The Ohio Valley Aluminum Company (OVACO) makes aluminum billets for the aluminum extrusions industry. (A billet is pushed or drawn through a die to create an extruded, or shaped, product, such as a frame or rail.) The company operates from facilities in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio that can produce some 500 million pounds of billets annually. OVACO cuts billets according to customer specifications; it can produce billets ranging in length from 18 inches to 216 inches. The company was founded in 1955.

Shenhua Group Corporation Limited (Shenhua Group in abbreviation) is a state-owed enterprise, founded in October 1995 with the approval of the State Council, pursuant to Corporate Laws. Shenhua Group is a diversified energy enterprise with major businesses concentrating on coal production, sales, electricity & thermal generation, coal liquefaction & coal chemicals, railway and port transportation.Shenhua Group is the most competitive unified energy company in China. Pursuing a multi-faceted strategy, we have integrated segments of coal, railway, power and ports, and have integrated our coal production, transportation and sales. We own 54 coal mines with a total capacity of 200 million tons, 1369 kilometers of dedicated railways with a total transportation capacity of 128 million tons/kilometer, power plants with a total installed capacity of 16080 MW. The CTL and coal chemicals project are progressing on schedule.Shenhua Group opens up a new era of China’s coal industry. Now we are the largest coal provider in the world. We have been awarded “China Grand Award of Industry”, which is the highest honor in China. Many world records have been achieved by Shenhua Group in coal production and coal production of a single team working at a single face.In 2006，under the guideline of scientific development philosophy and our objective of “to expand, restructure, grow and prosper”, Shenhua Group actively pushed forward the building an enterprise featuring safety performance, quality & efficiency, technology & innovation, resource preservation and harmonious development, enhanced management & innovation, therefore we achieved greater profitability, and took the lead China’s work safety. China Shenhua’s share price went up steadily. Shenhua Group substantially increased its total installed capacity, completed stage objective of DCL project, greatly improved transportation capacity of our railways and ports, and attained significant results in self-innovation. These achievements have laid a solid foundation for our development in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan. Shenhua Group carried out reform to assure a creative development. We acquired Ningxia Coal Industry (Group) Corporation Ltd, and restructured our non-listed technological entities. China Shenhua was among the few companies with the best financial performance in the international capital market in 2006. Shenhua Group also achieved good results in separation of auxiliary businesses from major businesses, inrestructuring of auxiliary businesses and in separation of social function from the corporate entity. As at 31stDec. 2006, we had 150,447 thousand employees with registered capital of RMB 246.4 billion.

Zambia Copper Investments isn't sure what it wants to do, but it knows it likes copper. The company's primary asset had been a 28% stake in copper and cobalt mining company Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), but it sold that investment to another KCM shareholder, Vedanta Resources, in 2008. The following year it spent about $10 million for an 80% stake in African Copper PLC. Copperbelt Development Foundation has a 44% stake in Zambia Copper.

Santa Fe Gold hopes it has the Midas touch. In 2006 the company, previously called AZCO Mining, bought Lordsburg Mining Company from Imagin Minerals; the deal brought Santa Fe Gold company the Summit silver-gold mining project in New Mexico. Santa Fe Gold immediately began to develop further the Summit property as well as the Ortiz gold property, also located in New Mexico. With an increased emphasis on those two projects, Santa Fe Gold transformed itself into a precious metals miner. Its focus had been on the Black Canyon mica project in Arizona, though those operations had been idle since 2002. The shift in company focus preceded the company's 2007 name change and relocation of its headquarters to New Mexico.

Canada Gold doesn't actually mine for gold in Canada. In fact, it doesn't mine for gold anywhere else either. Its 2009 acquisition of Canadian Ore Processors gave the company a 50% stake in a gold ore processing facility in Peru that will serve companies that do all the mining. The other half is owned by Grafton Resources Investment Trust, which retains the option to sell its stake to Canada Gold by 2012. Now under construction, the facility is scheduled to begin operations by the end of 2010; it's located in northern Peru and would be the first of its kind in the mineral-rich area. Canada Gold changed its name from Metalquest Minerals after buying Canadian Ore Processors.

