Our domestic market is the Alternative Investment Market ('AIM') of the London Stock Exchange. AIM is the largest growth market in the world with 99 Oil and Gas and 165 Mining companies out of a total of 1559 in all sectors. (source: AIM market statistics Aug 06)

In August 2006 the natural resource sector on AIM had a market capitalisation of £22.4bn which represents 30% of the total market capitalisation. It is without doubt the market's fastest growing sector.