Mine Africa - Promoting Mining Investment in Africa

partners and sponsors

MineAfrica is proud to be supported by leading companies, media partners and associations in the international mining and financial industries. Scroll down or click on the links below to read brief profiles on our great partners.

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premier sponsors

Haywood Securities Inc.
Founded in 1981, Haywood Securities is one of Canada's leading independent investment firms. The Company is 100% employee-owned with offices in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, and London, England. Haywood has a reputation for delivering unparalleled investment analysis and advice to its growing client base. The firm is able to offer the same services to both its individual investors and large institutional clients.

Our analysts and advisors seek proven management in young companies that are built around fresh ideas with the potential for rapid growth in the mining, oil and gas, life sciences, telecommunication and technology sectors. Haywood Securities offers these investment opportunities to a select group of qualified investors in both the institutional and retail markets.

At Haywood, we foster long-term relationships with the companies we support through our often multiple financings in the capital markets and our ongoing advisory services. Our goal is not only to ensure the success of the venture, but also to build enduring value for our investors.

Membership: Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, Canadian National Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange, Canadian Investor Protection Fund, Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada

Herbert Smith LLP
Herbert Smith LLP is a leading international law firm. We enjoy a market leading reputation in Africa, having acted on numerous matters throughout the continent across a range of sectors, including in particular energy and mining.

Our Africa practice group comprises a multidisciplinary team of lawyers drawn from across our international network and includes one of the largest groupings of common and civil law lawyers dedicated to African work.

The breadth of our experience within the sector, and our capability to advise clients through the lifecycle of energy and mining projects and transactions, from the financing stage to dispute resolution, is what distinguishes us from our competitors.

Norton Rose Group
Norton Rose Group is a leading international legal practice. With more than 2600 lawyers, we offer a full business law service to many of the world's pre-eminent financial institutions and corporations from offices in Europe, Asia Pacific, Canada, Africa and the Middle East - and, from 1 January 2012, Latin America and Central Asia. We are strong in financial institutions; energy; infrastructure, mining and commodities; transport; technology and innovation; and pharmaceuticals and life sciences. Norton Rose Group comprises Norton Rose LLP, Norton Rose Australia, Norton Rose OR LLP, Norton Rose South Africa (incorporated as Deneys Reitz Inc), and their respective affiliates.

Mineral Resource Analyst Group (MRAG)
MRAG is the oldest professional organization for any sector in North America and is represented by all the senior mining analysts and their qualified associates. MRAG provides a forum for interaction between corporate and other stakeholder interests and the analytical community.

SGS
Does your investment or project require a results driven approach? Let SGS partner with you and find the best solution to meet your needs. Together we can develop innovative services and technologies customized to add value to your operations. Our capabilities and expertise help you to reduce risk and increase your competitive advantage.

SGS can provide a wide range of services including:
• Exploration support including geochemistry MMI™ and resource calculation
• Metallurgical testing including flowsheet development and pilot plant testing
• Water and energy audits, management and certification
• Risk mitigation for pre-feasibility and/or feasibility studies
• Audits and certification of plants or mine sites

Let SGS be your strategic partner and create solutions that meet your needs.

TMX Group (Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange)
TMX Group's key subsidiaries operate cash and derivative markets for multiple asset classes including equities, fixed income and energy. Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, Montreal Exchange, Natural Gas Exchange, Shorcan, Equicom and other TMX Group companies provide trading markets, clearing facilities, data products and other services to the global financial community who access Canada's capital markets. TMX Group is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver.

Webber Wentzel Attorneys
Webber Wentzel is one of the leading corporate law firms in South Africa with a significant international practice. The firm has developed an enviable reputation as a consistent provider of appropriate and valuable legal assistance, backed by absolute commitment to service excellence. The firm has over 320 professionals (over 125 are partners) in a variety of legal disciplines.
The long-standing reputation is continued by a vast team of highly accomplished attorneys whose unmatched knowledge and extensive experience ensures that Webber Wentzel remains the legal firm of choice in Africa. Webber Wentzel has offices in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Rustenburg and London.

Twenty seven of Webber Wentzel's partners have been recognised in Chambers Global 2010 as 'Leaders in their Fields' and 'Up and coming' in a range of areas, including banking and finance, competition, dispute resolution, IT and telecommunications, mergers and acquisitions, media and broadcasting, private equity, project finance and tax.

corporate sponsors

Aggreko International
With over 45 years experience, operations in more than 100 countries and the world's largest power rental fleet of diesel and natural gas generators, Aggreko is the world leader in providing rental power generation services. Aggreko understands the needs of the Mining Industry. Whether at feasibility, commissioning or mine operation stage, our engineers can design, install, operate and maintain a tailored power solution to benefit any type of project.
From Canada to Australia to South America and Africa, our ability to provide rapid, reliable and flexible temporary power for mines across the globe is second to none.

