What do you need for a successful mine? Los Azules, TNR.v, CZX.v, MAI.to, AND.to

With a grass roots projects developing into a resource, and advancing to pre-feasibility reports and eventual production, it's a good idea to understand what's involved in a mining project.

1. The pit (ore body open pit)
(see left image)
Congrats, you found high grade % copper, now what?

The ideal scenario involves digging a humongous hole in the ground, via a systematic earth removal process such that you create the leftover open pit as shown on the left.

2. Transport the Ore (heavy rocks)

Ore, unprocessed, is worth very little. Naturally, you'd have your precious gold or copper mixed with ordinary rocks and other byproducts.

The idea here is to minimize the distance you have to transport these to your processing belt or factory, so you can start crushing and filtering out the valuable bits!

As you can see driving heavy duty 500 tonne trucks up these large pits can be quite costly on gas!

3. Start refining your ore

Once you have the ore at your factory it's time to fire up the conveyor belt. Crushing, refining, leaching, are all typical ways to separate your high grade minerals from the low-grade rocks. Do this well enough and you should be able to retain 90%+ of your estimated resource from raw ore - that is to say you don't waste too much in the way of getting rid of minerals within the ore during the separation process!

From there it goes through several steps of refinement until you reach a sellable end product for your customers - usually in forms of molly, raw mineral products, and in some cases finished pellets for melting into final products.

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4. Disposal of waste and tailings

Wait, you think the government and environmental agencies will let you leave a big hole with waste rocks lying around after you extract the valuable minerals? Not quite!

Tailings (also known as slimes, tailings pile, tails, leach residue, or slickens^[1]) are the materials left over^[2] after the process of separating the valuable fraction from the worthless fraction (gangue) of an ore.

To properly dispose of these tailings (often still riddled with chemicals from acid leaching and chemical separation processes), significant efforts are put in to make sure environmental impacts are minimized.
Some would argue, tailings and waste process facilities are the single biggest economic barriers to a mine being successful.

Further, you'd want to have a site nearby (ideally downhill) where you can, for a low cost, get rid of your tailings and pile them up for isolation processing later.

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Hopefully that's helpful!

Back to Los Azules, it sure makes you wonder how Minera Andes (MAI.TO) will get their pre-feasibility and mine started without ownership of Escorpio IV??

Last we checked, junior miner TNR Gold Corp (TNR.V) controls that project 100%. Given how important tailings pond facility and waste disposals are to a mine, you'd think Minera Andes would want to work with TNR?

http://www.tnrgoldcorp.com/s/NewsReleases.asp?ReportID=303323&_Type=News-Room&_Title=Escorpio-IV-Ownership-Update

From Minera Andes's very own Prelimenary Assessment, outlining their mine plan on Los Azules, we have pulled together charts from different pages.
I think from looking at images (from Minera Andes) themselves, that Escorpio IV is clearly not in their possession...and that their engineers are optimized the mine plan so that both the tailing pond and waste management facilities lie right on Escorpio IV.

$5 million to buy 25% of a 11.2 billion pound copper mine? Yes please! TNR.v, MAI.to

One of our perennial favorites here at Mining 101 is TNR Gold, the little junior explorer that could, has successfully found $5 million necessary to back-in and buy their way back into a project they held originally - the Los Azules.

We think they have a valid claim - which means TNR's tiny market capitalization of under $35 million is grossly undervalued.

TNR GOLD SUBSIDIARY SERVES NOTICE OF BACK-IN INTO LOS AZULES TO MINERA ANDES AND SECURES STANDBY CREDIT FACILITY

Compania Minera Solitario Argentina S.A., a wholly owned subsidiary of TNR Gold Corp., has served notice to Minera Andes Inc., exercising its back-in right for 25 per cent of certain of the properties constituting the Los Azules project in Argentina. TNR also entered into a standby credit facility in the aggregate principal amount of $5-million for a term of one year. The proceeds from the facility have been placed in a trust account to be released on closing of the exercise of the back-in right.

TNR has issued 2,272,727 common shares to the lender as partial consideration for the facility, and has agreed to issue another $500,000 of common shares with a deemed price equal to the 10-day volume-weighted-average trading price as of the day prior to the court's decision in certain circumstances where TNR is successful in its litigation, with respect to the back-in right. In addition, TNR has paid a corporate finance fee of $305,000.

