Aston Minerals Limited

ASO

Aston Minerals Ltd. is a development phase mining company, which engages in the acquisition and evaluation of exploration projects. The company is headquartered in Subiaco, Western Australia. The company went IPO on 2011-03-04. The principal activities of the Company include acquisition, exploration, and evaluation of exploration projects. The Edleston Project in Ontario, Canada, is approximately 60 kilometers to the south of the town of Timmins and 80 kilometers to the West of the town of Kirkland Lake. The Edleston project encompasses approximately 307 square kilometers of ground in the region and comprises 203 mining claims. The Project is located within the Abitibi Greenstone Belt of Archean metavolcanic and metasedimentary units. The Company’s project portfolio includes Slovak Cobalt-Nickel-Copper Portfolio; Jouhineva Cobalt-Copper-Gold Project, Finland, and Swedish Cobalt - Copper - Nickel - Gold Project Portfolio.

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.

BHP Group Limited

BHP

BHP Group Ltd. engages in the exploration, development, production and processing of iron ore, metallurgical coal, and copper. The company is headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria and currently employs 39,729 full-time employees. The firm is a producer of commodities, including iron ore, copper, nickel, potash and metallurgical (steelmaking) coal. The company is focused on offering a range of resources, which provides copper for renewable energy; nickel for electric vehicles; potash for sustainable farming, and iron ore and metallurgical coal for the steel needed for global infrastructure and the energy transition. Its segments include Copper, Iron Ore, and Coal. Its Copper segment is engaged in mining of copper, silver, zinc, molybdenum, uranium, and gold. Its Iron Ore segment is engaged in mining of iron ore. Its Coal segment is engaged in mining of metallurgical coal and energy coal. The firm is also focused on operating Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill, and Carrapateena underground copper-gold mines in South Australia. Its operations are situated in Australia, Europe, China, Japan, India, South Korea, rest of Asia, North America, South America, and others.

iShares S&P 500 ETF

IVV

IVV.AX was created on 2007-10-10 by iShares. The fund's investment portfolio concentrates primarily on large cap equity. The Fund aims to provide investors with the performance of an index, before fees and expenses. The index is designed to measure the performance of large capitalisation US equities.

Pilbara Minerals Limited

PLS

Pilbara Minerals Ltd. engages in the provision of 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 owns 100% of an independent hard-rock lithium operation, the Pilgangoora operation in Australia, and the Colina Project in Brazil. Its Pilgangoora operation is located 140 kilometers (kms) from Port Hedland in Western Australia’s resource rich Pilbara region on Nyamal and Kariyarra Country. Spodumene concentrate from its Pilgangoora operation is shipped from Port Hedland, the bulk export port, to lithium chemical converters primarily in China. The firm's Colina project is located 10 kms from the town of Salinas in the world class mining jurisdiction of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The firm is also integrated into the lithium value chain through its joint venture with POSCO in South Korea, which manufactures battery-grade lithium hydroxide.