Boliden is one of Europe's leading mining and smelting companies. It concentrates on zinc and copper and is among the largest producers of mined zinc in Europe. It also produces lead, precious metals, sulfur, and lead and tin alloys. The company operates smelters in Sweden, Finland, and Norway and has mines in Sweden and Ireland. Boliden ranks among the top zinc and copper producers in Europe, along with the likes of Nyrstar, Xstrata, and Aurubis. In 2010 Boliden acquired Kemira Oyj's sulphuric acid plant and business in Kokkola, Finland.

Cambridge-Lee Industries entered the copper tube industry in 1955 as a small distributor serving the U.S. plumbing market. Over the years, the company has evolved into one of the world's largest distributors of copper with sales offices in every corner of the globe. During 1993, Industrias Unidas S.A. de C.V. (IUSA), one of Mexico's largest conglomerates, acquired Cambridge-Lee. IUSA has a modern, state-of-art copper refinery and tube mill in Pasteje Mexico. In 1996, Cambridge-Lee purchased Reading Tube Corporation, a major U.S. producer of copper tube. As a result of the merger and acquisition, Cambridge-Lee has become one of the world's leaders in the manufacture and distribution of copper tube for water supply, air conditioning, refrigeration and a variety of commercial applications.Cambridge-Lee has grown to be a world leader because we understand that customer satisfaction requires not only quality products but also a high level of service. Our employees take pride in ensuring we meet our customer needs and requirements: from on-time deliveries, to well-trained sales and service departments, to utmost product quality.

Capstone Mining explores for and mines copper in Mexico and Canada. Its two main properties, the Mexican Cozamin and Canadian Minto, together yield about 100 million pounds of copper annually. The company also produces gold, silver, zinc, and lead at its mines. Capstone acquired the Minto property when it bought Sherwood Copper in late 2008. The acquisition added gold mining to Capstone's business. In addition to its producing mines, Capstone has copper exploration operations on a third property in British Columbia. The company was founded by CEO Darren Pylot.

Colonial Metals is a world-class leader in the manufacture and sale of brass and bronze ingots. Since 1946, we have earned our reputation for quality, reliability and responsiveness. Colonial Metals and its United Steel Workers of America local 1035 now produce more than 60 million pounds of brass and bronze ingots annually to customers around the globe. These satisfied customers have made us the largest ingot producer on the USA’s East Coast. Recognized as the 7th fastest growing company in Central Pennsylvania as listed in the Central Penn Business Journal.

Codelco is a different kind of high-energy copper top. State-owned Corporacion Nacional del Cobre de Chile (Codelco) is the world's top producer of copper (ahead of Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold), controlling some 20% of the world's known copper reserves and mining around 1.5 million tons of copper annually. Among the companies Codelco sells to are units of such diverse multinational giants as LG (South Korea), Outokumpu (Finland), Southwire (the US), and Wieland Werke (Germany). It is also a major producer of molybdenum (used for ferroalloys). Codelco's joint development partners on projects include the Canadian gold producer Barrick and the Mexican miner Industrias Penoles.

Corriente Resources has hitched itself to a copper belt. The company explores and develops copper and gold projects in Latin America. Its primary operations consist of its four copper deposits all in the exploration and development stages along the Corriente Copper Belt in Ecuador. Its Mirador project is the furthest along and closest to production. At the end of 2009 Chinese companies Tongling Nonferrous Metals and China Railway Construction Corp. acquired Corriente for C$680 million ($650 million).

Do you know about DOWA? Through its operating subsidiaries the company processes and sells copper, gold, silver, and other metals, supplying its smelters with ore from its mining ventures in Mexico. DOWA also produces electronics materials, including metal powders used in data storage tapes, gallium arsenide wafers for integrated circuits, and zinc powder for alkaline batteries. The company offers heat-treatment services and makes industrial furnaces, mainly for the automotive industry, at plants in Asia and North America. Other DOWA units are involved in real estate, recycling, and the provision of construction and engineering services.

Since its incorporation in 1981, Vancouver-based Eureka Resources, Inc. (TSX-V: EUK) has focused on the exploration and development of natural resource properties in order to create wealth for investors. Under the leadership of chairman and president John J. (Jack) O'Neill, Eureka has remained committed to the highest and best levels of corporate responsibility---environmental responsibility in the field, legal responsibility in meetings its statutory obligations to securities regulators, and financial responsibility in its relationship with investors. Trading on the respected Toronto Stock Exchange's Venture Exchange, Eureka is a member of Canada's pre-eminent public venture-equity market. The TSX Venture Exchange provides access to capital for companies, such as Eureka, at the early stages of their growth, while offering investors a well-regulated market for making venture investments. Eureka is fully compliant with all provincial and national corporate and securities rules and regulations. Prospective and current investors can view a complete list of all Eureka's public disclosures, including press releases and interim and annual reports, at the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR) filing system of the Canadian Securities Administrators. Conducting business in British Columbia, Eureka is part of a burgeoning, $9-billion-a-year industry that saw its annual expenditures on mineral exploration increase 20 percent to a record $344 million in 2006.

First Quantum Minerals Ltd. is a growing mining and metals company engaged in mineral exploration, development and mining. The Company produces LME grade "A" copper cathode, copper in concentrate, gold and sulphuric acid. The Company's current operations are the 80% owned Kansanshi copper-gold mine and the 100% owned Bwana Mkubwa SX/EW facility and sulphuric acid plants in Zambia, the 95% owned Frontier copper mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo ("DRC") and the 100% owned Guelb Moghrein copper-gold mine in Mauritania. The Company is currently developing the 100% owned Kevitsa nickel-copper-PGE project in Finland and modifying the 100% owned Ravensthorpe nickel project in Australia. Its exploration projects include the 100% owned Kalumbila, Kawako and Fishtie projects located in Zambia. First Quantum also holds a 65% interest in the Kolwezi copper-cobalt tailings in the DRC and strategic investments in Mopani Copper Mines (16.9%), operator of the Nkana underground copper mine and cobalt refinery and the Mufulira underground copper mine, smelter and copper refinery in Zambia, and in Equinox Minerals Ltd. (16.32%), a publicly-traded company that operates the Lumwana copper mine. The Company's operations produced 373,900 tonnes of copper, 193,288 ounces of gold and generated US$1.9 billion of revenues in 2009.

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX) really digs its profits. Its 91%-owned subsidiary, PT Freeport Indonesia (PT-FI), operates the vast open-pit Grasberg gold, copper, and silver mine in Indonesia, whose government owns the other 9%. FCX controls proved and probable reserves of about 100 billion pounds of copper, 47 million ounces of gold, and 2.5 billion pounds of molybdenum. Copper, in the form of concentrates and in refined products such as cathodes and anodes, accounts for most of FCX's sales. It's the world's #2 copper company behind Codelco. FCX is also engaged in smelting and refining through PT-FI's 25% stake in PT Smelting, which operates a copper smelter and refinery in Indonesia.

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