Western Standard Metals doesn't mind being left out in the cold as long as there is plenty of ice in the area. The exploration and mining company, formerly Nordic Diamonds, has properties in Finland (Kuopio-Kaavi Diamond Project), Sweden (the Nyborg sulphide and Storsjo uranium projects), and Canada (in the Nunavut region). It also is exploring a potash property in Alberta, a project it acquired in 2008. The next year it bought another property, the Almaden gold project in Idaho, from Freegold Ventures. In 2010 those two companies agreed to merge.

Commercial Metals Company engages in recycling, manufacturing, fabricating, and distributing steel and metal products, as well as providing related materials and services in the United States and internationally. It involves in recycling operations through metal processing plants located in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. Commercial Metals company also operates five steel minimills in Texas, Alabama, South Carolina, Arkansas, and Arizona that produce reinforcing bars, angles, flats, rounds, small beams, fence-post sections, and other shapes; a copper tube minimill; and a scrap metal shredder processing facility, as well as purchases and removes rail and other materials from abandoned railroads. In addition, Commercial Metals Company engages in fabrication operations through steel fabrication and processing plants that bend, weld, cut, fabricate, distribute, and place steel; warehouses that sell or rent products for the installation of concrete; plants that produce special sections for floors and support for ceilings and floors; plants, which produce steel fence posts; and plants that treat steel with heat. Additionally, Commercial Metals company purchases semi-finished long and flat steel products from international and domestic sources, and markets and distributes these products in the Americas. Further, it operates rolling mills that produce reinforcing bars, merchant products, and wire rods; and scrap processing facilities that directly support its minimill in Poland and Croatia, as well as manufactures electric arc furnace based steel pipes. Commercial Metals company also markets and distributes steel, copper, and aluminum coils; sheet and tubing; ores; metal concentrates; industrial minerals; ferroalloys; and chemicals. Its customers include steel, nonferrous metals, metal fabrication, chemical, refractory, and transportation businesses. Commercial Metals company was founded in 1915 and is based in Irving, Texas.

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".

Sumitomo Metal Mining (SMM) refines copper along with gold, nickel, and zinc. Metals-related refining and processing operations account for more than half of SMM's sales. The company has smelting and refining operations, plus mining resources, in Japan, the US, Australia, Peru, Philippines, and Chile. It also produces electronic materials (about 30% of sales), including bonding wire, lead frames, electric paste, and copper-clad polymide film for semiconductors and printed circuit boards. Other operations make construction and housing materials and offer soil and water remediation services. With a history dating back to 1590, SMM is part of the "keiretsu" Sumitomo Group.

CITIC Resources invests in energy and minerals exploration, development, and trading, focusing on oil exploration in mainland China, Indonesia, and Kazakhstan. The company was formerly engaged in the manufacturing and distribution of plywood but switched gears in 2004, the same year that China-owned investment group CITIC took a controlling stake. Since then it has built up an international portfolio of holdings including interests in Portland Aluminum Smelter (one of the largest in the world), the Coppabella and Moorvale coal mines in Queensland, and commodities trader CITIC Australia Trading. CITIC Group indirectly owns 54% of CITIC Resources.

Nordural, also known as Nordic Aluminum, operates the Nordural primary aluminum reduction facility located in Grundartangi, Iceland. The primary aluminum metal manufacturer has a production capacity of about 260,000 tons per year, having expanded the facility from less than 100,000 tons annually in the last half decade. Customers include metals giants BHP Billiton and Glencore. US aluminum producer Century Aluminum owns Nordural.

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.

Coal India is one of the largest coal producing companies in the world. Coal India produces more than 350 million tons annually and provides a wide range of extraction, coal reserve identification, and exploration activities. Established in 1975, the holding company operates through eight subsidiaries, including Eastern Coalfields, Bharat Coking Coal, and Mahanadi Coalfields. Coal India offers consulting services through its Central Mine Planning & Design Institute subsidiary. It accounts for more than three-quarters of India's total coal production.

At RathGibson, we realize the importance of connections. Each of our employees is connected to the other in the knowledge that what one does affects the company as a whole. Offering only the finest products and services keeps our company connected to our customers in the realization that our success is wholly contingent on helping them achieve their success. From our humble beginnings, we have evolved into a worldwide presence, thanks to our employees who continually excel at every challenge, as well as to our customers, who value our old-fashioned hard work and newest technologies.

King’s Bay Gold Corporation (TSX.V: KBG) is an active mineral resource company, which is engaged in the acquisition of interests in, and the exploration of, mineral resource properties in North West Ontario. The Corporation’s mandate is to acquire, evaluate and bring significant gold and other precious metal properties to the development stage. During the last eleven years, the Corporation has been assembling a portfolio of precious metal exploration prospects most notably in the Red Lake gold camp, the majority of which are located in close proximity of present and past producing mines. Certain of these properties exhibit high-grade gold values, rare earths, rare metals and other industrially useful minerals and metals.The Corporation is unique in the industry in that it owns, and therefore controls for itself, most of the equipment required to carry out the various phases of exploration. Key pieces of this equipment include diamond drill rigs, bulldozers and skidders. Other equipment includes rod sloops, thousands of feet of BQ and NQ drill rods, water heaters for winter drilling, high pressure water pumps and nozzles for outcrop stripping, a fleet of trucks, all terrain vehicles and a shop full of spare parts and tools.The Corporation’s goal will always be growth. Strengthening the Corporation’s management team and Board of Directors, and by acquiring significantly advanced exploration projects may provide shareholders with an opportunity to increase the value of their investments over the long term.The Corporation’s shorter-term goals are to advance its projects to the feasibility stage, with the intent of becoming a small to medium tier minerals producer. The quality of the Corporation’s projects, an aggressive acquisitions strategy based on acquiring properties near present and past producers, and the proven background of the management team will allow the Corporation to become an emerging leader in the Canadian mining industry.King’s Bay Gold Corporation is a Winnipeg-based company that was incorporated pursuant to the Canada Business Corporations Act (“CBCA”) on March 20th, 1998. The Corporation became a publicly traded entity on the TSX Venture Exchange in April 2002 (TSX.V symbol: KBG). Since then, the Corporation has completed several prospective offerings and private placement offerings with the net capital raised being used to complete the exploration and development programs for the properties where it has land option and joint venture agreements.

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