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China Minmetals Corporation, founded in 1950, is a large sized group dealing worldwide in development, production, trading and operation for metals and minerals. It is also engaged in finance, real estate and logistics. In 1999, China Minmetals was listed among the 39 "key enterprises" with a great bearing on national security and economic lifeline under the direct jurisdiction of the Central Government. In 2007, Minmetals was ranked Class A when the SASAC evaluated the performance of state-owned enterprises under the jurisdiction of the Central Government. In 2008, the Group was ranked No. 331 among the Fortune Global 500. In 2009, China Minmetals achieved a total business volume of US$26.8 billion dollar with operating revenue of RMB 173 billion yuan by responded the international financial crisis actively. The products and raw materials the Group handles have been widely used in different areas of national economic construction and people's livelihood. Minmetals has made remarkable contributions to the national economic development and modernization program. In recent years, has implemented a new development strategy to intensify operations in ferrous metals, non-ferrous metals, finance, real estate and logistics. To forge an industrial chain, Minmetals has promoted its strategic transformation for securing more resources. The Group has been transformed from a traditional state-owned enterprise with strong characteristics of the planned economy in the past to a modern, competitive and independent enterprise under the socialist market economy. And it has changed from a pure import and export company into a global integrated enterprise backed up with resources from both downstream and upstream industries. The Group has also changed from a company purely involved in operations of products into a group engaged in the operation of both products and assets and capital. As one of the Fortune 500 global companies, China Minmetals has strengthened strategic cooperation with both large domestic and overseas companies to seek mutual development. Minmetals plays a major role in promoting exchanges and cooperation between enterprises from China and other countries as the Group holds the post of chairman representing China in the Sino-Brazil Business Council and Sino-Chile Business Council. "To value the limited resources and pursue boundless development," the Group is committed to the strategy of "going out" and develops mineral resources overseas to satisfy the ever increasing demand for resources in the development of the national economy.

Headquartered in Beijing and Founded on the basis of those gold operations and institutions that previously belonged to the central government, China National Gold Group Corporation (CNGGC, or China Gold) is a large scale state-owned enterprise with China National Gold Corporation as its predecessor.As an investment organization authorized by the central government China Gold directly reports to the central government and it is also a pilot company that the government is as the sole shareholder. The subsidiaries of China Gold include the following: the gold operations and institutions that previously belonged to the central government, the enterprises invested by China National Gold Corporation, and those enterprises that are formed by the investment of government funds for the gold industry which are turned into the ownership China Gold. Being the earliest company in doing gold mining in China, and possessing a total assets of RMB10..2 billions, China Gold has rich management experiences and strong strength in both technology and capital. It has set up a complete research and development system of its own and made quite a few research achievements with independent intellectual properties. In particular, in the areas of exploitation and use of resources of refractory gold ore, and gold refinery, China gold is at the advanced level of world standard. China Gold has its gold operations all over China, and contributes 20% of total gold production in China, meanwhile, controls over 30% of the total reserve in China, which guarantees a promising prospects. China National Gold Group Corporation is the council member of Shanghai Gold Exchange, and Zhongjin Gold Co Ltd., with China Gold as the major shareholder, is a leading company in the gold mining industry. Besides gold mining, the group corporation is also active in other businesses such as international trading, radiation processing, news media, outdoor advertisement, storage and transportation and so on, which all run well produce good results. China Gold enjoys high credits in both China and abroad, and sets up close business relationship with those large gold mining houses in the world. China gold is exclusive company in China that is authorized by the State Council to do gold loan in the world gold market and the only Chinese member of the World Gold Council.

Formerly focused on advertising, China Natural Resources has shifted its business plan from working on minds to working in mines. China Natural Resources operates through its Wuhu Feishang Mining Development unit, a producer of zinc, copper, gold, silver, and iron. Smelter operator Huludao Zinc Industry Co. is Wuhu's primary customer. Chairman and CEO Li Feilie owns a controlling stake in China Natural Resources, which he gained in the company's 2006 reverse acquisition of his Feishang Mining Holdings, after which it sold its iSense subsidiary (provided advertising, promotion, and PR services to clients in China and Hong Kong). China Natural Resources has since acquired a number of other mining projects, all located in China.

China Shenhua Energy Company Limited, exclusively initiated by Shenhua Group Corporation Limited (hereinafter referred to as Shenhua Group), was incorporated in Beijing, China on November 8, 2004. H shares and A shares of China Shenhua were listed respectively on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the Shanghai Stock Exchange in June 2005 and October 2007. China Shenhua is a world-leading coal-based integrated energy company. Its main business includes production and sales of coal, railway and port transportation of coal-related materials, as well as power generation and sales. China Shenhua, with the largest coal reserves, is largest coal supplier and vendor in China. The Company's coal business has become the model of large-scale, high-efficient, and safe production mode in China’s coal industry. In 2009, the commodity coal output of China Shenhua amounted to 210.3 million tons, up by 13.2% on a year-on-year basis; the coal sales volume realized 254.3 million tons, up by 9.3% on a year-on-year basis. In 2009, the company’s mortality (per million tons) of crude coal was 0.017. As of December 31, 2009, calculated according to the Chinese mining industry standard, China Shenhua possessed 11.306 billion tons of recoverable coal reserves; calculated according to the international JORC, China Shenhua possessed 6.927 billion tons of salable coal reserves. With the large-scale integrated transport network formed by railway and port, the Company operates five railways including Shenshuo-Shuohuang Railway,which is the second longest linkage for west-to-east coal transportation in China, Huanghua Port, and Shenhua Tianjin Coal Berth, which brings the Company tremendous synergistic effect and advantage of low transportation cost. In 2009, the self-owned railway coal transportation turnover volume of China Shenhua amounted to 138.2 billion ton-kilometer, and the coal transportation volume through ports amounted to 159.2 million tons. Moreover, China Shenhua has processed large-scale and efficiently-operated clean power business on a fast growing basis, which complements and develops coordinately with the Company's coal business. As of December 31, 2009, the Company controlled and operated 55 coal-fired power units, 3 gas-fired power units and 21 wind power units, with a total installed capacity reaching 23,520 MW, up by 25.1% on a year-on-year basis. The Company controlled and operated 13 coal-fired power plants and stand-alone capacity of 413 MW. In 2009, China Shenhua’s total generation capacity amounted to 105.09 billion KWh, up by 7.5% on a year-on-year basis.

The earth suffers a little death every time Climax Molybdenum pulls its product out of the ground. The company produces molybdenum from its underground and open-pit mines in Arizona and Colorado. The company also operates molybdenum processing and roasting facilities in the US and Europe (in the UK and the Netherlands). Molybdenum is used primarily by the steel industry as an anti-corrosive and, on a smaller scale, the chemical industry. Founded in 1916, Climax Molybdenum was a subsidiary of Phelps Dodge until Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold bought that company in 2007. Climax makes Freeport-McMoRan the world's #1 molybdenum producer.

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