JFE Shoji Holdings, formed by the combination of Kawasho Corporation and NKK Trading, built its business on steel. JFE Shoji Holdings company has expanded though to become active in food, semiconductor, construction materials, and chemicals trading. Steel trading, through its JFE Shoji Trade subsidiary, still accounts for more than 95% of sales. JFE Shoji sells steel products, purchased from JFE Steel and other mills, to the automotive, shipbuilding, and electrical industries, among others. (It trades about 40% of JFE Steel's production output.) JFE Shoji's assets include fuels, ships, and real estate holdings. JFE Steel owns 39% of JFE Shoji Holdings company.

Have you had your zinc today? Well, Asturiana de Zinc sure has. The company's core business is the refining and production of zinc metal. Its primary mining operation is the Reocín mine in Spain. Along with your run-of-the-mill ingots and wire, the company also produces zinc-based alloys, sulphuric acid, germanium dioxide, and good old zinc oxide. Asturiana de Zinc operates globally, with production units in Australia, North America, and South America in addition to its European operations. Its parent company, the Swiss metals giant Xstrata plc, has rolled its other zinc operations into Asturiana.

CMQ Resources is looking for gold and other precious metals PDQ. CMQ Resources has exploration projects in Nevada, the South Sleeper and Red Canyon properties. The former is located adjacent to X-Cal Resources' Sleeper gold mine, while the latter is being devloped jointly with Miranda Gold Corporation. Neither of the gold properties are yet in production.

New Dimension Resources Ltd. . is engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of quality mineral resource properties throughout the Americas with a focus on potential bulk tonnage gold and silver deposits.The Company's exploration activities are currently focused on its Cenepa gold project, which covers one of the most attractive geological terrains within the highly prospective Cordillera del Condor mineral belt in northern Peru; adjacent to Kinross Gold Corp.'s Condor Project and Fruta Del Norte gold deposit in Ecuador (click to see map) New Dimension Resources maintains several key mineral properties situated in Nevada, Canada and South America and will pursue further strategic acquisitions. In an effort to further increase shareholder value, diversify risk and reduce costs, New Dimension Resources Ltd. Company will continue to joint venture exploration projects to other companies that fund exploration to earn an interest.

Searing Industries makes a wide variety of welded steel tubing products, including mechanical and structural tubing in several shapes and finishes. Applications for the company's mechanical tubing products include fencing, fitness equipment, and furniture; structural tubing is used primarily in construction and in the manufacturing of heavy equipment. Searing Industries manufactures its tubing products from one facility in Southern California. Richard Searing founded Searing Industries in 1985, and his family still owns Searing Industries company.

OneSteel is a fully integrated, global manufacturer and distributor of steel and finished steel products, self-sufficient in both iron ore and scrap metal, with revenues in excess of $6 billion Australian dollars.OneSteel's major manufacturing facilities are located in Whyalla, South Australia, Melbourne, Victoria, Western Sydney and Newcastle, New South Wales and Brisbane, Queensland. Smaller manufacturing and distribution facilities are located throughout regional Australia.Additionally, OneSteel has more than 40 operating facilities in New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific that encompass major manufacturing sites and recycling locations. OneSteel also operates eight facilities in the United States consisting of Grinding Media, LiteSteelTM Technologies, Recycling and a ferrous shredder in Tampa, Florida.In total OneSteel services more than 30,000 customers, offers more than 40,000 products globally and employs over 10,500 people.OneSteel manufactures and distributes structural, rail, rod, merchant bar, cold finished bar, chrome plated bar, reinforcing, wire, tube, pipes, fittings, valves and actuation, rail wheels and axles, lite steel beam, grinding media and recycled metals. The majority of OneSteel’s products are used in the construction, manufacturing, housing, mining and agricultural industries.

Serengeti Resources explores for gold, copper, and molybdenum on the plains of North America. The exploration company's projects are mostly located in the Quesnel Trough area of Northern British Columbia. Serengeti Resources company owns stakes in various properties including a 100% interest in the Kwankia Porphyry property. Serengeti Resources holds interests in 17 other properties totaling almost 1000 sq. km in the Quesnel Trough region. It has several other mineral claims in the area at less advanced stages and a few properties in the Central and Northwestern regions of British Columbia.

North American Tungsten Corporation is one of the largest tungsten mining companies in the West. It acquires, develops, explores for, and processes oxide ores to produce tungsten concentrates mainly in Canada's Northwest Territories. Tungsten, an industrial metal also known as wolfram, is a dense, metallic element known for its resistance to corrosion and heat. It is second only to diamonds in hardness and thus used in a variety of industrial products, including high-speed cutting tools, jet turbine engines, electronic circuitry, and surgical instruments. The company's primary project, its Cantung production site, was temporarily suspended in late 2009 due to declining tungsten prices and excess inventory.

Steel Dynamics, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells steel products in the United States. It operates in three segments: Steel Operations, Metals Recycling and Ferrous Resources Operations, and Steel Fabrication Operations. The Steel Operations segment offers hot rolled, cold rolled, and coated steel products, including light gauge hot-rolled, galvanized, and painted products; structural steel beams and pilings; rail products; special bar quality and merchant bar quality rounds, and round-cornered squares; billets and merchant steel products, such as angles, plain rounds, flats, and channels; and specialty structural steel sections. This segment serves cold finishers, forgers, intermediate processors, original equipment manufacturers, steel service centers, distributors, and fabricators. The Steel Fabrication Operations segment engages in fabricating trusses, girders, steel joists, and steel decking used within the nonresidential construction industry. The Metals Recycling and Ferrous Resources Operations segment offers heavy melting steel, busheling, bundled scrap, shredded scrap, and other scrap metal products, such as steel turnings and cast iron used in foundry and steel mill applications. Steel Dynamics company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Murgor Resources is on the move in Canada. It is exploring gold properties, and to a lesser extent, copper and nickel deposits, throughout New Brunswick, Ontario, and Quebec. Murgor Resources has about 10 properties in various stages of exploration. Founded in 1969, the company's strategy is to initiate the exploration of promising properties and then find a joint venture partner to further develop the project.

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