Dividends (August 06, 2007)

Company	Div.($)	Pay Date	Record Date
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
Goldcorp	0.015*	July 27	July 20
Freeport-McMoRan	0.3125*	Aug 1	July 16
Xstrata	0.2863	Sept 4	Aug 15
Alcoa	0.17*	Aug 25	Aug 3
Noranda IF	0.085	Aug 27	July 31
Cleveland Cliffs	0.125*	Sept 4	Aug 15
Newmont	0.1044	Sept 28	Sept 7
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, Aug 13 and Sept. 12 with record dates of June 29, July 31 and Aug 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.

Alcoa will pay 0.9375* per share on its $3.75* cumulative preferred stock on Oct 1, close Sept 14

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