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KPMG
www.kpmg.com.cn
Marsh
Marsh's Mining, Metals and Minerals Practice offers a variety of consultative
services to help clients avoid, mitigate and transfer risk. These
services include:
- Mining Needs Analysis Checklist - a total package for risk management
that combines needs analysis, risk assessment, and marketing submissions;
- Risk Information - a Web-based incident tracking and workers
compensation reporting system designed to tie multiple mining
locations together with one database;
- Thermal and Acoustic Risk Management - a proprietary process
tailored to help mitigate the potential for catastrophic equipment
failure;
- Environmental Consulting Services - a worldwide network of environmental
specialists, including consultants that offer assessment of asbestos,
lead, silica, and chemical contamination; and
- Workforce Consulting - a specialty practice that develops strategies
for managing a workforce, including diagnostics, absence management,
behavioral sciences, and ergonomics.
Marsh's risk management professionals can help mining clients secure
the best coverage, rates, and terms available, and offer services
that include comprehensive due diligence studies; actuarial services;
surety bonds and financial guarantees; and alternative risk financing
programs.
With specialists in offices in North America, South America, Europe,
South Africa, Asia, and Australia, Marsh's Mining, Metals and Minerals
Practice responds to clients' risk needs by providing industry-leading
benchmarking services, resources, and knowledge culled from active
involvement in mining industry associations.
www.marsh.com
Leighton Asia
We are Leighton Asia, one of Asia's leading contractors and project
developers. Our strength lies in our ability to develop innovative,
practical solutions for our clients.
We have been operating in Asia since 1975, and our unique combination
of local knowledge and extensive international experience has made
us the region's international contractor of choice.
www.leightonasia.com
Martin Place Securities
Martin Place Securities is a boutique Corporate Advisory and Broking
Firm specialising in the Resources Sector.
Our dynamic management team and professional analysts and researchers
become your first choice for capital raising, corporate advice and
research in the resources sector.
Martin Place Securities has been established to provide a link between
Australian resource sector opportunities and investors from major
financial centres in Europe and North America. The combination of
well informed research procedures and corporate advisory and structuring
services, provides clients with superior performance at a lower risk
profile.
www.martinplacesecurities.com.au
Baker & McKenzie
Baker & McKenzie has been providing specialized legal services
to the international mining and metals industry on six continents
for over 50 years. With our specialist industry focus group and unrivaled
network of 70 offices in 38 countries, our unique spread of offices
covers most of the key project jurisdictions and mining finance centers
in North and South America, Australia, North East, South East and
Central Asia, Europe and the CIS. Our connections and ability to work
in conjunction with local lawyers in Africa, South Asia and elsewhere
completes a global project capability.
Baker & McKenzie's mining & metals group offers clients
a competitive edge in structuring and implementing international
resources sector projects. We understand the needs of exploration
teams and participants in large scale resources development projects,
financings, acquisitions and disposals. These include transactions
under both common law and civil legal systems in developed and developing
countries as well as under the legal systems of post soviet/communist
countries.
Many larger and more complex mining and metals transactions call
for innovation and creativity in the design of project and financing
structures and tailored approaches towards legal risk assessment
and management. Our team blends industry specific expertise with
financial, corporate, tax and broad local law capability and know
how, presenting an unsurpassed capacity to provide integrated cross-border
legal services. We take pride in supporting clients through all
phases of a mining project, from exploration and feasibility studies,
financing, development and production, transportation and marketing
to mine closure and remediation. We also assist clients in addressing
sustainability, social responsibility and transparency requirements
and planning as well as implementing mergers and acquisitions. Our
aim is to provide sophisticated, solutions oriented legal support
at every stage.
www.bakernet.com
Eldorado Gold
Eldorado Gold Corporation with headquarters in Vancouver Canada is
an international gold producing company active in development and
exploration. We are growing businesses in China, Turkey and Brazil.
