Dividends (September 08, 2008)

Note:

Vale will pay $0.52* on common and pr sh in two instlmnts on Apr 30 and Oct 31. Alcoa will pay its quarterly div of US$0.9375 for US$3.75 cmltv pr sh on Oct 1, rec Sept 12. Newmont Canada will pay $0.1009 per sh on exchbl sh on Sept 26, rec Sept 5. Xstrata Canada will $0.2863 div for pr sh series 3 on Sept 2 rec, Aug 15 and on Dec 1, rec Nov 14.

Company	Div.	Pay	Record
	($)	Date	Date
Yamana Gold	0.01*	Aug 14	July 31
Alcoa	0.17*	Aug 25	Aug 8
Goldcorp	0.015*	Aug 29	Aug 21
Amerigo Res	0.065	Sept 5	Aug 22
Int’l Royalty	0.02*	Sept 12
Arch Coal	0.09*	Sept 15	Sept 1
Russel Metals	0.45	Sept 15	Aug 28
Russel Metals	0.50	Sept 15	Aug 28
Yamana Gold	0.01*	Sept 15	Aug29
Compass Mnrls	0.335*	Sept 15	Aug 29
Newmont Mng	0.10*	Sept 26	Sept 5
Int’l Royalty	0.04*	Sept 29
Kinross Gold	0.04*	Sept 30	Sept 23
Yamana Gold	0.01*	Oct 14	Sept 30
Silvercorp	0.02	Oct 21	Sept 30