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		Crowflight Minerals Inc. (TSXV: CML, Frankfurt: CMI) is a Canadian base-metals exploration and development company with operations centred in two of Canada's most prolific nickel camps, the Thompson Nickel Belt (TNB), Manitoba, and Sudbury Basin, Ontario.

		First Nickel is a Canadian mining, exploration and development company. Its current business is centered in the world-class Sudbury basin, where it has one mine in operation, a second project poised for development, and a pipeline of high quality exploration projects.

		Mustang Minerals Corp. ( TSXV: MUM ) is focused on development of the Maskwa Nickel Project in Manitoba Canada and is an active exploration company. At Maskwa the Company in January 2007 announced positive results from a National Instrument 43-101 Preliminary Economic Assessment. ( “ the Scoping Study’ ) The conceptual model outlined was an open pit operation with an initial nine year mine life producing over 10 million pounds of nickel in concentrate per year as well as other metal credits.

		Our vision is to become an efficient mid-tier nickel producer based on our assets in the emerging Raglan Mining Region. Canadian Royalties is currently evaluating the potential of establishing an independent, stand-alone Nickel-Copper-PGE mining and milling operation in the general vicinity of Xstrata Nickel’s Raglan Mine in Nunavik, Québec.

		Scandinavian Minerals Limited ("Scandinavian Minerals"), formerly named Scandinavian Gold Limited, is a Canadian public company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol SGL. Its corporate objective is the exploration and development of base and precious metal properties in northern Europe, with emphasis on Finland.

		Nuinsco Resources Limited is a growth-oriented, multi-commodity mineral exploration and development company that is prepared for production and focused on growth through uranium, base and precious metals exploration and development in world-class mineralized belts in Canada and Turkey. Nuinsco also holds significant equity positions in near-production Victory Nickel Inc. (TSX:Ni) and copper and gold producer Campbell Resources Inc. (TSX:CCH).

		Starfield Resources Inc. is an advanced exploration and emerging early stage development company focused on its 100% owned Ferguson Lake Nickel-Copper-Cobalt-Platinum-Palladium-Rhodium property in Nunavut Territory, Canada. The Ferguson Lake project, which spans 1.3 million acres, is the largest base metal and PGE project in Nunavut, with an unparalleled rate of PGE discovery in North America. Since 1999, Starfield has completed 132,000 metres of diamond drilling in 359 holes.

		Hard Creek Nickel Corporation (HNC-TSX.V) is actively developing and exploring its 100% owned Turnagain Nickel Project, located in northwest British Columbia, Canada. The Turnagain property is the world’s largest new sulfide nickel deposit measured by contained sulfide nickel. A recent updated resource using new drill information from the 2006 exploration increased the measured and indicated resources by 235%.

		Mirabela Nickel Ltd is a mineral exploration company with a portfolio of prospective nickel and other base metal targets in Brazil. It is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX: MBN) and Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: MNB).

		Allegiance Mining is an emerging Australian nickel mining company that is about to commission its first nickel project located in Tasmania. Its Avebury nickel project is due to start production in 4Q-07 and the company has an on-going exploration effort targeting nickel sulphide deposits.

		Albidon is an Africa-focused exploration and development company with an emphasis on nickel. The Company has spent the past seven years building a large portfolio of nickel sulphide projects ranging from development stage to grass roots exploration. Albidon is currently positioned to make the transition from explorer to miner.

		Mincor Resources NL is a growing and profitable nickel mining Company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. The Company is debt-free and has paid regular fully-franked dividends since 2003.

		TITAN Resources International Corp., (TNRI:PK) is a publicly traded resource exploration company dedicated to the acquisition, exploration and development of small to medium size precious metals properties of significant merit, in both Canada and South America.

		Poseidon Nickel Limited is based in Perth, Western Australia. Poseidon is a mineral exploration company which is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange and holds exploration interest in gold and nickel. Poseidon's main activities are towards the exploration and development of nickel mineralisation in Mt Windarra 260km NNE of Kalgoorlie. Windarra consists of two leases, and one main lease covering a total area of 70 square kilometres.

		Victory Nickel Inc. is a growth-oriented Canadian nickel company with over 660 million pounds of in-situ nickel in National Instrument 43-101-compliant measured and indicated resources and an additional 530 million pounds of in-situ nickel in inferred resources at its Minago, Mel and Lac Rocher sulphide nickel deposits.

		Open Joint Stock Company MMC Norilsk Nickel and its subsidiaries ("the Group" or "the Company") is the world's largest producer of palladium and nickel, one of the leading platinum producers and one of the largest copper producers. The Company also produces a large number of by-products, including metallic cobalt, rhodium, silver, gold, tellurium, selenium, iridium and ruthenium.

		CVRD is one of the largest global companies of mining and metal industry. The company is present in 13 Brazilian states and in 32 countries, in the five continents, and it is a world leader in iron ore and pellets production and commercialization, besides owning the largest nickel reserves of the planet. Vale is also a very important global producer of copper, coal, bauxite, alumina, aluminum, potassium, kaolin, manganese and ferroligas concentrate.

		Xstrata is a global diversified mining group, listed on the London and Swiss Stock Exchanges, with its headquarters in Zug, Switzerland. Xstrata’s businesses maintain a meaningful position in seven major international commodity markets: copper, coking coal, thermal coal, ferrochrome, nickel, vanadium and zinc, with recycling facilities, additional exposures to gold, cobalt, lead and silver and a suite of global technology products, many of which are industry leaders. The Group's operations and projects span 18 countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Germany, New Caledonia, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Peru, the Philippines, South Africa, Spain, Tanzania, the USA and the UK. Xstrata employs approximately 43,000 people, including contractors.

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