Michael Parrett

Stillwater Mining Co. engages in the development, extraction, processing, smelting, and refining of palladium, platinum, and associated metals. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Columbus, MT.

Rio Algom Ltd. is a diversified Canadian mining and metals distribution company, whose mining activities include the production of copper, gold, uranium, molybdenum and coal in North and South America. It also operates a metal distribution business in Canada and the United States. The company is located in Toronto, Canada.

Pengrowth Energy Trust's principal activity is to provide directly and indirectly explore for, develop and hold interests in petroleum and natural gas properties, through investments. The company directly and indirectly acquires, owns and manages working interests and royalty interests in oil and natural gas properties. Its activities are financed by issuance of royalty units and interest bearing notes to the Trust and third party debt.

The Group's principal activity is that of an open-ended Investment trust. It operates through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Fording Inc, through which it holds 60% interest in the Elk Valley Coal Corporation. It alsoinvests in metallurgical coal and industrial minerals mining and processing operations. The Metallurgical coal provides mining and processing activities, primarily metallurgical coal, from three mines, Fording River, Greenhills and Coal Mountain. The Industrial Minerals Operations provides mining and processing of wollastonite and other industrial minerals from two operations in the United States and one operation in Mexico. The Group operates in Canada, the United States and Mexico and sells it products to customers around the world. During the year the Group sold NYCO.

Pengrowth Corp. an oil and gas operating company. The company is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.