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.

Pilbara Minerals Limited

PLS

Pilbara Minerals Ltd. engages in the exploration and evaluation of mineral properties. The company is headquartered in Perth, Western Australia and currently employs 917 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2007-09-19. The firm is primarily engaged in the exploration, development, and mining of minerals in Australia. Its 100% owned Pilgangoora hard-rock lithium operation is located approximately 120 kilometers (kms) from Port Hedland in Western Australia’s resource-rich Pilbara region. The operation consists of two processing plants: the Pilgan Plant, located on the northern side of the Pilgangoora area and produces spodumene and tantalite concentrates, and the Ngungaju Plant is located to the south produces spodumene concentrate. The company owns 70% of the Mt Francisco project, which is located 50 km south-west of the Pilgangoora Project and hosts the large occurrence of outcropping pegmatites located nearby to Port Hedland. The company is also pursuing a proposed downstream joint venture (JV) for the development of an approximately 43,000 tons per annum (tpa) lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) lithium chemical conversion facility in South Korea.

Boss Energy Ltd

BOE

Boss Energy Ltd. engages in the exploration of gold and uranium projects. The company is headquartered in Subiaco, Western Australia. The company went IPO on 2007-07-25. The Honeymoon Uranium Project is located in South Australia, 80 kilometer (km) northwest of the town of Broken Hill. Its Project consists of two main exploration areas (the Eastern and Western tenement regions) with one granted Mining Lease 6109 (ML6109), totaling a 2,595 square kilometer (km2) tenement package, which covers approximately 980 km2 of pastoral leases. The project also consists of five Exploration Leases (EL) covering prospects at Honeymoon and Gould's Dam, 70 km northwest of Honeymoon. The company operates through two segments: Australian uranium operations and Alta Mesa operations. The company also operates 30%-owned Alta Mesa Project in South Texas is a high-grade uranium In-Situ Recovery (ISR) project in South Texas, a prolific United States district for sandstone-hosted ISR production, having produced approximately 80 million pounds (Mlb) historically.

Energy Resources of Australia Limited

ERA

Energy Resources of Australia Ltd. engages in the sale of uranium oxide and site rehabilitation. The company is headquartered in Darwin, Northern Territory and currently employs 190 full-time employees. The principal activities of the Company consist of the site rehabilitation. The Company’s Ranger Mine area is located about eight kilometers (kms) east of Jabiru and approximately 260 kms east of Darwin, in Australia's Northern Territory. The company also holds title to the Jabiluka mineral lease. The Ranger Mine area and the Jabiluka mineral lease are located on Aboriginal land and are surrounded by, but separate from, the Kakadu National Park. The Ranger uranium mine lies approximately 79 square kilometers and is surrounded by, but separate from the Kakadu National Park, which is approximately 20,000 square kilometers. The Jabiluka estimated mineral resource is approximately 137,100 tons of uranium oxide.

Paladin Energy Ltd

PDN

Paladin Energy Ltd. engages in the development and operation of uranium mines. The company is headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. The firm also owns a portfolio of uranium exploration and development assets in Canada and Australia. Its segments include Exploration, Namibia and Australia. The LHM is located in central western Namibia approximately 80 kilometers (km) east of Swakopmund and 85 km northeast of the Walvis Bay major deepwater harbor. Its exploration projects include Michelin, Manyingee and Mount Isa. The Company, through its subsidiary Aurora Energy Ltd, holds a 100% interest in over 98,320 hectares of mineral exploration licenses. These are located within the Central Mineral Belt of Labrador, Canada. The company has a 100% interest in the Manyingee Project. This project is a sandstone hosted uranium project consisting of 41 Mlb across two deposits. The company wholly-owns a project comprised of three promising uranium exploration sites in Queensland.