Dividends (October 15, 2007)

Company	Div.($)	Pay Date	Record Date
Fording Coal	0.60	Oct 15	Sept 28
Yamana	0.01	Oct 12	Sept 28
Sherritt	0.03	Oct 12	Sept 28
Silvercorp	0.15	Oct 21	Sept 17
Noranda Income	0.085	Oct 25	Sept 30
Freeport McMoRan	0.3125*	Nov 1	Oct 15
Alcoa	0.17	Nov 25	Nov 2

Note:

Alcoa will pay 0.9375* per share on its $3.75* cumulative preferred stock on Jan 1 record date Dec 14.

Xstrata subsidiary Falconbridge Limited preferreed share series 2 dividend floating rate on Nov 12 and Dec 12. Preferred shares series 3 dividend for $0.2863 paid Dec 3, Dec 31 with record dates Nov 15 and Dec 14, respectively.

Freeport McMoRan will pay $1.6875* per share on its 6 3/4 mandatory convertible preferred stock and $13.75* on its 5 1/2 convertible perpetual preferred stock on Nov 1, record date Oct. 15.

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