Lynas Rare Earths Limited

LYC

Lynas Rare Earths Ltd. engages in the production of rare earth minerals. The company is headquartered in Kuantan, Pahang. The Company’s assets include Mt Weld, Lynas Malaysia, Kalgoorlie and Lynas USA. Mt Weld is a rare earth mine, located approximately 35-kilometer (km) south of Laverton in Western Australia. Lynas Malaysia is an integrated manufacturing facility, separating and processing rare earths materials, located in the Gebeng Industrial Estate near the Port of Kuantan in Malaysia. Kalgoorlie is a rare earth processing facility, which is located in the Western Australia. Its subsidiaries include Lynas Malaysia Sdn Bhd, Lynas Services Pty Ltd, Mount Weld Holdings Pty Ltd, Mount Weld Mining Pty Ltd, and Lynas Kalgoorlie Pty Ltd.

Pilbara Minerals Limited

PLS

Pilbara Minerals Ltd. engages in the exploration and evaluation of mineral properties. The company is headquartered in Perth, Western Australia and currently employs 446 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2007-09-19. The firm is primarily engaged in the exploration, development, and mining of minerals in Australia. Its 100% owned Pilgangoora hard-rock lithium operation is located approximately 120 kilometers (kms) from Port Hedland in Western Australia’s resource-rich Pilbara region. The operation consists of two processing plants: the Pilgan Plant, located on the northern side of the Pilgangoora area and produces spodumene and tantalite concentrates, and the Ngungaju Plant is located to the south produces spodumene concentrate. The company owns 70% of the Mt Francisco project, which is located 50 km south-west of the Pilgangoora Project and hosts the large occurrence of outcropping pegmatites located nearby to Port Hedland. The company is also pursuing a proposed downstream joint venture (JV) for the development of an approximately 43,000 tons per annum lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) lithium chemical conversion facility in South Korea.

Santos Limited

STO

Santos Ltd. engages in the exploration, development, transportation, and marketing of natural gas. The company is headquartered in Adelaide, South Australia and currently employs 3,550 full-time employees. The firm's segments include five key assets/operating areas of the Cooper Basin, Queensland and New South Wales, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Northern Australia and Timor-Leste, and Western Australia. The Cooper Basin produces natural gas, gas liquids and crude oil. Its gas is sold primarily to domestic retailers, industry and for the production of liquefied natural gas, while gas liquids and crude oil are sold in domestic and export markets. The GLNG project in Queensland produces liquefied natural gas (LNG) for export to global markets from the LNG plant at Gladstone and is also sold into the domestic market. PNG LNG produces LNG for export to global markets, as well as sales gas and gas liquids. Northern Australia and Timor-Leste is centered on the Bayu-Undan/Darwin LNG (DLNG) project. The firm is a producer of domestic natural gas in Western Australia and is also a significant producer of natural gas liquids and oil.

Silex Systems Limited

SLX

Silex Systems Ltd. engages in the development and commercialization of laser uranium enrichment technology. The company is headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales. The firm is focused on the commercialization of its Separation of Isotopes by Laser EXcitation (SILEX) laser enrichment technology for application to uranium production and enrichment (nuclear power), Silicon enrichment (silicon quantum computing) and Other potential markets. Its segments include Silex Systems, Translucent and Silex USA. Silex Systems is based in New South Wales and Translucent and Silex USA are based in North Carolina. The SILEX technology has been under development for uranium enrichment jointly with United States-based exclusive licensee Global Laser Enrichment LLC. The company is also at various stages of development of additional commercial applications of the SILEX technology, including the production of Zero-Spin Silicon for the emerging technology of silicon-based quantum computing. The company has an interest in a semiconductor technology known as cREO through its ownership of subsidiary Translucent Inc.

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.