 212-887-0250 Fax: 212-887-0258

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 1030.00 M Employees (2005): 116

Address: 1 St. James's Square London SW1Y 4PD, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7496-4000 Fax: +44-20-7496-4630

• Chairman: Peter D. Sutherland Fiscal Year End: December • Group Chief Executive and Revenue (2005): 295242.00 M Director: Lord E. John P. Revenue Growth (1 yr): 3.60% Browne Employees (2004): 102,900 • CFO and Director: Byron E. Employee Growth (1 yr): (-0.80%) Grote

Address: 1500 Valley Rd. Wayne, NJ 07470 Phone: 973-633-2200 Fax: 973-633-9867

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• President and CEO: Umberto Battalia

• Chief Executive: Michael (Mike) Dearden • CFO: Peter Miller • VP Consumer Marketing: Bruce Firkins

Yes

Castrol India Limited

Center Oil Company

Chevron Corporation [CVX]

City Service Valcon, LLC.

ConocoPhillips [COP]

through the subcontinent. The company's products include oil and other lubricants used by the automotive, industrial, and marine sectors. Its automotive sector, which accounts for 85% of sales, includes petroleum products used in off road vehicles, motorcycles (both 2-and 4-stoke engines), and diesel engines. Castrol India The company has disposed of the assets belonging to its Indrol Chemicals & Specialties subsidiary. Castrol India is a subsidiary of the UK-based oil and gas giant, BP plc. Center Oil's core business is peddling petroleum. The company is one of the largest private wholesale distributors of gasoline and other petroleum products to customers primarily in the eastern region of the US. Center Oil owns nine storage terminals capable of storing more than 1.5 million barrels of petroleum product. It also has access to 36 terminals in 10 states, as well as access to the Williams, Texas Eastern, Kinder Morgan Chicago, and Kaneb pipeline systems. Its products are also distributed through a fleet of ships, barges, and trucks. Having added Texaco's star (and, more recently, Unocal's authority) to its stripes, Chevron (formerly ChevronTexaco) can pull rank on its rivals. The second-largest US integrated oil company (behind Exxon Mobil) was formed by Chevron's 2001 acquisition of Texaco. It has estimated proved reserves of 13 billion barrels of oil equivalent and daily production in excess of 2.8 million barrels of oil equivalent, and it owns interests in chemicals and power production businesses. The company, which is restructuring its refinery and retail businesses, owns or has stakes in 26,500 gas stations operating under the Chevron, Texaco, and Caltex brands. In 2005 Chevron acquired Unocal for $16.4 billion. You don't have to live in the city to get the services of City Service Valcon, which markets and distributes petroleum products throughout the Inland Northwest and Rocky Mountain regions of the US, as well as in the adjacent Plains states. Its products include gasoline, diesel, aviation fuels, lubricants, propane, and heating oil. The company has diesel, gasoline, and heating oils for delivery through its network of bulk plants. City Service Valcon also operates cardlock fueling facilities under the Pacific Pride brand name. Regional independent petroleum marketers City Service and Valcon merged their operations in 2003 to form City Service Valcon. Formed by the merger of Conoco and Phillips Petroleum, ConocoPhillips is the #3 integrated oil and gas company in the US, behind Exxon Mobil and Chevron; but that could all change following the acquisition of Burlington Resources (for a reported $35 billion) in 2006. The expanded company explores for oil and gas in more than 30 countries and has estimated proved reserves of 11.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent, excluding its Syncrude (Canadian oil sands) assets. It has a refining capacity of 2.6 million barrels per day and sells petroleum at 11,800 outlets in the US under the 76, Conoco, and Phillips 66 brands. Other operations include chemicals, gas gathering, fuels technology, and power generation.

Address: Technopolis Knowledge Park; Mahakali Caves Rd., Chakala, Andheri Mumbai 400093, India Phone: +91-22-56984100

• Chairman: S. M. Datta • Chief Executive, Managing Director, and Board Member: Naveen Kshatriya • Finance Director: R. ElstonGreen

Address: 600 Mason Ridge Center Dr. St. Louis, MO 63141-8557 Phone: 314-682-3500 Fax: 314-682-3599

• President and CEO: Gary R. Parker • VP and CFO: John R. Niemi • Sales Manager: Rob Kraeger

Address: 6001 Bollinger Canyon Rd. San Ramon, CA 94583 Phone: 925-842-1000 Fax: 925-842-3530

Address: 1830 Third Ave. E. Ste. 202 Kalispell, MT 59903 Phone: 406-755-4321 Fax: 406-756-8591

Address: 600 N. Dairy Ashford Rd. Houston, TX 77079 Phone: 281-293-1000 Fax: 281-293-2819

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 184922.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 29.40% Employees (2004): 56,000 Employee Growth (1 yr): 10.70%

• Chairman and CEO: David J. (Dave) O'Reilly • Vice Chairman and Office of Chairman: Peter J. Robertson • EVP, Technology and Services: John E. Bethancourt

Yes

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 285.30 M Employees (2005): 165

• Chairman, President, and CEO: James J. (Jim) Mulva Fiscal Year End: December • EVP, Finance and CFO: Revenue (2005): 162405.00 M John A. Carrig Revenue Growth (1 yr): 36.80% • EVP, Refining, Marketing, Employees (2004): 35,800 Supply, and Transportation: J. Employee Growth (1 yr): (-8.20%) W. (Jim) Nokes

Yes

Consolidated Beacon Resources Ltd.

Coulson Oil Company, Inc.

Energem Resources Inc.

Eni S.p.A. [E]

Consolidated Beacon Resources has decided to focus its resources on developing an on-shore oil and gas prospect in Nova Scotia. The prospect is on exploration lands in the Maritimes basin. Consolidated Beacon had been in the business of oil and gas exploration, primarily in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Nova Scotia. In 2004 it decided to divest its oil and gas business and concentrate on lubricants through subsidiary Elliott Industrial Petroleum. However, the company has lost Elliott Industrial, which made and sold lubricants and specialty oils in Alberta and Saskatchewan, to foreclosure. The company has also completed the sale of its Ingoldsby property in Saskatchewan, where it held petroleum and gas rights. Not coal, son. Oil. Regional oil products wholesaler Coulson Oil (owned by the founding Coulson family) supplies gasoline and diesel fuel to a dealer network of 200 independent convenience stores in Arkansas and Tennessee. The company represents a number of major fuel brands including Shell, ConocoPhillips, and Valero Energy. It also operates a buying cooperative, representing some 100 vendors, for participating dealers under the Superstop brand. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina the company donated $50,000 to The American Red Cross and helped transport 378,000 gallons of fuel to plants in five Louisiana markets. what do you get? Energem Resources (formerly DiamondWorks). The company is involved in mining and mineral exploration, oil and gas production and distribution, industrial chemicals, and logistics in 16 countries in Africa. Its mining operation is focused on diamond exploration, and it holds a 40% stake in the Koidu Kimberlite Project in Sierra Leone, where both gem-quality and industrial-quality diamonds have been produced. In 2005 the company sold its Gabon oil production assets to FirstAfrica Oil. Lyndhurst Limited controls about 40% of the Energem. It's not teeny, it's Eni -- and it's huge. One of Italy's largest companies, Eni operates in the oil and natural gas, petrochemicals, and oil field services industries and has expanded into power generation. Its main subsidiaries and affiliates are EniPower (power generation), Italgas (natural gas transmission), Saipem (oil field services), pipeline operator Snam Rete Gas, and Snamprogetti (contracting, engineering). As one of the world's leading oil enterprises, Eni has proved reserves of more than 6.84 billion barrels of oil equivalent, most of it in Italy and in Africa. The Italian government owns about 30% of Eni but is considering selling the holding.

Address: Ste. 620, 600 - 6th Ave. SW Calgary, Alberta T2P 0S5, Canada Phone: 403-539-9328 Fax: 403-213-8899

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 1.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 6.30%

• President, CEO, and Director: Nathan E. Hansen • VP, CFO, and Director: Vernon E. (Vern) Gerlitz

• President: Michael B. (Mike) Coulson • CFO and Treasurer: Robert (Bob) Gladden • VP Public Relations and Secretary: Mary Ann Dawkins

Address: 1434 Pike Ave. North Little Rock, AR 72114 Phone: 501-376-4222 Fax: 501-376-7904

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 72.00 M Employees (2005): 250

Address: 24 Johnson Rd., 1st Fl., Riverwood Office Park Bedfordview, Gauteng 2008, South Africa Phone: +27-11-454-3099 Fax: +27-11-454-1673

Fiscal Year End: November Revenue (2004): 249.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 63.30% Employees (2004): 1,000 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• Chairman: Brian Menell • President and CEO: Tony Teixeira • CFO: Robert G. (Rob) Rainey

Address: Piazzale Enrico Mattei 1 00144 Rome, Italy Phone: +39-06--5982 Fax: +39-06-5982-2141

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 87257.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 10.30% Employees (2004): 71,497 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-6.60%)

• Chairman: Roberto Poli • Managing Director and CEO: Paolo Scaroni • Group SVP Finance and CFO: Marco Mangiagalli

Yes

It's not necessarily the oil standard, but Exxon Mobil is the world's largest integrated oil company (ahead of BP and Royal Dutch Shell). Exxon Mobil engages in oil and gas exploration, production, supply, transportation, and marketing around the world. It has proved reserves of 22.4 billion barrels of oil equivalent. Exxon Mobil's 45 refineries in 25 countries have a capacity of producing 6.4 million barrels per day. The company supplies refined products to more than 35,000 service stations Exxon Mobil in about 100 countries that operate under the Exxon, Esso, and Corporation Mobil brands. It also provides fuel at 680 airports and 220 ports. [XOM] Exxon Mobil is also a major petrochemical producer. By barge, by pipeline, by tank truck, by George; George E. Warren is a major private wholesale distributor of petroleum in the eastern US. Founded in Boston by George E. Warren in 1907 as a coal and oil distributor, it moved to Florida in the early 1990s. The company distributes product mostly by barge and pipeline, though it uses some tank trucks as well. Warren has George E. distribution facilities in the southeastern and southwestern US. It Warren distributes products including ethylene and heating oil to various Corporation industries. President and CEO Thomas Corr owns the company. A remnant of J. Paul Getty's oil empire, Getty Petroleum Marketing distributes motor and heating fuels. The company, which became a subsidiary of Russian oil giant LUKOIL in 2001, has more than 2,000 gas stations (some of which maintain convenience stores, auto repair centers, or car washes) in a dozen northeastern and mid-Atlantic US states. It operates eight petroleum terminals and 17 throughput and exchange terminals, and a large truck fleet. Originally a part of Getty Petroleum (now Getty Realty), the company sells heating oil through its KOSCO subsidiary. In 2004 Getty Petroleum Marketing expanded its US Getty Petroleum retail chain by acquiring 779 gas stations in New Jersey and Marketing Inc. Pennsylvania from ConocoPhillips. Based just outside that City by the Bay, Golden Gate Petroleum distributes daily about 2 million gallons of petroleum products, including BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Shell branded fuels, base oils, and lubricants, to customers located throughout northern California. The company transports its products through a system of pipelines, bulk terminals, railroad cars, and trucks. Its customers include agricultural, commercial, and industrial users. Golden Gate Petroleum also operates nearly 30 gasoline service stations. Its growth strategy includes the acquisition of smaller petroleum distribution companies located Golden Gate in its current service area as well as internal growth. Petroleum

Address: 5959 Las Colinas Blvd. Irving, TX 75039-2298 Phone: 972-444-1000 Fax: 972-444-1350

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 328213.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 24.30% Employees (2004): 85,900 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-2.70%)

• Chairman, President and CEO: Rex W. Tillerson • SVP and Treasurer: Donald D. (Don) Humphreys • VP, Public Affairs: K. P. Cohen

Address: 3001 Ocean Dr. Vero Beach, FL 32963 Phone: 772-778-7100 Fax: 772-778-7171

• President and CEO: Thomas L. Corr • CFO and Controller: Michael E. George

Address: 1500 Hempstead Tpke. East Meadow, NY 11554 Phone: 516-542-4900 Fax: 516-832-8272

• Chairman and CEO: Vadim Gluzman • President and COO: Vincent J DeLaurentis • SVP and CFO: Michael K. Hantman

Address: 501 Shell Ave. Martinez, CA 94553 Phone: 925-228-2222 Fax: 925-957-9587

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 74.10 M Employees (2005): 257

• President: Dennis M. O'Keefe • COO: Michael Bell

Yes

Green is the theme for Greenergy International, which is the UK's largest independent low-emission fuels supplier. The company focuses on developing low-carbon fuels (GlobalFuels) that blend biofuels (biodiesel or bioethanol) with mineral fuel. Green"ergy" buys rapeseed for biodiesel production from UK farmers. It also supplies its industrial and commercial clients with biodiesels made from waste oils and other virgin oils. Among its branded products is GlobalDiesel, which is sold by Greenergy UK retail giant Tesco. Green"ergy" also offers carbon emission International tracking and reduction services. The company, founded in 1992, Limited has a major presence in Germany, Switzerland, and the UK. Gulf Oil bridges the gap between petroleum producers and retail sales outlets. The petroleum wholesaler distributes gasoline and diesel fuel to about 1,800 Gulf-brand stations in 11 northeastern states. Gulf Oil, which owns and operates 12 storage terminals, also distributes motor oils, lubricants, and heating oil to commercial, industrial, and utility customers. The company has alliances with terminal operators in areas in the Northeast where Gulf Oil Limited it does not have a proprietary terminal. Gulf Oil boasts one of Partnership the oldest and most recognizable brands in the oil business. Haywire oil prices can't stop Haycock Petroleum offering fleet fueling and lubricating services to its customers in the West. The company's products and services include automated fueling, commercial and industrial lubricants, commercial CardLock fuel locations, fleet fueling management reporting, on site heavy equipment service, propane, spill response service, unleaded, diesel and racing fuel, and wholesale, retail, and on site delivery. Haycock Petroleum operates a handful of locations Haycock in California, Nevada, and Utah, including full service facilities in Petroleum Co. Bishop, California and Caliente, Nevada. When you're in a jam, this jobber will deliver the lube. J.A.M. Distributing distributes ExxonMobil brand petroleum products, including automotive and industrial oils, fluids, solvents, and greases, to customers in Texas. It also provides bulk load deliveries of gasoline and diesel fuel. Through its J.A.M. Marine Services subsidiary, the company provides marine fueling services to ports in Galveston and Aransas Pass, Texas. The company sells and services equipment including automotive J.A.M. lifts, fuel and oil pumps, reels, and fuel storage tanks through its Distributing J.A.M. Equipment Sales and Service unit. Company LG Group used to be Lucky, but Asia's economic woes have brought hard times to this leading South Korean "chaebol" (family-run industrial group). Founded in 1947 as Lucky Goldstar, the group consists of more than 30 affiliated companies that operate through more than 300 offices around t he globe. After de-merging with GS Holdings Corp., its major operations are now divided into three business sectors: Chemicals (LG Chem), Electronics (LG Electronics, LG Micron, and LG Philips LCD), and Telecommunications and Services LG Group (LG TeleCom, DACOM, LG International).

Address: 198 High Holborn London WC1V 7BD, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7404-7700 Fax: +44-20-7400-4799

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2005): 819.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 87.30% Employees (2005): 34 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-30.60%)

Address: 90 Everett Ave. Chelsea, MA 02150 Phone: 617-889-9000 Fax: 617-884-0637

Fiscal Year End: September Revenue (2004): 3600.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 71.40% • CEO: John Kaneb Employees (2004): 350 • President: Gary Kaneb Employee Growth (1 yr): 133.30% • Controller: Alice Kuhne

Address: 4825 N. Sloan St. Las Vegas, NV 89115-1924 Phone: 702-382-1620 Fax: 702-382-4315

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 248.30 M Employees (2005): 180

• Chairman: David Rees • CEO: Andrew Owens • Finance Director: James Thompson

• Chairman: Clarence L. Haycock • CEO: John Haycock • COO: Stephen Moore

Address: 711 W. Bay Area Blvd., Ste 310 Webster, TX 77598 Phone: 713-844-7788 Fax: 713-844-7789

• President: J. A. Maniscalco • Equipment Sales and Service: D. Anderson

Address: LG Twin Towers, 20 Yoido-dong, Youngdungpo-gu Seoul 150-721, South Korea Fiscal Year End: December Phone: +44-2-3773-1114 Revenue (2004): 798.80 M Fax: +44-2-3773-7813 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 146.30%

• Chairman; Chairman and CEO, LGCI and LGEI: Koo Bon-Moo • President and CTO, LG Electronics: Woo Hyun Paik

The Lykins family took a liking to petroleum and petroleum products marketing when Guy Lykins founded the enterprise in 1948. The Lykins Companies serves as a marketer for large oil companies such as CITGO, BP, Exxon Mobil, and Marathon Oil, and services approximately 200 dealers. Products hauled by its trucking unit include gasoline, heating oil, diesel, and kerosene. The majority of the company's customers are located in southwestern Ohio, northern Kentucky, and eastern Indiana. On the retail side, the family-owned company owns and operates 20 Friend's gas stations/convenience stores. Other Lykins Lykins businesses include D&L Leasing (car and truck leasing) and a Companies, Inc. home heating equipment, supply, and service unit. It's the more (customers) the merrier for Merrimac Energy, which distributes petroleum products, provides fleet fueling services, and is a wholesale marketer of electricity and natural gas. The company also provides environmental services. Its products include aviation fuels, diesel, food grade oil, generator fuel, gasoline, industrial oil, marine fuels, bulk propane, and transportation lubricants. The largest independent womanowned energy company in California, Merrimac Energy serves construction companies, governmental agencies, industrial and Merrimac commercial clients, and utilities. The company is owned by Energy Group president Mary Hazelrigg. controlled by its farmer-members, produces fuel and lubrication products and manages bulk petroleum and propane plants in the Central US. Operating 120 propane plants, the company sells more propane for farm use and home heating than any other company in Missouri. It also operates 120 bulk plants and serves customers in Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Additionally, the company operates 78 convenience stores under the Break Time brand, 145 Petro-Card 24 fueling MFA Oil locations, and owns 10 Jiffy Lube and four Big O Tire Company franchises. state-owned oil company, PETRÓLEO BRASILEIRO (PETROBRAS), which is also the country's largest governmentcontrolled business. From its warehouses and more than 7,000 service stations, Petrobras Distribuidora (known by the brand name BR) furnishes the nation with petroleum derivative products, including gasoline, lubes, fuel oil, hydrated alcohol, and natural gas. Petrobras Distribuidora is also building up its market position in a number of neighboring countries, including Petrobras Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Uruguay. No longer publicly Distribuidora traded, PETROBRAS acquired all of the company's shares in S.A. 2003.

• CEO: Donald F. (Don) Lykins • President: Donald J. (Jeff) Lykins • CFO: Robert J. (Bob) Manning

Address: 5163 Wolfpen Pleasant Hill Rd. Milford, OH 45150-2733 Phone: 513-831-8820 Fax: 513-831-4518

Address: 444 W. Ocean Blvd., Ste. 1406 Long Beach, CA 90802 Phone: 562-983-9350 Fax: 562-983-9355

Address: 1 Ray Young Dr. Columbia, MO 65201 Phone: 573-442-0171 Fax: 573-876-0321

Address: Rua General Canabarro 500, Maracanã 20271-905 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Phone: +55-21-3876-5155 Fax: +55-21-3876-4979

• President: Mary Hazelrigg

Fiscal Year End: August Revenue (2005): 555.80 M Employees (2005): 1,500

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 10488.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 30.90%

• Chairman: Benny Farrell • President and CEO: Jerome (Jerry) Taylor • SVP Corporate Services and Director Information Technology: Jim Belcher

• President: Luiz Rodolfo Landim Machado • Director Consumer Marketing: Marco Antonio Vaz Capute • Director Financial Services: Nelson José Guitti Guimarães

Petrobras Energía Participaciones (formerly Perez Companc) controls Petrobras Energía (formerly Pecom Energía), an Argentine energy conglomerate. Petrobras Energía's main business is oil and gas exploration and production. It operates about 30 fields in South America with proven reserves of more than 730 million barrels of oil equivalent, mostly oil and natural gas liquids. Other operations include refineries and Petrobras petrochemical plants, and electricity generation. Petrobras Energía Energía is also involved in oil marketing, transportation, Participaciones agriculture, and mining. In 2002 the Perez Companc family sold S.A. [PZE] 59% of the company to Brazilian oil giant PETROBRAS. If you want petroleum in China, then PetroChina is your company. A subsidiary of state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), PetroChina produces two-thirds of China's oil and gas. The company has proved reserves of 11 billion barrels of oil and 32.5 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas. It engages in domestic exploration, owns more than 8,500 miles of natural gas pipeline in China, and operates 29 refineries and 11 chemical plants. PetroChina also owns or has interests in more than15,000 gas stations. The company was created in 2000 as PetroChina a separate company to manage domestic operations of CNPC, Company which handles international activities. Since its 2000 IPO, Limited [PTR] PetroChina has continued to restructure. Petroleum Traders Corporation barters with fuel. The company provides wholesale gasoline, diesel fuel, and heating oil to fuel distributors, government agencies, and other large consumers of fuel such as businesses with vehicle fleets. The largest pure wholesale fuel distributor in the country, Petroleum Traders operates and trades in more than 30 US states. It supplies #1 Petroleum and #2 low sulfur diesel fuels, high sulfur heating oil and Traders kerosene, and conventional, ethanol, and reformulated blends Corporation of gasoline in regular, midgrade, and premium octane ratings. Fuel aromas smell good to Ramos Oil, which distributes bulk and pre-packaged petroleum products to businesses and individual customers in California and Nevada. It also provides fleet fueling, lubrication consulting, cardlock, and transportation services. Ramos Oil distributes all the leading petroleum brands available, including ARCO, BP, Shell, Chevron, Mobil, Unocal, Texaco, and Tosco. The company was founded in 1951 by chairman and owner Bill Ramos, who acquired a small Shell Oil distributorship located in West Sacramento. His sons Kent and Kyle run the company's oil jobber and environmental Ramos Oil Company, Inc. businesses, respectively.