Evraz Claymont Steel focuses on customers with special product and service needs that are under served by more traditional commodity-oriented steel plate producers.The facilities are specifically configured to provide low-cost steel plate in small order sizes and non-standard dimensions, which along with consistent quality and customer service, differentiates us from other steel plate manufacturers. We focus on building long-term relationships, meticulous quality assurance and prompt, reliable service.We serve all major plate markets including Service Centers, Bridge Fabricators, Railcar Manufacturers, Heavy Construction Machinery and Material Handling Equipment, Mining Equipment, Storage Tanks, Pressure Vessel, and Shipbuilding. Our market extends through the United States, Canada and Mexico and our sales representatives are located strategically to assist you in your plate purchasing decisions.

Excellon Resources Inc. (TSX: EXN),a mineral resource company operating in Durango and Zacatecas States, Mexico, is committed to building value through production, expansion and discovery. Excellon Resources is producing silver, lead and zinc from high-grade manto deposits on its Platosa Property, strategically located in the middle of the Mexican silver belt. In fiscal 2010, Excellon's focus remains on increasing its Mineral Resources at Platosa through an aggressive $12.7-million exploration program, and expanding its operating capacity to maximize the value of the recently acquired Miguel Auza mill. The Platosa Property, not fully explored, has several geological indicators of a large carbonate replacement deposit (CRD) mineralized system, the tracking of which Excellon believes will lead to the discovery of a world class deposit. At Miguel Auza, located in the northern portion of the Zacatecas-Fresnillo silver belt, an initial exploration program to evaluate the potential of this largely underexplored property, the site of considerable historic and recent production from epithermal precious and base metal veins began in the fall of 2009.

Troon Ventures Ltd. (TSX-V:TVN) is a well funded exploration and development company intent on establishing growth through an aggressive acquisition business model. Troon Ventures Company has assembled an experienced group of directors who possess a proven track record of creating shareholder value by successfully completing numerous mergers and acquisitions, raising over $2 billion in capital and bringing several projects to production. Troon is currently focused on acquiring mineral properties with established resources and exploration upside that will create significant shareholder value.

Established in 1986, Wheeling-Nisshin, Inc. began as an international joint venture between Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd. of Japan, a leading Japanese integrated steelmaker specializing in coated and stainless steel, and Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Corporation, one of the leading American steel mills. In March of 2008, Nisshin Steel acquired all outstanding shares formerly held by Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Corporation to strengthen its control over Wheeling-Nisshin and enable Wheeling-Nisshin to achieve further growth as Nisshin Steel's main hub in the U.S. coated steel market. In Follansbee, West Virginia, ground was broken on December 13, 1986, for the construction of the first hot-dip Aluminizing and Galvanizing Line (AGL). And, in April 1988, Wheeling-Nisshin started to operate its AGL, which is the country's first fully computerized, state-of-the-art steel-coating facility.In addition to the AGL, which has been operating successfully since 1988, we completed in 1993 a further advanced Continuous Galvanizing Line (CGL), which allows us to broaden our product selection and increase output. CGL is the nation's first high speed, hot-dip line specializing in light-gauge coated products.Wheeling-Nisshin has now become one of the largest hot-dip coating mills, producing 700,000 tons a year of quality products: AGL-400,000 tons; CGL-300,000 tons. Our products are used for various automotive, appliance, building and construction applications.It is Wheeling-Nisshin's goal to produce coated steel products with maximum efficiency and continuous quality control, to provide superior service to our customers, to create a pleasant, productive and safe workplace for our employees, and to stimulate the economy, while protecting the environment of the surrounding communities.

Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: CLF)(Paris: CLF) is an international mining and natural resources company. A member of the S&P 500 Index, we are the largest producer of iron ore pellets in North America, a major supplier of direct-shipping lump and fines iron ore out of Australia and a significant producer of metallurgical coal. With core values of environmental and capital stewardship, our colleagues across the globe endeavor to provide all stakeholders operating and financial transparency as embodied by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) framework. Our company is organized into the following geographic business units:The North American business unit is comprised of six iron ore mines in Michigan, Minnesota and Eastern Canada, and six coal mines in West Virginia and Alabama. The Asia Pacific business unit is comprised of two iron ore mining complexes in Western Australia and a coking and thermal coal mine in Queensland, Australia. The Latin American business unit includes a 30% interest in the Amapá Project, an iron ore project in the state of Amapá in Brazil.Other projects under development include a biomass fuel production plant in Michigan and Ring of Fire chromite properties in Ontario, Canada. Over recent years, Cliffs has been actively executing a strategy designed to achieve scale in the mining industry and focused on serving the world’s largest and fastest growing steel markets.

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