Castrip understands that steel can never be too thin. The joint venture of minimill titan Nucor, BlueScope Steel, and Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries offers a technology that aids steelmakers in the manufacture of flat-rolled, carbon, and stainless steel sheets at very thin gauges. The Castrip technology is based on an invention devised by Henry Bessemer in 1857. Steel produced through the Castrip process may be used in a wide variety of products, including appliances, furniture, grain bins, racking, and structural tube. Castrip was established in 2000.

RAG is no ragtag operation. RAG company is Germany's largest coal producer, its mining operations managed through coal and coke company Deutsche Steinkohle. RAG operates seven coal mines and a coking facility, all in Germany. After several years of restructuring, RAG company has pared down significantly to just the coal operations. It is now controlled by the state-run RAG Foundation. In 2007 the German government announced that conditions in the country -- both economic and environmental -- made continuation of coal mining infeasible. And so the German coal industry will cease operations by 2018.

Noranda Aluminum is a vertically integrated aluminum producer. The company starts the process by mining bauxite through a joint venture in a Jamaican mining project, refining it into alumina at another joint venture in Louisiana, and then using the alumina to make primary aluminum metal products at its facility in Missouri and aluminum coils at four rolling facilities in the Southeast. Noranda's primary aluminum products include aluminum rods, extruded billets, and foundry ingots. The downstream business segment manufactures foil and light sheet metal. Sales are evenly split between the two segments. Owned by Apollo Management, Noranda Aluminum filed for an IPO in 2008.

Belgonucleaire fuels the nuclear world. Belgonucleaire company produces mixed oxide (MOX), a combination of depleted uranium oxide and plutonium oxide that is used as fuel in nuclear power plants. Belgonucleaire also has a nuclear engineering branch, which researches nuclear fuels, builds equipment for MOX production factories, and develops systems to dispose of nuclear waste safely. The engineering branch also works with other nuclear firms to neutralize plutonium left over from dismantled nuclear weapons. The Belgian national government owns 50% of Belgonucleaire company, which was founded in 1957.

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.

Polymetal is a leading precious metals mining company. Polymetal Company is the third global primary silver producer, the largest silver and fifth gold producer in Russia.In 2007 Polymetal held an initial public offering. 24.8% of Polymetal Company was placed in the form of GDRs on the London Stock Exchange and in ordinary shares on the RTS and MICEX exchanges. Polymetal owns gold and silver mines and carries out exploration activities in four regions of Russia (the Magadan Region, the Khabarovsk Territory, the Sverdlovsk Region and the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug) and in Kazakhstan.Its portfolio of projects contains 42 licenses covering a territory of over 8,500 sq. km.Polymetal’s most promising deposit is Albazino located in the Khabarovsk Territory, which contains JORC mineral resources estimated at approximately 3 Moz of gold. Polymetal Company plans to continue active exploration work at Albazino and expects that its resource base will grow to 5-6 Moz by the time the operation begins production. Construction of a processing plant at Albazino is scheduled to begin in 2009, and it should produce its first gold in 2011.In 2008, Polymetal acquired the Kubaka and Degtyarskoye gold deposits and the Goltsovoye silver deposit, in 2009, Sopka Kvartsevaya gold deposit in Magadan Region and Maiskoe gold deposit in Chukotka were acquired by the Company. These new deposits are expected to be brought on-line in 2010-2011. In 2009, Polymetal also acquired the Varvarinskoye gold-copper deposit in Kazakhstan.In 2009 gold production grew by 9%, to 311 Koz. Silver production grew by 1%, to 17.3 Moz.In 2010 Polymetal targets to produce 350-370 Koz of gold and 19-20 Moz of silver. These numbers do not include any production from Varvarinskoye mine in Kazakhstan.