The right of TNR and Solitario to exercise the back-in right for the Los Azules project is subject to a legal action commenced by Minera Andes Inc., Minera Andes S.A., Los Azules Mining Inc. and Andes Corporacion Minera S.A. (the MAI group) against TNR and Solitaro, in which the MAI group is disputing Solitario's ability to waive the production of a feasibility study and issue a back-in notice at this time. The action seeks declaratory relief that any back-in notice is invalid, void or of no force and effect, and advances a claim for costs. TNR is also in a legal dispute with MIM Argentina Exploraciones S.A. (MIM), a subsidiary of Xstrata PLC, over the language of the back-in clause of the exploration and option agreement entered into between Solitario and MIM. In the action, TNR is also seeking confirmation of its ownership in the Escorpio IV property, which is located adjacent to the Los Azules project, and a declaration that the Escorpio IV property is excluded from the exploration and option agreement. A court date has been set for the fall of 2010.

25% on 11 billion lbs of Copper? Yes Please! TNR.v, MAI.to

April Fools (April 1st) is a day typically filled with jokes and pranks played on unsuspecting coworkers and colleagues.

A story we have been following from way back, Los Azules (11 billion lbs copper), has taken an interesting turn last week with Rob McEwan seemingly denying TNR Gold their back-in deadline of April 23, 2010.

2010-04-01 14:20 ET - News Release

Mr. Nils Engelstad reports

MINERA ANDES REJECTS TNR GOLD CORP.'S CLAIM OF BACK-IN RIGHT

Minera Andes Inc. has filed a statement of claim in the Supreme Court of British Columbia against TNR Gold Corp. and its subsidiary, Solitario Argentina S.A.

In recent conversations and correspondence with Minera Andes, TNR has asserted that it has an immediate right to back into the Los Azules project.

Minera Andes rejects the ability of TNR to back into any part of the Los Azules project.

By way of background, the project was, until the fall of 2009, subject to an option agreement between Xstrata Copper and Minera Andes. In the fall of 2009, Xstrata elected not to exercise its option to back into the project and subsequently transferred all properties then held by Xstrata (and forming part of the project) to Minera Andes. Minera Andes now owns 100 per cent of the project.

Certain of the Los Azules properties formerly held by Xstrata and transferred to Minera Andes following the termination of the option agreement however remain subject to an underlying option agreement between Xstrata and TNR, whereby TNR has the right to back into up to 25 per cent of the subject properties, exercisable by TNR upon the satisfaction of certain conditions within 36 months of Xstrata exercising its option, including the completion of a feasibility study. It is important to note that the subject properties comprise the northern half of the project and do not represent 25 per cent of the Los Azules deposit by area or resources identified.

The 36-month period following the exercise of the option expires on or about April 23, 2010, and no feasibility study has been completed on the project.

The TNR agreement is the subject of a legal dispute between Xstrata and TNR, commenced by TNR against Xstrata in the Supreme Court of British Columbia. The dispute surrounds the validity of the 36-month time limit described above. In particular, TNR claims the 36-month time frame, although clearly stated in the TNR agreement, was added by Xstrata, overlooked by TNR (and its lawyers) when signed, not discovered for a number of years and in any event not the commercial intention of the parties.

According to communications between Minera and TNR, TNR seeks to waive the condition that a feasibility study be completed on the project prior to TNR being entitled to exercise its back-in right. It is Minera's view that TNR's back-in right is dependent upon the production of a feasibility study which has never been produced. Further, Minera Andes disputes the legal ability to waive this condition.

Although not party to the litigation between TNR and Xstrata, Minera Andes is seeking a declaration that any back-in notice delivered by TNR prior to April 23, 2010, will be null, void and of no force and effect.

As an additional point of clarification, Minera Andes wishes to confirm that notwithstanding references by TNR to its Los Azules project, that the project remains 100 per cent owned by Minera Andes and Minera Andes has no agreement or working relationship with TNR.

The company looks forward to informing its shareholders of TNR's response.

Minera Andes reports full year results

In other news, for the year ended Dec. 31, 2009, net income in accordance with Canadian GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) was $4.1-million (two cents per share basic and diluted) compared with a net loss of $4.0-million (two cents per share) for the year ended Dec. 31, 2008. This increase was primarily due to an increase in the income recorded on the company's 49-per-cent-owned investment in Minera Santa Cruz SA, which owns the San Jose mine, from $4.7-million in 2008 to $9.3-million in 2009. In addition, the company recorded an income tax recovery of $1.6-million and total expenses in 2009 declined by $1.8-million compared with 2008.