Address: Maipú 1, 122nd Fl. C 1084 ABA Buenos Aires, Argentina Phone: +54-11-4344-6000 Fax: +54-11-4344-6315

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 2364.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 25.60% Employees (2004): 3,428 Employee Growth (1 yr): 2.80%

• Chairman: José Eduardo de Barros Dutra • CEO: Alberto Guimarães • CFO: Luis Miguel Sas

Address: World Tower, 16 Andelu, Dongcheng Beijing 100011, China Phone: +86-10-8488-6270 Fax: +86-10-8488-6260

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 68421.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 45.70% Employees (2004): 424,175 Employee Growth (1 yr): 1.70%

• Chairman: Chen Geng • Chairman of Supervisory Committee: Li Kecheng • Vice Chairman and President: Jiang Jiemin

Address: 7110 Pointe Inverness Way Fort Wayne, IN 46804 Phone: 260-432-6622 Fax: 260-432-6564

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2005): 1314.60 M Employees (2005): 73

Address: 5151 S. River Rd. West Sacramento, CA 95691 Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 916-371-2570 Revenue (2005): 200.00 M Fax: 916-371-0635 Employees (2005): 200

• President: Michael B. Himes • CFO: Linda Stephens • VP: Vicky Himes

• Chairman: Bill Ramos • President: Kent Ramos • CFO: John Bailey

Yes

A full tank means a job well done for Redwood Oil, a multibranded jobber which buys fuels directly from the major refiners (Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Valero Energy) and resells those products to its dealer network and its company-owned gas stations. The company distributes wholesale petroleum products, including Chevron, Union 76, Mobil, Valvoline, and Castrol brand gasoline, diesel fuel, kerosene, and lubricants, to customers located in California and Oregon. It also delivers propane to rural customers in its distribution area. Redwood Oil operates more than 20 Chevron convenience stores and Redwood Coast cardlock fueling locations as well as eight Aztec Grill restaurants Petroleum, Inc. located within its stations. The sun shines on Repsol YPF, Spain's largest oil company. A fully integrated oil and gas company, it has proved reserves mostly in Latin America, the Middle East, and North Africa. The company owns 99% of YPF, Argentina's #1 oil company, and has operations in more than 30 countries. Repsol YPF operates five refineries in Spain and four in Latin American and produces chemicals, plastics, and polymers. It sells gas under the brands Campsa, Petronor, and Repsol at more than 3,600 service Repsol YPF, S.A. stations in Spain and has about 3,000 stations in Latin America. It is one of Spain's largest sellers of liquefied petroleum gas. [REP] Arcane name, widely available products. RKA Petroleum (named after former president Roger K. Albertie, who died in 2004) is a regional wholesale distributor of petroleum products to commercial and retail fueling locations in the US. Led by the RKA Petroleum Terminal in Romulus, Michigan, the company has storage capacity of more than 13 million gallons of product, including an additional storage capacity of over 60,000 gallons for alternative fuels. The family-owned company also operates a RKA Petroleum fleet dispatching service, a heating and cooling company, and a Companies, LLC work clothing retailer. Super-jobber SPF Energy is also a super-pumper of petroleum. The company provides petroleum products distribution to customers in Minnesota, Montana, North and South Dakota, and Wyoming. Through its Superpumper subsidiary, the company operates a regional chain of convenience stores and gasoline stations. Through its Farstad Oil business, SPF Energy also offers bulk transportation of petroleum products including the distribution of about 160 million gallons of gas, 28 million gallons SPF Energy, Inc. of propane, and 2 million gallons of lubricant products a year. When it comes to energy delivery, Sprague Energy knows how to get the lead out. The company, founded in 1870 as a coal and oil supplier, has grown into one of the largest fuel suppliers on the US's Eastern Seaboard. Sprague Energy's products include diesel, gasoline, home heating oil, and residual fuels. The company distributes about 160 billion cubic feet of natural Sprague Energy gas and 2.5 billion gallons of petroleum products each year and Corp. owns or operates some 20 oil terminals.

Address: 455 Yolanda Ave. Santa Rosa, CA 95402 Phone: 707-546-0766 Fax: 707-526-4954

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 185.40 M Employees (2005): 350

• Owner: Robert I. Barbieri • Sales Manager: Bruce Anderson

Address: Paseo de la Castellana, 278 28046 Madrid, Spain Phone: +34-91-348-80-00 Fax: +34-91-348-28-21

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 56472.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 20.70% Employees (2004): 33,337 Employee Growth (1 yr): 7.10%

• Chairman and CEO: Antonio Brufau Niubó • CFO: Luis Mañas Antón • Group Managing Director of Communication and Head of the Cha: Jaume Giró Ribas

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 12.40 M Employees (2005): 40

• President: David Doner • Manager Information Systems and Pricing Coordinator: Jason Hittleman • Manager Retail Branding: Kari Elliot

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 354.00 M Employees (2005): 300

• President and CEO: Jeff Farstad • COO: Dennis Krueger • Secretary and Treasurer: Bruce Hest

Address: 28340 Wick Rd. Romulus, MI 48174 Phone: 734-946-2199 Fax: 734-946-4772

Address: 100 NE 27th St. Minot, ND 58702-1847 Phone: 701-852-1194 Fax: 701-838-6955

Address: 2 International Dr., Ste. 200 Portsmouth, NH 03801-6809 Phone: 603-431-1000 Fax: 603-430-5324

• President and CEO: John McClellan • SVP, Sales and Marketing: David (Dave) Glendon

Yes

Breaking the glass ceiling with large containers of Texas tea, woman-owned Sun Coast Resources buys refined oil and sells it to third-party customers such as convenience stores, school districts, and companies in the construction industry. Founded in 1985 by president and CEO Kathy Lehne with $2,000 in start-up capital, Sun Coast Resources serves customers (including the US Coast Guard in the southern and southwestern US. The company offers transportation services as well as gasoline and diesel fuels, marine and aviation fuels, lubricants, and on-site and fleet fueling. It also provides petroleum tanks and generator Sun Coast fueling services. Sun Coast carries a full line of Chevron oils Resources Inc. and lubricants. Taylor Oil keeps on trucking to make sure that it provides petroleum distribution and on-site fueling services to construction crews, contractors, marinas, and trucking fleets along the East Coast. The company's trucks visit job sites on a predetermined schedule and time, to custom-deliver and fill all of a client's equipment, tanks, and vehicles. Many of Taylor Oil's trucks carry both on- and off-road diesel so that it can fuel all types of equipment, not just construction machinery. It delivers loads to meet the needs of 10,000-gallons-per-day users as well Taylor Oil Co., as clients needing as little as 50 gallons per day. Inc. Named for something that sounded "big" (as in Texas and its oil connotations), Texor Petroleum distributes petroleum products and operates convenience stores in Illinois and Indiana. The largest independent petroleum marketer in Illinois is an authorized distributor for CITGO Petroleum, Clark, Marathon, Exxon Mobil, ConocoPhillips, and BP branded petroleum products. Texor assists franchisees in a variety of different types of convenience store/fuel retail operations. It gives accurate and timely sales projections and cost estimates and assists dealers with a innovative merchandising designs and programs. Texor's Texor Petroleum retailers have access to manufacturers and suppliers such as Company, Inc. Cash Depot and Eby-Brown. Oil products are worth a lot to The Hollingsworth Companies, which supplies gasoline, diesel, kerosene, waste oils, and ethanol to farms, gas stations, marinas, and trucking firms in Tennessee and neighboring states. The company sells major oil brands, and a biodiesel product, and provides marinas with Valvtect additives for diesel and gasoline. Hollingsworth Companies has nine storage tanks with capacity of 32,000 gallons at its Springfield main office, other terminals in Clarksville, Tennessee, and a trucking fleet that includes 14 The transports and three tankwagons. The company, which is owned Hollingsworth by the Hollingsworth family, also has operations in car wash Companies systems, construction, and convenience stores.

Address: 6922 Cavalcade Houston, TX 77028 Phone: 713-844-9600 Fax: 713-844-9696

• President and CEO: Kathy Lehne • CFO: Lisa Smith • VP Sales: Diana Durand

Contact Information Address: 77 2nd St. Somerville, NJ 08876 Phone: 908-725-7737 Fax: 908-725-7746

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 48.60 M Employees (2005): 156

• President: Rick Workman • VP Operations: Mark O'Leary • Sales Manager, New Jersey and New York: Frank Bloom

Address: 3340 S. Harlem Ave. Riverside, IL 60546-2126 Phone: 708-447-1999 Fax: 708-447-1047

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 409.40 M Employees (2005): 120

• Chairman and CEO: Thomas E. (Tom) Gleitsman • President: Anthony E. Speiser • Controller: Tom Dinaso

Address: 1503 Memorial Blvd. Springfield, TN 37172-3234 Phone: 615-384-5852 Fax: 615-384-5559

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 327.10 M Employees (2005): 300

• Chairman and President: Ronnie H. Hollingsworth • Controller: Carol Justice

The SoCo Group, Inc.

The Valvoline Company

Thomas Petroleum Company, Inc.

TOTAL S.A. [TOT]

Truman Arnold Companies

What's so cool about The SoCo Group is that it does more than simply distribute commercial and industrial petroleum products and lubricants to customers in Southern California. The company also operates cardlock, fleet fueling, and a network retail brand gasoline stations and dealers stations that sell gasoline under the Shell, SoCo and Valero brands. The SoCo Group operates a fleet of bulk delivery trucks that carry a range of fuels, including jet fuels and marine diesel. The company can also monitor the level of products in customers' fuels and lubricant tanks via the Internet. The Valvoline Company helps the Tin Man get loose, the squeaky wheel get the grease, and your car flip its odometer. The division of Ashland produces all manner of automotive lubricants and fluids, motor oil and transmission fluids being only the most ubiquitous. Through its Valvoline Instant Oil Change division, the company also operates more than 700 oil change centers in 39 states, making it the second largest such operation in the US (behind Royal Dutch Shell's Jiffy Lube). It also offers automotive cleaning products under the Eagle One brand name. Valvoline serves more than 100 countries worldwide. There are no doubting Thomases working at this petroleum products company. Petroleum and heating oil wholesaler and retailer Thomas Petroleum Co. operates four bulk plants and 14 retail convenience stores in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Thomas Petroleum serves more than 6,500 customers. The company sells major petroleum brands, including BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Marathon, and Sunoco. Thomas Petroleum also operates as a licensed The Holland Grill barbeque grill dealer. The company is owned and managed by president L. Ray Thomas. TOTAL, one of the world's largest integrated oil companies, explores for, develops, and produces crude oil and natural gas; refines and markets oil; and trades and transports both crude and finished products. Operating in more than 100 countries, the company has reserves of 11.1 billion barrels of oil equivalent. It operates 28 refineries and more than 16,000 Total, Elf, or Finabranded gas stations, mostly in Europe and Africa. The company is also a major producer of chemicals. TOTAL FINA was formed in 1999 when France's TOTAL bought Belgiumbased PetroFina. It became TOTAL FINA ELF in 2000 with the acquisition of French rival Elf Aquitaine. The company renamed itself as TOTAL S.A. in 2003. This jobber gets the job done by distributing wholesale petroleum across the US. Truman Arnold Companies (TAC) markets and distributes more than 100 million gallons of petroleum products a month to customers located in 48 states in the US through its TAC Energy subsidiary. Through its TAC Air unit, the company offers fixed-base operations (FBO), including aircraft fueling, hanger, and ground transportation services, through 11 general aviation facilities in the US. The company also operates convenience stores and provides trucking, real estate, and construction services.

Address: 5962 Priestly Dr. Carlsbad, CA 92008 Phone: 760-204-2460 Fax: 760-929-8072

• CEO: Howard Scott McOwen • CFO: Henry McDonald

Address: 3499 Blazer Pkwy. Lexington, KY 40509 Phone: 859-357-7777 Fax: 606-357-7733

Fiscal Year End: September Revenue (2004): 1297.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 5.00%

• President: Samuel J. Mitchell Jr. • SVP Technology: Frances E. (Fran) Lockwood • VP Brand Marketing: Rolf Linder

Address: 1629 S. Lafayette St. Shelby, NC 28152 Phone: 704-482-0351 Fax: 704-484-8869

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 102.20 M Employees (2005): 116

• President: L. Ray Thomas • CFO: Morris Hudson • VP Operations: Ty Gantt

Address: 2 place de la Coupole, La Défense 6 92400 Courbevoie, France Phone: +33-1-47-44-58-53 Fax: +33-1-47-44-58-24

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 169439.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 1.90% Employees (2004): 111,401 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.60%

• Chairman and CEO: Thierry Desmarest • EVP and CFO: Robert Castaigne • SVP Strategy, Business Development, and Research and Develop: Christian Mattenet

Address: 701 S. Robison Rd. Texarkana, TX 75501 Phone: 903-794-3835 Fax: 903-831-4056

Fiscal Year End: September Revenue (2004): 1205.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 0.40% Employees (2004): 500 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• Chairman: Truman Arnold • President and CEO: Gregory A. (Greg) Arnold • VP, CFO, and Treasurer: Steve McMillen

Yes

Smitten with the oil distribution business, the founding Schmidt family own and operate U.S. Oil Co. The company supplies refined oil products to US residents in the Midwest, and does a lot more. In addition to the wholesale distribution of oil products (its largest revenue generator), the company operates gas stations, and installs gas pumps, tanks, and other petroleumrelated equipment. It also provides plumbing, and HVAC services, operates a research laboratory for environmental analysis, collects used waste oil to be processed into burner U.S. Oil Co., Inc. fuel, and has a metal custom manufacturing unit. Vanguard Petroleum Corporation, formerly named Vanguard Energy, has worked hard to stay in the vanguard of the oil and gas commodity marketing business. The company is engaged in the business of wholesaling petroleum and liquid petroleum gases. Vanguard Petroleum, led by industry veteran Tom Garner, uses ChemConnect, the largest US-based online exchange for chemical trading, to streamline the wholesaler's purchasing operations. Vanguard Petroleum does about 15% of Vanguard its spot purchases and sales of natural-gas liquids on Petroleum ChemConnect's commodities trading site. Corporation Northeast. The holding company sells fuel and groceries from over 400 Xtra Mart brand service stations and convenience stores from Maine to Virginia. Warren's distribution companies supply those stores, as well as independent outlets, with gasoline, grocery, and tobacco products. Other Warren companies trade and store petroleum, provide environmental testing services, and make promotional signs and clothing. Chairman and owner Warren Alpert's foundation gives annual Warren Equities, grants to medical researchers; he has donated more than $20 Inc. million to Harvard Medical School.

Address: 425 S. Washington St. Combined Locks, WI 541131099 Phone: 920-739-6101 Fax: 920-788-0531

• President and CEO: Thomas A. Schmidt • CFO and Treasurer: Paul Bachman • Director Information Systems: Fred Pennings

Address: 1111 North Loop West, Ste. 1100 Houston, TX 77008 Phone: 713-802-4242 Fax: 713-802-4250

• President: Thomas W. (Tom) Garner • CFO and Treasurer: Jack Faubion

Address: 27 Warren Way Providence, RI 02905 Phone: 401-781-9900 Fax: 401-461-7160

Fiscal Year End: May Revenue (2004): 1000.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 0.00% Employees (2004): 2,200 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• Chairman: Warren Alpert • President and CEO: Herbert (Herb) Kaplan • CFO and Treasurer: John Dziedzic

Company Name Description rough. It owns a 40% stake in the Diavik diamond mine, located in one of the world's richest diamond-bearing deposits. Diavik Diamond Mines, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto, owns the remaining 60% and operates the mine. The Diavik mine produced 7.6 million carats in 2004. With its share, Aber directly supplies Tiffany & Co. with diamonds. The rest of the company's diamond production is sold through its subsidiary Aber Aber Diamond International, a rough diamond dealer on the Antwerp open market. In 2004 the company acquired 51% of jewelry retailer Corporation Harry Winston. [ABER] Afri-Can Marine Minerals is looking for jewels in the sea, but it isn't pearls the company is after. Afri-Can Marine explores for diamonds off the coast of Namibia, where it owns interests in some 25 licenses covering 10,000 square miles. It plans to develop deposits that appear profitable. The company's best prospect is its 70%-owned joint venture with Woduna Mining Holding. Its other partnership is Namibian Gemstones Mining. On dry land, the company is also has an option agreement in Afri-Can Marine the Haib Copper Concession in Namibia. To further its relations Minerals with the government, Afri-Can sold a stake to a not-for-profit Corporation corporation that represents four regional councils in the country. African Diamonds explores and develops diamonds from operations in Botswana, Guinea, and Sierra Leone. The company looks for property near current or former producing mines. It has a joint venture with industry giant De Beers in Botswana. De Beers contributes to the development costs in return for a percentage of profits once the mine is production. The diamonds will be sold to De Beers' marketing firm The African Diamond Trading Company. African Diamonds has previously Diamonds Plc investigated opportunities in Lesotho and Angola. African Metals Corporation is based in Canada but does its business in West Africa. The company primarily explores and develops diamond concessions in Mali. Its projects include Kenieba Nord, Kenieba Sud, and Soumala. African Metals has African Metals put its gold exploration program on hold as it concentrates on Corporation diamonds. None of its properties are in production. Agau Resources knows that getting dirty is just a part of business. The mining company explores and develops mineral properties, primarily at its Grimshaw diamond prospect in the Peach River Arch area of northwestern Alberta. It is acquiring permits and disposing of others as it looks for other promising Agau mineral sites adjacent to its Grimshaw diamond prospect. Resources, Inc. Kenneth Richardson holds more than 40% of the company.

Contact Info

Address: P.O. Box 4569, Station A Toronto, Ontario M5W 4T9, Canada Phone: 416-362-2237 Fax: 416-362-2230

Address: 4444 St. Catherine St. West, Ste. 201 Westmount, Quebec H3Z 1R2, Canada Phone: 514-846-2133 Fax: 514-846-1435

Address: 162 Clontarf Rd. Dublin 3, Ireland Phone: +353-1-833-2833 Fax: +353-1-833-3505 Address: 475 Howe St., Ste. 515 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2B3, Canada Phone: 604-684-4100 Fax: 604-684-5854 Address: 3912 116th St. Edmonton, Alberta T6J 1R4, Canada Phone: 780-413-9392 Fax: 780-496-9307

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Key People

Fiscal Year End: January Revenue (2006): 505.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 31.10% Employees (2006): 68

• Chairman and CEO: Robert A. Gannicott • President and Director; CEO, Harry Winston: Thomas J. O'Neill • VP and CFO: Alice A. Murphy

• Chairman: Michael J. H. Brown • President and CEO: Pierre Léveillé • EVP and CFO: Bernard J. Tourillon

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 198 Employee Growth (1 yr): 890.00% • Executive Chairman: John J. Teeling • CEO, CFO, and Director: Willis W. Osborne • President and Director: Klaus Eckhof

• President, CEO, CFO, and Director: Einar N. Myrholm

Public

Yes

Coal is the main resource of Alliance Resource Partners. The company has eight coal mining complexes (seven underground, one surface) in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Maryland. Alliance's more than 540 million tons of reserves also include coal from properties in West Virginia. The company produces about 20 million tons of coal annually, about 50% of which is high-sulfur coal. Two customers, Synfuel Solutions Operating and Virginia Electric and Power, together account for about oneAlliance third of sales. Alliance bought out River View Coal in early 2006 Resource giving it nearly 100 million more tons of high sulfur coal Partners, L.P. reserves. President and CEO Joseph Craft III controls a 44% [ARLP] stake in Alliance Resource Partners. Russian diamond monopoly ALROSA produces nearly 100% of the country's diamonds. It also accounts for more than 20% of the world's rough diamonds. The organization, which is jointly owned by the central government in Moscow and the Republic of Sakha, operates mines throughout Russia and Angola. About 50% of the company's rough diamonds are sold in foreign markets. ALROSA has a distribution agreement with De Beers' marketing arm, The Diamond Trading Company, but is reducing the amount of diamonds it supplies to De Beers. The company also markets its own stones and supports a growing Russian ALROSA diamond-cutting industry. ALROSA's largest shareholder is the Company Russian Ministry of State Property (37%). Limited Anglo-Canadian Uranium, formerly Interactive Exploration, hopes to bring its mines online. The company explores and develops properties to produce uranium, diamonds, gold, and silver through operations in Canada and Mexico. Its primary exploration projects include uranium and diamond claims in Quebec (Otish Mountain, Kert, Charles, Lac Bienville), as well Anglo-Canadian as gold, silver, lead, and zinc projects in British Columbia (Lucky Uranium Corp. Boy) and Mexico (Las Coloradas). Archangel Diamond Corporation has to dig itself out of court before it can start digging for diamonds. The company is involved in a dispute with Russian oil company OAO LUKOIL over a license to a promising diamond deposit (in the Verkhotina Archangel area) in northwest Russia. Archangel Diamond does have De Diamond Beers in its corner, which holds a controlling stake in the Corporation company. The AREVA Group brings vertical integration into the nuclear age. The company is involved in every step of nuclear power production. AREVA mines uranium and enriches it (under the trade name COGEMA). It builds nuclear reactors and services them (through Framatome ANP, a joint venture with Siemens). AREVA also treats and recycles used fuel. AREVA T&D (for Transmission & Distribution) is the company's electricity transmission and distribution equipment business and its largest unit. Framatome also manufactures electrical connectors, and subsidiary Canberra makes radiation detection equipment. The CEA (Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique, or French Atomic Energy Commission) owns 79% of AREVA. AREVA Group

Address: 1717 S. Boulder Ave., Ste. 600 Tulsa, OK 74119 Phone: 918-295-7600 Fax: 918-295-7358

Address: 10-12, Pervy Kazachy Pereulok 109017 Moscow, Russia Phone: +7-495-230-66-51 Fax: +7-495-230-66-31 Address: The Marine Building, 355 Burrard St., Ste. 1150 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2G8, Canada Phone: 604-669-6807 Fax: 604-669-5715 Address: 65 Overlea Blvd., Ste. 400 Toronto, Ontario M4H1P1, Canada Phone: 416-423-1600 Fax: 416-429-2462

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 838.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 28.40% Employees (2005): 2,300 Employee Growth (1 yr): 13.90%

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 2806.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 36.90% Employees (2004): 37,561 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-1.20%)

• Chairman: John P. Neafsey • President, CEO, and Director: Joseph W. Craft III • SVP and CFO: Brian L. Cantrell

• Chairman, Supervisory Council: Alexey Leonidovich Kudrin • President: Alexandr Olegovich Nichiporuk • VP, Sales and Marketing: Yuri Alexandrovich Dudenkov

• President, CEO, CFO, and Director: Leonard J. (Len) Harris • Chairman: Gary M. Ralfe • President and CEO: Jonathan Dickman • Secretary and CFO: David W. Massola

• Chairman of the Executive Board; Chairman and CEO, Address: 27-29 rue Le COGEMA: Anne Lauvergeon Peletier Fiscal Year End: December • Executive Board Member 75 433 Paris Cedex 9, France Revenue (2005): 11991.00 M and CFO: Gérald Arbola Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-20.90%) • Executive Board Member; Phone: +33-1-44-83-71-00 Employees (2004): 70,069 COO, COGEMA: Didier Fax: +33-1-44-83-25-00 Employee Growth (1 yr): 45.90% Benedetti

Yes

Ashton Mining of Canada Inc.

