COPPER (Cu) PRODUCERS

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Northgate Minerals Corp.,
(AMEX: NXG - TSX:NGX)

a Canadian mid-tier Gold mining and exploration
company, has a market capitalization of
apx. $450 million.

The NXG company's principal assets are its 100% interest
in the 300,000-ounce-per-year - Kemess South Mine -
in north-central British Columbia, the adjacent
Kemess North deposit, which contains a proven and
probable reserve of 4.1 million ounces of gold,
and the Young-Davidson property in northern Ontario,
which has a total resource base of 1.5 million ounces
of gold.

The Kemess South Mine produced 279,962 ounces of Gold
and 73.7 million pounds of Copper during 2005 at a
cash cost of $205 per ounce and is scheduled to
produce 320,000 ounces and 84.6 million pounds in 2006.