Joe Mazumdar

Phelps Dodge, Corp. used to provide mining, smelting & refining operations for copper and related products. It was having processing capabilities for other minerals as by-products, such as gold, silver and rhenium. The company copper mining operations was in Bagdad, Morenci, Sierrita, Miami and Tyrone. Phelps Dodge was founded by Anson Phelps & William Dodge in 1834 and is located in Phoenix, AZ.

Rio Tinto Minerals, Inc. processes salt, talc and borate minerals. Its products are used in the production of fiberglass, glass, ceramics, fertilizers, wood preservatives, automotive and electronic products, pharmaceuticals and personal care products. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

Canaccord Genuity Corp. (CGC) is the broker/dealer subsidiary of Canaccord Genuity Group, Inc., (TSE: CF; OTCMKTS: CCORF) in Canada. The firm was founded in 2010 and is locally known as Financière Canaccord ltée. Headquartered in Vancouver, CGC offers corporate and institutional clients with versatile and responsive sales and execution services that range from Institutional Equities and International Equities to Electronic Trading and Fixed Income. Their sales & trading team execution capabilities encompass a wide range of products and services such as Equities, ADR’s, OTC, ETF’s, Fixed Income, Options, Preferreds, Investment Companies.

Founded in 1981, Haywood Securities Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia with additional offices in Calgary and Toronto. The firm offers a full array of investment services. Their research focuses on companies in the mining, oil & gas, biotechnology, telecommunications and technology sectors. They focus on young companies that are built around innovative ideas and offer the potential for rapid growth. Haywood Securities is a member of the Toronto Stock Exchange, the TSX Venture Exchange, the Montreal Exchange, the Canadian Trading and Quotation System, the Canadian Investor Protection Fund and the Investment Dealers Association of Canada. They are also registered to transact securities business in the U.S. and are a member of the NASD.