William Hayes

Placer Dome, Inc. owns & explores gold mines. It produces copper, silver as a byproduct of its gold mining. It has interests in different mines in Australia, the Americas, Papua New Guinea, South Africa and Tanzania. Placer Dome was formed in 1987 and is located in Vancouver, Canada.

Founded by Ned Davis in 1980, Ned Davis Research, Inc. (NDR) is an independent institutional investment research firm and registered investment advisor located in Venice, Florida. The firm is a subsidiary of Euromoney Institutional Investor Holdings, Inc., an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC. NDR produces and publishes independent financial research and offers customized research services (i.e., investment advisory services). The firm markets the research primarily to registered investment advisors, brokerage firms, asset management firms, and other types of corporations. They also market to pension and profit-sharing plans.

Twin Metals Minnesota LLC provides copper, nickel, platinum and related mineral mining services. The company was founded in January 2010 and is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.

Tethyan Copper Co. Pty Ltd. mines copper ores. It also explores and develops copper and gold resources at Reko Diq in the Baluchistan province of Pakistan. The company was founded by David Moore in 2000 and is headquartered in West Perth, Australia.

Part of Kinross Gold Corp., Mantos de Oro SA is a Chilean company that explores and mines gold ores. The private company is based in Copiapó, Chile. Mantos de Oro was acquired by Kinross Gold Corp. on December 21, 2007.

Compania Minera Zaldivar SA owns and operates an open-pit copper mining facility. It produces copper ore, copper cathode, and copper concentrate. The company is headquartered in Antofagasta, Chile.