For further details, contact Andy Walker, Business Development Director North & West Africa, Tel: +971 50 6252240 or email.

Earthstone Group
Earthstone Group is an established mining and minerals corporation with key focus on iron ore, but having diversified portfolio of base metals, precious metals and coal. It has established 1.25 billion of iron ore resources in West Africa through rigorous drilling and exploration programs. Earthstone targets to upgrade iron ore resources to 4.0 billion tons by 2012 and 8.0 billion tons by 2014. Additionally, bulk commodities portfolio is hedged by acquisition of gold assets.

Earthstone is currently exploring over 90 projects across 18 countries guided by experienced management team having proven track record with renowned multinationals - Vedanta, Arcelor Mittal, Mahindras and JP Morgan. This is the key to Earthstone's success in achieving its goals.

strategic and media partners

Africa Mining Intelligence
Aimed at professional readership, Africa Mining Intelligence is the leading publication for mining operators in Africa. It covers the activities of mining companies, but also investigates on Governments' policies and the intervention of major international organizations. Indeed, beyond the strictly technical aspects of exploration and production, Africa Mining Intelligence also follows very closely the political and financial implications of mining issues on the continent.
Lead by a team of investigative journalists, Africa Mining Intelligence offers exclusive news and a new perspective on the major mining groups and their networks.
To know more about us, please contact us: tel. +33 1 44 88 26 10 / Email.

Africa Monitor
Africa Monitor is internationally recognised as providing essential information for anyone doing business in, or with Africa. The publication provides subscribers with systematic political risk assessment, economic forecasts and business analysis for every country across the region.

Published by Business Monitor International, the emerging market specialists, Africa Monitor is broken down into four sub regional publications, of which any combination can be subscribed to. The Middle East and Africa Monitor website http://www.meamonitor.com/ includes ALL the content from the publications, a 24-month archive, and gives the added flexibility of exploring that content by country, topic or keyword.
Our publications are subscribed to by over 50% of the Global Fortune 500 companies. Why not take the time to find out why? Click here to visit http://www.meamonitor.com/ for a FREE trial.

AME Trade Ltd
AME Trade Ltd is a UK based organization which specializes in the area of trade promotion for the African and Middle Eastern region including: business to business conferences, trade exhibitions, public relations, and consultancy services. We cooperate with local public and private sector organizations in the Middle East and Africa and have a portfolio of international clients which includes some of the world's leading brand names.

The co-founders of AME Trade Ltd have over 16 years experience of organizing events and projects in emerging markets including: Libya, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Qatar, Angola, South Africa, Guinea and Tanzania.

AME Trade Ltd possesses one of the most comprehensive databases of industry contacts for Africa & Middle East business; it also has existing relationships with many of the key African and Middle Eastern trade related media organizations.

Association of Mining Analysts UK
The Association of Mining Analysts (AMA) is a non-profit organisation representing the broad mining community in the UK. (Current Chairman Tony Mahalski). Its remit is to organise presentations and seminars on mining companies and operational issues, to promote a better understanding of the industry and its activities. In recent years the AMA has continued to host presentations by the mining industry's leaders but also sought to encourage smaller mining companies to present often providing members with early stage insights into "rising stars" The current membership is approximately 300 persons drawn from all areas of mining and support.

Business Council for Africa West & Southern
The Business Council is a group of over 350 companies and entrepreneurs having interests in West and/or Southern Africa, and closely linked with the Eastern Africa Association and also the EU through its membership of the Business Council for Africa UK. The objective of the combined Associations is to assist members to transact business successfully in the sub-regions, to the benefit of both the members and the countries in which they are active. This is achieved through five main areas of activity: information, networking, influence, help and promotion.

Infomine
INFOMINE provides comprehensive, fully searchable intelligence on the global mineral exploration and mining industries via regional, language focused websites known as InfoMine Editions at Editions.InfoMine.com. This intelligence comprises current news, commentary, investment opinion, details of thousands of mining and mineral exploration companies, mineral properties, suppliers, consultants, specialists, equipment, careers, events, publications and professional development and training services. InfoMine is a valuable resource for investors, geologists, engineers, financiers, managers, miners, prospectors, teachers, consultants and suppliers.

Inside Mining
Inside Mining takes a look at the heart of mining in Africa, with leading industry experts providing a unique voice to the publication. This monthly magazine gives the reader the latest news on mining and exploration in Africa, and developments in plant and equipment. The articles aim to be relevant to the industry and cover subjects that are both newsworthy and insightful. The magazine reaches the Department of Minerals and Energy, the Chamber of Mines, mine managers, operations managers, metallurgists and consulting engineers amongst others. It offers advertising exposure for suppliers of all mining products and services, mining contractors, laboratories, exploration companies as well as mining consulting companies.
Read Inside Mining, and be informed!