Our 2006 forecasted gold production of approximately 230,000 ounces
will be from Tanjianshan Mine in China, Kisladag Mine in Turkey and
São Bento Mine in Brazil. Our shares are listed on the Toronto Stock
Exchange under the symbol "ELD" and on The American Stock
Exchange "EGO". Eldorado is on the S&P TSX Gold Index
and on the Amex HUI Index. Eldorado has 7.1 million ounces of proven
and probable gold reserves.
www.eldoradogold.com
JP Morgan
With one of the broadest client franchises in the world, JPMorgan
offers clients a full platform that enables us to develop the most
complete and innovative financial solutions in the industry.
JPMorgan offers an unrivaled breadth and depth of capabilities.
Clients -- approximately 8,000 issuer and 20,500 investor clients
in over 100 countries
Scale -- capital and balance sheet
Leadership -- product leadership with integrated global delivery
Innovation -- the world’s leading derivatives franchise
People -- attracting and retaining talent through a respectful
and inclusive performance culture
JPMorgan's Natural Resources group serves large public and private
companies globally. The group offers a broad range of products and
services supported by JPMorgan’s universal platform. In investment
banking, JPMorgan offers clients advisory services in mergers &
acquisitions, raises public and privately placed equity, and provides
fixed-income capital through global syndicated finance, high-grade
debt and high-yield finance. JPMorgan is the leading investment
bank in the metals and mining sector, consistently ranked number
1 globally for M&A advisory and equity underwritings.
www.jpmorgan.com
Highland Gold Mining Limited
Highland Gold Mining Limited is a mid-tier gold producer with significant
reserves and strong growth profile. The Company's assets are located
in Russia. It manages operating and country risks with an experienced
management team. Extensive local knowledge combined with Western corporate
governance and a UK stock market quotation provides the Group access
to acquisition opportunities and capital.
The company's portfolio of assets contains gold equivalent
ore reserves and mineral resources of 8.0m oz and 15.7m oz respectively. The
Group produced 160,200 oz of gold in 2005. The Group's gold production remains
completely unhedged.
The company owns and operates the Mnogovershinnoe
mine (MNV) in the Khabarovsk Region which was Russia's
second largest operating gold mine in 2003 and the Darasun
mine in the Chita region commissioned in June 2004. It
also owns three development projects - Novoshirokinskoye
and Taseevskoye
(Chita Region), and Mayskoye
(Chukotka). Taseevskoye is a 50-50 joint development project with
strategic partner Barrick Gold. In February 2005 HGM has won in open
auction the licence for exploration and production rights for the
Sredne-Golgotayskoye
deposit in the Chita region. In the second half of 2005 Highland Gold
also acquired Belaya Gora, Malo Fedorovskoye and Sovinoye exploration
projects and Baley ZIF-1 tails.
Highland Gold has 160,604,793 common shares in issue
which trade on AIM in London under the symbol "HGM". Company management, Barrick
Gold Corporation and interests related to the Fleming family are all
www.highlandgold.com
Société Générale
www.sgib.com
SANDVIK
www.sandvik.com/cn
HVB
HVB is the second largest listed bank in Germany. HVB Group and Unicredit
bank of Italy merged in 2005 together to form a European powerhouse
in banking. The merged entity UniCredit Group is the forth largest
European banking group by market capitalization (as of January 2007).
UniCredit Group is represented in over 40 countries worldwide, with
a core presence in Italy, Germany and Austria and 17 CEE countries.
With a network of over 7,200 branches and offices worldwide the first
truly European Bank serves more than 35 million customers.
HVB's Project & Commodity Finance Department lies within the UniCredit
Markets & Investment Banking division and has a pre-eminent track
record of transforming investment needs into intelligent solutions.
HVB is one of the leading project finance banks with a portfolio consisting
of over 250 individual projects, with total commitments of over USD
6 billion.
We have an exceptional and distinguished 18-year track record as a
leading financial institution in the mining and metals sector. Through
the collective experience of our individual team members we have demonstrated
a worldwide record of success and proven ability to deliver value
added solutions to our clients.
www.hvbasia.com
Metso Minerals
www.metsominerals.com
ADAMAS MINING LLC
Geomaster Engineering LLC
www.geomaster-engineering.com
FURUKAWA
www.furukawarockdrill.com
China Certification & Inspection Group
www.ccic.com
Jindi Development Co.,Ltd of Hainan
www.jinditouzi.com
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