Niagara LaSalle is America's largest independent cold-finished steel bar manufacturer, and operates four production facilities spread throughout the continental United States. Niagara LaSalle offers a complete family of steel bar products, cut and drawn to a broad range of sizes and shapes. In addition, Niagara LaSalle gives you the advantages of national coverage, multiple sources of supply, and a vast reservoir of experience.

In 1917, Agnes and H.C. Greer recognized a need for high-quality cold rolled strip steel. Their solution: build a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility and produce the best quality strip available.From there, the Greer Steel Company grew into one of the most respected producers of cold rolled strip steel in the U.S. Greer Steel's immersion into our customers' businesses creates the type of relationship that is rare these days. Back when the Greers started this company, they built it one customer at a time.By paying attention to the details and listening to their customers’ needs, they built true relationships.Today, Greer Steel not only remains a leader in cold rolled strip quality but is an extraordinary resource for products and services that provide you with more efficient production, more satisfied customers, and more profit.

World Minerals Inc. is a world leading supplier of engineered mineral products derived from diatomaceous earth and expanded perlite, natural raw materials possessing unusually light density, chemical inertness, high surface area and intricate structure. As a result of these unusual properties, the company's products are used in a host of applications, including filtration for liquid/solid separation, functional fillers for paints, coatings, polymers and elastomers, bioreactor support, and in the promotion of plant growth. In addition, World Minerals is a leading supplier of semi-finished products, such as crushed and screened perlite ore.World Minerals operates a global network of 26 production facilities. The Company's products are used in virtually every nation, and are available either from the Company's 17 direct sales offices or through its highly capable distributors and agents.

Franklin Mining, Inc., an exploration stage company, holds mining and energy interests in the United States and Bolivia. It has a joint venture agreement with Planet Resource Recovery Inc. to develop and operate the San Antonio de Turiri antimony mine in Bolivia. Franklin Mining, formerly known was WCM Capital, Inc., was founded in 1864 and is based in San Antonio, Texas.

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.

Alcoa Alunimio is rich in aluminum. The company focuses on producing alumina (aluminum's principal ingredient, processed from bauxite) and aluminum in Brazil. Alcoa Alunimio's production locations provide mining, refining, and smelting operations to produce alumininum, as well as other products such as sheet and foil, aluminumn powder, and wiring harnesses. Customers use Alcoa's products for a wide variety of applications, including building construction, automobiles, spaceships, and beverage packing materials. The company, which produces about 300,000 tons of primary aluminum each year, opened its first aluminum plant in Brazil in 1970.

Silvercorp Metals Inc. is a Canadian-based primary silver producer with mining, development and exploration projects located in China and Canada. Since commencing production in 2006, Silvercorp has enjoyed high profitability and returns due to the exceptionally high-grade nature of its Ying deposit and the incredibly low-cost jurisdiction in which it operates. The company is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange in the US and the Toronto Stock Exchange in Canada and is a component of the NYSE Composite, S&P/TSX Composite and Global Mining Indexes.Silvercorp today is China's largest primary silver producer and has achieved an enviable four-year track record of being the lowest cost producer of silver among its industry peers. In the First Quarter of FY2011 (ended June 30, 2010), the company produced 1.4 million ounces of silver at a cash cost of negative $6.31 per ounce. At the same time, the company is growing its resource base through continuous exploration of existing projects as well as seeking to acquire new development projects in multiple jurisdictions. It is one of only a handful of metals producers to pay shareholders a dividend (C$0.02 per share per quarter).

Gitennes has been traded publicly in Canada since 1993. Gitennes listed on The Toronto Stock Exchange January 22, 1998 and moved to the TSX Venture Exchange October 19, 2009.Gitennes will undertake technically sound, early-stage exploration in "greenfield" environments right through to late-stage resource definition drilling and pre-feasibility work on select properties. Gitennes intends to maintain this course of finding and exploring promising mineral deposits. In the future, when results indicate that a property may become a potential producer that yields a high rate-of-return at a relatively low level of capital investment, Gitennes may then pursue the "development option".A Canadian corporation, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, ownership of Gitennes is broad-based, through shares listed on The TSX Venture Stock Exchange.

Premier Steel processes and distributes flat bar and plate products made from hot-rolled carbon and alloy steels. It operates from facilities in Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Premier Steel company also acts as a sales agent for the Norwegian Fundia Profiler, a supplier of steel products for shipbuilders. Premier Steel was founded in 1992 by president and CEO Steven Bergman.

Companhia Brasileira de Aluminio (CBA) has more than enough energy for its aluminum business. In fact, the company distributes excess electricity to homes across Brazil. Its operations span the aluminum production process, from mining bauxite to producing primary aluminum to processing coils, ingots, billet, and bars as well as such fabricated products as cables and roof tiles. Clients include such industries as transportation, packaging, electric utilities, constructions, and consumer products. The intensive electrical requirements for aluminum processing led the company to to invest in hydroelectric power generation. It now operates nearly 20 power plants and supplies more than half of its own electricity.

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