Augusta Resource Corporation

Belgonucleaire

Brazilian Diamonds Limited

Brush Wellman Inc.

Ashton Mining of Canada is a diamond exploration company with interests in North America. The company has exploration properties in Alberta, Manitoba, Nunavut, and Quebec. Its main project is a joint venture (with SOQUEM) in the Otish Mountains of Quebec. Formed in 1993, Ashton Mining of Canada is majority-owned by Australian mining giant Rio Tinto. Rio Tinto got a piece of Ashton Mining of Canada when it bought Ashton Mining Limited of Australia. Augusta Resource is hoping to add a little sparkle to its balance sheet. The company owns interests in diamond properties in the Coronation Diamond District in Nunavut, Canada. It's currently raising cash to develop its properties and acquire others in Canada and the US. The company has expanded operations to exploring properties in New Mexico and Nevada. Augusta Resource has an alliance with fellow Canadian diamond miner Ashton Mining of Canada. From its base in Belgium, Belgonucleaire fuels the nuclear world. The company produces mixed oxide (MOX), a combination of depleted uranium oxide and plutonium oxide that is used as fuel in nuclear power plants. Belgonucleaire also has a nuclear engineering branch, which researches nuclear fuels, builds equipment for MOX production factories, and develops systems to dispose of nuclear waste safely. The engineering branch also works with other nuclear firms to neutralize plutonium left over from dismantled nuclear weapons. The Belgian national government owns 50% of the company, which was founded in 1957. Brazilian Diamonds (formerly Black Swan Resources) hopes to be transformed into wealthy prince. As the new name suggests, it now explores for and acquires diamond properties in Brazil. Its projects include Serra da Canastra, Santo Antonio do Bonito, and Abaeté River. Brazilian Diamonds acquired several of these projects from De Beers Brazil and is working with local mining companies to develop these properties. In 2005 the company sold its holding in Hidefield Gold, but Brazilian Diamonds still works with the gold company in a precious metals exploration joint venture. Brush Wellman produces beryllium, beryllium oxide, beryllia ceramics, and beryllium alloys. Its beryllium products are used in such industries as aerospace, automotive, telecommunications, and electronics. The company's alloys are prized for their electrical and thermal conductivities, as well as their durability, hardness, and strength. Brush Wellman has sales offices in Asia, Europe, and the US. The alloy and beryllium products unit of Brush Engineered Materials, Brush Wellman is part of its parent's Metal Systems Group. Brush Wellman has its roots in a company that was founded by Charles Brush in 1921.

Address: 930 W. 1st St., Unit 116 North Vancouver, British Columbia V7P 3N4, Canada Phone: 604-983-7750 Fax: 604-987-7107 Contact Information Address: 837 W. Hastings St., Ste. 400 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3N6, Canada Phone: 604-687-1717 Fax: 604-687-1715

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 50 Employee Growth (1 yr): 6.40%

• Chairman: John B. Cole • President, CEO, and Director: Robert T. Boyd • VP, Finance: Alessandro Bitelli

• Chairman: Richard W. Warke • President and CEO: Gil Clausen • CFO: Donald B. Clark

Address: Avenue Ariane 4 1200 Brussels, Belgium Phone: +32-2-774-05-11 Fax: +32-2-774-05-47

• Chairman: Jacques Laurent • General Manager: Jean Van Vliet

Address: 475 Howe St., Ste. 910 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2B3, Canada Phone: 604-689-2599 Fax: 604-662-8429

• Chairman: Kenneth P. Judge • President, CEO, and Director: Stephen L. Fabian • CFO and Secretary: Robert W. Anderson

Address: 17876 Saint Clair Ave. Cleveland, OH 44110-2602 Phone: 216-486-4200 Fax: 216-383-4091

• President; Brush Wellman and Brush Alloys: Donald G. Klimkowicz

Caldera Resources is bubbling up in the diamond mining business. The company hopes to produce diamonds from several projects (Yilgarn Craton, Cromer Cone, Ellendale, and Runton) in western Australia. Its Yilgarn Craton project is a joint venture with SouthernEra Resources; Cromer Cone is a partnership with Ronald Winston (chairman of Harry Winston). Caldera Caldera Resources has other exploration projects, including Resources Inc. base metals, in the works in western and northern Australia. Consolidated AGX Resources has found a home in Brazil. The company acquires and explores diamond and other mineral resource properties. It has an agreement to take a 50% interest in claims in the Batovi Diamond Province of the state of Mato Consolidated Grosso. The company first entered the agreement in 2001. AGX Resources Consolidated AGX Resources has also been involved in mining Corp. exploration in Canada. Consolidated Gold Win Ventures has bundled together various properties in Canada. The company is exploring for gold in British Columbia, prospecting for platinum and nickel in Quebec, and delving into diamonds in the Northwest Territories. For now, Consolidated Gold Win has focused its resources on exploratory Consolidated drilling at its Drybones Bay diamond project in the Northwest Gold Win Territories. The company also holds a gold property in the Ventures Inc. prolific Elko County, Nevada area. Darnley Bay Resources explores and develops diamond deposits as well as properties containing nickel, copper, and platinum/palladium, primarily in the Northwest Territories of Canada. In 2004 the mining company entered into a joint venture agreement with mining property developer Diadem Darnley Bay Resources for a potential diamond exploration region near Resources Paulatuk, Canada in the Northwest Territories. So far this region Limited has yielded eight potential drilling targets. De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited (DBCM) hopes the lure of diamonds is, indeed, forever. DBCM controls the South African mining interests of De Beers, the world's largest diamond miner and marketer. The company's mines in South Africa produce more than 13 million carats of the sparkly gem every year. Nearly half of that is from its Venetia mine. DBCM was taken private in 2001 under De Beers S.A., a holding company owned by South Africa's Anglo American (45%), the Oppenheimer De Beers family (40%), and the government of Botswana (15%). Nicky Consolidated Oppenheimer, grandson of Anglo American's founder, heads Mines Limited the De Beers operations.

Address: 1 Place Ville Marie, Ste. 3900 Montreal, Quebec H3B 4M7, Canada Phone: 514-878-8847 Fax: 514-866-2241

• Chairman: John Daniels • President: Christopher W. (Chris) Reindler

Address: 850 W. Hastings St., Ste. 201 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1E1, Canada Phone: 604-689-9661 Fax: 604-689-9610

• President and CEO: Kathrine MacDonald

Address: 1016 - 470 Granville St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1V5, Canada Phone: 604-671-4718 Fax: 604-572-1891

• Chairman and President: Souhail (Abby) Farrage

Address: Scotia Plaza, 40 King St. West, Ste. 3901 Toronto, Ontario M5H 3Y2, Canada Phone: 416-862-7885 Fax: 416-862-7889

• President, CEO, and Director: Leon F. La Prairie • CFO and Treasurer: Richard T. La Prairie

Address: 36 Stockdale St. Kimberley, Northern Cape 8301, South Africa Phone: +27-53-839-4111 Fax: +27-53-839-4210

• Chairman: Johnathan M. E. Oppenheimer • Managing Director: David Noko • Group Finance Director: Stuart Brown

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 7043.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 7.20%

Diagem Inc.

interests around the world. It oversees the De Beers Consolidated Mines (DBCM, mining, South Africa) and The Diamond Trading Company (DTC, diamond marketing, UK). It also controls the De Beers diamond mining interests such as 50% stakes in Debswana (with the government of Botswana) and Namdeb (with the government of Namibia), as well as mining interests in Canada, Russia, and Tanzania. The company mines more than 45 million carats annually, mostly from its Debswana operations. De Beers SA, is owned by South African resources giant Anglo American (45%), the Oppenheimer family (40%) and the Government of Botswana (15%). Dentonia Resources would like to make a dent in Canada's diamond and gold mining industries. The company acquires claims on properties that might have valuable mineral deposits and makes partnerships with other companies to explore and develop the sites. Dentonia and two other companies own equal shares in DHK Diamonds, a company they formed to hold claims on diamond properties in the Lac de Gras and Pellatt Lake regions of the Northwest Territories. The company also owns interests in prospective gold properties in southeastern Yukon's Tintina Gold Belt and the Porcupine Mining District in Ontario. Dentonia Resources is also prospecting a copper and molybdenum project in British Columbia. Deposits are required for Diadem Resources, which explores and develops mining properties, primarily diamond projects, in North America. The company is focusing on three diamond projects (Otish Mountains, Franklin Diamond, and Attawapiskat) in Canada and plans to explore other areas around those projects. It has made the most progress on its exploration of the Franklin project, located in the Franklin Bay area of the Northwest Territories. Diadem Resources dropped its claims on the Leek Springs area in California, deciding instead to focus on the Franklin project and other properties. Diagem Inc., formerly Diagem International Resource, has gone overseas to find its gems. The company prospects and evaluates mineral deposits primarily at its Juina Diamond Project in Mato Grosso, Brazil. In addition, Diagem has mineral operations in Canada through its roughly 30% stake in KWG Resources, which has several properties in Ontario, and a 20% holding in MacDonald Mines Exploration. It also holds interests in other Canadian properties on its own. Diagem was formed in 1995 by former chairman David Cohen.

Diamond Discoveries International Corp. [DMDD.OB]

Diamond Discoveries International. The company's name says it all. Diamond Discoveries is a mineral exploration company which leases property in the Torngat fields in northern Quebec. The company has contracted another firm to perform the early stage exploration of the property. Former chairman and CEO Teodosia Pangia holds nearly 15% of Diamond Discoveries.

De Beers S.A.

Dentonia Resources Ltd.

Diadem Resources Ltd.

Address: Private Bag X01, Southdale Johannesburg 2135, South Africa Phone: +27-11-374-7000 Fax: +27-11-374-7700

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 7043.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 7.20% Employees (2004): 22,000 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-8.30%)

Address: 1039 Richards St., Ste. 303 Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 3E4, Canada Phone: 604-682-1141 Fax: 604-682-1144

Address: 110 Meadowvale Rd. Toronto, Ontario M1C 1S1, Canada Phone: 416-284-5959 Fax: 416-286-0795

• President and Director: Adolf A. Petancic

Fiscal Year End: May Revenue (2004): 0.10 M Employees (2004): 5

Address: 630 René-Lévesque Blvd. West Montreal, Quebec H3B 1S6, Canada Fiscal Year End: June Phone: 514-866-6001 Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Fax: 514-866-6193 Employees (2004): 30 Address: 750 W. Pender St., Ste. 804 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2T7, Canada Phone: 604-683-1368 Fax: 604-685-6905

• Chairman: Nicholas F. (Nicky) Oppenheimer • Managing Director: Gary M. Ralfe • Group Finance Director: Stuart Brown

• Chairman: Paul A. Carroll • President, CEO, and Director: Rodney N. (Rod) Thomas • VP, Finance: David J. Layman

• Chairman: Mousseau Tremblay • CEO and Director: Claude A. Durocher • President: Paulo Andreazza

• Chairman, President, CEO, CFO, Secretary and Director: Edward C. Williams Yes

Diamond Fields International prefers to do its business on a beach. The company primarily explores for diamonds on a 176,000 acre concession on the shoreline and sea bed off the coast of Namibia. Diamond Fields pays a 10% fee to the Namibian government on the value of any diamonds recovered. The company purchased its own marine diamond mining vessel and the ship commenced mining production in 2005. Diamond Diamond Fields Fields also has a nickel exploration project in Greenland with International partner Inco Limited. It is exploring several diamond and gold Ltd. projects in Liberia. mining business. The exploration and development company specializes in diamond exploration in Canada's Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and northern Quebec. Diamondex acquires properties and has joint venture agreements in some exploration projects. Formed in 1999, none of the company's some 15 properties currently produce diamonds. Fellow Canadian miner Barrick Gold owns more than 10% of Diamondex Resources Ltd. Diamondex. A diamond is Dianor Resources' best friend. The company has diamond mining operations in the James Bay and Otish Mountains regions of Quebec and Ontario. It partners with other Canadian mining outfits, including Alexis Minerals, Eastmain Resources, and Globex Mining Enterprises, in order to share the costs in exploring and developing properties. The company's Dianor Threegold Resources subsidiary was formed to manage its gold Resources Inc. and base metal mining projects. friend, you should look up Diavik Diamond Mines Inc. (DDMI). The company has a majority stake (60%) in the Diavik Diamonds Project north of Great Slave lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada; partner Aber Diamond owns the remaining portion. Production began at the mine in 2003. With an estimated life cycle of 16-20 years, the Diavik mine will peak at a production rate of about 8 million carats annually. The two companies share in the diamonds the mine produces in equal Diavik Diamond ratio to their ownership stakes. DDMI is a subsidiary of Rio Mines Inc. Tinto. Heavenly-sounding Dios Exploration prefers to be below the earth's surface. The company explores for diamonds in the Otish Mountains of Quebec and Ontario. Its properties include 33 Carats, Hotish, Artaud, Chibouki, and Pontax, among others. Fellow mining company Vaaldiam owns a 51% stake in the Hotish property. In 2005 diamond mining giant De Beers withdrew its option agreement with Dios Exploration to explore the 33 Carats property. The company has a purchasing Dios Exploration agreement with Diarough, in which Diarough will buy all diamonds produced by Dios Exploration. Inc.

Address: 1st Fl., Unit 4, Foregate Square, Table Bay Boulevard Cape Town 8001, South Africa Phone: +27-21-425-1990 Fax: +27-21-425-1999

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2005): 5.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 316.70%

Address: 650 W. Georgia St., Ste. 1410 Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 4N8, Canada Phone: 604-687-6644 Fax: 604-687-1448

Address: 730, 4e avenue Val-d'Or, Quebec J9P 1J2, Canada Phone: 819-825-7090 Fax: 819-825-7545

• President, CEO, and Director: Roger J. Daniel • COO, CFO, and Secretary: Kenneth E. (Ken) Hecker

• Chairman: James E. Eccott • President, CEO, and Director: Randy C. Turner • CFO: J. Christopher Mitchell

• Chairman and CFO: Daniel Fiscal Year End: December Duval Revenue (2004): 0.00 M • President, CEO, and Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-65.80%) Director: John Ryder

Address: 5007 50th Ave. Yellowknife, Northwest Territories X1A 2P8, Canada Phone: 867-669-6500 Fax: 867-669-9058

• President and COO: Joe Carrabba • Manager, External and Internal Affairs: Tom Hoefer

Address: 500 René-Lévesque West, Ste. 910 Montreal, Quebec H4A 3P4, Canada Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 514-483-5149 Revenue (2004): 0.10 M Fax: 514-485-2155 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 32.80%

• President and Director: Marie-José Girard • Marketing Manager and Director: Normand Payette

Dwyka Diamonds has stars in its eyes. The company explores and mines for diamonds at such projects as Nooitgedacht, Blaauwbosch, Newlands, and New Elands in South Africa. It also explores for diamond deposits in India through a strategic Dwyka alliance with BHP Billiton. Dwyka Diamonds produces Diamonds aggregate, concrete, cement bricks, and pavers as by-products Limited of its mining operations. Dyson Group researches and develops performance materials (metal composites, fibers) and thermal products (ceramics, refractories). Some of the company's products include Ecoflex catalytic converter components and Saffil polycrystalline chemical fibers, both developed by Dyson's Saffil subsidiary (acquired in 1999). The company also has a US-based subsidiary, Millennium Materials (acquired in 2001), which develops metal matrix composites, primarily under the Carolite name, and is used in hard disk drive manufacturing. The vendor of Millennium Metals, Dr. Sam Weaver, holds nearly 15% of the Dyson Group plc company. Dyson was founded in 1810. or e6, is named after the sixth element, carbon (the building block of diamonds). The company is among the leading global suppliers of synthetic and natural industrial-grade diamonds and other industrial abrasives. Its abrasives are used for cutting, grinding, drilling, and polishing metal, concrete, glass, plastics, and other materials. The company, which had been called De Beers Industrial Diamonds (Debid) until 2002, comprises companies both independent of and partly owned by diamond Element Six giant De Beers. Think steel is strong? Eramet Marietta thinks there is room for improvement. The company produces and sells manganese alloys which are used to make steel stronger and more resistant to heat. The manganese is mined in West Africa and then mixed and refined at the company's chief plant in Marietta, Ohio. The Eramet Marietta, company is a US subsidiary of France-based superalloys Inc. manufacturer Eramet. exploration in Europe. Established in 1999, the company explores and develops diamond properties, particularly focusing on the Lahtojoki and Lentiira projects in eastern Finland (on the Russian border). Its other diamond property includes the Liqhobong project in Lesotho (a kingdom located within South Africa). The Liqhobong project is expected to produce about 290,000 carats of diamonds annually. The company is on track for its mining operations in Africa and Finland to begin European Diamonds PLC production in 2006.

Address: Level 4, HPPL House, 28-42 Ventor Ave. West Perth 6005, Australia Phone: +61-8-9324-2955 Fax: +61-8-9324-2977

• Chairman: Melissa J. Sturgess • Managing Director and Fiscal Year End: June Director: Cedric J. Revenue (2004): 3.50 M Bredenkamp Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-16.60%) • CFO, Secretary, and Employees (2004): 64 Director: Michael J. Employee Growth (1 yr): 8.50% Langoulant

Address: 381 Fulwood Rd. Sheffield S10 3GB, United Kingdom Phone: +44-114-230-3921 Fax: +44-114-230-8583

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2005): 110.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 2.00% Employees (2005): 903 Employee Growth (1 yr): 5.60%

• Non-Executive Chairman: Tom Brown • Chief Executive and Director: Mike O'Brien • Finance Director and Board Member: Nick Parker • Chairman: Jonathan Oppenheimer • Managing Director: C. Christian Hultner • Executive Director, Strategy Development: Edward A. Brooks

Address: 1 Debid Rd. Nuffield Springs, Gauteng 1559, South Africa Phone: +27-11-812-9000 Fax: +27-11-812-9245 Address: 16705 State Rte. 7 South Marietta, OH 45750 Phone: 740-374-1000 Fax: 740-374-1386

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 302.00 M Employees (2005): 550

Address: 22 Grosvenor Sq. London W1K 6LF, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7529-7502 Fax: +44-20-7491-2244

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 15 Employee Growth (1 yr): 36.40%

• President, Eramet North America: Jean Michel Deserais

• Chief Executive: Roy G. S. Spencer • COO: George M. Beaton • Finance Director and Secretary: James S. Cable

Excalibur Industries is on a quest for uranium. Through subsidiary Mountain West Mines, the company holds interests in uranium properties, including some 85 patented claims, in Wyoming's Powder River Basin. Excalibur hopes to draw royalties from its mineral interests, but the company's contractual rights have been involved in a legal dispute. Excalibur has agreed to sell some of its Powder River Basin Excalibur properties to Canada-based mining company Uranerz Energy. Industries Colorado silver claims held by Excalibur were sold in 2004. of Japan-based Ferrotec, the company makes fluids that, when controlled with a magnetic force, can be used for sealing, sensing, lubrication, and heat transfer. Known as ferrofluidics, these liquids are used by makers of audio speakers and lighting (General Electric is a major customer) and in its own engineered products. Ferrotec USA's sealing devices are used for making semiconductors (rotary seals) and in oil and chemical Ferrotec (USA) production. The company's main manufacturing plant is in New Corporation Hampshire. seals and computer seals. Other applications include semiconductor components, flat panel displays, and hard disk drive manufacturing. The company also manufactures thermoelectric modules, solid-state devices used in medical devices, automotive equipment, telecommunications equipment, and home electronics. Founded in 1980, Ferrotec has operations in the US, through Ferrotec (USA) Corporation, as well as in Asia and Europe. The company is shifting its Ferrotec production to China in order to cut costs for its electronics Corporation production. Firestone Diamonds is always looking for a diamond in the rough. With more than 40 years of diamond mining and exploration experience, the company has operations in Botswana (Mopipi, Orapa, Jwaneng projects) and the west coast of South Africa's Namaqualand region (Bonte Koe, Avontuur, Groen River valley, and Oena projects). Its projects in Botswana are being explored in partnership with South African diamond Firestone giant De Beers. Firestone Diamonds also has a kimberlitic Diamonds plc exploration project in the US. Garnet Point Resources really digs precious stones. The company has diamond exploration and development projects primarily in Saskatchewan and Nunavut. It has an agreement with BHP Billiton Diamonds to develop these projects, in which Garnet Point will have a small stake if the properties go into production. The company also has an option agreement with Full Metal to develop its Arcadia property in Nunavut. Garnet Garnet Point Point is also looking to explore and develop gold and uranium Resources Corp. metal properties.

Address: PO Box 3551 Duluth, MN 55803 Phone: 218-724-4711

• Chairman, President and CEO: Joseph P. Hubert

Address: 40 Simon St. Nashua, NH 03060-3075 Phone: 603-883-9800 Fax: 603-883-2308

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2005): 13.00 M Employees (2005): 150

Address: 1--4-14 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku Tokyo 104-0031, Japan Phone: +81-3-3281-8808 Fax: +81-3-3281-8848

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 142.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 32.50% Employees (2004): 124 Employee Growth (1 yr): 7.80%

Address: 26-28 Hammersmith Grove London W6 7BA, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-8834-1028 Fax: +44-20-8181-6894

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2004): 1.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-9.00%) Employees (2004): 108 Employee Growth (1 yr): 4.90%

Address: 925 W. Georgia St., Ste. 1304 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3L2, Canada Fiscal Year End: April Phone: 604-684-2181 Revenue (2005): 0.00 M Fax: 604-682-4768 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 63.40%

• Chairman and CEO: Akira Yamamura • COO: Eiji Miyamaga • CFO: Richard R. Cesati II

• President; Chairman, Ferrotec (USA): Akira Yamamura

• Executive Chairman: James Flannan Kenny • Chief Executive: Philip Kenny • COO: Tim Wilkes

• President: Aly Mawji

Global Nuclear Fuel Americas, LLC

Energy, Toshiba, and Hitachi. As part of the Global Nuclear Fuel joint venture formed in 2000, it combines the design, manufacturing, and marketing operations of its parent companies to manufacture and sell light-water nuclear reactor fuel. It serves customers in Europe, Mexico, Taiwan, and the US. Global Nuclear Fuel Americas operates a plant in Wilmington, North Carolina. The company works with fellow General Electric affiliates GE Nuclear Energy and Global Nuclear Fuel - Japan.

