Atacama Minerals Corp. is a publicly traded industrial minerals company based in Vancouver, Canada. The Company holds a 100% interest in the Aguas Blancas iodine/sulphate/nitrate mine located in northern Chile. Iodine production commenced from Aguas Blancas in 2001 and Atacama product is now shipped worldwide. A phased development plan is underway to further develop the mine's iodine and nitrate resources. The Company trades on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "AAM". The Company has also acquired a new potash exploration project on the northeastern coast of Brazil. The "Salvador Potash Project", located along the Atlantic coast within the highly prospective on-shore portion of the Reconcavo Basin, covers an area of approximately 1,700 square kilometers. The project is located 45 kilometers west of the port city of Salvador, Bahia with excellent infrastructure.

Lundin Mining Corporation started from scratch and has built itself up pretty quickly. Lundin Mining Corporation company is involved in the exploration and development of lead, silver, zinc, and copper projects in Sweden, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain. It began mining production in 2004 when it bought the Zinkgruvan silver, lead, and zinc mine in Sweden. It also bought North Atlantic Natural Resources (which had operations in Sweden) from Boliden that year. Since its formation, Lundin Mining Corporation company has continued to add to its operations through a series of acquisitions. In 2009 Lundin Mining Corporation company closed down in Galmoy mine in Ireland and began looking for a buyer for the property.

AMG Resources is a full-service scrap metal brokerage and processing company. AMG Resources company operates about a dozen scrap-processing facilities in the US and the UK. AMG Resources sells its products to steel mills and foundries and to other scrap dealers. Subsidiary Chicago Plate Products processes secondary steel plate products. AMG Resources was founded in 1988 to acquire Vulcan Materials Company's detinning operations, which were established in 1902 to remove tin from tin-plate scrap.

Coal lies at the core of Bisichi Mining's business. Bisichi Mining invests in and manages mining properties, which it then mines or leases to other mining companies. Its primary property is the Black Wattle mine in South Africa, which produces more than 1 million tons of coal annually. Bisichi sells its coal waste to South African power company Eskom. The firm also owns retail properties in the UK, including the Dragon Retails Properties, which are managed by property firm London & Associated Properties (42% owner of Bisichi Mining). Bisichi plans to grow by acquiring additional coal mines in South Africa.

Carpenter Technology Corporation manufactures, fabricates, and distributes specialty metals primarily in the United States, Europe, the Asia Pacific, Mexico, and Canada. Carpenter Technology company operates in two segments, Advanced Metals Operations and Premium Alloys Operations. The Advanced Metals Operations segment manufactures and distributes metal alloys, stainless steels, and titanium in the form of small bars and rods, wire, narrow strip, and powder. It offers its products in various end-use markets, including the aerospace, industrial, consumer, automotive, and medical industries. This segment sells its products under the Carpenter, Dynamet, Talley, Carpenter Powder Products, and Aceros Fortuna brand names. The Premium Alloys Operations segment provides metal alloys and stainless steels in the form of ingots, billets, large bars, and hollows. It primarily serves the aerospace and energy industries under the Carpenter brand name. This segment also offers conversion processing of metal for other specialty metals companies. Carpenter Technology company distributes its products directly from its production plants, and through distribution network and independent distributors. Carpenter Technology Corporation was founded in 1889 and is based in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania.

African Diamonds explores and develops diamonds from operations in Botswana and Congo. Its focus is the AK6 diamond project jointly owned with De Beers, though Canadian company Lucara Diamond agreed in 2009 to buy out the industry giant. African Diamonds owns 28% of the AK6 project, which will reach the development stage in 2010 and is projected to commence production the following year. (African company also has an option to increase that stake to 40%.) Additionally, the company owns stakes in projects elsewhere in Botswana and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It has previously investigated opportunities in Angola, Lesotho, and Sierra Leone.

Ferrostaal builds the places at which stuff gets made and supplies the stuff that allows us to get our stuff done. Ferrostaal is involved in project development and management in plant construction and engineering. It builds water treatment facilities, industrial plants, bridges, and power plants; it also provides financial planning, system integration, and equipment installation at the facilities. While Ferrostaal has operations throughout the world, almost half of the company's sales are to Latin America. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Germany's MAN until Abu Dhabi's International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) bought 70% of Ferrostaal in 2009. Ferrostaal dropped the prefix MAN soon after.

Sandvik Materials Technology, a subsidiary of Swedish industrial giant Sandvik, manufactures stainless steel and alloy tube, strip, wire, and bar that are used mainly by the engineering and processing industries. The company's Kanthal unit makes silicon carbide heating elements, which are able to withstand a wide range of high temperature applications. The Sandvik Process Systems unit produces steel belts and press plates and installs steel belt systems for chemical and food processing facilities. The strip steel unit specializes in thin precision strip steel. The tubular products unit manufactures seamless stainless steel tubes. Sandvik Materials company also has a medical products business.

Sojitz Corporation is trading in all kinds of places. The company's 500 subsidiaries trade in a wide array of businesses, ranging from steel and automobile parts to apparel, making it one of the largest trading houses in Japan. Sojitz's other major businesses include aerospace, foods, oil and gas, chemicals and plastics, retail property development, and construction materials. The rest of Asia and North America (through its Sojitz Corporation of America unit) are major contributors to its overseas trading operations. Sojitz was formed by the 2003 merger of two Japanese trading powerhouses, Nissho Iwai and Nichimen Corporation.

Fortescue is the New Force in Iron Ore and has joined the world's leading producers of iron ore. Since Fortescue was formed in 2003, its extraordinary growth has been unparalleled. Listed in the S&P/ASX 50 share index, Fortescue has firmly established itself as one of the world's largest producers and sea-borne traders of iron ore.Construction of Fortescue's port, rail and mine project commenced in February 2006 with the turning of the first sod at the Company's port site at Anderson Point in Port Hedland. Just two years later in 2008, the open-access rail infrastructure was complete and operations were underway at the Fortescue Herb Elliott Port and at the Company's first minesite, Cloudbreak.Shipping started on 15 May of 2008 and Project Completion was achieved within months. On the 18th of July, Fortescue's fifth anniversary, Fortescue successfully mined, railed and shipped at a rate of 24Mtpa for a one month period. This accomplishment occurred in line with the detailed business plan for its Pilbara Project.n the first full year of operations, Fortescue mined, railed and shipped more than 27 million tonnes of iron ore to customers in China.Many milestones have been achieved since then including the establishment of Fortescue's second minesite at Christmas Creek to create the Chichester Hub and the development of plans for the Solomon Hub of tenements to the west of the company's original mines.Fortescue's project was founded on the raising of A$3.7 billion capital, including A$1 billion equity, during two finance roadshows in August 2006 and July 2007. The August 2006 raising was the largest single high-yield Asia-Pacific transaction, the largest high-yield bond project financing ever, one of the largest corporate bonds out of Australia and one of the largest global bond issues in the sector. Since then Fortescue has grown to become a S&P/ASX 50 company.Over 49,000 Australians have become shareholders in the proudly Australian founded and managed company.

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