Vanguard Australian Shares Index ETF

VAS

VAS.AX was created on 2009-05-04 by Vanguard. The fund's investment portfolio concentrates primarily on total market equity. Vanguard Australian Shares Index ETF seeks to track the return of the S&P/ASX 300 Index before taking into account fees, expenses and tax.

Gold Road Resources Limited

GOR

Gold Road Resources Ltd. operates as a gold exploration company. The company is headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. The company went IPO on 2006-07-04. The firm is engaged in mining operations through a joint venture, sale of gold, and mineral exploration. The firm operates through three segments: Operations, Exploration, and Investment. The Operations segment consist of all operating segments within Australia. The Exploration segment includes the activities on all mineral exploration, including all joint venture tenements. The Investment segment includes the activities on equity securities investments. The Company’s projects include Gruyere (JV) Gold Mine and the Golden Highway. The Gruyere Gold Mine is located approximately 1,200 kilometers north-east of Perth in Western Australia’s north-eastern Goldfields, is a 50:50 joint venture between Gold Road and Gruyere Mining Company Pty Ltd. The Golden Highway is located just 25 kilometers west of the Gruyere Gold Mine on the western side of the Yamarna Greenstone Belt.

Capricorn Metals Ltd

CMM

Capricorn Metals Ltd. engages in the mineral and gold exploration, development, and project evaluation. The company is headquartered in Perth, Western Australia and currently employs 142 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2008-07-07. The firm exploration, evaluation, development and production at the Karlawinda Gold Project and exploration and evaluation of the Mt Gibson Gold Project. The Karlawinda Gold Project located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, 65 kilometers (km) south-east of the town of Newman. The Karlawinda Project consists of over 2,000 square kilometers of prospective tenure which includes the greenstone belt hosting the 2.2-million-ounce Resource and 1.2-million-ounce Reserve Bibra gold deposit and other areas deemed prospective for gold. The Mt Gibson Gold Project (MGGP) is located approximately 280 kilometers northeast of Perth and less than 10 kilometers from the main arterial Great Northern Highway, in the Murchison region of Western Australia. The company is 150 kilometers south-southeast (SSE) of Yalgoo (Golden Grove VHMS base metal deposits) and 240 kilometers south-southwest (SSW) of Cue and the Big Bell and other lode gold mines.

Regis Resources Limited

RRL

Regis Resources Ltd. is a mineral exploration and production company, which engages in the exploration, evaluation and development of gold projects. The company is headquartered in Subiaco, Western Australia. The company operates in three segments: Duketon North (DNO), Duketon South (DSO) and Tropicana. DNO and DSO collectively comprise the Duketon Gold Project. The DNO segment consists of Moolart Well, Gloster, Anchor, Dogbolter-Coopers and Petra. The DSO segment consists of Garden Well, Rosemont, Rosemont Underground, Erlistoun, Tooheys Well and Baneygo. The Tropicana segment is operated by joint venture partner AngloGold Ashanti Australia Limited. Its Duketon Gold Project is in the northeastern Goldfields of Western Australia approximately 130 kilometers (km) north of Laverton. The company focuses on high-grade gold mining opportunities in the mining region of Central Western New South Wales (NSW). Its Tropicana Gold Project is located approximately 330 km east-northeast (ENE) of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. Its McPhillamys Gold Project is located about 250 km west of Sydney in the mining region of Central Western NSW.

Pantoro Limited

PNR

Pantoro Ltd. engages in the exploration and processing of gold mining. The company is headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. The Halls Creek Project owns the only commercial scale gold processing facility in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia, with the closest plant approximately 300 kilometers (km) to the south. Its Norseman Gold Project is located in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia, at the southern end of the Norseman-Wiluna greenstone belt. The project lies approximately 725 km east of Perth, 200 km south of Kalgoorlie, and 200 km north of Esperance. The project comprises various near-contiguous mining tenements, and its tenure includes approximately 70 lineal km of the prospective Norseman-Wiluna greenstone belt covering approximately 800 square kilometers. The firm has a portfolio of regional exploration targets located near the Nicolsons Project, approximately 45 km southwest of Halls Creek in Western Australia.