Haynes International is an ally of companies that use alloys. Haynes develops and manufactures nickel- and cobalt-based alloys. The company specializes in high-temperature alloys (HTAs) able to withstand extreme temperatures and corrosionresistant alloys (CRAs) that stand up to corrosive substances and processes. HTAs are used in jet engines, land-based gas turbines, and waste incinerators, while CRAs have applications in chemical processing, power plant emissions control, and hazardous waste treatment. HTAs account for about threequarters of the company's sales. The Blackstone Group Haynes investment firm owns about 70% of Haynes, which exited International, bankruptcy protection in 2004. Inc. Highveld Steel and Vanadium knows not to meddle when you find the right niche in metals. The company is one of the world's leading producers of vanadium, a silvery, soft metal highly resistant to corrosion and used primarily as a steelstrengthening element. Highveld Steel mines its own ore for its steelworks and also produces carbonaceous products and ferroHighveld Steel alloys. In 2003 the company took a 50% stake in South Africa and Vanadium Japan Vanadium to expand into the Japanese market. UKCorporation based mining conglomerate Anglo American owns about 80% of Limited [HSVLY] Highveld Steel. Horseshoe Gold Mining is looking for any luck it can get in its search for diamonds. The company is primarily looking for the precious gem in Canada's Northwest Territories. Horseshoe Gold, through its one-third interest in DHK Diamonds, has a stake in more than 200,000 acres in the Lac de Gras area. Its other exploration project is the Fuego gold and silver metals Horseshoe Gold prospect (wholly-owned by fellow Canadian mining company Mining Inc. Almaden Minerals) in the Oaxaca State of Mexico. International Uranium truly does its business across the globe. Besides its uranium waste recycling operations in the US, the company is exploring for uranium, base, and precious metals in Mongolia (through its 44%-owned Fortress Minerals subsidiary.) It also has holdings in several Canadian uranium properties, but none of those are in operation. International Uranium earns revenue by recycling uranium and vandium waste at its White Mesa processing mill in Utah and selling the recovered metals International to customers. With uranium prices rising, the company has Uranium recommenced some exploration activities at properties in Corporation Canada and the US. [IUCPF.PK]

Address: 3901 Castle Hayne Rd. Wilmington, NC 28402 Phone: 910-675-5000 Fax: 910-675-6666

• Chairman and CEO: John D. (Jack) Fuller • President and COO: Craig P. Kipp

Address: 1020 W. Park Ave. Kokomo, IN 46904-9013 Phone: 765-456-6000 Fax: 765-456-6905

• President, CEO, and Director: Francis J. Petro • VP, Business Planning and Information Technology: Charles J. Sponaugle • VP, Marketing: James A. Laird

Address: Old Pretoria Main Rd., PO Box 111 Witbank, Mpumalanga 1035, South Africa Phone: +27-136909911 Fax: +27-136909033

• Chairman: Godfrey G. Gomwe • CEO: André J. de Nysschen • Executive Director and General Manager, Finance: Luigi Matteucci

Address: 1022 Nelson St., Ste. 1202 Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 2H2, Canada Phone: 604-662-4480 Fax: 604-685-0553

Address: 885 W. Georgia St., Ste. 2101 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3E8, Canada Phone: 604-689-7842 Fax: 604-689-4250

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 894.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 60.80%

Yes

• President and Director: James E. McInnes

• Chairman: Lukas H. Lundin • President, CEO, and Director: Ron F. Hochstein • VP, Corporate Development: Harold R. Roberts

Yes

ISX Resources, formerly Otish Mountain Exploration, is looking for ice. Not interested in the cold, wet stuff, this mining company focuses on diamond exploration in Canada's Otish Mountains. The company changed its name in 2005. Under its former name, the company engaged in polymetallic mining focused on zinc-copper-gold-silver deposits in Zacatecas State in Mexico. ISX Resources ISX Resources has mineral interests in British Columbia and the Inc. Yukon. None of its properties are in production. Forget the gold rush -- KWG Resources has joined the great Canadian diamond rush. The company and joint venture partner Spider Resources have two diamondiferous (diamond-bearing) properties in development in northern Ontario. Also with Spider, it is exploring the McFaulds Lake base metal project in Ontario. In 2005 KWG Resources looked to merge with its partner Spider but the deal eventually fell through. The company's Grand Bois project in Haiti was eventually written off in 2003. Diamond KWG Resources miner Diagem International Resource has a 33% stake in the Inc. mining company. It's not liquid, it's not metal -- it's Liquidmetal Technologies. Building on research done at the California Institute of Technology by company vice chairman William Johnson and VP Atakan Peker, Liquidmetal Technologies sells amorphous metal alloys, including an alloy that's lighter than titanium but more than twice as strong as conventional titanium alloys. The company's products are sold as bulk alloys, coatings, Liquidmetal composites, and powders. Applications include casings for cell Technologies, phones; suppliers to electronics giant Samsung account for a Inc. [LQMT.OB] majority of Liquidmetal Technologies' sales. Diamonds are Monroe's best friend, or, at least Monroe Minerals would like it to be that way. This company is engaged in gem quality diamond exploration and development in sub-Saharan Africa. Its main exploration project is the London Project near Johannesburg, South Africa. In all the company has about five Monroe Minerals key projects in South Africa. Monroe Minerals is also looking to Inc. expand in Angola. Mountain Province Diamonds' prospects. The mining company explores for and develops diamond properties. It owns 44% of the 520,000-acre AK site in Canada's Northwest Territories; joint-venture partner De Beers Canada owns 51%, and Camphor Ventures owns 5%. De Beers Canada oversees exploration of the property, where sample mining continues. Mountain Province Diamonds also owns mining subsidiaries in Scandinavia and the US, but is focusing on the AK site. Once production begins, the company will sell its diamonds to The Mountain Diamond Trading Company. Financier Dermot Desmond's Bottin Province Diamonds Inc. (International) Investments owns 25% of Mountain Province Diamonds. [MDM]

Address: 675 W. Hastings St., Ste. 200 Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 1N2, Canada Phone: 604-681-7600 Fax: 604-681-7622

• President: Thomas Tough

Address: 630 René-Lévesque Blvd. West, Ste. 2930 Montreal, Quebec H3B 1S6, Canada Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 514-866-6001 Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Fax: 514-866-6193 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 254.00%

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Frank C. Smeenk • CFO: Léonard Teoli

Address: 25800 Commercentre Dr., Ste. 100 Lake Forest, CA 92630 Phone: 949-206-8000 Fax: 949-206-8008

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 17.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 3.40% Employees (2004): 158 Employee Growth (1 yr): 31.70%

• Chairman: John H. Kang • CFO: Young J. Ham • CTO: Neil Paton

Address: 900 Elvedon House, 717 - 7th Ave. SW Calgary, Alberta T2P 0Z3, Canada Phone: 403-205-4996 Fax: 403-265-0608

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 17 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-15.00%)

• Chairman: Brian M. Benitz • President, CEO, and Director: Derek J. Moran • CFO, Secretary, and Director: Peter T. Farkas

Address: 21 Nesbitt Dr. Toronto, Ontario M4W 2G2, Canada Phone: 416-364-6928 Fax: 416-364-0618

• Chairman, CFO, and Secretary: Elizabeth J. Kirkwood • President, CEO, and Director: Patrick C. Evans

Yes

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The company engineers and licenses materials for use in data storage, medical imaging, and water purification applications. Its DataInk and Magnetoferritin products are nanoscale particles that are grown within protein spheres. The company touts its designs as having many benefits unavailable from traditional chemical and metal preparations. NanoMagnetics was founded in 1997 by former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researcher (and current CEO) Eric Mayes and former investment banker Nick Tyler; investors include Amadeus NanoMagnetics Capital Partners, Formula Ventures, Prelude Ventures, and Ltd. UBS. New Material Technologies processes rare earths, zirconium, and magnets for use in fuel cells, automotive wiring, glass, cell phones, and other electronic products. Its rare earths division, which includes lanthanum and neodymium, accounts for most of the company's sales. Neo Materials (formerly called AMR Technologies) operates a research facility in the UK and has subsidiaries which operate processing plants in China and Thailand. Its products are distributed to customers in 25 Neo Material different countries; China and North America account for most Technologies of New Material Technologies' sales. The company acquired Inc. [NEMFF.PK] earth magnet materials company Magnequench in 2005. New Gold, formerly DRC Resources Corporation, is looking for metals and minerals in its own backyard. The Canadian mining company is mainly exploring and developing the Afton CopperGold Project, located near the city of Kamloops in British Columbia. The Afton Project is estimated to hold 1.6 billion pounds of copper and 2 million ounces of gold. It explores promising properties and then sells or partners with larger mining companies in order to develop the projects. The company was involved in oil and gas exploration in the 1980s New Gold Inc. and still earns royalties from those properties. Chairman John [NGD] Kruzick holds a 20% stake in New Gold. for diamonds in Angola. Since acquiring Angola Resources, the company has been primarily trying to develop the Lapi Diamond Project. It has a joint venture agreement with the Angolan government to explore for diamonds in the Lapi Diamond area. New Millennium Resources believes there is potential to uncover more than 8 million carats. It also has an interest in an New Millennium exploration project in Greenland, with joint venture partner Resources Hudson Resources, to explore for diamonds, niobium, and Limited tantalum. the cold as long as there is plenty of ice in the area. The diamond exploration and mining company, formerly Poplar Resources, has properties in Finland (Kuopio-Kaavi Diamond Project), Sweden (Nyborg and Bottenbacken projects), and Canada (in the Nunavut region). Nordic Diamonds is committing most of its resources to exploring the Kuopio-Kaavi diamond project and the Bottenbacken copper, gold, and palladium Nordic Diamonds Ltd. project.

Address: University Gate East, Park Row Bristol BS1 5UB, United Kingdom Phone: +44-1179-151-277 Fax: +44-1179-039-001

Address: 121 King St. West, Ste. 1740 Toronto, Ontario M5H 3T9, Canada Phone: 416-367-8588 Fax: 416-367-5471

• Chairman: Alan Duncan • CEO and Director: Eric Mayes

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 54.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 15.90% Employees (2004): 1,068 Employee Growth (1 yr): 6.80%

• Chairman: Archibald Cox Jr. • President, CEO, and Director: Constantine E. Karayannopoulos • CFO: Michael F. Doolan

Address: 595 Howe St., Ste. 601 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2T5, Canada Phone: 604-687-1629 Fax: 604-687-2845

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 8

Address: 100 Mill Point Rd. Ste. 5 South Perth 6151, Australia Phone: +61-8-9368-0388 Fax: +61-8-9368-0588

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2004): 0.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 1144.30% • Chairman: David Johnston Employees (2004): 3 • CEO, Finance Director, and Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00% Secretary: Shane M. Healy

Address: 700 W. Georgia St., Ste. 888 Vancouver, British Columbia V7Y 1K4, Canada Phone: 604-718-5454 Fax: 604-646-2054

• Chairman: Clifford John (Cliff) Davis • President, CEO, and Director: Christopher John (Chris) Bradbrook • COO: Kevin J. Ross

• Chairman and CEO: Alvin W. Jackson • President, COO, and Director: Walter Melnyk • CFO, Secretary, and Director: Tanuja de Silva

Yes

Yes

North Star Diamonds hopes to shine down upon all aspects of the diamond business. The company explores for diamonds in the Superior Craton of southern Manitoba and in the Ukraine. To help fund its exploration projects, North Star Diamonds also sells cut and polished diamonds on its Web site. The company North Star has also begun marketing its diamonds on eBay. Management Diamonds Inc. gained control of the company in 2003, with the plan of both [NSDM.PK] mining and retailing diamonds. Oryx Natural Resources (ONR) has diamond mining interests, which primarily include the Sengamines operation in Congo. Sengamines has mining activities in that country's Kasai Oriental province. ONR holds a majority stake in Sengamines, along with the Congolese government and other investors. Following a major restructuring in 2004, the African Mining Oryx Natural Management Company (AMMCO) took control of the mining Resources company. ONR is domiciled in the Cayman Islands. Petra Diamonds has diamond exploration activities in Africa, including Angola, Botswana, Sierra Leone, and South Africa. The company's main project (in partnership with BHP Billiton) is Alto Cuilo in Angola. Petra's other interests in Angola include Muriege and Medio Kwanza. It also holds 30% of the Nabera consortium, which in 1999-2001 managed Alexkor, one of South Africa's most productive diamond mines. Petra has since decided to exit the Alexkor business. The company has been on an acquisition spree, buying Crown Diamonds and Kalahari Diamonds. (In late 2005 Petra terminated the deal to acquire Petra Diamonds Mano River Resources.) With diamond production within sight, Petra has cut back its platinum and gold exploration. Limited The Bigfoot of Saskatchewan is PotashCorp, the world's leading producer of potash, commonly used as fertilizer. Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan also produces nitrogen (used in fertilizer and a variety of industrial and consumer products) and phosphate (for feed products, food products, and detergents). Its annual production capacity of 12.5 million tons of potash represents more than 20% of the world's capacity. PotashCorp also sells these minerals as phosphate feed ingredients for Potash animal nutrition and as nitrogen products for the industrial Corporation of chemicals market. Its PCS Nitrogen unit makes its nitrogen Saskatchewan products. The company has about 20 plants in North America, Inc. [POT] Brazil, Chile, and Trinidad. Pure Gold Minerals isn't purely in the gold business. In fact, the company primarily explores diamond mining opportunities in Canada. It is involved in several joint ventures (most significantly with diamond giant De Beers and Ashton Mining of Canada), with exploration projects in Alberta, the Northwest Pure Gold Territories, and the Nunavut region. Pure Gold Minerals is also Minerals Inc. exploring the Otis Mountains of Quebec, as well as areas of [PURGF.PK] Ontario around Opikeigen Lake.

Address: 525 Seymour St., Ste. 908 Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 3H7, Canada Phone: 604-685-1527 Fax: 604-685-1596

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Walter Stunder • CFO, Secretary, and Treasurer: David Maxwell • VP, Corporate Development: Alec Peck

Address: Parc Nicol Offices, Bldg. 6, 301 William Nicol Dr. Bryanston, Gauteng 2021, South Africa Phone: +27-11-707-1400 Fax: +27-11-707-1401

• Chairman: Issa Al Kawari • Deputy Managing Director: Geoffrey T. White • CFO: Robert Scott

Address: Elizabeth House, 9 Castle St. St. Helier, Jersey JE4 2QP, Channel Islands Phone: +44-15-3470-0111

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2005): 2.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 30477.50% Employees (2005): 1,832 Employee Growth (1 yr): 9060.00%

• Chairman: Adonis Pouroulis • CEO and Director: Johan Dippenaar • COO and Director: Kevin Dabinett

Address: 500-122 1st Ave. South Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7K 7G3, Canada Phone: 306-933-8500 Fax: 306-933-8844

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 3847.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 18.60% Employees (2004): 4,906 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• Chairman: Dallas J. Howe • President, CEO, and Director: William J. (Bill) Doyle • EVP and COO: James F. (Jim) Dietz

Address: 1255 W. Pender St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 2V1, Canada Phone: 604-687-2038 Fax: 604-687-3141

• President, CEO, and Director: Donald A. R. (Don) Sheldon • CFO: Carmon Currie

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Yes

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Reefton Mining doesn't venture far from shore in its line of work. The Australian mining company stays along the coast to explore and develop diamond, gold, and base metal projects in Namibia. It is currently focused on developing the Skeleton Coast project (diamonds), where it holds leases on about 200 miles of shoreline. The company is also looking to produce heavy minerals (such as garnet and zircon) in the Skeleton Coast area. Reefton Mining Reefton Mining owns the Erongo polymetallic project (uranium, NL gold, semi-precious stones, and industrial metals) in Namibia. in Africa and India. In Africa the company primarily has operations in Sierra Leone. In India it formed a joint venture with Jindal Power and Steel to explore diamond properties. Rex Diamond earns a majority of its revenue by trading rough diamonds. Its REXdiamonds subsidiary markets and sells polished diamonds and jewelry. It sold its exploration assets in Rex Diamond South Africa to African Gem Resources (Afgem) in 2005. Rex Mining Diamond also ceased its exploration activities in Mauritania and Corporation Paraguay. After winning the gold for so many years, Rio Narcea Gold Mines now intends to go platinum. The company operates gold mines in Portugal and Spain in Europe and in Central America and West Africa. Having expanded its operations through the acquisition of Defiance Mining in September 2004, Rio Narcea controls more than 22,140 square kilometers of mineral rights, exploration permits and licenses, and exploitation permits. Rio Narcea Gold Going beyond the gold, Rio Narcea is developing project in Mines, Ltd. Spain that is now extracting nickel and will later mine platinum, [RNO] copper, and related minerals. RMI Titanium manufactures titanium alloys and specialty metals in various extruded shapes and millings. Products include alloy plate, alloy sheet, billet, boom, coil, ingot, and slab. Aircraft parts manufacturers are the company's primary customers. RMI RMI Titanium Titanium is a subsidiary of RTI International Metals and is part of Company the parent company's Titanium Group business segment. Santoy Resources is putting all of its energy into mineral exploration for the energy sector. The junior mineral-resource company primarily explores uranium and coal in Canada. It has uranium projects in British Columbia, Labrador, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. Santoy Resources also has a deal with several other mining outfits to explore uranium in Central America. Prior Santoy to its focus on coal and uranium, the company explored Resources Ltd. diamond, precious metal, and base metal projects. Sierra Leone Diamond Company (SLDC), formerly Africa Diamond Holdings, just wants to get a hold of the precious gem. It is a diamond exploration company which has been exploring property in Sierra Leone since 1996. Besides diamonds, the company also has rights to precious and base metals on its Sierra Leone properties. None of its properties are currently in production. Diamond With the country emerging from years of civil unrest, Sierra Company Leone Diamond hopes to tap its undeveloped mineral Limited resources. Timis Diamond Corporation controls the company.

Address: Level 1, 47 Ord St. West Perth 6005, Australia Phone: +61-8-9322-7822 Fax: +61-8-9322-7823

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2005): 0.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 44.70%

• Executive Chairman: Bradley S. Moore

Address: 16 Cumberland St. Toronto, Ontario M5R 3N5, Canada Phone: 416-955-9033 Fax: 416-955-0783

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 8.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 52.60%

• President, CEO, and Director: Serge Muller • CFO and Secretary: Ben Holemans • Rough Diamond Sales: Henri Thieren

Address: 181 University Ave., Ste. 1210 Toronto, Ontario M5H 3M7, Canada Phone: 416-956-7470 Fax: 416-956-7471

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 105.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 55.60% Employees (2004): 417

• Chairman and CEO: Chris I. von Christierson • President and Director: Alberto Lavandeira • COO: David R. Baril

Address: 1000 Warren Ave. Niles, OH 44446-0269 Phone: 330-544-7633 Fax: 330-544-7796

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 60.00 M Employees (2005): 500

Address: 675 W. Hastings St., Ste. 611 Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 1N2, Canada Phone: 604-669-4799 Fax: 604-669-2543

Address: Canon's Court, 22 Victoria St. Hamilton HM EX, Bermuda

• SVP, Titanium Group: Stephen R. Giangiordano

• President, CEO, and Director: Ronald K. Netolitzky • CFO: Robert V. Matthews

• Chairman: Frank Timis • Vice Chairman, Corporate Development: Allan B. Dolan • President and CEO: David Gadd-Claxton

Yes

Snowfield Development surely wouldn't mind a little ice across its path. The company explores and develops diamond properties in Quebec and the Northwest Territories. Its Ticho project is the company's most advanced property. Snowfield Snowfield Development is also exploring for gold at the Snow property in Development British Columbia and is looking for partners in the exploration of Corp. other mineral properties. SouthernEra Diamonds is in the age of the diamond. It is a diamond mining company with exploration and development operations primarily in South Africa and Angola. The company also has exploration activities in Australia, Canada, Congo, Gabon, and Zimbabwe. Its Camafuca diamond project in Angola is in development. In 2004 SouthernEra Diamonds was formed when SouthernEra Resources split into two separate publicly SouthernEra traded companies. The other company, Southern Platinum, Diamonds Inc. operates the platinum and gold businesses. Diamonds are what this Spider hopes to catch in its web. Spider Resources is a diamond exploration and development company with properties in Canada (James Bay Lowlands and Wawa, both in Ontario). It dropped its project in Brazil (Alto Paranaiba) in 2004 to focus on projects in Canada. Formed in 1992, The company has partnered with fellow Canadian mining company KWG Resources to develop its properties. It is also looking into Spider Resources Inc. a merger with KWG to combine assets. Sunrise Diamonds hopes to wake up to the shining radiance of diamonds. The company is exploring the Kussamo kimberlite cluster in northern Finland. It is also prospecting near the KaaviKuopio kimberlite cluster, where European Diamonds has activities. The company plans to expand exploration in other areas of northern Europe. Sunrise Diamonds was formed in 2005, when Tertiary Minerals' spun-off of its diamond exploration business in Finland. Executive chairman Patrick Sunrise Cheetham holds more than 30% interest in the company. Diamonds plc Cheetham also heads up Tertiary Minerals. SXR Uranium One, formerly Southern Cross Resources, explores and develops uranium properties in Australia and Canada. The company is primarily exploring and developing the Honeymoon Project in Australia, while also acquiring new projects to explore. Other projects in Australia include the Goulds Dam Project and the Karkarook Project. SXR sees uranium demand increasing due to nuclear reactors being built in Asia and Europe. Along with its name change, in late 2005 SXR Uranium the company acquired Aflease Gold and Uranium Resources, One Inc. primarily for its mining assets in South Africa. search of diamonds. The Jericho Diamond Project, located in the Arctic region of Nunavut, is the company's primary development for rough diamond production (expected to begin production in 2006). The company has other diamond exploration projects in the Northwest Territories. In addition, Tahera has an agreement with De Beers Canada to explore and develop property adjacent to its Jericho Diamond Project. Tahera Diamond Dundee Precious Metals is the largest shareholder, holding Corporation more than 10% of the company.

