Dividends (July 09, 2007)

Company	Div.($)	Pay Date	Record Date
Falconbridge	0.41	July 2	June 15
Aur Res	0.05	July 3	June 1
Teck Cominco	0.50	July 3	June 22
Sherritt	0.03	July 13	June 29
Yamana	0.01*	July 16	June 26
Fording	0.65	July 16	June 29
Royal Gold	0.065	July 20	July 6
Freeport-McMoRan	0.3125*	Aug 1	July 16
Xstrata	0.2863	Sept 4	Aug 15
Xstrata	0.40625	Oct 1	Sept 14
CVRD	0.683*	Oct 31	Jan 23

Note: Xstrata will pay its preferred shares, series 2 floating rate dividend on July 12, August 13 and Sept. 12 with record dates of June 29, July 31 and August 31 respectively. Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold will pay $13.75* per share fof its 5.5% convertible perpetual preferred stock and $2.30625* per for its 6.75% mandatory convertible preferred stock on Aug 1, record date July 16.

* = U.S. funds, f = formula, e = estimate