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U.S. Silica Holdings Inc. is a global performance materials company and is a member of the Russell 2000. The company is a leading producer of commercial silica used in the oil and gas industry and in a wide range of industrial applications. Over its 123-year history, U.S. Silica has developed core competencies in mining, processing, logistics and materials science that enable it to produce and cost-effectively deliver more than 600 diversified products to customers across our end markets. U.S. Silica`s wholly-owned subsidiaries include EP Minerals and SandBox Logistics™. EP Minerals is an industry leader in the production of products derived from diatomaceous earth, perlite, engineered clays and non-activated clays. SandBox Logistics™ is a state-of-the-art leader in proppant storage, handling and well-site delivery, and is dedicated to making proppant logistics cleaner, safer and more efficient. The company has 27 operating mines and processing facilities and two additional exploration stage properties across the United States and is headquartered in Katy, Texas.
Homeland Energy Group Ltd. is focused on coal production from existing South African mines, resource development in South Africa, energy exploration in southern Africa and strategic acquisitions of properties and projects that support continued growth of Homelands energy resources and reserves. Homeland`s Kendal Coal Mine began production in July 2008 and will continue ramping up to full production of 1.8 million tonnes per year into early 2009. Homeland`s Eloff Mining Project, with a resource estimate of 250 million tonnes (Measured and Indicated) and 210 million tonnes (Inferred) of coal is currently in the development stage with first production anticipated in 2011. The Company complies fully with the Black Economic Empowerment requirements of the South African Minerals and Petroleum Resources Development Act through shareholdings by a number of companies owned by historically disadvantaged South Africans in each of the project companies. Homeland Energy Group Ltd. is traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol HEG following a reverse take-over by capital pool company, Chrysalis Capital Corporation IV in March 2008.
Westmoreland Coal Company is the oldest independent coal company in the United States. Westmoreland’s coal operations include sub-bituminous and lignite surface coal mining in the Western United States and Canada, an underground bituminous coal mine in Ohio, a char production facility, and a 50% interest in an activated carbon plant. Westmoreland also owns the general partner of and a majority interest in Westmoreland Resource Partners, LP, formerly Oxford Resource Partners, LP, a publicly-traded coal master limited partnership with six mining complexes. Its power operations include ownership of the two-unit ROVA coal-fired power plant in North Carolina.
Mundoro Mining Inc. is a Vancouver, BC-based company in the Agriculture and Mining sector.
Pinnacle Materials Inc is a East Brunswick, NJ-based company in the Agriculture and Mining sector.