Address: 100-1009 Expo Blvd. Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 2V9, Canada Phone: 604-681-5720 Fax: 604-681-6937

Fiscal Year End: April Revenue (2005): 0.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 989.30% Employees (2005): 4

• CEO, President, Director: Robert T. Paterson • CFO and Director: John J. Nagy

• Chairman: Christopher M. H. (Chris) Jennings Address: 220 Bay St., 14th Fl. • Acting President and CEO: Toronto, Ontario M5J 2W4, Alasdair MacPhee Canada Fiscal Year End: December • SVP, CFO, and Secretary: Phone: 416-359-9282 Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Christopher J. (Chris) Fax: 416-359-9141 Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-99.90%) Reynolds Address: 347 Bay St., Ste. 700 Toronto, Ontario M5H 2R3, Canada Phone: 416-815-8666 Fax: 416-815-1355

• Chairman: Earl Coleman • President, CEO, and Director: Neil D. Novak • VP, Finance, CFO, and Director: Richard J. (Rick) Hamelin

Address: Sunrise House, Hulley Road Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 2LP, United Kingdom Phone: +44-1625-505947 Fax: +44-1625-626024

• Chairman: Patrick L. Cheetham • Project Manager, Business Development: Andrew Dixon

Address: 26 Wellington St. East, Ste. 820 Toronto, Ontario M5E 1S2, Canada Phone: 416-350-3657 Fax: 416-363-6806

• Chairman and CEO: Mark Wheatley • CFO: Leigh Curyer • VP, Corporate Development, Secretary, and Director: Donald (Don) Falconer

Address: 121 Richmond St. West, Ste. 803 Toronto, Ontario M5H 2K1, Canada Phone: 416-777-1998 Fax: 416-777-1898

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 398.20% Employees (2004): 11 Employee Growth (1 yr): 37.50%

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 15 Employee Growth (1 yr): 66.70%

• Chairman and CEO: R. Peter Gillin • EVP, Corporate Development: Grant D. Ewing • EVP, Operations: Daniel D. (Dan) Johnson

works in the oil patch, and for TGC Industries. From its inception, TGC Industries has conducted seismic surveys for oil exploration companies in the US. The company principally employs land surveys using Eagle seismic systems, which obtain 3-D seismic data related to subsurface geological features. Employing radio-frequency telemetry and multichannel recorders, the system enables the exploration of rivers, swamps, and inaccessible terrain. TGC Industries also sells TGC Industries, gravity information from its data bank to oil and gas exploration Inc. [TGE] companies. The Diamond Trading Company (DTC) is the sales and marketing jewel of diamond-mining giant De Beers SA (Anglo American and the Oppenheimer family each own 45% of the company). It supplies about half of all rough diamonds on the market. The DTC receives rough diamonds primarily from De Beers' mines in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Tanzania. It also markets diamonds produced by ALROSA Company in Russia. After sorting and valuing the diamonds, the company sells the gems to clients, referred to as sightholders. On the marketing side, the DTC promotes diamonds to end The Diamond consumers through such programs as the well-known "A Trading Diamond Is Forever" advertising campaign. Company company to various regions in Canada. The junior mining firm primarily explores and develops diamond and precious metal properties. It has an agreement with Dunsmuir Ventures to explore the Lac de Gras diamond property in Canada's Northwest Territories. The company is also prospecting the Senore gold property located near Val d'Or, Quebec. In addition, Thelon Ventures Thelon Ventures has an agreement on an uranium property in Ltd. Nevada. Timminco hopes it has the mettle to stay in the metal business. The company produces magnesium metal and other specialty alloys including aluminum, strontium, and calcium. These alloys are used in such products as batteries, chemicals, automotive parts, tools, and aerospace equipment. Timminco has manufacturing facilities in Australia, Canada, Mexico, and the US. Most sales are to customers in the US. It holds just under 50% of Norwegian company Fundo Wheels, an aluminum Timminco wheels maker, and it acquired silicon metals company Limited Bécancour Silicon in 2004. Titanium Corporation must begin producing titanium and zircon before the sands of time sift through its fingers. It has developed a process that extracts the two minerals from oil sand tailings -the waste material that remains after refinery-ready oil is removed from oil-bearing sand. If successful, a 4,300-squarefoot pilot plant in Regina, Saskatchewan, would make the company the first producer of titanium and zircon sand in Canada. Oil sand producer Syncrude Canada has agreed to supply tailings from its northern Alberta operations to Titanium Corporation. The company's first customer is a maker of titanium dioxide pigment. Titanium Corporation also owns a 40Titanium Corporation Inc. square-mile mineral sand deposit in Nova Scotia.

Address: 1304 Summit, Ste. 2 Plano, TX 75074 Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 972-881-1099 Revenue (2005): 30.90 M Fax: 972-424-3943 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 53.70%

Address: 17 Charterhouse St. London EC1N 6RA, United Kingdom Fiscal Year End: December Phone: +44-20-7404-4444 Revenue (2004): 5695.00 M Fax: +44-20-7430-3022 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 3.20% Address: 475 Howe St., Ste. 609 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2B3, Canada Phone: 604-682-1643 Fax: 604-682-1666

Address: Sunlife Financial Tower, 150 King St. West, Ste. 2401 Toronto, Ontario M5H1J9, Canada Phone: 416-364-5171 Fax: 416-364-3451

Address: 200 King St. West, Ste. 1903 Toronto, Ontario M5H 3T4, Canada Phone: 416-955-0715 Fax: 416-955-0790

• President, CEO, and Director: Wayne A. Whitener

• Chairman: Nicholas F. (Nicky) Oppenheimer • Managing Director: Varda Shine • Worldwide Marketing Director: David Lamb

• President and Director: Jason M. Walsh

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 102.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 34.00% Employees (2004): 343 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-8.80%)

• Chairman: Heinz Schimmelbusch • President and CEO: Charles H. (Chuck) Entrekin Jr. • VP, Finance and CFO: Robert J. Dietrich

• Chairman: George D. Elliott • President and CEO: Scott Nelson • CFO: Bradley Kipp

Yes

Tres-Or Resources Ltd.

Trivalence Mining Corporation [TMIGF.PK]

True North Gems Inc.

Tsodilo Resources Limited

Twin Mining Corporation

UEX Corporation

The company explores and develops diamond projects in northeastern Ontario (Temagami Diamond property) and Quebec (Notre Dame du Nord area). It also has an option for a stake in a platinum project in Ontario. None of its properties are in production. The company began exploring for diamonds in 2001. Trivalence Mining is going for the trifecta in the diamond mining business. The company operates two producing mines: the Aredor mine in Guinea and the Palmietgat mine (which the company is selling) in South Africa. It is exploring a third diamond mine in Botswana with Australian mining giant Rio Tinto, which operates the project through Tinto Botswana. The company directly sells its own diamonds on the open market in Antwerp and Johannesburg. Chairman and CEO Lutfur Khan owns about 30% of Trivalence Mining. True North Gems isn't depending on a compass to find gemstone deposits. The company is currently exploring and developing about a dozen properties, primarily including Tsa da Glisza (emeralds) in the Yukon Territory, Baffin (sapphires) on Baffin Island, and Fiskenaesset (rubies and pink sapphires) in Greenland. It also has rights to acquire interests in other emerald, sapphire, and ruby deposits in Canada. True North Gems was incorporated in 2001. Tsodilo Resources is looking to add a little sparkle to its business. The company, through its two subsidiaries Newdico and Gcwihaba Resources, explores for diamonds in northwest Botswana. The subsidiaries are performing survey and drilling exploration activities at its projects and earns no revenue from production. Tsodilo Resources has an 81% stake in Newdico and Gcwihaba Resources is fully-owned. President and CEO James Bruchs holds approximately 25% of the company. Twin Mining splits its time between gold and diamonds. The development and mining company explores for diamonds in eastern Canada and gold in Canada, Idaho, and Indonesia. Its primary project is the Atlanta Gold Mine in Idaho (expected to begin production by 2007). Twin Mining was originally founded in 1985 under the name Atlanta Gold Corporation. In 1999 when gold prices were low, the company turned to diamond mining and changed its name soon after. UEX Corporation isn't looking for your typical metals. Formed by Pioneer Metals Corporation and Cameco Corporation, it is a development stage uranium (a basic material used for nuclear material) exploration company. It is currently exploring for uranium at its Black Lake project in the Athabasca Basin of northern Saskatchewan. Some of the company's other properties include Hidden Bay and Riou Lake. UEX has mining agreements with Cameco and AREVA group. Cameco maintains a 25% stake in the company.

Address: 1934 131st St. White Rock, British Columbia V4A 7R7, Canada Phone: 604-688-6775 Fax: 604-688-6995

Address: 815 Hornby St., Ste. 502 Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 2E6, Canada Phone: 604-684-2401 Fax: 604-684-2407

• President, CEO, and Director: Laura Lee Duffett • CFO and Director: N. Reid Toreson

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2004): 6.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-20.60%) Employees (2004): 517 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-9.30%)

• Chairman and CEO: Lutfur Rahman Khan • President and Director: Waseem Rahman • CFO and Secretary: Omair Choudhry

Address: 602 W. Hastings St., Ste. 500 Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 1P2, Canada Phone: 604-687-8055 Fax: 604-899-1240

• Chairman, CEO, and Secretary: Andrew Lee Smith • President and Director: Gregory A. (Greg) Fekete • COO: William Rohtert

Address: Canada Trust Tower - BCE Place, 161 Bay St. Toronto, Ontario M5J 2S1, Canada Phone: 416-572-2033 Fax: 416-572-4164

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 7 Employee Growth (1 yr): 75.00%

• Chairman: Christopher M. H. (Chris) Jennings • President, CEO, and Director: James M. Bruchs • CFO and Secretary: L. Kirk Boyd

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 278.40% Employees (2004): 5

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Hermann Derbuch • CFO: Domenico Betrucci • Consultant, Business Development: Hendrick Visagie

Address: 155 University Ave., Ste. 1250 Toronto, Ontario M5H 3B7, Canada Phone: 416-777-0013 Fax: 416-777-0014

Address: 808 Nelson St., Ste. 1007 Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 2H2, Canada Phone: 604-669-2349 Fax: 604-669-1240

• President, CEO, and Director: Stephen H. Sorensen • Secretary and CFO: Warren W. Stanyer

Yes

UNOR is looking for uranium in Canada -- or at least the land where it might be found. The company, formerly called Hornby Bay Exploration, primarily explores for uranium on more than 500,000 acres in the Hornby Bay Basin of the Nunavut territory. To a lesser extent, it also seeks out base and precious metals properties in British Columbia, Manitoba, and Ontario. The company held a small stake in an oil and gas property, but it was written off in 2005. In 2004 UNOR went through an upheaval of top level management and refocused its operations UNOR Inc. on uranium mining. Mining company Uranium Resources glows with anticipation when it thinks about the fuel needs of nuclear power plants. The company extracts uranium from the earth via the in situ leach process, in which groundwater is pumped into a permeable orebody to dissolve uranium contained in the ore. Uranium Resources produces uranium in South Texas, and the company owns exploration and development interests in New Mexico. The company sells its uranium under long-term contracts to two electric utilities that operate nuclear power plants. Investment Uranium Resources, Inc. firm Zesiger Capital Group controls a 33% stake in Uranium Resources. [URRE.OB]

Address: 357 Bay St., Ste. 700 Toronto, Ontario M5H 2T7, Canada Phone: 416-368-0114 Fax: 416-368-0198

• President and CEO: George Bell • Chairman: Ronald Barnes • VP, Corporate Development: Jennifer M. Smith

Address: 650 S. Edmonds Ln., Ste. 108 Lewisville, TX 75067 Phone: 972-219-3330 Fax: 972-219-3311

• Chairman, President, CEO and Director: Paul K. Willmott • SVP, Operations: Richard A. Van Horn Fiscal Year End: December • SVP, Technology and New Revenue (2004): 1.00 M Project Development; Employees (2004): 50 President, Hydr: Craig S. Employee Growth (1 yr): 614.30% Bartels

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No corsages needed for this prom. Établissements Maurel & Prom, formerly a diversified holding company, reorganized in 1998 to focus on oil and gas exploration and production. It operates primarily in Republic of Congo and Cuba but also has assets in Gabon, Peru, Senegal, Tanzania, and Vietnam. Maurel & Prom has proved and Établissements probable reserves of 279 million barrels of oil. Oil and gas Maurel & Prom operations account for 85% of the company's total sales (primarily in the Congo). Established in 1919, the exploration company still retains minor shipping and gold mining interests. A.I.S. Resources Limited is an oil and gas company that owns interests in properties within the Provost area of Alberta, Canada. The company owns working interests in wells that produce from the Viking Formation, and in 2004 it participated in the recompletion of one new natural gas well. At the end of 2004 it had total proved net reserves of 11.5 thousand barrels of oil and 15 million cu. ft. of natural gas. A.I.S. Resources estimates an average volume of production of 3 barrels of oil per day and 24.3 thousand cu. ft. of gas A.I.S. Resources per day i 2005. Chairman and CEO Alan Smith owns nearly 47% of Limited the company through Aeonian Capital Corp. A2D Technologies provides digital well log data, interpretive software, and data management services. Through subscribing to A2D's LOG-LINE system, geoscientists access and download well log data from their workstations. A2D customers use its well log data to calibrate seismic data to known geologic conditions in well bores. A2D was founded in 1993 by Dave Kotowych (president), Brenda Sigurdson (VP), and Joe Carroll. Seismic data company TGSNOPEC Geophysical acquired A2D in 2002. The company's smartSECTION geologic software, which pioneered the use of A2D depth-calibrated well log images to use as a more cost-efficient Technologies method of well log correlation, was acquired by Halliburton in 2005. Abbot Group religiously provides services to its oil and gas customers worldwide. The company, primarily through its KCA DEUTAG and Bentec subsidiaries, provides international drilling, well engineering, and wireline services. It offers oil rig design and construction services. Abbot operates a fleet of 45 land drilling rigs and 34 offshore drilling platforms. KCA DEUTAG is the largest offshore platform drilling contractor in the UK sector of the North Sea. It is also one of the world's largest land drilling contractors. Customers include TOTAL , Exxon Mobil, BP, and Hess. Chairman Alasdair Locke owns 17% of the company. In 2006 the company Abbot Group plc made an offer to buy Norway's Songa Drilling.

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company

State-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) spreads its wings over the United Arab Emirates (UAE), accounting for 94% of its 92.2 billion barrels of proved oil reserves, the fourth-largest national reserves in the world behind Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Kuwait. It also has proved reserves of 196.1 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas. The ADNOC group includes three exploration and production companies, five support companies, two maritime crude oil transport companies, and one refined-product distribution company, which operates more than 200 UAE service stations.

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Address: 12 rue Volney 75002 Paris, France Phone: +33-1-53-83-16-00 Fax: +33-1-53-83-16-04

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 180.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 217.70% Employees (2004): 123 Employee Growth (1 yr): 5.10%

• Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Pierre Jacquard • CEO: Roman A. Gozalo • Finance and Administration Director: Claude Deroudilhe

Address: 255 5th Ave. SW, Ste. 2450 Calgary, Alberta T2P 3G6, Canada Phone: 403-237-7766 Fax: 403-237-6027

• Chairman and President: C. Fiscal Year End: December Alan Smith Revenue (2004): 0.10 M • Controller and Treasurer: E. Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-15.50%) Lorraine Campbell

• CEO: H. H. (Hank) Hamilton III • President and COO: Dave Kotowych • EVP Sales and Marketing: Rod Starr

Address: 2345 Atascocita Rd. Humble, TX 77396 Phone: 281-319-4944 Fax: 281-319-4945

Address: Minto Drive, Altens Aberdeen ABI2 3LW, United Kingdom Phone: +44-1224-299-600 Fax: +44-1224-230-400

Address: PO Box 898 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Phone: +971-2-602-0000 Fax: +971-2-602-3389

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 706.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-0.90%) Employees (2004): 3,607 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-7.70%)

• Executive Chairman: Alasdair J. D. Locke • COO and Director: Michael J. L. (Mike) Salter • Finance Director: Peter J. Milne • Chairman of Supreme Petroleum Counsel: His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan • CEO and Secretary General to the Supreme Petroleum Council: His Excellency Yousef Omair Bin Yousef • Director Finance: Saeed A. Ajlan

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Aera Energy covers a large area of California. The state's leading oil and gas producer, Aera Energy's properties extend from the Los Angeles Basin in the south to Coalinga in the north. It has daily production of 190,000 barrels of oil and 60 million cu. ft. of natural gas and boasts proved onshore and offshore reserves of more than 900 million barrels of oil equivalent. Aera Energy also has interests in real estate operations (in partnership with homebuilder Toll Aera Energy Brothers). The exploration and production company is a joint venture LLC of Exxon Mobil and the Royal Dutch Shell. Under land, under sea, and under ice, AKITA Drilling knows the drill. The oil and gas drilling contractor operates a fleet of 37 drilling rigs, including some rigs capable of drilling through the icy terrains of Canada's arctic regions. The company also operates three wellservicing rigs. In addition to providing conventional drilling services, AKITA Drilling offers directional, horizontal, underbalanced, and other specialized drilling services to oil and gas companies in Western Canada. Through five joint venture companies it provides drilling services in Canada's northern territories. Sentgraf AKITA Drilling Enterprises, controlled by chairman Ron Southern, holds an 86% Ltd. [AKTAF.PK] stake in AKITA. Allied Resources has allied with Allstate Energy to get the most out of its Appalachian energy resources. The company is an oil and natural gas exploration and production enterprise with operations in West Virginia (in Calhoun and Ritchie counties). Allied Resources produces oil and natural gas from 145 wells, which are maintained and operated by Allstate Energy. The depth at which the wells Allied produce ranges from 1,730 feet to more than 5,470 feet. Allied Resources, Inc. Resources has proved reserves of 2.9 million barrels of oil, and 1.3 [ALOD.OB] billion cu. ft. of natural gas. Not all of AltaCanada Energy's energy resources are in Canada. The oil and gas exploration, production, and marketing company also has interests in properties in Montana. The company is developing shallow gas plays on its land base of 100,000 net acres in Blaine County, Montana. Its US subsidiary, Montana Land & Exploration Inc., drilled 38 wells in 2004. In Alberta its core areas are Gunn/Cardiff, Viking Kinsella, and Wildmere. AltaCanada sold operations in five noncore areas in 2003 and 2004 to help finance its AltaCanada Montana operations. The company, which was formed in 1997, has Energy Corp. total proved reserves of 2.6 million barrels of oil equivalent. More OilRockies than AllTex(as), Altex Industries buys and sells oil and gas properties, participates in drilling exploratory wells, and sells oil and gas production to refineries, pipeline operators, and processing plants. The oil and gas exploration and production independent owns interests in 41 gross productive oil wells and 20,000 gross developed acres in Utah and Wyoming. In 2005 Altex Industries reported estimated proved reserves of 123,000 barrels of Altex Industries, oil and 817 million cu. ft. of natural gas. CEO Steven Cardin controls Inc. [ALTX.OB] about 49% of the company.

Amerada Hess Limited

In case you haven't discovered it before, it's just natural for Amerada Hess to be crude. The company is a crude oil and natural gas exploration and production company. Amerada Hess primarily operates on the UK continental shelf, where it is a major producer of oil and gas in the traditional North Sea oil patches and also in the Atlantic to the west of the Shetland Islands. Amerada Hess Limited is a subsidiary of US-based Amerada Hess Corporation.

Address: 10000 Ming Ave. Bakersfield, CA 93311 Phone: 661-665-5000 Fax: 661-665-5042

Address: 900, 311 - 6th Ave. SW Calgary, Alberta T2P 3H2, Canada Phone: 403-292-7979 Fax: 403-292-7990

• President and CEO: Eugene J. (Gene) Voiland • CFO: Len Fox • CIO: David Walker

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 112.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 17.60% Employees (2004): 811 Employee Growth (1 yr): 35.20%

Address: 1403 E. 900 S. Salt Lake City, UT 84105 Phone: 801-582-9609 Fax: 801-582-9629

• Chairman: Ronald D. (Ron) Southern • President, CEO, and Director: John B. Hlavka • EVP and COO: Karl A. Ruud Yes

• President CEO, CFO, and Director: Ruairidh Campbell

Address: 101 6th Ave. SW, Ste. 2100 Calgary, Alberta T2P 3P4, Canada Phone: 403-265-9091 Fax: 403-265-9021

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 4.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-5.20%) Employees (2004): 16 Employee Growth (1 yr): 6.70%

Address: 217 S. Ridge Rd. Breckenridge, CO 80424 Phone: 303-265-9312 Fax: 303-265-9312

Fiscal Year End: September Revenue (2004): 0.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 9.80% Employees (2004): 2 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

Address: 33 Grosvenor Place London SW1X 7HY, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7823-2626 Fax: +44-20-7887-2199

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 2726.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 15.60% Employees (2004): 177 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-57.80%)

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• Chairman and CFO: Charles V. Selby • President, CEO, and Director: Donald E. Foulkes • EVP and COO: Donald L. Jackson

• Chairman, CEO, and CFO: Steven H. Cardin Yes • President: John J. O'Connor • Company Secretary: Anthony Mulcare • Manager Corporate Affairs: Andy Mitchell

American Natural Energy Corporation [ANRUF.PK]

Aminex PLC

Anadarko Algeria Company, LLC

Antrim Energy Inc.

Apache North Sea Limited

American Natural Energy Corp. is not selling organic food and dietary supplements to boost metabolism, it is tapping into that other American natural energy source -- hydrocarbons. Doing business as ANEC, the company is an oil and natural gas exploration and production company which focuses its operations on a property in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. ANEC works in tandem with partner Exxon Mobil to develop this Louisiana project. The company has proved reserves of 179,550 barrels of oil and 272.5 million cu. ft. of natural gas. Sales of oil accounted for about 81% of ANEC's total revenues in 2004. Aminex is an international oil and natural gas exploration and production company with operations in the US and Tanzania. In the US it operates along the Texas Gulf Coast area. The company owns Tanzoil NL, the largest holder of exploration acreage in Tanzania. Its completion of a well in the East Songo Songo/Nyuni area in Tanzania in 2004 was the first offshore well in East Africa for more than a decade. The company has exited its Russian exploration operations, which it began in 2003, by selling its stake in Ideloil in 2003. It has also sold its Vinton Dome field interests to Orion Oil & Gas and acquired a 10% stake in a North Korean resources company, Kobril Ltd. Anadarko Algeria Company, LLC has its head office in the Uxbridge section of London and not the West African country in its name. The company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, has production facilities and other operating units located in the Algerian Sahara Desert. In addition to Algeria, where Anadarko Algeria is responsible for more than 10% of its parent's sales and about 10 million barrels of oil equivalent per year, the company also oversees exploration and production activities in Tunisia and the North Atlantic. Antrim Energy's logo is the distinctive rock formation of the Giant's Causeway on the coast of Country Antrim in Northern Ireland. The up-and-coming independent oil and gas exploration company has taken a giant step in its cause to be a fiscally viable explorer by selling its energy assets in Tunisia and New Zealand. This has given Antrim Energy the financial flexibility to pursue its strategy of drilling in high-impact exploration prospects in Argentina and the UK. The company has acquired gas assets in the Tierra del Fuego region of Argentina, as well as oil and gas interests in the UK sector of the North Sea. It is partnering with UK-based Dana Petroleum on a drilling prospect in the North Sea. Apache North Sea manages exploration and production activities in the Forties field for its parent Apache Corporation. Apache completed the acquisition of the Forties field (the oldest oil patch in the North Sea and one of its most productive fields) from BP p.l.c in 2003. Apache North Sea began drilling in the field in 2004. A new core production area for Apache (averaging 53,000 barrels per day), the Forties field has estimated proved reserves of 172 million barrels of oil equivalent. Apache North Sea has made a deal with Royal Dutch Shell that makes it the operator of four Shell blocks near its Forties field area.

