BOHLER-UDDEHOLM AG company makes tool steel products, which have improved durability, strength, and corrosion-resistance characteristics. It is also a leading maker of high-speed steel, strip steel, cutting and creasing lines, and forged turbine blades. BOHLER-UDDEHOLM produces special long steel (including tool steel) in bar, profile, and wire form. Customers include the aerospace, automotive, consumer goods, and electronics industries. In 2008 Austrian steel maker voestalpine bought BOHLER-UDDEHOLM, making BOHLER-UDDEHOLM company it's specialty steel unit.

Founded in 1854, Westmoreland Coal Company is a premier U.S. energy company with strong leadership, a solid foundation of tangible assets and a proven strategy for growth. Having transitioned from predominantly eastern underground coal production over the past decade, the Company’s current operations include surface coal mining complexes in three western states and power operations in the east and west. Today, Westmoreland employs over 1,125 people in six states, and is producing approximately 30 million tons of coal and generating 1.6 million megawatt hours of electric power annually. Westmoreland also provides post-retirement benefits to over 2,000 people, mostly former coal miners and their dependents.Westmoreland's emphasis is on mine-mouth operations. This positions the Company as the lowest-cost fuel supplier to some of the cleanest, most economical and highly utilized coal-fired utility-owned power plants in America.Westmoreland has also developed eight independent power projects, and currently owns 100% of two projects. The Company’s two North Carolina plants are coal-fired and deliver base-load power to Dominion North Carolina Power.Westmoreland’s demonstrated accomplishments in the transformation of its business, coupled with its proven strategy for growth, position the Company to seek the creation of additional value.Westmoreland’s streamlined organization, focused leadership, attention to cost management, and niche growth strategy has resulted in the Company’s garnering various energy sector awards, including the Platts/BusinessWeek Global Energy Strategic Merger of the Year award in 2002 and the ColoradoBiz/UMB Bank Energy and Natural Resources Company of the Year award in 2002.Westmoreland is publicly traded on the NYSE Amex under the symbol WLB and has over 10.5 million shares of common stock outstanding.

The Diamond Trading Company (DTC) is the sales and marketing jewel of diamond-mining giant De Beers SA -- which is owned by Anglo American (45%), the Oppenheimer family (40%), and the government of Botswana (15%). The DTC supplies almost half of all the rough diamonds on the market. It receives diamonds primarily from Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. The DTC participates in joint ventures with the governments of Botswana and Namibia to sell diamonds from those countries. After sorting and valuing the diamonds, the Diamond Trading company sells the gems to clients, or sightholders. On the marketing side, the DTC promotes diamonds through such programs as the well-known "A Diamond Is Forever" advertising campaign.

United States Antimony Corporation engages in the production and sale of antimony and zeolite products in the United States. The company offers antimony oxide that is primarily used in conjunction with a halogen to form a synergistic flame retardant system for plastics, rubber, fiberglass, textile goods, paints, coatings, and paper. Its antimony oxide is also used as a color fastener in paints, as a catalyst for the production of polyester resins for fibers and films, as a phosphorescent agent in fluorescent light bulbs, and as an opacifier for porcelains. The company also offers various grades of sodium antimonite, which is principally used as a fining agent for glass in cathode ray tubes used in television picture tubes, as well as a flame retardant; and antimony metal for use in bearings, storage batteries, and ordnance. In addition, it offers zeolite, which is used for various purposes, including soil amendment and fertilization, water filtration, sewage treatment, nuclear waste and other environmental cleanup, odor control, gas separation, and animal nutrition. The company was founded in 1968 and is based in Thompson Falls, Montana

The head office of ELG Metals, Inc. is located in Port Vue / McKeesport, PA approximately 12 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Situated on a 27 acre site, the plant processes bulk Stainless Steels as well as all related Nickel-Chrome, Nickel-Chrome-Molybdenum alloys, Nickel-Copper, Nickel-Cobalt, Cobalt-Nickel, Tool Steels, Tungsten Carbide and Titanium products.The plant is equipped with a baler, shear and a state of the art analytical laboratory. Port Vue is capable of handling shipments by rail or truck and, as its name implies, has access to the inland waterway system utilizing a new barge facility.The Port Vue location also hosts the USA group's ancillary departments; Accounting, Finance, Human Relations, Information Technology and Technical Resources.

