Matthew J. Howorth

Northgate Minerals Corp. mines for gold and copper. The company was founded on January 7, 1919 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

AuRico Gold, Inc. engages in the exploration and development of gold and silver properties. Its projects include Kemess Underground, a gold and copper project located in northern British Columbia, Canada, Orion located in Nayarit, Mexico and Lynn Lake located in Lynn Lake, Manitoba. The company is focused on the Young-Davidson gold mine and the El Chanate mine. AuRico Gold was founded on February 25, 1986 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Alamos Gold, Inc. is engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and extraction of precious metals, primarily gold in Mexico and the United States. The company owns and operates the Mulatos mine and holds the mineral rights to the Salamandra group of concessions in the State of Sonora, Mexico, which includes several satellite gold occurrences. It also owns the Agi Dagi, Kirazli, Esperanza gold and Çamyurt gold development projects in Çanakkale Province on the Biga Peninsula of northwestern Turkey. The company was founded on February 21, 2003 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.