For full details, please refer to the company's audited annual financial statements and management's discussion and analysis for 2009 filed on SEDAR and its Form 40-F filed on EDGAR.

Naturally, TNR Gold Corp had to respond the same day to show this is pretty serious business.

2010-04-01 20:17 ET - News Release

Mr. Gary Schellenberg reports

TNR GOLD PROPOSES TO EXERCISE BACK-IN RIGHT FOR LOS AZULES COPPER PROJECT

TNR Gold Corp. has informed Minera Andes Inc. that it proposes to waive the production of a feasibility study and exercise its right to acquire 25 per cent of the northern half of the properties for Minera Andes's Los Azules project. Minera Andes is contesting TNR's legal right to waive the production of a feasibility study and exercise its option, and has filed a statement of claim in the British Columbia Supreme Court seeking a declaration nullifying any back-in notice delivered by TNR. TNR will be filing a statement of defence and will vigorously oppose any such declaration.

The Los Azules project is an advanced exploration project currently reporting a National Instrument 43-101-compliant inferred resource. TNR has previously announced in Stockwatch that Minera Andes has commenced a diamond drill program of approximately 8,800 metres at the Los Azules project. Please refer to Minera Andes's news release in Stockwatch dated Jan. 12, 2010, for further details on the exploration program, and to its news release dated April 1, 2010, for details of its position with respect to TNR's exercise of its back-in right.

The terms of TNR's back-in right are currently the subject of a legal dispute with Xstrata. In that litigation, TNR is also seeking confirmation of its ownership of the Escorpio IV property, which is located adjacent to the Los Azules project, and a declaration that the Escorpio IV property is excluded from the exploration and option agreement.

Alot of eyes will be watching with anticipation in about 2 weeks time when TNR is expected to back-in on 25% of the highest grading portions of Los Azules. Should be very interesting, I would pick up some TNR shares on dips as we expect strong performance from TNR if/when they are able to finance the back in.

Keep in mind this project has a NPV of over $600 million dollars - even a conservative 10% of this in cash comes to $60 million - easily double the current market capitalization of TNR!

US Government Committee : Lack of Rare Earth Minerals Threatens US Manufacturers and Jobs TNR.v, LAT.v, Orocobre, CLQ.v, WLC.v, Washington

Lack of Rare Earth Minerals Threatens U.S. Manufacturers, National Transition to Clean Energy Economy, Committee Warned

(http://science.house.gov/press/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=2780).

March 17, 2010, (Washington, DC) – Witnesses from both the public and private sectors warned Members of the House Committee on Science and Technology’s Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight that the lack of a domestic supply of rare earth minerals could severely affect the U.S.’s ability to manufacture advanced-technology products. A rare earth supply shortage would present a threat notably to the emerging clean energy industry but also to the telecommunications and defense sectors, according to testimony at a hearing on “Rare Earth Minerals and 21^st Century Industry.”

“With a little of one of these elements you can get a smaller, more powerful magnet, or an aircraft engine that operates at higher temperatures or a fiber-optic cable that can carry your phone call much greater distances,” said Subcommittee Chairman Brad Miller (D-NC). “The United States, not so long ago, was the world leader in producing and exporting rare earths. Today, China is the world’s leader. If we intend to foster a home-grown capability to make the devices that provide wind energy, we need to rebuild America's capability to supply its own needs in rare earth materials.”

Full Committee Chairman Bart Gordon (D-TN) noted that “this is not the first time the Committee has been concerned with the competitive implications of materials such as rare earths. In 1980—30 years ago—this Committee established a national minerals and materials policy to coordinate materials research and development,” Gordon said. “Unfortunately, over successive administrations, the effort to keep that program going fell apart. Now, it is time to ask whether we need to revive a coordinated effort to level the playing field in rare earths in order to support American business and American jobs.”

Between 2005 and 2008, 91 percent of U.S. consumption of rare earths came from China and 9 percent from other sources, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. China is reducing exports of rare earth materials and is working to leverage its deposits tobring the manufacture of the high-value-added products containing rare earths to China’s Inner Mongolia region.

