Snowfield Development surely wouldn't mind a little ice across its path. Snowfield Development company explores and develops diamond properties in Quebec and the Northwest Territories. Its Ticho project in the Northwest Territories is the company's most advanced property. Snowfield Development is also exploring for gold at the Snow property in British Columbia and agreed to buy a Finnish silver project in 2009.

Dyson Group develops performance materials (metal composites, fibers) and thermal products (ceramics, refractories). Some of the company's products include Ecoflex catalytic converter components and Saffil polycrystalline chemical fibers, both developed by Dyson's Saffil subsidiary. Dyson Group company also has a US subsidiary, Millennium Materials, which develops metal matrix composites, primarily under the Carolite name, that are used in hard disk substrate manufacturing. It also makes lightweight metal and ceramic composite materials that are used by the aerospace, automotive, telecommunications, and electronics industries. Dyson was founded in 1810.

Since its initial public offering in March 2002, Xstrata has grown rapidly to become one of the largest diversified mining companies in the world, with top five industry positions in copper, export thermal coal, export coking coal, ferrochrome, zinc and nickel. In addition, the Group has a growing platinum business, recycling facilities, additional exposures to gold, cobalt, lead, silver and vanadium and a suite of mining and metals-related technologies, many of which are industry leaders. Our operations and projects span 19 countries and we have corporate offices in a further six countries. Our strategy will continue to rest on delivery against each of these three pillars, but over time, the emphasis has shifted. Initially, Xstrata’s strategy was, of necessity, dominated by acquisitive growth, to build a major diversified mining group with the scale and diversity to compete effectively with the leading companies in the industry. Following each acquisition, Xstrata’s operational teams have fundamentally transformed the acquired operations to extract synergies with existing operations and enhance their competitiveness, improve safety, environmental and social performance to industry-leading standards, extend the reserve and resource base and expected life of the operations and develop expansion or associated growth options.

La Mancha was created in September 2006 following the fusion of the gold assets of AREVA NC, a large French multinational, with the exploration properties held by La Mancha Resources Inc., a Canadian-based gold exploration company.With three mines in production and the positive conclusions of a feasibility study supporting the development of a fourth mine in Australia, La Mancha is well positioned to continue its production growth. For 2009, our attributable gold production should increase to up to 100,000 ounces of gold. Most of this increase in production will be fuelled by our Australian operations, as the Frog's Leg mine will be benefiting from a gain in momentum and a first full year of production. At our African mines, we expect improved performance from the new quartz line, while the Ity mine's efficiency should remain as strong as in 2008.La Mancha's shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) under the symbol "LMA".

AmerAlia, Inc. develops and manages natural sodium bicarbonate resources. AmerAlia, Inc. company, through its interest in Natural Soda Holdings, Inc., produces sodium bicarbonate from its Bureau of Land Management leases in northwest Colorado. It also owns a reservoir and water rights in the Colorado River drainage system. AmerAlia, Inc. company sells its products to the animal feed, human food, pharmaceutical, personal products, and industrial markets. AmerAlia, Inc. markets its products through distributors in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. It was formerly known as Computer Learning Software, Inc. and changed its name to AmerAlia, Inc. in January 1984. AmerAlia, Inc. company was founded in 1982 and is based in Rifle, Colorado.

Hillsborough Resources is in the rocky business of mining lumps of coal. The company mines coal through its principal property, the Quinsam mine on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The underground mine produces thermal coal (used mainly to produce steam for generating electricity) which is then transported from its Middle Point facility to industrial customers (primarily in the cement industry) located in Canada and the US. It has another thermal coal mine in Tennessee under development. Hillsborough Resources is also acquiring holdings in coking coal development projects in other areas of British Columbia. In 2009 a unit of Swiss trading entity Vitol Group acquired Hillsborough.

QIT-Fer et Titane has a license to il. QIT-Fer et Titane company operates the Tio mine in Quebec where it mines for ilmenite. QIT-Fer et Titane company also has a smelting operation where its produces titanium dioxide, pig iron, and steel from ilmenite. Its mine is located near Havre-Saint Pierre, from which the ore is transported to the metallurgical complex in Sorel-Tracy for processing. Subsidiary Quebec Metal Powders makes use of the by-products of the metallurgical process.QIT-Fer et Titane company is owned by Anglo-Australian mining giant the Rio Tinto Group. QIT-Fer et Titane sells its products through Rio Tinto Iron & Titanium, located in Montreal. They're sold to more than 40 countries on all the major continents.

Metorex Limited company controls the operations of several mining companies, which are prospecting for various metals in locations mostly in South Africa and Zambia. Metorex Limited company's holdings include Chibuluma Mines (copper, 90%-owned), Vergenoeg Mining (fluorspar, 70%-owned), and Pan African Resources (gold, 55%-owned), among others. Most of the company's sales come from copper and gold, but antimony, fluorspar, and cobalt also account for a large part of sales.

Founded in 1988, WGI Heavy Minerals, Incorporated (WGI) is a publicly traded company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) as WG. WGI is a worldwide operating company focused on locating, producing and marketing industrial minerals and related products.WGI Heavy Minerals, Incorporated is a marketer of industrial grade minerals sourced primarily out of India, producer of industrial-grade garnet out of Idaho and Germany and manufacturer of replacement parts for ultra-high pressure waterjet machine tool systems around the world.

Toyota Tsusho has been growing steadily together with the automotive business as the main axis. Tomen also has been developed with a wide range of business and customers in non-automotive field. Two companies merged on April 1,2006, and started as newborn Toyota Tsusho Corporation. The newborn Toyota Tsusho group, using the know-how of a global network and as the only trading company group that deeply involved in a idea of manufacturing, aim at a new trading company group that make flexible ideas and an adequate proposal.

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