Rick van Nieuwenhuyse

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.

Etruscan Resources, Inc. explores for and mines for mineral properties. The company was founded on December 24, 1969 and is headquartered in Halifax, Canada.

Inter-Citic Minerals, Inc. operates as a development stage company, which engages in the acquisition, exploration and development of exploration stage resource properties. It holds interest in the Dachang gold project which is located in Qinghai, China. The company's subsidiaries include: Inter-Citic Holdings Ltd. and Techmat Inc. Inter-Citic Minerals was founded on February 12, 1985 and is headquartered in Markham, Canada.

Alexco Resource Corp. engages in the exploration, development, and operation of mineral resource properties. It operates through the following business segments: Reclamation Management, Mining, and Corporate and Other. The Environmental Services segment include clean-up of historical liabilities of the Keno Hill Silver District through ERDC under a contract with the Federal Government of Canada. The Mining segment comprises exploration, underground development, and evaluation activities; and environmental services carried out through ERDC and AEG, providing consulting and project management services. The Corporate and Other segment covers head office and general corporate administration activities. The company was founded on December 3, 2004 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.