“We have to recognize that the Chinese have some different ideas about how to get the greatest benefit from this suddenly-valuable commodity beyond simply digging it up and selling it to those who want to use it in their high-tech manufacturing,” said Miller. “China appears to view rare earths as one of the incentives they can offer a technology firm scouting for a new plant location. We need to learn how to compete in attracting and retaining manufacturing firms that need access to rare earth elements in light of China’s current near monopoly, and their willingness to use their monopoly power to our disadvantage.”

U.S. supplies are also strained by the continual discovery of new applications and our national effort to ramp up industries that depend on rare earths, such as clean energy technologies.

Members and witnesses discussed ways to overcome the expected imbalance between available supplies of minerals and the nation’s need for them, including: increasing exploration for domestic sources; finding new overseas suppliers; research to find substitute materials; research to reduce the amount of rare earths needed; and increasing recycling of materials.

For more information, please visit the Committee’s website.

Japan Oil and Gas (JOGMEC) moving into Nevada - TNR, CLQ.v, WLC.v, LMR.v, SQM, FCM, Rockwood

If anything has taught North Americans a lesson - it's that hard work pays off. For many of the Asian countries where natural resources have always been scarce, there's a typical overall mandate that the larger government-backed companies have to acquire oversea assets such as mines and exploration projects.

JOGMEC is a Japanese government agency through which the country can secure longterm supply through a corporation.

Yesterday a small but significant deal was announced.

Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC) Signs $2.5 Million USD MoA to Earn 51% of Lomiko's Alkali Lake Lithium Brine Property

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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/16/10 -- LOMIKO METALS INC. (TSX VENTURE: LMR)(PINK SHEETS: LMRMF)(Europe: ISIN: CA54163Q1028, WKN: A0Q9W7) ("Lomiko" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation ("JOGMEC") has entered into a Memorandum of Agreement ("MoA") with Lomiko Metals Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary Lomiko Metals USA LLC ("Lomiko USA") to acquire 51% of Lomiko's Alkali Lake Project ("the Property") in Esmeralda after completing $2.5 million USD in work no later than March 31, 2013.

Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC) was established on February 29, 2004. JOGMEC integrates the functions of the former Japan National Oil Corporation, which was in charge of securing a stable supply of oil and natural gas, and the former Metal Mining Agency of Japan, which was in charge of ensuring a stable supply of nonferrous metal and mineral resources and implementing mine pollution control measures. Further details are available at: www.jogmec.go.jp/english : .

Both parties must contribute based on a 51/49 ratio to retain their interest after the Earn-in-Date. JOGMEC has the Right of First Refusal to acquire the remaining interest in the property after the Earn-in-Date and may accelerate the Earn-in-Date by completing required expenditures early. JOGMEC also has the right to transfer its interests in the Alkali Lake Property, in whole or in part, to one or more Japanese companies or a consortium of Japanese companies. JOGMEC shall have exclusive right to direct the marketing of minerals or mineral materials removed from the Property on behalf of the Joint Venture for a 10 year period from the date of first commercial production.

The above agreement is subject to a 30 day due diligence period that may be extended to not more than 90 days. Once above due diligence is satisfied by JOGMEC, Lomiko and JOGMEC will form a Joint Venture Management Committee to direct exploration and Lomiko will act as Operator. JOGMEC shall prepare an initial draft of the definitive agreement between the parties to the MoA. Any Exploration expenditures by Lomiko from January 17, 2010 to present will be credited to the Joint Venture and compensated accordingly.

The Company's subsidiary Lomiko Metals USA LLC, located 552 lode claims comprising 4,615.4 Ha or 11,404.9 acres in Esmeralda County, Nevada. The staking covers a large portion of Alkali Flat Salt Lake in Montezuma Valley which is prospective for economic grades of lithium and other materials. America's only lithium production facility owned by Chemetall Foote, a subsidiary of Rockwood Holdings (NYSE: ROC) is located 15 km away by road in the Clayton Valley, immediately to the west. In addition to lithium carbonate, Silver Peak is one of the world's leading producers of lithium hydroxide. The U.S. government recently awarded Chemetall US $ 28.4 million USD to upgrade and expand the Silver Peak lithium brine mine as part of a program to supply sufficient lithium for the next generation of electric vehicle batteries (Resource World, Vol. 8, Issue 1). Details on Chemetall Foote's Silver Peak Property are available at: www.chemetalllithium.com : .