• President and Director: Michael K. Paulk • VP Finance, CFO, and Director: Steven P. Ensz • Manager Operations: Richard O. Mulford

Address: 6100 S. Yale Ave., Ste. 300 Tulsa, OK 74136 Phone: 918-481-1440 Fax: 918-481-1473

Address: 10 Bedford St. London WC2E 9HE, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20 7240 1600 Fax: +44-20 7240 0295

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 5.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-30.60%) Employees (2004): 32 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-36.00%)

• Chairman: Peter J. G. Elwes • Chief Executive: Brian A. Hall • Finance Director: Simon P. Butterfield

Address: 1 Harefield Rd., Uxbridge London UB8 1YH, United Kingdom Phone: +44-1895-209-400 Fax: +44-1895-209-444

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 770.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 42.30%

• CEO: R. A. (Al) Walker • SVP Exploration and Production, Anadarko Petroleum Corporati: Robert P. (Bob) Daniels • SVP Finance and CFO, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation: James R. (Jim) Larson

Address: 4050 Bankers Hall West, 888 - 3rd St. SW Calgary, Alberta T2P 5C5, Canada Phone: 403-264-5111 Fax: 403-264-5113

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 4.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 43.00% Employees (2004): 7 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-12.50%)

• Chairman: Gerry Orbell • President, CEO, and Director: Stephen Greer • COO: Kerry Fulton

Address: Alba Gate, Stoneywood Park, Stoneywood Road, Dyce Aberdeen AB21 7DZ, United Kingdom Phone: +44-1224-756-400 Fax: +44-1224-756-481

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 472.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 72.90% Employees (2004): 300 Employee Growth (1 yr): 9.10%

• Managing Director: John A. Crum • EVP and CFO Apache Corporation: Roger B. Plank

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The apex of Apex Resources' journey would be to really strike it rich in the Beaufort Sea. The development stage company is an oil and natural gas independent with operations in oil and gas exploration and production, gold mining, and land development. Apex Resources' core exploration and production business has major assets in Canada's Beaufort Sea, as well as in Louisiana and Texas. Apex Resources The underexploited Beaufort Sea/Mackenzie Delta region holds Group, Inc. estimated reserves of more than 1 billion barrels of oil and more [APXR.OB] than 10 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas. Arcis finds its stronghold in adding dimension to geophysical data. The company provides oil and gas companies with integrated 2-D and 3-D seismic services. it offers seismic data processing, geotechnical services, data marketing and management, and an extensive data library. Its library consists of 2-D data representing more than 500 sq. miles, and 3-D data representing more than 1,000 sq. miles of territory located in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan. Arcis has sold off most if its seismic acquisition equipment. Investment firm ARX, led Arcis by CEO Peter Boyd, took the company private in 2004. The Corporation company was founded in 1996. Arctos Petroleum Corp. (formerly Camflo International) explores for, develops, and produces oil and gas on properties in Alberta and Saskatchewan. In 2004 the junior oil and gas company had a 34% interest in net proved plus probable reserves of 673,000 barrels of oil and more than 2 billion cu. ft. of natural gas. The company markets its natural gas on the Alberta spot market and through aggregators, which sell to major markets. In 2004 Camflo Arctos International and Spearhead Resources merged to become Arctos Petroleum Corp. Petroleum; Camflo was considered the acquiring company. Independent energy company Arena Resources battles with the big boys in arena of oil and gas exploration and production. The company operates in Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, and has proved reserves of 21.2 million barrels of oil equivalent. Its assets in Oklahoma and Texas account for the bulk of the company's proved reserves. Arena Resources had an average daily production of 999 barrels of oil equivalent in 2004. Navajo Refining Arena and Plains Marketing account for 74% of the company's revenues. Resources, Inc. President and CEO Lloyd Rochford holds an 12% stake in Arena [ARD] Resources. Aspen Exploration's aspiration is to explore for and produce oil and gas in northern California. The company operates 49 gas wells and also holds non-operating interests in a further 15. Between 2001 and 2004 the oil and gas independent successfully completed 37 gas wells out of 31 attempts, including a number of wildcat wells. Aspen Exploration has estimated proved reserves of 2,000 barrels of oil and 2.3 billion cu. ft. of natural gas and has more than 5,400 acres Aspen of leasehold property. Calpine and Enserco Energy accounted for Exploration more than 10% of Aspen Exploration's oil and gas sales in 2005. Corporation Chairman R.V. Bailey owns 22% of the company; CEO Robert [ASPN.OB] Cohan, 12%.

Address: 610 - 800 W. Pender St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 256, Canada Phone: 604-669-2723 Fax: 801-363-2597

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 237.50% Employees (2004): 3 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

Address: 2600, 111 - 5th Ave. SW Calgary, Alberta T2P 3Y6, Canada Phone: 403-781-1700 Fax: 403-269-1966 Address: #275 -- 999 8th St. SW Calgary, Alberta T2R 1J5, Canada Phone: 403-265-5900 Fax: 403-531-1719

• President and Director: John Ray Rask • Secretary and Director: John M. Hickey

• President, CEO, and Director: Peter Boyd • Interim CFO: Lawrence Lee • VP Finance and CFO: Holly Elrick • President, CEO, and Director: Thomas A. (Tom) Doyle Fiscal Year End: December • VP Land and COO: Brian Revenue (2004): 0.20 M Murray Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-27.10%) • CFO: Brian D. Korney

• Chairman, Secretary, and Treasurer: Stanley McCabe Address: 4290 S. Lewis Ave., Fiscal Year End: December • President, CEO, and Ste. 107 Revenue (2005): 25.80 M Director: Lloyd T. (Tim) Tulsa, OK 74105 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 203.50% Rochford Phone: 918-747-6060 Employees (2005): 22 • VP and CFO: William Fax: 918-747-7620 Employee Growth (1 yr): 120.00% Randall (Randy) Broaddrick

Address: 2050 S. Oneida St., Ste. 208 Denver, CO 80224-2426 Phone: 303-639-9860 Fax: 303-639-9863

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Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2004): 1.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 37.80% Employees (2004): 3 Employee Growth (1 yr): 50.00%

• President, CEO, CFO, Treasurer, and Director: Robert A. (Bob) Cohan

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Aspen Group Resources Corporation [ASRPF.PK]

Aspen Group Resources expends its energy looking for energy in Alberta and southern Saskatchewan. The oil and gas exploration and production company's main core areas for exploration are Sturgeon Lake and Namaka, Alberta. In 2002 Aspen Group Resources expanded into western Canada through the acquisition of oil and gas firm Endeavour Resources. In 2004 the company sold most of its US oil and gas assets, including its holdings in the Sears Ranch Prospect in Texas and the N.E. Alden Field in Oklahoma. Aspen Group Resources has exploration activities in North Dakota and owns US subsidiary United Cementing and Acidizing.

Atlas America, Inc. [ATLS]

Atlas America's production map can be found on the page titled Appalachia. The independent energy company is primarily engaged in the development, production, and transportation of natural gas (and some oil) in the Appalachian Basin. The company, which drills through partnerships with other firms, has proved reserves of 155.8 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent. Atlas America has interests in 5,755 gross wells. Its natural gas transportation business is conducted through 24%-owned Atlas Pipeline Partners, which operates 3,300 miles of intrastate natural gas gathering systems in New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Atlas America has been spun off from former parent Resource America.

Atlas Energy Ltd.

Atwood Oceanics, Inc. [ATW]

Atlas Energy explores its corner of the oil and gas world in Western Canada. The oil and natural gas exploration and development company operates primarily in Alberta and Saskatchewan. It is active in southern Alberta in the Medicine Hat, Second White Specs, and Belly River shallow natural gas areas. It also has a working interest in a heavy oil project in the Bluesky formation at Mooney. In Saskatchewan it has a working interest in a new heavy oil prospect at Druid and a shallow natural gas target at Unity. It also operates in the Salt Lake and Unity areas of Saskatchewan. The group has proved plus probable reserves of 10.8 million barrels of oil equivalent. Atlas has agreed to acquire Avalon Resources. Atwood Oceanics is at work at sea. An offshore oil and gas drilling contractor, the firm owns 11 drilling rigs, including four semisubmersible rigs, two jack-ups, one submersible, two semisubmersible tender assist vessels (which place drilling equipment on permanent platforms), and two platform rigs. Some 94% of sales come from overseas operations in the territorial waters of Australia, Egypt, Italy, and Malaysia; customers include ExxonMobil Production Malaysia (20% of sales), and Burullus Gas (10% of sales). The company, which also operates in the Gulf of Mexico, plans to expand its operations to include offshore Japan. Fellow drilling contractor Helmerich & Payne owns 22% of Atwood Oceanics.

Address: 1 N. Hudson, Ste. 1000 Oklahoma City, OK 73102 Phone: 405-278-8800 Fax: 405-278-8812

• CEO and Director: Robert L. Calentine • Director of Corporate Communications: Kevin O'Connor

Address: 311 Rouser Rd. Moon Township, PA 15108 Phone: 412-262-2830 Fax: 412-262-7430

Fiscal Year End: September Revenue (2005): 474.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 162.30% Employees (2004): 227 Employee Growth (1 yr): 9.10%

• Chairman, CEO, and President: Edward E. Cohen • CFO: Matthew A. Jones • EVP: Freddie M. Kotek

Address: 800, 407 - 2nd St. SW Calgary, Alberta T2P 2Y3, Canada Phone: 403-215-8313 Fax: 403-265-8324

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 33.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 58.70% Employees (2004): 29 Employee Growth (1 yr): 16.00%

• President, CEO, and Director: Richard Lewanski • VP Finance, CFO, and Director: James C. (Pep) Lough • VP Operations: Harold Hay

Address: 15835 Park Ten Place Dr. Houston, TX 77084 Phone: 281-749-7800 Fax: 281-492-7871

Fiscal Year End: September Revenue (2005): 176.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 7.80% Employees (2004): 1,100 Employee Growth (1 yr): 37.50%

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• President, CEO, and Director: John R. Irwin • SVP, CFO, and Secretary: James M. Holland • SVP Marketing and Administration: Glen P. Kelley Yes

Aurado Energy Inc.

AustralianCanadian Oil Royalties Ltd. [AUCAF.OB]

Aurado Energy acquires production stage oil companies in the Caspian and Middle Eastern regions. The company has been exploring in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. It also holds oil and gas assets in Canada. It has been operating in Kazakhstan through subsidiary Liman Caspian Oil, which held a 90% interest in the Liman Block, but the right to that license is in dispute with Aral Petroleum, previous owner of the block. Aurado Energy has announced that it is trying to confirm the rightful ownership of the Liman Block license and is pursuing all legal means toward that end. The group plans to sell some or all of its Canadian oil and gas assets to pay off debt and clear the title to its Kazakhstan license. There is less royalty in this Commonwealth connection than there used to be. Australian-Canadian Oil Royalties explores for and produces oil and natural gas from properties located in Australia. Originally formed as a trust, the company did not operate or control any of its properties until 2005, when Australian-Canadian Oil Royalties decided to become an oil and gas explorer as well. The company's principal assets are 14.9 million gross acres of royalty interest and 8.9 million gross acres of working interests in Australia's Cooper-Eromanga and Gippsland Basins. CFO Robert Kamon holds a 34% stake in Australian-Canadian Oil Royalties; President Ely Sakhai, 25%.

Avenue Group, once located in cyberspace, is now traveling along the broad pathways of the oil and gas industry. Chairman and CEO Levi Mochkin formed the firm in 1999 to invest in Internet, ecommerce, and related IT ventures, but the company is now focusing on the oil and gas sector though the formation of its Avenue Energy subsidiary, which explores for oil and gas in Turkey. In partnership with the Sayer Group, the company has petroleum exploration and production assets covering about 1.2 million acres in Avenue Group, Turkey. The company acquired a 50.1% stake in Stampville.com in Inc. [AVNU.OB] 2005. Mochkin owns nearly 28% of Avenue Group. It's not hard to figure out what's on OGDCL's radar. Oil & Gas Development Company Limited (or OGDCL) is Pakistan's largest oil and gas exploration and production company. OGDCL's products include gas, crude oil, and LPG. The company's exploration activities are performed both on its own and through joint ventures, some of which the company operates; OGDCL explores both within and outside of Pakistan, as well as offshore. The company has about 200 exploratory wells and approximately 250 development Basic Earth wells. Its remaining recoverable reserves account for about one-third Science of Pakistan's oil and gas reserves. OGDCL was founded by Systems, Inc. Pakistan's government in 1961; the government spun off some 5% [BSIC.OB] of the company in 2003. You don't have to be an earth scientist to know that Basic Earth Science Systems gets down to the basics -- oil and gas. It is involved in exploration, production, operation, and development activities, exploiting crude oil and natural gas assets in Colorado's Denver-Julesburg Basin, the Williston Basin of Montana, North Dakota, and Saskatchewan, and South Texas. The company operates some 51 wells and has proved developed reserves of 1.1 Bayou City million barrels of oil and 870 million cu. ft. of gas. Basic Earth Exploration, Inc. Science Systems' president and CEO Ray Singleton controls 26% of [BYCX.OB] the company.

Address: Piazza del Sole 2 6980 Agno-Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland Phone: +41-91-610-17-40 Fax: +41-91-610-17-49

• Chairman: Oliver M. Stahel • CEO: Peter Pazmany • CFO: Nigel Pennington

Address: 1301 Ave. M Cisco, TX 76437 Phone: 254-442-2638 Fax: 254-442-3843

• President and Director: Ely Sakhai • Secretary and Director: Robert Kamon

Address: 34-36 Punt Rd. Melbourne, Australia Phone: +61-3-9533-7800 Fax: +61-3-9533-7900

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-54.50%) Employees (2004): 7 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-12.50%)

Address: OGDCL House, Plot No.3, F-6 / G-6, Blue Area, Jinnah Avenue Islamabad, Pakistan Phone: +92-51-9209811 Fax: +92-51-9209792

Address: 1801 Broadway, Ste. 620 Denver, CO 80202-3835 Phone: 303-296-3076 Fax: 303-773-8099

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Levi Mochkin • CFO, Secretary, and Director: Yam-Hin (Jim) Tan

• Chairman: Arshad Nasar • Managing Director: Mohammad Raziuddin • Acting Executive Director and General Manager, Accounts and: Khalid J. Khan

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2004): 3.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 15.50% Employees (2004): 9 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• President, CEO, and Director: Ray Singleton • CFO, Treasurer, and Director: David J. Flake

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Bear Ridge Resources Ltd.

Reflecting the shift in its exploration focus from Appalachia to the Gulf Coast, in 2005 Blue Ridge Energy renamed itself Bayou City Exploration. An affiliate of the Blue Ridge Group, the company is engaged in oil and gas exploration primarily in Texas and Louisiana. Bayou City Exploration conducts its activities through partnerships and the acquisition of direct stakes in oil and gas properties, and in exploratory and development wells. The company, which has interests in more than 100 wells, has proved reserves of more than 14,850 barrels of oil and 197.8 million cu. ft. of gas. Chairman Robert Burr owns about 15% of Bayou City Exploration; the Blue Ridge Group, 19%.

Belden & Blake Corporation

It may sound like a law firm, but Belden & Blake is in fact an energy company that obeys the laws of supply and demand in the oil and gas market. It acquires properties, explores for and develops oil and gas reserves, and gathers and markets natural gas in the Appalachian and Michigan basins. Belden & Blake has interests in more than 4,120 wells, holds leases on 565,060 net acres, and owns and operates more than 1,260 miles of gas gathering lines. The company has estimated proved reserves of 284.8 billion cu. ft. of gas equivalent. Belden & Blake is controlled by Capital C, an affiliate of Carlyle/ Riverstone Global Energy and Power Fund II, L.P.

Big Sky Energy Corporation [BSKOE.OB]

Bill Barrett Corporation [BBG]

Still a development-stage company, Big Sky Energy (formerly China Energy Ventures Corp.) is prospecting for new revenue sources. The company has turned toward oil and gas exploration and production, primarily in Kazakhstan. The company had formed joint ventures with Chinese communications providers in an effort to offer Internet service to China's 46 million Internet users, but Chinese regulations regarding foreign ownership of domestic companies hampered the company's ability to make money. In 2004 it sold its Big Sky Network Canada subsidiary, which provided broadband Internet access to about 320 customers through Chengdu Technology Services. Big Sky Energy began in 1993 as Institute for Counseling, Inc. Bill Barrett Corp. (named after a veteran oil industry wildcatter) is hoping for a Rocky Mountain high as it digs down deep for oil and gas. The company focuses its exploration and development activities in the Wind River, Uinta, Powder River, Williston, DenverJulesburg, Big Horn, and Paradox Basins and the Montana and Utah Overthrusts. Bill Barrett holds more than 1 million net undeveloped leasehold acres. The oil and gas firm has 738 net producing wells. Bill Barrett has estimated net proved reserves of 341 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent.

Birchcliff Energy (formerly investment shell Scout Capital) is an oil and gas exploration firm that operates in Alberta. Formed in early 2004, the firm acquired Scout Capital in a reverse merger and became publicly traded. The proceeds of its public offering were used to fund the purchase of a natural gas processing plant and Birchcliff Energy gas-producing properties in the Peace River Arch area. Birchcliff Ltd. Energy began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange in mid-2005.

Address: 10777 Westheimer, Ste. 170 Houston, TX 77042 Phone: 832-358-3900 Fax: 832-358-3903

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.60 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-66.00%) Employees (2004): 4 Employee Growth (1 yr): 33.30%

• Chairman: Robert D. Burr • President and CEO: Morris T. Hewitt • SVP and COO: Robert A. Kelley

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 101.80 M Address: 5200 Stoneham Rd. Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-6.70%) North Canton, OH 44720 Employees (2004): 180 Phone: 330-499-1660 Employee Growth (1 yr): Fax: 330-497-5463 (-41.00%)

• Chairman and CEO: James A. Winne III • President, COO, and Director: Michael Becci • SVP and CFO: Robert W. Peshek

Address: 440 2nd Ave. SW, Ste. 750 Calgary, Alberta, Canada Phone: 403-234-8885 Fax: 403-265-8808

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Employees (2004): 22 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-26.70%)

• Chairman and CEO: Matthew Heysel • Co-Chairman and VP, New Ventures: Barry Swersky • President and Director: S. A. (Al) Sehsuvaroglu

Address: 1099 18th St., Ste. 2300 Denver, CO 80202 Phone: 303-293-9100 Fax: 303-291-0420

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 288.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 69.90% Employees (2005): 190 Employee Growth (1 yr): 26.70%

• Chairman and CEO: Fredrick J. (Fred) Barrett • CFO: Thomas B. Tyree Jr.

Address: 2900, 605 - 5th Ave. SW Calgary, Alberta T2P 3H5, Canada Phone: 403-261-6401 Fax: 403-261-6424

• President and CEO: A. Jeffrey Tonken • VP and CFO: Bruno P. Geremia • VP Corporate Development and Corporate Secretary: James W. Surbey

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Black Rock Oil & Gas is less interested in the color of the rock than in the black oil that may lie beneath. The oil and gas explorer focuses its efforts on exploring in areas where commercial discoveries can be rapidly developed. Black Rock is currently active in the North Sea and Isle of Wight in the UK and Ireland, in California in the US, and in Colombia. The company owns exploration acreage in Australia and the UK. In 2005 it signed a farm-in agreement with Carrizo Oil & Gas to participate in part of Carrizo's UK continental shelf operations, which cover seven blocks Black Rock Oil & in the central and southern sectors of the North Sea. It also has a Gas Plc farm-in agreement to operate in the San Joaquin Basin of California. BlackRock Ventures ventures out to recover the viscous black resource that is trapped in the rocks of Western Canada. The oil and gas independent explores oil properties and develops and produces heavy oil. Its operations include conventional heavy oil production in Alberta and Saskatchewan and steam-assisted gravity drainage activities in Alberta oil sands. The company's three core areas are Seal (Peace River oil sands area) and Hilda Lake (Cold Lake oil sands area) in Alberta and Lloydminster in Saskatchewan. BlackRock Ventures has proved plus probable reserves of 24.7 BlackRock million barrels of oil equivalent, mostly from the Seal area. The Ventures Inc. company was established in 1996. Despite some earlier financial struggles, Blast Energy Services (formerly Verdisys) is having a blast helping its customers keep pumping out oil from mature fields. Using specially fabricated mobile drilling rigs, the company provides a range of oil and gas services, including lateral drilling and well production enhancement. It also provides satellite telecommunications services to oil and gas companies operating throughout North America. Berg McAfee Blast Energy Companies holds a 28% stake in the company, which has revamped Services, Inc. its management organization following an investigation of its [BESV.OB] accounting practices. Knowing when to hold them and when to fold them is all part of the oil and gas exploration gamble. Once focused on Appalachia, holding company Blue Ridge Group, through its Bayou City Exploration unit, is now engaged in oil and gas exploration primarily in Texas and Louisiana. Bayou City Exploration conducts its activities through partnerships and the acquisition of direct stakes in oil and gas properties, and in exploratory and development wells. This company, which has interests in more than 100 wells, has Blue Ridge proved reserves of more than 14,850 barrels of oil and 197.8 million Group, Inc. cu. ft. of gas.

Bois d¿Arc Energy, Inc. [BDE]

Like its namesake tree, Bois d'Arc Energy has strong roots and a flexible growth strategy. The oil and natural gas exploration and production independent focuses on the Gulf of Mexico shelf. Bois d'Arc Energy concentrates on this region because of its vast area of undiscovered reserves and because major oil companies have moved on to larger projects in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The company has proved reserves of 323 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent (83% proved developed and 64% natural gas). Bois d'Arc Energy serves as operator for approximately 98% of its properties. Comstock Resources controls about 48% of Bois d'Arc Energy.

• Chairman: David C. Steinepreis • Managing Director and Board Member: A. Ivan R. Burgess • Technical Director: John M. Cubitt

Address: 30 Farringdon St. London EC4A HJ, United Kingdom Phone: +44-207-544-5677 Fax: +44-207-544-5565

Address: Ste. 400, 435 - 4th Ave. SW Calgary, Alberta T2P 3A8, Canada Phone: 403-233-2253 Fax: 403-263-0437

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 41.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 91.00% Employees (2004): 13 Employee Growth (1 yr): 62.50%

• Chairman: Kenneth F. Williamson • President and Director: John L. Festival • VP Finance, CFO, and Secretary: Don W. Cook

Address: 14550 Torrey Chase Blvd., Ste. 330 Houston, TX 77014-1022 Phone: 281-453-2888 Fax: 281-453-2899

• Chairman: O. James Woodward III • President and Co-CEO: David M. Adams • Co-CEO and CFO: John O'Keefe

Address: 632 Adams St., Ste. 700 Bowling Green, KY 42101 Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 270-842-2421 Revenue (2005): 19.00 M Fax: 270-842-2422 Employees (2005): 25

• Chairman and CEO: Robert D. Burr • SVP Acquistions Development and Exploration and Director: Harry J. Peters

Address: 600 Travis St., Ste. 6275 Houston, TX 77002 Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 713-228-0438 Revenue (2005): 184.40 M Fax: 713-228-1759 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 28.90%

• Chairman: M. Jay Allison • CEO and Director: Wayne L. Laufer • President and Director: Gary W. Blackie

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Bonavista Energy Trust

Bow Valley Energy Ltd.

