ccc is now well placed to deliver, page-4

I wonder if AMCI will take an equity stake in CCC? They have positions in three of Johan Bloemsma's most recent companies: Optimum Coal, Umcebo and Rand Uranium.

http://amcicapital.com/index.html

AMCI Capital is managed by Hans Mende and Mike Salamon, who between them, have more than 50 years of experience in the global energy sector.

Our company was founded in November 2006 and it has in excess of US $1billion in assets under management.

AMCI Capital Fund 1 is a joint venture between First Reserve Corporation, the world’s largest energy-focused private equity fund, and American Metals & Coal International (AMCI), a private resources company owned by Hans Mende and Fritz Kundrun. The two have successfully partnered together for more than 10 years, with AMCI contributing industry expertise and deal sourcing capabilities and First Reserve contributing its financial resources and expertise.

Fund 2 is a joint venture with one of the world’s leading hedge funds.

The strength of AMCI Capital lay in the depth of expertise of its employees, acquired through many years of operating in the industry. This expertise brings with it strong relationships with key decision makers and leading industry players across the globe. The shareholder companies’ operations and reputations mean that AMCI Capital has unique access to market information and propriety dealflow and that it is supported by the premier financial minds in capital markets globally.

Current Investments:

Alma Maritime is a wholly owned project by AMCI Capital. It is a platform for the construction...more

Alpha Coal is a coal exploration and development project in Australia’s Galilee Basin...more

Borneo Mining invests in new mining ventures in the energy and bulk commodity markets...more

China Coal Energy with coal production and trading as its core business, is China’s second largest coal producer...more

C.I. Carbocoque S.A. is rapidly growing Colombian based producer of metallurgical coke ...more

Corona Power L.L.C. operates a coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania...more

Gloucester Resources Gloucester Resources Limited is a high quality and low cost metallurgical and thermal coal asset...more

Grupo Mineral Las Cenizas MLC is a privately held mid-sized Chilean copper company...more

Optimum Coal Optimum Coal is one of South Africa’s largest coal mining companies...more

Rand Uranium is a joint venture investment between Harmony Gold and Pamodzi Resources Fund...more

Umcebo is a mining company with coal mining interests and major deposits in South Africa...more

United Maritime Group is a U.S-based water transportation company that handles coal, petroleum coke, phosphate, grain and other bulk commodities...more

Johan Bloemsma

Following his retirement from Anglo Coal, Johan Bloemsma has joined AMCI Southern Africa as Chief Executive Officer reporting to Mike Salamon, Managing Director of AMCI Capital and is responsible for Southern Africa and African investments.

During his 37 years with Anglo American, the last 33 of which have been with Anglo Coal, Johan has operated in various production capacities on the mines, including General Manager positions before moving to the corporate head office where he managed groups of mines as a Consulting Engineer.

For the last 10 years, Johan has been pursuing his passion, which he describes as Strategy Development, and as Head of Projects, has led the Anglo Coal growth strategy both within South Africa and into the global coal arena, most notably Australia.

Now having joined AMCI Southern Africa, he sees the opportunity to use his skills set to feedback into the mining industry, the knowledge and experience gained in a lifetime in the industry, by supporting prospective resource developments to achieve their full potential.

Johan is married to Wendy and they have two children and one grandchild.

Outside of work he plays golf and enjoys the gym and is a keen rugby and cricket supporter.

Miklos (Mike) Salamon

Mike Salamon was born in Hungary in 1955 and is married with three children. He lives in the UK. He holds a BSc Mining Engineering degree, cum laude, from The University of the Witswatersrand (1975) as well as an MBA from the London Business School, University of London (1981). He also has Mine Managers and Mine Overseers certificates of competency from the South African Department of Mines.

Mike started his career in 1975 at De Beers and worked in the Kimberley, Finsch and Premier diamond mines. He then joined Anglo’s Gold Division and worked in the Welkom gold mines. After gaining his MBA he took a commercial role in Shell’s Coal Division.

He then joined the Gencor Group in 1985, initially in coal marketing. In 1989 he was appointed Managing Director of Trans-Natal Coal Corporation and in 1993 Executive Chairman of Samancor Ltd (the world’s largest producer of manganese and chrome ores and alloys), Chairman of Columbus Stainless Steel and Executive Director of Gencor.

In 1997 he was one of four founding Executive Directors of Billiton plc who together undertook Billiton’s IPO on the London Stock Exchange – in the process raising £1 billion and gaining admission to the FTSE 100. In 2001 Billiton merged with BHP to create the world’s largest mining company. Mike was responsible for planning and executing the integration of the two companies. In 2003 he was appointed an Executive Director of BHP Billiton and had responsibility for the global aluminium, copper and nickel businesses as well as the BHP Billiton Group’s health, safety, environment and community affairs, capital project services, purchasing and operating excellence. He also led the integration of WMC into BHP Billiton after its acquisition in 2005. Mike retired from BHP Billiton at the AGM in October 2006.

In 2007, Mike joined AMCI Capital, as Co-President. At the same time he joined New World Resources (the holding company for the coking coal mines of the Czech Republic) as Executive Chairman and led its IPO on the London Stock Exchange in May 2008, in the process raising £1.3 billion from new investors. He is also a non-executive director of the London Stock Exchange listed Central Rand Gold and Gem Diamonds.