Eti Maden is on top of the world when it comes to producing borates. The Turkish state-owned company, through Eti Mine Works, is a world-leading miner and processor of boron. (Turkey holds about 60% of the world's boron reserves.) Eti produces about 2.5 million tons of boron concentrate from its mines and processes much of that to be used in products such as soaps, detergents, glass, fertilizers, and nuclear materials. Eti Maden also produces perlite, which is used as a construction material, scrubbing sand in refineries, and for growing in greenhouses, among other applications.

VSMPO-AVISMA (formerly Verkhnaya Salda Metallurgical Production Association if that helps at all) is a leading producer of titanium and magnesium alloys, including ingots and mill products. The Russia-based company also produces aluminum alloys, ferrotitanium, and other metal products. Subsidiary Tirus distributes products throughout Europe and North America, as well as provides services such as cutting, heat treating, precision grinding, and machining to customer specifications. Its NF&M International unit makes titanium billet and bar stock. VSMPO-AVISMA exports about 70% of its produced titanium; customers include leading aerospace companies such as Airbus, Rolls-Royce, Pratt & Whitney, GE, and Boeing.

Yorbeau Resources Inc. is a Canadian public company (TSX:YRB.A) involved in gold exploration in Quebec, Canada. Its properties are located in a northwestern area of the province associated with a large number of significant deposits, namely the Cadillac-Larder Lake region on the famed Abitibi Greenstone Belt. Some 200 million ounces of gold have thus far been mined in the area.At the present time, Yorbeau is focusing on its Rouyn Property which has demonstrated the most immediate and substantial prospects for discovery of a major gold deposit and eventual mine development. Representing a consolidation of several contiguous properties strategically located on a famously productive mineralized trend in the Noranda mining camp, the Rouyn Property is divided into seven "Blocks": Augmitto, Cinderella, Durbar, Lake Gamble, Astoria, Wright-Rouyn and Lake Bouzan. Other holdings of the Company include its interest in the Beschefer Property in northwestern Quebec, as well as a net smelter return royalty on the Ellison Property in Bousquet Township of Quebec, a property that Agnico-Eagle Mines purchased from Yorbeau in 2002.

Gibbs Wire & Steel would like nothing better than to tear off a new strip for its customers. Gibbs Wire & Steel company processes and distributes specialty steel wire and strip products. Its products include a wide range of stainless steel and chrome/nickel stainless steel strip, carbon steel strip, and alloy steel strip (using bronze or copper) in various widths and gauges. Gibbs Wire & Steel also produces and stockpiles a range of steel, chrome, and alloy steel wire products, including music wire. Gibbs Wire & Steel company sells to springmakers and metal formers, as well as to makers of medical and electronics products. Its metal service centers are located across the US and Canada.

Benguet Corporation was established in 1903, pioneering the first major mining operation in the Philippines. It spearheaded a consolidation and expansion of gold mines as well as the diversification in other mineral products like copper, chromite and lime. Until the late 1980s, Benguet Corporation was known as the biggest gold mining company in the Philippines and the 16th largest in the world. Similarly, it's chromite operation in Masinloc, known internationally as "Masinloc Ore", and its highly profitable Dizon Copper Gold operation in San Marcelino, Zambales were the largest in the country. The inspiring history of the company reveals a potent organization with a distinct capability to overcome and survive extremely difficult circumstances, such as World War II, countless natural disasters, political upheavals and cyclical economic conditions. Over the past 100 years, Benguet has built up its professional reputation as the colossus of Philippine mining. This is evident in its hardy pioneering spirit, introducing modern technology and innovative mining practices which have become models of the industry, through its mutually beneficial labor relations and support for its workforce and families to build better lives and progressive communities.Through corporate consolidation and forward-looking management strategies, the company hurdled each time, the obstacles of growth to become the company's premier mining company for the most part of 20th century. This can be credited to its enlightened and competent leaders and its pool of dedicated and talented employees, who have distinguished themselves in the industry. Benguet Corporation will continue to do what it knows and does best which is natural resource development. Aside from its core business of mining and mineral exploration, the company and its subsidiaries will be actively engaged in land and water resource development, construction, engineering and technical services, forest management and eco-tourism, while maintaining its interest in allied industries such as steel casting, trucking and warehouse management, and trading. For the 21st century, Benguet Corporation has set its vision to be the leading total natural resource development and services conglomerate, imbued with zest and determination to transform its assets into trailblazing projects that build upon the heritage of the Company.

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