BP Exploration Operating Company Limited

BP NGL

BPI Energy Holdings, Inc. [BPG]

Bonavista Energy Trust hopes to see increasing revenues in its vista in Western Canada. The company focuses on its core areas in Alberta and Saskatchewan. It has some 1.1 million net acres of undeveloped land, the bulk of which is in Alberta. Bonavista has proved and probabl reserves of 507.9 billion cu. ft. of natural gas and 79.5 million barrels of oil and liquids, or 133.4 million barrels of oil equivalent. In 2003 Bonavista Petroleum reorganized into Bonavista Energy Trust (an income trust) and NuVista Energy Ltd. (natural gas exploration). That year the company acquired properties from US firm Taurus Exploration for C$275 million. It also bought Canadian exploration firm TriQuest Energy in 2004. Bow Valley Energy bows to no one in its quest for oil and gas. Bow Valley is a crude oil and natural gas exploration and production company focusing on assets in Western Canada and the North Sea. Experienced in both onshore and offshore drilling operations, Bow Valley has accumulated proven plus probable reserves of 10.8 million barrels of oil in the UK and another 182,000 in Canada. The company has exited its exploration operations in France and Iran. However, Bow Valley intends to continue as a global exploration company and is looking for exploration and acquisition opportunities. BP Exploration Operating Company is the holding entity for several of the exploration and production subsidiaries of energy giant BP. The group is one of the largest operators in the oil-rich North Sea, which holds up to 30 billion barrels of resource potential. The group also has operations in Vietnam, where it is the project operator of Nam Con Son Development, the largest foreign investment project. BP Exploration Operating Co.'s partners in the project are Vietnam Oil and Gas Corporation (PetroVietnam), ConocoPhillips, and India's ONGC Videsh. BP NGL is just drilling what comes natural. The company, a subsidiary of global oil giant BP, is one of North America's leading natural gas producers, with extraction, fractionation, storage, transportation, and gas processing plants throughout the US and Canada. BP NGL markets more than 200 million barrels of natural gas liquids per year. The company explores for and holds large reserves of gas in western Canada. It also operates gas gathering systems and gas plants, markets and trades gas and natural gas liquids, and is entering the petrochemicals industry. BPI Energy (formerly BPI Industries) is in the industry of acquiring, exploring for, developing, and producing coalbed methane reserves. The Canadian company moved its headquarters to the US in 2005 to focus on its operations in the Illinois Basin, where it controls 418,435 acres of coalbed methane rights. It also leases acreage in other properties within the Illinois Basin. BPI Energy's subsidiary, Illinois Mine Gas, also plans to commercially produce methane gas from abandoned mine works at the company's Delta project. Two major gas pipelines cross BPI's acreages, providing access to gas markets for future production. Incorporated in 1980, the company has been operating in the Illinois Basin since 1996.

Address: 700, 311 - 6th Ave. SW Calgary, Alberta T2P 3H3, Canada Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 403-213-4300 Revenue (2004): 379.10 M Fax: 403-262-5184 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 30.60%

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Keith A. J. MacPhail • EVP and CFO: Ronald J. Poelzer • VP Marketing: John A. Curkan

Address: 333 - 7th Ave. SW, Ste. 1200 Calgary, Alberta T2P 2Z1, Canada Phone: 403-232-0292 Fax: 403-232-8920

• Chairman: Daryl K. Seaman • President, CEO, and Director: Robert G. Moffat • VP Operations: John W. Essex

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 27.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-7.50%) Employees (2004): 17 Employee Growth (1 yr): 21.40%

Address: Gathering Station, Thrashers Lane, Corte Castle Wareham, Dorset BH20 5JR, United Kingdom Phone: +44-1929-476-072 Fax: +44-1929-476-190

• General Director: John Minge • Business Unit Leader, North Sea Assets, and Director: David (Dave) Blackwood

Address: 28100 Torch Pkwy. Warrenville, IL 60555 Phone: 630-836-5000 Fax: 630-836-6535

• Business Unit Leader, Natural Gas Liquids, North America: Jeanne Johns • General Manager North America, Sales and Marketing: Vincent Oddie • Business Development Director: Rod Nielsen

Address: 609 Granville St., Ste. 1600 Vancouver, British Columbia V7Y 1C3, Canada Phone: 604-685-8688

• President, CEO, and Director: James G. (Jim) Azlein • CFO, General Counsel, and Director: George J. Zilich

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BPZ Energy (formerly Navidec) has navigated into a new line of business. The company once provided information technology services including security and access services, application integration, and software development. In 2002 the company discontinued reselling operations that had previously offered customers third-party computer hardware and networking equipment systems; that same year it formed Navidec Capital to evaluate acquisition opportunities. In 2004 the company acquired BPZ Energy -- a move intended to take the company into the oil and gas business. In 2005 the company officially changed its name to BPZ BPZ Energy, Inc. Energy. BPZ owns oil and gas properties in northwest Peru and [BPZI.PK] southwest Ecuador

Bronco Drilling Company, Inc. [BRNC]

Brek Energy is a UK-based oil and gas exploration and development company with interests in Texas and the Rocky Mountains of the US. It has proved reserves of about 618 billion cu. ft. of gas and 51,495 barrels of condensate. Brek Energy explores in the Uinta Basin of Utah and the Greater Green River Basin of Wyoming. It also has interests in the San Joaquin Basin of California. Formerly First Ecom.com, the company processed electronic payments of ecommerce transactions for banks and merchants via the Internet before switching to oil and gas exploration in mid-2001. Bronco Drilling is game to compete in that wild ride called oil and gas drilling, where the chances of getting bucked off are as likely as making a buck. The contract land driller owns a fleet of 64 land drilling rigs, of which 41 are in use. Bronco Drilling plans to refurbish its inventoried rigs and make them operational by the end of 2006. Many of its rigs, ranging from 1,000 to 2,000 horsepower, can drill to depths between 15,000 and 25,000 feet. The company, which serves natural gas production firms across the US, has 60 trucks to transport its rigs. Bronco Drilling began operations in 2001 with the purchase of a 650-horsepower rig, and has grown through the acquisition of additional rigs.

BUE Marine Limited

Sailing the ocean blue, BUE Marine is one of the world's largest offshore marine support companies. It provides equipment and support services to the offshore oil and gas industries, primarily in the Caspian Sea. It boasts a fleet of about 60 vessels, with more under construction. The company switched its focus from the North Sea and sold its stake in BUE Viking (now Viking Offshore Services) to former joint venture partner Kistefos, which owns Viking Supply Ships. In a management buyout in 1991, BUE Marine managing director Carl Rolaston acquired the company to transport fuel, food, water, and equipment to oil rigs. The company was sold to Dubaibased Topaz Energy and Marine for $150 million in July 2005.

Burmis Energy Inc.

Burmis Energy, which has the limber pine of Burmis, Alberta, as its symbol, has been limber in the oil patches of Western Canada. The oil and gas exploration and production company targets mediumdepth, multizone oil and natural gas prospects. It has total proved plus probable reserves of 3.31 million barrels of oil equivalent and 75,000 net acres of undeveloped land. Burmis also has an average production of 1,707 barrels of oil equivalent per day. The company's operations focus on the west-central and east-central regions of Alberta, including the Greater Pembina, Brazeau, and Easyford areas. In Pembina it is constructing a gas plant that can process up to 30 million cu. ft of natural gas per day.

Brek Energy Corporation [BREK.PK]

• Chairman: Fernando Zúñiga y Rivero • President, CEO, and Director: Manolo Pablo Zúñiga-Pflücker • COO: Frederic Briens

Address: 11999 Katy Fwy., Ste. 560 Houston, TX 77079 Phone: 281-556-6200 Fax: 281-556-6377

Address: 346 Kensington High St., 3rd. Fl. London W14 8NS, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7471-9898 Fax: +44-20-7371-6668

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.40 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 1550.00% Employees (2004): 0

• Chairman: Ian Robinson • CEO and Director: Richard N. (Rick) Jeffs • CFO and Director: Gregory M. Pek

Address: 14313 N. May Ave., Ste.100 Oklahoma City, OK 73134 Phone: 405-745-6060 Fax: 405-745-8096

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 77.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 255.70% Employees (2005): 1,400 Employee Growth (1 yr): 288.90%

• Chairman: Mike Liddell • CEO and President: D. Frank Harrison • COO: Karl Benzer

Address: Imperial House, Albert Dock, Leith Edinburgh EH6 7DN, United Kingdom Phone: +44-131-554-9456 Fax: +44-131-554-8328

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 94.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 24.20% Employees (2004): 265 Employee Growth (1 yr): 6.00%

• CEO: Carl G. Rolaston • Finance Director: Janess Adams • Group Marketing Director: George Macleod

Address: Ste. 1000, 736 - 6th Ave. SW Calgary, Alberta T2P 3T7, Canada Phone: 403-781-7230 Fax: 403-261-9028

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 10.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 191.30% Employees (2004): 10

• Chairman: Peter M. S. Longcroft • President, CEO, and Director: Aidan M. Walsh • CFO: Scott R. Dyck

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Burren Energy has burrowed into some political hotspots in search of oil and gas. The exploration and production independent has core producing assets in Turkmenistan in Central Asia, and in West Africa's Republic of Congo. The company manages and operates an eight-vessel Caspian Sea-based tanker fleet dedicated to shipping its own and third-party crude oil production and refined products from countries adjacent to the Caspian Sea to markets worldwide. Burren Energy also has secured a license to explore in Egypt, and in 2005 it acquired 26% of India's Hindustan Oil Exploration Co. Burren Energy (HOEC). Burren has proved and probable reserves of about 146 plc million barrels (entitlement basis). The Chance brothers took a chance when they founded C&C Technologies, and it has paid off. The company provides geophysical survey and mapping services to oil and gas customers worldwide. Its autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is the world's only survey unit capable of operating in depths of up to 3,000 meters, allowing it to record geophysical data in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, and off the coast of Africa. C C&C & C Technologies also provides marine construction and Technologies, geotechnical services. The company was founded in 1992 by Inc. brothers Thomas (president) and Jim Chance (VP). The sound of the drilling of oil and gas wells is sweet music to the ears of oil and natural gas independent Cadence Resources, which has exploration and production projects in the southern, southwestern, and Midwestern US. The company produces natural gas from wells in De Soto Parish, Louisiana, and oil from wells in Wilbarger County, Texas and Eddy County, New Mexico. Cadence Resources has estimated proved reserves of 59,400 barrels of oil Cadence and 505.3 million cu. ft. of natural gas. The company expanded in Resources 2005 by acquiring Aurora Energy, which was drilling for natural gas Corporation in unconventional reservoirs such as black shales, coal seams, and [CDNR.OB] tight sands in Indiana, Kentucky, and Michigan. Cairn Energy's can-do attitude has taken the oil and gas exploration and production company far afield. The independent firm explores for and produces oil and natural gas offshore and onshore in Bangladesh and India, and is also venturing into Nepal. It has proved and probable reserves of 113.4 million barrels of oil equivalent. The company's producing fields are Sangu offshore Bangladesh and Lakhsmi, Gauri, and Ravva in India; Cairn Energy produces more than 12,500 barrels of oil equivalent per day. After tough market conditions pummeled Cairn Energy, it wrote down a number of producing assets, primarily in the North Sea. In 2004 Cairn Energy made a major oil find in the desert region of Rajasthan, Cairn Energy plc India.

Calfrac Well Services Ltd.

Calfrac Well Services has plunged into the business of offering a number of services, products, and equipment to companies in the oil and gas industry. The company's oil field services include cementing (to seal well casing), coiled tubing, acidizing, fracturing, and well stimulation services. Fracturing services account for more than 90% of revenue. It serves more than 200 customers primarily in western Canada and the Rocky Mountain region of the US. Founded in 1999, about 40% of Calfrac Well Services is owned by officers and directors of the company.

Address: Kierran Cross, 11 Strand, Fl. 2 London WC2N 5HR, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7484-1900 Fax: +44-20-7484-1910

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 167.80 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 100.60% Employees (2004): 1,069 Employee Growth (1 yr): 8.20%

Address: 730 E. Kaliste Saloom Rd. Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-261-0660 Fax: 337-261-0192

• Chairman: Brian A. Lavers • CEO and Director: Finian O'Sullivan • COO and Director: Atul Gupta

• President: Thomas Chance • CFO: Tommy Ortego • Manager Business Development: Dan Galligan

Address: 4110 Copper Ridge Dr., Ste. 100 Traverse City, MI 49684 Phone: 231-941-0073 Fax: 231-933-0757

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 2.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 556.60% Employees (2004): 2 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-33.30%)

• Chairman and President: William W. Deneau • CFO: Lorraine M. King

Address: 50 Lothian Rd. Edinburgh EH3 9BY, United Kingdom Phone: +44-131-475-3000 Fax: +44-131-475-3030

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 183.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-33.60%) Employees (2004): 561 Employee Growth (1 yr): 12.40%

• Chairman: Norman L. Murray • CEO: Bill Gammell • Finance Director and Director: Kevin Hart

Address: 411 8th Ave. SW Calgary, Alberta T2P 1E3, Canada Phone: 403-266-6000 Fax: 403-266-7381

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 200.30 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 627.40% Employees (2004): 536 Employee Growth (1 yr): 40.30%

• Chairman: Ronald P. (Ron) Mathison • President and CEO: Douglas R. (Doug) Ramsay • SVP and COO: Robert S. Roberts

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Canadex Resources Limited

It's not Carnac the Magnificent, but CAMAC International that seems to be able to look into the future and see a fortune. It's own. Arguably America's largest Black-owned business, CAMAC International (the CAMAC name derives from Cameroon-American Company) is an integrated oil and gas company, engaging in a range of oil and gas exploration, production, refining, and energy trading activities. The company has major energy assets in Nigeria and South Africa. Chairman and CEO Kase Lawal also serves as Vice Chairman of the Port of Houston Authority Board of Commissioners. A global player, CAMAC International has offices in Houston, Johannesburg, Lagos, and London. Camex Energy has changed its business along with its name. Operating as Computrex Centres, the company previously sold data archiving software and computer ergonomic products, offered file conversion services and custom programming, and operated a data service bureau. In 2005 the company changed its name to Camex Energy and entered the oil and gas exploration, production, and marketing business. Camex has acquired a 33% interest in a completed well in Alberta from Dagur Resources. Seeking black gold in the Great White North, Canada Southern Petroleum explores for, develops, and produces oil and gas. Its main asset is a 31% interest in the Kotaneelee gas field in southeast Yukon Territory, for which it holds five leases for a 21-year term. The company also has interests in producing fields in Alberta and British Columbia, as well as exploration interests in Saskatchewan, the Northwest Territories, and the Arctic Islands. Its has total proved reserves of 1,000 barrels of oil and 7.2 million cu. ft. of natural gas. Founded in 1954, Canada Southern Petroleum successfully settled a protracted dispute with partners BP and Exxon Mobil over development of the Kotaneelee asset in 2003. Oil and water don't mix, but oil and school kids do for this company. Canadex Resources acquires and develops oil and natural gas properties, in addition to providing school and charter bus services. The company has exploration and development assets, including stakes in more than 300 wells in Louisiana, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Canadex operates its school busing business through its Parkview Transit Inc. and Parkview Transit (Caledon) Inc. subsidiaries, both serving the Greater Toronto region. The company also holds a minority stake (49%) in Ontario-based gold mine company Teddy Bear Valley Mines.

Canadian Oil Sands Trust [COSWF.PK]

Canadian Oil Sands Trust puts its trust in the oil that is in the sands in Alberta being exploited by Syncrude Canada, a partnership whose large oil sand mine and supporting plants that produce value-added light, sweet crude oil accounts for about 13% of Canada's total oil production. Established in 1964, the Syncrude Project is the largest single source of oil in Canada, producing 87.2 million barrels (238,000 barrels per day). With a 37% share, Canadian Oil Sands is the largest shareholder in Syncrude (in which Imperial Oil and PetroCanada also hold significant minority stakes).

CAMAC Holdings, Inc.

Camex Energy Corp.

Canada Southern Petroleum Ltd. [CSPLF]

Address: 4669 Southwest Fwy., Ste. 600 Houston, TX 77027 Phone: 713-965-5100 Fax: 713-965-5128

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 983.30 M Employees (2005): 1,500

• Chairman and CEO: Kase L. Lawal • SVP and Treasurer: Kamoru A. Lawal • SVP: Joseph A. Loftus

Address: 808 4th Ave. SW, Ste. 100 Calgary, Alberta T2P 3E8, Canada Phone: 403-263-1190 Fax: 403-237-7049

Fiscal Year End: March Revenue (2005): 0.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-34.50%) Employees (2005): 4

• President, CEO, and Director: Mart Kernahan • CFO and Director: Victor Skurat

Address: 706 - 7th Ave. SW, Ste. 250 Calgary, Alberta T2P 0Z1, Canada Phone: 403-269-7741 Fax: 403-261-5667

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2005): 17.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 94.40%

• Chairman: Richard C. McGinity • President, CEO, and Director: John W. A. McDonald • CFO and Chief Accounting Officer: Randy L. Denecky

Address: 10 Sun Pac Blvd. Brampton, Ontario L6S 4R5, Canada Phone: 905-792-2700 Fax: 905-792-8490

Fiscal Year End: June Revenue (2004): 17.90 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 2.70% Employees (2004): 400 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• Chairman and President: John A. (Jack) Riddell • CFO and SecretaryTreasurer: Vincent C. (Vince) McEwan

Address: 2500 350-7th Ave. SW Calgary, Alberta T2P 3N9, Canada Phone: 403-218-6200 Fax: 403-218-6201

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 1122.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 55.90% Employees (2004): 11 Employee Growth (1 yr): 10.00%

• Chairman: C. E. (Chuck) Schultz • President and CEO: Marcel R. Coutu • COO: Trevor Roberts

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Canadian Superior Energy is an oil and natural gas exploration and production company with primary operations in Western Canada. In addition to its core coalbed methane operations in the Drumheller area of Alberta, the oil and gas independent has operations offshore Nova Scotia and Trinidad and Tobago. It also has been exploring and developing within other areas of British Columbia and Alberta in Canadian Western Canada. The company is one of the largest acreage Superior Energy holders offshore Nova Scotia after its 2004 acquisition of El Paso Inc. [SNG] Corp.'s offshore Nova Scotia exploration and production assets. Capco Energy is hoping to put a cap on many a successful exploratory well. The oil and gas exploration, development, and production company owns 49 wells (which it plans to boost to 100) in the Gulf Coast shelf region of the Gulf of Mexico, as well as several miles of underwater pipelines. Capco Energy has proved reserves of 3.1 billion cu. ft. of natural gas, and 386,800 barrels of oil. The company owns offshore production platforms and related infrastructure to produce oil and gas. In 2005 Capco Energy agreed Capco Energy, on farmout terms to drill an exploratory well in Galveston Federal Inc. [CGYN.PK] Waters. CEO Ilyas Chaudhary owns 21% of the company. Its name might have an Irish connotation but this Celtic Exploration is all about making money in the New World, specifically in Alberta, Canada. The oil and natural gas independent explores for and produces oil and gas in east-central, northern, southern, and westcentral regions of Alberta. It is developing the light-oil play in the Beaverhill Lake formation and is also active in the Ashmont area of east-central Alberta. The company drilled a total of 67 (41.5 net) wells and produced an average of 3,608 barrels of oil equivalent per Celtic day in 2004. It also had more than 11 million barrels of oil equivalent Exploration Ltd. in reserves. The company was incorporated in 2002. Centurion Energy International focuses on the legions of exploration and production opportunities in North Africa. The company holds stakes in an exploration and production concession in Egypt's Nile Delta. It has sold its production assets in Tunisia, although it has retained interest in the Mellita permit in Tunisia and the right to participate in any drilling on the Ezzaouia and El Biban concessions. Centurion Energy stands guard over a reserve base of more than 50 million barrels of oil equivalent, mostly from the Nile Delta Centurion development leases. The company produces more than 45,000 Energy barrels of oil equivalent per day. Centurion was incorporated in International Inc. 1997.

CEP International Petroleum Ltd.

CEP International Petroleum, established in the Yukon, now focuses on oil and gas exploration in eastern Russia and on the Kamchatka peninsula between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea in the North Pacific Ocean. Through its Russian subsidiaries, CEP International holds an 85% interest in two exploration licenses for the Koriakia region that covers 6,424 sq. km. CEP began an exploration program in the region in 1998 and has obtained two licenses and identified 10 oil prospects. CEP has agreed to combine its operations with those of Canada-based Transco Resources Corp.

Address: 400 - 3rd Ave. SW, Ste. 3300 Calgary, Alberta T2P 4H2, Canada Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 403-294-1411 Revenue (2005): 47.50 M Fax: 403-216-2374 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 47.50%

• Chairman and CEO: Gregory S. (Greg) Noval • President, COO, and Director: Michael E. (Mike) Coolen • CFO: Ross A. Jones

Address: 5555 San Felipe, Ste. 725 Houston, TX 77056 Phone: 713-622-5550 Fax: 713-622-5552

• CEO, Director, and President, International Fiscal Year End: December Operations: Ilyas Chaudhary Revenue (2004): 5.30 M • President, Domestic Revenue Growth (1 yr): 66.90% Operations and Director: Mike Employees (2004): 27 Myers Employee Growth (1 yr): 125.00% • CFO: Mansoor Anjum

Address: 505 - 3rd St. SW, Ste. 500 Calgary, Alberta T2P 3E6, Canada Phone: 403-201-9153 Fax: 403-201-9163

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 41.70 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 662.70% Employees (2004): 45 Employee Growth (1 yr): 114.30%

• President, CEO, and Director: David J. Wilson • VP Finance and CFO: Sadiq H. Lalani • VP Operations: Alan G. Franks

Address: Ste. 1700, Bow Valley Sq. II,, 205 - 5th Ave. SW, Calgary, Alberta T2P 2V7, Canada Phone: 403-263-6002 Fax: 403-263-5998

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 45.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 13.00% Employees (2004): 99 Employee Growth (1 yr): (-1.00%)

• President, CEO, and Director: Said S. Arrata • SVP and COO: A. D. (Tony) Anton • SVP Finance, CFO, and Director: Barry W. Swan

Address: 140 4th Ave. SW, Ste. 2050 Calgary, Alberta T2P 3N3, Canada Phone: 403-247005 Fax: 403-247-0041

• President and Director: Robert J. Maxwell • CFO and Director: Brian Hearst

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Chaco Resources Plc

Chaparral Energy, Inc.