Montezuma Valley (also known as Alkali Flat) formed in a structural basin, a down-faulted and rotated crustal block caused by tensional spreading forces common to the Basin and Range province of Nevada and nearby states. The faulted blocks, which often result in the creation of closed basins, are composed of a variety of Precambrian and Paleozoic rocks overlain by younger volcanic rocks ejected from a nearby eruption during the Tertiary. It is these volcanic rocks, some containing high lithium values, that are considered to be the source of lithium found in subsurface brines in Clayton Valley. Lithium, along with numerous other elements, was liberated from the rocks through mechanical and chemical weathering processes and transported into the basins. Subsequent climatic changes in the Quaternary resulted in the enrichment of lithium solutions by evaporation. Montezuma Valley and the Kar claims are located immediately east of Clayton Valley. The two valleys are separated by the Paymaster fault and share the exposed Precambrian and Paleozoic basement rocks covered by tertiary volcanic rocks of Paymaster Ridge.

Mr. Garth Kirkham, P.Geo, is the Qualified Person responsible for the technical content of this news release.

To view accompanying map, please click on the following link: www.marketwire.com/library/20100215-lmr2168.jpg :

On behalf of Lomiko Metals Inc.

Paul Gill, President & CEO
We seek safe harbor.

Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

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While we do not believe the projects have as much merit as say, International Lithium's or Rodinia Minerals' assets in Nevada, it regardless is a step in the right direction as deals are starting to be made.

It's a smaller deal but we firmly believe end users such as Hitach (see below for drills), Toyota, Mitsubishi, are all waking up to the increasingly competitive market for a common lithium resource, outside of the majors (FMC, SQM, Chemetall).

I mean, if your business relied on a secure resource, even as a risk management step, wouldn't you want to diversify away from just Chile and Argentina?? 75% + of the world's supply currently come from there, it would be awfully easy for the major producers to hike up the price, no? Not to mention political risks!

LMR.v was up significantly on 2 million shares TSX-Venture yesterday. It closed at $0.115 today down 14%.

Mitsubishi Buys into Lithium, TNR.v, CLQ.v, WLC.v, NAR.v, LMK.v

If you need more proof the world needs more lithium than SQM:NYSE, FMC, and Chemetall Foot (Rockwood ROC:NYSE) can supply, look no further.

Here at Mining101 we have been following the Lithium movement right from the beginning - and we are getting more confirmations daily that this is it.

PERTH, Feb 15, 2010 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) --

Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation (TSE:8058) has agreed to buy about 30 per cent of battery grade lithium carbonate output from Galaxy Resources Ltd's (ASX:GXY) Mt Cattlin mine in Western Australia.

Shares in Galaxy were up four cents, or 3.25 per cent, at A$1.27 (US$1.12) at 1253 AEDT.

Galaxy said in a statement on Monday it was close to finalising similar off-take agreements with other major groups and high-end users of battery grade lithium carbonate in China and other parts of Asia.

The value of the Mitsubishi deal was confidential, a Galaxy spokesman said.

Demand is growing for lithium, which is used in batteries for electric cars.

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Lithium Conference - Las Vegas 2010, TNR.v, ORE.asx, WLC.v, RM.v, CLQ.v

With the world spotlight now on Lithium as the next green-energy material of choice in batteries, electric cars, and all things wonderful technology (think iPod, iPad, etc), the first annual industrial mineral commodity conference wrapped up last week.

Let us revisit some of the companies presenting and check the list of presenters against what we've outlined before as credible companies, shall we?

As we discussed in our previous entries..

http://mining101.blogspot.com/2010/01/first-toyota-now-magna-whos-next-tnrv.html

I think when you're dealing with that level of audience, BS geology can only get you so far. Sorry, time to short Alberta oil-field brines!! (MCI.v, CHU.v, HAO.v, etc etc!)

Confirmed speakers include:

• Dr Gal Luft, Executive Director, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, USA
• Jerry Huang, Corporate Communications Manager, TNR Gold / International Lithium Corp, USA
• Iggy Tan, Managing Director, Galaxy Resources, Australia
• Richard Seville, Chief Executive Officer, Orocobre, Australia
• Jay Chmelauskas, President, Western Lithium Corp., USA
• Don Bubar, President & CEO, Avalon Rare Metals Inc, Canada
• Ted Miller, Senior Manager, Ford, USA
• Keith Evans, Consultant, USA
• Jon Evans, FMC Lithium Division Manager, FMC Lithium Corporation, USA
• Robert Baylis, Senior Consultant, Roskill Information Services Ltd, UK
• Waldo Perez, Chief Executive Officer, Lithium Americas, Canada
• Mr. Patricio de Solminihac, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, SQM, Chile
• Dr Steffen Haber, President, Lithium Division, Chemetall GmbH, Germany

And now consider the attendees. Note ones highlighted...Toyota just did a $5.5 million pre-feasibility deal with Orocobre, and are on the market looking for more.