GWR Resources Inc. is a Canadian junior exploration company focused on exploration for gold and other valuable mineral deposits in Canada. The Company was incorporated in British Columbia and trades on the TSX Venture Exchange (Symbol: GWQ). GWR's experienced management and technical teams are committed to establishing the existence of mineable gold, copper, magnetite and possibly other metals within these highly prospective areas. GWR has two very prospective properties, both having excellent infrastructure, located near townsites with a skilled workforce, rail, road and power capacity.Our flagship project is the Lac La Hache gold-copper porphyry property located within the Quesnel Trough in British Columbia, the largest porphyry trend in Canada. The Lac La Hache project covers approximately 50 km2 and contains numerous drilled prospects including two mineralized zones with (non-43-101 compliant) estimated reserves. The property is situated between producing mines at Imperial Metals' Mt. Polley Copper-Gold Mine and New Gold Inc.'s New Afton Copper-Gold project (Teck-Cominco's legendary Afton mine). Drilling is ongoing for the purposes of expanding existing mineralized zones and discovering new zones.In July, 2010, the Company signed an option agreement to acquire 100% interest in the Sainte Sabine project, a high-potential gold property located within the Bellechasse Mineral Belt in southeastern Quebec. Sainte Sabine is both a gold and gold-polymetallic (Au-Ag-Zn-Cu) property and is located approximately 100 km southeast of Quebec City, within the Beauce region. The property lies immediately along and across strike of several known zones currently being tested by Golden Hope Mines on their Bellechasse Project. New airborne geophysical and ground geochemical surveys will be completed by GWR to improve exploration vectoring on this exciting project.

As its name suggests, South American Gold and Copper Company (SAGC) has the sagacity to explore for gold and copper -- among other industrial minerals -- in properties in South America. The company's primary asset is the Pimenton gold mine in Chile, which started production in 2004. In addition, SAGC holds interests in several limestone deposits in Chile and the company is exploring a copper deposit adjacent to the Pimenton gold mine. SAGC had investigated the viability of a gold prospect in Peru, but in 2010 was focusing on its operations in Chile.

Inca Pacific is a mineral exploration company focused on the development of the Magistral copper and molybdenum deposit in Peru. Peru hosts some of the world's most profitable mines and remains one of the mining industry's first choices for exploration and development of mineral deposits with robust economics. The Company's directors and officers have extensive experience in all aspects of the mining industry, from exploration and mine development to mine management and finance. Inca's head office is in Vancouver, BC, Canada and exploration headquarters are in Lima, Peru. Inca Pacific's common shares are listed on the TSX Venture Exchange and the Lima Exchange under the symbol "IPR".

Hannibal Industries, Inc. is a diversified, value-added metal fabricator, located in the Los Angeles area, with two primary divisions offering carbon steel tubing and pallet racking systems to our customers.Incorporated after purchasing the assets of Kaiser Steel Tubing, a division of Kaiser Steel Corporation in 1985, our tubing division currently maintains six high frequency tube mill lines that are capable of producing 120,000 tons of tube a year.Mitsui & Company (U.S.A.) acquired a portion of the company in 1987, and then secured company assets in 1999.In 1997, all outstanding common stock of Rack and Roll, Inc. were acquired and became what is known today as our storage systems division, which currently provides roll-formed and structural pallet rack, cantilever rack, dynamic storage solutions, and several more products and services.A new tube production facility was commissioned with a Rafter Four (4) inch Tube Mill, Haven Cut Off and End Finishing Line in 2003 to produce high quality round tubing for critical surface applications.Always working to improve its storage systems options, Hannibal was awarded a patent in 2006 for an adjustable safety restrain to contain stored products within a pallet rack system.The quality management system of Hannibal's tubular products division is ISO 9001:2008 certified. We take pride in our quality management system and the superior products and services that result from those efforts.On March 20, 2008 Hannibal Industries, Inc. became an employee owned company through the creation of an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).We continually strive to improve customer satisfaction and promote a positive and motivational environment for its employees and those involved with our diversified metal business.

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