Intierra Resource Intelligence
Intierra Resource Intelligence provides a service that delivers information in context to those focused on the mineral resource industry and associated markets. Typical core users of Intierra's insight and analysis are the world's largest mining and exploration companies, fund managers, investment bankers, credit managers as well as several hundred other exploration companies. The service integrates a sophisticated alerting facility with financial market news, claim, technical data and industry media news feeds from around the globe in a map-linked database environment. Intierra Mapping publishes maps that highlight exploration and mining activity globally. These maps are the industry standard for investment research.

Investmentpitch.com
InvestmentPitch.com's goal is to provide a virtual meeting place where companies can showcase their story and investment opportunities via rich media presentations. Investors can review a diverse cross section of opportunities and quickly zero in on the industry they like, and the individual company within that industry. In partnership with Thomson Reuters, InvestmentPitch.com provides companies an opportunity to present their message to over 500,000 institutional and retail investors worldwide.

Mineweb
The world's No.1 FREE and independent resource for mining and mining investment comment has been on the web since 1999. Mineweb brings you the key news and analysis of events worldwide in the mining, metals and minerals sector utilising a team of reporters and analysts with years of mining and mining analysis reporting behind them. It provides market information and data which incorporate intra day pricing. The site also features regular radio podcasts on the commodity markets with well-respected commentators and mining industry players - including the very popular Gold Weekly Podcast. Mineweb is continually updated throughout the day bringing you news as it breaks. Subscribe to its 2 free daily newsletters to start receiving Mineweb headlines direct to your in box.

Mining mx
Miningmx is Africa's leading resources news website. With an unrivalled reputation for breaking news, views and analysis in this sector we provide our thousands of global readers with unique, original content from our team of award-winning journalists. Log on to www.miningmx.com and register to receive our free daily news alerts or RSS feeds, read weekly commentary from mining executives and our daily wrap of South African media interviews in addition to our usual news fare.

Mining Review Africa
Mining Review Africa prides itself on being Africa's most balanced, thoughtful and innovative mining publication. To achieve this it engages with numerous decision makers in major mining groups, junior mining and exploration companies, project houses, suppliers of technology, as well as other stakeholders in Africa's mining sector.

Mining Weekly
Mining Weekly, is a premier source of weekly news on global mining developments. Mining Weekly provides in-depth coverage of global mining projects and the personalities reshaping the industry. News is generated from the main newsroom in Johannesburg with bureaus in Toronto and Perth, as well as contributorsin African countries, including Zimbabwe, Botswana, Malawi and Kenya, and in India.
MiningWeekly.com includes three regional home pages for the Africa/Europe, Australasia and Americas regions. Readers are automatically directed to their relevant geographical home page, but readers can easily navigate between the home pages. Three region-specific daily newsletters serve as a key source of daily mining news.

On the Ground Group
On the Ground Group (the international division of MineAfrica Inc.) is a business development and marketing company producing seminars for the international mining and financial industries including Mining Deal Exchange: Mining Financing Opportunities with the TSX Venture CPC Program and mineSouthAmerica and mineMexico with Premier Sponsor Macleod Dixon LLP.

Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC)
The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) represents the interests of the Canadian mineral exploration and development industry. The association was established in 1932 in response to a proposed government regulation that threatened the livelihood of Ontario prospectors. Today the association is a national organization with 6,000 individual members and 950 corporate members. The association's activities and the services it provides fall generally into three categories: advocacy, information, and networking.

resourceINTELLIGENCE
resourceINTELLIGENCE is the world leader in mining media and technology. Our media create value, e.g., PDAC Official Directory to Investors Exchange, internet tv shows, 3D video narration of drilling programs, 3D animation of Life of Mine videos. In a month over 100,000 resource investors use resourceINTELLIGENCE.com to research and understand every company and every project on the TSX and Venture exchanges.

For example, what is a project worth? What is the insitu value of a project, at today's and tomorrow's costing and pricing? What about grades, recovery rates, tonnages? Can I see it? Our database and analytics give answers in nano-seconds ..., communicate with tens of thousands and increase market capitalizations.

Stockopedia
Stockopedia is a London-based online financial media platform, offering free tools for investors to discuss, connect and collaborate over their latest investment ideas. The website covers all 2500+ listed stocks on the UK market but has a particular focus at present on the resource sector. Stockopedia is a hub for the aggregation and dissemination of the most insightful news, commentary, analysis and events, particularly in relation to smaller companies which are less well covered by traditional media.