The latest fiasco with braking problems is more of a government protectionist propaganda...heck the 90's Ford Explorer problem killed far more people and was potentially far more dangerous. Too bad nobody considered Hyundai's position in all this as they seem to be the ones profitting not GM...but I digress.

Attendees

Advanced Metallurgical Group

Altairnano Inc

Amalgamet Canada

American Lithium

Amerpro Resources Inc

AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group NV

Angelo & Newton

Argonne National Laboratory

Asahi Kasei America Inc

Avalon Rare Metals Inc

Bal-Co Spa

Barclays Capital

BBA Inc

Boart Longyear E & I Drilling

Bollore

Brgm

Bruce Consultancy

Bureau of Land Management

Byron Capital Markets

Calaway Interests LLC

Camet Metallurgy Inc

Canaccord Adams

Canada Lithium Corporation

Canadian Orebodies

Capital World Investors

Chemetall Foote Corp

Chemetall GmbH

Chemtura Corporation

Chenco GmbH

CIF Mineracao SA

Clearbridge Advisors

CMAI

Cormark Securities

Dajin Res

Defense National Stockpile Center

Electric Metals Inc

Ener1

Enerdel

Enova Systems Inc

Eramet

Eye Management

FCM Lithium Corporation

First Analysis

FMC Corporation - Lithium Division

FMC Lithium

Ford Motor Company

Galaxy Resources Limited

Geological Survey of Japan

GeoXplor Corp

Gilford Securities

GlobeStar Mining Corporation

Hains Engineering Co Ltd

IGC Technologies LLC

Ihor Kunasz

Ilgren Consulting

IMERYS

Industrial Minerals

Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS)

International Lithium Corp

International Royalty Corporation

Itochu Chemicals America Inc

Itochu Corporation

Japan Oil, Gas & Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC)

JCI USA Inc

Juan Carlos Zuleta

Kay Investment Ltd

Keith Evans

Kodiak

Lanxess Deutschland GmbH

Leverton Clarke

LG International

Li3Energy

Limtech Technologies Inc

Lithea Inc

Lithium Americas Corp

Lithium Corporation

Lithium One Inc

Lomiko Metals Inc

MAC Equipment Inc

Marubeni Corporation

Matamec Explorations Inc

MDB Capital

Minerales Industriales Tubutama

Mitsubishi Corporation

Mitsubishi Corporation Unimetals

Mitsubishi International Corp

Mitsui & Co (USA) Inc

Mitsui & Co Canada Ltd

Mitsui & Co Ltd

MRC Corp

NAATbatt

Nation-E AG

Netzsch-Condux Mahltechnik GmbH

New World Resource Corp

Nordic Mining ASA

North Arrow Minerals Inc

Orocobre Ltd

Owens Corning Co

Pan American Lithium

Panasonic Corporation

Peter W Harben Inc

Pinetree Capital Ltd

Plug in America

Popular Science

Portal Capital LLC

POSCO

PowerOne Capital Markets

Prince Minerals

Reed Resources Ltd

Renault

Renault SAS

Rincon Lithium Ltd

Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto Minerals

Rodinia Minerals

Roskill Information Services Ltd

Salares Lithium Inc

Samsung

SCL

SGS Minerals Services

Simbol Mining Corp

Small Ventures USA

Sojitz Corporation of America

Solmax International

SQM SA

Stephens Investment Management

Sumitomo Corporation

Talison Lithium Limited

Tata Chemicals Ltd

The Doe Run Co

TNR Gold Corporation

Total SA

Toyo Chemicals Co Ltd

Toyota Tsusho Corporation

URS Corporation

US Geological Survey

Ward Chemical Inc

Western Lithium Corporation

http://www.metalbulletin.co.uk/events/1045/Americas/Non-Ferrous/Intro/Lithium-Supply-and-Markets-2010-Conference.html