Chaco Resources, formerly Gold Mines of Sardinia, has dumped gold in favor of oil and gas. The company is primarily looking at promising exploration areas in northern Paraguay and western Colombia. With demand for oil booming Chaco Resources sees undeveloped areas of South America as having the best potential for liquid fuels and natural gas production. It spun off its Australian precious metal assets, including its Sardinia Gold Mining subsidiary, to a newly formed Canadian subsidiary that was merged with Full Riches Investments to form a separate company, Medoro Resources. Investment firm Willbro Nominees Limited owns 27% of Chaco Resources. With operations spanning America's mid-continent and Permian Basin, Chaparral Energy wants to find that oil and natural gas. The production and exploitation company, which also drills in Texas and the Gulf Coast, has proved reserves of some 600 billion cu. ft., and continues to grow through exploration and acquisitions. Oklahoma Ethanol L.L.C., a joint venture with Oklahoma Farmers Union Sustainable Energy, operates an ethanol production plant in Oklahoma, which is estimated to produce some 55 million gallons per year. Chaparral Energy was founded in 1988. CEO Mark Fisher owns half of the company's common stock, and Altoma Energy -controlled by Chaparral's vice president Charles Fischer -- owns the remainder.

It's not the high chaparral of the US but the deserts of Central Asia that attract Chaparral Resources, an oil and gas exploration and production firm involved in energy projects in Kazakhstan. It sold its US interests to enter a joint venture, JSC Karakudukmunay (KKM), with Kazakhstan's state-owned oil company (KazMunayGaz) and other Kazakh companies. Chaparral derives most of its revenues through production and sale of crude oil in the Karakuduk field. Its share of proved reserves in the field is about 27.2 million barrels of Chaparral oil. Nelson Resources acquired a 60% stake in Chaparral in 2004 Resources, Inc. before LUKOIL acquired Nelson Resources in 2005. Chaparral [CHAR.OB] Resources agreed to become a subsidiary of LUKOIL in 2006. For Chevron U.K. Ltd things are looking up in Europe as the company drills down. Through Chevron U.K. (operating as Chevron Upstream Europe), Chevron holds interests in more than 30 fields in Denmark, Norway, and the UK. Chevron Upstream Europe's North Sea fields produce 142,000 barrels of oil and 456 million cu. ft. of natural gas per day. Output from the company's Britannia Field in the North Sea meets 7% of the UK's total demand for gas. Chevron Chevron U.K. Upstream Europe has also developed the UK-based Clair Field, Ltd which began producing oil in early 2005.

Cheyenne Energy Incorporated

Cheyenne Energy is a junior oil and gas exploration and development company focusing on Western Canada. The group drills in Cessford, Camrose, Saddle Hills, and other areas in Alberta for both natural gas and oil targets, producing about 375 barrels of oil equivalent per day. Its 2005 drilling program includes four new wells that are expected to nearly double its production. In December 2004 Cheyenne had total plus proved reserves of 3.75 million cu. ft. of natural gas and 647,000 barrels of oil equivalent. It has total undeveloped land holdings of 8,200 acres. Incorporated in 1997, Cheyenne Energy entered the oil and gas production sector in 2001.

Address: Prestige Travel Suite, Barclays Bank House, 81-83 Victoria Rd. London KT6 4NS, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-8399-3897 Fax: +44-20-8399-3897

• Chairman: Jon P. Pither • Chief Executive: John C. Morris • Finance Director: Martin Groak

Address: 701 Cedar Lake Blvd. Oklahoma City, OK 73114 Phone: 405-478-8770 Fax: 405-478-1947

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 92.20 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 48.80% Employees (2004): 319

• Chairman, President, and CEO: Mark A. Fischer • EVP and CFO: Joseph O. Evans • SVP, Production Engineering and Operations: James M. Miller

Address: 2 Gannett Dr., Ste. 418 White Plains, NY 10604 Phone: 866-559-3833 Fax: 866-700-5091

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 78.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 36.20% Employees (2004): 221 Employee Growth (1 yr): 3.80%

• CEO and Director: Boris Zilbermints • VP Finance and CFO: Charles Talbot

Address: Seafield House, Hill of Rubislaw Aberdeen AB15 6XL, United Kingdom Phone: +44-1224-334000 Fax: +44-1224-717455

• President and Managing Director: Gary P. Luquette • VP and CFO Chevron Corporation: John S. Watson

Address: Bow Valley Square II, Ste. 2940, 205 5th Ave. SW Calgary, Alberta T2P 2V7, Canada Fiscal Year End: December Phone: 403-296-2590 Revenue (2004): 0.90 M Fax: 403-296-0534 Revenue Growth (1 yr): 113.70%

• President, CEO, and Director: Timothy M. (Tim) Cooney • VP Finance and CFO: Adeline L. Roth

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China National Petroleum Corporation

Big Oil in China means state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), which is that country's largest integrated oil and gas company. CNPC has 30 international exploration and production projects including operations in Azerbaijan, Canada, Indonesia, Myanmar, Oman, Peru, Sudan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela. The company also operates some older refineries in China. CNPC, which holds proved reserves of 3.7 billion barrels of oil equivalent, has restructured and spun off most of its domestic assets into a separate company, PetroChina.

China Northeast Petroleum Holdings, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Hong Xiang, is engaged in the extraction and production of crude oil. Its current operations are in a portion of the Jilin Quinan Oil Field which is located southwest of Quinan City in the Jilin Province of the Peoples Republic of China. The company's field has an exploration area of more than 20 square kilometers--so far more China North than 11 kilometers have proved to be oil-bearing. All crude oil East Petroleum extracted from the site is sold to the Jilin Refinery of PetroChina, Holdings Ltd. which is located less than two miles from the pumping site. Large [CNEH.OB] scale commercial drilling at Qianan Oil Field started in 1986. China Oilfield Services is the leading provider of oilfield services in the offshore China market. Its services cover exploration, development, and production of offshore oil and natural gas operations. Its four business segments are drilling services, well services, shipping, and geophysical services. The company owns13 drilling rigs and a fleet of marine support vessels that includes oil tankers, seismic vessels, geotech survey vessels, and equipment for logging, drilling fluids, directional drilling, cementing, well completion, and well work-over services. CNOOC is a key client of China Oilfield the company -- it accounts for more than 55% of revenue. The Services Limited company started operations in 1967. Choice Resources picks and chooses as it explores for and produces oil and natural gas. The company's three core natural gas production areas are Bow Island, Pincher Creek, and Viking, all located in Alberta. Choice Resources has proved reserves of 33.8 billion cu. ft. of natural gas and 965,600 barrels of associated liquids, and it produces approximately 1,400 barrels of oil per day. The company plans to increase its stake in a planned horizontal well at Pincher Creek, where three exploratory wells have been completed. Choice In 2005 Choice Resources plans to drill as many as nine exploration Resources Corp. wells and 25 development wells in its core areas. At the heart of Chugach Alaska Corporation is a vision of indigenous people running their own businesses on their own land. Chugach Alaska was formed following the activation of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (which was passed by the US Congress in 1971), to provide land management services for the 928,000-acre Chugach region of Alaska. The company derives the bulk of its sales from oil and gas production, mining, commercial timber, and tourist Chugach Alaska activities that occur in the region. Chugach Alaska's shareholders Corporation consist of Aleut, Eskimo, and Indian natives.

Address: 6 Liu Pu Kang Jie, Xicheng District Beijing 100724, China Phone: +86-106-209-4114 Fax: +86-106-209-4806

• CFO: Gong Huazhang • President: Chen Geng • VP: Su Shulin

Address: 5237 Farago Ave. Temple City, CA 91780 Phone: 626-448-7637

• President and Director: Wang Hong Jun • CEO and Director: Wei Guo Ping

Address: 6 Dongzhimenwai Xiaojie Beijing 100027, China Phone: +86-10-8452-1762 Fax: +86-10-8452-1325

• Chairman: Fu Chengyu • CEO and President: Yuan Guangyu • CFO and EVP: Wu Mengfei

Address: 1150, 606 - 4th St. SW Calgary, Alberta T2P 1T1, Canada Phone: 403-216-5821 Fax: 403-216-5828

• President, CEO, and Director: Gordon D. Harris • VP and CFO: Stephen Austin • VP and COO: Dennis Forgeron

Address: 560 E. 34th Ave. Anchorage, AK 99503 Phone: 907-563-8866 Fax: 907-563-8402

Fiscal Year End: February Revenue (2005): 13.50 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 39.10%

• Chairman: Sheri Buretta • President and CEO: Barney Uhart • CFO: Connie Baehr

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CityView Corporation Limited [CTVWF.OB]

Clear Energy Inc.

CNPC (Hong Kong) Limited [CKKHF.PK] CNX Gas Corporation [CXG] Cobra Venture Corporation Compton Petroleum Corporation [CMZ] Connacher Oil and Gas Limited ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc. Consolidated Gulfside Resources Ltd. Continental Energy Corporation [CPPXF.OB] Continental Resources, Inc.

CityView Corporation has its eye on Indonesia for acquiring and developing oil and gas reserves. The company is involved in two production-sharing contracts (PSCs) with Indonesia's statecontrolled Pertamina. The Madura and Simenggaris blocks were selected as the company's focus for its PSCs. CityView has a combined 25% interest in the Madura (674,100 acres) and Simenggaris (675,582 acres) blocks. PT Medco Energi Corporation is the company's joint venture partner and operating shareholder in the Indonesian interests. CityView Corporation was organized in 1987, originally as a realty company. Clear Energy is an oil and natural gas exploration and production company with operations in Alberta and Saskatchewan. The Peace River Arch is one of its core areas, where it has operations in the Glacier area and in the Clear River, Gordondale, Balsam, and Gage areas. The company has proved plus probable reserves of 9.8 million barrels of oil equivalent and holds more than 345,000 net acres of undeveloped land. The company was formed in 2003 through the reorganization of Vermilion Resources into Vermilion Energy Trust and Clear Energy. In 2004 Clear Energy acquired fellow explorer Ranchgate Energy. CNPC (Hong Kong) Limited's mission is to find oil and gas for its customers. The company specializes in the production and exploration for crude oil and natural gas in Asia, South America, and the Middle East. CNPC (Hong Kong) has a production sharing agreement with PetroChina Company, as well as other production sharing contracts to develop and produce crude oil in certain regions in China. The company has 11 oil exploration and production projects in seven countries. CNPC (Hong Kong) plans to expand its oil reserves. Chairman Wang Mingcai and CEO Li Hualin together control about 53% of the company.

Address: Level 9, 28 The Esplanade Perth 6000, Australia Phone: +61-8-9226-4788 Fax: +61-8-9226-4799

Address: 400 4th Ave. SW, Ste. 2900 Calgary, Alberta T2P 0J4, Canada Phone: 403-410-3100 Fax: 403-410-3111

Address: Room 3907-3910, 39th Fl., 118 Connaught Rd. West Hong Kong Phone: +852-2522-2282 Fax: +852-2868-1741

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 0.00 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): (-29.20%) Employees (2004): 1 Employee Growth (1 yr): 0.00%

• Chairman: Ahmad I. (Iqbal) Saddique • CEO and CFO: Ee Beng Yew

Fiscal Year End: December Revenue (2004): 29.10 M Revenue Growth (1 yr): 91.10% Employees (2004): 32 Employee Growth (1 yr): 77.80%

• President, CEO, and Director: Jeffrey S. (Jeff) Boyce • VP Finance and CFO: Stephen E. (Steve) Bjornson • VP Engineering and Operations: C. Tom Banks • Chairman and Executive Director: Wang Mingcai • CEO and Executive Director: Li Hualin • General Manager Finance and Company Secretary: Lau Hak Woon

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Corridor Resources Inc. Crescent Point Energy Trust Crimson Exploration, Inc. [CXPI.OB] Curlew Lake Resources Inc. CYGAM Energy Inc. Cyries Energy Inc. Dana Petroleum plc Deep Resources Ltd. Deep Well Oil & Gas, Inc. [DWOG.PK] Deer Creek Energy Limited Defiant Resources Corporation Derek Oil & Gas Corporation [DRKOF.OB] Desire Petroleum plc Destiny Resource Services Corp. Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. [DO] Diaz Resources Ltd. Dolphin Drilling Ltd. Dominion Exploration & Production, Inc. Doyon, Limited Dragon Oil PLC Drilcorp Energy Ltd.

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Yes

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Drillers Technology Corp. Drucker, Inc. [DKIN.PK] Dune Energy, Inc. [DNE] Duvernay Oil Corp. E4 Energy Inc. ECL Group PLC Corp. [EDNE.OB] EGPI Firecreek, Inc. [EFCR.OB] Emerald Energy Plc Empire Energy Corporation International [EEGC.OB] Empiric Energy, Inc. [EPRC.PK] EnCana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. EnCore Oil plc Endev Energy Inc. Energas Resources Inc. [EGSR.OB] Energy Corporation of America Energy Exploration Technologies Inc. [ENXTF.OB] EnerNorth Industries Inc. [ENY] Enerplus Resources Fund [ERF] ENSCO International Incorporated [ESV]

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Ensign Energy Services Inc. [ESVIF.PK] Ensign United States Drilling Inc. Equus Energy Corporation ERHC Energy Inc. [ERHE.OB] Eurogas Corporation EuroGas, Inc. [EUGS.PK] Exall Resources Limited Exxel Energy Corp. Fairborne Energy Trust FairWest Energy Corporation Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd. Far East Energy Corporation [FEEC.OB] Faroe Petroleum plc

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Find Energy Ltd. First Calgary Petroleums Ltd. FirstAfrica Oil plc Flagship Energy Inc. [FGSPF.PK] Flint Hills Resources, LP Forum Energy Corporation [FECOF.OB] Fred. Olsen Energy ASA Fugro N.V. Gary-Williams Energy Corporation

Yes

Yes

Gastar Exploration Ltd. [GST] Gemini Energy Corp. Gentry Resources Ltd. GEOCAN Energy Inc. GeoGlobal Resources Inc. [GGR] Geophysical Consultants Limited GeoTomo LLC Global Energy Development PLC GlobalSantaFe Corporation [GSF] Grant Geophysical, Inc. Great Plains Exploration Inc. Grey Wolf, Inc. [GW] Habanero Resources Inc. Hallador Petroleum Company [HPCO.OB] Hardman Resources Limited Heartland Oil and Gas Corp. [HOGC.OB] Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co. Helmerich & Payne, Inc. [HP] Hercules Offshore, Inc. [HERO]

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Yes

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Heritage Oil Corporation High Plains Energy Inc. Hiland Partners, LP [HLND] Houston American Energy Corp. [HUSA.OB] Howard Energy Corp. Hunt Consolidated Inc. Hunt Oil Company Husky Energy Inc. INPEX Holdings Inc. Iteration Energy Ltd. Ivanhoe Energy Inc. [IVAN] Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. Ltd. JED Oil Inc. [JDO] JKX Oil and Gas plc John D. Oil and Gas Company [JDOG.OB] Kaiser-Francis Oil Company KCA DEUTAG Drilling Limited KCS Energy, Inc. [KCS] Kerr-McGee North Sea (U.K.) Limited Kestrel Energy, Inc. [KSTR.PK] Ketch Resources Trust

Yes

Yes

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Key Energy Services, Inc. [KEGS.PK] Kick Energy Corporation King Energy Inc. Kuwait Petroleum Corporation LiteWave Corp. [LTWV.OB] LongBow Energy Corp. Luke Energy Ltd. Lundin Petroleum AB Magnum Hunter Resources, Inc. Marathon Oil Company Marathon Oil UK Ltd. Mariner Energy, Inc. [ME] Marubeni Corporation [MARUY.PK] Masters Energy Inc. Matador Resources Company Matrix Energy Services Corporation [MXES.OB] Maverick Minerals Corporation [MVRM.OB] Melrose Resources plc Merit Energy Company Metalore Resources Limited

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Midnight Oil Exploration Ltd. Milagro Energy Inc. Miller Petroleum, Inc. [MILL.OB] Montello Resources Ltd. Monument Resources, Inc. [MNMN.OB] Murphy Exploration & Production Company International Murphy Exploration & Production Company - USA Mustang Fuel Corporation Mystique Energy, Inc. Nabors Drilling USA, LP Nabors Industries Ltd. [NBR] National Energy Group, Inc. [NEGI.OB] National Iranian Oil Company National Oil Corporation NAV Energy Trust NEG, Inc. Ness Energy International, Inc. [NESS.OB] Nevarro Energy Ltd. Nexen Inc. [NXY] NGAS Resources, Inc. [NGAS]

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Nicklos Drilling Company Niko Resources Ltd. Noble Corporation [NE] Noble Drilling (U.S.) Inc. Nord Oil International, Inc. [NDOL.PK] Norsk Hydro ASA [NHY] NOVA OIL, INC. [NVAO.OB] Nuovo Pignone Holding S.p.A. NuTech Energy Alliance Corporation NuVista Energy Ltd. Oakridge Energy, Inc. [OAKR.OB] OAO Gazprom OAO Rosneft Oil Company Occidental Oil and Gas Corporation Occidental Permian, Ltd. Ocean Rig ASA [OCNRF.PK] Oceaneering International, Inc. [OII] Oceanic Exploration Company [OCEX.OB] Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Limited

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Oil and Gas Development Company Limited Oil Search Limited Oilexco Incorporated OJSC Surgutneftegas [SGTZY.PK] Output Exploration, LLC Pacific Energy Resources Ltd. Paladin Resources plc Pan Andean Resources PLC Pan-Ocean Energy Corporation Limited Pangea Petroleum Corporation [PAPO.OB] Paradigm Geotechnology B.V. Paramount Resources Ltd. Parker Drilling Company [PKD] Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. [PTEN] Peak Energy Services Trust Pebercan Inc. Pengrowth Energy Trust [PGH] Penn West Energy Trust Peregrine Energy Ltd.

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Perusahaan Pertambangan Minyak Dan Gas Bumi Negara BRASILEIRO S.A. PETROBRAS [PBR] Petrel Resources plc Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. Petrobank Energy and Resources Ltd. Petroceltic International plc PetroKazakhsta n Inc. Petrol Industries, Inc. [PTLDE.OB] Petrosearch Energy Corporation [PTSG.OB] Petsec Energy Ltd [PSJEF.PK] Peyto Energy Trust Phoenix Technology Income Fund Pioneer Drilling Company [PDC] Pioneer Oil and Gas Pool Well Services Co. Portrush Petroleum Corporation [PRRPF.OB] Prairie Pacific Energy Corporation Precision Energy Services Premier Oil plc

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Pulse Data Inc. Purcell North Energy Ltd. Pyramid Oil Company [PYOL.OB] Quest Resource Corporation [QRCP] Questar Market Resources, Inc. Questerre Energy Corporation Raven Energy Ltd. Real Resources Inc. Regal Petroleum plc Resilient Resources Ltd. Riata Energy, Inc. Rider Resources Ltd. Rival Energy Ltd. Rock Energy Inc. Rocky Mountain Minerals, Inc. [RMMI.OB] Rocky Old Man Energy Inc. Rolling Thunder Exploration Ltd. Rosemore, Inc. Rowan Companies, Inc. [RDC] RPS Hydrosearch RSX Energy Inc. RWE-DEA Aktiengesellsch aft für Mineraloel und Chemie

Yes

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Saipem S.p.A. Samson Investment Company San Telmo Energy Ltd. [STUOE.OB] Santos Ltd [STOSY] Sawtooth International Resources Inc. Saxon Energy Services Inc. Secunda International Limited Sefton Resources, Inc. [SFNRF.PK] Seitel, Inc. [SELA.OB] Seneca Resources Corporation Serica Energy Corporation Sharon Energy Ltd. Shell Canada Limited Shell Exploration & Production Company Shellbridge Oil & Gas, Inc. Sibir Energy plc Signa Engineering Corp. SignalEnergy Inc. Smedvig asa SNRG Corporation [SNRG.OB] SOCO International plc

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Softrock Minerals Ltd. Sonsub Inc. Spectrum Energy and Information Technology Ltd. Sperry-Sun Drilling Services Spindletop Oil & Gas Co. [SPND.OB] Standard Energy Corporation [STDE.OB] Sterling Energy plc Sterling Resources Ltd. Storm Cat Energy Corporation [SMU] Stratford American Corporation [STFA.OB] Stratic Energy Corporation Stroud Energy, Inc. Stylus Energy Inc. Sundance Resources, Inc. Surge Global Energy, Inc. [SRGG.OB] Syncrude Canada Ltd. TBX Resources, Inc. [TBXC.OB] Teikoku Oil Co., Ltd. Terax Energy, Inc. [TERX.OB]

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Teton Energy Corporation [TEC] Texaco Exploration and Production, Inc. Texalta Petroleum Ltd. Texas Vanguard Oil Company [TVOC.OB] TG World Energy Corp. TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company ASA The Reserve Petroleum Company [RSRV.OB] The Scotia Group, Inc. The X-Change Corporation [XCHC.OB] THUMS Long Beach Company Tipperary Corporation Titan Logix Corp. TODCO [THE] Topper Resources Inc. [TOPUF.PK] Torque Energy Inc. Total Energy Services Trust Touchstone Resources USA, Inc. [TSNU.OB] TRAFINA Energy Ltd. TransAtlantic Petroleum Corp.

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Transco Resources Corp. Transmeridian Exploration, Inc. [TMY] Transocean Inc. [RIG] TransTexas Gas Corporation Trek Resources, Inc. Tri-Valley Corporation [TIV] Trican Well Service Ltd. Triple 8 Energy Ltd. Trivello Ventures Inc. [TRVEF.PK] True Energy Trust TrueStar Petroleum Corporation Tullow Oil plc Tuscany Energy Ltd. Union Drilling, Inc. [UDRL] Unit Corporation [UNT] United Heritage Corporation [UHCP] UTS Energy Corporation Venoco, Inc. Venture Production plc Vermilion Energy Trust VTEX Energy, Inc. [VXEN.OB] W&T Offshore, Inc. [WTI]

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West Energy Ltd. Westbow Energy Inc. Western Oil Sands Inc. WesternGeco Westside Energy Corporation [WHT] Whiting Petroleum Corporation [WLL] Windsor Energy Resources, Inc. Winstar Resources, Ltd. Wintershall AG Woodside Petroleum Ltd. [WOPEF.PK] Yangarra Resources Ltd. Yoho Resources Inc. Zapata Energy Corporation

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